VIAA ENG GET CATEGORY (3779)    REMOTE PROCEDURE (8994)

Name Value
NAME VIAA ENG GET CATEGORY
TAG GETCAT
ROUTINE VIAAEUT
RETURN VALUE TYPE GLOBAL ARRAY
AVAILABILITY RESTRICTED
WORD WRAP ON TRUE
APP PROXY ALLOWED Yes
DESCRIPTION
This RPC requires three input parameters and returns all the entries
in the Engineering file Equipment Category, #6911.
INPUT PARAMETER
  • RETSTA
    PARAMETER TYPE:   LIST
    MAXIMUM DATA LENGTH:   32000
    REQUIRED:   YES
    DESCRIPTION:   
    This is the array for the return data from the call.
    
  • REQDATA
    PARAMETER TYPE:   LITERAL
    MAXIMUM DATA LENGTH:   255
    REQUIRED:   YES
    SEQUENCE NUMBER:   1
    DESCRIPTION:   
    This is the keyword "CATEGORY" to indicate the return of all the entries
    in the Equipment Category file, #6911.
    
  • DATAID
    PARAMETER TYPE:   LITERAL
    MAXIMUM DATA LENGTH:   255
    REQUIRED:   YES
    SEQUENCE NUMBER:   2
    DESCRIPTION:   
    Defines the scope of the data requested: 'ALL' for all the data on file.
    
RETURN PARAMETER DESCRIPTION
For a successful call execution, the output for the client will be placed
the client using the following format in ^TMP:
 
^TMP("VIAACATEGORY",$J,0)="-###^reason_for_failure", where '###'
is a 3-digit http status code. The piece 'reason_for_failure' explains
what caused the error in VistA.
in ^TMP("VIAACATEGORY",$J,count,0) and returned via the variable RETSTA; 
it will consist of the following fields from file #6911 using '^' as a
delimiter:
 
^TMP("VIAACATEGORY",$J,count,0)=categoryIEN^categoryDescription
. . .
 
If an error occurs during call execution, a message will be returned to