Hi Allin, 

Am 23.02.2020 18:41 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
> On Wed, 19 Feb 2020, Sven Schreiber wrote:
> 
>> Am 19.02.2020 um 10:19 schrieb atecon:
>> >
>> > 1) I want to write a open_odbc_connection() function. Unfortunately,
>> > the 'open' command cannot be executed within a function. For its
>> > standard application loading a data set I fully understand the reason.
>> > However, for just opening a ODBC connection by the '--odbc" option, I
>> > don't get rational for this restriction.
>> > Feature request: Allow making use of the open command in case the
>> > --odbc option is passed.
>>
>> Wanting this functionality sounds very reasonable, but I'm noticing that
>> 'open .... --odbc' does not seem to be documented in the command reference.
> 
> As I mentioned previously, Artur's request is now granted. In response
> to Sven's observation I've now added references to the ODBC option to
> the doc for the "open" and "data" commands.

I just compiled latest source code from git. Unfortunately, the 'open' command still returns an error when calling the function:

<hansl>
function void open_odbc_connection (string DSN,
                                      string USER,
                                      string PW)
    open dsn=@DSN user=@USER password=@PW --odbc
end function
</hansl>

The error message is: "The "open" command cannot be used in this context
*** error in function open_odbc_connection, line 1"

Outside the function, the "open" command works fine.


> I've also added a little to the ODBC chapter of the User's Guide, and
> changed its status to a regular chapter rather than an appendix. (That
> makes it easier to hot-link into the online help.)

Thanks for the update!