International Business Machines Corporation

David Y Chen

Frederick Thomas Sharp

John Shek-Luen Ng

I-Shin Andy Wang

Judianto Sidik

Rita S Wu

Kuo-Wei Hwang

Paul Chun-Hong Leung

Morgan Young

Described herein is a system and method for enabling an application to pass a structure containing a pointer member to an external entity, wherein the application represents a computer program executing in a computer system, and the computer program is written in a computer programming language that does not support pointers. The application declares a variable V, a structure type having a member P, and a variable M of the structure type. The application invokes a function written in a computer programming language that supports pointers. A reference to the variable V is passed to the function. The function, when executed, obtains and returns an address of the variable V. The application sets the member P in the variable M equal to the address of the variable V. The application then passes the variable M to an external entity. In this manner, the present invention enables a structure having a pointer embedded therein to be passed to the external entity.

System and method for enabling pointers to be passed from computer

A system and method for transferring a file from a client platform to a server platform. A procedure.sub.-- to.sub.-- invoke parameter is set equal to information identifying a file transfer procedure located at the server platform. A pointer in a first 'sqlvar' parameter is caused to point to the string representing the file, and a pointer in a second sqlvar parameter is caused to point to a file name of the file. The first and second sqlvar parameters are part of an input.sub.-- args parameter. A 'sqleproc' function is invoked at the client platform. The procedure.sub.-- to.sub.-- invoke and input.sub.-- args parameters are passed to the sqleproc function. The sqleproc function when executed causes the input.sub.-- args parameter to be passed to the file transfer procedure at the server platform, and also causes the file transfer procedure to be invoked at the server platform.

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