Re: Informix CLI - What is it & When is it needed

Posted in 1998

Al Landeck — 13 Feb 1998 20:32:38 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Some of the other responses here have mentioned that it is basically Informix's ODBC driver. The main reason for using CLI over ODBC is that (in it's most recent version) it supports a lot of the special features of ODS and ODS/UDO (Universal Server to most of us). These features include: CLOB BLOB INT8 BOOLEAN SERIAL8 LVARCHAR UDT Some things that the Intersolve ODBC drivers do that Informix CLI doesn't (yet) is: NCHAR Interval NVARCHAR Windows 3.1 support Al Landeck DataBlade Engineering landeck@informix.com landeck@math.ohio-state.edu In article <34E1D77A.7933@glasscity.net>, Frank Catrine <frankc@glasscity.net> wrote: >Can anyone give me a god explanation of CLI? > >Specifically what is it and how it is used, and why it >would be needed? What development tools, >languages, etc. require it? > >I have read the manual, but the further I dig, the darker >the grey cloud surrounding CLI gets. > >Thanks in advance, > >Frank Catrine >francis.catrine@fmr.com