Connecting To Informix Data Sources; Configuring Informix Options (Windows) - MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION 4.5-ADMINISTRING COLDFUSION SERVER Manual

Chapter 4: Managing Data Sources

Connecting to Informix data sources

Connections to Informix databases are supported through ODBC on both Windows
and UNIX operating systems. On Windows, ColdFusion uses native drivers and on
UNIX, ColdFusion uses both native and ODBC drivers to connect to Informix
databases. ColdFusion 4.5 supports Informix 7.3 and higher.

Configuring Informix Options (Windows)

If ColdFusion Server Enterprise edition is installed on a Windows NT server, you can
configure Informix ColdFusion data sources using a native driver.
Native Driver: Informix 7.3 (Windows)
The following table describes ColdFusion options for the DB2 Universal Database 5.2/
6.1 native driver. You set these options when you configure a ColdFusion data source.
See "Adding Data Sources for ColdFusion" on page 82 for more information about
adding data sources to ColdFusion.
Informix Native Driver Options
Option
Data Source Name
Description
Default Database
Server
Host
Service
Protocol
Client Locale
Database Locale
Description
A name for your data source.
Descriptive information about the data source.
The name of the database to which you want to connect by
default.
The name of the INFORMIX server, including the full path.
The name of the machine on which the INFORMIX server resides.
The network services file. On Windows NT, the services file is
located in c:\winnt40\system32\drivers\etc. On UNIX, the file is
located in /etc
The network protocol.
Specifies the language, territory, and code set that the client
application (ColdFusion) uses to perform operations that read or
write to the database.
Specifies the language, territory, and code set that the INFORMIX
server needs to interpret locale-sensitive data types.
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