Remote Data Area in AS400

Remote Data Area in AS400

Remote Data Area

A remote data area is a data area present on a remote system. You can access the remote data areas by using distributed data management (DDM).

Create a DDM data area

                         Create Data Area (CRTDTAARA)                
                                                                     
Type choices, press Enter.                                           
                                                                     
Data area  . . . . . . . . . . . DTAARA       > DDMDTARA1            
  Library  . . . . . . . . . . .              >   EASYCLASS1         
Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TYPE         > *DDM                 
Remote data area . . . . . . . . RMTDTAARA    > RMTDTARA1            
  Library  . . . . . . . . . . .              >   REMOTELIB          
Remote location  . . . . . . . . RMTLOCNAME   > REMOTEL              
Relational database  . . . . . . RDB                                 
APPC device description  . . . . DEV            *LOC                 
Local location . . . . . . . . . LCLLOCNAME     *LOC                 
Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MODE           *NETATR              
Remote network identifier  . . . RMTNETID       *LOC                 
Text 'description' . . . . . . . TEXT         > 'DDM data area'                                                               

The data area is created successfully.

Data area DDMDTARA1 created in library EASYCLASS1.

WRKOBJ DDMDTARA1

                              Work with Objects                  
                                                                 
Type options, press Enter.                                       
  2=Edit authority        3=Copy   4=Delete   5=Display authority
  8=Display description   13=Change description                  
                                                                 
Opt  Object      Type      Library     Attribute   Text          
     DDMDTARA1   *DTAARA   EASYCLASS1  DDMDTAARA   DDM data area 

DSPDTAARA DDMDTARA1

                              Display Data Area                     
                                                            System: 
Data area . . . . . . . :   DDMDTARA1                               
  Library . . . . . . . :     EASYCLASS1                            
Type  . . . . . . . . . :   *DDM                                    
Length  . . . . . . . . :   62                                      
Text  . . . . . . . . . :   DDM data area                           
                                                                    
           Value                                                    
Offset      *...+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5      
    0      '*LOC      *NETATR REMOTEL *LOC    *LOC    RMTDTARA'     
   50      '1 REMOTELIB '                                           

We can use all commands such as RTVDTAARA, DSPDTAARA, CHGDTAARA, and DLTDTAARA with the DDM data area.

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