onsoctcp..?

Hello! Can anyone give me an answer what means "on", "ol" or "se" in nettype/protocol. I have a problem. I added another line to my sqlhosts and onconfig.ows for socet tcp connectivity and it doesn't works... When I try to access db via dbaccess and new db name fv_soc it says that I have a problem with services or protocol. sqlhost file: fv oltlitcp nms1 turbosql fv_soc olsoctcp 157.25.4.151 1521

Lukasz Feldman wrote: > > Hello! > > Can anyone give me an answer what means "on", "ol" or "se" > in nettype/protocol. I have a problem. I added another line > to my sqlhosts and onconfig.ows for socet tcp connectivity > and it doesn't works... When I try to access db via dbaccess > and new db name fv_soc it says that I have a problem with > services or protocol. > > sqlhost file: > > fv oltlitcp nms1 turbosql > fv_soc olsoctcp 157.25.4.151 1521 Umm, each platform supports either TLI or SOC (sockets) but it is rare to be on a platform that supports both (7.24 on DGUX is the only one that I know of and Informix removed SOC support in 7.3x) because only one is native on the platform and therefore efficient. The other is normally supplied as a layer over the native interface. HOWEVER, fear not, you CAN use sockets library calls to connect to an engine using TLI calls to listen, the difference is ONLY at the call level interface NOT the underlying protocols which are IDENTICAL. You do not need the new sqlhosts line you put in. If you just want to document things you can keep the line and the DBSERVERALIAS just change the protocol to oltlitcp. Art S. Kagel