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Installing
These topics describe how to install HCL Informix® database servers, client products, and DataBlade® modules.
Informix® server
These topics describe how to install HCL Informix® database servers.
Installing Informix®
The Informix® Installation Guide describes how to install, configure, and initialize the HCL Informix database server.
Running non-interactive installations
You can run non-interactive installations after you first run an interactive installation during which you create an installation template.
Running a silent installation
You can run a silent installation command that does not require interaction.

Installing
These topics describe how to install HCL Informix® database servers, client products, and DataBlade® modules.
- Informix® server
  These topics describe how to install HCL Informix® database servers.
  - Installing Informix®
    The Informix® Installation Guide describes how to install, configure, and initialize the HCL Informix database server.
    - Preparing for installation
      Before you install Informix® database server products, you must prepare your system and plan for choices that you must make during the installation process.
    - Running an interactive installation
      You can install the Informix® database server by running the interactive installation application. You can choose a typical or a custom setup.
    - Running non-interactive installations
      You can run non-interactive installations after you first run an interactive installation during which you create an installation template.
      - Preparing a response file
        Before you run a silent installation, you must run an interactive installation to create a response file. The response file contains information about how to install the database server on other computers that have the same basic type of operating system: either a UNIX operating system (including Linux and Mac OS X), or a Windows operating system.
      - Running a silent installation
        You can run a silent installation command that does not require interaction.
    - Installation command syntax
      You can include options to the installation command when you run the command from the command line.
    - Installation troubleshooting
      Installation log files and return codes can provide helpful information about a completed installation or help you identify problems encountered during an installation attempt.
    - Creating a database server after installation
      You create a database server by setting mandatory database server properties and then starting the database server.
    - Stopping and starting the database server
      Various configuration tasks require you to stop and then start the database server. Shared memory is initialized every time that the database server starts.
    - Microsoft failover clustering support (Windows)
      HCL Informix® database server supports Microsoft™ Failover Cluster (known as Microsoft Cluster Server, or MSCS, in earlier Windows™ releases). That built-in feature of the Windows operating system can automatically detect and respond to server or application failure, and can balance server workloads.
    - Multiresidency
      Multiple residency refers to multiple database servers and their associated shared memory and disk structures that coexist on a single computer.
    - Removing or modifying Informix® installations
      You can remove Informix® products.
- Client products
  These topics describe how to install HCL Informix® client products.
- DataBlade modules
  These topics describe how to install HCL Informix® DataBlade® modules.
- Informix® warehouse accelerator
  These topics describe how to install HCL Informix® warehouse accelerator.

Running a silent installation

You can run a silent installation command that does not require interaction.

Before you begin

Before you start a silent installation, complete the following tasks:

Prepare your target systems for installation.
Log in as the appropriate user to be the owner of the database server.
Prepare a response file. You need different response files for UNIX-style operating systems and Windows operating systems.

About this task

On each target computer, you can edit the response file to customize the silent installation in the following ways:

Accept the license. Include the LICENSE_ACCEPTED=TRUE property.
Bypass operating system prerequisite checks. Use with caution. Include the PRQCHECK=FALSE property.
Set the installation path. Include the USER_INSTALL_DIR=path property.
Overwrite existing product installations. Use with caution. Include the OVERWRITE_PRODUCT=TRUE property.
Create and start a database server during installation. Include the IDS_INSTANCE_CREATE=1 and IDS_INSTANCE_INIT=1 properties.

Procedure

To run a silent installation on each target computer:

Copy the response file and the installation media to the computer where you want to install the database server.
Run the silent installation command, specifying the absolute path to the response file after the -f option:
- UNIX, Linux, Mac OS X: ids_install -i silent -f response_file_path
- Windows: ids_install.exe -i silent -f response_file_path
You can include some of the silent installation properties in the command instead of setting them in the response file.
Complete any applicable postinstallation tasks, including initiating the disk space when you start the server for the first time.
If you choose to create and start a database server during installation, the database server is configured, initialized, started, and ready for client connections.

Results

Log files are created during the installation process. You can use the log files to troubleshoot installation errors.

Example

The following silent installation command specifies the default response file in the media_dir directory, specifies an installation directory of opt/IBM/Informix with the -DUSER_INSTALL_DIR property, and accepts the license with the -DLICENSE_ACCEPTED=TRUE property:

ids_install -i silent -f media_dir/bundle.properties 
    -DUSER_INSTALL_DIR=opt/IBM/Informix -DLICENSE_ACCEPTED=TRUE