RE: Informix database access from a PC using Perl/DBD

---------- Robin Levine (Levine.Robin@bapco.bls.com) asked: >We have the following setup here: >Informix Online Server running on serveral UNIX boxes. >We would like to access the database from a PC using Perl and DBD. >What programs are needed on the PC so that one can use Perl and DBD There are a couple of possibilities, depending on what you've got on your PCs. DBD::ODBC DBD::Informix on NT DBD::pNet on PC, pNetAgent on Unix I'd suggest DBD::pNet might be the best choice; I'm not sure what you'll need in the way of ESQL/C and DBD::Informix on the Unix box, but I assume it will require both of them. This avoids many of the problems with setup work on the PC - though I doubt if it avoids all of them. Alternatively, if you can connect from the PCs via other Informix tools, then DBD::Informix should be viable - it is not so well tested, though. Yours, Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@visa.com) #include <bother.ms-exchange.h> aka j.leffler@acm.org and maintainer of DBD::Informix