Re: whoami

[Pete Hall <peteh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:06 AM 7/7/98 -0700, Shadrach Scott wrote:
>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 ?

Search the softcopy RPG Reference for "program status data structure". This 
information is available at positions 254-263. 

>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. 

I've always just used the IBM manual, but I think Bob Cozzi has a book that's 
highly regarded. There's probably something available from Midrange Computing 
also.


Pete Hall
peteh@inwave.com 
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/

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