Re: GETUSERNAME

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't have a Pro/VIP subscription, so can't see the article - does it 
involve a program you call on the PC? I'm not sure that would fly for 
our situation.

Thanks
Vern

On 7/15/2011 12:20 PM, Michael Smith wrote:
> Additional research:
>
> Getting the Windows User ID, ID 51652 at iSeriesNetwork, by Scott
> Klement.
>
> Thanks for all who replied.
>
> Michael
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vern Hamberg
> Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 12:23 PM
> To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
> Subject: Re: GETUSERNAME
>
> I'm looking at SSO using NAS and EIM - I also have a scenario where I
> need to find the Windows principal from the iSeries user profile. I just
> dug into some of the APIs - it looks as if there's not a single API to
> get the source from a target. I might be mistaken, am asking support
> about that.
>
> But I think a combination of the eimGetAssociatedIdentifiers and
> eimListAssociations APIs can do the trick. There are probably a couple
> assumptions, of course, like 1-to-1 associations only. In our case, that
> would be a necessary assumption.
>
> HTH
> Vern
>
> On 7/15/2011 10:01 AM, Charles Wilt wrote:
> > If you're using SSO and EIM, there's probably a way to query the EIM
> > database to figure out what the network ID is for a given IBM i user
> > ID.
> >
> > Charles
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Michael Smith<msmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > > Is there an API that I can use to retrieve the Windows User name?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > We are on V6R1.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Michael Smith