Signing On to Your Runtime Application

Before signing on to your Runtime application, the following conditions must be satisfied:

Your application must have been successfully built.
You must have a valid usercode/password defined by SYSTEM/MAKEUSER.
COMS information must have successfully loaded.

To sign on to your application, perform the following:

Sign on to MARC from any station, using the valid usercode/password.
- If the application window is your station default window, you are automatically switched to your application.
- If the MARC window is your station default window, go to Step 2.
From the MARC Action line, sign on to your application using the following command:
```
?ON window
```
This window value is the name specified in the COMS Window Name Segment configuration property under the Persistence category. By default, the value is your Segment name.

Note that on starting up the DBINTERFACE program, the following messages are displayed:

36270 09:10 DISPLAY:Library open forward reset.

36270 09:10 DISPLAY:Library timeout seconds: 30.

36270 09:10 DISPLAY:Library pool value: 2.

These messages are just showing the default settings of the DBinterface library. They cannot be suppressed but they only occur once when the system is brought up.

The details of this feature are:

The database access library, <sys>/DBINTERFACE, now executes with a dynamic linkage mechanism.
The behavior of the new AB Suite DBINTERFACE can be controlled with respect to:
- The number of pool DBINTERFACE workers opened initially (default & minimum = 2).
- The idle timeout (in seconds) for the <sys>/DBINTERFACE when there are no linked clients.
- Forward open setting - determines whether we maintain the number of workers defined as available when in-use workers increase.

The above are settable by taskvalue attribute, target task attribute, sw1 task attribute respectively. These settings might be modified by the user via the WFL Modify command. Additionally some of the above attributes might be dynamically altered via an AX to the <sys>/ DBINTERFACE:

<mix>AX POOL n – sets the pool of workers limit to n (minimum 2) <mix>AX OPENFWD – flips the Forward Open setting.

The current status of <sys>/DBINTERFACE might be displayed via <mix>AX STATUS command.