ERROR - unable to allocate an environment handle

goth · #1 (**permalink**) 01-26-06, 09:01

Hello,

connecting via .NET to a informx server I receive an Exception with exception message "ERROR - unable to allocate an environment handle.".

What is the reason for this? The connectionString seems to be correct and the Exceptions rises calling con.open().

Any Ideas

TIA

elSeabass · #2 (**permalink**) 02-03-06, 10:52

Hi,
Had the very same problem there this afternoon, was tearing my hair out. On my local machine I had the informix SDK version 2.81 installed and had installed the version 2.90 over the top. So had to change the path variable in my environment variables (Windows2000). I just made sure the SDK path was specified first, as it takes presedence.

HTH

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http://www-128.ibm.com/developerwork...dm-0510durity/

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Originally Posted by goth

Hello,

connecting via .NET to a informx server I receive an Exception with exception message "ERROR - unable to allocate an environment handle.".

What is the reason for this? The connectionString seems to be correct and the Exceptions rises calling con.open().

Any Ideas

TIA