Re: Anyone Using Informix-CLI?

Posted in 1996

Scott Ellard — 21 Mar 1996 20:30:56 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <4ir4tl$n18@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de> spitz@ana.med.uni-muenchen.de writes: >Melvin Mariney (melvin.mariney2@bridge.bellsouth.com) wrote: > >: We have a Visual Basic application that will need to connect to an >: Informix 7.1 database and I am looking at the CLI as opposed to >: getting an ODBC driver. > >Informix CLI for Windows IS an ODBC driver. So far, it's been working >satisfactorily for us, apart from some problems with MS-Access which >might, however, be to blame to other components. > >We prefer CLI over other vendor's ODBC solutions since it comes >from Informix directly. I've heard rumours that it's the same as >Intersolv's ODBC driver, but that is unconfirmed. You are correct that the Informix CLI is a an ODBC driver. However, I understand that it is Visigenic's ODBC driver not Intersolvs's. Informix is also reselling the Visigenic ODBC driver as an ODBC driver as well. Scott Ellard