hanusj@bionette.ucs.orst.edu (Joe Hanus - Botany) (10/23/88)
We are trying to establish a national database here at Oregon State
University for microbiological culture collections that exist in hundreds
of separate research labs throughout the USA. The database may eventually
contain information on as many as 100,000 cultures.
Informix 4gl is available here on an AT&T 3b.
1. I would like recommendations from anyone who has experience with similar
projects using Informix.
The real problem will be getting information from looseleaf notebooks and
the occassional Apple II in each of the individual labs scattered around the
country into our main database here at OSU. For researchers to respond the
process must be simple and quick. We are considering sending out disks with
a data entry program on it. After running the program and providing
responses the disk could be mailed back to us. In this way we would get back
a file(s) in a standard format that we might be able to upload to our
Informix dbms.
2. Has anyone had experience converting files from a straight ascii
sequential format to something Informix can read?
3. Does there exist an MS-DOS Informix that could be used to formulate a
data entry program which could be run on any IBM compatible? In this way
we could put the program on the disk, send it out and (hopefully) get back
files that could be uploaded directly to the Mini that is running informix.
Please email any suggestions to
hanusj@bionette.ucs.orst.edu
Joe Hanus
Department of Botany and Plant Plant Pathology
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331
USA