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 contains additional reference information.
This section provides explanatory notes and corrective actions for unnumbered messages that print in the log file. The section also includes information specific to messages that are returned to standard output or appear in a pop-up dialog box (depending on the way you started onpload).
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 .
This section describes how to use the onpload utility.
This section describes how to use the onpladm utility.
The tables in the onpload database hold information that the onpload utility uses. This section describes the tables in the onpload database that you create or modify with ipload.
The default $INFORMIXDIR/etc/plconfig.std file on UNIX™ or %\INFORMIXDIR%\etc\plconfig.std on Windows™ is the high-performance loader configuration file.
The HPL uses two types of picture strings: COBOL picture strings and other picture strings.
This section describes the operators that are available when you match text and it provides an example of each operator.
Custom-conversion functions allow you to add additional data conversion capability to the . This feature lets onpload call a custom-conversion function during the data-conversion process.
The -j option of the onstat utility provides special information about the status of an onpload job. The -j option provides an interactive mode that is analogous to onstat -i.
If your operating system supports dynamic linking of libraries, you can use a custom driver to extend the functionality of the to support different file types or access mechanisms.
When you convert or revert to different versions of the database server, you can use conversion and reversion scripts to manually upgrade or revert your onpload database. You must use these scripts if you are required to upgrade between the same server versions.
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.