NetBase for MPE Reference Guide

Welcome to NetBase
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NetBase Client
NetBase Client allows MS-DOS, Windows, and UNIX based applications to access MPE files and
IMAGE databases on HP 3000 MPE/iX systems. To offer this access, NetBase Client uses libraries
of APIs that have the same calling sequences as the MPE/iX intrinsics. Code that is written and
compiled on an HP 3000 may, with minor modifications, be compiled and run on a PC or a UNIX
system.
As a result, each intrinsic call from a PC or UNIX system is passed to the MPE/iX machine,
executed, and the data returned. Because NetBase Client supports Microsoft Windows, advanced
easy-to-use development environments such as Microsoft Visual Basic can be used for developing
client/server type applications. Using NetBase Client also alleviates the need to learn a new
programming paradigm such as SQL.
Performance is one of the major benefits when using NetBase. NetBase Client avoids the time-
consuming and inefficient translations between a myriad of “standards” such as SQL, ODBC, and
ALLBASE. NetBase Client is commonly 10 to 100 times faster than the HP ODBC interface to
Image/SQL when accessing an IMAGE database.
For more information on NetBase Client, see the NetBase Client Reference Guide.