Re: Informix on Linux?

"Wolfram Diestel" <diestel@rzaix340.rz.uni-leipzig.de> wrote: : :Cosmo Lee <cosmo@echonyc.com> wrote in article :<32EFF84D.137F@echonyc.com>... :> You could try not using shared memory for communicating client to :> server. Online uses specific kernel memory parameters, depending on the :> platform. iBCS is probably only useful as a set of APIs that can be :> used to form a base of common functions. But it seems to me that as :> soon as you start talking actual memory addresses, which will change :> from platform to platform, compatibility goes out the window. Try :> communicating via pipes or TCP/IP instead, maybe that will solve the :> problem - but I'm just guessing here. : :Just I succeded to run Informix 7.12 with Linux 2.0.18 and latest available :version of iBCS :using shared memory for client/server-communication. But not trough sockets ::-( :So I can use it only locally. See my posting above, what error message I :get. :Could you give me more information about this? No, sorry. But may be you can run the OpenLink request broker and Informix 7 database interface for SCO on Linux as well? In that case you should be able to get both ODBC access (from MS Windows clients) and UDBC access (like Informix CLI - ANSI/CLI) from other Unix machines. Nils.Myklebust@idg.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org