Recent content by Chris Schippers

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    Pointer to Pointer passing to an api.

    You' the Man It is working! I still have to figure out what you did that made it work, but I must say that I would not have figured it out myself this fast. Thanks a lot Roman
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    Pointer to Pointer passing to an api.

    I have the following api call I have to make, but I am not sure how to translate it to Progress. BOOL WINAPI SSubmitJob ( TCHAR *Host, // pointer to host TCHAR *Port, // pointer to port TCHAR *JobID, // pointer to Job Identifier BOOL Sync, // wait for request to finish TCHAR...
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    Reconnecting to a database

    Tooooo simple to be true. Now that I see it I remembered. Thanks.:D
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    Reconnecting to a database

    The situation: I connect to a database using the .pf file. Certain program's in our application have to be compiled without this database connected. So my program would do something like this: update vPROGRAM_NAME. if vPROGRAM_NAME = "NODB.P" then disconnect DB. compile...
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    Convert integer in char????

    A high-tech solution DEFINE VARIABLE var1 AS INTEGER NO-UNDO. DEFINE VARIABLE var2 AS CHARACTER NO-UNDO. ASSIGN var1 = 2 var2 = chr(var1 + 48). :awink: Sorry, could not help myself.....
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    Lock remains after killing a client

    I will try to start the watchdog as soon as we have the problem again, see if it helps. The problem occurs in 9.1a to 9.1b. 9.1c is not at our clients yet, so i have no idea if the problem still occurs.
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    Lock remains after killing a client

    Sometimes when a Progress Session Hangs (or windows session) a client has to be killed using the task manager (or rebooting). Now I have the problem that sometimes the Progress client is not killed and keeps a record locked. Even after rebooting the database reports that the user is still...
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    Full Table Lock

    I found it. ;p As mentioned before there are 2 options to get a table lock: (at least that I know of) 1. PROUTIL TABLEMOVE 2. SQL-92 Both of the options our client did not use. What he did use was ODBC. ODBC also uses SQL-92. There are a few options how you can configure ODBC...
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    Full Table Lock

    Thanks for the reply. The problem is that we don't use table move or sq92 in our application. We migrated our pilot client recently to v9.1b and ever since he had this problem twice. There are no other possibilities to get a full table-lock? Because it only happened twice in a month...
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    Full Table Lock

    Can someone explain me how it is possible to get an full table lock in progress? The fact is, I get error 6527 when Progress wants to write a newly created record to the database. But by the time we can check with promon if we can find the user who is causing the problem, the record lock is...
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