Starting the InformixHQ Server and the Agent on Windows

This topic provides a brief tutorial about the script used to get started with InformixHQ Server and Agent on Windows.

Locate your informixHQ.bat for Windows (default path is %INFORMIXDIR%/hq).
Use command InformixHQ help to see sample syntax: e.g- InformixHQ.bat help.
Tip: User can only run InformixHQ.bat for help menu

Figure 1. InformixHQ help
Use command to start InformixHQ server with default file names. e.g- InformixHQ.bat startserver

It will start a INFORMIXHQ Server with default values for all the parameters including jar file name (informixhq-server.jar) and properties filename (informixhq-server.properties)
Use command to start InformixHQ agent with default filenames. e.g- InformixHQ.bat startagent.

It will start a INFORMIXHQ Agent with default values for all the parameters including jar file name (informixhq-agent.jar) and properties filename (informixhq-agent.properties).
List the Java processes running. It will list all the InformixHQ processes running with ProcessID e.g. – InformixHQ.bat list.
Stop the InformixHQ server or agent by providing processID to stop command. It will stop InformixHQ process with provided processID. e.g. – InformixHQ.bat stop 11376.

Following are sample commands where user can provide custom values (similar commands will work with agent)

optional jar and properties filename to start InformixHQ server:

InformixHQ.bat startserver jarfile=informixhq-myinstance1.jar propfile=hqserver.properties

Use encoding and JVM value:

InformixHQ startserver Encoding=utf-8 JVMMemx=1004m

Use all input:

InformixHQ.bat startserver Encoding=utf-8 JVMMemx=1004m jarfile=informixhq-server.jar propfile=hqserver.properties