Re: Trying to get data area content with QWCRDTAA

Barbara Morris <[email protected]> Sat, 6 Sep 2025 08:37:11 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.as400.c
Organization IBM
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2025-09-05 7:29 a.m., Patrik Schindler wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to retrieve the content of a data area with the QWCRDTAA API. It's meant to contain a http proxy URI string for non-PASE applications. I've created it like this:
> 
> crtdtaara dtaara(qusrsys/httpproxy) type(*char) len(32) value('http://leela.pocnet.net:3128') aut(*use)
> ...
When the API documentation says the data type of a field is "CHAR(*)", 
it means "Character of any length", such as char[32].

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.4.0?topic=concepts-data-types-apis

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Barbara

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