Use DISPLAY_REG_DELETE_KEY when you want the action to be performed on the display host's registry (the local host when the application is run with a standard runtime; the thin client when the application is run with the thin client). Use REG_DELETE_KEY when you want the action to be performed on the server host's registry (the local host when the application is run with a standard runtime, and the application host when the application is run with the thin client).
CALL "REG_DELETE_KEY"
USING OPEN-KEY-HANDLE, SUBKEY-TO-BE-DELETED,
GIVING STATUS-CODE
| OPEN-KEY-HANDLE Usage unsigned-long | Handle of a currently open key or one of the following predefined handles of keys that are always open (defined in
acugui.def):
The key deleted by REG_DELETE_KEY is a subkey of the key identified by OPEN-KEY-HANDLE. |
| SUBKEY-TO-BE-DELETED PIC X(n) |
Name of the key to delete. Must be a subkey of the key identified by OPEN-KEY-HANDLE. If SUBKEY-TO-BE-DELETED is set to NULL or to a string consisting of all spaces, the routine does nothing and returns with STATUS-CODE set to 13. |
| STATUS-CODE Numeric data item. |
Receives the return status of the call to Microsoft's RegDeleteKey function. A return status of zero indicates success; non-zero indicates that an error occurred. On 32-bit Windows systems, a return status of 5 indicates that either the application does not have delete privileges for the specified key, or another application has the key opened. |