Session‑desc‑length is a four-byte field: when the Variable‑length‑request option is “N” it contains the number of bytes addressed by the Session‑desc‑pointer field; when the Variable‑length‑request option is “Y”, Session‑desc‑length is ignored.
Use of Session‑desc requires a Connect‑type setting of “C”.
Session‑desc‑length exists only when DBCHINI had been called for a DBCAREA with Total‑length set to at least 640 (that is, the returned DBCAREA Level value is at least 1). For a smaller DBCAREA, Session‑desc‑length is ignored.
In this language... |
The variable name for Session‑desc‑length... |
COBOL |
SESS‑DESC‑LEN |
PL/I |
SESS_DESC_LEN |
C |
sessDescLen |
IBM Assembler |
DBCNISDL |
This routine... |
Does this for Session‑desc‑length... |
DBCHINI |
writes |
DBCHCL |
reads (RCON) |
Session‑desc‑length is used by... |
To... |
applications |
write |
The value must be positive. The sum of this length and the length used for Workload‑pointer must be less than or equal to one of the following values:
The maximum value is approximately. . . |
If Maximum Parcel is set to... |
32,725 |
O |
64,493 |
H |
2,147,483,602 |
H, and the Teradata Database supports ExtendedResponse, as indicated by the DBCHQE Extended‑response‑support query. |
The actual maximum may vary slightly with the version of the Teradata Database being used; the value may be obtained using the DBCHQE CLIv2-limits query.