Use - Call-Level Interface Version 2

Teradata® Call-Level Interface Version 2 Reference for Workstation-Attached Systems

Product
Call-Level Interface Version 2
Release Number
17.10
Published
October 2021
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2021-11-02
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Product Category
Teradata Tools and Utilities

The following table lists the remaining routines and describes how they are used.

Routine Description
DBCHERR What: Fetches textual description corresponding to the CLI error code.
Why: To allow application to retrieve error text from functions other than DBCHCL or DBCHINI.
Where: All clients.
DBCHFER What: Fetches textual description and error codes for the last error detected for a specific session, or the last error that occurred overall.
Why: To provide adequate information about an error condition so that applications or users can recover from, or correct the condition.
Where: All clients.
DBCHPEC What: Sets the global CLI attention flag.
Why: To return control to the application program when some event occurs such as a signal like a control-C break.
Where: All clients.
DBCHQE What: Queries the database.
Why: To see default information prior to logging on so that changes can be made before starting a session.
Where: All clients.
DBCHREL What: Returns the release level and version numbers of the software running on the database computer handling the specified session.
For increased reliability, use the QEPIDBR field of the DBCHQE routine instead of DBCHREL. See The qepItem Field for more information.
Why: To generate an audit trail, to aid in debugging, and so on.
Where: All clients.
DBCHSAD What: Stores specified value at specified address.
Why: To return the address of a given parameter.
Where: All clients.
DBCHUE What: Associates platform-defined events with user defined contexts.
Why: To associate an event with a user context in which DBCHWL waits for completion. The only event supported is a timeout event, permitting DBCHWL to return a timeout to the application in the case of no completed requests from the session list.
Where: All Windows clients.
DBCHUEC What: Resets the global CLI attention flag.
Why: To indicate that CLI should complete its operations before returning control to the application.
Where: All clients.
DBCHWAT What: Waits for event to occur (an “event” refers to the arrival of some response from the database; if DBCHUEC has been invoked, “event” also refers to the occurrence of some application program-defined event).
Why: To provide a mechanism for explicit waits for events and to simplify the handling of concurrent database sessions.
Where: All clients.
DBCHWL What: Wait for completion of any active requests from a supplied session list or completion of an optionally supplied event.
Why: To simplify multi-threaded applications by waiting on a specific set of sessions, events, or both.
Where: All Windows clients.