Re: ODBC to use MS Access as frontend for Informix 7.2

I got some additional information: Our database is informix 7.22. The data that I need is BYTE (but there is only text in it - but we must not change it to TEXT). How can I convert this BYTE to MEMO? TIA Peter Schmiedseder Schmiedseder Peter schrieb: > First of all: I am not a programmer - but just a poor user, who is alone > in the jungle of ODBC. > > We do have a database (informix 7.2) the data of which we would like to > use in MS Access (97). Just works fine with Informix CLI-32 2.5. > > The problem is that some of the rows do not show the real data but "long > binary-Daten". Somebody told me that this is in connection with BLOBs > (whatever that may be). > > What can I do to have access to this data (we just want to read them in > order to make reports)? > Is it possible to convert this information to "Memo"? > Does it only depend on the ODBC-drivers? > > THANX for solutions! > > Peter Schmiedseder