Welcome
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.
DB-Access User's Guide
The HCL® Informix® DB-Access User's Guide describes how to use the utility to access, modify, and retrieve information from HCL Informix database servers.
Getting started with DB-Access
provides a menu-driven interface for entering, running, and debugging Structured Query Language (SQL) statements and Stored Procedure Language (SPL) routines. You can also run interactively from the command line.
Start DB-Access
You start by running the dbaccess command from the command line. You can choose whether to use the menu interface or the command-line interface.
dbaccess command: Start DB-Access
Use the dbaccess command to start DB-Access. Include options to specify the database, command files, or to go to a specific menu screen.
Example: Start DB-Access for a database
This example shows how to start DB-Access and specify a database to which to connect.

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.
  - 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 HCL® Informix® Administrator's Guide provides the information required to administer HCL Informix.
  - Administrator's Reference
    The HCL® 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 HCL® Informix® DB-Access User's Guide describes how to use the utility to access, modify, and retrieve information from HCL Informix database servers.
    - Getting started with DB-Access
      provides a menu-driven interface for entering, running, and debugging Structured Query Language (SQL) statements and Stored Procedure Language (SPL) routines. You can also run interactively from the command line.
      - Requirements for the Informix® server DB-Access utility
        Before you start DB-Access, prepare the Informix® server environment.
      - Requirements for the Informix® Client Software Development Kit DB-Access utility
        Before you start on a client, set up the client environment.
      - Demonstration databases
        You can practice using with a demonstration database.
      - Start DB-Access
        You start by running the dbaccess command from the command line. You can choose whether to use the menu interface or the command-line interface.
        dbaccess command: Start DB-Access
        Use the dbaccess command to start DB-Access. Include options to specify the database, command files, or to go to a specific menu screen.
        CONNECTION menu options
        The CONNECTION menu options for the dbaccess command represent short cut keys for the CONNECTION menu.
        DATABASE menu options
        The DATABASE menu options for the dbaccess command represent short cut keys for the DATABASE menu.
        QUERY-LANGUAGE menu options
        The QUERY-LANGUAGE menu options for the dbaccess command represent short cut keys for the QUERY-LANGUAGE menu.
        TABLE menu options
        The TABLE menu options for the dbaccess command represent short cut keys for the TABLE menu.
        Example: Start DB-Access for a database
        This example shows how to start DB-Access and specify a database to which to connect.
        Example: Run a command file
        This example shows how to start DB-Access and run a command file that contains SQL statements.
        Example: View the Information Schema
        This example shows how to start DB-Access and view the Information Schema for the specified database.
        Example: Check for ANSI compliance
        This example shows how to start DB-Access and check whether a database is ANSI-compliant.
        Example: Show nonprintable characters in hexadecimal
        This example starts DB-Access and activates the hexadecimal load and unload format (XLUF) so that the LOAD and UNLOAD SQL statements can format nonprintable ASCII signs in hexadecimal format.
        Run DB-Access in interactive mode without menus
        If you do not want to use the menus and do not have a prepared SQL file, use your keyboard or standard input device to enter SQL statements from the command line.
    - The full-screen menu interface
      The full-screen menu interface guides you through running SQL statements.
    - Appendixes
  - 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.
  - Performance Guide
    The HCL® 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.
- 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.
- 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.

Example: Start DB-Access for a database

This example shows how to start DB-Access and specify a database to which to connect.

Assume that the database server that you have online contains a database named mystores. To make the mystores database the current database, start with the following command:

dbaccess mystores

You can specify a database on a database server that is not online. For example, either of the following commands selects the newstores database on the xyz database server:

dbaccess newstores@xyz
dbaccess //xyz/newstores

When starts, the database and database server name that you specify are displayed on the dashed line, as the following figure shows.

Figure 1. The main menu with database and database server name

DB-Access:   Query-language  Connection  Database  Table  Session  Exit


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