Welcome
Installing
These topics describe how to install HCL Informix® database servers, client products, and modules.
DataBlade modules
These topics describe how to install HCL Informix® modules.
Module Installation and Registration Guide
This publication explains how to install modules.
Registering with the SYSBldPrepare( ) function
Preparing to call the SYSBldPrepare( ) function

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.
- HCL Informix® server
  These topics describe how to install HCL Informix® database servers.
- Client products
  These topics describe how to install HCL Informix® client products.
- DataBlade modules
  These topics describe how to install HCL Informix® modules.
  - Module Installation and Registration Guide
    This publication explains how to install modules.
    - Installing modules
    - Autoregistration of a standard module in a database
    - Registering with the SYSBldPrepare( ) function
      - Preparing to call the SYSBldPrepare( ) function
      - Register a module
        To register a module, run the SYSBldPrepare( ) function with the module reference and the 'create' arguments.
      - Register a set of modules
      - Unregister a module
        To unregister a module, run the SYSBldPrepare( ) function with the module reference and the 'drop' arguments.
      - Upgrade or revert a module
      - View version information of SYSBldPrepare( )
    - Troubleshooting registration problems
- Informix® warehouse accelerator
  These topics describe how to install HCL Informix® warehouse accelerator.
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 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.

Preparing to call the SYSBldPrepare( ) function

About this task

This topic lists the prerequisite tasks for using the SYSBldPrepare( ) function to register or unregister modules.

To prepare to call the SYSBldPrepare( ) function:

Procedure

Install and configure HCL® Informix®.
- You must have these environment variables set properly: INFORMIXDIR and INFORMIXSERVER. For more information, see the HCL® Informix® Installation Guide.
- Set the DB_LIBRARY_PATH configuration parameter in the onconfig file. The DB_LIBRARY_PATH configuration parameter specifies the location that Informix® checks for UDR or UDT shared libraries. The DB_LIBRARY_PATH configuration parameter should include $INFORMIXDIR/extend for modules. For more information, see the HCL® Informix® Administrator's Reference.
Install modules.
See Installing modules for more information about how to install modules on UNIX™ or Windows™ systems, and how to uninstall modules.
Obtain a user identifier and its password that authorizes you to begin a user session.
If you do not have these for the Informix® instance, contact the Database Server Administrator (DBSA) and request a user ID and a password.
On Informix® instances that have set the IFX_EXTEND_ROLE configuration parameter to enable the EXTEND role, you must be granted that role (or be user informix or a member of the DBSA group) to be able to register or unregister modules in any database. If your Informix® instance has enabled the EXTEND role, but you do not hold that role, contact the DBSA and request that the EXTEND role be granted to you.
Connect to the database.
For information about the connect and resource access privileges that you need to connect to the database, see the HCL® Informix® Administrator's Guide.
Establish an environment in which you can issue valid SQL statements.
This can be any client API that supports SQL, such as DB-Access, SPL, C API, ESQL, JDBC, or ODBC. Refer to the documentation of your API for information about how to establish a database connection and how to call built-in functions.