Re: c-isam utilities

In article <50vdgf$n5p@orm.southern.co.nz> calvin@southern.co.nz "Calvin I. Varney" writes: The easiest thing to do is to get a development licence for Indormix SE. This will let you do all you want and more. You will need access to the table Schemas to set up the DB, Once you have set up and built the DB you can attach the real data tables via links or copy them around. This works OK for C Isam and ISQL up to version 5. I have no experience of any later Informix or C Isam releases. Regards Martin How > > hi, > > We don't actually use the Informix dbms here but rather the Informix > product c-isam in conjunction with Cognos Powerhouse. > > I'm currently looking for a unix product (DG/UX Release 5.4R3.10) that > will allow me to directly manipulate these c-isam files, I'd like to be > able to directly extract/import data from csv files and drop/create > indexes without rebuilding the entire table. > > Does anyone know if such utilities exist? I understand Cognos licence a > development copy of c-isam from Informix but the only utility they > distribute is bcheck, a program to check the consistency of these files, > I'm sure other utilities must be around. > > Thanks for any information, > > Calvin Varney > Canterbury Health. > > > -- Martin How