Lexical - F$GETJPI

Use to get information about your process

or process tree.

$ vbl = F$GETJPI( pid, item )

To get info. about the current process, specify PID

as null (“”) or zero(0).

Example:

$ MODE = F$GETJPI( 0, “MODE” )

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The F$GETJPI() lexical function is used to get information about the current job or process.

To get information about the current process, specify the PID as a null string (“”) or a zero(0).

The example shows how to retrieve the mode of the current process. This could also be retrieved using the F$MODE() lexical function.