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.
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.
This section describes how to define maps with the . It also describes the options that are available for defining maps.
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 .
When you manage the , you manage modes, violations (errors), and performance. You also need to avoid the limitation that occurs when using an Excalibur Text DataBlade® module index
The offers two load modes, deluxe mode and express mode, and one unload mode. The express mode is faster, and the deluxe mode is more flexible.
When you load records from a data file, some of the records might not meet the criteria that you established for the database table.
You can improve the HPL performance by preparing an environment that is optimized for the particular load or unload job that you are performing.
You cannot create a load job with multiple devices to insert rows into a table that has an Excalibur Text DataBlade® module index. A multiple-device load fails because the Excalibur Text DataBlade module does not handle concurrency correctly.
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.