IBM Informix Installation Guide(官方E文安装手册)

Informix Product Library
Informix
Version 11.70


IBM Informix Installation Guide
for UNIX, Linux, and Mac OS X


IBM


GC27-3537-02
Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
About this publication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
What's new in installation for IBM Informix, Version 11.70 . . . . . . v
IBM Informix editions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii
Example code conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii
Additional documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Compliance with industry standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Syntax diagrams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
How to read a command-line syntax diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x
Keywords and punctuation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Identifiers and names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
Chapter 1. Preparing to install Informix and client products . . . .. 1-1
Preparing the operating system for installation . . . . . . . . . . .  . 1-1
Determine system requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2
Disk space requirements for IBM Informix. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2
Loading product files (UNIX and Linux) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2
Extracting product files (Mac OS X) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3
Creating the group informix and user informix . . . . . . . . . .. 1-3
Group informix. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3
User informix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4
Non-root installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4
Select installation options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5
Typical and custom installation options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1-5
Select an installation directory: $INFORMIXDIR . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6
Deployment wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-7
Role separation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-7
Response file (UNIX and Linux) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . 1-8
Response file (Mac OS X) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8
Other IBM product installation files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8
Chapter 2. Installing Informix and client products on UNIX and Linux . .  . 2-1
Installing Informix and client products quickly with defaults (UNIX and Linux) .   2-1
Installing Informix with selected features and client products (UNIX and Linux) . 2-2
Installation command for the IBM Informix software bundle. . . . . . . . . . 2-2
Performing a silent installation of Informix and client products. . . . . . . . . . . 2-4
Extracting and redistributing Informix products with scripts (UNIX, Linux). . . .. 2-5
Securing a nonsecure Informix installation path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6
Automatically securing the installation path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7
Securing the installation path after completing installation . . . . . . . . . .  . . 2-7
Configuring installation path permissions during installation . . . . . . . . 2-8
Installing client products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-9
Performing an inline Informix upgrade on UNIX and Linux . . . . . . . .. 2-10
Log files and troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-10
Chapter 3. Installing Informix on Mac OS X. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1
Installing Informix quickly with defaults (Mac OS X) . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 3-1
Installing Informix with selected features (Mac OS X) . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 3-2
Performing an unattended Informix installation (Mac OS X). . . . . . . . . . 3-3
Chapter 4. Configuring a database server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1
Setting environment variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1
Preparing connectivity files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2
Setting configuration parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3
© Copyright IBM Corp. 1996, 2011 iii
Initializing and starting a database server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . 4-4
Chapter 5. Setting up multiple residency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1
Host multiple database servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1
Plan for multiple residency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1
Creating multiple residency of a database server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2
Setting up an instance-specific onconfig file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2
TCP/IP connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3
Prevent data from being overwritten. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
Prepare the backup environment for multiple residency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
Modify operating system startup for multiple server instances . . . . . . . . . .. 5-4
Reset the INFORMIXSERVER environment variable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-5
Chapter 6. Removing or modifying IBM Informix and client products installations on
UNIX and Linux. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1
Removing Informix products and features (UNIX and Linux) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1
Removing an Informix software bundle installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1
Uninstalling an Informix database server installation (UNIX and Linux). . . . . . 6-1
Chapter 7. Removing or modifying an installation on Mac OS X. . . . . . . . . . . 7-1
Adding features to an Informix installation (Mac OS X) . . . . . . . . . . .  . . 7-1
Removing Informix and installed features (Mac OS X). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1
Appendix. Accessibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-1
Accessibility features for IBM Informix products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-1
Accessibility features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-1
Keyboard navigation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-1
Related accessibility information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-1
IBM and accessibility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-1
Dotted decimal syntax diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-1
Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-1
Trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-3
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X-1