IBM Informix ODBC Driver without a driver manager (UNIX)

There is software architecture when a driver manager is not included in the system.

The following figure shows an application that uses IBM® Informix® ODBC Driver without a driver manager. In this case, the application must link to the IBM Informix ODBC Driver library.
Figure 1. IBM Informix ODBC Driver without a driver manager
This graphic illustrates the software architecture for Informix ODBC Driver when a driver manager is incorporated into the system. The graphic contains two groups of rectangles, one horizontally aligned, and one vertically aligned. The horizontal grouping of labeled rectangles is on the left side, is labeled “Client”, and contains two rectangles labeled, from left to right, "Application" and "IBM Informix ODBC Driver." There are dual-directional arrows that connect "Application" and "IBM Informix ODBC Driver." The vertical grouping of rectangles is labeled "Server" and contains two smaller groupings of rectangles, both labeled “IBM Informix data source." Each of the smaller groupings of rectangles has three rectangles labeled "DBMS (including database server)”, "database", and "Operating system and network software". The two "IBM Informix data source" groupings are joined by a dual-directional arrow that also connects to the "IBM Informix ODBC Driver" rectangle in the "Client" grouping of rectangles.