Re: A VTI/Access Method for ODBC?

#1 (**permalink**) 04-19-2008, 07:19 PM

> > Has anyone worked on developing a VTI/External Data Access Method for
> > linking to other ODBC data sources?
> The Informix Enterprise Gateway Manager fills this need in roughly the
> same way. It causes ODBC-sourced tables to look as though they are
> inside Informix, much like VTI does. The end result is nearly the same
> but the method of doing it is different (since it works for version 7
> engines as well as version 9).
> http://www-3.ibm.com/software/data/informix/tools/egm/

Yep, unfortunately EGM is not available for Linux. This seemed like
such an obvious use for VTI I just hoped someone had worked on it; I
find very little information out-n-about concerning actual uses of VTI.

sending to informix-list

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