Linux上安装informix

傷城~ 2022-05-31 01:28 151阅读 0赞

原文： I[nstalling Informix On Linux][]

Here I'll go through the steps to install the Informix (http://www.informix.com/) RDBMS on Linux.

This guide is based on http://webxpert.wordpress.com/how-to-install-informix-dynamic-server-in-redhat-linux/.

### Download Informix ###

On the informix website go to: Support & Downloads -> Downloads -> Trials and Demos  
Under I click on Informix Dynamic Server.  
Download either IBM Informix Dynamic Server Express Edition or IBM Informix  
Dynamic Server Developer Edition.

### Create Informix User and Group ###

addgroup informix
    adduser --ingroup informix informix

### Run GUI Installer ###

Extract the tarball, then as root (with a working X $DISPLAY) run:

./ids_install -i console

Choose /home/informix as the installation path.  
Do not create the sample database, it will likely fail anyway, we will do that later.

### Configure 'informix' User Environment ###

sudo su - informix

Edit the .bashrc and add the following at the bottom:

export INFORMIXDIR=/home/informix
    export INFORMIXSERVER=demo_on
    export ONCONFIG=onconfig
    export INFORMIXTERM=terminfo

Relogin.重新登录，这里目的其实是为了让环境变量生效。

### Configure Informix ###

Copy etc/onconfig.std to etc/onconfig and make the following changes:

--- onconfig.std        2009-04-14 23:02:02.000000000 -0400
    +++ onconfig    2010-03-26 04:00:41.000000000 -0400
    @@ -40,11 +40,11 @@
     ###################################################################
       
    
     ROOTNAME rootdbs
    -ROOTPATH $INFORMIXDIR/tmp/demo_on.rootdbs
    +ROOTPATH /home/informix/dbspaces/online_root
     ROOTOFFSET 0
     ROOTSIZE 200000
     MIRROR 0
    -MIRRORPATH $INFORMIXDIR/tmp/demo_on.root_mirror
    +MIRRORPATH /home/informix/mirrors/root_mirror
     MIRROROFFSET 0
       
    
     ###################################################################
    @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
     # CONSOLE      - The path of the IDS console message file
     ###################################################################
       
    
    -MSGPATH $INFORMIXDIR/tmp/online.log
    +MSGPATH /home/informix/logs/online.log
     CONSOLE $INFORMIXDIR/tmp/online.con
       
    
     ###################################################################
    @@ -198,7 +198,7 @@
     ###################################################################
       
    
     SERVERNUM 0
    -DBSERVERNAME 
    +DBSERVERNAME demo_on
     DBSERVERALIASES
       
    
     ###################################################################
    @@ -398,7 +398,7 @@
     #                positive integral multiple of LTAPEBLK.
     ###################################################################
       
    
    -LTAPEDEV /dev/tapedev
    +LTAPEDEV /dev/null
     LTAPEBLK 32
     LTAPESIZE 0

Copy etc/sqlhosts.std to etc/sqlhosts and add the following line:

demo_on         onipcshm        localhost           demo_on

Change *localhost* to the host name of the machine. （可以通过hostname命令查看服务器name）  
Make some directories and files:

cd ~
    mkdir dbspaces mirrors logs
    cd dbspaces
    touch online_root
    chmod 660 online_root

Create and start the instance:

oninit -iv

To optionally create a sample database, run  dbaccessdemo7 or dbaccessdemo9. （这里没有写错，确实有这两个命令）

### Starting and Stopping ###

To start the instance, run:

oninit

To stop, run:

onmode -ky

An init script I wrote is here:  
http://blog.cachemiss.com/articles/Informix%20Init%20Script.pod  
至此，你的数据库已经可以在本地使用了。

### Create a Database ###

The sample database is not created with logging, this makes it not very useful for use with e.g. DBD::Informix.  
To create a database, first log in as informix and run the dbaccess command.  
Go to Database -> Create, type in the name you want; then go to Log -> Buffered\_log; then Exit -> Create-new-database .  
Configure your User Environment  
In your .bashrc or whatever, put:

export INFORMIXDIR=/home/informix
    export INFORMIXSERVER=demo_on
    export INFORMIXTERM=terminfo
    export DBD_INFORMIX_DATABASE=stores_demo
    export DELIMIDENT=y
    
    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/home/informix/lib:/home/informix/lib/esql
    export PATH=$PATH:/home/informix/bin

You can now use the dbaccess command as a shell to run SQL queries. Unfortunately, it's a menu-driven program.

### Build DBD::Informix for Perl ###

With the environment set as above, just install DBD::Informix as normally from  CPAN. Or just perl Makefile.PL; make; sudo make install. The DBD\_INFORMIX\_DATABASE environment variable should be set to a database that exists, you have stores\_demo if you ran dbaccessdemo7 or 9.  
  
Verify that it works:

perl -MDBI -le 'my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Informix:stores_demo", "", ""); print for $dbh->selectrow_array("select today from sysmaster:sysdual")'

Replace stores\_demo with the name of the logged database you created earlier.

### Setting up TCP Connection Support ###

This information taken from http://database.itags.org/informix/57440/.  
Login as the user informix.  
Edit etc/onconfig.  
Find the DBSERVERALIASES line and change it to:

DBSERVERALIASES hlaghdb_tcp

Edit etc/sqlhosts and add the line:

hlaghdb_tcp    onsoctcp    localhost    informix_tcp

replace localhost with your hostname.  
As root, edit /etc/services and add:

informix_tcp   33333/tcp

or whatever port you want to use.  
Restart informix:

onmode -ky
    oninit

Your DBI DSN becomes:

dbi:Informix:hlaghdb@hlaghdb_tcp

### SQL Shell ###

You can use the dbaccess program to run SQL statements against your DBs, but it's some sort of very cumbersome, ancient terminal GUI.  
I use the DBI::Shell CPAN module: http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?DBI::Shell.  
Unfortunately DBI::Shell does not have history support, so I use rlwrap to add one.  
Putting it all together:

alias informix="rlwrap -a -N -t dumb -i -f ~/.informix_dbish_history -H ~/.informix_dbish_history -s 30000 dbish dbi:Informix:hlaghdb@hlaghdb_tcp"

Statements end with ; like in SQL\*Plus, use /quit to quit. Readline uses emacs keybindings by default, but you can change this in your ~/.inputrc.

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[nstalling Informix On Linux]: http://blog.cachemiss.com/articles/Installing%20Informix%20on%20Linux.pod