mainframe client for informix

hello: My company is using Mainframe Unisys 1100, we want to be able to talk to a informix server 7.23 on solaris 2.6, is there a client available for that? thanks a lot yan

Uhmm, Depends on what do you mean "client"? There exist DRDA gateway products. (I forget the latest release). This would give you DB2 to Informix connectivity. Now its been a couple of years since I did this, but AFAIK, DRDA required an LU6.2 session not TCP/IP. I trust that its been updated.... There is also several other parties which have packages to do similar connections to DB2. I'd be careful. Last time I looked, some of it was vaporware. But you may want to look at an ODBC client to CICS. (Or is that only one way...) Sorry for the vagueness, but its been awhile. This should at least point you in the right direction. -Mikey Yan Zhu wrote: > hello: > > My company is using Mainframe Unisys 1100, we want to be able to > talk to a informix server 7.23 on solaris 2.6, is there a client > available for that? > thanks a lot > yan

Yan, What type of files do you have on the Unisys 1100? There are DMS 1100, TIP files, Mapper files and many variations. Unisys even includes ODBC access into several of these now with new base level software. If you could explain exactly what you are trying to do, maybe I can help. Thanks Brent In article <7bh2r7$ln7$1@news.xmission.com>, "Yan Zhu" <yan.zhu@infinity-insurance.com> wrote: > > > hello: > > My company is using Mainframe Unisys 1100, we want to be able to > talk to a informix server 7.23 on solaris 2.6, is there a client > available for that? > thanks a lot > yan > > -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own