I have Two databases, one is logged and the other is not, is there a way to bypass the informix and get the data?

Do you want to use distributed queries?
If you want to update a database from another database, they have to be in the same logging mode.

No updates, just read.

Why would you want to bypass informix?
Is informix too slow?
If you use IDS, you'll need pagedumps... then analyse the pages...and so forth
If you use SE, you can use the C-Isam libraries.

Since I added the logs backup, yes, the informix is slow.
I wanted to eliminate some of the logs backup by moving some of the not important tables to a non logged database.
The problem is I need to prepare that one report that contains tables from both databases.

What version of Informix do you use?
You can access the databases like:

select taba.*,tabb.*
from database1:taba taba, database2:tabb tabb
where taba......

hi

I use IDS 7.31 TD1

I can use the format you sugests but not when one database is logged and the other is not.