Re: IDS Next Version - features wanted.

So where are the connectors to other databases? I really like to access SqlServer/Oracle/Db2 etc., from dbaccess for example but I always read that you need the gateway product for this -> $$$. That's pity because, as you said, that [is] a very powerful feature but a complicated one to use I think. For example with some help here (Savio-Pinto) and some learning of Books online I could access Informix data from Sql-Server through OLE-DB in more or less 3 days (joining tables from sql-server vs informix ones for ie); It maybe isn't the best way to do it but for simple purposes it helps me a lot. So there is a feature I want for the next version of IDS, if it happen of course: "Easy" Federation. J. Marco Greco wrote: > ... > XPS has had external (as in file system, and multiple formats supported) > tables since day one, while V9 has had a virtual table interface and > virtual index interface since 97 I believe. you can create table > representation of just about anything:- from directory structures, to > pipe delimited files, to cisam files, to oracle databases, to ... you > name it, it can be done. > True, you don't get that many prebuilt access methods, but that doesn't > mean to say that a very powerful feature isn't there... > > And gateways have been around for quite some time, anyway > sending to informix-list