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I'm really banging my head against the wall with this one.

Running 6.12 WinNT and 6.12 Solaris. I'm trying to write a macro that PROC UPLOADs data to a server in a CONNECT session and I want to test that the session has been established successfully first. I've tried using:

%SYSFUNC(RLINK(remote))

but %SYSFUNC doesn't seem to allow use of the RLINK function. So I thought I'd remote submit a %SYSRPUT statement to set an indicator in the local session. However, when I do that I get the following:

CODE: ... RSUBMIT remote; %SYSRPUT rlink = 1; ENDRSUBMIT; ...

LOG: ... NOTE: Remote submit to REMOTE commencing. ERROR: %SYSRPUT statement is valid only when OPTION DMR is in effect. NOTE: Remote submit to REMOTE complete. ...

When I take the remote submit section out of the macro and submit it on its own I get no errors.

What I want to know is: is this the best way to do what I want? if so, why won't it work? if not, what is the best way?

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