Welcome
Administering
In addition to administering the database server, you can tune performance, replicate data, and archive data.
Backup and Restore Guide
The HCL® Informix® Backup and Restore Guide describes how to use the HCL Informix 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.
HCL Informix® Primary Storage Manager
HCL Informix® Primary Storage Manager is an application that manages storage devices used for backup and restore requests that are issued by . This storage manager supports both serial and parallel processing for backup and restore requests.
The onpsm utility for storage management
Use the onpsm utility to manage the HCL Informix® Primary Storage Manager catalogs, devices, locks, and objects.
onpsm -D list output
The onpsm -D list command displays information about all of the devices in each HCL Informix® Primary Storage Manager pool. You can use this list to determine whether you need to change information about your devices.

HCL Informix® V15.0.0 documentation
Welcome to the documentation for HCL Informix® 15.0.0 and related client tools and products.
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 modules.
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.
- Backup and Restore Guide
  The HCL® Informix® Backup and Restore Guide describes how to use the HCL Informix 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.
  - Overview of backup and restore
    These topics provide an overview of backup and restore concepts. They also provide information about planning for backup and restore operations.
  - ON-Bar backup and restore system
  - ontape backup and restore system
  - Backup and restore a Remote Secondary Server(RSS)
  - Integrated Backup Encryption
    These topics provide information about Integrated Backup Encryption.
  - HCL Informix® Primary Storage Manager
    HCL Informix® Primary Storage Manager is an application that manages storage devices used for backup and restore requests that are issued by . This storage manager supports both serial and parallel processing for backup and restore requests.
    - Examples: Manage storage devices with Informix® Primary Storage Manager
      Learn how to set up and use Informix® Primary Storage Manager to manage storage devices that the onbar utility uses for backing up and restoring instances. Each example shows how you can use the storage manager for a specific backup strategy.
    - Setting up Informix® Primary Storage Manager
      Setting up involves gathering and specifying information about your storage devices and, if necessary, changing the default configuration of the storage manager.
    - Managing storage devices
      Use the onpsm utility to add, monitor, and remove storage devices and to manage HCL Informix® Primary Storage Manager catalogs, locks, and objects. Use the onsmsync utility to export backups to and import them from external pools and to expire backups.
    - The onpsm utility for storage management
      Use the onpsm utility to manage the HCL Informix® Primary Storage Manager catalogs, devices, locks, and objects.
      - onpsm -C detail output
        Use the onpsm -C detail command to view details about the storage manager catalog tables.
      - onpsm -D list output
        The onpsm -D list command displays information about all of the devices in each HCL Informix® Primary Storage Manager pool. You can use this list to determine whether you need to change information about your devices.
      - onpsm -O list output
        The onpsm -O list command displays all of the objects stored in a pool.
    - Device pools
      The HCL Informix® Primary Storage Manager pool is a named group of disk devices that you use as a repository for backups.
    - Device-configuration file for the Informix® Primary Storage Manager
      The onpsm utility can generate a device-configuration file, which is a text file that contains information about a storage device. The utility uses this information to re-create the devices.
    - Informix® Primary Storage Manager file-naming conventions
      When creating files that store your backup data, the HCL Informix® Primary Storage Manager uses specific file-naming conventions.
    - Message logs for Informix® Primary Storage Manager
      The Informix® Primary Storage Manager writes messages to a storage manager activity log and debug log.
  - archecker table level restore utility
  - Backup and restore configuration parameter reference
  - Cloud Backup
    These topics provide information about storing and retrieving the backups directly to the ecosystem of selected cloud providers, namely Amazon S3 and Softlayer Object Storage.
  - Appendixes
- Enterprise Replication
  The describes the concepts of data replication using HCL Informix® Enterprise Replication, including how to design your replication system, as well as administer and manage data replication throughout your enterprise.
Migrating and upgrading
You can upgrade to the 15.0.0 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.
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 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.

onpsm -D list output

The onpsm -D list command displays information about all of the devices in each HCL Informix® Primary Storage Manager pool. You can use this list to determine whether you need to change information about your devices.

Sample onpsm -D list command output


Type    Prio       Pool           	 Name
-----  -------  ---------------    ----------------------------
FILE    LOW        DBSPOOL             /informix/backups

FILE    LOW        LOGPOOL            /informix/backups

Type: Type of device, supported types are FILE, CLOUD and STDIO.

Prio: Priority of the device, either HIGH, HIGHEST, LOW, or READ-ONLY
HIGH is the default priority if a priority is not specified. Only one device in a pool can have a priority of HIGHEST.

Pool: The name of the pool (DBSPOOL, LOGPOOL, or EXTPOOL)
In the example output above, there are no EXTPOOL devices.
Name: Complete path name for the device