API Corner: TCP/IP List Network Interfaces to a Browser

June 29, 2005 Shannon O'Donnell

The code for this article is available for download.

Welcome to a new feature of Four Hundred Guru called API Corner, where I will mine the mountain of APIs in OS/400 to find the gems that you can use. This week, I will be taking a look at the List TCP/IP Network Interfaces API. This API allows you to programmatically list the network interfaces on your system and retrieve certain information about same.

For example, some of the information you can retrieve includes the IP address of the network interface as well as its name and type. To make

Remove Misleading Messages from Job Logs,

June 29, 2005 Hey, Ted

Take Two

I agree that removing handled messages from the job log is very helpful. One optimization would be to put the API call in its own procedure, as that API has many parameters. Because we are adding a call level, we need to adjust the CallStackCtr parameter to 1 instead of 0. That is, we want to remove the message sent to the caller of our procedure.

prmvExceptionMsg  b                   export
d                 pi

d ApiErr          ds
d  provided                     10u 0 inz(%size(ApiErr))
d  available                    10u 0 inz  
d MsgInfo         s              8a
/free
    QMHRCVPM(MsgInfo: %size(MsgInfo): 'RCVM0100': '*': 1: '*EXCP'
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Admin Alert: Three iSeries Access Data Transfer Download Tricks

June 29, 2005 Joe Hertvik

The Data Transfer from iSeries program, which allows you to download OS/400 data for display, printing, or to a PC file, is one of the more valuable iSeries Access for Windows features. While the program’s interface is fairly easy to understand and run, it’s also valuable to use the following three tricks to solve common problems with running the program and to make data transfers easier to run for your users.

Tip #1 What to do if you’re unable to locate the file you want to download in the Data Transfer from iSeries Browse function. This problem occurs when