Starting the database server

Use the oninit utility to start the database server.

Before you begin

• You must be logged in as user root, user informix, or be the non-root database server owner.
• The disk space for the database server must be initialized once to prepare the root dbspace so that it can be used by the database server. If you performed a typical installation and chose to create a server instance or you performed a custom installation and chose to create and initialize the server, disk space is already initialized.
• If you chose not to create a server instance or not to initialize the server during installation, start the server and initialize the disk space by using the oninit -i command.
• If you are upgrading from a previous version of HCL Informix® and you are using the same root dbspace, do not initialize the disk space.