Re: connecting SE 4.10 to Crystal Reports

David Weis wrote: > > This week, I worked for a client who has SE4.10 running on an old > Motorola UNIX box and they would like to link the database to Crystal > Reports. UNIX version is SYSTEM V/88 > > I'm not at all familiar with SE 4.10. The Informix I-star product and > ODBC drivers were released with 5.x engines, right? > > I know an upgrade is the thing to do, but the client may phase out the > application in a couple of years. > > Any suggestions? Hi, David. I asked a question like this last week too and got nothing helpful back. Neither from here nor from Informix or other specialists I asked. For my client company I found a solution. But I dont know if it helps in your case. Server system is SCO here. Here the situation was that they still have some old SE 4.1 Servers in the network - no idea why, some old, old sales applications are running on them forever now. And yes, they also would like to run Crystal Reports and some NewEra programs against them. Its funny but it is enough to start a Version 5.x sqlexec deamon instead the 4.x one. It will work with the version 4.x database files without complaining. For me this is perfect because I dont have to reinstall about >10 database servers and the company I work for has the later Informix licenses anyways. As I said that is the only relatively easy solution I found. Maybe it helps you. Regards Dirk -- -- Dipl.-Math. Dirk Gunsthoevel phone: +49 (0)251 624947 -- Hoeftestr.49 fax: +49 (0)251 624177 -- 48167 Muenster 2*3*3*37 - the prime factorization of the beast -- Germany http://members.aol.com/Plabit/welcome.html