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In addition to administering the database server, you can tune performance, replicate data, and archive data.
Enterprise Replication
The HCL® Informix® Enterprise Replication Guide describes the concepts of data replication using Informix Enterprise Replication, including how to design your replication system, as well as administer and manage data replication throughout your enterprise.
Setting up and managing Enterprise Replication
After you design your replication system, you define it and start replication.
Preparing the Replication Environment
The following topics explain the steps that are required for setting up Enterprise Replication.
Preparing the Disk
These topics describe how to prepare your disk for Enterprise Replication.
Setting Up Send and Receive Queue Spool Areas
Row Data sbspaces
Replicated data might include UDT and CLOB or BLOB data types. Therefore, the spooled row data is stored as smart large objects in one or more sbspaces.

Administering
In addition to administering the database server, you can tune performance, replicate data, and archive data.
- System administration
  These topics contain concepts, procedures, and reference information for database and database server administrators to use for managing and tuning HCL Informix® database servers.
- Backup and Restore Guide
  The Informix® Backup and Restore Guide describes how to use the Informix ON-Bar and ontape utilities to back up and restore database server data. These utilities enable you to recover your databases after data is lost or becomes corrupted due to hardware or software failure or accident.
- Enterprise Replication
  The HCL® Informix® Enterprise Replication Guide describes the concepts of data replication using Informix Enterprise Replication, including how to design your replication system, as well as administer and manage data replication throughout your enterprise.
  - About Enterprise Replication
    Informix® Enterprise Replication generates and manages multiple copies of data at one or more sites, which allows an enterprise to share corporate data throughout its organization.
  - Planning and designing for Enterprise Replication
    Before you set up your replication system, plan how to include Enterprise Replication into your database server environment, design your database schema by following Enterprise Replication requirements, and then design your replication system between database servers.
  - Setting up and managing Enterprise Replication
    After you design your replication system, you define it and start replication.
    - Preparing the Replication Environment
      The following topics explain the steps that are required for setting up Enterprise Replication.
      - Preparing the Network Environment
        You must prepare the network environment for each database server in an Enterprise Replication domain.
      - Preparing the Disk
        These topics describe how to prepare your disk for Enterprise Replication.
        Logical Log Configuration Disk Space
        Logical Log Configuration Guidelines
        Logical logs must be configured correctly for Enterprise Replication.
        Disk Space for Delete Tables
        If you use the time stamp, time stamp and SPL routine, or delete wins conflict resolution rules, you must provide enough disk space for the delete tables that Enterprise Replication creates to keep track of modified rows for conflict resolution.
        Shadow column disk space
        If you plan to use shadow columns, make sure to allow additional disk space for their values.
        Setting Up Send and Receive Queue Spool Areas
        Row Data sbspaces
        Replicated data might include UDT and CLOB or BLOB data types. Therefore, the spooled row data is stored as smart large objects in one or more sbspaces.
        Creating sbspaces for Spooled Row Data
        You must create dedicated sbspaces for spooled row data.
        Logging Mode for sbspaces
        Dropping a Spooled Row Data sbspace
        Setting Up the Grouper Paging File
        Creating ATS and RIS Directories
        You can create directories for Aborted Transactions Spooling (ATS) and Row Information Spooling (RIS) files instead of using the default directories.
      - Preparing the Database Server Environment
        To prepare the database server environment, set database server environment variables and configuration parameters, and synchronize the operating system time on all participating database servers.
      - Preparing Data for Replication
      - Load and unload data
        You can load data into or unload data out of tables in your replication environment in various ways, depending on your circumstances.
      - Data Preparation Example
    - Using High-Availability Clusters with Enterprise Replication
    - Defining Replication Servers, Replicates, Participants, and Replicate Sets
      These topics describe the steps defining and starting Enterprise Replication.
    - Grid setup and management
      A grid is a set of replication servers that are configured to simplify administration. When you run SQL data definition statements from within a grid context on a grid server, the statements propagate to all servers in the grid. You can run SQL data manipulation statements and routines through grid routines. You can choose to set up replication automatically when you create a table through a grid. You can propagate external files to other servers in the grid.
    - Shard cluster setup
      Sharding is a way to horizontally partition a single table across multiple database servers in a shard cluster. Enterprise Replication moves the data from the source server to the appropriate target server as specified by the sharding method. You query a sharded table as if the entire table is on the local server. You do not need to know where the data is. Queries that are performed on one shard server retrieve the relevant data from other servers in a shard cluster. Sharding reduces the index size on each shard server and distributes performance across hardware. You can add shard servers to the shard cluster as your data grows.
    - Managing Replication Servers and Replicates
    - Monitor and troubleshooting Enterprise Replication
      You can monitor and diagnose problems with the Enterprise Replication system by using several different methods, depending on your needs.
  - Push data feature
  - Loopback replication
  - Appendixes

Row Data sbspaces

Replicated data might include UDT and CLOB or BLOB data types. Therefore, the spooled row data is stored as smart large objects in one or more sbspaces.

The CDR_QDATA_SBSPACE configuration parameter accepts multiple sbspaces, up to a maximum of 32 sbspaces. Enterprise Replication can support a combination of logging and non-logging sbspaces for storing spooled row data. If CDR_QDATA_SBSPACE is configured for multiple sbspaces, then Enterprise Replication uses all appropriate sbspaces in round-robin order.

You can have Enterprise Replication automatically configure disk space from the storage pool and set the CDR_QDATA_SBSPACE configuration parameter when defining a replication server. If the CDR_QDATA_SBSPACE configuration parameter is not set and the database server has a storage pool with sufficient space, the cdr define command performs the following tasks:

Creates a new sbspace using one or more new chunks from the storage pool
Sets the CDR_QDATA_SBSPACE configuration parameter both in memory and in the onconfig file to the newly defined sbspace.

For clusters, the cdr define command creates new sbspaces and sets the CDR_QDATA_SBSPACE configuration parameters in all secondary database servers, as well.

Note: A database server's storage pool must have 500 MB of free space for sbspaces, and chunk sizes of 100 MB or greater for the database server to use automatic storage provisioning.