Re: General Purpose Query Tools for Informix

From: "McAndrews, Carleen" <cmcandrews@safetycenter.navy.mil> > >Our current environment consists of a sun UE4000 and UE3000, solaris 2.6, >IDS 7.31.UC2 with Informix 4GL applications. Our customers would like to >see our text based applications take on a more GUI, point and click feel. >We are >reviewing dynamic 4gl for migrating our applications. However, we still are >in search of >a "quick and dirty" query tool for our customers who require somewhat basic >query. >Our in-house written query tool is customized for our more sophisticated >users >(i.e. statisticians). We are considering Metacube as a tool, but are not in >a position right >now to take on data warehousing. Looking for insight regarding either a >query >tool that would work well with Informix products, or the flexability of >Metacube. Thanks in advance. A quick and dirty tool? I don't think I've ever been offered such a tempting target before. I'd love it if you crossposted it to alt.humor.puns. :-) However, that's not why we're here, so: 1. Forget Metacube. I suspect it's not long for this world, and although it was a good tool in its day, time has moved on. 2. Seagate Analysis / Info certainly has good pricing. :-) Check out http://www.seagatesoftware.com -- it's quite good, Informix were (are?) bundling it as part of their SuperMegaDecisionFrontierBlahDiBlah solution. 3. There are a zillion others, like Business Objects, Cognos, Hummingbird BI/Suite, Crystal Reports, to name but a few. They all have pros and cons, they all cost money. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

If you want a quick and dirty tool use dbaccess for data retival and a PC spreadsheet to format the data. (graphs, summing, ordering, whatever). thats about as cheap as you get. and about as dirty. -- --------------------------------------------------------- Steven Hauser email: hause011@tc.umn.edu URL: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~hause011 ---------------------------------------------------------