Re: AS/400 STILL wearing the undeserved "closed system" moniker (was PCconnection via twinax ?)

>>>Could a 3rd party odbc driver be written for the 400?

> Same question.
> Can a 3rd party product access the database at the same level that
opnqryf does?  If not, why not?
> It is not that important to me. So I have not researched the subject
much. But I assume the lack of documentation
> on this subject is the smoke of the "interface not available" fire.
> ps: I am aware of the qqquery api. But I could not figure it out when I
read it and did not see any reference to
> setll, updat, add, etc.
> Steve

Actually
the new enhancements to the DB optimizer will be done to enhance the SQL
performance.   The Native methods READE, SETLL,  OPNQRYF  will not perform
as fast as SQL in the future.   The only way you should access it from
outside is via SQL.

Are there API's for Oracle that don't use SQL ?

JOhn