RE: Remote Connections in SQLRPGLE

I think the answer to your first question is it depends upon the release
of the OS you are on (locally, this has been available for some time).
Post that and I'm sure someone will pipe in with the answer (you could
also look in the InfoCenter -- particularly the SQL programming books --
to find this out and it may be something posted in one of the FAQ's).

For your second question, database connections are established at the
job level so each job will open and close connections as they start and
end. OS/400 does cache connections for a short time after they are
closed and those can be used by subsequent jobs to connect. What
situation are you concerned about the performance in? Unless you
explicitly close connections, they remain open until the job ends so you
only take the connection hit the first time you establish it. With the
embedded SQL support in RPG, there's no opportunity for connection
pooling. You may be able to do this at the SQL CLI level but that's
something I have no experience with.

Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces+matt.haas=thomson.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces+matt.haas=thomson.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Mohammad Tanveer
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 6:36 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Cc: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: Remote Connections in SQLRPGLE

I am connecting to a remote database and executing some stored
procedures,
which are returning some parameters.  I want to know if I can get the
result
set back in RPGLE or not, if yes how?  I know if I call the same stored
procedure from java I will get the result set back.

How can I avoid opening and closing of remote database connection in
SQLRPGLE for a single job? It seems like a performance issue. If I don't
close my remote connection my other programs in the same job will not be
able to SQL data on local database. 

Can we do something like Connection pooling in SQLRPGLE?

Thanks