Re: Informix 408 Error

In article <pronet01-1504962003520001@s18.phxslip4.indirect.com>, <pronet01@indirect.com> wrote: >Does anyone have any info about the cause of the -408 error. My system >is a Sun Sparc 10 running SunOS 4.1.3 and Informix Online 5.01.UC1. We >have an application which uses 4GL and ISQL/C. Informix support suggested >checking the order of installation for Online and ISQL/C. We did. They >also said there was a problem when using I-Star. We don't use it. Other >than this they've provided no real help. I've been very generic in this >discription, but any info or history about this error would be greatly >appreciated. > >Thank You I used to see this occasionally with an application that used turbo, the forerunner to Online. Informix application programs interface to the database through a process called sqlexec (or sqlturbo); this process communicates with the application process through pipes. The 408 error code generally means that the sqlexec process has aborted; you may see a core file around when this happens. In our case, we were able to stop sqlturbo from core dumping by simplifying our queries. We assumed sqlturbo had a logic error handling a complex query. We identified the query by what the application was doing when the 408 occurred. We did not get any help from Informix tech. support about why sqlturbo aborted. This problem was one of a long list of problems we had with turbo.