Comments on: Retreive program atrributes and save information in a file http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/retreive-program-atrributes-and-save-information-in-a-file/ Sun, 26 May 2013 01:40:27 +0000 hourly 1 By: tomliotta http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/retreive-program-atrributes-and-save-information-in-a-file/#comment-83786 tomliotta Sun, 14 Nov 2010 08:32:50 +0000 #comment-83786 I’m not clear why you’d want to “have the information stored in a file”. That is, you’re going to be coding a call to an API (or a spooled file) to extract the attribute from the program object no matter what. Then you’re going to write the extracted info to a file just so you can read it back in again.

Why not just create a UDF that returns the activation group attribute whenever a library/program name is passed into it? It will just do what you’re going to code anyway.

The OS is object-based. UDFs provide a fairly natural connection between the objects you manipulate and the files you’ll be using. You can run something as direct as DSPOBJD to populate a table with program names, then query that file with your UDF specified and the activation group comes out of the live object.

Tom

]]> By: astradyne http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/retreive-program-atrributes-and-save-information-in-a-file/#comment-48845 astradyne Thu, 16 Feb 2006 05:28:30 +0000 #comment-48845 Hi

There are a couple of API’s that you can use to retrieve this information directly into your program for a specified ILE program or service program.

QCLRPGMI retrieves program information (including the activation group) for non-service programs, while QBNRSPGM retrieves it for service programs. The activation group “name” is held in the Activation Group Attribute field.

I have a routine that uses other API’s to create a program/module/resource cross reference which could easily be modified to include the activation group using the above API’s. It’s available for download at http://www.astradyne-uk.com/downloads.htm if you want to take a look.

All the best

Jonathan

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