In addition to administering the database server, you can tune performance, replicate data, and archive data.
These topics contain concepts, procedures, and reference information for database and database server administrators to use for managing and tuning HCL Informix® database servers.
The describes how to use the HCL Informix® to load and unload large quantities of data efficiently to or from Informix databases.
This section describes how to define maps with the . It also describes the options that are available for defining maps.
This section discusses specialized options in the Map-Definition window.
HCL Informix® includes utilities and applications that you can use to perform administrative tasks and capture information about configuration and performance.
The Informix® Administrator's Guide provides the information required to administer HCL Informix.
The Informix® Administrator's Reference includes comprehensive descriptions of HCL Informix configuration parameters, the system-monitoring interface (SMI) tables in the sysmaster database, the syntax of database server utilities such as onmode and onstat, logical-log records, disk structures, event alarms, and unnumbered error messages.
The Informix® DB-Access User's Guide describes how to use the DB-Access utility to access, modify, and retrieve information from Informix database servers.
This section shows how the components of the fit together. The section includes a step-by-step tutorial with two examples (for a load and an unload job) that use the ipload graphical user interface (GUI).
This section contains information about using the ipload utility.
This section explains how to create a project and how projects are related. The individual components that you store in projects are described in later sections.
This section describes the process of configure the .
This section describes how to define and use device arrays with the .
This section describes the formats that the provides and shows how to prepare and edit the format component.
This section describe how to define queries including how to create, edit, and export and import queries.
You can use the ipload utility to build a map. A map specifies the relationship between the fields of a data file and the columns of a database.
An unload map associates columns extracted from a database by a query with the fields in a data-file record. You can create an unload map from the Load Job window or from the Components menu of the HPL main window. After you define an unload map, you use it with the Unload Job window or the onpload utility.
The mapping options define conversions that onpload applies to the data before it inserts the data into the database (for a load job) or into the data file (for an unload job). These conversions can include case conversion, text justification, data masking through picture strings, default values, and fill characters. The mapping options also allow you to replace imported data with data from other database tables.
You can break the association between a column and a field with the Delete button in the Map-Definition window.
You can find a column or field in a pane with the Find button in the Map-Definition window. The ipload utility scrolls the selected item into view and puts a box around it. This option is useful when the list of columns or fields is so long that the pane cannot display all of the items.
With the Specs button, you can display the Specifications window, where you can examine the characteristics of the columns and fields in your map.
You can display a list of the components that are associated with a database in a specific project from the Map Views window. You can also create or edit a map.
This section describes how to create, edit, and delete filters.
This section describes the Unload Job window.
This section describes the load process.
This section describes the Generate options for the ipload utility.
This section describes the browsing options that are available for the .
This section describes how to use the onpload utility.
This section describes how to use the onpladm utility.
This section contains additional reference information.
The Informix® Performance Guide describes how to configure and operate your HCL Informix database server to improve overall system throughput and to improve the performance of SQL queries.
The describes the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and the software that you need to use SNMP to monitor and manage HCL Informix® database servers and databases.
InformixHQ is a modern web console for visualizing, monitoring, and managing your Informix server instances. It is purpose built for ease-of-use, scaling out, and optimizing DevOps needs. It provides critical performance management capabilities, monitoring how key performance metrics are changing over time and tracking how efficiently Informix is running your workload even when you’ve stepped away from your screen. Its monitoring system feeds directly into a customizable alerting system so you can be immediately alerted via email, Twilio, or PagerDuty whenever an issue occurs on one of your Informix database server instances. InformixHQ is designed to be scalable to efficiently manage and monitor as many Informix database server instances as you need. Moreover, it's a tool that can be shared by the DBAs, the app developers, the ops engineers, and management and accessed from any desktop, laptop, or mobile device. InformixHQ is the centralized hub for graphical monitoring, alerting, and administration of your Informix database servers.
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.
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.