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Title-to-Topic Reference

In the following table, the manuals mentioned in the DataBlade Module Development Overview are listed alphabetically by title, with a brief description of each.
Manual Title Description

BladeManager User's Guide

This manual explains how to use
BladeManager to register DataBlade modules in Informix databases.

C++ Object Interface Programmer's Guide

This manual describes how to develop client applications for INFORMIX-Universal Server using the object-oriented C++ programming language.

DataBlade API Programmer's Manual

This manual provides a complete reference for the DataBlade API, which is used in the development of applications that interact with INFORMIX-Universal Server.

DataBlade Developers Kit User's Guide

This manual describes how to develop and package DataBlade modules using
BladeSmith, BladePack, and the INFORMIX-Universal Server DataBlade API library.

Extending INFORMIX-Universal Server: Data Types

This manual explains how to extend existing data types and define new data types for an INFORMIX-Universal Server database. It describes the tasks you must perform to extend operations on data types, to create new casts, to extend operator classes for secondary access methods, and to write opaque data types.

Extending INFORMIX-Universal Server: User-Defined Routines

This manual explains how to define your own functions and procedures for use in an INFORMIX-Universal Server database. It defines common considerations for SPL routines and external routines.

Getting Started with INFORMIX-Universal Server

This manual provides an overview of INFORMIX-Universal Server architecture, introduces the major features of the server, introduces the INFORMIX-Universal Server kits, and provides information to help you use the documentation that is included with each kit.

INFORMIX-GLS Programmer's Manual

This manual describes INFORMIX-GLS, an application programming interface available in Informix products. INFORMIX-GLS provides ESQL/C and DataBlade module developers the ability to write programs (or change existing programs) to handle different languages, cultural conventions, and code sets.

Guide to GLS Functionality

This manual describes the Global Language Support (GLS) feature available in Informix products. The GLS feature allows Informix APIs and Informix database servers to handle different languages, cultural conventions, and code sets. This manual describes only the language-related topics that are unique to GLS.

INFORMIX-CLI Programmer's Manual

This manual explains how to use the INFORMIX-CLI application programming interface to gain access to Informix databases, manipulate the data in your program, interact with the database server, and check for errors.

INFORMIX-ESQL/C Programmer's Manual

This manual explains how to use
INFORMIX-ESQL/C to create client applications with database management capabilities. This manual is a complete guide to the features of ESQL/C that allow you to gain access to Informix databases, manipulate the data in your program, interact with the database server, and check for errors.

Informix Guide to SQL: Reference

This manual describes the Informix system catalog tables, common environment variables that you might need to set, and the built-in data types that INFORMIX-Universal Server supports.

Informix Guide to SQL: Syntax

This manual contains syntax descriptions for the Structured Query Language (SQL) and Stored Procedure Language (SPL) statements that INFORMIX-Universal Server supports.

Informix Guide to SQL: Tutorial

This manual includes instructions for using basic and advanced Structured Query Language (SQL) , as well as for designing and managing your database.

INFORMIX-Universal Server Administrator's Guide

This manual is a complete guide to the features that make up INFORMIX-Universal Server. The book is intended to help you understand, install, configure, and use INFORMIX-Universal Server.

INFORMIX-Universal Server Performance Guide

This manual explains how to configure and operate INFORMIX-Universal Server to improve overall system performance as well as the performance of SQL queries.

Java Object Interface Programmer's Guide

This manual describes the Informix Java Object Interface, which lets client applications interact with INFORMIX-Universal Server using the Java programming language.