ProData Computer Services [1]has introduced Remote Database Connect (RDB Connect), a product that gives developers full SQL access to remote databases from an RPG, COBOL, or CL program on the System i.

With RDB Connect, users can access cross-platform, realtime data on remote systems via APIs to execute any SQL query. A core library, independent of the applications and remote database, acts as an interpreter between the applications and the database drivers, while the database drivers contain the remote database-specific details.

RDB Connect supports access to MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Postgre, and DB2. The solution communicates directly with remote databases from all high-level languages on the System i to enable record level I/O as well as the import/export of remote data for use in batch or interactive programs.