Re: dbaccess from informix client

You know, most of the time I find this planet is not such a great place to live in - but then, there are times which for a brief moment something makes you think otherwise: like, for instance, when Jonathan Leffler rates your humble piece of code ahead of his own. (Self centered brag warning!) Speaking of which, I did spend some time, a while back, to rip off the Structured Query Scripting Language interpreter out of my 4gl application framework and autoconfiscate it, so now you get a curses and cli user interface, 4gl and esql/c libraries, db2 connectivity, all in a single package, which you build with the reassuringly familiar ./configure; make; make install sequence. Requirements are an Informix esql/c of some description (I'd say from version 5 onwards), useful options c4gl (which can be used in lieu of esql/c), the readline library, and an esql/c aware DB2 installation. Find the tool at http://www.4glworks.com/sqsl.htm. It is also somewhere in the IIUG software archives. A word of warning - the ripping was quick, dirty and done with a butcher's knife. In short, it does not necessarily make a pretty sight, nor is it particularly fit... Jonathan Leffler wrote: > zombie wrote: > >>I installed informix client SDK software on a client system. The applications >>work fine. Some of our developers want to be able to use dbaccess from this >>machine that has the informix client sdk installed. >> >>How do I get dbaccess on a machine that does not have the informix server >>installed. > > > You cheat and copy it from a machine that has it on there. Beware of > dependencies on message files. This is not a recommendation - it is > absolutely unsupported, and probably contravenes your licence agreement. > > You decide that SQLCMD from the IIUG Software archive is an adequate > substitute. > > You conclude the http://www.4glworks.com/ provides a better substitute. > -- Ciao, Marco ______________________________________________________________________________ Marco Greco /UK /IBM Standard disclaimers apply! Informix faq http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/informix.htm 4glworks http://www.4glworks.com Informix on Linux http://www.4glworks.com/ifmxlinux.htm sending to informix-list