Inquiring About and Setting Applications Status
4GL provides several statements and a function to retrieve information about an application that is running:
inquire_sql (statement)
This statement provides information about the result of query statements. It also provides information about the database session.
inquire_forms (statement)
This statement provides information about the status of various aspects of the Forms Runtime System (FRS).
dbmsinfo (function)
This function is used in a select statement to retrieve system information.
Also, you can use the set_sql, set_forms, and set_4gl statements to control various features of the application that is running.