Re: license and user count

In article <5mblhb$5gu$1@gulfa.kuwait.net>, Rudy Fernandes <rferdy@kuwait.net> writes >In article <+xDunEA00FizEwwA@smooth1.demon.co.uk>, > David Williams <djw@smooth1.demon.co.uk> wrote: >>In article <5m5mei$o3s$1@gulfa.kuwait.net>, Rudy Fernandes >><rferdy@kuwait.net> writes >>>With both SEv5 and OLv7.2, we routinely have had sqlexec connections/threads >>>more than 50% in excess of our 'user licenses' (because our menu 'driver' >>>application is also under Informix). >>> >> Check you license agreement, this probably means you are exceeding >> your license agreement i.e. running illegally. > >All my licenses (SE, OL, v4, v5, v6, v7) talk in terms of USERS. > >> I also have a menu driver program but it disconnects from Informix >> before running the menu option. Hence it remains legal. > >What about printing? In our OLTP environment, most of our front-office >apps print 2 or 3 documents at the end of an entry. The printing is >done using RUN WITHOUT WAITING. So, from 2 connnections which my >user has, every now and then, s/he's jumping to 5. > Surely you can do let unix_command = "lp -d ",printer," ",report_file run unix_command without waiting. i.e. no extra connections are required and you can still use run without waiting to handle the actual printing i.e. the slow part.. Also means you can display errors to the user if you have problems creating the print file... >I think that I need to take up the matter with Informix Support and >set this, fairly fundamental issue, at rest. > Sounds good to me! >> >> I call a C funtion which does:- >> >> int i,status; >> >> (void) sqlexit(); >> status = waitpid(-1,&i,0); >> if ((status != 0) && (status != ENOCHILD)) >> { >> fprintf(stderr,"OOps , no children"); >> sleep (4); >> exit(-1); >> } >> > >There was a thread on SQLEXIT a few weeks back (which I wanted >to use primarily for memory-saving). Unfortunately, without the >C-compiler version or ESQL/C, I cannot do it. > Or the C compiler version of 4GL, just use c4gl -c myfile.c then c4gl -o my.4ge my1.4gl my2.4gl mycfile.o. i.e. treat as if it were a 4gl file and the esql/c compiler included in 4GL will compile it. >However, I now am running my menus under SE5, while the 'action >programs' call by the menu run on OL7 (This must be illegal :)). Of interesting! >This (wierd) method does seem to use less memory because the unix >SE sqlexec processes, which are usually dormant, get swapped out >for a large % of the time. > >Bye, > >----------------------- >Rudy Fernandes >GIC, Kuwait >OL 7.20UC4, 4GL 6.04UC1 >----------------------- -- David Williams