Re: RPG Question

[boothm@xxxxxxx]

Doug Aarestad wrote:
> 
> -->What I originally said........
> >> >A quick RPG question: (If y'all don't mind!)
> >> >
> >> >Is there a way to retrieve the system name in an RPG program? (IE;
> >> >S10-------) (I didn't see it anywhere in the SDS)
> >>
> 
> -->What Booth said............
> >Dumb answer time: Could you make your own "system data structure" where you
> could
> >include the system's name, and any other global stuff you wanted to be
> available
> >to your system?
> >
> >
Then, this is the time to start ghaving alias names.  the field would
have the S/n and the alias.  ie, S104... - Orlando  S105...  - 
Portland, etc.

> >
> 
> Booth,
> 
> That would work ok.  I might just do something like that.  We have 3
> machines, and I just want to add the system serial number (that's how we
> refer to our machines) to reports.  We display the program info, but I would
> like to see which system the report came from as well.  What you suggest
> would work as long as after I'm dead and gone, someone changes the data
> areas if we change machines.  (We are CISC, and by god, hoepfully at some
> point, go to RISC, which is a serial # change.  I have seen many other
> suggestions, but want to keep the code down as much as possible.
> 
> Thanks to everyone for their input.......
> 
> Doug Aarestad
> aarestad@feist.com
> http://www.feist.com/~aarestad
>
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