Local Data Area, Group Data Area and Program Initialization Parameter Data Area in AS400

Local Data Area, Group Data Area and Program Initialization Parameter Data Area in AS400
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Local Data Area, Group Data Area and Program Initialization Parameter Data Area in AS400

Local Data Area

  • A local data area is created for each job in the system. The system creates a local data area *LDA of type *CHAR and length 1024 which is initially set as blanks.
  • When we submit the job then the value of the *LDA is copied from the submitting job to the submitted job.
  • We can access the local data area of the job by using *LDA with the DTAARA keyword on the commands RTVDTAARA, DSPDTAARA, CHGDTAARA.
  • We cannot create, delete, or allocate a local data area.
  • No library is associated with the local data area.
  • We can use *LDA to pass information between programs or procedures without using a parameter list.
  • We can save data in *LDA without the overhead of creating and deleting a data area by ourselves.
  • DSPDTAARA *LDA

                                  Display Data Area                      
                                                                System:  
    Data area . . . . . . . :   *LDA                                     
    Type  . . . . . . . . . :   *CHAR                                    
    Length  . . . . . . . . :   1024                                     
    Text  . . . . . . . . . :   *LDA for Job 411434/EASYCLASS/QPAD204805 
                                                                         
                                                                         
               Value                                                     
    Offset      *...+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5       
        0      '                                                  '      
       50      '                                                  '      
      100      '                                                  '      
      150      '                                                  '      
      200      '                                                  '      
      250      '                                                  '      
      300      '                                                  '      
      350      '                                                  '      
      400      '                                                  '      
    

    Group Data Area

  • The system creates a group data area when an interactive job becomes a group job using the Change group attributes command (CHGGRPA).
  • Only one group data area can exist for a group. The group data area is deleted when the last job in the group is ended with the ENDJOB, SIGNOFF, or ENDGRPJOB command, or with an abnormal end, or when the job is no longer part of the group job
  • A group data area has a length of 512 and type *CHAR and is initially set as blanks.
  • We can use a group data area from within a group job by specifying *GDA for the DTAARA parameter on the CHGDTAARA, RTVDTAARA, and DSPDTAARA commands.
  • A group data area is accessed from all the jobs in the group.
  • We cannot create, delete, or allocate a group data area.
  • No library is associated with a group data area.
  • Used CHGGRPA GRPJOB(TEST) command to make the interactive job part of a group job TEST and then *GDA data area gets created and can be displayed using DSPDTAARA *GDA command.

                                  Display Data Area                     
                                                                System: 
    Data area . . . . . . . :   *GDA                                    
    Type  . . . . . . . . . :   *CHAR                                   
    Length  . . . . . . . . :   512                                     
    Text  . . . . . . . . . :   *GDA for Job 411434/EASYCLASS/QPAD204805
                                                                        
                                                                        
               Value                                                    
    Offset      *...+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5      
        0      '                                                  '     
       50      '                                                  '     
      100      '                                                  '     
      150      '                                                  '     
      200      '                                                  '     
      250      '                                                  '     
      300      '                                                  '     
      350      '                                                  '     
      400      '                                                  '     
    

    Program Initialization Parameter Data Area

  • The PIP data area is created for each prestart job when the job is started.
  • The object sub-type of the Program Initialization Parameter Data Area is different from a regular data area.
  • The Program Initialization Parameter Data Area can only be referred to by the special value name *PDA.
  • The size of the Program Initialization Parameter Data Area is 2000 bytes
  • RTVDTAARA, CHGDTAARA, and DSPDTAARA CL commands can be used with *PDA
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