Re: DBPATH

> > Zsolt Koppany (zkoppany@multix.de) wrote: > : Hi, > > : Does anybody know a workaround how a user can open a database which is not > : in the DBPATH environment variable? When our ESQL/C application is started > : it might happen that the SE database cannot be found in DBPATH and > : we do not want first terminate the application and restart it. > > : Thanks a lot! > > : Zsolt Koppany > > Use a full pathname, as in: > > database "/apps/informix/data/payroll" > > to open the payroll.dbs database. > > -Jeff > In the Online world: ok method: a) set $TBCONFIG (Only good for one) better method: DATABASE database@server This second method means that you only have to worry about your IStar knowing about the other IStar - which requires setting up sqlhosts and /etc/services, but then you knew that. cheers j. _____________________________________________________________________________ Jack Parker | Hewlett Packard, BSMC Boise, Idaho, USA| WARNING: jparker@hpbs3645.boi.hp.com | Do not touch .sig with tongue _____________________________________________________________________________ Any opinions expressed herein are my own and not those of my employers. _____________________________________________________________________________