host_id

Returns the client computer’s operating system process ID for the current SAP ASE client (not the server process).

Syntax

host_id()

Example 1 – The name of the client computer, “ephemeris” and the process ID on the computer, “ephemeris” for the SAP ASE client process, 2309:
```
select host_name(), host_id()
----------------------------- -----------------------
 ephemeris                    2309
```
The following is the process information, gathered using the UNIX ps command, from the computer “ephemeris” showing that the client in this example is “isql” and its process ID is 2309:
```
2309 pts/2    S  0:00 /work/as125/OCS-12_5/bin/isql
```