IBM 000-8697 User Manual

IBM Informix OnLine Database Server Administrator’s Guide

Installing OnLine 5.x involves three major steps, which are summarized here.
For detailed information, see the

uide.

Create

UNIX

 environment:

■

Create user informix.

■

Set

INFORMIXDIR.

■

Set

PATH

.

■

Change your directory to $

INFORMIXDIR.

Load OnLine 5.x software:

■

Copy Informix files into the Informix installation directory.

Install OnLine 5.x:

■

Run ./installonline to change owner, group, and mode of
product files.

OnLine initial configuration includes configuration planning and disk-space
initialization. The rest of this chapter provides instructions for the initial
configuration tasks.

Since OnLine 5.x is already installed in $

, you can use a

UNIX

editor to examine the configuration file tbconfig.std that is described in the
following pages. You can also access the OnLine monitor facility,

DB-M

onitor.

To do so, log in as user informix and enter the command tbmonitor at the
command line.