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 17 Jan 2013 13:56, Jon Paris wrote:

On 2013-01-17, at 4:38 PM, rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

The TYPE value for RTVJOBA returns '1' for INT jobs and '0' for
everything else, I believe. I can't think that any of the other
types could be an interactive job, under any meaningful definition
of the word 'interactive' as it applies to jobs on the i.

True - unless of course one thinks of a web app as interactive.
Which is a "meaningful" definition but admittedly not in the
conventional IBM meaning of "interactive".

I've yet to find an API that will tell me if I am running in a web
server job.

I expect most on this list probably already know what the difference between job-type INT versus any job-type other than INT, would mean to their RPG programs.

So... Suppose the answer is known, whether the program is "running in a web server job?" What does knowing that information then allow the program to do and\or what does knowing that information then preclude the program from doing? Also I am curious what difference is there between a "web server job" and any other type of job that might be servicing requests from elsewhere [other than an interactive display device]?


The remainder of this post is included merely FWiW, mostly in case someone stumbling on this thread in the archive wants to look back:

I recall the following old discussion which is tangential [about WSG] but some references may have been made to HTTP jobs and CGI:

Subject: When is browser NOT being used
Rob Dixon Date: Thu, 05 May 2005
http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/200505/threads.html#00279

Although I thought there had been another more recent discussion, I could not find any... though finally with additional and alternate means of searching [by subject in NewsReader] I located:
Subject: Identify where job is running
Jon Paris Fri, 15 Jul 2011
http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/201107/threads.html#00482