Re: I-Net help needed over Novell 3.11 to Online on AIX

> rkoril@ix.netcom.com (Richard Koril ) writes: > HELP!!! > > I have a customer running Online 5.01 UD3 on an RS6000. They have over > 40 PCs running over Novell 3.11. Their primary business application > was written in Uniface, using Uniface's Polyserver (an ESQL/C > communications program) on the RS6000. > > The problem is that in order to run any client/server query tool, I > must have I-Star on the server and I-Net on the client. I have not > been able to get these communications components to talk to each other > (I'm simply using "ilogin.exe"). > > When I specified "tcp" to I-Net, I received an error that it couldn't > find a winsock.dll (which is true - I couldn't find one anywhere on > their systems). > > When I specified "ipx" to I-Net, I received a -932 error. Further > digging showed that version 5.01 of I-Net requires ipx/spx 3.26 > How can I figure out the ipx/spx version? Is there any relationship to > the version of Novell they are running? I believe this is the version number that netx displays when it is started. (It is usually started from autoexec.bat or some other .bat file started from autoexec.bat) If you don't see it when the PC is booted, simply type netx at the C:\\> prompt. This also of course requires that your Unix has IPX/SPX, that Informix supports it on this Unix, and that you have set it all up correctly. > > Can I copy a winsock.dll from some other environment? Would that work? No. winsock.dll is the interface between the windows socket standard and the particular TCP/IP you have on your machine. You have to make sure the winsock.dll is for exactly this TCP/IP, including for the right version number. You also must make sure it is a reasonably new winsock.dll (ver. 1.1 or newer). > > What other options do I have? They do need adhoc access to the > database from their PCs and no matter what product they would work > with, I-Net is required. VisionWare (an SCO company), OpenLink and I belive also TechGnosis, has ODBC drivers that use neither I-Star on the server nor I-Net on the PC and claims to provide higher performance than those who do. Informix's lates product is Informix-CLI which includes I-Net and a new ODBC-driver from Visigenics. This also requires winsock.dll on your PCs. Nils.Myklebust@ccmail.telemax.no NM-data, Dalsbergstien 7, N-0170 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company