Re: How can I start Informix SE

Informix-SE is nothing like Informix-OL. There is no tbinit. You need $INFORMXIDIR set to point to the directory you have installed Informix into, and $INFORMIXDIR/bin appended to your $PATH. If you are using v7 there's some stuff you need to do with sqlhosts (and /etc/services) as well. You should then be able to load 'dbaccess' on the machine with Informix loaded to create a database. When you kick of the dbaccess program it starts it's own sqlexec back end, and data requests go from your keyboard, to dbaccess, to sqlexec. sqlexec gets the stuff from the database, sends it back to dbaccess which then displays it on your screen. Same thing with ISQL and any program you have compiled, either to executables (in which case 'myprog.4ge' is in place of 'dbaccess') or RDS (when 'fglgo' or your own customised runner is in place of 'dbaccess'). V5 documentation used to come in the form of a great big pile of books, but these Answers Online and Answers Online Chronicles (which is the one you want) seem to be taking over. In article <35ff8d26.0@dial-in.encomix.es>, Angel L Cabello <angel@icsa.es> writes >I am not new to informix, but I have been working with old online v >5.01.UD2. Now Informix has reelase informix SE for linux, and I'd like to >test it. I have installed all the packages, but there is no tbinit to start >the database, and dbaccess say something about some environment variable >that I don't know. This informix came without documentation, so where can I >get documentation for Informix SE administration, I think the other things >will be similar to informix online. -- Surfer! http://www.nevis-vieww.demon.co.uk http://www.nevis-vieww.demon.co.uk/flash Hopeful anti-spam: alter double 'w' to single 'w' to view site & send Email.