Re: WWW access to Informix Bugs database

In Article<451q29$o02@panix.com>, <clay@panix.com> write: > In <NEWTNews.812889226.19895.alex@alexpc.films.com> "Alexander J. Oss" <alex.oss@films.com> writes: > > >In Article<44s1ss$alf@necco.harvard.edu>, <bochner@das.harvard.edu> write: > >> For the first time in a couple of years I've got something I want to > >> look up in the Informix Bugs database, and I was hoping to be able to do > >> it via the Informix Web page. But when I click on the "TechInfo Center" > >> and enter my InformixLink login ID and password, it doesn't accept it. > >> Is the TechInfo Center something you need to pay extra to access, over > >> and above InformixLink? Or am I just doing something wrong? > > >I received a login and password and joyfully sprang to the Web, only to be > >frustrated. > > >Then I read the small print on something they sent in that package: > >TechInfo/TechTips is "available with full-view InformixLink", which is > >definitely not free: > > If this is the case, why don't we start our own Bugs database? Who knows the > bugs better than us? I have an Informix database running on the same machine > as our Web server and I'd be willing to donate the resources... Okay, here's a *really* weird thing. I got a call from Informix about a message I left at their Web site *weeks* ago, saying that the account doesn't become active until midnight the next night. Obviously I tried long after that period. BUT I JUST LOGGED IN TO THE TECHINFO CENTER! THEREFORE, A RETRACTION IS IN ORDER: I guess it really is free. So just call their number and ask. Of course, the Knowledge Base link on the TechInfo page is under construction and not selectable <sigh, grimace>.