Help with Struct

[cjohnman]

I am having trouble making sense of this structure. Can anyone take time to comment or note what is happening in this code? Thanks.

typedef struct {
    char    sqlcaid[8];
    int     sqlcabc;
    int     sqlcode;
    struct {
    short   sqlerrml;
    char    sqlerrmc[70];
    } sqlerrm;
    char    sqlerrp[8];
    int     sqlerrd[6];
    struct {
    char    sqlwarn0;
    char    sqlwarn1;
    char    sqlwarn2;
    char    sqlwarn3;
    char    sqlwarn4;
    char    sqlwarn5;
    char    sqlwarn6;
    char    sqlwarn7;
    } sqlwarn;
    char    sqlext[8];
} IISQLCA;

[laserlight]

Check the relevant documentation.

[Dino]

That is the SQLCA ("SQL Communications Area") structure from a C program that connects to IBM DB2.

SQLCAID is a string "SQLCA "
SQLCABC is the "byte count", or, size of the SQLCA
SQLCODE is the return code from DB2 about the success or failure of the SQL statement.
SQLERR* are fields that contain error information, used by module DSNTIAR (on the mainframe, not sure of the name for DB2 LUW) to spit out a full error message.
SQLWARN* fields are different warning flags used by various different SQL statements.
SQLEXT may be (not certain on this one) a placeholder for SQLSTATE, a cross platform error code (whereas SQLCODE is a platform specific error code).

It's using nested structures. No big deal.

Todd

[cjohnman]

I do not have any relevant documentation. The consulting group left us high and dry. I had some C programming classes 10 years ago and was forced to learn as much possible about this program. It is very large. So anyway thanks very much for taking time to help me get thru some of this stuff.

-Carl

[Dino]

What platform?