Perform Informix installation and create an instance on Windows
The first task in the embeddability tutorial is to complete an installation and create the HCL Informix® instance.
Install Informix on the template computer to prepare the master copy for later deployment. A custom installation is recommended because you can choose which features to install. This is one good way to reduce the footprint of Informix. Some features are mutually dependent and must be installed with one another. The good news is that the installation application manages these interdependencies.
Tip: You will be able to further reduce the footprint
of the installation when you create a snapshot of the Informix instance
with the deployment assistant by clearing features and packages that
you do not want to include in the snapshot.
Note: The deployment assistant ifxdeployassist (DA) is not supported starting Informix Server
version 14.10.xC7 and is no longer included with the product.
The embeddability tutorial for Windows™ is based on the following installation scenario:
- Informix 14.10 is installed in the default directory C:\Program Files\IBM\Informix
- An instance with the name
demo_on
is created
Important: The C:\Program Files\IBM\Informix installation
path and an instance named
demo_on
are assumptions
made for the tutorial. You can install Informix in
a directory of your choice and create an instance with the name of
your choice.