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Re: to IBM : Informix Gateway

Posted By: Cesar Inacio Martins
Date: Wednesday, 14 November 2012, at 4:47 p.m.

In Response To: Re: to IBM : Informix Gateway (Fernando Nunes)

Hi Fernando ,

Thanks about this explanation , the MQ really is a nice software, unfortunately as your explanation, don't attend our need, we need something more pure SQL.
Keep the integration and bring more and more data/information into our Informix database.. and this will be easily if we can fetch it and not push using others systems and others vendors technology... thus, we spend more time learning about their technology than ours (Informix).

About the DW , at our last batch of tests we use 11.70FC5 ... I already downloaded the FC6 to check if some defects are solved, but I not install yet...
I have notice about vNext , but at this moment I don't have much time to keep giving feedback ... so I prefer keep our tests with what already "works" ....

Regards
Cesar

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De: Fernando Nunes <domusonline@gmail.com>
Para: ids@iiug.org
Enviadas: Quarta-feira, 14 de Novembro de 2012 15:29
Assunto: Re: to IBM : Informix Gateway [28830]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Cesar Inacio Martins <
cesar_inacio_martins@yahoo.com.br> wrote:

> IBM MQ is for free ?
>

No.

> Can use it to access other tables with regular DML ? at FROM clause for
> example?
>

MQ is a "queue manager". It's a bit like Tibco etc. You "publish"
information to MQ and then someone will "subscribe" to it. It does not
present other databases's structures to a local database.
It is good to avoid the usual "buffer" tables where you INSERT/SELECT ...
WHERE state = "To Process" UPDATE ... SET state = "Processed"....
The MQ datablade can present you the Message Queues as virtual tables where
you can INSERT/SELECT with a two phase commit protocol. Not sure if you can
use these "tables" in a JOIN

As far I know , only gateway allow this.... and will be much easy to
> developer
> with gateway because is transparant to develper.
> The gateway allow avoid any MQ admin overhead too... (and a
> employee/consultant with know-how of IBM MQ)
>

Different products for different things although there may be some overlap.
Gateway is SQL only... MQ can be directly accessed by applications, and you
can build "flows" with MQ Broker (effectively you can do some applications
with it)

> Informix Gateway , will be much more naturally for an Informix DBA.
>

Yes. Unless someone asks an Informix DBA to "publish" information to
another non SQL system :)

By the way.... Your problems with DW... which version are you using? Latest
have some more SQL and please keep an eye on vNext.

Regards

--
Fernando Nunes
Portugal

http://informix-technology.blogspot.com
My email works... but I don't check it frequently...

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Messages In This Thread

• to IBM : Informix Gateway
  Cesar Inacio Martins -- Wednesday, 14 November 2012, at 6:05 a.m.
  • Re: to IBM : Informix Gateway
    RALPH GENTRY -- Wednesday, 14 November 2012, at 7:24 a.m.
    • Re: to IBM : Informix Gateway
      Cesar Inacio Martins -- Wednesday, 14 November 2012, at 11:29 a.m.
      • Re: to IBM : Informix Gateway
        Fernando Nunes -- Wednesday, 14 November 2012, at 12:28 p.m.
        • Re: to IBM : Informix Gateway
          Cesar Inacio Martins -- Wednesday, 14 November 2012, at 4:47 p.m.

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