Re: informix odbc header files on linux

There is still some serious confusion here. The CLI HOWTO that's beeing prepared is for how to set up the CLI ODBC drivers on Windows 95, 98 and NT for connection to the released SE engine on Linux. Jonathan's first post was right. /dev/null is the place to look for the Informix CLI ODBC drivers for Linux :-) They have not been released for Linux. The Informix CLI drivers are client side drivers only and use I-Connect for connection to the server. The only ODBC client I know of that's available for Linux and Informix SE are those OpenLink have released. What's the problem you are having with these? OpenLink has two sets of drivers they call Single Tier and Multi Tier. The Single Tier use I-Connect for communication with the server while the Multi Tier drivers connect via their own protocol to a server component that must be installed and running on a server, usually the same as where the database server is running. The Single Tier drivers for Informix are however only currently available for Windows 95 and NT so you need the Multi Tier drivers. This means you will have to download both the server component and the client component of the drivers for Linux. If you want to run your ODBC application on the same machine as the database server you will have to install both the client components, the Request broker, the Database Agent an the ODBC agent on the same machine. I have never tried so I don't know how this will work. I haven't tried this on another machine either so I don't even know if the client and server components should be installed the same place. Probably that's ok. Post here or contact OpenLink directly if you have more problems with these drivers. On Fri, 4 Sep 1998 13:19:13 -0700 (PDT), Jonathan Leffler <jleffler@informix.com> wrote: > >On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Bill Anderson wrote: >> Jonathan Leffler wrote: >> > On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Bill Anderson wrote: >> > > Any idea where they are and/or what they are called? >> > >> > Well, since there is no Informix ODBC released on Linux by Informix, >> > I suspect that /dev/null is approximately the best place to look for them:-) >> > >> > > I am trying to compile the mxODB python module, and can't find which >> > > ones to use... >> > > Any help is definitely appreciated. >> > >> > I believe Intersolv announced a set of ODBC drivers for Linux. Maybe you >> > need to find those and get the ODBC headers from there. >> >> I thought the earlier ODBC-Informix drivers by Intersolv were included. >> As I see in the idn ng, many people connecting to a Linux-based SE using >> odbc, I presumed the drivers were there. Perhaps you refer to a lack of >> client-side ODBC drivers? >> >> I am currently trying the drivers from openlinksw.com ... not much luck. >> According to intersolv, they don't have any current ones for linux ... > >OK. I must have been imagining things -- sorry for misleading you. > >I think you'll find that there's a CLI HOWTO for Informix being released >very soon -- I just saw the approval and 'please get it distributed to the >normal channels' notice. So, in a day or two, the information should be >out there. > >I'll blind copy the people who've been handling it; they may decide to post >it to c.d.i for you. > >Yours, >Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com) #include <witticism.h> >Guardian of DBD::Informix v0.60 -- http://www.perl.com/CPAN >Informix IDN for D4GL & Linux -- http://www.informix.com/idn Nils Myklebust NM Data AS Norway E-mail: Nils.Myklebust@nmdata.com FAQ at: http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/faq_top.html (Now with ODBC info under "Third party products".)