DBD-Informix: isqlperl Wrapper?

In the Oracle world, before there was DBD, there was Oraperl -- which was like isqlperl, from what I understand. There is a wrapper for DBD-Oracle that lets you use Oraperl calls, so that you don't need to do much porting to get old Oraperl code to work under DBD. Question => Is there any kind of isqlperl wrapper for DBD-Informix? TIA. Steve <sabat@area51.org> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.

I just ran into isqlperl for the first time on a project I'm currently working on. It also uses oraperl, which I have previous experience with (the project talks from Informix to Oracle). From what I can see of isqlperl, it just returns a pipe delimited stream into an input channel in perl -- and all you can do is select data. With oraperl you can do most of the standard SQL (insert, delete, etc.). Is this correct -- or is the isqlperl I'm using someone's hack? Just interested -- not a big deal if it is, as it works, and the world should soon be tuned into DBI anyway. Tom sabat@area51.org wrote: > In the Oracle world, before there was DBD, there was Oraperl -- which > was like isqlperl, from what I understand. > > There is a wrapper for DBD-Oracle that lets you use Oraperl calls, so > that you don't need to do much porting to get old Oraperl code to work > under DBD. > > Question =? Is there any kind of isqlperl wrapper for DBD-Informix? > > TIA. > > Steve > ?sabat@area51.org? > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ > Before you buy.

To the best of my knowledge, there is no isqlperl wrapper for DBD::Informix. There used to be an isqlperl which was written for Perl 4. It uses ESQL/C, but that is about where the similarities with DBD::Informix end. Why would you want isqlperl instead of, or as well as, DBD::Informix? Tom Grenier wrote: > I just ran into isqlperl for the first time on a project I'm currently > working on. It also uses oraperl, which I have previous experience with > (the project talks from Informix to Oracle). From what I can see of > isqlperl, it just returns a pipe delimited stream into an input channel in > perl -- and all you can do is select data. With oraperl you can do most > of the standard SQL (insert, delete, etc.). > > Is this correct -- or is the isqlperl I'm using someone's hack? Just > interested -- not a big deal if it is, as it works, and the world should > soon be tuned into DBI anyway. > > Tom > > sabat@area51.org wrote: > > > In the Oracle world, before there was DBD, there was Oraperl -- which > > was like isqlperl, from what I understand. > > > > There is a wrapper for DBD-Oracle that lets you use Oraperl calls, so > > that you don't need to do much porting to get old Oraperl code to work > > under DBD. > > > > Question =? Is there any kind of isqlperl wrapper for DBD-Informix? > > > > TIA. > > > > Steve > > ?sabat@area51.org? > > > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ > > Before you buy. -- Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com, jleffler@earthlink.net) Guardian of DBD::Informix v0.62 -- see http://www.perl.com/CPAN #include <disclaimer.h>