Re: Informix equivalent to Oracle's OCI

There is also a product that looks very OCI like called LibDMI. It is primarily used for developing DataBlades but can also be used in an OCI like manner on the client side. I don't believe that Informix is encouraging people to program in it on a large scale. Al Landeck landeck@informix.com DataBlade engineering In article <6m8s9t$p8d$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, <steeve_boulanger@baan.com> wrote: >Richard, > >I beleive ESQL/C is the closest equivalent to Oracle's OCI, but you need to >use a Pre-Compiler. Our our side, we have ported from Oracle to Informix >using ODBC because we have a database abstraction layer in C++ and we use a >lot of dynamic sql and batching (was easier this way). Informix has also a >C++ layer to communicate with the server. > >Maybe someone can confirm or not, but I beleive ESQL/C offers better >performance than ODBC. > >Regards, > >Steeve > > >In article <35876B12.AC0B234F@ana.med.uni-muenchen.de>, > richard.spitz@ana.med.uni-muenchen.de wrote: >> >> Hi Informixers, >> >> what is Informix's equivalent to Oracle's OCI? I may need to port >> a program to the Informix world that accepts SQL statements over >> a network connection and passes them on to the database engine. The >> program is written to work with an Oracle backend using OCI. >> >> ESQL/C seems not to be the right product (unless I'd try to use >> dynamic sql or prepared statements). What does Informix offer here? >> >> Regards, Richard >> -- >> +--------------------------+------------------------------------------+ >> | Dr. Richard Spitz | INTERNET: spitz@ana.med.uni-muenchen.de | >> | EDV-Gruppe Anaesthesie | Tel : +49-89-7095-3413 | >> | Klinikum Grosshadern | FAX : +49-89-7095-8886 | >> | 81366 Munich, Germany | GSM : +49-172-8933578 | >> +--------------------------+------------------------------------------+ >> > > >-----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- >http://www.dejanews.com/ Now offering spam-free web-based newsreading