Re: What happened to my Reserved Variables?

[John Milardovic <milardj@SX.COM>]

Hi Wayne.
        It sounds like you might have made a previously global procedure
into a local one.  If so use the underscore character to reference the
global variable.  ie.  $_USERNAME

HTH
John Milardovic

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ivory, Wayne [SMTP:wayne.ivory@ILUKA.COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 10:58 PM
> To:   Multiple recipients of list SQR-USERS
> Subject:      What happened to my Reserved Variables?
>
> SQR 3
> Informix 7.2(?)
> SCO Open Server
>
> We have an SQR that does a 'call system' to a Unix shell script and passes
> a
> couple of SQR Reserved Variables to the script.  Recently this SQR has had
> some major work done on it, and now the reserved variables appear to be
> blank.  I'm not aware of anything that a programmer could do that would
> affect this.  Following is the code:
>
>             let $Run_String = getenv('PS_HOME') ||
> '/../wsl_scripts/xferjnl
> ' || $USERNAME || ' ' || $OutputDest || ' 2>' || $SQR-REPORT || '.err'
>             show $Run_String
>             call system using $Run_String #Unix_Status
>
> The 'show' produces the following:
>
>             /u/peoplesoft/hrtest/../wsl_scripts/xferjnl  /tmp/GLIF9IM.1100
> 2>.err
>
> Note that nothing is output where $USERNAME and $SQR-REPORT should be.
> Yet
> I wrote a 3-liner that says:
>
>             begin-report
>                         show $USERNAME
>             end-report
>
> which outputs 'HRTEST'.  What could be blanking these variables?
>
> Wayne Ivory
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