The INFORMIXSERVER environment variable specifies
the default database server to which an explicit or implicit connection
is made by an SQL API client, the DB-Access utility,
or other HCL
OneDB™ products.
This environment variable must be set before you can use HCL
OneDB client
products. It has the following syntax.
dbservername
is the name of the default database server.
The value of INFORMIXSERVER can be a local
or remote server, but must correspond to a valid dbservername entry
in the $INFORMIXDIR/etc/sqlhosts file on the computer
running the application. The dbservername must begin with a
lower-case letter and cannot exceed 128 bytes. It can include any
printable characters except uppercase characters, field delimiters
(blank space or tab), the newline character, and the hyphen (or minus)
symbol.
For example, this command specifies the coral database
server as the default:
setenv INFORMIXSERVER coral
INFORMIXSERVER specifies
the database server to which an application connects if the CONNECT
DEFAULT statement is executed. It also defines the database server
to which an initial implicit connection is established if the first
statement in an application is not a CONNECT statement.
Important: You must set INFORMIXSERVER even
if the application or DB-Access does not
use implicit or explicit default connections.