Re: I need help

At 07:31 03/07/97 -0700, you wrote: >I am putting together a local area network for my company. They also >have a mainframe. They use informix on the mainframe to track a lot of >information that I would like to port over to the LAN, but other >departments still use the mainframe data so I just want to read it ever >day. The mainframe department will not help me at all. Get the IT manager to pull rank (failing this get another job!!). >They will not >even tell me what format the files are kept in. Probably because they can't. Informix Online handles it's own disk I/O, and the data can only be interpreted by the database engine. >Is there a PC version of >the informix database? Where can I learn more about it? I really want to >write a VB program to read the data. Are the files in ASCII format or >are they compressed? Is there a utility that can help me??? Informix runs on PC's running most *commercial* flavours of Unix, as well as NT. However, what you probably want to do is use a Windoze app and connect to the database using ODBC. For this, you will need details of the structure (tables and columns) in the database. Having no experience of mainframes, I can't say whether ODBC connection from a PC is possible. >Please send any response to surfwet@fishnet.net >and thank you for your help. >MGS Good luck! Richard.