RE: Retrieving OS version

At 12:51 PM 12/2/97 -0600, you wrote:
>>>Is there an easy way to retreive, inside a CL, the version of the OS
(v3r2m0, v4r1m0 ...)?
>> I would like a solution that work from version v3r2m0 and up. I tried
looking at the system values but there is none that i could see.
>>
>>
>>0001.00              PGM
    
>>0002.00              DCL        VAR(&APIPARMLEN) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(4)
    
>>0003.00              DCL        VAR(&APIPARM) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(1000)
    
>>0004.00              DCL        VAR(&APIERRCDE) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(4)
    
>>0005.00              DCL        VAR(&PRDINF) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(27) +
    
>>0006.00                           VALUE('*OPSYS *CUR  0000*CODE     ')
    
>>0007.00              DCL        VAR(&VRM) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(6)
    
>>0008.00
    
>>0009.00              CHGVAR     VAR(%BIN(&APIPARMLEN 1 4)) VALUE(1000)
    
>>0010.00              CHGVAR     VAR(%BIN(&APIERRCDE 1 4)) VALUE(0)
    
>>0011.00
    
>>0012.00              CALL       PGM(QSZRTVPR) PARM(&APIPARM &APIPARMLEN +
    
>>0013.00                           PRDR0100 &PRDINF &APIERRCDE)
    
>>0014.00              CHGVAR     VAR(&VRM) VALUE(%SST(&APIPARM 20 6))
    
>>                                               
>>
>>Hope this helps.
>>

Then someone wrote:
>
>
>There is a data area in library QUSRSYS called QSS1MRI (at least there is
in >V3R7M0) that contains the version information in the first 6 positions.
 A >previous release (V2R3?) had it in a different data area (Q5738SS1, not
sure >if it was in the same library).  I'm not sure why IBM changed the
name of the data area, but if IBM did it, it must have been for a good
reason <bg>!
>
Well, this really sucks.  QSS1MRI was withdrawn some releases ago (that
lovely V3R1 I think), and many of us bitched about it.  At the time we were
given the TOTALLY @#$%ing BULLSHIT answer that the data area was too much
trouble to maintain.  So many of us started writing to this API (which is
about as easy to get into as Sadam Hussain's main palace).  Then the data
area gets put back.  

This note is the first I've heard it's been put back.

IBM, please be honest in the future.  If you take out easy to use function,
and then put it back, please tell us.



Al


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