The userid, password, and appserver-info arguments are optional. However, the requirement to specify these arguments, and to provide specific values for any of them, depends on whether the AppServer Connect procedure is being used on the AppServer you are connecting.
Note: These arguments are ignored for a session-free application service, because AppServer Connect procedures do not execute on a session-free AppServer.
If the AppServer Connect procedure is defined for the AppServer, then you must know how the AppServer Connect procedure is implemented to determine how to specify these values. If you do not specify a value for an argument, the unknown value (?) is passed to the AppServer Connect procedure for that argument. OpenEdge only passes these values from the CONNECT( ) method to the AppServer Connect procedure. It is the procedure that actually evaluates the values that are passed.
Note: When determining what arguments to pass to the CONNECT( ) method, understand that an AppServer accepts a connection request only if any configured Connect procedure executes successfully.
If the AppServer Connect procedure is not defined for the AppServer, you do not need to pass the three application arguments to the CONNECT( ) method. If you happen to provide them, they are ignored.
