Solving Problems After Installation

The problems in this section relate to difficulties accessing IBM Informix products after installation.

• Problem. You try to run an IBM Informix product program from the command line (or alternative method), and you receive only a system prompt or the following (or a similar) message:

  program:  Command not found. 

  Solution. Verify that the environment variables are set properly (see Configuring the Database Server).

  If the environment variables are set correctly, check to see if another file with the same name exists in your search path that would be accessed before the Informix executable file. Move, rename, or delete that file, or reorder the search path so that the path in which the Informix executable resides precedes the path in which the conflicting executable resides.

• Problem. You try to invoke an IBM Informix product from the command line (or alternative method), but you get the following (or a similar) message:

  Unknown message number 32766 

  Solution. Verify that the INFORMIXDIR environment variable is set correctly. If you changed the default settings for the DBLANG and CLIENT_LOCALE environment variables, change them back to the default, and try to invoke the IBM Informix product again (see Configuring the Database Server).

• Problem. You try to send a command to an IBM Informix product from the command line (or through an alternative method), but you receive the following (or a similar) message:

  cannot attach to shared memory 

  Solution. Before you use the database server, bring it to online mode. See the chapter on managing database server modes in the IBM Informix: Administrator's Guide.