Informix access over TCPIP
Posted in 1995
Topics: General Discussion
I am currently using informix on a unix box. we have a world wide network internal to the company (inside the firewall) that is totally tcpip connected. from any one of the given locations, we want to be able to pole the database for certain predefined queries, including graphing the information on the local machine of choice. This is an informix centralized database that certain people in any given address on the network would be able to update. Therefore, i would log in and be able to do the following from a remote location: 1) update the database 2) query the database, free form hopefully, but predefined queries would be ok. 3) graph information from the database 4) print reports. Now, I do not want to export an xterm from the location where the main database resides, this is very slow. Therefore, I am wondering if there are a "front end" package that could be put on a pc or unix box (sun, motorola, hp) that would be able to interact with the foreign located database to query, graph, etc, that is not a full blown version of informix. As a side note: all the platforms on the system are running WWW software. Is there an appropriate package for the WWW that would be able to pole and interact in a straight forward maner with Informix? PLEASE RESPOND TO : "ecurran@hkimd.cig.mot.com"