Re: Getting DB error = 20017 - Unexpected EOF from the server

[email protected] wrote on 03/19/2009 02:53:44 PM:
> You're never supposed to depend on the contents of a VMS process ID 
> other than that it's "an opaque longword value," but generally 
> speaking a system that has been up a long time and/or is a member of a 
> cluster will be giving out bigger numbers as PIDs than one that 
> isn't.   For example, the cluster info is in the upper bits somewhere, 
> so you get a big number.

Well, that makes more sense.  If the hostprocess field is the process ID 
on the client, clustered OpenVMS systems would always produce an 8 
character PID.  Since the Itanium test system we have is not clustered, 
there are leading zeros in the PID that probably get stripped off.

-Jeff