Microsoft KB Archive/108396

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INF: Open Data Services for OS/2 Unsupported on Windows NT

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Q108396

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft SQL Server for OS/2, version 4.2
 * Microsoft SQL Server version 4.2x

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SUMMARY
Execution of an OS/2 Open Data Services (ODS) application on Windows NT is not supported.

MORE INFORMATION
Various problems can arise when running an OS/2 ODS application under Windows NT. The most common problem is an inability to start an OS/2 ODS application due to error 9:

Unable to set up named pipe

This error is caused by a coexistence check performed by OS/2 ODS servers which do not have the configuration option SRV_COEXIST set to TRUE. This particular problem can be avoided by calling srv_confit as follows,

  srv_config( config, SRV_COEXIST, "TRUE", SRV_NULLTERM );

before calling srv_init.

To run ODS applications under Windows NT, application developers should port their application to Win32 and use the Windows NT version of ODS. Aside from ensuring the stability of the server application, this will result in numerous benefits, such as installable network support, higher capacity, and better performance.

Additional query words: 4.20 load gateway subsystem Windows NT

Keywords : kbtool

Issue type :

Technology : kbSQLServSearch kbAudDeveloper kbZNotKeyword3 kbSQLServ420OS2