Re: Example of remote DB access via ESQL/C

Jonathan Leffler wrote: > > >What requirements are there? > > You need an ESQL/C Development licence on the machine where you compile the > program. You need an ESQL/C Runtime licence (or an Informix-Connect > licence) on the machine where you are going to run the program if it > doesn't already have one. You need the database system up and running > on the remote system. You need to be able to connect to it using, for > example, DB-Access. If you can't connect using the standard Informix > utilities, it is unlikely that your ESQL/C program will fare any better. > You can have your ESQL/C application connect to the remote server with just sqlhosts and an entry in the /etc/services file. You don't need any of the Informix binaries on the client machine for this configuration to work, other than ESQL/C for compilation if the two hosts are different (OS or versions). The only condition is that your remote server must be able to accept TCP/IP connections (the standard stuff, must have an entry in sqlhosts entry on the remote host, a service entry and so on) AND the service name and sqlhosts file must exactly be the same on the client host. Arun