EXTERNAL

Description

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

for further information 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 ... -->