Welcome
Administering
In addition to administering the database server, you can tune performance, replicate data, and archive data.
Enterprise Replication
These topics describe 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.
Appendixes
SQLHOSTS Registry Key (Windows™)
In an Enterprise Replication environment, you manage connectivity information about Windows™ operating systems with the SQLHOST registry key.
Preparing the SQLHOSTS Connectivity Information
Preparing the SQLHOSTS connectivity information consists of setting up registry keys on each computer that hosts a database server that participates in a replicate.
Setting up the SQLHOSTS Registry with ISA

HCL Informix® V15.0 documentation
Welcome to the documentation for HCL Informix® 15.0 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 DataBlade® 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
  These topics describe how to use the HCL® Informix® ON-Bar 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
  These topics describe 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.
  - About Enterprise Replication
    HCL Informix® Enterprise Replication generates and manages multiple copies of data at one or more sites, which allows an enterprise to share corporate data throughout its organization.
  - Planning and designing for Enterprise Replication
    Before you set up your replication system, plan how to include Enterprise Replication into your database server environment, design your database schema by following Enterprise Replication requirements, and then design your replication system between database servers.
  - Setting up and managing Enterprise Replication
    After you design your replication system, you define it and start replication.
  - Push data feature
  - Loopback replication
  - Appendixes
    - The cdr utility
      You use the cdr utility to configure and control Enterprise Replication from the command line on your UNIX™ or Windows™ operating system.
    - Enterprise Replication configuration parameter and environment variable reference
      You can use configuration parameters and environment variables to configure the behavior of Enterprise Replication.
    - Grid routines
      Grid routines are used to create and maintain the grid and to administer servers in the grid by propagating commands from a source server to all other servers in the grid.
    - Enterprise Replication routines
      Enterprise Replication routines used to control if a replicated transaction is recaptured.
    - onstat -g commands for Enterprise Replication
      You can monitor and debug Enterprise Replication activity using onstat -g commands.
    - syscdr Tables
      These tables in the syscdr database contain progress information about consistency checking and synchronization operations.
    - SMI Table Reference
      The system-monitoring interface (SMI) tables in the sysmaster database provide information about the state of the database server. Enterprise Replication uses the following SMI tables.
    - Replication Examples
      This appendix contains simple examples of replication using the command-line utility (CLU).
    - SQLHOSTS Registry Key (Windows™)
      In an Enterprise Replication environment, you manage connectivity information about Windows™ operating systems with the SQLHOST registry key.
      - The Location of the SQLHOSTS Registry Key
        When you install the database server on Windows™, the installation program asks where you want to store the SQLHOSTS registry key.
      - Preparing the SQLHOSTS Connectivity Information
        Preparing the SQLHOSTS connectivity information consists of setting up registry keys on each computer that hosts a database server that participates in a replicate.
        Setting up the SQLHOSTS Registry with ISA
        Setting up the SQLHOSTS Registry Key for Database Server with regedit
        You can set the SQLHOSTS registry key with the regedit utility.
        Setting Up the Database Server Group Registry Key
        After you create the registry key for the database server, you must make a registry key for the database server group that includes the database server.
        Setting up the Registry Keys on All Computers
        Verifying the services Files on All Computers
    - Data sync warning and error messages
      Data sync warning and error messages describe problems with replicated transactions.
Migrating and upgrading
You can upgrade to the 15.0 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 DataBlade® 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.

Setting up the SQLHOSTS Registry with ISA

It is strongly recommended that you use IBM® Informix® Server Administrator (ISA), rather than regedit, to set up the SQLHOSTS registry key and database server group registry key on your Windows™ system. In addition, ISA allows you to administer your replication system from a web browser.

See the online help for ISA for details on setting up the SQLHOSTS registry key and database server group registry key.