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Conference orarep::nomahs::rdb_60

Title:	Oracle Rdb - Still a strategic database for DEC on Alpha AXP!
Notice:	RDB_60 is archived, please use RDB_70..
Moderator:	NOVA::SMITHISON

Created:	Fri Mar 18 1994
Last Modified:	Fri May 30 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5118
Total number of notes:	28246

5107.0. "setting rmu symbol" by M5::MGULLIKS (Marilyn I. Gulliksen - Worldwide Support) Wed Mar 05 1997 13:11

Greetings,

I have a customer who has RDB 4.1-0 (standard) and 6.1-01 (multiversion) 
installed on his system.  His vms version is 6.1.  (I need to talk to him
about upgrading to 6.1A.)

He has run decrdb$setver to set the version to 6.1 at the system level.
However, when a new user logs in, rmu still runs 4.1.  A "$ show symbol rmu"
returns a message that it isn't defined.

WWCS doesn't have 4.1 installed.  When I set rdb to other versions at
the system level, new users see the proper symbol for rmu (for example,
"$ show sym rmu" returns "  RMU == "RMUF"".  Is there something specific to 
V4.1 that is preventing rmu from being set?  

BTW, I tried this on RDB 6.1-01 at wwcs and received the expected results.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

Marilyn

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
5107.1		M5::LWILCOX	Chocolate in January!!	`Wed Mar 05 1997 14:15`	1
	How about using RESET?
5107.2		HOTRDB::PMEAD	Paul, [email protected], 719-577-8032	`Wed Mar 05 1997 14:45`	7
	That's the way it works. Symbols cannot be defined "system wide." Any Rdb user wanting to use symbols will need to execute the SETVER command file. It works find for most users since all you need are the Rdb logicals to run an application. I don't know how you got the proper symbol defined in your test case without executing some com file in your process to define it.
5107.3		M5::MGULLIKS	Marilyn I. Gulliksen - Worldwide Support	`Wed Mar 05 1997 15:04`	12
	re: .1 & .2 > I don't know how you got the proper symbol defined in your test case > without executing some com file in your process to define it. I figured it out how. Someone put the $ @SYS$SHARE:RDBVMS_SETVER RESET in sylogin.com Thanks for your help.