I have been using informix 4gl for 20 years. I have downloaded every 4gl
compiler I can find and all require an informix database. I guess this means
I stay married to Informix forever if I want to stay with 4gl. Is there
anything else in 4gl OTHER THAN INFORMIX? (Especially something that will
create its own database)
ShearPower4gl is not 4gl!

Bruce Truter wrote:
> I have been using informix 4gl for 20 years. I have downloaded every 4gl
> compiler I can find and all require an informix database. I guess this means
> I stay married to Informix forever if I want to stay with 4gl. Is there
> anything else in 4gl OTHER THAN INFORMIX? (Especially something that will
> create its own database)
> ShearPower4gl is not 4gl!

Investigate:
* 4Js (http://www.fourjs.com/)
* Querix (http://www.querix.com/)
* Aubit4GL (http://aubit4gl.sourceforge.net/)

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Bruce Truter wrote:
> I have been using informix 4gl for 20 years. I have downloaded every
> 4gl compiler I can find and all require an informix database. I guess
> this means I stay married to Informix forever if I want to stay with
> 4gl. Is there anything else in 4gl OTHER THAN INFORMIX? (Especially
> something that will create its own database)
> ShearPower4gl is not 4gl!

4JS compiles against "schema files" instead of looking for table definitions
in the database. Of course it's delivered assuming you are going to generate
the schema files from an Informix database (code is supplied to do this) but
a little bit of creative coding will get you a schema file generator which
can read from other databases. From there you would be independent of
Informix engines.