EXTERNAL

Description

Allows the User to send to a specified data server any valid text string which represents a command to read from, or write to, a DB.

For details of subsidiary commands relevant to EXTERNAL mode, see under the following headings: CLOSE, DELIMIT, END, GET, OPEN, SEND, START, TOGGLE.

Example

EXTERNAL SEND $!!MAINT ’select * from maintdata’

This sends the specified text string to the data server whose channel token is stored in the variable !!MAINT.

Syntax

>-- EXTERnal ... -->