Has anyone had the need to use Forte with ODBC in a Unix platform? We
need ODBC in Unix but Forte does not currently support this. I would
like to know if other sites have encountered this problem and how did
you work around not having Forte support ODBC on Unix. How important is
this feature to Forte users?
Maria Lim
May & Speh
1501 Opus Place
Downers Grove, IL 60515
630-971-4758
With Forte this is easy. Add an NT machine to your environment,
partition an environment-visible ODBC resource manager to it and let
all the UNIX boxes call it remotely. We did something similar when
we ported our application from Windows NT to Solaris. We just left
the GenericDBMS(Sybase) resources behind on NT until we got Oracle
and our database running on the Unix box. Then repartition and presto
you are back to normal. I think this strategy would work just as
well for ODBC as GenericDBMS, though I havn't actually tried it.
Of course you have to commit to running in distributed mode permanently.
Fred Scholldorf
alfred.scholldorf@reuters.com
516 434 6230
> Has anyone had the need to use Forte with ODBC in a Unix platform? We
> need ODBC in Unix but Forte does not currently support this. I would
> like to know if other sites have encountered this problem and how did
> you work around not having Forte support ODBC on Unix. How important is
> this feature to Forte users?
>
> Maria Lim
> May & Speh
> 1501 Opus Place
> Downers Grove, IL 60515
> 630-971-4758
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