Hello, Actually, the ecpg pre-compiler resolves ESQL/C statements like EXEC SQL SELECT .... into a function call to the executer in the ecpglib as: ECPGdo(__LINE__, ...); where __LINE__ is later substituted by the C-precompiler by the current line number as an integer. The purpose is mostly for logging features like: [24304] [14.01.2020 12:05:18:433]: ECPGtrans on line 1108: action "rollback"; connection "sisis71" i.e. to have the line number in the log statement (btw: the date and timestamp is already a local modification we did to bring the log line in sync with other logs our application is writing). In a real world server application written in some hundreds foo.pgc files (a generated application interface with the pgc files based on the 400 tables in the database), it would be nice to have the call done like this: ECPGdo(__LINE__, __FILE__, ...) and the resulting log line like this: [24304] [14.01.2020 12:05:18:433]: ECPGtrans on line 1108 in file D01buch.c: action "rollback"; connection "sisis71" Before hacking this into the ecpglib code by my own, I wanted discuss this here or even file somewhere a structured change request for further development. Thanks matthias -- Matthias Apitz, ✉ guru@xxxxxxxxxxx, http://www.unixarea.de/ +49-176-38902045 Public GnuPG key: http://www.unixarea.de/key.pub May, 9: Спаси́бо освободители! Thank you very much, Russian liberators!