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  • 1.  ISQL download

    Posted 12/19/23 08:38 AM

    Hi Family.

    I may need to quickly refresh myself on ISQL.  Is there a "consultants" version (i.e. free download) of this product?

    Anyone have the URL for this?  My recent search missed it; it may be there under my nose.  (Well, so is my mouth but I can't see that either. ;-)

    Thanks.



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  • 2.  RE: ISQL download

    Posted 12/20/23 03:42 AM

    Hi Jacob,

    it's a question which features you need from Informix SQL tool. Informix CSDK contains dbaccess which allows to submit SQL statements against local/remote database server. You can download it here:

    Add-ons for developers - IBM Informix | IBM

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    If you don't need the technical support for Informix CSDK, you can use it free of charge. If you need the support, you need to buy the licenses.

    Hope, it helps.



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  • 3.  RE: ISQL download

    Posted 12/20/23 08:57 AM

    Thanks, Jan.

    Dbaccess comes with the engine anyway. But as a curiosity I tried to run isql and got the message to run:

    sudo apt install unixodbc

    After doing that I tried running isql again and got a screenful of options, none of which were familiar to me.  This is NOT the same ISQL I used to teach, with the text-based screen for queries and data entry, with the ace report writer (saceprep and sacego) and perform for forms creation and data entry.

    The manual I have downloaded is for release 6 and was "printed" in 1994.

    That's what I am looking for.

    Now that I have cleared that up, can anyone direct me to the software download for Linux (Mint)?

    Again, thank for the pointer.



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  • 4.  RE: ISQL download

    Posted 12/20/23 09:04 AM
    you have open ODBC isql on the path before the informix isql - first guess anyway

    Cheers
    Paul

    On 12/20/2023 7:57 AM, Jacob Salomon via IBM TechXchange Community wrote:
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    Thanks, Jan. Dbaccess comes with the engine anyway. But as a curiosity I tried to run isql and got the message to run: sudo apt install... -posted to the "Informix" group



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  • 5.  RE: ISQL download

    Posted 12/20/23 09:10 AM

    Unlike the Informix engine, there isn't a Developers Edition of any Informix tool (ISQL, 4GL, etc). Time-based evaluation licenses are available as part of a purchase process through an IBM seller but that's it. Sorry. 



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  • 6.  RE: ISQL download

    Posted 12/20/23 09:18 AM

    Carlton said:

    > Time-based evaluation licenses are available

    Perhaps so, Carlton.  I can see about that once I find the blessed thing.  But it does not seem to be anywhere I know to look to even try to download. For now, I suppose, I'll have to subsist on reading that 30-year-old manual.

    But thanks for the heads-up on this. (Actually, more of a thumbs down.)



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