Re: Yet another discovery: undocumented message file oem.iem

On Tue, 16 Jul 1996, Jonathan Leffler wrote: [forgive the edits] > *** Danger -- unsupported and unsupportable ideas! *** > > For whatever it is worth, messages in the range 30000..31999 are found in > the file oem.iem at run time -- and that covers both the positive and > negative numbers. As far as I can tell, it will be recognised by all > current versions of products, from 4.1x I4GL forward. > > It is not intended for the use to which you are proposing to use it; it is > not documented anywhere that I know of; there are no plans to support it Jonathan, One can get into severe trouble by programming based on subtle features, I agree, but has Informix given any thought to establishing and supporting a range of error message numbers beyond the pale to be reserved for developers in future versions? Just an idear. I didn't say that. Yours, Nick