Re: Questions about Informix/Windows connectivity

This is correct. I am not aware of any ODBC software on the market (could be one I'm not aware of) that can connect with out the I-Connect layer (or I-Net depending on the versions involved). If you currently are on an Informix 5.x version, then in addition to an ODBC driver, you will need I-Net for the client and I-Star for the server (Online engines). Beginning with version 6.x the native connectivity libraries started coming with the engine and the tools products. They jsut need to be configured. You will still obviously need an ODBC driver. If you have CLI that is included. Does this answer your question? -Albert Phillip Koebbe wrote: > > I'm pretty new to working with Informix servers and such, so there may be a > whole lot of information I'm lacking. From my personal experience, you > need to install the ODBC driver on the workstation that will be accessing > the Informix database. Also *on that machine*, you will need I-CONNECT (or > a related product that includes SetNet). The experimentation that I've > done on a few machines indicates that you must have an Informix > connectivity utility installed before you can configure the ODBC driver > with the ODBC Administrator. You can't use the driver until it is > configured and a DSN is created. > > Phillip Koebbe > Eagle-Picher Technologies, LLC