Re: Accessing INFORMIX ONLINE DB from a PC

In article <1994Aug12.195109.14841@alw.nih.gov>, jposner@lexington.dcrt.nih.gov (Jeffrey S. Posner) writes: |> Can someone tell me which strategies are available for access data |> in INFORMIX ONLINE on UNIX from a PC workstation. The simplest |> requirement would be to extract the data accross a TCP/IP net |> and put it in an EXCEL spreadsheet. |> |> Please also let me know where I can get information ( vendors, newgroups ) |> for your suggestions. |> |> Thanks in advance for you reply. |> |> Jeff DAL (Data Access Language) is a solution you may want to consider. WARNING: I'm plugging my own product here :-). In a nutshell, DAL provides uniform client/server access to several major DBMSs including INFORMIX ONLINE and will allow you to import data into your client app with a few clicks of your mouse. Here at Pacer we engineer and market the server side for Unix platforms as well as resell the client piece. Independence Technologies, Inc. engineers and markets DAL clients. They are presently developing a DAL driver for ODBC which should be released shortly. I'm pretty sure EXCEL is ODBC aware. You may want to consult with Independence Technologies over whether or not their ODBC DAL driver works with INFORMIX ONLINE and when it will be released. Independence Technologies can be reached at 1-800-605-9010. Feel free to contact me if you have any other questions. Regards, Mike -- ============================================================================ Michael Dosik /\\ "Imitation is the sincerest form of Software Engineer / \\ / having no imagination." mdosik@pacersoft.com \\/ -- I copied this Pacer Software, Inc. (508)-898-3300 ============================================================================