what are the different types of data areas?

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what are the different types of data areas?..

Answer / rohit katarya

The different types of Data Areas are general data area, local data area, group data area, pip (program initialization parameter data area) data area.

*General Data Area - It can be created by user implicitely or explicitly

It can be referred by any other jobs.
It can be associated with a library.
It can be created, deleted by the user.

* Local Data Area - It can not be referred by any other job.

It is automatically created and deleted by the system.
It is not associated with any library.

*Group Data Area - It is automatically created and deleted by the system

We can access the group
data area value through clp.
It is meant for group jobs.

*Pip Data Area - It is meant for pre start jobs.

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what are the different types of data areas?..

Answer / Mohd Arif Usman

On IBM AS400, data areas can be categorized into five main types: Standard (STD), Overlay (OVL), Automatic (AUT), Work (WK), and Special (SPE). Each type serves a unique purpose in the program's execution.

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