to IBM : Informix Gateway
Posted in 2012
Hi , Just a suggestion to IBM evaluate: Include the Informix Gateway "for free" with all editions of the product. Or at least , give a nice discount for clients who have a good amount of Informix licenses.... A reason why : Today the company where I work, we have: Informix (mainly system), Oracle , SqlServer, MySql . Two important systems are running over Oracle and SqlServer because they don't support Informix, but we need to centralize some information into our ERP which run in Informix. Some data/information , we need get from this two systems (Oracle/SqlServer) , we need to develop the interface to send this informations to Informix , developing in PL/SQL + Oracle Gateway and SqlServer SP (or pay our vendor to customize they application to connect into Informix and transfer the data) what isn't too smart since our desire is one day , have only Informix running here.... no Oracle , no SqlServer. And as plus, we are still trying(and insisting) do a POC using Informix as Data warehouse database... without much success for now (incompatible syntaxes , AFs abends when active DW directives/set environment, ...) , so... here we will need all data centralized. Cesar I. Martins