Informix Tech Talk Replay Title: Informix TechTalk: Enhancing Informix 4GL with TERMCAP Settings by Lester Knutsen Replay from Thursday, September 29, 2022, 2:00 pm EDT Description: How to work with Informix 4GL Terminal and TERMCAP capabilities to improve the appearance of 4GL programs. Informix 4GL uses the Unix TERMCAP file to display colors, window line […]
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Informix 4GL Course
Informix 4GL for Developers FREE Trial Course – Ends August 1, 2022 This is a free Online Informix 4GL Training class that ended on August 1, 2022. I was testing a new online training platform and would like your feedback on how this works for you. Informix 4GL for Developers is for programmers developing and […]
Informix 4GL Resources
Informix 4GL Resources for Developers I taught an Informix 4GL for Developers course this month. I had fun doing that class and working with this superb language. I pulled together this list of 4GL Resources for the course based on articles I have written in the past. Informix 4GL to Genero – Bring your code […]
Error Handling Functions in Informix Programs
First published in the Washington Area Informix User Group Newsletter Volume 6, No. 2 – April 1996 This article defines some guidelines for error handling functions. An error handling function is the code that responds to a user or system generated error. There are two classes of errors: fatal errors and non-fatal errors. Events that […]
Informix 4GL Programming Tips
First published in the Washington Area Informix User Group Newsletter Volume 4, No. 3 – July 1994 1. Only select columns that you really need When you select data, it goes from disk to memory. Ten un-needed bytes of data from 10,00 rows translates into reading 100,000 bytes unnecessarily. Avoid “SELECT *” statements and only […]
Informix 4GL Application Error Logging
First published in the Washington Area Informix User Group Newsletter Volume 3, No. 4 – July 1993 In every major application that I have developed, a requirement has been to have some way of logging what is going on inside the program. There are three types of application logging I like to use. The first […]
ANSI Terminal Emulation and Informix 4GL Terminal Capabilities
First Published in the Washington Area Informix User Group Newsletter, Volume 3, No. 3 – May 1993 In the Q&A sessions at our user group meetings several questions have been asked about creating termcap entries for PCs using ansi terminal emulation software to work with Informix 4GL. The following is the ansi termcap entry I […]