CONNECT establishes a connection to an Omnidex Environment and opens a cursor.
CONNECT is followed by either an Omnidex Environment filespec or a File DSN for ODBC, JDBC or CLOA connections.
CONNECT [TO] Omnidex_Environment
[ON host[:port]]
[AS [user]/[password]]
[USING api]
[WITH options]
Reuired: This is the Omnidex Environment or ODBC or JDBC File DSN. If connecting to a File DSN then the USING api clause with ODBC, JDBC or OA needs to be specified.
Optionally specifiy the Host and Port for a network connection.
Optionally specify a username and password in the AS [ user]/[ password] clause.
Optionally specify which API to use for processing subsequent statements. The USING clause facilitates the testing of ODBC and JDBC environments for testing and optimization.
Allowable values for API are:
Optionally specify connect options in the WITH clause.
The NOCURSOR option will cause a connection to be established without opening a cursor.
>connect orders.env Connected to C:\Omnidex\Demodata\orders.env