- Make the UNIX computer a trusted host on your Windows computer.
- Verify that the UNIX computer and Windows computers can
connect to each other.
- Install a database server on the Windows computer.
Verify that the database server is running.
- Install a database server on the UNIX computer.
Ensure that the database servers on the UNIX and Windows computers
are the same version. You do not need to start the database server
on the UNIX computer to run the onpladm utility.
- Set the INFORMIXSERVER and INFORMIXSQLHOSTS environment variables
on your UNIX workstation as follows:
INFORMXSERVER WINservername
INFORMIXSQLHOSTS full.sqlhosts.pathname
- WINservername
- Name of the database server on the Windows computer
- full.sqlhosts.pathname
- Complete path of the sqlhosts file on
the UNIX computer (for instance, $INFORMIXDIR/etc/sqlhosts.wn)
Use the -S or -T onpladm utility
option to override the INFORMIXSERVER environment
variable setting.
- Add the following line to the $INFORMIXSQLHOSTS file
on the UNIX workstation:
WINservername ontlitcp WINname servicename
- WINservername
- Name of the database server on the Windows computer
- WINname
- Name of the Windows computer
- servicename
- Service that the Windows database server uses
- Use the onpladm utility commands to create,
configure, delete, describe, list, and modify HPL objects on your Windows database
server.
For more information, see The onpladm Utility.
- Prepare load and unload jobs with the onpladm utility.
For more information, see Creating Jobs.
- Type the following line into the .netrc file
in your home directory on a UNIX computer:
machine WIN_machinename login username password user_password
- WIN_machinename
- Name of the Windows computer
- username
- Your user name
- user_password
- Your user password
Your user name and user password must be valid on the Windows computer.