Informix CLI installation quirk (was: Re: ODBC for Informix?)

In article <237cd$111ca.37@www.qed.com>, I wrote: >In article <32F27BE0.6B5E@autodesk.com>, diana.rae@autodesk.com wrote: > >>What are other ODBC choices to connect to Informix (without I-Net) >>besides OpenLink? I have had some problems connecting with OpenLink. > >Informix has a product called "CLI" (for reasons that esacape me) which >provides ODBC connectivity. [...] > >I've had mixed results from CLI. We've installed it on two NT systems here >and it works great. On a third system any attempt to connect with our server >results in a "memory allocation failed" message (on a system that shows 12MB >available physical memory and 58MB available paging space -- right...). > >So far Informix has offered no response to be problem report, so I have no >idea what the cause is. Caveat emptor. I did eventually get a response from Informix Tech Support which cleared up the problem on the third system. I was advised to run a program called "regcopy" to copy the Informix environment settings in the Registry from the default user to the current user. It worked. I believe that the problem may have been caused by a quirk of which user ID was used to install the software and which to run it, though I never received confirmation of that. This procedure was not documented in the CLI Installation Guide. Informix Tech Support claims that there is documentation for this in a book called the Client Products Installation and Configuration Guide for Microsoft Windows Environments, but nobody I've talked to here has ever seen that book. It doesn't seem to be something that Informix normally ships along with CLI.