Overview of embedding Informix products

You can embed Informix® products in your applications by taking advantage of customizable deployment options and configurable administration features. You can use the embeddability features in combination with other product features for installation footprint reduction and high-availability clustering to achieve a quicker and easier end-to-end deployment solution.

Customize the size of Informix
If your application runs in a low-memory environment, you might need to minimize the size of HCL Informix.
Customize a silent installation
You can create a silent installation script, customized for your requirements, that you can use multiple times.
Easy deployment
You can use the deployment tools to quickly and easily deploy HCL Informix to multiple locations.
Synchronize connectivity information between servers and clients on Windows
On the Windows operating system, you must configure connectivity information for Informix Servers by using the sqlhosts file.
Automated administration
You can automate database server administration to minimize or eliminate the need for a database administrator after deployment of the database server instance as an embedded solution.
Easy configuration in embedded environments
You can configure and tune the database server in embedded environments, regardless of the workload or information you have about resources.
Specify the Informix environment in the onconfig file
You can set local environment variables in the onconfig file for the Informix instance. These settings, which are independent of the global or system environment variable settings on the computer, can be used by the oninit, oncheck, onclean, onload and onunload, onlog, onmode, onparams, onspaces, onstat, and ontape utilities in embedded environments.
Maintain Informix availability
You can ensure that your applications can always access HCL Informix even if a single server fails by configuring a high-availability solution.

Parent topic: Embedding HCL Informix