[DB-SIG] How to connect to informix DB in an easy way

[Carsten Haese]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 4:00 AM, M. Hecht <mhecht2909 at instant-mail.de>wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> finally I got it working,


Congratulations!


> but have some questions left.
>
> The minimum configuration I need is to install INFORMIX and then to have
> the
> following seetings:
>
> set INFORMIXSERVER=myPreferredInformixServerName
> set INFORMIXDIR=c:\Programme\Informix\Client-SDK
>
> and this registry key:
>
> Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
>
>
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Informix\SqlHosts\myPreferredInformixServerName]
> "HOST"="theHostNameOfTheDatabase"
> "SERVICE"="the service from WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/DRIVERS/ETC"
> "PROTOCOL"="onsoctcp"
>
> What is not really clear to me is: Do I use now an Windows-ODBC-Connection
> instead of a direct connection


That sure looks to me like you've configured a native (i.e. direct) Informix
connection.

-Carsten
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