Re: Informix 5.0 and HP-UX client

'yvind Gjerstad wrote: >> ...snip >> One person said that it is not possible to make a UNIX to UNIX >> client/server system based on the Informix ver. 5.0. Is that true? > > No. Yes, that makes our life easier. Now I would be very happy, if someone could describe a solution little deeper for me. (I am very new in this area, so all information is welcome.) I have a few days time to specify a system, which includes our customers data base server and our client program running on a separate workstation. We need to read data from data base system, which has the following configuration: HW: SUN Sparc OS: Solaris DB: Informix On-line 5.0 Our client SW is made by C language and it is running on the following platform: HW: HP715/64 OS: HP-UX 9.05 I think, that the best solution is that we need not to make changes to the SUN Sparc station. Now I have three questions: 1. Can we read data from Informix On-line 5.0 without a need to modify data base servers's configuration? If that is possible, what libraries we need to link into our client SW? 2. If we need to make some configurations to the data base server, what they are? 3. A standard Unix ODBC client sounds a ideal solution for us. Is that possible? Best regards, Ilkka Raisanen ________________________________________________________ KCL-Development Oy, P.O.Box 70, FIN-02151 Espoo, Finland Tel: +358-9-4371525, Fax: +358-9-464305 E-mail: ilkka.raisanen@kcl.fi