Re: Informix 5.0 and HP-UX client

Ilkka Raisanen <ilkka.raisanen@kcl.fi> writes: > 'yvind Gjerstad wrote: > > >> ...snip > >> One person said that it is not possible to make a UNIX to UNIX > >> client/server system based on the Informix ver. 5.0. Is that true? > > > > No. > > Yes, that makes our life easier. Now I would be very happy, if > someone could describe a solution little deeper for me. (I am very new > in this area, so all information is welcome.) > > I have a few days time to specify a system, which includes our customers > data base server and our client program running on a separate > workstation. > We need to read data from data base system, which has the following > configuration: > > HW: SUN Sparc > OS: Solaris > DB: Informix On-line 5.0 > > > Our client SW is made by C language and it is running on the following > platform: > > HW: HP715/64 > OS: HP-UX 9.05 > > > I think, that the best solution is that we need not to make changes to > the SUN Sparc station. Now I have three questions: > > 1. Can we read data from Informix On-line 5.0 without a need to modify > data base servers's configuration? If that is possible, what libraries > we need to link into our client SW? > > 2. If we need to make some configurations to the data base server, what > they are? > > 3. A standard Unix ODBC client sounds a ideal solution for us. Is that > possible? We have done this with ESQL/C and Informix-Net on the client side and Informix-Star ond Informix-Online on the server side. This works very well, also with Informix 5.0 . The client and the server can be totally different unix versions. I'm not sure if you will need and ESQL/C runtime on the client if the client is not the same computer as your development computer. It will probably work without , but may be a violation of some licensing rules from Informix. I suggest you contact a sales rep from Informix. -- 'yvind Gjerstad Systems dept Tollpost-Globe AS N-6301 'ndalsnes/Norway E-mail: ogj@it.tollpost.no Phone: +47 7122 6663 Fax: +47 7122 6694