Invoking Direct SQL Passthru

In this section:

To invoke the Direct SQL Passthru facility, you must establish the target RDBMS in either of the following two ways:
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Invoking Automatic Passthru

How to:

If you do not establish a target RDBMS, the SQL Translator processes the request. However, the Translator will invoke Automatic Passthru (APT) when the SQL submitted contains valid syntax for the RDBMS being accessed.

As a result, the SQL code will not be processed by FOCUS, but instead will be sent directly to the RDBMS. Column names displayed in the report will be the RDBMS table column names, which correspond with the Master File ALIAS values. If this behavior is not desirable, you can disable Automatic Passthru for the request by issuing the SET APT=OFF; command in the SQL query: 

SQL
SET APT = OFF;
 sql statement 
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Syntax: How to Issue the SET SQLENGINE Command
SET SQLENGINE = sqlengine 

where:

sqlengine

Indicates the target RDBMS. Valid values are

DB2

Indicates the DB2 RDBMS.

SQLDBC

Indicates the Teradata RDBMS.

SQLIDMS

Indicates the CA-IDMS/SQL RDBMS.

SQLORA

Indicates the Oracle RDBMS.

OFF

Indicates that unless the request specifies a target RDBMS, the SQL Translator will process the request. OFF is the default setting.

You can change the SQLENGINE setting at any point in your FOCUS session.

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