HOWTO: Getting IIS to work with Informix ODBC

• Microsoft Internet Information Server version 3.0

SUMMARY

This article describes some registry changes that need to be made to get Informix CLI 32 ODBC drivers to work with Windows NT 4.0 and Internet Information Server (IIS).

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The Informix drivers install only under the current user name of the person that is logged on to the system. In order to get general access to the drivers for all users, the registry entries that Informix installed under the logged on user's account must be copied to the generic users area. Here's how to do this:

1. Using Regedit, search the registry for the word "INFORMIXSERVER" (without the quotes).



2. This value and several others resides in a key called "ENVIRONMENT," which is a subkey of "INFORMIX."



3. Make a note of all of the values in the key and what they are equal to.



4. Go to HKEY_USERS\DEFAULT\Software and create a new key called "INFORMIX" (without the quotes).



5. Create a key under that called "ENVIRONMENT" (without the quotes).



6. Create each of the values and assign them the appropriate information, so that the new key looks identical to the old key.

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Version : 3.0
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbhowto