Conference orarep::nomahs::repository

1068.0. "DTR/CDD FSERR and RMS-F-SYN: logical and password" by NLVMS3::MWILLEMS (Das ganze Leben ist ein Quiz) Fri Mar 14 1997 06:38

    Hello,
    
    A customer of mine uses CDD 7.0 and DTR 7.0 (RDB 6.1-04) on AXP (VMS
    6.2). In DTR he uses passwords to protect his dictionary with syntax
    like:
    
    DTR>SET DICTIONARY CDD$TOP.MEMIC.PROJ.VDIR(SOME_PASSWORD)
    
    If after that he does SHOW PROCEDURES or SHOW DATABASES he sees all he
    wants.
    However if he defines a logical as:
    
    $DEFINE V_DIR "CDD$TOP.MEMIC.PROJ.VDIR(SOME_PASSWORD)" and he does:
    
    DTR>SET DICTIONARY V_DIR
    DTR>SHOW PROCEDURES
    
    he sees all the procedures that are on the DMU side and after that he
    gets
    
    CDD-E-FSERR, file system error
    RMS-F-SYN, syntax error in file specification.
    
    The error appears immediately if you do
    
    DTR>SHOW DATABASES
    
    but that is because the RDB database is integrated on the CDO-side.
     
    It looks like something goes wrong when DTR (or CDD) tries to look on
    the CDO side. I'm working together with Jan Schollaert from DIGITAL
    Holland on this problem and he has put a note in the IAMOK::DTRDIG 
    notesfile (2993) about it with the same problem description, and with
    no reply until now.
    Unfortunately I'm not able to read this conference, because it is on 
    the DIGITAL side.
    
    The reason why I put this note here is that the problem appeared after
    upgrading from 6.1-03 to 7.0. Has something changed in the way the CDO
    side handled DTR passwords in logicals?? I ask this because I want to
    know if the problem comes from DTR or from CDD.
    
    By the way doing in CDO:
    
    CDO>SET DEFAULT CDD$TOP.MEMIC.PROJ.VDIR(SOME_PASSWORD)
    CDO>DIR
    
    works fine!!
    
    If someone could shed a light on this, I would be very happy.
    
    Marcel Willems Oracle Rdb Support Holland