Re: Easy way to get LPAR from RPG?

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Bruce

We use the LPAR information for licensing - we license on an LPAR 
basis, not overall machine serial number - but for typical 
home-builts, it does not seem all that important. Having it available 
in MATMATR is pretty easy, actually, as you know - heh!

Vern

At 11:01 AM 2/16/2008, you wrote:

> Not necessarily disagreeing with you and somewhat jumping into the 
> middle of this, but why do you need the LPAR identifier?  Most 
> business applications, if they want to know "where am I?", would 
> simply access the system name (network attribute SYSNAME) and to 
> access another LPAR they would do that treating the LPAR as simply 
> another system (typically using it's SYSNAME).  Most applications 
> I've run into that need to know a specific LPAR identifier are more 
> in the realm of systems management and need special knowledge of 
> their environment.  Knowledge typically not needed by the vast 
> majority of applications on the system.
>
>   Bruce Vining
>
> Mark Villa <iseries.4.me@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   dear IBM Dev....
>
> It is so silly to have to put up with difficulties for something as
> basic as "where am i" i.e. Why in the heck is LPAR not part of the
> current job attributes?
>
> I do not know much about LPAR on iSeries, my only experience is on the
> mainframe, but it seems that it should either not matter (i.e.
> access the other LPAR as another system) or should be obtainable from
> a SYSVAR or something available in CL. Writing code for this is
> insane.
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