Re: [Q] Connectivity problem - details
Posted in 1996
>>Hi everybody,
>
>>I have two Informix environments - under SCO and under Sparc Solaris.
>>If I need to access Sparc database from SCO,
>>I can always use dbaccess, but 4GL application cannot
>>open database (Network driver could not be found).
>>It seems to me that dbaccess and 4gl both works through the same driver.
>>What may be wrong?
>
>>SCO: Informix Online 7.10
>> RDS 6.01
>
>>Solaris:Informix Online 7.12
>
>We have had a similar problem between a 7.13.uc2 engine running on Sun
>SC2000E Solaris 2.4 and a 6.00.uf3 engine running on HP h70 HPUX 9.04.
>
>The problem had to do with our DBSERVERNAME and DBSERVERALIASES being
>all CAPS. We fixed this by creating another DBSERVERALIAS in all
>lower case and making the appropriate enties in the sqlhosts and hosts
>files.
All server names in lowercase
>
>However, we came to find out that we had bigger problem. One
>database(hp box) is ansi-compliant and the other(sun box) is not.
I've tried with single database through dbaccess and 4gl
Now I've found that my 4gl on SCO can operate only via shared memory protocol.
It cannot open even _local_ database when protocol for $INFORMIXSERVER
is "ontlitcp".
Is it a bug or a feature of 4GL RDS?
Leonid