Configuring Informix Using The Native Driver; Connecting To Informix Data Sources (Unix) - MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION 5-ADVANCED ADMINISTRATION Manual

Connecting to Informix Databases

Configuring Informix using the native driver

The configuration options for ColdFusion native drivers are the same for Windows
NT and UNIX. The following table describes ColdFusion options for the Informix
native driver. You set these options when you configure a ColdFusion data source.
Option
Data Source Name
Description
Default Database
Server
Host
Service
Protocol
Client Locale
Database Locale
Translation DLL

Connecting to Informix data sources (UNIX)

Before you can connect to an Informix data source through ColdFusion, you must
perform the following tasks:
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Installing the Informix client software
The Informix client software does not ship with ColdFusion, but you can download it
from the Informix Web site.
To install the Informix client software:
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Install the Informix client software.
Edit the following files: ColdFusion start script, SQLHOSTS, master NIS, and
$INFORMIXDIR/etc/onconfig.
Stop and restart ColdFusion Server.
Download the appropriate client software from http://www.informix.com.
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.
Leave blank.
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