Re: What is in the name ?

From: tqma@my-deja.com > >In article <82oird$9eb$1@news.xmission.com>, > "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > From: tqma@my-deja.com > > > > > >Would someone please explain what are the > > >relationship/difference among: > > > > > >DBSERVERNAME, > > >INFORMIXSERVER, and > > >hostname > > > > INFORMIXSERVER points to an entry in your sqlhosts and the >DBSERVERNAME or> > DBSERVERALIASES entries in the onconfig file. It allows you to, for >example, > > quickly change between shared memory and TCP connections on your >local > > machine or to switch to a connection on another machine. > > > > These refer to an instance of Informix running on a particular host >(you can > > have many running on a single host) > >So, if I have just one instance of Informix runing on a host >then all these names can point to the same name, the hostname ? The hostname is the name of the machine. You have different INFORMIXSERVER and DBSERVERNAME/DBSERVERALIASES names to differentiate between (say) TCP/IP and shared memeory connections on the same server. The hostname field in each line would be the same. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com