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Published: 16 Dec 2011
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Name of this CL Program's Library? Published by: Bob Cozzi on 16 Dec 2011 view comments(6)

Are you kidding me? In 2011 I can't retrieve the name of the library from which "this" CL program is running? I know we can use the snd/rcv msg CL commands to find out the runtime CL program name, but I assumed the library name was in there too. Especially since they added a *SHORT/*LONG option to the RCVMSG command for the Sender data, but it is not.

Yikes!

What I want to be able to do is to avoid processing the library name of the library that the CL program is running from. Specifically I'm working on a migration routine and when I do a restore on the other system, I don't want to restore the migration tools library, as that would be bad. 

What I need to do is retrieve the runtime library from which the CL program is running, and avoid restoring that library. Sure I can restrict the user to running it out of the install library, but hey, why would I do that?

Darn! 

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Posted by: BrianR
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Comment on: Name of this CL Program's Library?
Posted: 11 years 11 months 20 days 20 hours 27 minutes ago
Edited: Fri, 16 Dec, 2011 at 11:27:29 (4373 days ago)

If the runtime library is in the library list, you could use RTVOBJD OBJ(*LIBL/pgmname) RTNLIB(&libname).

Posted by: bobcozzi
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Comment on: Name of this CL Program's Library?
Posted: 11 years 11 months 20 days 20 hours 2 minutes ago
Edited: Fri, 16 Dec, 2011 at 11:57:40 (4373 days ago)

Hi Brian,

Thanks; I am doing that, but that does not guarantee that the library is for "this" program, only the one on the library list.

I've put in a request to add figurative constants to CL, so that we could do this:

DCL &LIB TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(10) VALUE(*LIB)

But IBM's response was "Great idea, but you probably won't live long enough to see it."

If IBM i shops would still be in the spend a few bucks mood, I'd probably spend time writing some of these missing commands. But except for Jim Sloan's TAA Tools, they don't seem to be willing to spend the bucks.

Posted by: DaleB
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Posted: 11 years 11 months 16 days 23 hours 8 minutes ago

More work, obviously, but there's the Retrieve Call Stack (QWVRCSTK) API...

Posted by: bobcozzi
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Comment on: Name of this CL Program's Library?
Posted: 11 years 11 months 16 days 21 hours 9 minutes ago

I know Dale. That's what I was hoping to avoid.

I was thinking there might be a way to generate a message and then retrieve the sender/receiver information or even somehow get the "F9" information--but no. Yell

Posted by: jomocox
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Posted: 9 years 9 months 16 days 15 hours 42 minutes ago

I found this to be very helpful.  It shows how to retrieve your CL program's name AND Library.

http://www.lisug.org/Tips/TIP6_Retrieve_PGM_Name.pdf

 

Posted by: bobcozzi
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Comment on: Name of this CL Program's Library?
Posted: 9 years 9 months 16 days 14 hours 12 minutes ago

Very cool Joanne, thanks! I've updated the example for explicit declarations and it works. Only issue is this should be a built-in function in both RPG and CL. 

 TESTGETNM:  PGM
             DCL        VAR(&MATPGNM_T) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(100)
             DCL        VAR(&TEMPL_SIZE) TYPE(*INT) STG(*DEFINED) +
                          LEN(4) DEFVAR(&MATPGNM_T 1)
             DCL        VAR(&BYTES_USED) TYPE(*INT) STG(*DEFINED) +
                          LEN(4) DEFVAR(&MATPGNM_T 5)
             DCL        VAR(&FORMAT) TYPE(*INT) STG(*DEFINED) +
                          LEN(4) DEFVAR(&MATPGNM_T 9)
             DCL        VAR(&RESERVED) TYPE(*CHAR) STG(*DEFINED) +
                          LEN(4) DEFVAR(&MATPGNM_T 13)
             DCL        VAR(&LIBTYPE) TYPE(*UINT) STG(*DEFINED) +
                          LEN(2) DEFVAR(&MATPGNM_T 17)
             DCL        VAR(&LIBNAME) TYPE(*CHAR) STG(*DEFINED) +
                          LEN(30) DEFVAR(&MATPGNM_T 19)
             DCL        VAR(&PGMTYPE) TYPE(*UINT) STG(*DEFINED) +
                          LEN(2) DEFVAR(&MATPGNM_T 49)
             DCL        VAR(&PGMNAME) TYPE(*CHAR) STG(*DEFINED) +
                          LEN(30) DEFVAR(&MATPGNM_T 51)
             CLREPEAT   VAR(&MATPGNM_T) VALUE(X'00')
             CHGVAR     VAR(&TEMPL_SIZE) VALUE(80)
             CHGVAR     VAR(&BYTES_USED) VALUE(80)
             CHGVAR     VAR(&FORMAT) VALUE(0)

             CALLPRC    PRC('_MATPGMNM') PARM((&MATPGNM_T))
             SNDPGMMSG  MSGID(CPF9897) MSGF(QCPFMSG) +
                          MSGDTA('Program' *BCAT %SST(&PGMNAME 1 +
                          10) *BCAT 'in library' *BCAT +
                          %SST(&LIBNAME 1 10))
 ENDPGM:     ENDPGM