Ann,

> And, of course, gbak executes a single statement to retrieve all the
> data from a table - a system wide setting will cause backups to fail.
> And no, it's not a good idea to put in a special switch that lets gbak
> ignore the system rules.

But, as someone suggested, allow the timeout value to be set/overwriten
as part of the connection parameters. This would resolve this problem.

If you can control the DB cache size via the connection, why can't you
control the query timeout?


Sean