Re: Loading Informix tables from C-Isam files now that ESQL and C-ISAM will not compile

Posted in 2006

Claus Samuelsen — Wed, 10 May 2006 22:00:47 +0200 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

kjuliff@gmail.com wrote: > In > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.informix/browse_thread/thread/9203f9068f33ef2f/8cfcc0ca06a02634?q=c-isam+link&rnum=14#8cfcc0ca06a02634 > Jonathan Leffler writes > "Once upon a time (shall we say 1991?), it was possible to link ESQL/C > and C-ISAM into the same program without problems." > > Now I have just upgraded a progranm suite FROM a 90's machine to a > newer one. > > I have CISAM 7.2 and ESQLC etc etc > > I cannot compile my old programs that READ C-Isam files and loaded them > into an Informix databse by using the old programs. > > So now my big question is - how can I get the same functionality? How > can I get the data from C-Isam files into an Informix db? This is not a > one-off need. I regularly need to load tables from C-Isam files! > > HELP!!! > You could use the C-ISAM datablade (ofcourse you then need IDS 9.x or newer)