On 08-Aug-2014 10:10 -0500, kevin wrote:
So I installed IBM i client access 7.1 from the system onto an XP
machine. I am now unable to obtain the IP of the PC in question from
my application.
This has worked for years on the older versions right up to 6.1..
I've tried this program as a test:
<http://www.itjungle.com/mpo/mpo011702-story02.html>
"... sample program ... demonstrates how to use the QDCRDEVD (Retrieve
Device Description) API to retrieve a PC's IP address ... Format ...
DEVD0600 ..."
It works fine on my Mac and on older client access versions.. This
is critical to the application I have written for my client and now
it no longer works..along with RUNRMTCMD on Win7.. What are IBM
doing... This sort of stuff used to work out of the box...
Anybody solved or come across this.. Are there any setting that need
adjusting?
Given the use of the CA feature still has a TCP/IP workstation
emulation session configured, an the program is being run in the
interactive job started at the emulated device, I see no reason the
information would [legitimately] no longer be stored there; written by
the OS WorkStation [WS] feature I expect [using effectively the QWTCHGJB
API noted in a doc snippet below], and thus the effect of that IP
address being made visible to the QDCRDEVD API should not be associated
with the client [software level] if the emulated WS session is
configured the same, as an effective TELNET connection. Finding a
defect would be difficult, for the variability of the possible symptom
keywords; all I found was a v5r4 issue using a Google web search on:
INCORROUT "IP ADDRESS" "DEVD0600" OR "QDCRDEVD"
Nonetheless, there is "Client IP address" information available from
job and thread APIs that may be helpful?:
<
http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/api/content/ssw_ibm_i_71/apis/WMAttrDesc.htm>
_Work Management API Attribute Descriptions_
"The purpose of this document is to provide one place that describes all
the Job and Thread attributes that are used in all the Work Management
APIs. The list of attributes encompasses the following APIs:
• Retrieve Job Information (QUSRJOBI)
• List Job (QUSLJOB)
• Retrieve Current Attribute (QWCRTVCA)
• Open List of Jobs (QGYOLJOB)
• Retrieve Thread Attribute (QWTRTVTA)
• Open List of Threads (QWCOLTHD)
...
... Client IP address - IPv4
...
... Client IP address - IPv4 or IPv6
...
Client IP address - IPv4. The IPv4 address of the client for which this
server is doing work. An address is expressed in standard IPv4
dotted-decimal form www.xxx.yyy.zzz (for example, 130.99.128.1). This
field is not guaranteed to be an IP address. This field will be blank if
the address is not explicitly set to a value by the Change Job
(QWTCHGJB) API. For additional usage information of the Client IP
address, see _Retrieve Thread Attribute (QWTRTVTA) API_
<
http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/api/content/ssw_ibm_i_71/apis/qwtrtvta.htm>.
Client IP address - IPv4 or IPv6. The IPv4 or IPv6 address of the client
for which the specified thread of this server most recently communicated
with over sockets. If this field is requested for a job, the value from
the initial thread of the job will be returned. If a sockets connection
has not been established in the initial thread, ≥ or a sockets close()
operation has been done ≤ this field will be blank. An IPv4 address is
expressed in standard dotted-decimal form www.xxx.yyy.zzz (for example,
130.99.128.1). An IPv6 address always has at least one occurrence of a
colon (':') in the format. Some possible IPv6 address formats would be:
::x (for example, ::1) or ::w.xxx.y.zzz (for example, ::9.130.4.169).
For further IPv6 examples and explanation ...
..."
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