Additional Post-Installation Tasks

After you complete the installation, you might want to:

• Start the database server manually.
• Set up the database server to start whenever Windows is launched.
• Stop the database server.
• Configure the storage manager to use ON–Bar backups and restores.

  For information, see the IBM Informix: Storage Manager Administrator's Guide.

• Configure your database server to use a locale other than the default Global Language Support (GLS) locale, U.S. English.

  The GLS feature allows you to create databases that use the diacritics, collating sequence, and monetary and time conventions of the language that you select. For more information, see the IBM Informix: GLS User's Guide.

The installation program automatically performs the following actions to make the database server ready to run on Windows:

• Installs the database server as a Windows service
• Creates an informix user account and an Informix-Admin administrative group

  If you enabled role separation when you installed the database server, you can change the name of the Informix-Admin group.

• Automatically assigns the informix user account, under which the database server runs, to the Informix-Admin group and to the Administrators group
• Grants the following advanced privileges to the informix user account:
  • Logon as service
  • Act as part of the operating system
  • Increase quotas
  • Replace a process level token
• Creates a program group that includes items for the database server instance, the uninstall program, the Server Instance Manager, and other items

  To access this program group, click Create a new informix group and user if they do not already exist.