Table 5. What’s New in Version 11.50.xC1
Overview | Reference |
Enhanced Configuration Options During Installation | See “Instance Configuration Wizard” on page |
You can use the new Instance Configuration Wizard to |
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automatically create the database server configuration file |
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(ONCONFIG) during a custom installation in GUI mode. |
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Provide the information for the instance that you are installing, such as the number of CPUs, memory, disk space, and estimates of online transactions and query clients. The wizard ensures that your settings are valid, and it calculates values for other server configuration parameters based on your settings. Your custom configuration information is stored in the ONCONFIG file so that when you start the instance after the product is installed, the instance runs with your settings.
DRDA® Protocol Configuration During Installation | See “Installing with the GUI Custom Setup” on page |
It’s easier now than in past releases to set up an instance to use a variety of database clients. When you install IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50 the installer enables you to configure a database server alias and a port for clients that use the Distributed Relational Database Architecture™ (DRDA) protocol. By default, those items are configured for you unless you deselect DRDA support. DRDA is for open development of applications that allow access of distributed data. DRDA is interoperable with IBM Data Server clients.
If you disable DRDA support in the installation application, you can still modify the instance to function with the DRDA protocol after installation by using the instmgr.exe utility (see ″Server Instance Manager
Install as the Local System Account Support | See “Installing with the GUI Custom Setup” on page |
In past releases, the IBM Informix Dynamic Server Windows Service was allowed to log on only as user informix. Starting with version 11.50, you can install IDS on Windows as the local system account.
Select the Local System User option in the installation application. That option provides the same privileges as the informix user account; however, it uses an internal account that does not require a password. The local system account is used by the operating system and services running under Windows during the installation of IDS.
You can choose not to create an informix user account at all, but if you do so, you will not be able to use Enterprise Replication between IDS on UNIX® and IDS on Windows operating systems.
Documentation Conventions
Special conventions are used in the product documentation for IBM Informix
Dynamic Server.
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