Re: OpenLink, Powerbuilder, and Informix

Posted in 1997

Roger Meyers — Fri, 04 Jul 1997 14:02:50 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

On Thu, 26 Jun 1997 13:23:46 GMT, jay@ulife.com (Jay Aymond) wrote: >We are using Powerbuilder 5.0 and the OpenLink ODBC Drivers. Using >these drivers, Powerbuilder cannot display fields from the database >that are defined as "money" --- decimal works fine. > >Has anybody else experianced this, and is there a workaround? > Yes. In your reqest broker .ini (oplrqb.ini) file in the Environment section for informix add the following line: "DBMONEY = ." (w/o Quotes). Your infomrix manuals document this. It tells Informix to not "display" the money column with a preceding dollar sign to the request broker. HTH Roger Meyers roger@stratsoft.com Strategic Software Solutions San Francisco...