Bug #30101 Installation on i5os is limited to one MySQL server per machine
Submitted: 27 Jul 2007 14:46 Modified: 4 Mar 2013 10:42
Reporter: Omer Barnir (OCA) Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Installing Severity:S4 (Feature request)
Version:5.0.42 and after OS:Other (IBM i5OS)
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[27 Jul 2007 14:46] Omer Barnir 
Description:
As part of the fix to bug#30084 IBM modified the install scripts and hard-coded the data directory to '/QOpenSys/mysql/data'. This means that these is now a limitation of running one server per machine. 

How to repeat:
Run the Install program and observe that the data directory is created in a fixed place.
[30 Jul 2007 6:13] Valeriy Kravchuk 
Thank you for a reasonable feature request. This is a known limitation of some other our binaries like RPMs. So, it is "by design", it seems. 

Still, on i5OS it will be easy and natural to ask user for exact directory and force him to use tar.gz binaries.
[4 Mar 2013 10:42] Yngve Svendsen 
Obsolete platform (and product version)