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.
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.
Examples of loading and unloading jobs using the ipload utility
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).
Format windows
The format specifies the organization of the input data.
Format Views window
The Format Views window displays existing formats, so that you can choose the format to use in the load job.

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.
  - 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.
    - High-Performance Loader overview
    - Examples of loading and unloading jobs using the ipload utility
      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).
      - Prepare to use the ipload utility
        The ipload utility is a part of UNIX™ database servers. Before you can use ipload, you must have installed the database server. If the database that you want to load or unload is on the computer where you plan to run ipload, you must also start the database server.
      - Create a file of data
      - Create a database
      - The ipload utility
        The uses information from the onpload database to control loading and unloading of data. Theoretically, you could create the onpload database and use DB-Acess or some other database tool to populate it. However, it is recommended that you always use ipload to manage the onpload database.
      - Load Job windows
        A load job is a collection of the specific pieces of information that you require to move data from a data file into a database. The Load Job window shows a flowchart that includes all of the components of a load job.
      - Device-Array windows
        A device array is a collection of files, tape devices, and pipes that onpload uses for input and output. Pipes are only supported on UNIX™. You can create a device array and specify the location of the input data from the Device Array Selection and Device-Array Definition windows.
      - Format windows
        The format specifies the organization of the input data.
        Format Views window
        The Format Views window displays existing formats, so that you can choose the format to use in the load job.
        Record Formats window
        Format-Definition window
        In the Format-Definition window, you must make an entry for each field of the data records in the input file. The input file for this example (/work/mydata) has three fields of data in each record, so you must enter format information for three pieces of data.
      - Filter, Discard Records, and Logfile text boxes
        The Load Job window now has entries for a device and format. The next incomplete items in the Load Job window are the Filter text box, the Discard Records text box, and the Logfile text box.
      - Map Views window
        From the Map Views window, you can create a map that specifies which data field from the input file (/work/mydata) is entered into which columns in the database table.
      - Completing the Load Record Maps window
        The Load Record Maps window specifies the device array that holds the input data, the format that describes the input data, and the database and table where the input data will be stored.
      - Map-Definition window
      - Load Options window
      - Running the ipload job
        You are now ready to perform the load.
      - Active Job window
      - The ipload utility Generate options
        The ipload utility has Generate options that you can use to automatically create a format, map, query, and device. After the components are generated, you can modify the components to meet your needs.
    - The ipload utility windows
      This section contains information about using the ipload utility.
    - Define HPL projects
      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.
    - Configure the High-Performance Loader
      This section describes the process of configure the .
    - Define device arrays
      This section describes how to define and use device arrays with the .
    - Define formats
      This section describes the formats that the provides and shows how to prepare and edit the format component.
    - Define queries
      This section describe how to define queries including how to create, edit, and export and import queries.
    - Define maps
      This section describes how to define maps with the . It also describes the options that are available for defining maps.
    - Define filters
      This section describes how to create, edit, and delete filters.
    - Unload data from a database
      This section describes the Unload Job window.
    - Load data to a database table
      This section describes the load process.
    - The Generate options of the ipload utility
      This section describes the Generate options for the ipload utility.
    - The HPL browsing options
      This section describes the browsing options that are available for the .
    - Manage the High-Performance Loader
    - The onpload utility
      This section describes how to use the onpload utility.
    - The onpladm utility
      This section describes how to use the onpladm utility.
    - Appendixes
      This section contains additional reference information.
  - 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.

Format Views window

The Format Views window displays existing formats, so that you can choose the format to use in the load job.

About this task

To open the Format Views window:

Procedure

Click the Format in the Load Job window.

The Format Views window appears, as the following figure shows. When you first start ipload, no formats are defined, as the NONE FOUND icon illustrates.
Figure 1. The Format Views window
Click Create to open the Record Formats window.