11 System and Multilingual Variables

11. System and Multilingual Variables

A system variable is used to store commonly used pieces of information that are often variable or dynamic.

System variables are global, that is, system wide variables that are used across all LANSA partitions.

To learn how to use LANSA's system variables, refer to System Variable Concepts in the Developer Guide.

LANSA is shipped with a number of System Variables and they are listed in 11.2 Shipped System Variables

Also See

System Variable Evaluation Programs in the Visual LANSA Developer Guide.

To create system variables, refer to:

     for IBM i:  Create a New System Variable in the LANSA for i User Guide.

     for Visual LANSA: Edit System Variables in the Visual LANSA User Guide.

For the system variables details, refer to the 11.1 System Variable Definition.