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IDMSDB--@BIND PROC Parameters

PROC=

Establishes addressability for the specified database procedure in program variable storage.

procedure-name

Must refer to an 8-character literal aligned on a fullword boundary.

COMAREA=

Identifies the program storage location to which the named procedure will be bound.

procedure-control-location

Must identify a 256-byte (fixed-length) area.

A program running in a different partition than the central version may need to pass certain information to the database procedure. When the DBMS invokes the database procedure, this information is copied from the program storage area, identified by procedure-control-location, into the CA IDMS/DB application program information block. The information passed is the information in the program storage location at the time the BIND PROC was performed; it is not the information in the program's storage at the time of the procedure call.