Re: New package: myexport
"Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.net> writes:
> Walt, please install this new package. Here is a description:
>
> This package contains replacement utilities for dbexport and dbimport which
> do not suffer from some of the problems from which those utilities suffer.
> These are ksh scripts that use myschema (from my utils2_ak package), awk,
> and sqlunload and sqlreload (from Jonathan Leffler's sqlcmd package) to
> get the work done. These are commandline, input and output compatible with
> Informix's utilities. Is should be possible to myimport a dbexport dataset
> and to dbimport a myexport dataset, the only exception being these tools do
> not work with tape files.
And we're _really_ looking forward to a 9.x version of these tools:)
Thomas
Thomas Parsli wrote:
>
> "Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.net> writes:
>
> > Walt, please install this new package. Here is a description:
> >
> > This package contains replacement utilities for dbexport and dbimport which
> > do not suffer from some of the problems from which those utilities suffer.
> > These are ksh scripts that use myschema (from my utils2_ak package), awk,
> > and sqlunload and sqlreload (from Jonathan Leffler's sqlcmd package) to
> > get the work done. These are commandline, input and output compatible with
> > Informix's utilities. Is should be possible to myimport a dbexport dataset
> > and to dbimport a myexport dataset, the only exception being these tools do
> > not work with tape files.
>
> And we're _really_ looking forward to a 9.x version of these tools:)
I just realized, myexport/myimport will work with a 7.3x database that has
been upgraded to 9.2x, something that dbexport refuses to do.
Umm, Thomas, let me know what does not work in 9.2x. I upgraded myschema
to work with 9.2x catalogs, for built in types at least, several months ago.
Support for object constructs like inheritance, lists, etc. and UDTs will
have to wait a bit for me to get a working 9.2x installation to play with.
Art S. Kagel