Re: Forms with ONLINE 5.0 dbaccess

>From: uunet!evolving.com!bpk (Brad Knotwell) >Subject: Forms with ONLINE 5.0 dbaccess >Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1993 14:17:31 GMT >X-Informix-List-Id: <news.2899> > >Hello all-- > >We are (for a client's box) currently using ONLINE version 5.0. >Instead of ISQL, we are using the embedded dbaccess utility. It >seems to accept all the SQL commands and appears to work pretty >well with one exception--lack of forms capability. Is there >any way to generate forms with dbaccess? Is there perhaps a >shareware program we could use to build forms and run them or >even a shareware program we could use to execute forms built here? Four exceptions, actually. No forms support. No reports support. No user menu support. No custom PERFORM or ACE support. DBACCESS is not a replacement for ISQL. It is for DBAs to use. It is invaluable for those DBAs who always used the ISQL Query-language facility and not much else, because that is what it provides. It is also available on run-time systems, so you can monitor a production database without having to install ISQL, which is also utterly invaluable. If you want forms, buy the forms product, which is Informix-SQL. Yours emphatically but unofficially, Jonathan Leffler (johnl@obelix.informix.com) #include <disclaimer.h>