Experiences with I-OnLine/Optical

We are in the process of evaluating products suitable for archiving invoice documents (in ASCII form) on write only media. Separate keyword entries will reside in a few tables on magnetic disks. An Informix Database will be used to search the keyword tables. The search result will be used to retrieve the raw data stored on optical disks. So we are considering two possibilities: a) using a purely conventional database (SE/OnLine) with pointers to raw data on optical disks managed via device/file interfaces, b) using Informix OnLine/Optical. Does anyone have experience with OnLine/Optical? Which optical subsystem do you use (vendor, product)? Any type of unconventional application coding required (we use ESQL/C)? Does it work reliably? Any hints are welcome. -- Oliver Okrongli infix Software-Systeme GmbH Phone +49 531 238090 Rebenring 33 Fax +49 531 3801152 oliver@infix.de D-W-3300 Braunschweig F.R. Germany