Re: character-based tools on NT?

Joe Lumbley (jlumbley@netcom.com) wrote: : No, I think it is the same issue. Informix wants to position itself as : a vendor of scalable, cross-OS, cross-platform databases and tools. To : say that we have to write scripts to do something in UNIX and to have to : do the same job another way in NT is not a very good cross-OS strategy. : Sure, go ahead and give us the pretty GUI tools for the command-impaired, : but let us keep the character-based tools for cross-platform compatibility. : Probably the scripts are not the most important part (I don't know of anybody : using onmonitor in a script but hey, who knows?). The most important part : to me in a cross-OS environment is the documentation and training : element. Having to document and train for two totally separate methods of : doing such things as starting up the database would be a needlessly-complex : chore, even if the GUI tool had the equivalent functionality as the character- : based tool. Informix's commitment to character-based "tools" applies to 4GL/I-SQL. Onmonitor is a (pseudo-graphical) utility, which is replaced on NT by IECC or ROM or whatever. (I never use NT, so don't ask me any NT questions.) Informix is also committed to maintaining the command-line interface that you are used to, so pretty much everything (that I can think of off the top of my head) that you used to do in onmonitor, is available to you both on Unix and NT in a command-line utility, such as onspaces or onstat. These are the same on Unix and NT, so you shouldn't have a training issue there. I think the scripts ARE the important part, and, as you say, nobody (I hope) is writing scripts for onmonitor, but they are writing scripts for onspaces and onstat and the other command-line utilities, and those can be ported to NT using the NT command-line utilities. I'm sorry if you loved onmonitor, but it HAS been taken out of ODS on NT. June ---- June Tong Informix Software ---- ---- Senior Consultant (415) 926-6140 ---- ---- International Support junet@informix.com ---- ---- Location-du-jour: Menlo Park ---- * * Standard disclaimers apply * - Please do not send me requests/questions by mail. When I have the knowledge - and time permits, I try to answer questions on comp.databases.informix, but - travel schedule, time, and volume make responding to personal requests - difficult and often slow. Please call your local Informix Technical Support - organization for assistance with technical issues.