Installing Drupal with The Informix patch
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This functionality is provided in good faith. Any problems resulting from
the use of this code is your resposibility.

Requirements
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* IBM Informix for your target platform
* PDO_IBM and the IBM common drivers required to built it.
* Web environment required bt Drupal (Web server with PHP)

Data Server Driver installation
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These steps are based on the linux 32-bit product. Similar steps are required for any other version.

Download DS driver. see (version 9.5 fixpack 5):
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24025865&rs=0&cs=utf-8&context=SSEPGG&dc=D400&loc=en_US&lang=en&cc=US

uncompress the resulting file:

# cd $INFORMIXDIR
# tar xzvf v9.5fp5_linuxia32_dsdriver.tar.gz
# cd dsdriver

Install the ODBC/CLI driver
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Stay in the dsdriver directory

# tar xzvf odbc_cli_driver/linuxa32/ibm_data_server_driver_for_odbc_cli.tar.Z

This creates the clidriver directory.

Set the DB2DIR environment variable to this directory:
# export DB2DIR=$INFORMIXDIR/dsdriver/clidriver

The default configuration file is: $DB2DIR/cfg/db2cli.ini

You can remove the odbc_cli_driver directory.

Installing the PHP driver
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Extract and install the driver:

# tar xzvf PDO_IBM-1.3.1.tgz
# cd PDO_IBM-1.3.1
# phpize
...
# ./configure
...
# make
...
# make install

Modify php.ini 
find where they mention extensions and add: extension="pdo_ibm.so" 


Installing Drupal
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* Unpack Drupal to your Web server directory. An example directory
  might be /opt/lampp/htdocs
  if you are using the Apache Web server. Proper security of a Web server is
  beyond the scope of this readme.
* Unpack the patch to your newly created /opt/lampp/htdocs/drupal directory.
  You may want to create another directory elsewhere to explore these files
  first.
* Create a database in Informix for your Drupal installation. Create sbspaces
  for the clobs that will be created.
* Install Drupal as you normally would. During installation, specify the DRDA
  port. You should now see an option for Informix during the installation
  process. You should achieve a functional installation.