You can ask your system administrator to modify the system startup script so that each of your database server instances starts whenever the computer is rebooted, for example, after a power failure (see page Additional Configuration Task Information). For more information about startup scripts, see the section on preparing UNIX startup and shutdown scripts in the IBM Informix: Administrator's Guide.
To start a second instance of a database server, change the ONCONFIG and INFORMIXSERVER environment variables to point to the configuration file for the second database server and then execute oninit. Do not change INFORMIXDIR or PATH.
Similarly, you can ask the system administrator to modify the shutdown script so that all instances of a database server shut down normally.
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