Re: Environment variables

["Phil Hall" <hallp@xxxxxxxx>]

Eric,

>      Has anyone used the "getenv" api's in RPG? We're needing to
>      retrieve an environment variable for a job, but we don't have C, so
>      must do it in RPG. I was looking at Qp0zGetEnv(), but not really
>      sure if RPG can call this one....

They are callable from ILE/RPG.

Be very careful which one you use. There are two different putenv/getenv
pairs exported from two different system supplied *SRVPGM's and they are not
compatible with each other.

The symptoms you will see if you get a mismatch are that you will put
env.vars successfully, but on getting them, you'll see empty values - even
though you know they are there !!

Just ensure you use the same 'set' in all your pgms.

--phil

Phil Hall
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