The size of the area you provide must be large enough to hold one RIB and at least one of its associated RIBEs; otherwise, you might lose information about resource requestors, or you might have to call GQSCAN repeatedly to receive all of the information you requested. To determine whether you have received all RIBEs for a particular RIB, check the values in the RIBTRIBE and RIBNRIBE fields. To determine whether you have received all of the information on the resource queue, check the return code from GQSCAN.
IBM® recommends that you use a minimum area size of 1024 bytes.
The information that GQSCAN returns in the area also depends on what values you specify for the SCOPE and TOKEN parameters.