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Title	How to programmatically find the startup parameters of a 4GL client session?

URL Name	P89881

Article Number	000151751

Environment	Product: Progress Version: 9.1D09, 9.1E Product: OpenEdge Version: 10.0B, 10.1x, 10.2x, 11.x OS: All supported platforms

Question/Problem Description

How to programmatically find the startup parameters of a 4GL client session?
How to display the current 4GL/ABL session's startup parameters using 4GL/ABL?

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Use the current 4GL/ABL SESSION system handle's STARTUP-PARAMETERS attribute.

For example, executing the following statement:

MESSAGE SESSION:STARTUP-PARAMETERS SKIP
     SESSION:TEMP-DIR
    VIEW-AS ALERT-BOX INFO BUTTONS OK.

Messages a character string containing a comma-separated list of all startup parameters defined at the startup of the current 4GL/ABL session.

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References to Other Documentation:

OpenEdge Development: ABL Reference, "Handle Attributes and Methods Reference > STARTUP-PARAMETERS attribute"

Progress Articles:

How To Find What Database Startup Parameters Are Used?
Sample code to get startup parameters and environment

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Last Modified Date	11/20/2020 7:33 AM