INFORMIXSERVER and DBPATH

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_001B_01BE8218.10EC4C20 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I am trying to write a client application which connects to the = $INFORMIXSERVER database and if it cannot connect to it try and connect = to the server listed in the DBPATH variable. However if the engine which = is referenced by $INFORMIXSERVER is down and I attempt to connect to the = database listed by the DBPATH I get a -908. This also happens when using = "dbaccess". What am I missing or is what I am trying to do impossible? = TIA ------=_NextPart_000_001B_01BE8218.10EC4C20 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1" = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.00.2014.210" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>I am trying to write a client application which = connects to=20 the $INFORMIXSERVER database and if it cannot connect to it try and = connect to=20 the server listed in the DBPATH variable. However if the engine which is = referenced by $INFORMIXSERVER is down and I attempt to connect to the = database=20 listed by the DBPATH I get a -908. This also happens when using = "dbaccess". What=20 am I missing or is what I am trying to do impossible?=20 TIA</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_001B_01BE8218.10EC4C20--

David Link wrote: > I am trying to write a client application which connects to the > $INFORMIXSERVER database and if it cannot connect to it try and > connect to the server listed in the DBPATH variable. However if > the engine which is referenced by $INFORMIXSERVER is down and I > attempt to connect to the database listed by the DBPATH I get a > -908. This also happens when using "dbaccess". What am I missing > or is what I am trying to do impossible? It appears that the primary server listed in $INFORMIXSERVER must be up, even if the first thing you do is ignore it and connect to somewhere else. If the system is listed in DBPATH is up, then you could revise INFORMIXSERVER to point to the new (up) system before trying to connect, couldn't you? No, I've no idea why the primary $INFORMIXSERVER has to be up when you do 'CONNECT TO 'dbase@some_other_server' -- I wish I knew. -- Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com, jleffler@earthlink.net) Guardian of DBD::Informix v0.60 -- see http://www.perl.com/CPAN #include <disclaimer.h>