Re: Creating host variables in QTEMP using RSS

"But a variable is a chunk of memory rather than an object in a library,
so..."

.. this is not completely true !!

It is created as a service program that contains an internal variable with
the initial value. So when you change the variable - you change the value
in that instance of the service program . aka - when the job i s
terminated, everything is disposed of.

in RPGIII lingo - it's like a program with a parameter having a variable.
Then you return without *INLR .. if that makes sense :)


On Wed, Oct 8, 2025 at 9:28 PM Evan Harris <auctionitis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Dan

I'm kind of wondering if the variable you created is really "in your
library".

Your initial post with the variable defined like so: create variable
dbale/testvar varchar(30); confused my muscle memory as I immediately
associated it with a library,
But a variable is a chunk of memory rather than an object in a library, so
now I am thinking it's more likely you have a variable named in a way that
suggests it is in a library - but isn't.




On Thu, Oct 9, 2025 at 7:19 AM Dan Bale <dan.bale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Global variables can do exactly this without being in QTEMP. You can

create it in any permanent library and each job can have its own value.

O.k., I just now tested this in two different RSS sessions and you're
right and now I'm confused how a variable created in my personal library
can have two different values.

Is the variable *SRVPGM object in my library simply a definition that the
RSS session uses to create a value placeholder for that session?

I guess this not only applies to RSS scripts, but to SQL stored

procedures

as well?

- Dan Bale

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Subject: RE: Creating host variables in QTEMP using RSS

Global variables can do exactly this without being in QTEMP. You can
create it in any permanent library and each job can have its own
value.Yours truly,Glenn Gundermannglenn.gundermann@xxxxxxxxx(416)

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