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tion	key is treated as any other key. If attention key buffering
the	Attention	key	results in sending the information to the system eve
work	station	input	is inhibited.

Miscellaneous APIs

The miscellaneous part Systemof theAPI Referenceincludes the following miscel- laneous APIs plus the process open list APIs.

Miscellaneous APIs

The miscellaneous APIs include the following:

ŸConvert Date and Time Format (QWCCVTDT) API

This API allows you to convert date and time formats from one for another format.

Ÿ Remove All Bookmarks from a Course (QEARMVBM) API

This API allows you to remove the bookmarks from a Tutorial System course.

ŸRetrieve Data (QPARTVDA) API

This API retrieves up to	1KB of user data, which was passed to
with the Start Pass-through	(QPASTRPT) API.

ŸStart Pass-Through (QPASTRPT) API

This API starts a 5250 pass-through session and optionally passes up of user data from the source system to the target system. This accessed on the target system with the Retrieve Data (QPARTVDA)

Process

Open

List APIs

These

AS/400

list

APIs

can

improve

perceived

performance when

they

cr

The

APIs

create

and

make

available

to

the

caller

a

partial listing

o

files,

messages,

or objects. This list is immediately

available

to

be

while

the

remainder

of

the list is being created. The user does n

the

entire

list

to

be

created. Following

is

a description

of

the

AP

work

together.

The

process

open

list

APIs

are

used

to

access

the

data

returned

AS/400

APIs:

Ÿ

Open

List

of

Job

Log

Messages

(QGYOLJBL)

Ÿ

Open

List

of

Messages

(QGYOLMSG)

Ÿ

Open

List

of

Objects

(QGYOLOBJ)

Ÿ

Open

List

of

Objects to be Backed Up (QEZOLBKL)

Ÿ

Open

List

of

Printers

(QGYRPRTL)

ŸOpen List of Spooled Files (QGYOLSPL)

The	APIs	in	the	previous		list are	located in	their reSysptectivem	secti
API	Referencebook;			that	is,	backup	and recovery	APIs, message handling
object		APIs,	and	print	APIs.

Each of these APIs builds a list of the appropriate type and ret records requested by the caller of the API. Also returned from the program is a request handle associated with that particular list. Thi handle can be used on subsequent calls to the Get List Entry (QGYGT

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