Perform Informix® installation and create an instance on Linux™
The first task in the embeddability tutorial is to complete an installation and create the HCL Informix® instance.
Install Informix® on the template computer to prepare the master copy for later deployment. A custom installation is recommended because you can choose the features to install. This is one good way to reduce the footprint of Informix®. Some features are mutually dependent and must be installed with one another. The good news is that the installation application manages these interdependencies.
Tip: You will be able to further reduce the footprint
of the installation when you create a snapshot of the Informix® instance
with the deployment assistant by clearing features and packages that
you do not want to include in the snapshot.
The embeddability tutorial for Linux™ is based on the following installation scenario:
- Informix® 14.10 is installed in the default directory /opt/IBM/informix
- An instance with the name
demo_on
is created
Important: The /opt/IBM/informix installation path and an instance
named
demo_on
are assumptions made for the tutorial. You can install Informix® in a directory of your choice and create an
instance with the name of your choice.Note: The deployment assistant ifxdeployassist (DA) is not supported starting Informix Server
version 14.10.xC7 and is no longer included with the product.