[ic] Accessing $Db or $Sql in Jobs?

[John Young]

Ethan Rowe wrote:
> Jeff Fearn wrote:
> 
>> Hi, how do you make $Db or $Sql accessable to usertags run using the
>> jobs functionality?
>>
>> I have a job which uses a new usertag, however $Db and $Sql are empty.
>>
>> I have used $Db and $Sql in another usertag; which is used in the
>> order routing; without a problem. I am assuming this is something to
>> do with this tag being used via the job queue ... this may be a very
>> bad assumption :}
>>
>> I have tried setting "AllowGlobal foundation" in interchange.cfg,
>> which I really don't want to do, with no effect.
>>
>> The job just contains:
>>
>> [x12_945]
>>
>> The tag code is:
>> UserTag x12_945 Routine <<EOR
>> sub
>> {
>>        # Make sure we have the EDI module installed
>>        eval
>>        {
>>                use X12::Base;
>>        };
>>
>>        if($@)
>>        {
>>                ::logError("Could not load X12::Base Module. X12-945
>> processing failed!\n");
>>                return(1);
>>        }
>>
>>        # Both of these always die
>>        my $dbh = $Sql{orderline} or die("No SQL orderline database!\n");
>>        my $ref = $Db{orderline} or die("No orderline database!\n");
>>
>>        .....
>> }
>>
>> TIA, Jeff.
>> __
>>
> Having not yet used IC jobs myself, I may be totally useless.  That said:
> Is the usertag defined for a single catalog, or as an Interchange global 
> tag?
> 
> The $Db and $Sql objects aren't available at the global level.  You can 
> effectively access the $Db object for a particular table at the global 
> level, however, via:
> my $dbh = database_exists_ref( $tablename );
> $dbh = $dbh->ref();
> 
>  From there, $dbh gives you access to functions like query().
> 
> I hope this is of some use.
>    - Ethan


The following link might help, as well, if you are not already familiar
with its content:

http://www.icdevgroup.org/pipermail/interchange-users/2004-December/041551.html


-John Young