Welcome to the documentation for HCL Informix® 14.10 and related client tools and products. The current fix pack level of Informix® is 14.10.xC10.
Example code conventions
Examples of SQL code occur throughout this publication. Except as noted, the code is not specific to any single HCL Informix® application development tool.
How to read the syntax diagrams
Syntax diagrams use special components to describe the syntax for SQL statements and commands.
HCL Informix® is a fast and scalable database server that manages traditional relational, object-relational, and dimensional databases. Its small footprint and self-managing capabilities are suited to embedded data-management solutions.
What's new in Informix®
HCL Informix®14.10 has new, changed, and removed features.
Verify digital signatures
This topic describes how to verify that your IBM Passport Advantage software download is valid and has been signed by IBM.
Tutorials and examples
You can learn how to use some of the features and functionality of Informix® by using tutorials, examples, and recorded demonstrations.
Accessibility features for HCL Informix® products
HCL strives to provide products with usable access for everyone, regardless of age or ability.
Compliance with industry standards
HCL Informix® products are compliant
with various standards.
Java™ technology dependencies
HCL Informix® products and components
have Java™ software requirements for you to use Java™ tools and to create and run Java™ applications, including user-defined functions.
Assumptions about your locale
HCL Informix® products can support
many languages, cultures, and code sets. All the information related to character set,
collation and representation of numeric data, currency, date, and time that is used by a
language within a given territory and encoding is brought together in a single environment,
called a Global Language Support (GLS) locale.
Demonstration databases
Demonstration databases that contain sample data are provided with the HCL Informix® database server.
Release information
Review the release notes, documentation notes, and machine notes for essential information about an HCL Informix® product or fix pack.
GDPR Compliance Information
This document is for PID(s): 5725-D14, 5725-F59, 5725-A39, 5725-A40, 5737-B60, 5737-B86
These topics describe how to install HCL Informix® database servers, client products, and DataBlade® modules.
Informix® server
These topics describe how to install HCL Informix® database servers.
Client products
These topics describe how to install HCL Informix® client products.
DataBlade modules
These topics describe how to install HCL Informix® DataBlade® modules.
Informix® warehouse accelerator
These topics describe how to install HCL Informix® warehouse accelerator.
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.
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.
You can upgrade to the 14.10 release of HCL Informix® or migrate from other database servers to Informix®. Upgrading is an in-place migration method that uses your existing hardware and operating system software. Some changes to the Informix® database server can affect upgrading from a previous release.
Migrating Informix® database systems
The Informix® Migration Guide describes how to move data manually between databases, servers, and computers.
You can use the HCL Informix® implementation of client APIs to develop applications for Informix® database servers.
Change Data Capture API Programmer's Guide
The Informix® Change Data Capture API Programmer's Guide describes how to program applications to process changed data from HCL Informix® databases using the Informix® Change Data Capture API.
Embedded SQLJ for HCL Informix®
The Informix® Embedded SQLJ User's Guide contains information about using Informix® Embedded SQLJ.
ESQL/C Guide
The Informix® ESQL/C Programmer's Manual explains how to use Informix® ESQL/C, the Informix® implementation of Embedded Structured Query Language (SQL) for C (ESQL/C), to create client applications with database-management capabilities.
GLS User's Guide
The Informix® GLS User's Guide describes the Global Language Support (GLS) feature available in Informix® products.
API
The Informix® GLS API Programmer's Guide describes the global language support (GLS) application programming interface (API) available in Informix® ESQL/C and HCL Informix® DataBlade® modules.
Informix® Object Interface for C++ Guide
The Informix® Object Interface for C++ Programmer's Guide describes how to develop HCL Informix® client applications by using the object-oriented C++ programming language.
Informix® ODBC Driver Guide
The Informix® ODBC Driver Programmer's Manual serves as a user guide and reference for Informix® ODBC Driver, which is the Informix® implementation of the Microsoft™ Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) interface, Version 3.0.
.NET provider options
The Data Server Provider for .NET DB2® provider option is the preferred Informix® provider for developing new applications.
Informix® JDBC Driver Guide
The Informix® JDBC Driver Programmer's Guide describes how to install, load, and use Informix® JDBC Driver to connect to the Informix® database from within a Java™ application or applet.
Informix International Language Supplement (ILS) User Guide
These topics include information about the translated user interface files for Informix® UNIX™ products, locales, and code set conversion tables
Informix® OLE DB Provider Guide
The Informix® OLE DB Provider Programmer's Guide describes the software requirements for using Informix® OLE DB Provider, show how to install and configure the provider for your use, and explain how to use Informix® OLE DB Provider to enable client applications, such as ActiveX Data Object (ADO) applications and web pages, to access data on the Informix® server.
When you embed HCL Informix®, you can use enterprise-class high-availability and high performance with embeddability features such as easy programmability, a small disk and memory footprint, and silent deployment.
Embedding HCL Informix®
The Informix® Embeddability Guide describes how to embed HCL Informix® in your applications.
Beyond standard relational database objects, HCL Informix® can be extended to handle specialized data types, access methods, routines, and other objects. Informix® includes many built-in extensions that are fully integrated in the database server. Informix® also provides DataBlade® modules, which are packages of extended database objects for a particular purpose and that are installed separately from the database server. Alternatively, you can create your own user-defined objects for Informix®.
Informix® extensions and DataBlade® modules
These topics describe how to use built-in database extensions and separately installed DataBlade® modules.
Creating extensions
You can create user-defined data types, routines, access methods, and other database objects to suit your needs. You can use application programming interfaces to write user-defined routines and applications that access data in Informix® databases.
In addition to designing and implementing Informix® dimensional databases, you can use tools to create data warehouse applications and optimize your data warehouse queries. The resources that are external to the information center are marked as such.
Dimensional databases
The Informix® Data Warehouse Guide provides information to help you design, implement, and manage dimensional databases, and describes the tools that you can use to create data warehouses and optimize your data warehouse queries.
Informix® Warehouse Accelerator
The Informix® Warehouse Accelerator Administration Guide includes information about installing and configuring the accelerator server, creating data marts, accelerators, and accelerated query tables (AQTs).
The first step in creating a relational database is to construct a data model, which is a precise, complete definition of the data you want to store. After you prepare your data model, you must implement it as a database and tables. To implement your data model, you first select a data type for each column and then you create a database and tables and populate the tables with data. You can also implement fragmentation strategies and control access to your data.
Designing and Implementing a Database
The Informix® Database Design and Implementation Guide provides information to help you design, implement, and manage your Informix® databases. It includes data models that illustrate different approaches to database design and shows you how to use structured query language (SQL) to implement and manage your databases.
You can use the popular JSON-oriented query language created by MongoDB to interact with data stored in HCL Informix®.
HCL Informix® JSON compatibility
The Informix® JSON Compatibility Guide describes how applications that use the popular JSON-oriented query language created by MongoDB can interact with data stored in HCL Informix®.
You can secure your Informix® database server and the data that is stored in your Informix® databases. You can encrypt data, secure connections, control user privileges and access, and audit data security.
Security in HCL Informix®
The Informix® 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.
You can use the HCL Informix® implementation of the SQL language to develop applications for Informix® database servers.
Guide to SQL: Reference
The Informix® Guide to SQL: Reference contains the reference information for the system catalog tables, data types, and environment variables of the HCL Informix® dialect of the SQL language, as implemented in HCL Informix®. These topics also include information about the stores_demo, sales_demo, and superstore_demo databases that are included with HCL Informix®.
Guide to SQL: Tutorial
The Informix® Guide to SQL: Tutorial shows how to use basic and advanced structured query language (SQL) to access and manipulate the data in your databases. It discusses the data manipulation language (DML) statements as well as triggers and stored procedure language (SPL) routines, which DML statements often use.
Several troubleshooting techniques, tools, and resources are available for resolving problems that you encounter in your Informix® database server environment.
Troubleshooting and support
To isolate and resolve problems with your HCL Informix® products, you can use the troubleshooting and support information, which contains instructions for using the problem-determination resources that are provided with your products.