Re: SCO binaries

Kostis Mentzelos wrote: > > Hi, > I would like to migrate an INFORMIX 5.01 UD2 database from SCO to LINUX. > > Can I use INFORMIX SE for Linux > or I have to use the binaries from SCO ? > > When I'm running the SCO binaries I am getting Segmentation fault. > How can I test that the binaries are ok? > (I believe that the binaries are OK and there is something wrong between > transportation) Assuming you do not use any variable length data types (varchar, text, byte) you can export or unload the data from OL5.01 on SCO and import or load the data into SE on Linux with no problems. SE cannot read Online data files though and does not support variable length types. Just dbschema the original database structure to a file and you will be able to re-create the database on Linux. As far as the SCO binaries, do you have iBCS support in your kernel? Art S. Kagel