Two INFORMIXDIR values?

Hello All, I started to play with Informix recently and experienced following problem. The server IDS I installed on Windows 2000 host. INFORMIXDIR variable points to the folder containing the sever, c:\\Informix. OK. On another Windows machine I installed SDK and tried to code an application retrieving data from the server. The problem is that on the client computer the INFORMIXDIR points to the folder containing SDK stuff, for example c:\\Program Files\\Informix\\Client-SDK. That causes that example appplications, like dbaccess can't setup connection to IDS. When I change the INFORMIXDIR variable so that it points to remote host, for example \\\\remote_host\\Informix, the dbaccess runs fine, but esql cannot compile the .ec file, because it needs files from the client machine, placed in the folder pointed by INFORMIXDIR. God, what I did wrong? Any hints will be greatly appreciated. Regards, Grzesiek

Grzesiek M wrote: > Hello All, > > I started to play with Informix recently and experienced following > problem. The server IDS I installed on Windows 2000 host. INFORMIXDIR > variable points to the folder containing the sever, c:\\Informix. OK. > On another Windows machine I installed SDK and tried to code an > application retrieving data from the server. > The problem is that on the client computer the INFORMIXDIR points to > the folder containing SDK stuff, for example c:\\Program > Files\\Informix\\Client-SDK. That causes that example appplications, > like dbaccess can't setup connection to IDS. When I change the > INFORMIXDIR variable so that it points to remote host, for example > \\\\remote_host\\Informix, the dbaccess runs fine, but esql cannot > compile the .ec file, because it needs files from the client machine, > placed in the folder pointed by INFORMIXDIR. > God, what I did wrong? You used Windows? Sorry to be smug about it but the real question is why are you using Windows? Can you use Linux? You'll find it much easier to manage and deploy if you don't have to do this on Windows. Informix was never really designed to work as well on Windows as it does on UNIX or Linux. > Any hints will be greatly appreciated. > Regards, > Grzesiek

> Informix was > never really designed to work as well on Windows as it does on UNIX > or Linux. Informix was first ported to Windows around 10 years ago (7.10.TD1), in some ways it improved upon the UNIX design, for example reducing context switching overhead by implementing virtual processors as operating system threads instead of processes. Admittedly some features such as multiple residency weren't ported to Windows until version 7.30. Confusion usually arises from the way IDS and Client SDK use the Windows registry. In the case of this problem there are some things I don't understand.. You installed IDS on machine1, and Client SDK on machine2. Where are you running dbaccess.exe from? Are you running it on machine2 using a share on machine1? I'm not sure I'd call dbaccess an example application, it's an IDS utility. If you want to use it, why not install IDS and Client SDK on machine2 together and do a remote connection in dbaccess to machine1? If this was UNIX (since we're making the comparison) I'd telnet to machine1 to run dbaccess if I didn't want to install IDS on machine2. Have you considered a similar approach to make a remote Windows connection to machine1, e.g. Remote Desktop, install a telnet server, vnc, ssl connection, etc.. Guy Data Goob wrote: > Grzesiek M wrote: > >> Hello All, >> >> I started to play with Informix recently and experienced following >> problem. The server IDS I installed on Windows 2000 host. INFORMIXDIR >> variable points to the folder containing the sever, c:\\Informix. OK. >> On another Windows machine I installed SDK and tried to code an >> application retrieving data from the server. >> The problem is that on the client computer the INFORMIXDIR points to >> the folder containing SDK stuff, for example c:\\Program >> Files\\Informix\\Client-SDK. That causes that example appplications, >> like dbaccess can't setup connection to IDS. When I change the >> INFORMIXDIR variable so that it points to remote host, for example >> \\\\remote_host\\Informix, the dbaccess runs fine, but esql cannot >> compile the .ec file, because it needs files from the client machine, >> placed in the folder pointed by INFORMIXDIR. >> God, what I did wrong? > > > You used Windows? > > Sorry to be smug about it but the real question is why are you using > Windows? Can you use Linux? You'll find it much easier to manage > and deploy if you don't have to do this on Windows. Informix was > never really designed to work as well on Windows as it does on UNIX > or Linux. > >> Any hints will be greatly appreciated. >> Regards, >> Grzesiek > >

"Data Goob" <datagoob@netscape.net> wrote in message news:MfSDd.184$Fi3.69@text.usenetserver.com... > Informix was never really designed to work as well on Windows as it does > on UNIX > or Linux. To be pedantic, Informix was in fact, as per the derivation of its name, *designed* to work only on UNIX.