Mark asks:

> Does anybody know if ODBC *client* software is available that
> runs on MPE and will talk to TurboImage or Image/SQL
> databases?
>
> There are various opensource Unix programs (which talk to
> Unix ODBC client drivers) that might be interesting to port to
> MPE, assuming a compatible ODBC *client* exists....

I don't know of any, but if you find one please let me and the
rest of the world know:  Allowing Image/SQL to be an ODBC
*client* has been on the SIGIMAGE Enhancement ballot for
a number of years;  it was just moved over to the SIGHPSQL
Ballot for 2000.  Results for this item in 2000:  It was ranked
# 10 on the SIGHPSQL ballot.

Speaking just as an end-user, our site has an immediate and
fairly extensive use for this feature right now:  In expanding the
number of internal customers on our 959-400 we need to get a
lot of records out of many different tables in ORACLE and MS
SQL/Server databases running on NT platforms.

But since this feature is NOT available on the 3000, we resorted
to setting up yet another intermediate SQL/Server database on
yet another NT server that we "own" (don't ask:  politics);  that
will act as the client for the foreign databases and our 959....

Ken Sletten