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Ronibi
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Hello

in multiple discussions I read about SET ALL = SQL.
I can find information about SET ALL = OFF/ON/PASS but nowhere about SET ALL = SQL.
Has somebody a hint?

Regards
Ron

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Don Garland
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There are plenty of posts, but I didn't get a hit just now with quick search of Technical Content.

http://forums.informationbuild...887047216#6887047216

The above post credits this to Walter Blood and there is no higher Authority, IMHO.

Is there an issue you are trying to solve?


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Waz
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To be bluntly honest, if its not in the documentation, you shouldn't trust it.


Waz...

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David Briars
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but nowhere about SET ALL = SQL

By any chance, do you mean the SHORTPATH setting? It has a setting of 'SQL'.:
SET SHORTPATH = {FOCUS|SQL}

Per my 81 Developing Reporting Applications manual, the settings for ALL are ON, OFF, and PASS.

I list when you might need to SET SHORTPATH in a post on this thread:
https://forums.informationbuilders.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/7971057331/m/9427064436?r=9187064436#9187064436

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TobyMills
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Hi Ron

I have to generally agree with Was here. SET ALL=SQL is not documented in the Command Language Reference all the way up to 8203.

So what happens is, if you decide to use it, and you have any problem in your code and ask for help from techsupport, they can tell you that you are using an undocumented feature and so there is no support for that. That leaves you really on your own.

Better to stick with things that are documented so you can tell IBI you're following the rules and things still don't seem to work right.

In that situation, IBI must pay more attention to your case because you are doing things that are in the docs.

Just be aware that your support options drop off pretty quickly if you're using undocumented commands.

Just my 2 cents having been a TSR.

Toby
 
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Don Garland
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I have to generally agree with Was here.


and Toby...

For example: FPRINT is a great function to convert numeric data with decimals, not documented and I'm having issues with it 8202. Had to add that to the upgrade plan.

One other thing, I see this when there is an error with SQL Passthrough;

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ALL=SQL IS IGNORED, SUPERSEDED BY SHORTPATH=SQL

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Ronibi
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Thnx for all the input guys.
I was just curious, because I couldn't find it anywhere. Now I know it is an undocumented feature. Maybe better not use it.

Case closed

Regards
Ron


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