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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 Informix® database servers.
High-Performance Loader User's GuideThe describes how to use the HCL Informix® to load and unload large quantities of data efficiently to or from Informix® databases.
Define formatsThis section describes the formats that the provides and shows how to prepare and edit the format component.
FormatsA format describes the structure of the data in a data file.

Formats

A format describes the structure of the data in a data file.

Before you can import records from a data file into HCL Informix® databases or export records from a database to a data file, you must define a format that describes the data file. You do not need to define a format for the database because ipload already knows the schema (the organization) of the database table.

These topics use the term format in two ways:

To refer to the arrangement of data fields in a record of a data file
To refer to the HPL component that documents the arrangement of the data fields

After you familiarize yourself with the concepts in this section, you might save yourself some work by using one of the Generate options to create formats automatically.

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