PRO*COBOL/Oracle 9.2 Error

Question

I am trying to run a COBOL program using SQL. The program is pre-compiled with PRO*COBOL and the then with Microfocus NET Express. At runtime i get the following error.
$ ./testsample
Execution error : file 'sample1'
error code: 114, pc=0, call=1, seg=0
114 Attempt to access item beyond bounds of memory (Signal 10)
HP/MF COBOL Version: B.13.45
HP-UX hptest B.11.11 U 9000/800
pid: 22012 gid: 102 uid: 104
Thu Nov 21 19:03:12 2002
7:03pm up 36 days, 6:23, 34 users, load average: 0.28, 0.16, 0.13
Thread mode: No Threads
RTS Error: COBOL
Sync Signals: COBOL
ASync Signals: COBOL
cobtidy on exception: False
I get the same error with the sample program. Any idea what the cause may be?

Answer 1

Hello,
Reason: Your data might contain some foreign characters [non-english] ie., your server nls_lang settings might be different to the client nls_lang settings, as a result the new nls_lang characters will occupy extra bytes because of which even though it is apparent that you are using around 2000 bytes you may be using more than 4000 bytes. Examples Japanese characters seem to take 2 bytes per character, similarly russian takes 3 bytes per character.
The ojdbc14.jar seems to be doing some check on this and if the characters are more than 4000 bytes it gives u the ora-01461 error but the new 10G ojdbc14.jar allows this.
On the other hand you may be genuinely trying to insert more than 4000 bytes characters into varchar [example trying to insert the text values into a varchar()]
You may want to try this:
* Please download ojdbc14.jar from
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/java/sqlj_jdbc/index.htmla>
* Replace the old $omwb_home/lib/ojdbc14.jar with the ojdbc14.jar that you have downloaded in the step above.
Try a capture now.
Thank you.
Srinivas