Input/Output Processes : Alternate I/O Sources : Processes as input and output streams (NT and UNIX only)
Processes as input and output streams (NT and UNIX only)
You can import data into ABL from a process or pipe data from ABL to another process using one of the following statements:
INPUTTHROUGH statement to import data into ABL from another process.
OUTPUTTHROUGH statement to pipe data from ABL to another process.
INPUT–OUTPUTTHROUGH statement to pipe the output of a process into an OpenEdge procedure and to pipe data from OpenEdge back to that same process.
This allows two-way communication to a program written in C or any other language. You might use this capability to do specialized calculations on data stored in an OpenEdge database or entered during an OpenEdge session.
For more information on these statements, see OpenEdge Development: ABL Reference.
INPUT THROUGH statement to import data into ABL from another process.
