C-LANG Statements › LDA Statement—Specify the Data for the Local Data Area

LDA Statement—Specify the Data for the Local Data Area

The LDA statement specifies data for the local data area in an i5/OS job. The local data area is a temporary 1024-byte storage area that exists for the duration of the job. You can use the local data area to pass data to the job and to other programs that run as part of the job.

Supported Job Type

This statement is optional for the i5/OS job type.

Syntax

This statement has the following format:

LDA data|X'hh...'

data

Specifies the data in character format.

Limits: Up to 1024 characters; case-sensitive

X'hh...'

Specifies the data in hexadecimal format, with each pair of hexadecimal digits representing one byte of data.

Limits: Up to 2051 characters

Example: X’C1C2C340C1C2C3’

Note: Enclose values that contain delimiters (such as spaces) in double quotation marks.

Example: Specify Data for the Local Data Area in Hexadecimal Format

In the following example, when the job is submitted, the agent initializes the local data area with hexadecimal data. When the job completes, the local data area is destroyed automatically by the operating system.

AGENT A03TS1
CLPNAME IVP
LDA X'C1C2C3C4'