|  | Hi Regina,
I hadn't heard this.  It's all described in chapter 9 of the Oracle Rdb7
Distributed Technology Product Family User's Guide.  Page 9-7 has an example
of using a config file with labels but it is not an oracle config file.
I'm going to try this later and see if I can get it to work, or recreate 
the problem.  Will let you know my results.
Diane
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                -< Labels in config file with LORA_CONFIG_FILE >-
    I guess you can't use the labels in the config file if you choose to
    work with LORA_CONFIG_FILE?
    
    If yes, help where is this described?
    
    /thanks,
    Regina
    
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|  |     Hi Diane,
    
    what I wanted to know is: I know you can use the labels in the config
    file with the /CONFIG qualifier on the attach string. I just wondered
    if there is a possibility to use the labels when you don't use the
    /CONFIG qualifier but the LORA_CONFIG_FILE logical.
    
    CHeers,
    Regina
    
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|  | Hi Regina,
    
>    what I wanted to know is: I know you can use the labels in the config
>    file with the /CONFIG qualifier on the attach string. I just wondered
>    if there is a possibility to use the labels when you don't use the
>    /CONFIG qualifier but the LORA_CONFIG_FILE logical.
I tested here and I got labels to work using a logical.  
I believe what you are asking for is documented on page 9-5 of the Product
Family User's Guide:
   
  $ DEFINE LSYB_CONFIG_FILE "(USER1:[SHARED]CONFIG1.DAT, GROUP1, USER)"
(The quotes are not in the book but they are needed or the above logical
 cannot be defined.)
I did the following and it all worked:
Created a config file with 2 labels - 
  attach_user1:
  /user=scott
  /pass=tiger
  #
  attach_user2:
  /user=bither
  /pass=bither
$ define lora_config_ora "(ora_config.dat, attach_user1)"
Successfully attached to tables that only scott/tiger has access to.
$ define lora_config_ora "(ora_config.dat, attach_user2)"
Successfully attached to tables that only bither/bither has access to.
I also tried:
  $ define lora_config_ora "(ora_config.dat,attach_user1)"
  $ define lora_config_ora "(ora_config.dat,attach_user1)"
                                            ^no space
and these both worked too.  The reason I tried these second logical
definitions is because:
During my testing I found another doc error in addition to the above 
missing quotes which is much more serious.  Whenever I try
to use what is documented in the attach string, it fails with a 
syntax error:
SQL> attach 'f /type=oracle/config=(ora_config.dat, attach_user1)';
f /type=oracle/config=(ora_config.dat, attach_user1)
                                     ^
%SQL-F-DBSPECSYNERR, Syntax error in database specification
The ONLY way I could get labels to work when used in the attach string
was to omit the space. This is not true when using a logical name that
points to the config file.  In that case both space and no space works.
I'm writing a STARS article on this since I tried a lot of things before 
getting this to work, i.e.:
SQL> attach 'f /type=oracle/config=(ora_config.dat, attach_user1)';
SQL> attach 'f /type=oracle/config=(ora_config.dat attach_user1)';
SQL> attach 'f /type=oracle/config=(ora_config.dat/attach_user1)';
SQL> attach 'f /type=oracle/config=ora_config.dat, attach_user1';
SQL> attach 'f /type=oracle/config=(ora_config.dat,attach_user1)'; <--WORKS!
Thanks, Diane
 
    
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