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ETLProg
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Hi guys and gals… got a quick question for all of you. On our reports, we display the connection string to the database from which the data is coming. We have been hard coding that value in on our reports. Is there a WebFOCUS variable that will display the connection for the data adapter?

Thanks much!


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Francis Mariani
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I'm not sure if that's possible - you can access more than one database in the same fex, how would WebFOCUS pass information for each of the adapters you connected to?


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Well I was looking for a variable that would be similar to adaptername.connectionstring so that you can concatenate them together if you are crossing databases.


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Hi,
I just wanted to know if you ever came up with a solution for displaying your connection string to the database in your reports? I have a similar requirement and wanted to know how you accomplished this.

Thanks for any info.


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Anatess
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Francis, our webfocus admins do all that for us - they just create master files with corresponding acx files that point to where the data is coming from which can be a totally different database engine. All we measley programmers have to do is pick whichever master file we want to use and they can worry about what db to store that data in, so we can have several databases in one fex possibly.


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Francis Mariani
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Obviously, but the original question was how to display the connection string of the request for each data adpater.


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Yes, that was my question...I need to display the connection string on my reports and I'm not sure how to go about that.


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GinnyJakes
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I don't know if you can pipe the output of this command to a file and read it but try looking at the output of this:

SQL SQLORA ?

Run this in an adhoc window.

If you have multiple connections, run this after setting the default connection to the one you are using as opposed to the first one defined.


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