Accessing an Opaque Data Type

After you create the opaque data type, the following client programs can use it once they connect to the database in which it is registered:

• An ESQL/C application that uses SQL statements and an lvarchar, fixed binary, or var binary host variable

  For more information, see the chapter on opaque types in the IBM Informix: ESQL/C Programmer's Manual.

• A C routine that uses the DataBlade API

  For more information, see the IBM Informix: DataBlade API Programmer's Guide.

• An SPL UDR

  For more information, see the chapter on SPL in the IBM Informix: Guide to SQL Tutorial.

• A client application written in the Java

You can use an opaque data type in any way that you use other data types of the database.