Re: Accessing informix from oracle - complexity and cost

Hi Bob,

We're using Oracle Heterogeneous Services to connect to an Informix database. We're on HP-UX and needed to purchase ODBC for HP-UX, but that was the only expense. ( I had it working with free stuff, but it was less reliable.) Overall, it's been a reasonable solution for our purposes, the connection has been stable and once it was configured, it has been very very low maintenance.

However, this is a very low volume, non critical data exchange so we didn't implement the whole transparent gateway thing. Cost and complexity would have increased considerably. The Oracle database for the connection is 9.2.0.8.

Robyn

On 7/23/07, Bob <orcl_at_comcast.net> wrote:
>
> I'm researching options to access an Informix database
> Right now, the process involves generating a flat text file, ftp and
> importing into our Oracle Database .
> I know I can create an external table agains the flat file, but im looking
> to connect to the Informix database and issue queries to eliminate file
> transfers
> I've heard of Oracle Gateway for Informix Database Heterogeneous services,
> I'm wondering if anyone here has any experience with accessing Informix from
> oracle and how much cost and trouble is it to set up?
>
> Yep, Ive googled and started reading the doc(s),
> http://download.oracle.com/docs/html/B10528_01/ch1.htm#1005648
>
> But its looking bigger than Id like... hopefully soemone here has some
> info for a more sane direction
>
> Thanks!
> Bob
>
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