Message Area Length is a two-byte field that is the length of the area pointed to by the Message Area Pointer field. The value is equivalent to the maximum length of a message that can be returned in that area. CLIv2 does not alter this value, so after the value is set, it remains unless changed by the application.
In this language... |
The variable name for Message Area Length is... |
COBOL |
DBCIMSGM |
PL/I |
DBCIMSGM |
C |
dbciMsgM |
IBM Assembler |
DBCIMSGM |
This routine... |
Does this for Message Area Length... |
DBCHINI |
writes |
DBCHCL |
reads |
Message Area Length is used by... |
To... |
applications |
write |
If the Message Area Pointer is not specified, this value is ignored.