title: How to connect to a legacy Informix database?
body: <p>I have to connect my app to a customer's Informix 7.2 legacy database.</p>
  
  <p>From what I was able to find out, in theory there should be a database service running on port 50000. The problem is that I cannot find any database service in the Operative System.</p>
  
  <p>So far I'm only able to use dbaccess and perform queries from the command line.</p>
  
  <p>I would like to use a database driver (such as <a href="http://code.google.com/p/ibm-db/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://code.google.com/p/ibm-db/</a>) so my app can connect and query the database using a cursor, but since I cannot find any database service, apparently I can't...</p>
  
  <p>Am I missing something here? Are there options I'm not considering?</p>
  
  <p>Is it possible to have an Informix database in which the only interface is dbaccess?</p>