Re: SETNET Configuration

Herb, The SETNET utility can manager multiple definitions for different hosts. Only one can be the default configuration, but that does not mean it will be the only one available. If COGNOS uses data sources (ODBC) , you can specify at that level to which database/host it will connect to. But firt, remember to add the entries using the SETNET uitility. I use intersolv , and it has the options button to specify INFORMIX-specific information. Also when you specify the database name (not the data-source-name) you use the database@hostname sintax convention, in order to me more specific. If you have an application that connects to INFORMIX using the ESQL/C libraries, then you only have to use the database@hostname sintax. Regards, Mario Estrada At 01:57 PM 22/04/1999 -0500, Blacker, Herb wrote: >Folks, > >I'm looking for a solution to the problem of linking to different DB's on >different boxes using COGNOS report writer. >The problem is that the linkages are made through SETNET, and I need two >different environment, host and server setups. >These setups can be saved to a file, and the file loaded once you're in >SETNET itself. >However, I'd like my users to click on two separate icons to get to the >separate DB's using the different SETNET configs transparently. >Does anyone know whether SETNET can be executed with the saved xxx.nfx file >as a parameter? >Is there another, better solution? > >TIA, >Herb >