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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 mapsThis section describes how to define maps with the . It also describes the options that are available for defining maps.
Load and unload mapsYou can use the ipload utility to build a map. A map specifies the relationship between the fields of a data file and the columns of a database.
The Map-Definition windowYou can associate an input item with a table column from the Map-Definition window.

The Map-Definition window

You can associate an input item with a table column from the Map-Definition window.

The following figure shows a Map-Definition window for a load map.

begin figure description - This figure is described in the surrounding text. - end figure description — Figure 1: The Map-Definition window

The map specifies which fields of the data file are loaded into database columns. The data moves from the fields of a data file into the columns of a database.

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