Partners and ISVs should be very interested in this article from Guy Bowerman:

Last week a new tool known as the Informix Lightweight Installer was uploaded to the IIUG software repository. In a nutshell it is designed to help with embedding IDS on Windows platforms by allowing a pre-configured IDS instance to be deployed via a simple command line interface. This was written primarily for ISVs who deploy IDS as part of their application and require customized configuration settings beyond those available via the silent installer, or who need to deploy an IDS instance with pre-loaded dbspaces and data. This kind of configuration can be fiddly, particularly on Windows; the goal of this tool is to take the hard work away.

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