Re: whoami

[bclark@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Bob Clark)]

2 CL commands you want to look at are:

RTVJOBA - retrieve job atributes
RTVUSRPRF - retrieve user profile

these two commands allow you to retrieve around a hundred useful pieces of
information regarding a specific job and/or user profile into variables.

Scott, Shadrach wrote:

> I have 2 questions.
>
> a) I need an RPG program I have written to be able to tell who is using
> it. In other words I need to retrieve the program callers userid. Is
> there an API I can use to do this? or a CL command? or ?
>
> b) The second question stems from the first. I say I have written an RPG
> program, I have actually started on my second this morning. I am
> teaching my self RPG through the help of Judy Yaeger's book Programming
> in RPG/400 second edition. It has been a good book to start but I am
> ready for and RPG advanced features book or resource of some kind. I am
> curious what book(s) are the essential RPG programmers reference books.
> Do you just use the IBM RPG books that come on the softcopy CD-ROM or is
> there a second party book that if you are going to be an RPG programmer
> you gotta have.
>
> As usual thanks for sharing your wisdom. It is greatly appreciated.
>
> Shadrach Scott
> sscott@hiu.edu
>
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