Re: i4gl talk to database over network

Unless something drastic has changed with 4GL version 7.x, you can't use ODBC in 4GL. What release of Informix for NT? Having not used Informix on NT much, I'm assuming A) it is at least 7.x, and B) it comes bundled with I-STAR. Ditto SCO. If you have a pre-7.x version, you'll need to install I-STAR separately. That said, you need to update your hosts, services and onconfig files on both servers. Then you just need to reference the remote database from 4gl as database@remote_hostname_instance. Be sure to test the connectivity from SCO to NT with dbaccess. Now, why you would run the engine on NT over the SCO box is beyond me . . . -mka Michael Ackerbauer SP System Test >I want to put together a database system where a 4GL program running on >an SCO UNIX machine can talk "over the network" to an Informix database >which is running on an NT server. >Can anyone tell me if everything I need to do this comes with Informix-4GL? >Do I need to run Informix-Connect (or anything else) on the SCO system? >Can I do this with ODBC instead? >I want to avoid having to run the database engine itself on SCO. The Informix >database in question is the Dynamic Server Workgorup Edition.