Example

For the area named AREA1 on panel XYZ, return the number of columns in variable PQCOLS and the area type in variable ATYPE.

ISPEXEC PQUERY PANEL(XYZ) AREANAME(AREA1)
AREATYPE(ATYPE) WIDTH(PQCOLS)

Set the program variable BUFFER to contain:

PQUERY PANEL(XYZ) AREANAME(AREA1) AREATYPE(ATYPE) WIDTH(PQCOLS)

Set program variable BUFLEN to the length of the variable BUFFER. Issue the command:

CALL ISPEXEC (BUFLEN, BUFFER);

or alternately

CALL ISPLINK ('PQUERY  ','XYZ ','AREA1 ',
              'ATYPE ','PQCOLS ');