Re: i4gl talk to database over network

One more problem I can see here is the User Equivalence issue. How to set it up on NT ? The only way I can see is to use the netrc file on SCO to set the user name and password. Kind Regards, Octav ackerbau@us.ibm.com wrote: >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 =0Dwith 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. > > --=20 Octav Chiriac Phone: (373) 2 21 20 96 NetInfo S.R.L. Fax: (373) 2 21 36 59 Chisinau (373) 2 24 00 83 Moldova, Republic of mailto:com@netinfo-moldova.com