Re: Is this really NOT a feature of Informix????

When you spoke to support did you ask for this feature to be entered into the Feature Request Data Base? In <2qckdu$pel@news1.svc.portal.com> pkellner@shell.portal.com (Kellner Systems) writes: >Informix support told me the same thing. After lots of followup I have >decided that they really don't understand the need for this feature. >I posted a similar note and the best suggestion I got was to create >another column with the indentical data, but upshifted. Pretty bad in >my opinion. I vote for the wheels on the car!!! >Bonnie Weller (weller@zorro.cecer.army.mil) wrote: >: I have been trying to do a join on two tables which I did not create. The >: tables contain lists of chemical names. I want find the names which match >: both tables and update a field in one table from matching data from the other >: table. Following me so far. One of the tables has its chemical names all in >: upper case. The other table has the names in both lower and upper case. -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% William Daul Advanced Support INFORMIX SOFTWARE INC. 4100 Bohannon Dr. (415) 926-6488 - wk Menlo Park, CA. 94025 uunet!infmx!billd or billd@informix.com