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System Administration Certification exam 918 for IBM Informix Dynamic Server 11 prep, Part 1: IDS installation and configuration

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Level: Intermediate

Manjula Panthagani (manjulap@us.ibm.com), Advanced Support Engineer, IBM 
Rashmi Chawak (chawak@us.ibm.com), Advanced Support Engineer, IBM 
Siva K. Ane (sane@us.ibm.com), Advanced Support Engineer, IBM 

10 May 2007

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Install and configure IBM® Informix® Dynamic Server, Version 11 (IDS 11), manage space and logs, and configure the different security options available in IDS. The first in a series of eight tutorials, use this tutorial to help prepare for the IDS 11 exam 918.

Objectives

  • Understand how to install IDS 11.

  • Understand various configuration parameters, environments variables, network protocols, and the sqlhosts file.

  • See how some additional onconfig parameters in IDS 11 compare to previous versions.

  • Install the server in different modes, such as silent, GUI, and so on, and also bring down the server.

  • Understand each ONCONFIG parameter and be able to edit related parameters in the onconfig file based on the UNIX operating system platform.

Prerequisites

This tutorial is geared toward database administrators (DBAs) familiar with basic database concepts.


System requirements

You do not need a copy of IDS to complete this tutorial. However, you will get more out of the tutorial if you download the free trial version of IBM IDS 11 to work along with this tutorial.



Duration

Less than two hours


Formats

html, pdf


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