Connection Options

IDS on both Windows NT and UNIX systems have a relatively recent option (beginning with 7.10) to the sqlhosts file (or registry) that provides security and maintenance information to Informix-Connect. These options are placed in the sqlhosts file as the last field, as follows:

   ol_theserver   onsoctcp   the_server  turbo   k=1,s=1,b=4000

Everything to the right of the "turbo" is options, separated by commas. These options have the following meanings. On later NT systems (IDS 7.3+), the setnet32 program has a separate listbox for options. On earlier NT systems it may be possible to set or change these options by manually editing the registry. Back it up first.

Keep-Alive Options (k)

These options determine what happens when the networking ...

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