The environment variables of a client can be registered as a group. When the environment variables of each client are registered, the environment variables can be changed for each connection. This operation is therefore convenient when the environment variables must be changed for each connection.

The environment variables are registered to a normal file in the UNIX environment and to a registry or a file in the Windows environment. Information about the registered environment variables is obtained during connection to the HiRDB server.

When an open character string is specified while a UAP that uses an X/Open-compliant API under OLTP is used as the client, the environment variables of the environment variables group specified in the open character string have priority over environment variables specified according to 6.6.2 Specifications for using a UAP under OLTP as the client. For details about open character strings, see the HiRDB Version 8 Installation and Design Guide.

Organization of this section

6.7.1 Registering an environment variable group in a UNIX environment

6.7.2 Registering an environment variable group in a Windows environment (registry registration)

6.7.3 Registering an environment variable group in a Windows environment (file registration)