International Business Machines Corporation

Gerald Herman Roth

Frederick Thomas Sharp

Shu-Huar Joseph Yeh

Mir Hamid Pirahesh

Curt Lee Cotner

I-Shin Andy Wang

Constance Jane Nelin

John Shek-Luen Ng

Wendy Lynne Koontz

Tak Ming Lo

A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for providing a programming development environment that supports the development of portable server routines. More specifically, the present invention discloses a method for storing and retrieving server routines within the database independent of any file I/O system. Also, the present invention discloses a debugging environment that allows debugging of server routines in a multi-tier environment, wherein the source code being debugged runs on the development machine.

Storing P-code in a database

A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture and memory for providing a programming development environment that supports the development of Internet and Intranet applications. More specially, the present invention discloses an efficient, versatile dynamic debugger that allows platform-independent debugging of applications written in a wide variety of languages.

Dynamically debugging user-defined functions and stored procedures

A system and method for passing arrays and structures as host variables to a stored procedure. An application program packs an array or structure into a binary large object (BLOB) and sends the BLOB to a database management system. An adapter called by the database management system, and coupled to the stored procedure, passes a reference to the data area in the BLOB to the stored procedure. After completion of the stored procedure, the BLOB is returned to the application program. Finally, upon the return from the stored procedure call, the application program unpacks the BLOB back into the array or structure.

System, method and computer program product for passing host variables

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