A system-descriptor area
A system-descriptor area is a dynamic-management structure that can hold data that a prepared statement either returns from or sends to the database server. A system-descriptor area conforms to X/Open standards.
These topics contain the following information about how
to use a system-descriptor area:
- Managing a system-descriptor area for dynamic SQL
- Using a system-descriptor area to handle unknown values in dynamic SQL statements
The end of this section presents an annotated example program called dyn_sql that uses a system-descriptor area to process a SELECT statement entered at run time.