Is there an ODBC driver for Unix and Mysql?


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On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Peter Bjoern wrote:

> >People here have suggested various ingenious combinations of
> >tail/awk/grep to strip out the garbage, and they work fairly well.
> >But that seems a little Rube Goldbergish, and I'm a little worried
> >that it might break if something in the output changes.  I think I
> >already know the answer (No), but does anybody know of a way to keep
> >that stuff from appearing in the output, instead of finding it and
> >throwing it away afterwards?
>
>
> You may want to consider using the ODBC approach and retrieve the
> information in
> a well defined format.
>
> I most cases you'll be able to extract the same information from the
> database via the
> ODBC interface as you can with the dsmadmc select command.
>
> You will, of course, have to use a platform where there is an ODBC driver
> for
> the TSM database available.
>
> Regards
>
> Peter
>