Multiconnect to external Informix database

Hi all,
We are in SAP ECC5.0 , oracle db, HP-UX OS, we want to connect to an external informix database and use native sql in ABAP to access it. As per sap notes, we config DBCO, and download dbinfslib.sl, but we don't know where we should place the dbinfslib.sl file in HP-UX, what else config we should do in HP-UX system, Could anyone help us ? thanks very much.
Regards,
Pole

Hi,Martin,
Thanks for your reply.
We got the following error when loading the dbinfslib:
ERROR => Version mismatch between kernel (640.00) and DBSL shared library**
Our SAP system kernel is 640,but it's a unicode system, Maybe it's not possible to connect informix in a unicode system?
Regards,
Pole

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