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SecurityYou can secure your HCL OneDB™ database server and the data that is stored in your HCL OneDB™ databases. You can encrypt data, secure connections, control user privileges and access, and audit data security.
Security in HCL OneDB™The HCL OneDB™ Security Guide documents methods for keeping your data secure by preventing unauthorized viewing and altering of data or database objects, including how to use the secure-auditing facility of the database server.
Securing data
Storage space encryptionYou can encrypt storage spaces (dbspaces, blobspaces and smart blobspaces) with Informix Dynamic Server. The data in encrypted storage spaces is unintelligible without the encryption key. Encrypting storage spaces is an effective way to protect sensitive information that is stored on disk.
Creating encrypted or unencrypted storage spacesWhen storage space encryption is enabled, the storage spaces that you create are encrypted by default, however, you can specify to create unencrypted storage spaces. When storage space encryption is disabled, you cannot create encrypted storage spaces.

Creating encrypted or unencrypted storage spaces

When storage space encryption is enabled, the storage spaces that you create are encrypted by default, however, you can specify to create unencrypted storage spaces. When storage space encryption is disabled, you cannot create encrypted storage spaces.

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To create an encrypted storage space, set the DISK_ENCRYPTION configuration parameter, restart the database server, and then run the appropriate onspaces or SQL administration API command.

To create an unencrypted storage space when storage space encryption is enabled, use one of the following methods:

Run the appropriate onspaces command for the storage space and include the -u option.
Run the appropriate SQL administration API command for the storage space and include the unencrypt option.