Re: D4GL 3.0 & OnLine 5.10

Colin McGrath wrote: > > We are upgrading to Dynamic-4GL 3.00.UC1 (on an RS6000 running AIX 4.3.1) > We're using the product with OnLine 5.10.UC1 > The D4GL 3.0 User Guide (page 2-7) recommends installing Client-SDK even > if the GLS features aren't needed. > We downloaded the freeware and installed it (following the Informix Clients > Products Installation Guide) as "root", running the ./installclientsdk script. > The install SEEMED to go well, as did the subsequent install of D4GL 3.0, and > the compile of the runner with our additional C-functions. > > Now, our D4GL programs won't run, error number -25560. "Environment variable > INFORMIXSERVER must be set." (But we're running OnLine 5.10 , remember.) The server version does not matter. It is the front-end tools, D4GL and the new ESQL/C, that will look for INFORMIXSERVER to be set. You will NOT be able to use a shared memory connection between these tools and your 5.10 server, so in that limited sense the tech you spoke to was correct. HOWEVER, if you do not have an ipcpip connection configured in the sqlhosts file already so that there is a listener running just adding such a connection will not help. You have to do the following: Either: Set INFORMIXSERVER to some pre-existing server name from the sqlhosts file using oltlitcp or olsoctcp that DOES have a listener running (I assume you have iStar - sqlexecd installed and running). Or: Make sure that new entry has a different servername and service from the servernames and services you are already using for that instance (or any other instance on that machine). Place the NEW servername from the sqlhosts file in INFORMIXSERVER. > Infx Tech support suggesting setting it the the DBSERVERNAME listed in our > tbconfig file, and adding a line in our sqlhosts file with that DBSERVERNAME > and "olipcpip" and our machine name and "sqlexec", and adding a line with > "sqlexec" and "1526/tcp" to the /etc/services file. > > But now, that just gives us error # -25584. > "Network driver cannot access the server program /usr/informix/lib/sqlexec" > (because there is no such animal). > > The classic-4GL versions of the same programs still run fine. > > Should we have ignored the book's advice to download the Client-SDK? > > Our ESQL/C verion before the upgrade was 5.10.UC1. > Guess what? Now it is 9.21.UC1. Art S. Kagel