Re: Relay Module does not work
Posted in 1998
Topics: Installation, Setup & Upgrades, Connectivity: ESQL/C, 4GL & Embedded SQL, Platform-Specific Issues
Thanks Jonathan Lefflet your suggestion did work! Jonathan Leffler wrote: > On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Infocus Support wrote: > > I need your help to solve this problem. Our customer had upgraded > his > > machine and his Informix Software. The old machine were running Aix > > > 3.2.5 and the previous Informix products were Online 5.05, 4GL 4.12 > and > > SQL 4.12. > > > > The new machine runs Aix 4.2.1.0 and the new Informix products are > IDS > > 7.3 , 4GL 7.2 and SQL 7.2. > > > > The customer needs to run his old compiled 4ge programs on the new > > environment, so we set the SQLEXEC=$INFORMIXDIR/lib/sqlrm > environment > > variable, but we get the following error message when we run any old > 4ge: > > > > "please install an INFORMIX-4GL Run Time Facility and run this > program > > again". > > Well, the old products need their old runtime environment, strictly. > Specifically, the error message files moved from $INFORMIXDIR/msg to > $INFORMIXDIR/msg/en_us/0333 with the 7.2x products. Ideally, your > old programs should be run with the original 4.12 I4GL products > installed > in a directory which is used as INFORMIXDIR by the I4GL programs, with > the > relay module being the only variable that points to the new > INFORMIXDIR. > > > To check that every thing is installed ok, we have made a new test > > program and compiled it under Version 7.3 compiler and > > informix-list@iiug.orgchecked that it runs O.K. and does not give > any > > error. > > However, you can probably also get around it by creating a series of > symlinks > from $INFORMIXDIR/msg/en_us/0333 to $INFORMIXDIR/msg. > > Yours, > Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com) #include <witticism.h> > Guardian of DBD::Informix v0.60 -- http://www.perl.com/CPAN > Informix IDN for D4GL & Linux -- http://www.informix.com/idn