Detect Current IDENTITY_INSERT Settings?

Question

Is there any way to programmatically detect the current value(s) of the IDENTITY_INSERT property, specifically (a) whether it's ON or OFF, and/or (b) if it's ON which table it's on for?
I have a table with an INSTEAD OF INSERT trigger which does a data check prior to insertion.  The table has existing data.  I'm trying to add the IDENTITY property to one of the columns in the PK so that going forward, the PK value is automatically generated on new rows.  Unfortunately, the INSERT in the trigger only works if IDENTITY_INSERT is off.  If IDENTITY_INSERT myTable is ON, the INSERT statement in the trigger fails because the identiy column is not coded in it.
I tried putting the INSERT in a TRY...CATCH block, testing for error 545 in the CATCH and issuing a second INSERT with the PK column coded in it, but once you hit the CATCH block in a trigger SQL Server deems the entire transaction as "failed", and you can only roll it back (error 3930).
CREATE TRIGGER myTable_tIiof
ON myTable INSTEAD OF INSERT
AS
BEGIN
 SET NOCOUNT ON;
 IF (EXISTS (SELECT TOP 1 i1.col2 FROM inserted i1
  WHERE (EXISTS (SELECT TOP 1 r1.col1
    FROM myTable r1
    WHERE i1.col2= r1.col2
    AND UPPER(i1.col3) = UPPER(r1.col3)) ))) BEGIN
    PRINT 'INSERT failed - violation of duplicate col2 and col3 restriction';
 END ELSE
 BEGIN TRY
   INSERT INTO myTable (col2, col3, col4)
   SELECT i.col2, i.col3, i.col4 FROM inserted i
 END TRY
 BEGIN CATCH
   IF ERROR_NUMBER() = 545 BEGIN    -- IDENTITY_INSERT is on:
     BEGIN TRY
      INSERT INTO myTable (col1, col2, col3, col4)
      SELECT i.col1, i.col2, i.col3, i.col4 FROM inserted i
     END TRY
     BEGIN CATCH  -- Some other error occurred after second INSERT attempt:
      SELECT ERROR_NUMBER() AS ErrorNumber;
      IF @@TRANCOUNT > 0 ROLLBACK;
     END CATCH
   END ELSE BEGIN --
     SELECT ERROR_NUMBER() AS ErrorNumber;
     IF @@TRANCOUNT > 0 ROLLBACK;
   END
 END CATCH
END
IDEALLY, I want to do the following:
CREATE TRIGGER myTable_tIiof
ON myTable INSTEAD OF INSERT
AS
BEGIN
 SET NOCOUNT ON;
 IF (EXISTS (SELECT TOP 1 i1.col2 FROM inserted i1
  WHERE (EXISTS (SELECT TOP 1 r1.col1
    FROM myTable r1
    WHERE i1.col2= r1.col2
    AND UPPER(i1.col3) = UPPER(r1.col3)) ))) BEGIN
    PRINT 'INSERT failed - violation of duplicate col2 and col3 restriction';
 END ELSE BEGIN
   IF MissingFunction1(IsIdentityInsertOn) = true AND MissingFunction2(IdentityInsertObject) = 'myTable' BEGIN
      INSERT INTO myTable (col1, col2, col3, col4)
      SELECT i.col1, i.col2, i.col3, i.col4 FROM inserted i
   END ELSE BEGIN
     INSERT INTO myTable (col2, col3, col4)
     SELECT i.col2, i.col3, i.col4 FROM inserted i
   END
END
Do MissingFunction1 and/or MissingFunction2 exist?  If so, what are they called?
(And if they don't exist, why don't they exist?)
Thanks in advance... Bryan

Answer 1

I figured out a solution to this problem in the case where you are trying to re-insert an old record into a table (insert an ID that is lower than would be inserted normally).  I put the following code around the part of the trigger that won't work
with IDENTITY_INSERT set on (in my case a part of the trigger that inserts related records into the same table)
if
(select
max(id)
from
MyTable) <
(select
max(id)
from inserted)
--Then you may be inserting a record normally
BEGIN
    set @I
= 1
--SQL wants something to happen in the "IF" side of an IF/ELSE
END
ELSE --You definitely have IDENTITY_INSERT on.  Done as ELSE instead of the other way around so that if there is no inserted table, it will run anyway
BEGIN
.... Code that shouldn't run with IDENTITY_INSERT on
END