Re: Informix-NET and Windows 95

In article <4aki91$o69@mojo.europe.dg.com>, Michael Kelly <Michael_Kelly@dge.ceo.dg.com> wrote: >I have been told by an Informix distributor that Informix-NET for Windows >has not been ported to Windows 95 and there is no guarantee that it will >be. >What options do I have if I want to run something like Crystal Reports on >a PC running Win95 and accessing data in an Informix SE 5.01 database on >a unix server? >I've trawled the net looking for a solution to this but so far found >nothing. >Any assistance will be much appreciated. >Thanks in advance. >Michael. > >Michael_Kelly@dge.ceo.dg.com > >ps. as I will be on vacation from Dec. 15th. until early January. I would >be doubly grateful if you could e-mail any responses. > We're using R&R Report writer and have been successfully using the ODBC driver over I-Net for Windows with Win95 and it works alright, however I recently downloaded the evaluation version of Openlink's ODBC system which uses a proprietary back end ODBC server which runs on the same box as the Informix database engine (and can attach via shared memory, very nice, very speedy) and am very pleased with the performance boost. I also don't miss seeing all the "UNKNOWN" connected users which onstat reports when the report writer users attach to the database over the Intersolv ODBC + I-Net connections. The Openlink system uses it's own tcp-ip communications which takes that load off of the Online engine's network threads (not that big of a load in the first place, but with the past problems we've experienced with the network support in the engine we'd rather minimize the amount of tcp-ip communications that it has to do :-). Openlink has native 32 bit ODBC client software for Win95 too. I'm not affiliated with Openlink in any way, except that my company is about to send them a purchase order right after the first of the year, so that we can put all of our R&R and MS-Access users on their ODBC system and shelve the old Intersolv ODBC/I-NET software. Later, Neal -- ===================================================================== = Neal Howard neal@metronet.com '91 XLH-1200 DoD #686 AMA NRA = = "Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear, Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. If Fuzzy Wuzzy = = had no hair, then Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't Fuzzy, wuz he ?!!!" = = http://www.pcss.net/~neal <-------My home page. = =====================================================================