RE: Newbie question - Getting the userid with RPGLE

Hi Douglas!

There is a cool little thing in RPG called the program status data
structure (or PSDS) which contains lots of interesting information,
including the user profile of the person running the program (actually
it's a little more involved than that, but this is enough to get you
started).

You access the PSDS by defining a special optional data structure in
your RPG program.  You can then define subfields to access the
individual pieces of data.  Some even have predefined special values for
the positions.  I don't have the exact code to get the user profile,
although I'm sure someone can supply it.  Here is an example using
hardcoded positions to get the job number and a special value to get the
program name:

D                sds               
D  xsjbno               264    269 
D  xspgm            *proc          

Hope this helps!

Joe

> From: D.W. Palme
> 
> I am very new to RPG and I have been searching the net and
> experts-exchange in an attempt to figure out how to acquire the userid
> of the person signed in and running a program with RPG.
> 
> I thought I could do it the same way as with a display file but that
did
> not work..
> 
> Would someone provide me a tiny bit of assistance here or at least
point
> me in the right direction?