<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="security" content="public" /> <meta name="Robots" content="index,follow" /> <meta http-equiv="PICS-Label" content='(PICS-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true r (cz 1 lz 1 nz 1 oz 1 vz 1) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0) "http://www.classify.org/safesurf/" l gen true r (SS~~000 1))' /> <meta name="DC.Type" content="reference" /> <meta name="DC.Title" content="Character-host variables in PL/I applications that use SQL" /> <meta name="abstract" content="This figure shows the syntax for valid scalar character-host variables." /> <meta name="description" content="This figure shows the syntax for valid scalar character-host variables." /> <meta name="DC.subject" content="character host variable, PL/I, host variable, character, PL/I program, declaring" /> <meta name="keywords" content="character host variable, PL/I, host variable, character, PL/I program, declaring" /> <meta name="DC.Relation" scheme="URI" content="rzajpdeclarehostpli.htm" /> <meta name="copyright" content="(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1998, 2006" /> <meta name="DC.Rights.Owner" content="(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1998, 2006" /> <meta name="DC.Format" content="XHTML" /> <meta name="DC.Identifier" content="rzajpplichar" /> <meta name="DC.Language" content="en-us" /> <!-- All rights reserved. Licensed Materials Property of IBM --> <!-- US Government Users Restricted Rights --> <!-- Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by --> <!-- GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp. --> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./ibmdita.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./ic.css" /> <title>Character-host variables in PL/I applications that use SQL</title> </head> <body id="rzajpplichar"><a name="rzajpplichar"><!-- --></a> <!-- Java sync-link --><script language="Javascript" src="../rzahg/synch.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <h1 class="topictitle1">Character-host variables in PL/I applications that use SQL</h1> <div><p>This figure shows the syntax for valid scalar character-host variables.</p> <div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Character</h4><pre><span><img src="./c.gif" border="0" alt="Read syntax diagram" longdesc="rzajpplicharsyn1.htm" /></span><a href="#d0e38"><img src="./c.gif" border="0" alt="Skip visual syntax diagram" /></a> >>-+-DECLARE-+--+-<i>variable-name</i>-----------+--+-CHARACTER-+------> '-DCL-----' | .-,-------------. | '-CHAR------' | V | | '-(----<i>variable-name</i>-+--)-' >--+--------------+--+---------+--------------------------------> '-(--<i>length</i>--)-' +-VARYING-+ '-VAR-----' >--+---------------------------------------+--;---------------->< '-<i>Alignment and/or Scope and/or Storage</i>-' </pre><a name="d0e38"></a></div> <div class="section"> <div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Notes:</span> <ol><li><em>Length</em> must be an integer constant not greater than 32766 if VARYING or VAR is not specified.</li> <li>If VARYING or VAR is specified, <em>length</em> must be a constant no greater than 32740.</li> </ol> </div> </div> </div> <div> <div class="familylinks"> <div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="rzajpdeclarehostpli.htm" title="The PL/I precompilers only recognize a subset of valid PL/I declarations as valid host variable declarations.">Declare host variables in PL/I applications that use SQL</a></div> </div> </div> </body> </html>