Connecting To Informix 9.X - Adobe 38000827 - Macromedia ColdFusion MX Standard Edition Administration Manual

Connecting to Informix 9.x

Use the settings in the following table to connect ColdFusion to Informix 9.x data
sources:
Setting
CF Data Source
Name
Database
Informix Server
Server
Port
Username
Password
Description
Maintain
Connections
Timeout (min)
Interval (sec)
Disable Connections If selected, suspends all client connections.
Login Timeout (sec)
CLOB
BLOB
LongText Buffer (chr) The default buffer size, used if Enable Long Text Retrieval(CLOB) is
BLOB Buffer (bytes) The default buffer size; used if Enable binary large object retrieval
Allowed SQL
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Description
The data source name (DSN) used by ColdFusion to connect to the
data source.
The database to which this data source connects.
The name of the Informix database server to which you want to
connect.
The name of the server that hosts the database that you want to use.
If the database is local, enclose the word local in parentheses.
The number of the TCP/IP port that the server monitors for
connections.
The user name that ColdFusion passes to the JDBC driver to
connect to the data source if a ColdFusion application does not
supply a user name—for example, in a cfquery tag.
The password that ColdFusion passes to the JDBC driver to
connect to the data source if a ColdFusion application does not
supply a password—for example, in a cfquery tag.
(Optional) A description for this connection.
ColdFusion establishes a connection to a data source for every
operation that requires one. Enable this option to improve
performance by caching the data source connection.
The maximum number of minutes after the data source connection
is made that you want ColdFusion to cache a connection after it is
used.
The time (in seconds) that the server waits between cycles to check
for expired data source connections to close.
The number of seconds before ColdFusion times out the data
source connection login attempt.
Select to return the entire contents of any CLOB/Text columns in
the database for this data source. If unchecked, ColdFusion
retrieves the amount specified in the Long Text Buffer setting.
Select to return the entire contents of any BLOB/Image columns in
the database for this data source. If unchecked, ColdFusion
retrieves the amount specified in the Blob Buffer setting.
not selected. Default is 65000 bytes.
(BLOB) is not selected. Default is 65000 bytes.
The SQL operations that can interact with the current data source.