[prog] Perl DBD-ODBC remote server

[Caroline Johnston]

hi,

> > (it has been suggested to me that DBD/Informix does not have the
> > capability to pull data from a remote Database - I'll assume this is true
> > unless anyone tells me differently and shows me a bit of code).
>
> This didn't sound right to me - admittedly I've not used the DBI with
> DBD::Informix, but I know you can can connect to a remote server when
> using MySQL, Postgres and Sybase, so I did a little looking. The module
> docs are here (I've linked directly to the connection section):
> http://search.cpan.org/~johnl/DBD-Informix-2005.02/Informix.pm#INFORMIX_CONNECTION_SEMANTICS
> There's a line starting "Valid database names include" and below that
> examples of how to connect to a database on a remote machine.
>
> I know this isn't the answer to your actual question (as I don't know
> the answer to that), but I hope it helps anyway.
>

There's a thread at
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/perl-win32-admin/2852844
about DBI connections to remote Informix DBs. Has code examples. Don't
know if it'll be any help.

Cxx