[Info-vax] SQLite port for OpenVMS (Re: Is there currently a functioning link for hobbyist licenses?)

[hb]

On 03/12/2015 06:26 PM, hb wrote:

> SQuirreL? With a JDBC driver for VMS - available for testing - this
> should work. Although, "The minimum version of Java supported is 1.6.x
> as of SQuirreL version 3.0.": this would be I64. SQLite is not listed in
> SQuirreL's "supported" drivers, but on Linux I has no problem to load
> and use the SQLite JDBC (which is used for VMS, aka complemented with
> JNIs for VMS). I haven't tested it, as I currently have no access to a
> I64 system to try it.

For what it is worth, I could do some testing with SQuirreL on VMS. It 
installs but at the very end there is an error/problem report in a 
Unix/shell script, which I ignored. From the available scripts I derived 
how to run it. It starts without a problem - except the splash screen 
isn't shown (which is a Java/OpenVMS problem). So I got the GUI running 
on VMS and displayed by the X11 server running on a Linux box. The JDBC 
drivers for SQLite3 and rdb need to be configured. I used the already 
mentioned JDBC for SQLite3 and connected to a local database. I also 
used rdbThin (client and server) both running on VMS (on the local and a 
remote system). SQuirreL connected to two rdb databases, a local and a 
remote one. Although I only did initial testing, SQuirreL seems to work 
as expected.

I didn't try the native rdb JDBC driver. But I also ran SQuirreL on the 
Linux box with the rdbThin client and connected to the - now both remote 
- rdb database on the VMS systems running the rdbThin server.