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AdministeringIn addition to administering the database server, you can tune performance, replicate data, and archive data.
System administrationThese topics contain concepts, procedures, and reference information for database and database server administrators to use for managing and tuning HCL OneDB™ database servers.
Administrator's GuideThe HCL OneDB™ Administrator's Guide provides the information required to administer HCL OneDB™.
The database server
Client/server communicationThese topics explain the concepts and terms that you must understand in order to configure client/server communication.
Client/server architectureHCL® OneDB® products conform to the client/server software-design model.
Network programming interfaceA network programming interface is an application programming interface (API) that contains a set of communications routines or system calls. An application can call these routines to communicate with another application that is on the same or on different computers.

Network programming interface

A network programming interface is an application programming interface (API) that contains a set of communications routines or system calls. An application can call these routines to communicate with another application that is on the same or on different computers.

In the context of this explanation, the client and the database server are the applications that call the routines in the TLI or sockets API. Clients and database servers both use network programming interfaces to send and receive the data according to a communications protocol.

Both client and database server environments must be configured with the same protocol if client/server communication is to succeed. However, some network protocols can be accessed through more than one network programming interface. For example, TCP/IP can be accessed through either TLI or sockets, depending on which programming interface is available on the operating-system platform.