Perform Informix® installation and create an instance on Windows™
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 which 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.
Note: The deployment assistant ifxdeployassist (DA) is not supported starting Informix Server
version 14.10.xC7 and is no longer included with the product.
The embeddability tutorial for Windows™ is based on the following installation scenario:
- Informix® 14.10 is installed in the default directory C:\Program Files\IBM\Informix
- An instance with the name
demo_on
is created
Important: The C:\Program Files\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.