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Connecting NT ODBC to IDS 7.3 under Solaris 2.6

Posted in 1999

Topics: Installation, Setup & Upgrades, Connectivity: ODBC / JDBC / .NET, Networking & sqlhosts Configuration, Platform-Specific Issues, Versions, Editions & End-of-Life

Maille Joran — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

The problem is that the two platforms don't seem to accept the same protocols... Can I install a new protocol (onsoctcp on Solaris for instance) ? How ? Thanks Joran Maille jmaille@servantes.com

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Art S. Kagel — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Maille Joran wrote: > > The problem is that the two platforms don't seem to accept the same > protocols... Can I install a new protocol (onsoctcp on Solaris for instance) Note that onsoctcp and ontlitcp are FULLY compatible. They simply specify which library calls are used to get access to the TCP/IP level. The actual communications protocol above that is the same. Depending on which library is more native, and therefore faster, Informix uses either System V Streams (TLI) or Berkley Sockets (SOC) on various UNIX systems. On Windows platforms only the Windows API and various Sockets libraries are available. While I do not know whether Informix coded directly to the Windows API or to BSD Sockets they call that interface onsoctcp on Windows anyway. Solaris, being System V R4 based supports TLI natively (Sockets is a library layer over that) and that is what Informix supports there. Art S. Kagel

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