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MACHINE SPECIFIC NOTES
FOR
HCL INFORMIX 4GL 7.51.FC5 RELEASE
ON Linux PPC (little endian) 64-bit
November 2025
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OS Information : Built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.8 (Ootpa)
* Certified on SUSE SLES 12 and 15
COMPILER VERSION : gcc and c++ compiler 11.2.1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.8
CLIENT SDK : 4GL 7.51.FC5 built using HCL CSDK 15.0.1.0
* Known certifications at the time of release
Special Instructions:
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This product was built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.8 (Ootpa)
for 64-Bit Power Series Architecture little endian with Kernel version
4.18.0 and glibc 2.28 using the following compilers:
gcc version 11.2.1 20220127 (Red Hat 11.2.1-9) (GCC)
Its highly recommended that 4GL products and CSDK products be installed into separate folders, however if its really needed to be installed into same folder then minimum version of CSDK that is needed is 15.0.1.0
Special Instructions for Classic 4GL:
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Classic 4GL components have following external dependencies and needs given enviornment variables set properly.
1) Informix 4GL products have a dependency on 'LIBCURSES', which should be installed on the system prior to using Informix 4GL products.
2) The $LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable must be set to
$INFORMIXDIR/lib:$INFORMIXDIR/lib/esql:$INFORMIXDIR/lib/tools.
3) If curses library is installed on non-standard location then $LD_LIBRARY_PATH needs to be updated to include location where libcurses.so can be found
4) Informix 4GL requires TERM and TERMCAP environment variables set correctly
For example : Following would be minimal enviornment variables that needs to be set
Example environment variables for Classic 4GL
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INFORMIXDIR=<Location of 4GL installation>
INFORMIXSERVER=<IDS server instance>
INFORMIXSQLHOSTS=<Sqlhosts file for database connection>
TERM=xterm
TERMCAP=$INFORMIXDIR/etc/termcap
PATH=$PATH:.:$INFORMIXDIR/bin:$INFORMIXDIR/lib
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$INFORMIXDIR/lib:$INFORMIXDIR/lib/esql:$INFORMIXDIR/lib/tools
export INFORMIXDIR INFORMIXSERVER INFORMIXSQLHOSTS TERM TERMCAP PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Deprecated Features
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Due to changes in related functionality, the introduction of
new functionality, or the removal of support, some HCL Informix.4GL
functionality available in earlier releases has been deprecated, and
will no longer be supported.
Functionality deprecated in 4GL Version 7.51.xC2 is 4GL Web Services (SOA).
This includes all utilities and services used to generate artifacts, as
well as the AXIS2C web server.
This applies to the 7.51.xC2 Version of 4GL, and all earlier releases.
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