Comments on: How to get IP address of as400 machine in CL pgm http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/how-to-get-ip-address-of-as400-machine-in-cl-pgm/ Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:43:16 +0000 hourly 1 By: tomliotta http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/how-to-get-ip-address-of-as400-machine-in-cl-pgm/#comment-69338 tomliotta Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:34:30 +0000 #comment-69338 Just a minor comment… One reason a program might need to know the local IP address is to insert it as text in an outbound message of some sort. A particular case is IBM’s Site Protector product (originally from ISS). It requires the host IP address be embedded as text in the event message from the System i to the Site Protector agent. It took a bit of thought to get the APIs in the proper sequence when I had to do that, and it sure wasn’t done in CL. It’s rare that any program needs to know where it’s coming from instead of where it’s going to.

I think it can be done with V5R4 ILE CL; I don’t see why not, though I haven’t tried. I suspect that those who can do it would use a different language.

Tom

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