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We are running OpenVMS Rdb and sometimes get an error message: Error from System Services Request when doing queries. What is the problem?

April 26, 2017doing Error message OpenVMS queries RDB request running Services system

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We are running OpenVMS Rdb and sometimes get an error message: Error from System Services Request when doing queries. What is the problem?

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The query is attempting to open a Sort file but it cannot find the sys$login and sys$login_device logicals. VORTEXserver on OpenVMS is implemented as a batch job and new connections are serviced with a new process using CreateProcess. The new process does not inherit the Process logicals and so it does not have these two logical set. The solution is to make them group logicals, e.g.