Re: c-isam utilities

Calvin I. Varney wrote > >We don't actually use the Informix dbms here but rather the Informix >product c-isam in conjunction with Cognos Powerhouse. > >I'm currently looking for a unix product (DG/UX Release 5.4R3.10) that >will allow me to directly manipulate these c-isam files, I'd like to be >able to directly extract/import data from csv files and drop/create >indexes without rebuilding the entire table. Extracted from cisamperl/README: + (C) 1993,1994 Mathias Koerber (Mathias.Koerber@swi.com.sg) + cisamperl/rocisperl is a package, which implements an interface + to the INFORMIX C-ISAM library for perl-4.0.36. It is coded as + an usub (see perl documentation) and needs to be compiled with + perl and the C-ISAM library to form 2 separate executables + called cisamperl and rocisperl respectively. + cisamperl is a fully functioning (unless I forgot something) + perl executable with calls for C-ISAM file access added. + rocisperl is the same, with all calls that create/modify/delete + C-ISAM files or records disabled. rocisperl is intended for + read-only reporting access to the C-ISAM files, without giving the + user the chance of (accidentally) destroying or falsifying + data. Using perl for such thing like csv import into C-ISAM is easy. cisamperl is a stable tool (we compiled it with 7.10.UC1). -- Chris Drauch <cdr@xteam.co.at> ... just speaking for myself ...