*INIT-ID

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Hello all,
we are migrating from a IBM/VSE Environment to SLES9.
The problem is:
we have several programs that use system variable *INIT-ID to retrieve data from adabas table - this because in VSE this variable contain the physical terminal and is “fixed”.
Now, on Linux is variable and contain “pts/#”.
The documentations said that this variable is not modifiable, is there a way to do that? Unless we have to change a lot of program …
Thanks in advance, best regards

Diego Gazzo

(sorry for my English not so good)

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Hello Diego!

“pts” is an abbreviation. It means “pseudo terminal slave” and Linux assigns it to the next free number on the system when a terminal session is opened.

I don’t know a way to modify it. But it is unique at runtime and it makes sence to me that it is not modifiable.

Does *USER (User-ID) help you? It is modifiable and you can assign it to any value you want…

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Hi Diego
pts/## is assigned dynamically by Unix OS and is related to pseudo terminal used by telnet / remote login.

This is not related to the remote user or the remote ip logging to linux box
(like probably it was configured on VSE emulation session) .

As Matthias suggests an alternative is to play with *USER another is to set *ETID according remote login information.