Re: C-Isam files

Posted in 1998

Laurent COLLIGNON — Mon, 28 Dec 1998 17:12:54 +0100 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Your release must be quite old no ? Perhaps a 2.10.03k or even older. You can ask Informix for an SE engine (which works with C-Isam files) for NT (I'm not sure it really exists). If your old system is still Chris Verleye wrote: > At this moment our company uses an Iformix > database. The software has originally been > developed on a German CTM-mainframe (ITOS). > > Currently everything (data and software) has > been transferred on a Windows NT network. > > We are not using a client/server environment, > just file sharing. > > I found the name "Informix" by using the program > BCheck. All files are C-Isam files : > > >BCHECK C-ISAM B-tree Checker version 1.07 > >Copyright (C) 1981-1988 Informix Software, Inc. > > Maybe we start to develop our own software, so > we have the following questions : > > - Is it possible to "import" of connect our existing > files in a client/server environment ? > - Which server-soft, including optional software > do we need ? > - Is it possible to make a ODBC-connection to the > existing files ? > > Thanks in advance for your response !