Re: Informix connectivity

Posted in 1997

Irwin Goldstein — 2 Apr 1997 03:21:56 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

marchey@interval-intl.com wrote in article <5hf538$4kh@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>... > <snip> > > I do not want to implement ODBC because we will be deploying the application > over many machines and do not want to incur the overhead of configuration for > each machine. > > Can someone please recommend software to provide a native connection from a C++ > application to INET/Informix? Our evaluation pointed us to ILOG. Using INET you will sill have to address configuration on each client machine. With Informix-Connect it's even worse. I'd suggest you DO consider using ODBC, the OpenLink Multi-Tier driver in particular. It has one of the easiest client installs I've seen for any client/server middleware -- ODBC or native -- and generally produces better performance than native drivers or other ODBC drivers. I suspect you could easily make the Openlink installation a part of your application installation setup/install program. Especially if you use something like InstallShield. HTH -- Irwin Goldstein Objective Software Systems, Inc. http://www.objectsoft.com