What's new for embeddability in HCL Informix, Version 12.10

You can now deploy Informix with the ifxdeploy utility as a non-root user on UNIX and Linux. The ifxdeploy utility has new options and does not use a configuration file. However, you can continue to use the deprecated syntax and configuration file.

On Windows operating systems, you now configure connectivity information for Informix servers by using the sqlhosts file, not the Windows registry. The file is installed in %INFORMIXDIR%\etc\sqlhosts.%INFORMIXSERVER%, and it uses the same format as the sqlhosts file on UNIX operating systems. The sync_registry Scheduler task automatically converts the connection information between the sqlhosts file format and the Windows registry format. The task runs every 15 minutes. You can manually convert the connection information between the sqlhosts file format and the Windows registry format by running the syncsqlhosts utility.

You can set local environment variables in the onconfig file for an Informix instance. These settings are independent of the global or system environment variable settings on the computer. The settings can be used by the following utilities: oncheck, onclean, oninit, onload, onlog, onmode, onparams, onspaces, onstat, ontape, onunload. When you run the Informix utility you must specify the -FILE option before any other options.

The -FILE option makes it easy to run Informix utilities on remote computers in embedded environments.