Malc P wrote:
> Hi Gang
> further to my recent post - I just compiled and ran the code with no
> errors using R4GL - it's just I4GL that fails at runtime with:
>
> Program stopped at "cursor.4gl", line number 23.
> SQL statement error number -254.
> Too many or too few host variables given.

I hope you've open a case with IBM.

> Sometimes I feel like a guinea-pig for IBM........

Well no code is bug free. The test for you is how quickly IBM fix your problem.

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"Mark D. Stock" <mdstock@mydassolutions.com> wrote in message
>
> I hope you've open a case with IBM.
>

Yup, I had a very prompt and effective response from Vijay, who has
taken it on board and confirmed it's a new bug.

*Very* impressed. Just how it should be ;-)

Malc

On 10 Oct 2003 01:12:58 -0700, malc_p@btinternet.com (Malc P) wrote:

>"Mark D. Stock" <mdstock@mydassolutions.com> wrote in message
>>
>> I hope you've open a case with IBM.
>>
>
>Yup, I had a very prompt and effective response from Vijay, who has
>taken it on board and confirmed it's a new bug.
>
>*Very* impressed. Just how it should be ;-)
>

Change for the better? Good to hear good things about support. I
haven't had as many issues as others, but then I haven't had as many
issues as other . . . . 8-)

Malc P wrote:
>
> Yup, I had a very prompt and effective response from Vijay, who has
> taken it on board and confirmed it's a new bug.
>
> *Very* impressed. Just how it should be ;-)

Apart from your stray ?? in the MATCHES, your original problem implies that
7.31 is now counting ? and supplied host variables and complaining if the
counts don't match.

I hope 4GL does not now consider it wrong to say

prepare thing from " .......... ? and ....? and .....?......."

open thing using a, b

We've got a few critical pieces of code that must run with unmatched counts.
It's all because 4GL is so dreadfully un-dynamic when it comes to their
datatypes such as records or argument lists - when the code has to be
flexible you need to bend the rools in the area of the USING clause.

Andrew Hamm wrote:

> Malc P wrote:
>>Yup, I had a very prompt and effective response from Vijay, who has
>>taken it on board and confirmed it's a new bug.
>>
>>*Very* impressed. Just how it should be ;-)
>
> Apart from your stray ?? in the MATCHES, your original problem implies that
> 7.31 is now counting ? and supplied host variables and complaining if the
> counts don't match.
>
> I hope 4GL does not now consider it wrong to say
>
> prepare thing from " .......... ? and ....? and .....?......."
>
> open thing using a, b
>
> We've got a few critical pieces of code that must run with unmatched counts.
> It's all because 4GL is so dreadfully un-dynamic when it comes to their
> datatypes such as records or argument lists - when the code has to be
> flexible you need to bend the rools in the area of the USING clause.


No - the problem was that an ISO C compiler was interpreting ??- as a
trigraph for tilde, and I4GL wasn't making sure it didn't.


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Jonathan Leffler wrote:
>
> No - the problem was that an ISO C compiler was interpreting ??- as a
> trigraph for tilde, and I4GL wasn't making sure it didn't.

Phew;-) Thanks for the clarification