Re: I-Connect Questions

Tony Marasco (tonmar@steamer.berksiu.k12.pa.us) wrote: : We just received the I-Connect client piece yesterday and, throught : many trials and errors, got the thing working just fine. It is : connecting to Online 5.07 on an AT&T box. The client is the Win-95 : 32-bit version. : My question is how do I access the data using something other than : the demo? I know that sounds very basic, but I read that the : connectivity requires ESQL/C or ESQL/Cobol -- neither of which we : have or plan on ever using. We got the I-Star/I-Connect package : to access data via IQ for Windows and custom third party software : written in Powerbuilder and Delphi. I presume these packages support : I-Connect, since we don't have these pieces yet. : What if I want to access the database via VB or Excel? Do I need : an ODBC driver in addition to what I have? I downloaded Microsoft : ODBC 2.5/3.0 and OpenLink Lite and have had no success (ODBC cannot : access the OpenLink driver). Is this supposed to be an easy setup? : Finally, I read about something named "cli". What is that and should : I buy/need it? You need Informix-CLI, which is Informix's ODBC driver. It comes with I-Connect and runs over it. You can then use VB, Crystal Reports, and the like to connect. I've also found it neat to install an Informix engine on the client machine just so I can have dbaccess working across the network. INFORMIX!!!! Hey guys, anybody listening? Why don't you bundle dbaccess with I-Connect? Joe : Thanks! : -- : Tony Marasco : http://www.berksiu.k12.pa.us mailto:tonmar@berksiu.k12.pa.us -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Lumbley(jlumbley@netcom.com) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------