Re: retrieving job ASP attribute?

[Kelly Beard <kenverybigliar@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, everyone.  I'm cocking up an example piece of code now.  Will share
with the group later.

On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 4:44 PM, Kevin Wright <kevin.wright@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In V7R2M0, QUSRJOBI Format JOBI0400 has a few items of interest towards
> the bottom:
>
> Offset to ASP group information
> Number of entries in ASP group information
> Length of one ASP group information entry
> Job description library ASP device name
> ASP group information entry
>
> This is not new in V7R2M0 from what I can see.
>
> Regards,
>
> Kevin Wright | IBM i Developer, LPC
> <snip>
> I use SQLCLI APIs in my C++ stuff.  My software has always connected to
> *LOCAL for the database.  Now we have a newfangled Power8 setup with
> separate *SYSBASE and an iASP.  Our sysadmin says there will be no customer
> data on *SYSBASE.  We want to have as minimal code change as possible for
> the new hardware.  He said that he can set up the user that we use for
> database access to default to the iASP.  He has named the database on that
> iASP to have the same name.  I know I can scour the JOBD that the user is
> attached to for its default ASP, but how can I get it from an actively
> running job?  Do I even need to do this?
>
> What we're trying to do here is avoid having to go to a 3-part naming
> scheme, although that isn't onerous because we have library routines that
> help us build our table access path.  O
>
> I thought QUSRJOBI() would give me this and it is possible I'm missing it.
>
> --
> Kelly Beard
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