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IDS 11.50 on MacOS X Snow Leopard

Submitted by jleffler on February 25, 2010 - 01:22

This is probably old news by now, but it may as well be put on the public record.

There were some issue that prevented IDS 11.50 produced on MacOS X 10.5.x (Leopard) from working properly if your machine was upgraded to MacOS X 10.6.2.  However, the majority of these can be worked around.

 
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Choosing a location for $INFORMIXDIR

Submitted by jleffler on February 2, 2010 - 21:02

IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) is installed in a directory which is identified by the INFORMIXDIR environment variable at run-time. IDS does little checking on what values of $INFORMIXDIR are used in terms of the name (but there is fairly stringent checking on the permissions associated with the directory identified by the name). This article suggests a simple guideline on how to choose a value for $INFORMIXDIR.