Hi,

Has anyone successfully developed a windows application which makes
use of the InterSolv Informix ODBC Driver.  If so I would apprecaite
some comments as to how realiable the drivers was and what problems
you may have encountered.  My primary interest is for a Visual Basic
application but any comments about the driver will help.

Please either repost to these news groups or email me on

TIA
Chris

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I've had no problems as long as everything I needed to do could be
passed through as an SQL statement through the CreateDynaset method
(and using Intersolv's ODBC).

In other words, I can't damn well figure out how to update BLOBS.  I
can READ them successfully, but I can't put data back into them.

Anyone else have any other experience?

Will Johnson.
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I had problems with registering the database.  It did not seem to
update the ODBC.INI file.  Intersolv eventually sent me an updated
driver.  It does not seem to very quick.  I have had problems using
the UPPER (there isn't one) on an Informix database although that is a
database problem and not a driver problem.  Ensure you use
DB_SQLPASSTHROUGH as Informix handles SQL statements different to VB.

Dean Hobbs

Yeah, their sybase drivers are rilly tuff man.. I THOUGHT they were
broken for a long time, but MSACCESS manages to write long chars to
it... I'm not sure what it's doing tho... I'm finding myself wishing
Intersolv would test their driver with MFC, or provide some sort of
docs on MFC, or mebby a custom rfx routine...

In the meantime, I switched over to the OpenLink drivers (they really
kick {*filter*}on intersolv... ) They dont require any dblib interpreters
on your local pc for any of the DBs they run under... you just install
one interpreter on the DB server... Alot faster too :)

Dan