ISTwatch Oracle SDK

ISTwatch comes with an Oracle Software Developer’s Kit which includes numerous examples of calling ISTwatch from Oracle environment.

Oracle 8 and above provides capabilities of calling external functions from PL/SQL scripts. This is accomplished through the creation of extended stored procedures that reference the dynamically executable function code. An external procedure is a third-generation-language routine stored in a dynamic link library or a shared object, registered with PL/SQL, and invoked to do special-purpose processing. ISTwatch comes with such a library (shared object on UNIX/Linux platforms).

At run time, PL/SQL loads the library dynamically, and then calls the routine as if it were a PL/SQL subprogram. To safeguard your database, the routine runs in a separate address space.

Steps to call ISTwatch (from Oracle)

IST Watch General Information