The program reads all of the data in a single request. This is because the API treats
each request as a request for data starting at its beginning. The API handles each
request as if it was the only request.
The length of the data returned by QtmhRdStin includes all the data from stdin.
This includes line-formatting characters that are normally a part of the POST data
as defined by the CGI specification.
Note that the format of this data is different depending on the CGI input mode
being used. For %%MIXED%% mode, the data will have American National
Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) hexadecimal encoded
characters. For %%EBCDIC%% mode, all data including hexadecimal will be in the
CCSID of the job. The server performs no conversion for %%BINARY%% mode.
Required parameter group
Receiver variable
OUTPUT:CHAR(*)
The output variable that contains the data read from stdin. In CGI input mode
%%MIXED%%, this data is in the CCSID of the job except that the encoded
characters “%xx”are still represented by the ASCII 819 octet. In
%%EBCDIC%% mode, this data is in the CCSID of the job, including the
escape sequences. In %%BINARY%% mode, the data is in the code page sent
by the browser.
Length of receiver variable
INPUT:BINARY(4)
The input variable containing the number of bytes that are to be read from
stdin.
Length or response available
OUTPUT:BINARY(4)
The output variable containing the length of the data read from stdin. If there
is no data available from stdin, this variable will be set to zero.
Error Code
I/O:Char(*)
The structure in which to return error information. For the format of the
structure and for details on how to process API errors, see the programming
topic in the AS/400 Information Center.
Error Messages
CPF24B4 E
Severe Error while addressing parameter list.
CPF3C17 E
Error occurred with input data parameter.
CPF3C19 E
Error occurred with receiver variable specified.
CPF3CF1 E
Error code parameter not valid.
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