IBM® Informix® 12.10
Perform Informix installation and create an instance on Windows
The first task in the embeddability tutorial is to complete an installation and create the IBM® Informix® instance.
Install Informix on the template computer to prepare the master copy for later deployment. A custom installation is recommended because you can choose which features to install. This is one good way to reduce the footprint of Informix. Some features are mutually dependent and must be installed with one another. The good news is that the installation application manages these interdependencies.
Tip: You will be able to further reduce the footprint
of the installation when you create a snapshot of the Informix instance
with the deployment assistant by clearing features and packages that
you do not want to include in the snapshot.
The embeddability tutorial for Windows is based on the following installation scenario:
- Informix 12.10 is installed in the default directory C:\Program Files\IBM\Informix
- An instance with the name demo_on is created
Important: The C:\Program Files\IBM\Informix installation
path and an instance named demo_on are assumptions
made for the tutorial. You can install Informix in
a directory of your choice and create an instance with the name of
your choice.