Re: Powerbuilder-Informix

Posted in 1997

Rob McAllister — Sun, 26 Jan 1997 08:29:24 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Just a quick note about Openlink. I tried to use it and got errors "RPC Can't decode results" whenever a NULL value was returned. I switched to the Intersolv + Iconnect 7.x ODBC solution and we are up and running. Daniel Wynalda <danielw@wybbs.mi.org> wrote: >philcya@aol.com wrote: >> >Our local Powerbuilder support said that Powerbuilder does not run on >> >Informix INET and suggested us to purchase an ODBC product. >Inet does indeed work with Powerbuilder but I don't like it. It had >some >bugs and performance wasn't very good. A big plus to setting it up via >ODBC is you can use any ODBC source interchangeably and other programs >that use ODBC (besides powerbuilder) will be able to use the informix >database. Lastly - it's cheaper. >Recommended (no connection other than a happy user) Openlink ODBC. They >put a request broker on the server so you don't need ISTAR either! >http://www.openlink.co.uk >-- >Daniel Wynalda/N8KUD/SYSOP |Consultants Connection BBS | 616-363-6680 >danielw@wybbs.mi.org | 2783 Sandalwood Ct NE | Grand Rapids, MI 49505 -------------------------------------------------------- Rob McAllister rmcall@on-ramp.ior.com Spokane, WA "On all good programmers a little core must dump"