Re: Which Version of PowerBuilder?

Bruce McDougald (brucemcdougald@grocerybiz.com) wrote: : I'm an application developer in a primarily COBOL intensive shop. I : currently write applications/reports in Informix 4GL that interface with : our Informix Online 7.x engine. I have written an occasional app in MS : Access and PB 5 Desktop, but not to frontend our Informix database. I : would like to get my shop away from character based frontends (where : possible) and write more GUI apps (such as job schedulers, ad hoc : reporting apps, etc). This is small shop and any applications that : would be written would be small to mid-ranged. Could we get by with PB : Pro, instead of the costly enterprise version, and if so, exactly what : database drivers come standard with PB Pro? More specifically does it : come with everything needed to connect to Informix Online 7.x out of the : box? If memory serves me right, the Pro & Desktop versions don't contain native Informix drivers, and you need to use Enterprise to get these drivers. You could probably use ODBC if you can stand a little performance degradation. I believe the lower versions of PB will support the ODBC. joe joe -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Lumbley(jlumbley@netcom.com) author of: "INFORMIX DBA Survival Guide" Slaving away on "INFORMIX DBA Survival Guide, The SQL", available late 1998 from Prentice Hall/Informix Press. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------