GATEWAY()

Class

Data Connectivity

Purpose

Returns information about a gateway connection

Syntax

GATEWAY([<expN>])

See Also

CONNECTED()CREATE GATEWAY, MODIFY GATEWAY, START DATABASE, SET GATEWAY, STOP DATABASE

Description

The GATEWAY() function returns specified information about the connection to the Recital Database Gateway in the current workarea. The following table lists the optional information that may be requested.

Value	Description
	Returns the server type, Recital, Oracle, ODBC, Informix, DB2, etc
0	Returns the server type, Recital, Oracle, ODBC, Informix, DB2, etc
1	Returns the node name that the gateway is connected to.
2	Returns the user name that was used to connect to the gateway.
3	Returns the password associated with the user name.
4	Returns the database connected to on the server.

Example

login "oracle"
?gateway()
Oracle
? gateway(1)
sales
? gateway(2)
scott
? gateway(3)
tiger
? gateway(4)

Products

Recital Database Server, Recital Mirage Server, Recital Terminal Developer