Overview of Net.Data-Supplied Language Environments

Net.Data provides language environments that let you access data and programming resources for your application.

Net.Data provides two types of language environments:

Table 7 provides a brief description of each language environment. See the operating system appendix of Net.Data Reference to learn which language environments are support on what operating system.

Table 7. Net.Data Language Environments
Language Environment Environment Name Description
Flat File Interface DTW_FILE The flat file interface (FFI) provides functions that support text files as data sources.
IMS Web HWS_LE The IMS Web language environment lets you submit an IMS transaction using IMS Web and receive the output of the transaction at your Web browser.
Java Applet DTW_APPLET The Java applet language environment lets you use Java applets in your Net.Data applications. To generate an applet tag, you must provide the applet tag's qualifiers and the applet's parameter list.
Java Application DTW_JAVAPPS Net.Data supports your existing Java applications with the Java language environment.
ODBC DTW_ODBC The ODBC language environment executes SQL statements through an ODBC interface for access to multiple database management systems.
Oracle DTW_ORA The Oracle language environment lets you directly access your Oracle data.
Perl DTW_PERL The Perl language environment interprets internal Perl scripts that are specified in a FUNCTION block of the Net.Data macro, or it executes external Perl scripts stored in separate files.
REXX DTW_REXX The REXX language environment interprets internal REXX programs that are specified in a FUNCTION block of the Net.Data macro, or it can execute external REXX programs stored in a separate file.
SQL DTW_SQL The SQL language environment executes SQL statements through DB2. The results of the SQL statement can be returned in a table variable.
System DTW_SYSTEM

The System language environment supports executing commands and calling external programs.

Web Registry DTW_WEBREG

The Web Registry language environment provides functions for the persistent storage of application-related data.


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