Re: I think I've asked before: easy way for ILE RPG program to know whether it's running in a batch job or an interactive job?

On 2013-01-18, at 9:38 AM, rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Job user for a CGI program is QTMHHTP1, not QTMHHTTP. Even with the UserID
directive used, I think it would remain as QTMHHTP1, although the Current
User would be the specified value.

The subsystem in which the job is running would certainly be QHTTPSVR.
Also, as an absolute confirmation, you could use QWVRCSTK to go back up the
library list to find out what program called your CGI program and determine
if it's the appropriate CGI module (I forget what it's called - I think
it's QTMHCGI).

In fact, Jon, you could probably have a simple procedure called isWebJob()
which calls QWVRCSTK and then determines the *first* procedure in the call
stack, to see if it's QTMHCGI. Easy enough to do, and return a boolean...

See that word in the subject Rory "easy" <grin> - I don't think this qualifies and I don't think it always works.

I've worked with several sites where the subsystem is not QHTTPSVR for one. Second problem is that I don't think QTHMHCGI is always used. I doubt Websphere would use it - although I don't know for sure. What about tools like Icebreak that supply their own server and don't use Apache? And I think that Lansa's aXes uses its own stuff too - again not sure.

The point I was trying to make was that since the system does not supply a definitive "flag" as it does with batch/interactive then there is no easy and guaranteed way of detecting a browser job that I have been able to discover.


Jon Paris

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