Re: Informix and MS Access

> scorpion@lisa.cs.mcgill.ca (Daniel MARCOTTE) wrote in article <4qeiii$4qo@lisa.cs.mcgill.ca>... > Hello!! > > I have been browsing through the FAQ and could not find an exact asnwer to my > question.. > > I am interested in having Informix and MS Access interact with each other. I > will be using MS Access (as my user interface)to view information as well > as enter new information. > > My informix database has the following characteristics: Online dynamic server > (version 7.1). We also have I-Net (version 5.01). > > I have contacted Informix and they gave me the names of 2 companies that sell > ODBC drivers for Informix: Intersolve and Visigenic. > > I contacted Visigenic and they asked me for the API levels needed... > Core, level 1 or level 2? > Does anyone know exactly what they mean? Maybe refer me to a reference document? > > I would like to know if the communication between Access and Informix is good. > If the information sent is accurate and if there are errors or problems that > other users have faced. > Also, if previous users have other suggestions or other ODBC drivers that I could > use? > > Thank you very much for your help!! > > We used to use Intersolv (Level2?) with 5.0.3 Online. We're moving to strictly web browsers on the desktop (Navigator today, Internet Explorer 3.0 with 3.0 ships with Frames in August) to "isqlperl" (addon to Perl 4) CGI scripts behind a web server. Plan to use "Attached" Database within Access to connect to a different Access database that I will be exporting data from and uploading into the Informix database elsewhere on the network. Will post when we get to the point of using the Access database. The biggest problem is we're so productive using free IE browsers on desktops, we're not sure it makes sense to remain users of ODBC. Long live distributed applications! Larry