installing 4gl and IDS in different directories
Juan Roca asked whether 4GL and IDS can be installed in different directories. Art Kagel said yes: point INFORMIXDIR, LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PATH at the 4GL directory for development and use INFORMIXSQLHOSTS to find the sqlhosts file. Alexandre said it is possible, even recommended, and Fernando Nunes preferred separate directories for permissions, install order and upgrades. Answered.
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Is it possible? What about INFORMIXDIR env. variable?
Yes, you can do that. You will have to set INFORMIXDIR, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and PATH to point to the 4GL directory for development and for applications written in 4GL to run and use the INFORMIXSQLHOSTS environment variable to point to the sqlhosts file installed in the engine's $INFORMIXDIR/etc or make a link to it in the 4GL $INFORMIXDIR/etc. But it works. Why go through the trouble though? Art Art S. Kagel Advanced DataTools (www.advancedatatools.com) IIUG Board of Directors (art@iiug.org) Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that my own opinions are my own opinions and do not reflect on my employer, Advanced DataTools, the IIUG, nor any other organization with which I am associated either explicitly, implicitly, or by inference. Neither do those opinions reflect those of other individuals affiliated with any entity with which I am affiliated nor those of the entities themselves. On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 11:55 AM, JUAN ROCA <jluis.roca@hotmail.com> wrote: > Is it possible? > > What about INFORMIXDIR env. variable? > > > > ******************************************************************************* > Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum. > > --00163630ee9d043c860491f4e23f
Yes it is possible, and even recommended (if you want your developers team not to have access to dba tools, for example) but if your asking about "engine on 64 bits" and 4gl client only (32 bits) you could install the 4gl first, then the engine, on the same dir, no problems. (I´ve doing this on linux_64 machine, you didn´t specify your environment), sorry. Best regards. Em 06/10/2010 11:55, JUAN ROCA escreveu: > Is it possible? > > What about INFORMIXDIR env. variable? > > > ******************************************************************************* > Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum. > > -- Alexandre Marini Tecnologia da Informação - DBA msn: alexandre_marini@hotmail.com SEFAZ-MS / SGI-UGSR / Sistemas IBM-Informix Cert-Info-Mgmt_color IBM Informix Dynamic Server Certified Professional V10 / V11
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 4:55 PM, JUAN ROCA <jluis.roca@hotmail.com> wrote: > Is it possible? > > What about INFORMIXDIR env. variable? > > I would not even think about doing it differently. INFORMIXDIR is always the product installation directory for the tools/command you're using. You will notice that Art prefers to put everything in the same dir, but I don't like that. Obviosuly this is not a question if your client machine is different from the database server. I like do install each in it's own directory because it keeps things separately, you don't have to care about product installation order, you don't have to care about directory permissions (you may want to give different access to different installations), and it's easier to clean up if you upgrade one of them. -- Fernando Nunes Portugal http://informix-technology.blogspot.com My email works... but I don't check it frequently... --0022152d6e59d515e70491f5a383