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Re: User Profile handling in ancient release(s)

Hello James,

Am 20.09.2021 um 19:40 schrieb James H. H. Lampert via C400-L <c400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Does anybody remember how user switching was done two decades ago in OS/400?

According to my V2R3 API manual, chapter 53, it would be done using QSYGETPH and QWTSETP, both of which are OPM APIs, called as programs.

Thanks a lot!

The last three words might be a very important point!

Do I understand correctly that for using these in C, I need to use exec() in some way to get the desired outcome? (I've some experience with C in Linux but none in OS/400 so far.)

Since they didn't change the user portion of the qualified job name, or the user under which the job appeared in WRKACTJOB, we didn't use them; we simply spawned off jobs under the desired user profile.

Sounds reasonable. Maybe this is a dumb question but: How did you handle dynamic user profile switching? What you write sounds somewhat like "hard coded" in some way.

:wq! PoC


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