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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.
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.

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.
    - 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.

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.

Tracing

Tracing is not enabled by default. You can enable tracing, set the level of tracing detail that is logged, and set the location of the debug files. To do so, include the -DDEBUG_LEVEL and -DDEBUG_FILE options with the installation command.

Log files

When you install the database server, the installation application generates log files in the same directory as the installation media. You can change the default location of your log files and enable tracing during installation.

Installation and deployment log file

The installation and deployment log file, iad_act.log, is created by the installation application when you install products in the Informix® software bundle.

UNIX™, Linux™, Mac OS X: /tmp/iad_act.log
Windows™: \tmp\iad_act.log

Standard output and standard error log files

The stdout and stderr log files contain important information that you can use to debug installation failures.

UNIX™, Linux™, Mac OS X: /tmp/bundle_install.stdout and /tmp/bundle_install.stderr
Windows™: \tmp\bundle_install.stdout and \tmp\bundle_install.stderr

Client products have separate log files.

InstallAnywhere log file

The InstallAnywhere log file contains information that is generated by the InstallAnywhere framework.

UNIX™, Linux™, Mac OS X: $INFORMIXDIR/IBM_Informix_version_Install_date.log
Windows™: %INFORMIXDIR%\IBM_Informix_version_Install_date.log

If the installation application fails, the InstallAnywhere log files are placed in the following directories:

UNIX™, Linux™, Mac OS X: home directory
Windows™: Desktop

InstallAnywhere return code (UNIX™, Linux™, Mac OS X)

You can check the InstallAnywhere return code, also known as the exit code, after running the installation application to learn more about the installation status and possible error conditions. To retrieve the return code, run this command after the installation application finishes:

echo $?

For information about the InstallAnywhere return code, see the documentation at the Flexera Software web site: http://www.flexerasoftware.com.