Re: INFORMIX 5 : is there a SQLHOSTS file ?

Art S. Kagel wrote: } } Apostolos Varnas wrote: } > } > Peries, Chaminda wrote: } > } > for Online 5 you need an extra product Informix Star Ver. 5.xx in order } > to communicate with } > ODBC drivers that doesn't provide server side software for the } > communication such those from } > Openlink,SCO,Esker etc. } > } > With Informix Star installed you define in a sqlhosts file the following } > } > dbservername nettype hostname servicename } > } > where dbservername is your informix server name and isdefined in } > TBCONFIG, nettype will be something like oltlitcp or olsoctcp, } } Actually these are the 7.xx values, Online 5.0x used tcp, soc, & shm } for the connection type field. } } > hostname must be defined in /etc/hosts and servicename is the service } > name for the } > Informix Star daemon (sqlexecd) and is defined in /etc/services } } When you get I-STAR it comes with its own manual which explains all of } this. } } Art S. Kagel Hi Art, you got it somehow wrong.I have the Informix-Net, Informix-Star Ver. 5.0 Installation and Configuration Guide and there it says on P. 21 concerning the nettype variable: nettype has the following structure ssiiittt where ss Server Type iii Network Interface ttt Network Protocol se remote SE server soc Berkeley Sockets tcp TCP/IP ol remote Online tli TLI grp AT&T StarGROUP usr User-written usr User-supplied network API Interface Hoping this is now clarified Tolis -- -- +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | V+K Relational Solutions email: tvarnas@compulink.gr | | Deligiorgi 26 tvarnas@orbit.de | | 546 42 Thessaloniki Voice: (30) 31 820270 | | Greece Fax: (30) 31 865463 | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+