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IBM Informix Dynamic Server Manuals

Table 11 summarizes the documentation that is available with Dynamic Server.

Table 11. Database Server Manuals
Book Title Description
IBM Informix Backup and Restore Guide This manual explains the concepts and methods required to back up and restore data with the ON–Bar and ontape utilities. It includes information on the archecker utility.
IBM Informix Database Design and Implementation Guide This guide documents how to design, implement, and manage Informix databases. It includes data models that illustrate different approaches to database design and shows you how to use SQL to implement and manage databases.
IBM Informix DataBlade API Function Reference This manual describes the API functions.
IBM Informix DataBlade API Programmer's Guide This manual describes the API, the C-language application programming interface that is provided with Dynamic Server. Use the API to develop client and server applications that access data stored in a Dynamic Server database.
IBM Informix DB–Access User's Guide This guide describes how to use the DB–Access utility to access, modify, and retrieve information from Informix database servers.
IBM Informix Dynamic Server Administrator's Guide This user guide for system and database server administrators discusses the concepts and procedures for managing Dynamic Server. It is intended to help you understand, configure, and use the database server. The short manual name is IBM Informix Administrator's Guide.
IBM Informix Administrator's Reference This reference manual provides the syntax of database server utilities such as onmode and onstat, and comprehensive descriptions of configuration parameters, SMI tables in the sysmaster database, logical-log records, disk structures, files that the database server uses, trapping errors, event alarms, and message-log messages.
IBM Informix Dynamic Server Getting Started Guide This guide provides an overview of IBM Informix products, summarizes the new features in this release, and provides a roadmap to user tasks in the documentation set for the database server.
IBM Informix Dynamic Server Enterprise Replication Guide This guide contains information to help you understand the concepts of data replication, design your own Enterprise Replication system, install Enterprise Replication, and administer and manage data replication throughout your enterprise.
IBM Informix Dynamic Server Installation Guide for UNIX and Linux This guide contains instructions for installing Dynamic Server on UNIX and Linux. It also describes how to solve common installation problems.
IBM Informix Dynamic Server Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows This guide contains instructions for installing Dynamic Server on Windows.
IBM Informix Dynamic Server Performance Guide This guide explains how to configure and operate Dynamic Server to achieve optimum performance and optimize SQL queries. The short manual name is IBM Informix Performance Guide.
IBM Informix Error Messages This HTML file in the IBM Informix Online Documentation site includes causes and solutions for numbered error messages that you might receive from IBM Informix products. Use the UNIX finderr utility or the Windows Informix Error Messages utility to locate the latest information on error messages.
IBM Informix GLS User's Guide This manual describes the Global Language Support (GLS), which allows IBM Informix client products and database servers to handle different languages, cultural conventions, and code sets.
IBM Informix Guide to SQL: Reference This manual describes the Informix system catalog tables, data types, environment variables, the stores_demo and superstores_demo databases. It also contains a glossary.
IBM Informix Guide to SQL: Syntax This manual contains the complete syntax descriptions of all Informix (SQL) and Stored Procedure Language (SPL) statements, and functions.
IBM Informix Guide to SQL: Tutorial This tutorial provides instructions for using SQL to query and modify data in a relational database. It discusses how to embed SQL in programs, create and use stored-procedure language (SPL) routines, create and use triggers, and use casts for extended data types.
IBM Informix High-Performance Loader User's Guide This guide describes how to use the High-Performance Loader (HPL) to efficiently load and unload large quantities of data to or from an Informix database.
IBM Informix Migration Guide This manual describes the tasks that you perform when you move data from one location to another and when you migrate existing databases to various Informix database servers. It discusses such database server utilities as dbexport, dbimport, dbload, dbschema, onload, onunload, and onmode -b.
IBM Informix Optical Subsystem Guide This guide describes how to use the Optical Subsystem, a utility that supports the storage of TEXT and BYTE data on optical disks.
IBM Informix R-Tree Index User's Guide This guide describes the R-tree secondary access method and how to create an R-tree index on user-defined types.
IBM Informix SNMP Subagent Guide This manual describes the subagent that allows a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) network manager to monitor the status of Informix database servers. It includes a glossary of terms used in the guide.
IBM Informix Storage Manager Administrator's Guide This guide describes IBM Informix Storage Manager (ISM). ISM receives backup and restore requests from ON–Bar and directs the data to and from storage volumes that are mounted on storage devices.
IBM Informix Trusted Facility Guide This guide describes the secure auditing facility and includes information on how to set up and administer audit trails, and extract and interpret audit records.
IBM Informix User-Defined Routines and Data Types Developer's Guide This guide explains how to define new data types and create UDRs on Dynamic Server. It describes the tasks that you must perform to extend operations on data types, create new casts, extend operator classes for secondary access methods, write opaque data types, and create and register routines.
IBM Informix Virtual-Index Interface Programmer's Guide This manual explains how to use the Virtual-Index Interface (VII), typically in a DataBlade module, to create a secondary access method. A virtual index accesses data from a source outside the database server or specific data inside large objects. The manual describes the syntax, API function calls, and data structures.
IBM Informix Virtual-Table Interface Programmer's Guide This manual explains how to create a primary access method with the Virtual-Table Interface (VTI). A virtual table is dynamically created from a source outside the database server or specific data inside of large objects. The manual describes the syntax, API function calls, and data structures.
J/Foundation Developer's Guide This guide explains how to use J/Foundation to write user-defined routines (UDRs) in the Java language. It describes the library of classes and interfaces that allow programmers to create and execute Java UDRs that access Dynamic Server.
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