With the announcement of IBM Rational Open Access: RPG Edition, the capabilities of native RPG have been expanded significantly. But setting out to write an OAR handler can look daunting at first. This session will look at what Open Access: RPG Edition is, and at how to use it to work with data in remote database systems using familiar file operations. Understand the basics of Open Access: RPG Edition Learn about designing an Open Access application and an Open Access handler See how to it all goes together to work with remote non-i5 data sources