Use this statement to start an external environment.

Syntax

START EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT environment-name

environment-name : 
JAVA
| PERL
| PHP
| CLR
| C_ESQL32
| C_ESQL64
| C_ODBC32
| C_ODBC64

Parameters

Remarks

For more information on external environments, see Overview of external environments.

Permissions

Must have DBA authority.

Side effects

None

See also

• Overview of external environments
• ALTER EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT statement
• STOP EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT statement
• INSTALL EXTERNAL OBJECT statement
• REMOVE EXTERNAL OBJECT statement
• SYSEXTERNENV system view
• SYSEXTERNENVOBJECT system view

Standards and compatibility

Example

Start the Perl external environment.

START EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT PERL;