Re: Coredumps and 4GL

Carlson@WHSmith wrote: > > 4GL: 7.20.UD2 > Engine: 7.23.UC11 > OS: HPUX 10.20 > > I've just about had it -- hopefully someone out there can pull me back > from the brink. 8-) > > I have a 4gl program that has been running since the 4.1 days. It > declares a cursor for an outer loop, then it processes each row. It > survived the conversion to 6.0x; now we're running 7.20.UD2. For some > reason now it core dumps on me. > > When I add a few displays (yeah, we're IFMX-debugger-deprived), I'm able > to see where it is in the program when it dumps. When I add a few other > displays, the location changes. > > When I clean up the code ( close cursor / free cursor ), it runs a bit > longer and then still coredumps. > > I remember the 'old' (4.1) days where a display or a sleep would "take > care" of the problem, but this is ridiculous. Anyone out there have any > ideas? > > TIA > > John Carlson > Informix DBA > WHSmith, Inc. > Last seen: muttering in his cubicle, "See code. See code run. Please > run." I presume the conversion to 6.0x included fixing the problem of global cursor names? There is a variable you can set whose name I cannot find but is something like NOGLOBCURS. Sorry to be so vague. Hope it helps. -- Peter Lancashire Information Systems Specialist, Bayer plc Eastern Way, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP32 7AH, UK Tel: +44-1635-562258, Fax: +44-1635-562281 --- If all else fails, read the instructions and the release notes. Join Infuse, the UK Informix User Group at http://www.infuse.org.uk/ ---