Re: Shared memory connections

>>The purpose of the alias is to allow the same server to have different types of >>connections. If you only need shared memory connections you only need one line >>in the sqlhosts file per server. > >True. And I also have a need for network connections, and have a line for that >as well. My intent was to have two 'names' (INFORMIXSERVER values) for the >shared memory connection, so that purpose of the shared memory connection could >be infered from the connection name ('cockpit', vs. 'fourgen'). The manual >seemed to imply that this was possible, but it would appear that the terminology >in that chapter was a little vague, or my vocabulary was a bit poor. I took >'database server' to mean 'dbservername', rather than the physical host machine. You can define as many names as you need in the DBSERVERALIASES clause of Informix configuration file. Then describe each name in separate line of sqlhosts as you need - and go on Leonid