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Informix Ontape Backups

Question: I need to do an ontape Level 0 backup but I need to bypass the “Press Enter to Continue.” Simply put, I want to type “Ontape -s -L 0”

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Running an EXE Using a Trigger

Question: I want to run an .exe using a trigger. Is there any stored procedure for running an .exe? For example, I want to run Notepad. Answer: The stored procedure

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Log Error

Question: I am receiving this error in my log: connections rejected: no calls allowed for sqlexec.listener-thread err: = -27002 oserr: = 0errstr = : No connections allowed in Dynamic server

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Informix SQL

Question: Are Transact SQL stored procedures currently running on a SQL Server 7.0 database compatible with a Informix database? Answer: No, you’ll have to translate them into Informix’s stored procedure

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Use printStackTrace() method to generate stack

Stack trace is a kind of call stack, which maintains the call sequence of methods at any given point in time. Throwable class in Java provides a method called “printStackTrace()”

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Passing Objects in a Function

In Java, objects are passed to a function by reference, so you can manipulate the object data in the function and have that reflected outside the function also. If you

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Interspersed Code and Declarations

The two previous tips discussed new features that were added to C99, and which C++ doesn’t support. This time I would like to present one of the changes that were