Re: Retrieve a user's full name (not the User ID)

On 07-Oct-2015 23:24 -0600, Booth Martin wrote:

Is there a way to programmatically retrieve a user's name from his
profile? That is, the "user description field" in the user profile.

Clarification is required on what specifically is meant by the so-called "/user description field/ in the user profile." Also, the topic is unrelated to RPG; even if the intention is eventually to use RPG to obtain whatever\wherever is that info.

AFaIK there are any of the following as possibly what is of interest:
• a User Description in the User Enrollment feature
• a Text 'description' (TEXT) for the User Profile (USRPRF) object; the same attribute available, for example, by either of Change Object Description (CHGOBJD) or Change User Profile (CHGUSRPRF) commands with the TEXT() parameter
• a User Description in the System Distribution Directory Entry (DIRE) for any user enrolled in that feature.
• LDAP Directory Server database typically has the *cn (complete name) field information.

I am unsure if the Work With User Enrollment (WRKUSRENR) terminology "User Description" equates the Text (TEXT) object attribute of the *USRPRF object, or perhaps instead with the System Distribution Directory [i.e. the User Description (USRD) values specified-on and added via, the Add Directory Entry (ADDDIRE) command], or perhaps is an entirely separate entity.?

IMO the best way to retrieve a user's [full] name is from a private database established specifically to track the users [and associated information] on the partition. A parent file for a person-entity establishes the [surrogate] key for the related files; e.g. a file with "name" information for the person, a file with the USRPRF name(s) for, a file with phone number(s), etc. I suppose some might use LDAP for all that, but I might use the private database to maintain the data and use that to manage the system [with constraints and triggers e.g. to create and change User Profiles] and from which to populate the LDAP data.