Re: Informix OnLine 7.2 for Windows NT Problems...

Nils Paulsson <nils.paulsson@mailbox.swipnet.se> wrote: :Tim Schaefer wrote: :> :> Not to intrude on your discussion, but I have to agree with Nils. I've :> found connectivity for Informix via ODBC / I-connect to be a major :> problem. The documentation is extremely bad, not to mention the set-up :> interface. Informix networking is a real pain, especially the set up. :> Instead of calling it "CLI" call it ODBC. :As everyone else I've had my share of problems concerning the :communication setup. The tragic thing about this whole story is that it :will take a programmer (who nows what she/he is doing) 2 days per :platform to vastly improve the installation routine. But that still solves only one part of the problem. An even more important part is security which is completely lacking in I-Connect. Another issue is features such as initial commands to be executed automatically by the communication software upon connect to the database (requires a server based architecture of course as you can't maintain such a thing on each workstation) and several other issues. Nils.Myklebust@idg.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org