You can use the HCL Informix® implementation of client APIs to develop applications for Informix database servers.
These topics describe the Global Language Support (GLS) feature available in HCL® Informix® products.
This section contains additional reference information.
These topics describe the files provided for GLS, which are executable only.
Welcome to the documentation for HCL Informix® 15.0 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 DataBlade® modules.
In addition to administering the database server, you can tune performance, replicate data, and archive data.
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.
The Global Language Support (GLS) feature lets HCL® Informix® products handle different languages, cultural conventions, and code sets for Asian, African, European, Latin American, and Middle Eastern countries.
HCL Informix® products establish the client, database, and server locales with information from GLS-related environment variables and from data that is stored in the database.
These topics explain how the GLS feature affects the HCL® Informix® implementation of SQL.
These topics describe how the GLS feature affects the database server.
These topics explain how the GLS feature affects applications that you develop with the HCL Informix® Client Software Development Kit.
These topics explain how the GLS feature affects IBM® Informix® ESQL/C, an SQL application programming interface (API).
HCL Informix® products access the GLS files to obtain locale-related information.
The locale file defines a GLS locale. It describes the basic language and cultural conventions that are relevant to the processing of data for a given language and territory.
In addition to GLS locale files, HCL Informix® products might also use other GLS files.
HCL Informix® products contain the GLS files.
To comply with MS-DOS 8.3 legacy format for file names, HCL Informix® products use condensed file names to store GLS locales and code-set-conversion files.
Starting with CSDK 4.50.xC4, Informix .NET Core Provider built with .NET Core SDK/Runtime v3.1 is shipped for Windows x64 and Linux x86_64 platforms.
These topics include information about HCL Informix®4GL and SQL.
The Actian MCP (Model Context Protocol) server provides a standardized interface to connect Large Language Model (LLM) agents and AI applications directly to your HCL Informix database.
These topics include information about the translated user interface files for Informix® UNIX™ products, locales, and code set conversion tables
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 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.
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.
