Thanks for the reply.
I am using jdbc informix driver version 2.20. The connect string i use is
jdbc:informix-sqli://192.168.10.81:1526/USM:INFORMIXSERVER=ol_zsw1101;. I 
give user name and password separately. This worked well with Informix on 
WinNT.




> I have successfully done this before, firstly how are you connecting? 
U> sing the JDBC Drviver or an ODBC Bridge? Could you post your connection 
s> tring to the forum so I could get a better idea of what possible 
mistake 
y> ou have made. I can tell you one thing for sure, It took me ages to get 
t> his to work, mainly because the unix server wasn't configured properly, 
I 
w> ill try and dig out my notes and post them here after your reply.

> Good luck 
R> egards
J> ulian Mummery
A> nalyst/Designer

> > We have informix on Unix system. When I try to connect
t> o the database through java, an exception thrown. I
u> se type 4 driver for connecting to the database. The
d> atabase name, port and host ip are all correctly
m> entioned. Can anyone help me fix the problem?
T> hanks in advance

> 
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