On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Francoise Becker wrote in lstown-l:

> We have customers who do this by using LISTSERV's or LISTSERV
> Maestro's ODBC features, and an LDAP-to-ODBC bridge product (EnList
> from Persistent Systems http://www.persistentdata.com )

Francoise --

We we would really like to see is a move away from ODBC/CLI/OCI and
towards something that does not require linking to the executable --
something like JDBC. It would be nice to be able to simply specify a
classpath and some connection parameters so that the database functions
could be opened up to a number of other databases. We've moved away from
ODBC for everything except the oldest and simplest applications that are
restricted to windows systems.

We have managed to link lsv to our database's ODBC interface, but it
(Informix) is not supported (as far as I know) and I'd much rather have a
native universal interface without having to link the executable to
drivers. We don't even use any 32bit databases anymore and the 64-bit
versions no longer come with 32bit drivers in the SDK that can link to
lsv.

I just realized this is proabbly more appropriate for the lstsrv-l list. I
will post it there.


-- DCP