Re: Informix 5 vs. 7

Ofer Inbar wrote: > Tell me more about the "built-in networking" - what exactly does > Informix 5 lack? This site is definitely going to be accessing the > database via TCP/IP - the database is meant as part of the back end to > a CGI application on a web site. With 7 all I'd have to do is create > a sqlhosts file and an /etc/services entry on both sides, and clients > would automatically be talking to the database server over the net. > Is this not the case with Informix 5? > No, it is not. We use HP G60 as aplication server and HP E55 as database server, running OnLine 5. A special program must be run on G60 to access the database. It is sqlexecd, part of Informix-Star. Every sqlturbo on E55 has its sqlexec on G60. -------------------------------------------------------------- Michal Hajek mailto:hajek@nspuh.cz Sprava NIS http://www.nspuh.cz NsP Uherske Hradiste phone : voice +420 0632 529 204 Purkynova 365 fax +420 0632 551 014 686 68 Uherske Hradiste Czech Republic --------------------------------------------------------------