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Types of Users

This publication is for database administrators (DBAs) who install IBM Informix products. This guide assumes that you are familiar with the operating procedures of your computer and with your operating system. For information about your operating system, see your Microsoft® Windows documentation.

What’s New in IBM Informix Dynamic Server Installation, Version 11.50

This publication includes information about new features and changes in existing functionality.

The following changes and enhancements are relevant to this publication. For a comprehensive list of all new features for this release, see the IBM Informix Dynamic Server Getting Started Guide.

+Table 1. What’s New in Version 11.50.xC6

+	Overview	Reference
+ Simplified Deployment of an IDS Instance		See “ifxdeploy.conf File: The Deployment Utility
+		Configuration File” on page 5-10.

+You can set configuration parameters, essential

+environment variables, and SQLHOST connectivity

+information in a deployment utility configuration file

+(ifxdeploy.conf). You can reuse the file to deploy

+instances with the deployment utility. When you plan to

+embed a snapshot of the same instance in multiple

+locations, you can use the customized configuration file

+to centralize the installation setup work and ensure that

+the deployed instances are consistent.

+If you do not specify certain environment variables when

+you run the ifxdeploy command, or set them in an

+ifxdeploy.conf file, the deployment utility sets values

+based on the process environment.

+	Dynamic dbspace Relocation when Deploying Snapshots	See “Rapid IDS Embeddability with the Deployment
+		Utility” on page 5-2.

+You can dynamically reconfigure the chunk paths of a

+snapshot by using the -relocateoption of the deployment

+utility. The -relocateoption initializes the dbspaces

+required for deploying the template instance without a

+separate step for disk space initialization.

+

Table 2. What’s New in Version 11.50.xC5
Overview	Reference
Deploying IDS with the Deployment Utility (Windows)	See Chapter 5, “Deploying IDS with the Deployment
		Utility,” on page 5-1.
This command-line utility facilitates faster deployment of
a configured IDS instance. This utility is currently
available on Windows. The utility can be called
programmatically or from a script as part of an
application installation, and therefore supports completely
	silent IDS deployment.

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