Re: Informix Net

Alex McLintock (Alex@arcfan.demon.co.uk) wrote: : Hi I am new to Informix so sorry to sound like a newbie. : I am developing a MS Windows app which previously talked : to dbase4 files on its own hard disk. It now has to talk : to an Informix On-Line (v5.02) database running on an : IBM RS6000 model 370. : The way we think we are going to do this is: : 1) communicate with MS ODBC to get a generic SQL interface. : 2) use Q&E drivers get ODBC talking with Informix Net for Windows : 3) use Informix Net to talk to some winsock tcp/ip : 4) TCP/IP does its stuff and gets the Informix NET stuff to the RS6000 : where it is collected by Informix Star demon on the RS6000 : 5) Informix Star on the RS6000 talks to On-Line v5.02 : tadah! MS Windows app talks to an Informix database on an RS 6000! : Now questions: : Is Informix Star needed? or is it Informix Net for Unix as : some old brochures tell me. : Has anyone got this working with PC's which already use : Novell's IPX? (Our "customer's" PCs only use IPX at present : and they run TeemTalk terminals using Novix) : Has anyone got this working purely over IPX using Novix : (and possibly their Novix "redirectors") so that we don't have to : put a real TCP/IP stack on the PC's ? : Why are Informix(UK) so bad at explaining to me what we are supposed : to buy? : -- : Alex McLintock : best reply to alexmc@biccdc.co.uk it gets read more often. My understanding is that you need I-Star on the Server and I-Net on the client. Hope that helps -Jeff -- Jeffrey A. Schwartz fschwaj@iia.org