Re: Which Version of PowerBuilder?

In article <jlumbleyEu8K6A.Lp@netcom.com>, jlumbley@netcom.com says... >You could probably use ODBC if you can stand a little performance degradation. >I believe the lower versions of PB will support the ODBC. To add to what Joe said, many of the ODBC drivers available nowdays equal or even outperform native drivers. Powerbuilder's native Informix interface has in the past been a rough ride. (I kept up with Powerbuilder from sometime around release 2.0 to 4.0x.) The one "gotcha" I've seen myself with ODBC is the difficulty in getting information about serial numbers. This may not be a big concern to you. I don't know how Powerbuilder handles its SQL; you may be able to use the dbinfo() Informix 7 function. Of the environments I've seen, I know that Visual Basic database controls massacre the database connection to the extent that dbinfo() usually isn't available. (Actually, unless you're using the ODBC API directly, I've never seen a case where it is available, but I'm not a VB expert and try not to be. :-) -- William Harris william@carsinfo.com Check out the NAGS spam filter. http://www.nags.org