Easy deployment
You can use the deployment tools to quickly and easily deploy Informix® to multiple locations.
You can take a snapshot of a fully configured Informix® instance and its databases with the deployment assistant. You can then deploy that snapshot with the deployment utility to multiple target computers with one command.
The Informix® embeddability tutorial provides step-by-step methods for using the deployment tools and writing a silent installation script. Specifically, the tutorial walks you through archiving of an installed database server instance with its associated data spaces on a template computer and deploying the snapshot on a different computer. A script-based method, such as described in the tutorial, can maximize the embeddability benefits of the deployment tools.