Re: 4GL run-time error number -4339.

On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, James Tucker wrote: } Hello comp.databases.informix } } When I run my batch (RDS) 4gl program, I get the following error: } } 4GL run-time error number -4339. } 4GL has run out of data space memory. } *** Error code 1 } make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `fix2.run' } } This is a fairly simply program that selects approx. 30,000 records out } of a database, looks for a string in a particular column, replaces it } with another string and output the result in a report. When I can fix } this problem, it will also update the database too! } At first I thought it might be the "Temporary String Space" problem which } appears in many of the NET Informix FAQs, particularly as I am using } string literals in function calls. However I added and called the } "tss_hog" functions mentioned in the FAQ to prove whether the TSS } contained any data, and these functions gave my program the "all clear". } } We are running the following versions of Informix on a Sun Sparc10 (with } 80 meg memory): } } INFORMIX-SQL Version 4.12.UD1 } INFORMIX-4GL Version 4.12.UD1 } Pcode Version 8 } INFORMIX-Online RSAM Version 5.02.UC6 } (with 22meg allocated to shared mem) Intriguing. You shouldn't be using that version; it was withdrawn before final release because of a problem, and the official released version was 4.12.UE1 -- or at least, that's what I thought. Anyway, the tss hog stuff wouldn't show anything because the 4.12 release was the first release with a complete fix for the tss problems -- it does not generate error -4518 under any circumstances. However, we did uncover some problems previously concealed by the -4518 error, and these were fixed in the 4.13.UD1 release, and the problems showed up as 'out of memory' issues. So, I have to diagnose 'upgrade time'. You should consider upgrading to 4.17, but keep an eye out for 4.20 which will have the DBCENTURY fixes necessary for comfortable use of I4GL into the 21st Century. (Older versions will work correctly, but they may not work conveniently; if you do not display all 4 digits of the year, you will run into problems because older versions of I4GL always add 1900 to any 2-digit year!) } We are an RDS only environment, so I can't compile the program and the } system doco for this error suggests that this is a compile time error and } that should I make my program smaller and try again. (....but this is } happening at runtime!!!) -4339 is a generic out-of-memory error for I4GL... Yours, Jonathan Leffler (johnl@informix.com) #include <witticism.h>