Re: isql vs dbaccess

Colin M McGrath wrote: > Jonathan Leffler wrote: > [snip] > > ISQL comes with Informix-SQL. It provides the > > forms and reports and user menus which are not part > > of DB-Access. ISQL has a primitive (early) version > > of the query language, database and table building > > options that are handled better by DB-Access. > > I see in the Informix Product Query Database that there is an > ISQL-runtime and an ISQL-development product. There is. > I thought that ISQL-runtime would let you run ACE reports and > PERFORM screens generated by ISQL-development. That's what it is there for. > We've just been told by Informix Tech Support that that is not > so, that ISQL-runtime is DBACCESS and that only the > ISQL-development product gives you the capability to run ACE > rpts & PERFORM screens. Is this correct? No. Please get whoever you were discussing this with to send me an email at the office so that I can explain the workings of (this bit of) the world to them. ISQL-RT comes with a program isqlrt in place of isql. This program can run reports, forms and user menus. It has a query language option, IIRC. > What product does DBACCESS come with, the engine or ISQL-runtime > or what? DB-Access comes with OnLine and its renamed variants, and with SE. It only provides the query language and schema editing parts of ISQL (or ISQL-RT); it does not provide reports, forms or user menus. -- Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com, jleffler@earthlink.net) Guardian of DBD::Informix v0.60 -- see http://www.perl.com/CPAN #include <disclaimer.h>