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Automate small footprint, embedded Informix Dynamic Server deployments

End-to-end embeddability for IDS deployments on Linux, UNIX, and Windows using the IDS deployment utility and embeddability toolkit

Sreeni Paidi (spaidi@us.ibm.com), Advisory Software Engineer, IBM

Sreeni Paidi is an Advisory Software Engineer and Enablement Consultant with IBM's Information Management Technical Enablement organization. Sreeni has over 13 years of experience working with DB2, Informix, Oracle, and PostgreSQL database servers as a Database Programmer, DBA and Integration Architect. He joined IBM as part of Trigo Technologies acquisition in 2004. Sreeni is part of a worldwide team that provides technical skills and consulting services to help business partners and customers accelerate the integration of IBM database software with their applications.

Summary: This tutorial shows you how to automate IBM® Informix® Dynamic Server (IDS) small footprint deployments by using the IDS deployment utility and the IDS embeddability toolkit. An important requirement of an embedded database system is that it be invisible to end users and administrators. IDS is a perfect database system for application environments that require an embedded database because you can install, deploy, and administer the database silently. It is transparent to users that there is a robust and reliable database system catering to the database requirements of the application.

Date: 11 Mar 2010
Level: Intermediate
PDF: A4 and Letter (247 KB | 34 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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Conclusion

After following the instructions in this tutorial you should now be able to automate IDS small footprint deployments using a combination of the IDS deployment utility and the embeddability toolkit contained in the Download section of the tutorial. You should have learned how to reduce the footprint of Informix Dynamic Server. This enables you to silently deploy and embed IDS on Linux, UNIX, and Windows. You can easily customize the configuration file and the scripts in the embeddability toolkit according to meet your own requirements.

Acknowledgements

This tutorial is the result of many people's efforts, and the author would like to thank the following individuals for their contributions.

In alphabetical order:

Alan Caldera, Install/Datablades Architect - Informix Development
Frank Welsch, Informix Information Developer
Gerry Cousins, Software Developer - Informix Development
Guy Bowerman, Informix Architect - Embeddability, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing
Jasna Krmpotic, Technical Editor - IBM Information Management User Technology
Ted Wasserman, Manager, WW Information Management Partner Technologies - Informix
Tosin Ajayi, Software Developer - Informix Development