RE: ODBC Problems...

Alas!,  the difference between "free" and "free" is a large one.  CA isn't
really free for critical ODBC related apps for several reasons.  First, you
gotta have a license, somewhere, that was paid for.  Second, you have to
factor in the cost of the bloated software, disk-wise, that you'll need (not
a big deal in this 80GB HDD world).  You have to factor in the agonizing
process of updating CA whenever you apply a PTF related to it.  It is
difficult to administer.  Its slow.  And on and on.

If the application isn't mission critical, stick with CA.  If it is, then
use the Hit driver.  I hear many, many stories like yours where "something
happened" and the CA driver "stopped working".  That kind of stuff is why we
are leaving the M$ fold for Linux (slowly). CA, IMHO, suffers from the same
kind of over-engineered, bloated development that M$ is famous for.  Give me
something like Mochasoft or tn5250j for emulation and Hit SW for ODBC, and I
can focus my real work rather than tinkering with settings and patches to
make some middleware work.

Glad it worked great for you though.  Bummer that the "higher ups" can't see
the light.

Pete Helgren
Value Added Software, Inc.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Luis Rodriguez
> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 9:33 AM
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: ODBC Problems...
>
>
> <-----------
>
> message: 5
> date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 19:47:19 -0700
> from: "Pete Helgren" <pete@xxxxxxxxxx>
> subject: RE: ODBC Problems...
>
> Hmmm... if you suspect that is the problem you should try the Hit
> Software
> ODBC driver and rule it out.
>
> ----------->
>
> Pete,
>
> I did that (downloaded the Hit SW driver) and it worked perfectly (and
> fast!!). Nevertheless, management told us that as the CA ODBC driver was
> free, we should use that one instead :-(.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Luis Rodriguez
> ----------------
>   Luis Rodriguez
>
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