Column‑info
Column‑info is a one byte EBCDIC field that indicates whether varying-length column name, title, and format information in existing response parcels (Field (flavor 18), PrepInfo[X] (flavors 86 and 126), StmtInfo (flavor 169)) can be longer than the existing maximum.
In this language... |
The variable name for Column‑info is... |
COBOL |
COLUMN‑INFO |
PL/I |
COLUMN_INFO |
C |
columnInfo |
IBM Assembler |
DBRICIN |
This routine... |
Does this for Column‑info... |
DBCHINI |
writes |
DBCHCL |
reads (CON; IRQ; RSUP) |
Column‑info is used by... |
To... |
applications |
write. |
One of the following values may be set before initiating a request:
If... |
Then set Column‑info to... |
indicates varying‑length column name, title, and format information in existing response parcels cannot be longer than the existing maximum. |
'O' |
indicates varying-length column name, title, and format information in existing response parcels can be longer than the existing maximum. |
'E' |
If not specified, the default from the HSHSPB is used, which as distributed is 'O'