I need to find out the name of a DDS Screen that a given telnet session is on? (I Series)

Question

I am looking for a program or API call that will give me, with absolute accuracy, the name of the Workstation Display File (and Its Record Type) that is being used by a given Job. I have the Job information (such as Job Name, Job User, and Job Number. This will allow me to quickly identify the Display File that a given job to assist in program development. If I can do this in RPGLE then I can share it over a SQL Connection to my interface/telnet program.

I have looked at using the Job List of Open Objects API (QDMLOPNF) and a combination of the Job Stack API (QWVRCSTK) but they do not give me the accuracy I need. They also assume that I know what DDS is attached to program, but if it is a system program or non standard program the results are not accurate. Please help me.

Thank you, in advance.

Answer 1

Have you considered looking into IceBreak. Should be very easy to do screen scraping with and present on a web page. At one time there was talk about a free version. http://www.icebreak.dk/

Answer 2

You can find this manually with the DSPJOB OPTION(*OPNF) command and look for open files of type DSP.

There is a job API available that may provide this information as well.

Answer 3

After much research and Google-ing I located an API that does exactly what I need it to. It's the Retriieve Output Information (QWSRTVOI) API and i found through an IBM API Documentation located here: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/apis/wss.pdf.

Hope this helps anyone that was just as frustrated as me. IBM has to do it, so I knew there had to be an API to let me do it.