Re: Compiling DBD::Informix without ESQL/C?

On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Narkinsky, Pat wrote: > I DBA on an Informix based vertical application running Informix > 7.14.UD7 (soon to upgrade to 7.24) on AIX 4.3.x and would like to run > perl with DBI/DBD::Informix. Good idea. > Unfortunately, I don't have ESQL/C available, Bad idea. > so I cannot compile DBD::Informix (right?). Right. > Is there any way around this? You could use I4GL instead, but I don't recommend it. No, basically, you need ESQL/C, as it says fairly clearly in the DBD::Informix documenation. > Am I already licensed for ESQL/C and don't know it maybe? Maybe -- is there an ESQL/C installed on your machine? If so, you're OK; if not, you probably aren't. > In the past, we have bought Informix from our application vendor: if I > wanted to buy ESQL/C (single user) how much should I expect to pay? I don't know -- I'm not in sales. > Thanks for any advice you may have! This whole @output = `echo select > foo from bar | dbaccess v001` thing is getting _very_ old :-). It would. If you had ESQL/C, you could also investigate SQLCMD from the IIUG archives as an alternative to DB-Access. Yours, Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com) #include <witticism.h> Guardian of DBD::Informix -- see http://www.perl.com/CPAN