Re: User License Question ...

Nick Leporacci, Jr. wrote: > > I am currently using INFORMIX-SE with SQL, 4GL, and ESQL/C on a Bull Escala > running AIX. > > Versions as follows : ESQL-C 7.10.UD1 > ESQL-C RT 7.10.UD1 > 4GL 6.00.UE1 > 4GL RT 6.00.UE1 > SQL 6.00.UE1 > SQL RT 6.00.UE1 > SE 7.10.UD1 > > AIX 4.1 > > My question is, how do I execute a script using the RT instead of the > development version. I know I should RTFM, but unfortunately, I don't have a > set of manuals where I'm located. > > Nick Leporacci I can't think why you'd want to do that as so far as I can see the development version is the same as the runtime so far as running programs are concerned. In fact, I have never been able to figure out why Informix send the runtime disks when you order the development version with it. If you look in the $INFORMIXDIR/etc directory at the file lists you will see that runtime is a subset of development. The files actually overwrite each other during installation (harmlessly if they are the same version). Anyone else know any different? I gather that Informix don't actually enforce the number of users you buy the software for, although, as honest customers that is of no interest to us. Maybe one day Informix will distribute their software on CD-ROM and include some kind of intelligence in the installation program to avoid all this loading of redundant software? It might also be able to figure out the correct order to load it all in having inspected the current installation and the license keys you have bought. This is not rocket science. -- Peter Lancashire Information Systems Specialist, Bayer plc Eastern Way, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP32 7AH, UK Tel: +44-1635-562258, Fax: +44-1635-562281 Mail: Peter.Lancashire.PL1@bayer.co.uk --- My Internet plumbing does not allow me to mail and post news together. Sorry. All opinions are my own and not those of Bayer plc. --- Join Infuse, the UK Informix User Group at http://www.infuse.co.uk/