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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.
High-Performance Loader User's Guide
The describes how to use the HCL Informix® to load and unload large quantities of data efficiently to or from Informix databases.
The Generate options of the ipload utility
This section describes the Generate options for the ipload utility.
Generate from the Components menu
To generate all of the components for both load and unload jobs in one operation, choose Components > Generate Job from the main HPL window. This Generate option lets you choose formats that are not available from the Format-Definition window.
Using the No Conversion Job option
The No Conversion Job option uses the HCL Informix® internal format to unload data from a table. Jobs loaded or unloaded with this option are sometimes called raw loads or raw unloads.

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.
  - List of utilities
    HCL Informix® includes utilities and applications that you can use to perform administrative tasks and capture information about configuration and performance.
  - Administrator's Guide
    The Informix® Administrator's Guide provides the information required to administer HCL Informix.
  - Administrator's Reference
    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.
  - DB-Access User's Guide
    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.
  - High-Performance Loader User's Guide
    The describes how to use the HCL Informix® to load and unload large quantities of data efficiently to or from Informix databases.
    - High-Performance Loader overview
    - Examples of loading and unloading jobs using the ipload utility
      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).
    - The ipload utility windows
      This section contains information about using the ipload utility.
    - Define HPL projects
      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.
    - Configure the High-Performance Loader
      This section describes the process of configure the .
    - Define device arrays
      This section describes how to define and use device arrays with the .
    - Define formats
      This section describes the formats that the provides and shows how to prepare and edit the format component.
    - Define queries
      This section describe how to define queries including how to create, edit, and export and import queries.
    - Define maps
      This section describes how to define maps with the . It also describes the options that are available for defining maps.
    - Define filters
      This section describes how to create, edit, and delete filters.
    - Unload data from a database
      This section describes the Unload Job window.
    - Load data to a database table
      This section describes the load process.
    - The Generate options of the ipload utility
      This section describes the Generate options for the ipload utility.
      - Overview of the ipload Generate options
        Use the generate options of ipload to automatically generate components of a load or unload job. The generate options can save you time when you create formats, maps, queries, and load and unload jobs.
      - Tasks that generate load or unload components
      - Generate from the Load Job window
        Use the Generate button in the Load Job window to save time when the format of the data file corresponds to the format of the database table.
      - Generate from the Unload Job window
        Use the Generate button in the Unload Job window to save time when the format of the data file is similar to the format of the database table.
      - Generate from the Components menu
        To generate all of the components for both load and unload jobs in one operation, choose Components > Generate Job from the main HPL window. This Generate option lets you choose formats that are not available from the Format-Definition window.
        The Generate window
        You can specify the characteristics of the components that ipload creates from the Generate window.
        Generating load and unload components
        When you choose Components > Generate, you can generate all of the components required for a load job and an unload job: format, load map, unload map, query, and device array.
        Using the No Conversion Job option
        The No Conversion Job option uses the HCL Informix® internal format to unload data from a table. Jobs loaded or unloaded with this option are sometimes called raw loads or raw unloads.
    - The HPL browsing options
      This section describes the browsing options that are available for the .
    - Manage the High-Performance Loader
    - The onpload utility
      This section describes how to use the onpload utility.
    - The onpladm utility
      This section describes how to use the onpladm utility.
    - Appendixes
      This section contains additional reference information.
  - Performance Guide
    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.
  - SNMP Subagent Guide
    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 Guide
    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.
- 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.

Using the No Conversion Job option

The No Conversion Job option uses the HCL Informix® internal format to unload data from a table. Jobs loaded or unloaded with this option are sometimes called raw loads or raw unloads.

About this task

The No Conversion Job option treats an entire database record as one entity by using the Informix® internal format. It does not generate formats or maps. The No Conversion Job option is the fastest option that you can use for loading and unloading data. Use this option to transport data or when you need to reorganize the disks on your computer. No-conversion jobs are always completed in express mode. You cannot use the onpload command line to convert the running job to deluxe mode when using a no-conversion job.

When you run a job that you created with the No Conversion Job option, ipload displays a Fast Job Startup window instead of the usual Load Job or Unload Job window.

To use the Fast Job Startup window:

Procedure

Choose Components > Generate Job from the main HPL window.
Click No Conversion Job in the Generate group.
Select a name for the job and type it in the Generate Name text box.
Type the names of the database, table, and device array in the Database, Table, and Device text boxes.
Click OK.
The display returns to the HPL main window.
Choose JobsLoad (or Jobs > Unload) from the main HPL window.

The Load Job Select or Unload Job Select window appears.
Select the job from the Job Information list box.
Click OK.

The Fast Job Startup window appears, as the following figure shows.
Figure 1. The Fast Job Startup window for a load job
Click Run to run the job and the Active Job window appears.
When the Active Job window displays Job Completed, click Cancel to return to the main HPL window.