To get started quickly with Informix® 12.10
software development,
/opt/IBM/informix/FirstSteps contains
topic-specific subfolders of labs and demonstrations. A symbolic link
to the
FirstSteps folder is included on the
GNOME desktop.
Information about the labs and demonstrations can also be found at
the following links:
Within each subfolder is a README file that
provides a brief introduction of the objective of the demonstration
or lab. As part of your development activities with Informix 12.10, you can practice running
SQL language scripts either interactively or as command scripts. The
standard tool that comes with each Informix installation
is called dbaccess. You start the dbaccess utility
either from a command line in a terminal window, or by double-clicking
the dbaccess icon on the GNOME desktop. The IBM® OpenAdmin Tool (OAT) for Informix also provide interactive
SQL features.
The IBM Informix Virtual Appliance
single-instance demonstration
The
demo_on Informix instance is preconfigured
with the
stores database. The IBM Informix Virtual Appliance
is configured to start the
demo_on instance automatically each
time the virtual appliance is powered on and to stop the
demo_on instance
each time the virtual appliance is powered off. Use the following
commands if you want to recreate the
demo_on instance or if
you want to manually set environment variables that affect the behavior
of the
demo_on instance. See the following links for a complete
list of scripts and their descriptions.
The setDemo script is used to set the
environment variables for the demo_on instance. The convenience
scripts that create, start, stop, and remove the demo_on instance
use the setDemo script, so you are not required
to explicitly source this script before you run the convenience scripts.
However, to run the dbaccess utility from a command
prompt or to perform other actions in the context of the demo_on environment,
you can explicitly source the setDemo script to
set up the demo_on environment.
In addition to the basic
configuration, the
demo_on instance also provides these helpful
enhancements for your development activities:
- A default temporary dbspace, called tempdbs (10 MB)
- A default and system smart blob space, called sbspace (50
MB)
- One external space to support the Basic Text Search (BTS) extension,
called bts_extspace (located in /data/IBM/informix/demo/demo_on/bts_extspace)
- One bts virtual processor (VP) to use the BTS extension
- One idsxmlvp virtual processor (VP) to enable additional
built-in XML capabilities in Informix
- One jvp virtual processor to enable Java™ user-defined routines in Informix
Release date: March 2013