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Y'all
A couple weeks ago, there was a post
(
http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/201007/msg00212.html) wondering if
any of the vendors might write a handler to get to things like Oracle or
SQL Server using native RPG. I talked with the poster some and got good
feedback.
I just want y'all to know that I'm putting together a very simple, basic
handler around our RPG2SQL Integrator product. This isn't a sales pitch
by any means, just want to let you know about it. We don't have anything
to sell yet, anyhow!! This isn't a press release, but it is a statement
that we at RJS Software Systems are looking at this technology.
I support only OPEN, READ, and CLOSE at this time. It can work with only
one file open at a time. But I think it's really cool to have some
really clean, no-nonsense RPG and get data from SQL Server.
My experience so far shows that it isn't all that hard, in principle, to
write a handler. The difficulty comes in working out which op-codes to
support, how to handle multiple open files, all that overhead stuff. Jon
Paris has shown an example of handling multiple open files in his recent
article, which I'm reviewing.
Who knows, it's been suggested that maybe I write an article on this,
showing how I'm doing it.
So I'm throwing this out to y'all.
Vern
midrange.com
