Re: Suggestion for a development environment

In article <2rdi6c$rtl@mary.iia.org> fschwaj@iia.org writes: > I am going to be building a fairly complex process that will take data > from an Informix database, manipulate it and output records to another > system. The application will be running overnight without any > intervention so it will not be interactive. It will be running on an > RS/6000. > What I need is any suggestions for a language/development tool within > which this could best be coded. I am also currently using PowerBuilder, > but that is probably not the best tool since it would rely on the PC and > is thus not suitable for an unattended batch process. > Any and all suggestions would be appreciated. > > Thanks in advance, > -Jeff Well I suggest you take a look at isqlperl an extension to perl that has interfaces to informix. We use it for all kinds of unattended applications, including updating blob data. Available from ftp.demon.co.uk in /pub/perl/isqlperl (I think) > > -- > > Jeffrey A. Schwartz > fschwaj@iia.org > > -- Clive Eisen Email ceisen@deepthwt.demon.co.uk Clive Eisen Computing Phone (+44) 71 281 1414