Re: connect to IMS in C

2013-04-22 Thread Etienne Thijsse
On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 23:19:04 +0200, Boris Lenz boris.l...@ims.sells.ch wrote: Boris You seem to want a Swiss Army knife application (i.e., for whatever reason, it *must* run outside of IMS control, on z/OS, but you want to access IMS DBs, and you don't want to invoke another application that

Re: connect to IMS in C

2013-04-18 Thread Boris Lenz
Etienne, Actually, I am not. I really don't care which interface, ODBA, ODBM, DBCTL, whatever, as long as I can call it from C to connect to IMS and do DLI calls. Preferably without requiring other stuff to be configured. AERTDLI() happens to be the only API that seems to actually do

connect to IMS in C

2013-04-17 Thread Etienne Thijsse
Hi all, I need to connect to the IMS database from a C program. I tried API's like ctdli(), AIBTDLI(), but they all crash. I think this is because these are meant to be used by programs running within IMS, and that's not what I need; I need the program to run outside of IMS and connect to it.