Re: Informix error -208

>> From uunet!rmy.emory.edu!informix-list-owner Tue Oct 29 07:25:10 1991 >> From: uunet!ssplan.ssc.af.mil!bwilliams >> Subject: Re: Informix error -208 >> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 91 07:33:00 PST >> >> We are having much the same problem as Jim Laur at AT&T Bell Labs was having >> with the -208 errors, but on a different platform: AT&T 3B2/600G running >> AT&T Unix System V 3.2.2. Our code is not written in C, but in 4GL instead. >> We are having the problem with prepares randomly failing, etc., just as Jim >> Laur did, and we already have hunted down each and every prepare to ensure we >> have a close and free statement to go with it. It hasn't helped. >> >> We also clearly have a resource allocation problem, and the idea of setting >> SHMBASE to a different value was an exciting prospect to us. >> >> One problem: there doesn't seem to be any way to set SHMBASE on this >> platform; if there is a way, it isn't documented any where we can find it. SHMBASE is a tbconfig parameter in OnLine. If you are still on Turbo, there's no way for the user to tune SHMBASE. >> Bill Williams -- Alan Denney aland@informix.com {pyramid|uunet}!infmx!aland "Why didn't the Irish get a salad dressing?" - Joe Qur