After much digging around, I determined that the reason the database service would not run was due to our default server group policy. I moved my server to the same container as our production machine and was able to get IDS running.
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Hopefully someone else can reply with advice on what the problem might be.
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Kevin,
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I would strongly recommend that you take some training. While IDS is relatively easy to manage, there is still a lot of skills required to manage a production database safely.
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Hello,
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It's funny because that driver was not listed a few days ago.

The driver is listed as a "Trial" version.

Any way to find when the final release will be available?

Hi Folks,
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Hello,
The latest version of JDBC is 3.50.JC1 release May 6, 2208. You
can find this at the following location:
http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/download/search.jsp?go=y&rs=ifxjdbc

I'm looking at the list of jdbc drivers IBM provides for Informix and am wondering how to decode the different versions.
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Question:

What version of Winblow$ Vista are you using?

J.

Getting the following error message when try to open a linked table on MS Access. The file I am linking to is on JDE. Using an Iseries Access ODBC driver to create the ODBC link. Please help......
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I know that it is possible to specify secondary server connection properties for HDR for high availability. How can I get the same failover support using ER with JDBC 3.0 and IDS 10?

Thanks,
Dave

Hello Yevgeni,
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Hello to everyone
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Solved it. Using nmap http://nmap.org/ and some hints from Informix support, I learned that Informix wasn't listening properly on port 9088 (no wonder jdbc couldn't connect!) A post in a...

There's a README file in that demo/basic directory in the Informix JDBC installation.

If that information isn't adequate to get you running, then I'd go to Informix Support next. Stay with the demo directory until you get one of those working.

This must be a stubborn problem, because I'm running into the same thing. I'm trying to use ISW (née DB2 DWE) Design Studio to connect to an IDX 10.0.UC5 server. Both are running RHEL 4 and have the JDBC 3.10 drivers installed. Here's the oddity:
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That worked for the customer. She still has warnings but it works.
Thanks!

Hi Bill,

can you try the following?

gcc -shared -I${INFORMIXDIR}/incl checksum.c -fPIC -o checksum.so

Regards,

Andreas