From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:00:14 EST-10EDT,10,1,0,7200,4,1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 2043 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Monday 24 January 2011 Number 2043 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: ODBC for OS/2 and eCS : Nicholas Lysaght **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 08:06:36 +0800 From: Nicholas Lysaght Subject: Re: ODBC for OS/2 and eCS Hi John. On 19 January 2011 21:09, John Angelico wrote: > Hello everybody. > > Hoping all are enjoying the new year so far. > > For those in the flooded areas, my sympathies. > > As per I am trying to re-start ODBC for OS/2 on my eCS 2.0 RC4 > system. > > Does anyone know if there are any ODBC package/s for OS/2 later than the > 3.01 exIntersolv set released in Italy I think? > > The package I have seems to be cursed with the old IBM OS/2 2.x installer.. > > What I am trying to do is set up an environment where I can bring a data > set from work (Win XP) to use with OOBase at home. > > I am trying to make OOBase access the dataset so that I can print Customer > Contact sheets for visiting clients. I don't need a full Contact Manager > package for this, and my trusty old dBE expired when Randall Flint passed > away suddenly. It USED TO work before various upgrades happened on the > WinXP system :-(. Do you have DBEClip? That worked with DBExpert to either import or export datasets in a format DBExpert can understand. I don't know if that's worth a shot o not. I can get it to work from DBExpert to Mesa, or from a TAB delimited CSV file. It might help in some way. > > The data set is from a Win accounting package which previously using the > old Btrieve engine, now supplanted by the Pervasive SQL engine. > > We could load the data set onto a Linux box here, but we can't get the > Pervasive Linux SQL Client - not even the trial version, without being a > registered user/client of Pervasive. > > Next best is to see if the OS/2 ODBC Administrator could see the files and > set up the connection. I'm not sure but I think I might need the Pervasive > SQL engine running somewhere on OS/2 for that. > > We do have the old OS/2 Btrieve DLL here, but we only use it on an older > set of files generated by an earlier version of the Windows app. > > We don't know if that will look at the newer dataset, and we don't know if > using OOBase means we must have an SQL engine at the far end. > > If you have been patient enough to get this far, I hope you might be able > to help me solve the problem...:-) I'm afraid the rest of that is a bit over my head. :-) Good luck, anyhow. Regards NICK > > Best regards > John Angelico > Former OS/2 SIG > talldad at kepl dot com dot au > ___________________ > > -------------------------------------------------- >   >  http://www./melbpc/  -  The Melbourne OS/2 SIG === > -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG