Testing Connectivity with Ilogin
Once you have set up all of the sqlhosts, hosts, and services information, the final step is to try to actually connect up to that machine. Informix provides a program called "ilogin," which will attempt to log into a remote system and provide some information that is included in the demo "stores" database. Running ilogin brings up the following screen (resized smaller for this book):
The ilogin program was actually a demo program for one of the earlier versions of ESQL/C for Windows. If you can find an earlier version (around 7.1 - 7.2) with ESQL/C installed, you can view the source code. Reading through this ...
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