Saturday, October 17, 2009

Setting up Informix IDS 11.5 on Ubuntu Server 8.04

I am setting up a VM (on VirtualBox, of course) for performing a migration from Informix4GL to Java. Although IBM recommends RHEL for IDS, I am trying to stick to my long time favorite: Ubuntu.

The idea is to have a self-contained environment for doing this kind of migration without resorting to external servers.

The first attempt turned out to fail: I was unable to initialize the shared memory for IDS, and after some google-ups, I gave up. I found out that I did not follow the installation instructions (typical geek :-( ) ... so I am starting from scratch again ...

When I'm done I will post the steps here ...