If you run the Enterprise Edition of ColdFusion on either a Windows NT or UNIX platform, you can configure an Informix version 7.3 or later database as a data source using native drivers. The configuration with a native driver is the same regardless of platform.
To complete the connection:
Select options as described in the following table. For the steps involved in configuring your data source, see Configure Native data sources.
Field |
Description |
Default |
Data Source Name |
This field displays the name that you entered on the main Data Sources page. You can edit it here. |
Filled |
Description |
Enter a brief description about the data source. |
Blank |
Default Database |
Enter the name of the default database to which you want to connect. |
Blank |
Server |
Enter the path and name of the Informix server. If the database is local, enclose the work local in parentheses: (local). |
Blank |
Host |
Enter the name of the machine on which the Informix server resides. |
Blank |
Service |
Enter the path and filename of the network services file. On Windows NT, this services file resides in c:\winnt40\system32\drivers\etc. |
Blank |
Protocol |
Enter the network protocol. |
Blank |
Client Locale |
Enter the language, territory, and code set that ColdFusion, as the client application, uses to perform operations that read or write information to the database. |
Blank |
Database Locale |
Enter the language, territory, and code set that the Informix server needs to interpret locale-sensitive data types. |
Blank |
Translation DLL |
Enter the path and name of the translation DLL file to use to translate your data from one character set to another. |
Blank |
Click Create to save the configuration.