exec_program()

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This page describes one of the supplementary ways of running an application.

The main way to run an application is the RUN statement.

exec_program() is used to run a 4GL program on a specified GUI server instance. It takes 4 arguments and has this syntax:

exec_program(command, server, instance, user_id)

where:

command = a variable of VARCHAR data type or a quoted character string specifying the path to an application to be run,
server = a variable of the VARCHAR data type or a quoted character string specifying the IP or the domain name of an application server.
instance = a variable of the VARCHAR data type or a quoted character string specifying the name of the application server instance.
user_id = a variable of the VARCHAR data type or a quoted character string specifying the user account to run an application for.

Here are examples of the exec_program() function:

CALL exec_program("my_program", "192.168.10.213", "default", "SYSTEM")

CALL exec_program("my_program", "190.155.207.10", "secure", "admin")