New System Variable *VISUAL_LANSA
| Date: |
20 February 2002 |
| Product/Release: |
Visual LANSA / LANSA for iSeries |
| Abstract: |
A new system variable called *VISUAL_LANSA has been
introduced to distinguish between program execution on LANSA for
iSeries and Visual LANSA. |
| Submitted By: |
LANSA Technical Support |
Detailed description
It has been a common programming practice to use the *CPUTYPE system variable to distinguish between traditional LANSA on the iSeries and Visual LANSA. This is usually via RDML code or conditions that check that *CPUTYPE is not equal to AS400 eg *CPUTYPE *NE AS400'
To allow better distinction between traditional LANSA & Visual LANSA RDML, a new system variable was introduced in 9.1. The new variable is an alpha(1) called *VISUAL_LANSA. It always evaluates to N when the function is running on LANSA for iSeries, and Y when running on any of the VL
platforms.
Note: Eventually (possibly even for 10.0), some of the options / commands that are currently invalid in Visual LANSA may become supported just for VL for iSeries. In this case, *CPUTYPE *EQ AS400 could be used to distinguish code.
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