IDS 7.3 on SCO

Hi there!! I'm trying to install the Informix Dynamic Server Workgroup edition on a SCO machine. The unpacking of the product has succeeded but when executing oninit he reclams something about the shared memory. Has anybody experience in installing Informix on SCO? and if so, can anybody give me some advice about eventual parameters to check. Thanks, A desperate informix user. Danny De Koster

First, be sure to read the SCO specific release notes in the informix installation directory (e.g. /usr/informix/release). You will have to modify the shared memory kernel parameters for your SCO OS. Assuming you are running version 5.0.5 or 5.0.4 use the ScoAdmin Kernel Configuration manager and increase the value of SHMMAX to an amount greater than the shared memory required to run your Informix engine.The default value is only 1/2 MB. If you expect to allocate a very large amount of shared memory, you will also have to increase MAXUMEM, which I believe is a multiple of OS page size (2 or 4K increments). Remember the kernel should only be modified in single user mode and a kernel rebuild/reboot will be necessary. Fidelity Soft nv wrote: > Hi there!! > > I'm trying to install the Informix Dynamic Server Workgroup edition on a SCO > machine. > The unpacking of the product has succeeded but when executing oninit he > reclams something about the shared memory. > > Has anybody experience in installing Informix on SCO? and if so, can anybody > give me some advice about eventual parameters to check. > > Thanks, > > A desperate informix user. > Danny De Koster