RE: PROBLEM WITH V5R3 -- Can anybody suggest a way to . . .

How about changing your rtnmodser program to write the information to a
one-record file in QTEMP. Then you can get that file via FTP, read the
record, and do whatever you need to do with the information.

Richard


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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of James H H Lampert
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 1:46 PM
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Subject: PROBLEM WITH V5R3 -- Can anybody suggest a way to . . .


Would anybody happen to know of a way to determine model number, serial
number, number of processors, number of LPARs, and current LPAR through an
FTP connection?

We have a small program we upload ahead of the product in our web-based
installation utility, that retrieves that information (so a trial-period
authorization code can be automatically generated and installed) and puts
it into an escape message (using CPF9898), which was the only way I could
find at the time for a program to return its output through an FTP
connection.

It works beautifully on V4R2 through V5R2. I think it may also work on
V3R2. But on V5R3, it fails. Instead of

>> ftp> quote rcmd call rtnmodser
>> 550-Error occurred on command call rtnmodser.
>> 550 Model  170    Serial  1047YBM    Processors 1    LPARS 01
CurrPar 00
>>     ***************.
>> ftp>

It comes back with

>> ftp> quote rcmd call qgpl/rtnmodser
>> 550-Error occurred on command call qgpl/rtnmodser.
>> 550 Cause code is CPF9898; message text not available.
>> ftp>

Yet it works fine in a terminal session.

One thought: The original version (which only returned model and serial)
was in CL. I had to change to ILE C in order to return the additional
information. Is there anything I can do in C, that will produce output on
an FTP connection, that I couldn't do in CL?

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JHHL