Re: DBD::Informix 1.04.PC1 on Mandrake 9.0 -- where's www.informix.com gone?

[Jonathan Leffler]

Franck PORCHER wrote:

I have to install a DBD driver for Informix on
a Linux box (Mandrake 9.0) in a need to access an existing
Informix database site hosted on another AIX machine.

I found the latest package on CPAN (DBD-Informix-1.04.PC1.tar.gz).

Yes - it should be good to go as long as you have DBI 1.25 or later...

The installation process on the Linux Box requires that Informix be installed first :

...and Informix.

If you plan to access the Informix database from the Linux box without using DBI's Proxy driver (and the real DBD::Informix driver on your AIX box), then you do indeed need CSDK on the Linux box.

The site www.informix.com is no longer active, so I'm stuck not
being able to install Informix, when in fact I do not need
it on the Linux box.

Correct (so things have changed since early in February when I last checked), but there are two www.ibm.com URLs suggested in the README file.

What one can suggest about this deadlock situation?

Read the README file completely? Or use DBI Proxy? Or use DBD::ODBC? However, that requires some sort of Informix ODBC driver, which are available from sources other than IBM/Informix, as well as coming with the CSDK...which brings us back full circle.

Does someone have a binary version (rpm or else) of
the DBD driver that would work with DBI 1.32 and a Mandrake 9.0 distribution.

Not guilty - and you would be unlikely to be legal using someone else's distribution. Informix is not Open Source or Public Domain software. CSDK is available for development use at a purely nominal charge of $0.00, but use in production needs careful review (your AIX machine with a production licence is probably sufficient).

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