Online Notes

The following sections describe the online files that supplement the information in this manual. Please examine these files before you begin using your IBM Informix product. They contain vital information about application and performance issues.

Online File	Description	Format
TOC Notes	The TOC (Table of Contents) notes file provides a comprehensive directory of hyperlinks to the release notes, the fixed and known defects file, and all the documentation notes files for individual manual titles.	HTML
Documentation Notes	The documentation notes file for each manual contains important information and corrections that supplement the information in the manual or information that was modified since publication.	HTML, text
Release Notes	The release notes file describes feature differences from earlier versions of IBM Informix products and how these differences might affect current products. For some products, this file also contains information about any known problems and their workarounds.	HTML, text
Machine Notes	(Non-Windows platforms only) The machine notes file describes any platform-specific actions that you must take to configure and use IBM Informix products on your computer.	text
Fixed and Known Defects File	This text file lists issues that have been identified with the current version. It also lists customer-reported defects that have been fixed in both the current version and in previous versions.	text

Online File

Description

Format

TOC Notes

The TOC (Table of Contents) notes file provides a comprehensive directory of hyperlinks to the release notes, the fixed and known defects file, and all the documentation notes files for individual manual titles.

HTML

Documentation Notes

The documentation notes file for each manual contains important information and corrections that supplement the information in the manual or information that was modified since publication.

HTML, text

Release Notes

The release notes file describes feature differences from earlier versions of IBM Informix products and how these differences might affect current products. For some products, this file also contains information about any known problems and their workarounds.

HTML, text

Machine Notes

(Non-Windows platforms only) The machine notes file describes any platform-specific actions that you must take to configure and use IBM Informix products on your computer.

text

Fixed and Known Defects File

This text file lists issues that have been identified with the current version. It also lists customer-reported defects that have been fixed in both the current version and in previous versions.

text

Locating Online Notes

Online notes are available from the IBM Informix Online Documentation site at http://www.ibm.com/software/data/informix/pubs/library/. Additionally you can locate these files before or after installation as described below.

All online notes are located in the top-level directory of the product CD. The easiest way to access the documentation notes, the release notes, and the fixed and known defects file is through the hyperlinks from the TOC notes file.

The machine notes file and the fixed and known defects file are only provided in text format.

On UNIX platforms in the default locale, the documentation notes, release notes, and machine notes files appear under the $INFORMIXDIR/release/en_us/0333 directory.

On Windows the documentation and release notes files appear in the Informix folder. To display this folder, choose Start > Programs > IBM Informix Dynamic Server version > Documentation Notes or Release Notes from the taskbar.

Machine notes do not apply to Windows platforms.

Online File	File Format	Example
TOC Notes	prod_os_tocnotes_version.html	ids_win_tocnotes_9.50.html
Documentation Notes	prod_bookname_docnotes_version.html/txt	ids_hpl_docnotes_9.50.html
Release Notes	prod_os_relnotes_version.html/txt	ids_unix_relnotes_9.50.txt
Machine Notes	prod_machine_notes_version.txt	ids_machine_notes_9.50.txt
Fixed and Known Defects File	prod_unix_defects_version.txt prod_win_fixed_and_known _defects_version.txt	ids_unix_defects_9.50.txt ids_win_fixed_and_known _defects_9.50 .txt

Online File

File Format

Example

TOC Notes

prod_os_tocnotes_version.html

ids_win_tocnotes_9.50.html

Documentation Notes

prod_bookname_docnotes_version.html/txt

ids_hpl_docnotes_9.50.html

Release Notes

prod_os_relnotes_version.html/txt

ids_unix_relnotes_9.50.txt

Machine Notes

prod_machine_notes_version.txt

ids_machine_notes_9.50.txt

Fixed and Known Defects File

prod_unix_defects_version.txt

prod_win_fixed_and_known
_defects_version.txt

ids_unix_defects_9.50.txt

ids_win_fixed_and_known
_defects_9.50 .txt

Online Notes

Locating Online Notes

Online Notes Filenames