Searching a DBI for Red Brick on HPUX

Armin75 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Has anyone attempted to use DBI with Red Brick and had success? Specifically DBD::Informix? Or DBD::ODBC? I am going to be attempting this on a unix machine (HPUX).

I have solved it via Risql (a tool owned by Red Brick), but with this solution I haven't a direct access to the DB. Could anyone help me?

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Re: Searching a DBI for Red Brick on HPUX by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Aug 11, 2004 at 12:28 UTC
I am sure everyone in the Perl community knows what you are trying to do by now, except perhaps for the ~~one person~~ ~~two~~ ~~three~~ ~~four~~ () people who voted to keep this node who I assume ~~isn't~~ aren't on any of the mailling lists, usenet groups and other web sites where you have posted this question. As I answered you on the London.pm Mail List: On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 16:40, Armin Zendron wrote: > Has anyone attempted to use DBI with Red Brick and had > success? Specifically DBD::Informix? > > I am going to be attempting this on a unix machine (hpux). The Red Brick client protocol is different to the Informix IDS one despite Informix having bought the database ages ago - I would be highly skeptical that it would work, there may however be a unix ODBC driver available in which case you will be able to use DBD::ODBC (if you install unixodbc or iODBC or whatever). /J\ You can find more details about the Red Brick ODBC driver here and there is a Red Brick specific mailling list here where I am sure you will find someone who can answer your question. _{() Astonishing - I guess that there must be people who think this IS the Perl community.. :-)} /J\	[reply]

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Re: Searching a DBI for Red Brick on HPUX
by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Aug 11, 2004 at 12:28 UTC

I am sure everyone in the Perl community knows what you are trying to do by now, except perhaps for the ~~one person~~ ~~two~~ ~~three~~ ~~four~~ (*) people who voted to keep this node who I assume ~~isn't~~ aren't on any of the mailling lists, usenet groups and other web sites where you have posted this question.

As I answered you on the London.pm Mail List:

On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 16:40, Armin Zendron wrote: > Has anyone attempted to use DBI with Red Brick and had > success? Specifically DBD::Informix? > > I am going to be attempting this on a unix machine (hpux). The Red Brick client protocol is different to the Informix IDS one despite Informix having bought the database ages ago - I would be highly skeptical that it would work, there may however be a unix ODBC driver available in which case you will be able to use DBD::ODBC (if you install unixodbc or iODBC or whatever). /J\

here

_{(*) Astonishing - I guess that there must be people who think this *IS* the Perl community.. :-)}

/J\

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