Period-as-struct is a one-byte EBCDIC field that indicates whether to treat Period data types as Structured UDTs in honoring the Transforms-off option and return information about the constituent attributes.
| In this language... |
The variable name for Period-as-struct is... |
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| COBOL |
PERIOD-AS-STRUCT |
| PL/I |
PERIOD_AS_STRUCT |
| C, C++ |
periodAsStruct |
| IBM Assembler |
DBRIPAS |
| This routine... |
Does this for Period-as-struct... |
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| DBCHINI |
writes. |
| DBCHCL |
reads (RSUP; IRQ; IWPF) |
| Period-as-struct is used by... |
To... |
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| applications |
write. |
One of the following values may be set before initiating a request:
| If... |
Then set Period-as-struct to... |
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| indicates that Period data types are treated as simple data types. |
'N'- DBC-NO for COBOL
- DBC_PERIOD_AS_STRUCT_NO for PL/I
- DBC_periodAsStructNo for C and C++
- DBRIPASN for Assembler
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| indicates that Period data types are treated as Structured UDTs in honoring the Transforms-off option. |
'Y' - DBC-YES for COBOL
- DBC_PERIOD_AS_STRUCT_YES for PL/I
- DBC_periodAsStructYes for C and C++
- DBRIPASY for Assembler
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The default setting is "N".