Re: running informix 4gl program on unix box from windows?

Maxim B Ioffe <ioffe19@idt.net> wrote in article <346382B6.7917@idt.net>... > hi. > I am trying to setup the following: > As user clicks a button in my VB/MSAccess application, i somehow run an > informix 4gl program. If program finishes ok, i ftp results back to PC, > or connect to informix database with ODBC and continue processin of the > data with my windows application. > My main problems are > 1. how to start that informix program? Assume, that program have command > line arguments, but don't have any forms or input screens. > 2. how to get exit status from unix? How to get error message back to > PC? One way might be to write a stored procedure which executes a 'system' command to run the 4GL program. Then use a pass-thorugh SQL query in VB/MS Access to execute the stored procedure. HTH -- Irwin Goldstein Objective Software Systems, Inc. http://www.objectsoft.com