I recently spent around 30,000 with an accredited IBM vendor to buy
SE
ISQL
ESQL

I have used these products on a RISC but have new hardware. I gave the
rep the serial numbers of the products on my RISC, details of the new
OS (Redhat) and the new hardware. He came back with prices.

Now I am not a naive buyer but I believed he had sold me the correct
versions and that they'd be compatible with each other.

Now I find out my esql is not compatible with thhe SE he sold me. I
only found out when trying to instal. He now tells me if I get SDK I'll
get esql in it. He will not exchange anything.

I don't think this is fair.

When I complained he said I asked for these products so it isn't his
fault.

Any advice on
a: the vendor
b: how to get these products working together?

I can post the version numbers tomorrow but I wanted to see if anyone
could recommend what I could do.

Please post the versions of the products that you are trying out. This
should provide more details on the compatibility. CSDK is available for
downloads at www.ibm.com/software/data/informix.

VG.


kjuliff@gmail.com wrote:
> I recently spent around 30,000 with an accredited IBM vendor to buy
> SE
> ISQL
> ESQL
>
> I have used these products on a RISC but have new hardware. I gave the
> rep the serial numbers of the products on my RISC, details of the new
> OS (Redhat) and the new hardware. He came back with prices.
>
> Now I am not a naive buyer but I believed he had sold me the correct
> versions and that they'd be compatible with each other.
>
> Now I find out my esql is not compatible with thhe SE he sold me. I
> only found out when trying to instal. He now tells me if I get SDK I'll
> get esql in it. He will not exchange anything.
>
> I don't think this is fair.
>
> When I complained he said I asked for these products so it isn't his
> fault.
>
> Any advice on
> a: the vendor
> b: how to get these products working together?
>
> I can post the version numbers tomorrow but I wanted to see if anyone
> could recommend what I could do.

kjuliff@gmail.com wrote:
> I recently spent around 30,000 with an accredited IBM vendor to buy
> SE
> ISQL
> ESQL
>
> I have used these products on a RISC but have new hardware. I gave the
> rep the serial numbers of the products on my RISC, details of the new
> OS (Redhat) and the new hardware. He came back with prices.
>
> Now I am not a naive buyer but I believed he had sold me the correct
> versions and that they'd be compatible with each other.
>
> Now I find out my esql is not compatible with thhe SE he sold me. I
> only found out when trying to instal. He now tells me if I get SDK I'll
> get esql in it. He will not exchange anything.

As VG said, which version of CSDK and which version of SE did you get,
and which version of RedHat are you running it on? In what way - or
how do you know - that the ESQL/C is not compatible with SE?

The vendor is correct; ESQL/C is now provided with CSDK and is not
separately orderable. I wonder where on earth you got a separate
ESQL/C from? What version is it?

> I don't think this is fair.
>
> When I complained he said I asked for these products so it isn't his
> fault.
>
> Any advice on
> a: the vendor
> b: how to get these products working together?
>
> I can post the version numbers tomorrow but I wanted to see if anyone
> could recommend what I could do.

I got the separate esql from HIM - the vendor. He is just saying - you
asked for it so I sold it to you. I asked him why he sold me an
incompatible SE and he said, "you asked for SE and I sld it to you."
So $3500 down and I still have nothing running. Will post the versions
when I get to work today.

Here are the details
We are running an intel EM64T processor on a IBM box. The Operating
system which was installed in a 64bit environment is Redhat Linux
Enterprise AS v4.


We were sold (in a bundle)

2 Informix SQL Development Registered
user LIC+SW Maint 12MO
5 Informix SQL Runtime Concurrent
Session LIC+SW Maint 12MO
3 Informix SE Developer Concurrent
Session LIC+SW Maint 12MO
20 Informix SE Runtime Concurrent
Session LIC+SW Maint 12MO
3 Informix ESQL/C Development
Registered User LIC+SW Maint 12MO
10 Informix ESQL/C Runtime Concurrent
Session LIC+SW Maint 12MO

kjuliff@gmail.com wrote:
> Here are the details
> We are running an intel EM64T processor on a IBM box. The Operating
> system which was installed in a 64bit environment is Redhat Linux
> Enterprise AS v4.
>
>
> We were sold (in a bundle)
>
> 2 Informix SQL Development Registered
> user LIC+SW Maint 12MO
> 5 Informix SQL Runtime Concurrent
> Session LIC+SW Maint 12MO
> 3 Informix SE Developer Concurrent
> Session LIC+SW Maint 12MO
> 20 Informix SE Runtime Concurrent
> Session LIC+SW Maint 12MO
> 3 Informix ESQL/C Development
> Registered User LIC+SW Maint 12MO
> 10 Informix ESQL/C Runtime Concurrent
> Session LIC+SW Maint 12MO

still, the all important version numbers are missing... that said, the last
standalone esql/c that was built on linux was a 7.24.UC5 (or thereabout),
vintage 1998, and that was on libc5 platforms, so if you were given that (and
I wonder how!), no wonder it doesn't work.




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