Technical Articles

Informix® internals, tuning notes and field-tested fixes from the Oninit team — the kind of detail that usually only surfaces mid-incident.

• Getting Started with BLT: Recovering a Functional Spec from 4GL
• Getting Started with Snooper: Watching Informix Traffic Without Touching the App
• Getting Started with Logwalker: Reading an Informix Logical Log Without onlog -l
• Getting Started with ONI UDR Debug: A Diagnostic Subsystem for Informix C UDRs That Never Fails Silently
• Getting Started with the ONI TimeSeries API: A JSON-First Read/Write Layer Over Informix TimeSeries
• Getting Started with ifxTAP: Unit Testing Informix Routines, Triggers and Constraints in Plain SQL
• Informix Root vs Non-Root Installation
• Informix Privilege Architecture: Root, Non-Root, HA, and Containers
• Informix Server-Side SQLIDEBUG: Enabling, Disabling, and Understanding sqli_dbg
• Getting Informix ODBC Working with unixODBC and pyodbc on Linux
• Using a Different Python Version on Linux
• Configuring and Troubleshooting TLS/SSL with Informix
• C Variable Scope, Linkage, and Storage in a Compiled Executable
• Inside mttrace: Tracing IBM Informix's Thread Scheduler