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  3. November 2002

Re: Checking if a program is active

From: Mark Waterbury <mark.s.waterbury@worldnet.att.net>
> Checking only the invocation stack of all jobs is inadequate, because
> in OS/400, programs such as RPG can "exit" with LR=OFF

> Unfortunately, IBM does not yet provide any APIs or any other
> documented way to find these "activated" *PGMs, that I am aware
> of, without going "below the MI".

Actually the DIAGnose MI-instruction can give you the basis for
a tool to find out what processes are active. Then you can go
walk their descriptions to find all active programs, but you are
correct that this is not kosher.

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