RE: Passing Variables from UNIX to I4GL

In your 4gl program you can use the syntax - let g_variable = arg_val(1) arg_val(1) will be the 1st parameter passed to the program. You can read up about the different values (0, 1, 2, ....) in the manuals. There should be a way of passing your environment variable to the program this way. Regards Dirk Reach Technologies -----Original Message----- From: owner-informix-list@iiug.iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.iiug.org]On Behalf Of Adam Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 1:29 PM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Passing Variables from UNIX to I4GL Could someone with I4GL experiance please help with the following problem: 1. same data base (different data) on 4 different servers scattered around the country. 2. not enough money or trained people to manage all four sites (same old story) What I want to do is consolidate the four databases into the one Informix Instance, but still keep the seperate databases (until the data can be migrated into the same database). My plan of attack was to modify the 4gl source code so that I could replace all the "database dbname;" statments with a "database UNIX_ENVIROMENT_VARIABLE;" statement that way when the user logs in the UNIX_ENVIROMENT_VARIABLE can be set in their .profile and it will point them at the right database. therefor enabiling me to consolidate on to the one instance. UNIX=AIX, SHELL=ksh INFORMIX=7.31UC5RDS = 7.2? Adam Birch AMBirch@hotmail.com