Re: Batch language for Informix?
johnyc@mainelink.net wrote:
>Perhaps I do not understand your message, or maybe I do :-)
>
>But for our batch processing, we use:
>
>1. Unix shell scripts (awk,grep,sed, join and the rest) and dbaccess for
>simple stuff like adding records
>2. ESQL and 4GL if the data is either too complex or would create long
>transactions using dbaccess
>
>Most of our batch transactions are either insert a record, or of the
>add/change/delete a record type.
>
>John Callaway
>Bath Iron Works
>
>The opinons stated herein are mine only and should be piped into sanity.check.
>----------------------------------------------------
We use all the obvious Unix tools also,
but what I meant about batch languages was,
is anybody using something other than 4gl or esql/c
to handle batch applications like bulk updating, deleting,
inserting, etc.
On MVS mainframes for example, most people use Cobol,
and although it gets alot of bad mouthing from Unix
biggots, the "data processing" throughput dwarfs that
of most Unix box's.
I just wanted to know if there are any other sql embedded
products out there that can work with Informix directly
on the server, besides those from Informix.