Re: tli vs sockets

On 15 Aug 98 at 19:23, hkoduru@national.aaa.com wrote: > Hi, Does anyone know why Informix has stoped supporting Sockets > based connections to the server. In sqlhosts file the NETTYPE can > only be 'ontlitcp' and not 'onsoctcp'. Why this change (I am talking > about ODS 723). What are the ramifications to us poor users. Um. Not quite true. The O/S platform determines whether TLI or sockets is supported. So if you've changed hardware platforms or O/S versions, that would explain it. No hardware platform (that I'm aware of) supports TLI _and_ sockets (except Linux, sort of). Hope this hasn't confused you more than absolutely necessary. :-) -- Ciao, Billy /Group Managing Director, The West Solutions Group: http://www.west.co.za \\ Drivel @ http://www.west.co.za/tasteless/ / \\ "Granted, Mr Wheeler's ideas are stupid and unreasonable, but he does own the company and I / think we should go along with him..." \\________________________________________________________________________________________________