If the program that uses Callable RDO (RDB$INTERPRET) is linked implicitly with SYS$SHARE:RDBINTSHR (that is, allows the OpenVMS Linker utility (LINKER) to resolve the reference using SYS$LIBRARY:IMAGELIB.OLB) then the message vector and transaction handle values are not returned to the caller. However, if the program is linked explicitly with SYS$SHARE:RDBINTSHR as the following example shows, then message vector and transaction handle values are returned. In this case, there must be two PSECTs declared and named RDB$TRANSACTION_HANDLE (8 bytes long) and RDB$MESSAGE_VECTOR (20 longwords, that is, 80 bytes long) in the caller's program. $ LINK PROGRAM,SYS$INPUT/OPT SYS$SHARE:RDBINTSHR.EXE/SHARE PSECT_ATTR=RDB$MESSAGE_VECTOR,SHR PSECT_ATTR=RDB$TRANSACTION_HANDLE,SHR However the explicit linking against the shareable image SYS$SHARE:RDBINTSHR is not upward compatible and the application will need to be relinked for each new version of Oracle Rdb released. There is no workaround for this problem.