Re: Questions about Informix/Windows connectivity

SCO's ODBC driver SQL-Retriever does not require any of the RDBMS proprietary networking software (I-Net) and provides all that is necessary to connect any Windows ODBC-compliant app (e.g. Access) for Informix 4,5,6 & 7 (SE/OnLine) on a variety of UNIX platforms (including AIX & SCO). Take a look at http://www.sco.com/vision/products/sqlretriever/ for more information and a downloadable eval. Allan Gould (allang at sco dot com) (Please remove anti-spam measures if replying) Albert Dillon wrote: > > This is correct. I am not aware of any ODBC software on the market > (could be one I'm not aware of) that can connect with out the I-Connect > layer (or I-Net depending on the versions involved). If you currently > are on an Informix 5.x version, then in addition to an ODBC driver, you > will need I-Net for the client and I-Star for the server (Online > engines). Beginning with version 6.x the native connectivity libraries > started coming with the engine and the tools products. They jsut need to > be configured. You will still obviously need an ODBC driver. If you have > CLI that is included. > > Does this answer your question? > > -Albert > > Phillip Koebbe wrote: > > > > I'm pretty new to working with Informix servers and such, so there may be a > > whole lot of information I'm lacking. From my personal experience, you > > need to install the ODBC driver on the workstation that will be accessing > > the Informix database. Also *on that machine*, you will need I-CONNECT (or > > a related product that includes SetNet). The experimentation that I've > > done on a few machines indicates that you must have an Informix > > connectivity utility installed before you can configure the ODBC driver > > with the ODBC Administrator. You can't use the driver until it is > > configured and a DSN is created. > > > > Phillip Koebbe > > Eagle-Picher Technologies, LLC