RE: Hoping there is an answer to this.

you need to use the following APIs
QSYGETPH - Retrieve profile handle
QWTSETP - Switch user ID (This one inputs the handle obtained from above api)

hope this helps.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Wills [mailto:koldark@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 12:00 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Hoping there is an answer to this.


I would want to change the user. I can easily figure out who the user is.

On 6/28/05, Jonathan Mason <jonathan.mason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Mike
> 
> If you use the Retrieve Job Attributes API (QUSRJOBI) and use either
> record format JOBI0300 or JOBI0400 you can find the qualified job name
> of the submitting job. That may help.
> 
> All the best
> 
> Jonathan
> www.astradyne-uk.com <http://www.astradyne-uk.com>
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Wills
> Sent: 28 June 2005 16:29
> To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: Re: Hoping there is an answer to this.
> 
> The only way I can really describe it is that it is a server. I am
> hacking a
> vendor delivered program to write a customized report. It is run under
> one
> user for all users. In their printing it comes out under the user's
> username. In my printing, it comes out under the server's username. Is
> there
> an API or something I can use to change this username?
> 
> On 6/28/05, Paul Morgan <pmorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Mike,
> >
> > Is the program adopting authority of the generic user to run in the
> same
> > job
> > as the user (I doubt it)? Is the program being submitted by the users
> to a
> > batch job with the generic user? Is the report being run from a data
> queue
> > or something similar instead of being submitted?
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > --
> > Paul Morgan
> > Senior Programmer Analyst - Retail
> > J. Jill Group
> > 100 Birch Pond Drive, PO Box 2009
> > Tilton, NH 03276-2009
> > Phone: (603) 266-2117
> > Fax: (603) 266-2333
> >
> > Mike wrote
> >
> > I have a program that is run as a generic user (I can't control this).
> I
> > this program produces a report, but I want the report to come out as
> the
> > user running it (many different users run this). Is this possible? Do
> you
> > understand what I am trying to ask?
> >
> >
> >
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