Welcome
Client APIs and tools
You can use the HCL Informix® implementation of client APIs to develop applications for Informix database servers.
Informix® ODBC Driver Guide
These topics serve as a user guide and reference for Informix® ODBC Driver, which is the Informix implementation of the Microsoft™ Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) interface, Version 3.0.
Configure data sources
These topics explain how to configure a data source (DSN) on UNIX™ and Windows™ for Informix® ODBC Driver.
Configure a DSN on UNIX™
The configuration files provide information, such as driver attributes, that the driver uses to connect to DSNs.

HCL Informix® V14.10 documentation
Welcome to the documentation for HCL Informix® 14.10 and related client tools and products. The current fix pack level of Informix is 14.10.xC13.
Product overview
HCL Informix® is a fast and scalable database server that manages traditional relational, object-relational, and dimensional databases. Its small footprint and self-managing capabilities are suited to embedded data-management solutions.
Installing
These topics describe how to install HCL Informix® database servers, client products, and DataBlade® modules.
Administering
In addition to administering the database server, you can tune performance, replicate data, and archive data.
Migrating and upgrading
You can upgrade to the 14.10 release of HCL Informix® or migrate from other database servers to Informix. Upgrading is an in-place migration method that uses your existing hardware and operating system software. Some changes to the Informix database server can affect upgrading from a previous release.
Client APIs and tools
You can use the HCL Informix® implementation of client APIs to develop applications for Informix database servers.
- Change Data Capture API Programmer's Guide
  These topics describe how to program applications to process changed data from HCL Informix® databases using the Informix Change Data Capture API.
- Embedded SQLJ for HCL Informix®
  This set of topics contains information about using Informix® Embedded SQLJ.
- ESQL/C Guide
- GLS User's Guide
  These topics describe the Global Language Support (GLS) feature available in Informix® products.
- Informix® GLS API
  These topics describe the global language support (GLS) application programming interface (API) available in Informix® ESQL/C and HCL Informix DataBlade® modules.
- Informix® Object Interface for C++ Guide
  These topics describe how to develop HCL Informix® client applications by using the object-oriented C++ programming language.
- Informix® ODBC Driver Guide
  These topics serve as a user guide and reference for Informix® ODBC Driver, which is the Informix implementation of the Microsoft™ Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) interface, Version 3.0.
  - Overview of HCL Informix® ODBC Driver
    These topics introduce the Informix® ODBC Driver and describe its advantages and architecture. The topics also describe conformance, isolation and lock levels, libraries, and environment variables.
  - Configure data sources
    These topics explain how to configure a data source (DSN) on UNIX™ and Windows™ for Informix® ODBC Driver.
    - Configure a DSN on UNIX™
      The configuration files provide information, such as driver attributes, that the driver uses to connect to DSNs.
      - The odbcinst.ini file
        The odbcinst.ini file has entries for all the installed drivers on your computer.
      - The odbc.ini file
        The odbc.ini file is a sample data-source configuration information file.
      - ODBC section
        The values in the ODBC section of odbc.ini specify ODBC tracing options.
      - Set the $ODBCINI environment variable
        Set the $ODBCINI environment variable to provide access to your DSN by system users
      - The .netrc file
        The .netrc file contains data for logging in to a remote database server over the network.
    - Configuring a DSN in Windows™
      In Windows™ environments, Informix® ODBC Driver provides a GUI to configure DSNs.
    - Creating and configuring a DSN on Mac OS X
      The Mac OS X environment has a GUI interface for creating and configuring an Informix® ODBC data source name (DSN). This utility is the ODBC Administrator.
    - Connection string keywords that make a connection
      Use connection string keywords to make a connection with or without DSN and with the DRIVER keywords.
    - DSN migration tool
      You can use the DSN migration tool by creating a text file with an .ini extension.
  - Data types
    These topics contain information about the data types that are supported by Informix® ODBC Driver.
  - Smart large objects
    These topics describe how to store, create, and access a smart large object; how to transfer smart-large-object data; how to retrieve the status of a smart large object; and how to read or write a smart large object to or from a file.
  - Rows and collections
    Rows and collections are composite values that consist of one or more elements.
  - Client functions
    These topics describe the Informix® ODBC Driver client functions. Use these functions to access and manipulate smart large objects and rows and collections.
  - Application tracking in ODBC
    Set the CLIENT_LABEL environment variable in CSDK 4.50.xC4 onwards to assign a character string to ODBC client session and identify that character string on the database server. You can use this variable to distinguish one database session from the other.
  - Improve application performance
    These topics suggest ways to improve performance of Informix® ODBC Driver applications.
  - Error messages
    These topics describe the Informix® ODBC Driver error messages.
  - Unicode
    These topics provide a brief overview of the Unicode standard and shows how it is used within ODBC applications.
  - ODBC Smart trigger
- .NET provider options
  The Data Server Provider for .NET DB2® provider option is the preferred Informix® provider for developing new applications.
- 4GL
  This topic provides a link to the Informix 4GL documentation.
- Informix® JDBC Driver Guide
  These topics describe how to install, load, and use Informix® JDBC Driver to connect to the Informix database from within a Java™ application or applet.
- Informix International Language Supplement (ILS) User Guide
  These topics include information about the translated user interface files for Informix® UNIX™ products, locales, and code set conversion tables
- Informix® OLE DB Provider Guide
  These topics describe the software requirements for using Informix® OLE DB Provider, show how to install and configure the provider for your use, and explain how to use Informix OLE DB Provider to enable client applications, such as ActiveX Data Object (ADO) applications and web pages, to access data on the Informix server.
Embedding Informix®
When you embed HCL Informix®, you can use enterprise-class high-availability and high performance with embeddability features such as easy programmability, a small disk and memory footprint, and silent deployment.
Extending Informix®
Beyond standard relational database objects, HCL Informix® can be extended to handle specialized data types, access methods, routines, and other objects. Informix includes many built-in extensions that are fully integrated in the database server. Informix also provides DataBlade® modules, which are packages of extended database objects for a particular purpose and that are installed separately from the database server. Alternatively, you can create your own user-defined objects for Informix.
Data warehousing
In addition to designing and implementing Informix® dimensional databases, you can use tools to create data warehouse applications and optimize your data warehouse queries.
Designing databases
The first step in creating a relational database is to construct a data model, which is a precise, complete definition of the data you want to store. After you prepare your data model, you must implement it as a database and tables. To implement your data model, you first select a data type for each column and then you create a database and tables and populate the tables with data. You can also implement fragmentation strategies and control access to your data.
JSON compatibility
You can use the popular JSON-oriented query language created by MongoDB to interact with data stored in HCL Informix®.
Security
You can secure your Informix® database server and the data that is stored in your Informix databases. You can encrypt data, secure connections, control user privileges and access, and audit data security.
SQL programming
You can use the HCL Informix® implementation of the SQL language to develop applications for Informix database servers.
Troubleshooting HCL Informix®
Several troubleshooting techniques, tools, and resources are available for resolving problems that you encounter in your HCL Informix® database server environment.
Informix PDF guides

Configure a DSN on UNIX™

The configuration files provide information, such as driver attributes, that the driver uses to connect to DSNs.

This section provides information about driver specifications and DSN specifications on UNIX™, and describes the following DSN configuration files:

sqlhosts
odbcinst.ini
odbc.ini

To modify these files, use a text editor. The section also provides examples of driver and DSN specifications.

If you are enabling single-sign on (SSO), additional steps are in "Configuring ESQL/C and ODBC Drivers for SSO" in Informix® Security Guide.