Does Firebird have the ability to run system level commands?

Question

Ive been playing around with Firebird and isql. I noticed it has the 'shell' command. However this shell drops you to a sub-process on the local system regardless if your connected to a remote DB. Is it possible to run system level commands on Firebird on the system hosting the DB? Google seems to be useless with regards to Firebird, I have read the documentation for Firebird too and dont see any mention of it.

Answer 1

The only way to do it is to write UDF function (in such languages like Delphi or C/C++). But even if you write or find such a function, its usefulness may be limited because Firebird can run under special user account with limited rights.

Answer 2

There is no way to execute shell commands in remote system via isql.