Bindable APIs for Operational Descriptor Access

Descriptors are normally accessed directly by a called procedure according to the semantics of the HLL in which the procedure is written. Once a procedure is programmed to expect operational descriptors, no further handling is usually required by the programmer. However, sometimes a called procedure needs to determine whether the descriptors that it requires are present before accessing them. For this purpose the following bindable APIs are provided:

• Retrieve Operational Descriptor Information (CEEDOD) bindable API
• Get String Information (CEEGSI) bindable API