RE: Programmatically Pull the IP Address of The iSeries

Marty,
I looked at using the QtocLstNetIfc Api and also reading QATOCIFC in
QUSRSYS. However, like you say, these just give me a list of the defined
IP address and not just the one I'm looking for. In the end, I went with
Rob's suggestion of using PING and RCVMSG. It's not very pretty, but it
works.

I have never heard of gethostbyname, but after doing a little
preliminary research, it looks like it may be a better solution. Thanks
for pointing me in that direction!

As far as why I need to do this, one of the divisions has a third party
time and attendance system that runs on a wintel box. I need to get this
information to the iSeries for payroll processing. They export the file
to a mapped folder on the IFS. When we are role swapped, the file needs
to go to the DR iSeries. In order to know where to send the file, I need
to know which iSeries they are running on.  

Terry Anderson

message: 2
date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 21:20:14 -0400
from: "Urbanek, Marty" <Marty_Urbanek@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: RE: Programmatically Pull the IP Address of The iSeries

Terry,

Since the iSeries could have multiple interfaces, it could 
have more than one IP address. You can use the QtocLstNetIfc 
API to retrieve a list of the interfaces and then go through 
the list and check each interface's status to see if it is 
active. The subset of active interfaces would represent all 
the IP addresses that the iSeries could respond to. I'm not 
sure what happens in the case of PPP (dialup) connections.

But maybe you're more interested in a function such 
gethostbyname to see what DNS and/or host table thinks your 
IP address is supposed to be.

Maybe you could tell us a little more about what your 
program needs to do.

-Marty

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