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MACHINE SPECIFIC NOTES
FOR
IBM Informix Database Server 12.10.TC5 PRODUCT RELEASE
ON Windows
DATE: 09 Mar 2015
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OS Information : Built on Windows Server 2003, Certified on Windows XP
(except Home Edition), Windows Server 2008,
Windows Vista (except Home Edition),
Windows 7 (except Home Edition),
Windows 8 (except RT Edtion),
Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2.
System Requirements
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1. This product is built on Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 2 using the
following compiler from Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (Version 9.0.21022.8):
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 91605-270-200004-60370
2. Operating system patches information for the IBM Informix Database Server
The following patches are required if you intend to configure Informix
Database Server instances with larger than the default shared memory size,
such as increasing the number of buffers and locks from their default size
during installation.
Windows 2003 Service Pack 2
948656 Fix for "A program that allocates a large block of contiguous
memory may not start or may intermittently fail in Windows
Server 2003 with Service Pack 2."
Windows XP Service Pack 2
894472 Fix for "Third-party programs that require lots of memory do
not run in Windows XP Service Pack 2."
For information about Microsoft service packs and patches, see the Microsoft
Support web site at http://support.microsoft.com.
3. Enable Connections on Windows Vista
To enable connections between database servers on the Vista operating
system, you must enable network discovery and NetBIOS over TCP/IP.
To enable connections:
1) From the Control Panel, double-click Network and Sharing.
2) In the Sharing and Discovery section of the Network and Sharing Center,
click Network discovery and then Turn on network discovery.
3) In the Network section, click View Status next to the Local Area
Connection.
4) In the Local Area Connection Status dialog box, click Properties.
5) In the Local Area Connection Properties dialog box, choose the
appropriate Internet Protocol Version and click Properties.
6) In the Internet Protocol Version Properties dialog box, click Advanced.
7) On the WINS page of the Advanced TCP/IP Settings dialog box, click
Enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP and then click OK.
8) Continue clicking OK or Close until all dialog boxes are closed.
4. IBM Informix Database Server uses the libraries and utilities provided by
the IBM Global Security Kit (GSKit) for data encryption and Secure Sockets
Layer (SSL) communication. The GSKit is bundled with the server and will
be installed on your machine as part of the server installation process.
Here are more details on the GSKit:
a. The GSKit is also bundled with other IBM products and might
already be present on your machine. If the GSKit was previously
installed, but is older than version 8.0.50.20, Informix server will
upgrade the GSKit on your machine to version 8.0.50.20. If GSKit is
not installed, Informix server will install GSKit in
\Program Files\ibm\gsk8 directory on your machine.
b. The GSKit installation directory must have 25 MB of free disk space.
5. Using BladeManager 4.20
If the GUI BladeManager wblademgr.exe is used, Microsoft .NET Framework v2
or higher is required to be installed on the system.
6. Installation Prerequisite on Windows 7 or Later Versions
For Windows 7 and subsequent Windows versions, you must turn off User
Account Control (UAC) security before you install IBM® Informix®.
For information about how to create groups, add users to groups, and
turn off User Account Control, see your Windows documentation.
Check the following web site for the latest Windows system requirements
for IBM Informix Database Server:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=630&uid=swg27013343
System Configuration
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1. Location of Shared Memory
The ONCONFIG variable SHMBASE is recommended to be set to the following:
SHMBASE 0xc000000L
2. Support maximum shared memory
The database server can access shared-memory larger than two gigabytes
on Windows. However, you must enable this feature with an entry in the
Windows boot file.
To add the entry, edit the boot.ini file (located in the top level, or
root directory). You can either add a new boot option or use the currently
existing boot option. To enable support for more than two gigabytes, add
the following text to the end of the boot line:
/3GB
3. Administrator permission for running server utilities
On Windows Vista, Windows 2008 and Windows 7, you must run any
server utility commands with administrator permission: for example,
the 'oninit -iy' command to initialize the server.
To run Informix utility commands as an administrator, from the Start menu,
choose the Informix server name and then choose "Run as administrator".
A command prompt with administrator permissions opens.
Feature Notes (alphabetized by feature)
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1. Informix Interface for TSM
The Informix Interface DLL for TSM is installed as
%INFORMIXDIR%\bin\libtxbsa.dll
This interface is built with TSM API version 5.1.6.
To use Tivoli Storage Manager with Informix databases, refer to IBM
Informix Backup and Restore Guide.
2. IPv6 Support
The Informix database server supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (128 Bit
Internet Addresses) as well as IPv4 (32 Bit Addresses).
In order for the machine name that is specified in the SQLHOSTS registry
to resolve to the correct IP address, the name services files on the
Operating System should be correctly configured.
For compatibility with earlier version of Informix client and server
products, assign each host name with both an IPv4 address and an IPv6
address. If the listener needs to be bound to an IPv4 address, and the
name services resolve the name in the order of the IPv6 address followed
by the IPv4 address, then an explicit IPv4 address needs to be put in the
nodename field of server registry.
3. J/Foundation (Java in the Server)
The IBM Runtime Environment, Java(TM) Technology Edition, Version 7.0
release is installed in c:/informix1210/extend/krakatoa/jre and should be
used with the J/Foundation component.
A Java user-defined routine (UDR) runs in a Java virtual processor. Use
the VPCLASS configuration parameter to specify the number of virtual
processors for the server. You configure Java virtual processors in
the "Java configuration parameters" section of the onconfig configuration
file. The default onconfig.std file is in the c:/informix1210/etc directory.
To develop Java UDRs for the server on this platform, use Java Platform,
Standard Edition Development Kit (JDK) 7 or an earlier version according
to Java compatibility guidelines. That kit can be downloaded from
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk7-downloads-1880260.html.
4. LDAP Authentication
This feature is set up and configured like the Pluggable Authentication
Module (PAM) that is used on UNIX and Linux. Use the LDAP Authentication
Support module when you want to use an LDAP server to authenticate your
system users.
The authentication module is a dynamic link library that resides in the
%INFORMIXDIR%\dbssodir\lib\security directory. The parameters of the module
are listed in the %INFORMIXDIR%\dbssodir\pam.conf file.
The source code for a fully functional LDAP Authentication Module and
samples of the required configuration files are included in the
%INFORMIXDIR%\demo\authentication directory. You can modify the code for
your specific LDAP Authentication Support module.
5. Network Protocols
The following protocol(s)/interface(s) are supported on this platform:
SOCKETS using TCP/IP
IPC using named pipe
To use SOCKETS with TCP/IP:
a. The NETTYPE entry in the ONCONFIG file and the value data of
PROTOCOL in the SQLHOSTS registry entry must contain "onsoctcp"
b. To enable an IBM Data Server Client to connect to the database
server, the NETTYPE entry in the ONCONFIG file and the value
data of PROTOCOL in the SQLHOSTS registry entry must contain
"drsoctcp"
If a CLI or JCC client wants to connect to the database server
through DRDA while supporting SQLI connections, you must add a
DBSERVERALIASES entry to the ONCONFIG file that corresponds to
the SQLHOSTS registry entry.
To use IPC (interprocess communication) with named pipe:
a. The NETTYPE entry in the ONCONFIG file and the value data of
PROTOCOL in the SQLHOSTS registry entry must contain "onipcnmp".
6. OnLine Backup and Restore (ON-Bar)
ON-Bar uses the XBSA interface. Some of the functions invoked by ON-Bar
are in a dynamic link library supplied by third party storage management
vendors. For ON-Bar to access these functions, you must specify the library
name and location in the BAR_BSALIB_PATH parameter in the ONCONFIG file.
For example, if you are using PSM:
Set BAR_BSALIB_PATH to %INFORMIXDIR%\bin\libbsapsm.dll
For example, if you are using TSM:
Set BAR_BSALIB_PATH to %INFORMIXDIR%\bin\libtxbsa.dll
7. Secure Sockets Layer
IBM Informix Database Server uses the libraries and utilities provided by
the IBM Global Security Kit (GSKit) for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
communication.
8. Simple Password Communications Support Module
The name of the IBM Informix dynamic link library for Simple Password CSM
on Windows is libixspw.dll. This dynamic link library is installed in
%INFORMIXDIR%\bin.
Features not supported
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1. Shared Disk Secondary Servers
2. Mapped users
Known Defects in this release
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For information about known defects in this release, see:
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27044956
Defects Fixed in this release
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For information about defects fixed in this release, see:
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27044953
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