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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.
High-Performance Loader User's Guide
The describes how to use the
HCL Informix®
to load and unload large quantities of data efficiently to or from
Informix®
databases.
Define HPL projects
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.
Select or create a project with the Projects window
You can select or create a project from the
Projects
window. After you select a project, you can copy the project, delete it, print the project parameters, or make a note that describes the project.
Selecting a project
The HPL provides two methods for selecting a project.
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.
List of utilities
HCL Informix®
includes utilities and applications that you can use to perform administrative tasks and capture information about configuration and performance.
Administrator's Guide
The
Informix® Administrator's Guide
provides the information required to administer
HCL Informix®
.
Administrator's Reference
The 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.
DB-Access User's Guide
The
Informix® DB-Access User's Guide
describes how to use the
DB-Access
utility to access, modify, and retrieve information from
Informix®
database servers.
High-Performance Loader User's Guide
The describes how to use the
HCL Informix®
to load and unload large quantities of data efficiently to or from
Informix®
databases.
High-Performance Loader overview
Examples of loading and unloading jobs using the ipload utility
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).
The ipload utility windows
This section contains information about using the
ipload
utility.
Define HPL projects
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.
HPL projects
You can organize your work by specifying
projects
with the . A project is a collection of individual pieces that you use to load and unload data. A project can include load and unload jobs and the maps, formats, filters, and queries that you use to build the load and unload jobs.
Project organization
The uses only one database, onpload, to track the preparation that you do for loading and unloading data. By using projects, you can organize your work into functional areas.
Select or create a project with the Projects window
You can select or create a project from the
Projects
window. After you select a project, you can copy the project, delete it, print the project parameters, or make a note that describes the project.
Defining a new project
Selecting a project
The HPL provides two methods for selecting a project.
Selecting a project for a load or unload job
Selecting a project to edit
Configure the High-Performance Loader
This section describes the process of configure the .
Define device arrays
This section describes how to define and use device arrays with the .
Define formats
This section describes the formats that the provides and shows how to prepare and edit the format component.
Define queries
This section describe how to define queries including how to create, edit, and export and import queries.
Define maps
This section describes how to define maps with the . It also describes the options that are available for defining maps.
Define filters
This section describes how to create, edit, and delete filters.
Unload data from a database
This section describes the
Unload Job
window.
Load data to a database table
This section describes the load process.
The Generate options of the ipload utility
This section describes the Generate options for the
ipload
utility.
The HPL browsing options
This section describes the browsing options that are available for the .
Manage the High-Performance Loader
The onpload utility
This section describes how to use the
onpload
utility.
The onpladm utility
This section describes how to use the
onpladm
utility.
Appendixes
This section contains additional reference information.
Performance Guide
The
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.
SNMP Subagent Guide
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.
InformixHQ Guide
InformixHQ is a modern web console for visualizing, monitoring, and managing your Informix server instances. It is purpose built for ease-of-use, scaling out, and optimizing DevOps needs. It provides critical performance management capabilities, monitoring how key performance metrics are changing over time and tracking how efficiently Informix is running your workload even when you’ve stepped away from your screen. Its monitoring system feeds directly into a customizable alerting system so you can be immediately alerted via email, Twilio, or PagerDuty whenever an issue occurs on one of your Informix database server instances. InformixHQ is designed to be scalable to efficiently manage and monitor as many Informix database server instances as you need. Moreover, it's a tool that can be shared by the DBAs, the app developers, the ops engineers, and management and accessed from any desktop, laptop, or mobile device. InformixHQ is the centralized hub for graphical monitoring, alerting, and administration of your Informix database servers.
Backup and Restore Guide
The
Informix® Backup and Restore Guide
describes how to use the
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
The describes the concepts of data replication using
Informix® Enterprise Replication
, including how to design your replication system, as well as administer and manage data replication throughout your enterprise.
Selecting a project
The HPL provides two methods for selecting a project.
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Selecting a project for a load or unload job
Selecting a project to edit
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