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How to get more than 140 connections into Reality on Windows – Updated Depending on the release of Windows you may need to use the Registry Editor to update its Session Manager settings. WARNING: This procedure involves the use of Windows Registry Editor which, if you use incorrectly, may cause serious problems that may require you … Continue reading “How to get more than 140 connections into Reality on Windows – Updated”
How to resolve issues with Windows [Demo] Installation Reality is a database and programming product set working closely with Windows. It loads its Session Manager, realserv, as a Windows Service and other low level interfaces. Therefore issues can be seen during the [Demo] installation. The following offers advice if you see any error messages during … Continue reading “How to resolve issues with Windows [Demo] Installation”
How to resolve issues with Windows [Custom] Installation Reality is a database and programming product set working closely with Windows. It loads its Session Manager, realserv, as a Windows Service and other low level interfaces. Therefore issues can be seen during the [Custom] installation. The following offers advice if you see any error messages during the … Continue reading “How to resolve issues with Windows [Custom] Installation”
Why do I get "Invalid logon attempt" from a Dos Prompt This may be because the current Windows User ID is not the same as when the Reality Demo was loaded. When you load Reality the same case (UPPER/lower) Windows User Name/ID is used to create a matching Reality Logon UserID for the SYSMAN Account. … Continue reading “Why do I get “Invalid logon attempt” from a Dos Prompt”
How can I access a SQL Database from Reality Reality has built in drivers for ODBC and JDBC connections to SQL Databases. However, there's also Foreign Database Support for access at the file and application level. Foreign Database Support provides Reality with access to data held on SQL-based foreign databases. There are two ways of achieving … Continue reading “How can I access a SQL Database from Reality”
IPC Message Queue Failure (from Session Manager) and users can't login If new Reality logins are hanging and Session Manager won't start you can try to clear the existing message queue. A running Session Manager is required in order for new users to login. You can try to restart using the following command as root … Continue reading “IPC Message Queue Failure (from Session Manager) and users can’t login”
Issues with OEM & Appliance Editions of Windows – Updated When non-standard versions of Windows are used you may be affected by OEM and Appliance(embedded end-user application specific) versions when trying to install and use Reality. This is typically end-user Windows versions, like Home or “light” versions that have OEM deliveries not designed to load … Continue reading “Issues with OEM & Appliance Editions of Windows – Updated”
Loading/Updating Solaris can error with “Building of realfuser failed” This is likely to be down to the version of compiler being used with incompatible header files for Solaris 10. This typically occurs as a result of an older version of GCC being used which has been built for Solaris 9. Solaris 10 delivers a compatible … Continue reading “Loading/Updating Solaris can error with “Building of realfuser failed””
Configuring REALWEB with Apache Tomcat – Updated Refer to the following instructions for both Windows and UNIX platforms. For Windows Installations: RealWeb is an integral feature of Reality. It provides the DataBasic programmer with the facility to web-enable an application with little or no knowledge of HTML, allowing the retention of existing business rules and … Continue reading “Configuring REALWEB with Apache Tomcat – Updated”
Creating a database with mkdbase errors with "service not running" On Windows the Reality Service, Session Manager, needs to be running in order for mkdbase to run. The Reality Service, Session Manager, should run automatically from Windows start up. First, check this using Windows Services, you should see a Reality Vxx.0 service set as Automatic … Continue reading “Creating a database with mkdbase errors with “service not running””