Chapter 9. Understanding the OnLine Utilities
The discussion of the Informix utilities will be split over this and the next chapter. The IDS engine, while an order of magnitude more capabable than the earlier OnLine engines, still stems from an OnLine code base. Since the IDS engine was to be backwardly compatible to the earlier OnLine engines, much remained the same from OnLine to IDS. In fact, for the most part, the OnLine utilities are a subset of the same utilities for IDS. Since IDS does more, its utilities are more extensive, but just about everything that works in OnLine works the same, to a certain extent, in IDS.
This entire chapter is mostly unchanged from the first edition of the book. This chapter applies specifically to the OnLine ...
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