Re: Another ODBC Question

Posted in 1998

Topics: Installation, Setup & Upgrades, Connectivity: ODBC / JDBC / .NET, Java & JDBC Development

KenNorth — Fri, 27 Mar 1998 14:59:36 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Cheng-Yu, Not all middleware products require that you install the INFORMIX-CLI on your clients. There is a class of product, often called ODBC servers, that are use a single ODBC driver to connect to an ODBC server. The ODBC server has DBMS-specific libraries, not the ODBC client. Open Link, Simba, and Intersolv are three of the companies that offer this type of middleware. For others, look for (server) in the middle column of the table below: ODBC drivers, vendors, and URLs: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Ken_North/odbcvend.htm JDBC drivers, vendors, and URLs: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Ken_North/jdbcvend.htm -- ==================== Ken North =========================== http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Ken_North http://www.knorth.com (real soon now) e-mail: KenNorth@msn.com kennorth@interserv.com 71301.1306@compuserve.com Ken North Computing 2604B El Camino Real, #351 Carlsbad, CA 92008-1214 FAX: 760-729-5127 ========================================================== Cheng-Yu Hsiung <hschy@ms2.hinet.net> wrote in article <3510B16C.DE5DD998@ms2.hinet.net>... > Hi , Thomas > I always connect Informix DataBase Server(NT or UNIX) with Borland's > SQL-LINK. You can connect Informix DataBase Server without ODBC drivers. > You must install Informix-Cli on you Client machines , then use any > middlewares(ODBC , SQL-LINK ...) to connect Informix DataBase Server. > By the way , you also setup setnet32 some parameters on the Clients. > > Paul Hsiung > > Thomas Haselwanter wrote: > > > Hi,, > > > > while searching through all ODBC realated messages, I found out, that > > obviously no one has tried to connect to an Informix database without > > ODBC manager software. In CLI-Documentation they say this should be > > possible, but it doesn't seems so. Has anyone tried this? I tried on an > > SGI machine running IRIX 6.4, but the driver either doesn't find > > odbc.ini file or the programm crashes without error message. Any idea? > > > > Thanks in advance > > Thomas Haselwanter > > > >