In addition to administering the database server, you can tune performance, replicate data, and archive data.
These topics contain concepts, procedures, and reference information for database and database server administrators to use for managing and tuning HCL Informix® database servers.
The describes how to use the HCL Informix® to load and unload large quantities of data efficiently to or from Informix databases.
This section describes the load process.
Welcome to the documentation for HCL Informix® 15.0.0 and related client tools and products.
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.
These topics describe how to install HCL Informix® database servers, client products, and modules.
HCL Informix® includes utilities and applications that you can use to perform administrative tasks and capture information about configuration and performance.
The HCL® Informix® Administrator's Guide provides the information required to administer HCL Informix.
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.
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.
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).
This section contains information about using the ipload utility.
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.
This section describes the process of configure the .
This section describes how to define and use device arrays with the .
This section describes the formats that the provides and shows how to prepare and edit the format component.
This section describe how to define queries including how to create, edit, and export and import queries.
This section describes how to define maps with the . It also describes the options that are available for defining maps.
This section describes how to create, edit, and delete filters.
This section describes the Unload Job window.
A load job loads data from a set of one or more files into a single database table. A record format, which defines each field of a record, specifies the layout of the input data. A load map specifies how the record fields are mapped to the columns of the target table. During the load process, the onpload utility converts data from record field to table column.
The lets you define the individual components of a data load individually or lets you use the generate option to define the components automatically.
You can create, save, and run a load job from the Load Job Select window and the Load Job window. The Load Job window visually represents the various components of a load. After you select the components, you can save the load job for future use or run it immediately.
Instead of individually creating the components that are required on the Load Job window, you can use the Generate options to create a load job.
This section describes the Generate options for the ipload utility.
This section describes the browsing options that are available for the .
This section describes how to use the onpload utility.
This section describes how to use the onpladm utility.
This section contains additional reference information.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You can use the HCL Informix® implementation of client APIs to develop applications for Informix database servers.
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.
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.
In addition to designing and implementing Informix® dimensional databases, you can use tools to create data warehouse applications and optimize your data warehouse queries.
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.
You can use the popular JSON-oriented query language created by MongoDB to interact with data stored in HCL Informix®.
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.
You can use the HCL Informix® implementation of the SQL language to develop applications for Informix database servers.
Several troubleshooting techniques, tools, and resources are available for resolving problems that you encounter in your HCL Informix® database server environment.
