What is sqlca and why is it needed in any cobol-db2 program?



What is sqlca and why is it needed in any cobol-db2 program?..

Answer / vegeta

Sqlca is SQL communication area.SQLCA will have all the information like return code, error id, error details etc,. after the DB2 query execution.

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