IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.0 and CSDK Version 2.90 Documentation Set

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IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.0 and CSDK Version 2.90 Documentation Set

The following tables list the manuals that are part of the IBM Informix Dynamic Server, Version 10.0 and the CSDK Version 2.90, documentation set. PDF and HTML versions of these manuals are available at http://www.ibm.com/software/data/informix/pubs/library/ and at the IBM Informix Information Center site at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ids9help/index.jsp. You can order hardcopy versions of these manuals from the IBM Publications Center at http://www.ibm.com/software/howtobuy/data.html.

Table 1. 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.
IBM Informix: 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 UDRs that access Dynamic Server with J/Foundation.

Table 2. Client Manuals for Dynamic Server
Book Title	Description
IBM Informix: Client Products Installation Guide	This guide contains instructions for installing the IBMInformix Client Software Developer's Kit and IBM Informix Connect on Linux, UNIX, and Windows.
IBM Informix: Embedded SQLJ User's Guide	This manual describes how to use IBMInformix Embedded SQLJ to embed SQL statements in Java programs. When you run a SQLJ program, it uses IBMInformix JDBC Driver to connect to the database.
IBM Informix: ESQL/C Programmer's Manual	This manual explains how to use ESQL/C, the Informix implementation of embedded SQL for C, to create client applications with database-management capabilities.
IBM Informix: JDBC Driver Programmer's Guide	This guide describes how to install, load, and use IBMInformix JDBC Driver to connect to an Informix database from a Java application or applet. You can use IBMInformix JDBC Driver to write user-defined routines.
IBM Informix: MaxConnect User's Guide	This manual describes how to install, administer, and tune performance for MaxConnect. MaxConnect enables the database server to support nearly unlimited numbers of client connections and reduces response times and CPU usage.
IBM Informix: Object Interface for C++ Programmer's Guide	This guide describes how C++ and DataBlade developers can develop IBM Informix client applications with the C++ programming language.
IBM Informix Object Translator	This online help describes how to use the IBM Informix Object Translator, a client-side tool, to integrate object-based applications and XML documents into the database.
IBM Informix: ODBC Driver Programmer's Manual	This manual explains how to use the IBMInformix ODBC Driver to access Informix databases and the database server. The IBMInformix ODBC Driver is the IBM Informix implementation of the Microsoft Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) interface.
IBM Informix: OLE DB Provider Programmer's Guide	This manual explains how to use IBMInformix OLE DB Provider to enable Active Data Objects applications and web pages, for example, to access the database server.
IBM Office Connect	This online help describes how to connect your Microsoft Excel worksheets to databases for online retrieval, modification, and updating of database data.
IBM Informix: TP/XA Programmer's Manual	This guide describes how to use the TP/XA library, which facilitates communication between a third-party transaction manager and your database server. TP/XA is supplied with IBMInformix ESQL/C.

Table 3. DataBlade and Tools Manuals
Book Title	Description
IBM Informix: Built-In DataBlade Modules User's Guide	This guide explains how to use the following DataBlade modules that are included with Dynamic Server: MQ DataBlade module, to allow IBM Informix database applications to communicate with other MQ applications. Large Object Locator, a foundation DataBlade module that can be used by other modules that create or store large-object data.
IBM Informix: DataBlade Developer's Kit User's Guide	This guide describes how to develop and package DataBlade modules using BladeSmith and BladePack.
IBM Informix: DataBlade Module Development Overview	This manual provides an overview of DataBlade module development.
IBM Informix: DataBlade Module Installation and Registration Guide	This guide explains how to install DataBlade modules and use the BladeManager application to manage DataBlade modules in Informix databases. BladeManager runs on client computers.
IBM Informix: Excalibur Text Search DataBlade Module User's Guide	This manual explains how to perform text searches and retrieval using the Excalibur Text Search DataBlade module.
IBM Informix Data Director for Web Tutorial	This tutorial teaches you how to create a small web site using Data Director for Web. You can choose the exercises that teach what you need to learn or copy the entire web site into a database and use it as an example.
IBM Informix: Data Director for Web User's Guide	This manual describes how to use the Data Director for Web with the IBMInformix Web DataBlade module to develop and manage web sites . Also, see the tutorial.
IBM Informix: Geodetic DataBlade Module User's Guide	This manual explains how to use the IBMInformix Geodetic DataBlade module to store and use spatio-temporal data such as maps.
IBM Informix: Image Foundation DataBlade Module User's Guide	This manual explains how the Image Foundation DataBlade module provides a base on which new or specialized image types and image processing technologies can be quickly added or changed.
IBM Informix: Spatial DataBlade Module User's Guide	This guide explains how to use the IBMInformix Spatial DataBlade module to store, manipulate, index, and analyze multidimensional spatial data.
IBM Informix: TimeSeries DataBlade Module User's Guide	This manual explains how to use the IBMInformix TimeSeries DataBlade module to store and manage time-stamped data such as stock reports.
IBM Informix TimeSeries Real-Time Loader DataBlade Module User's Guide	This manual describes how to use the IBM Informix TimeSeries Real-Time Loader DataBlade module to load time-stamped data and make the data available to queries in real-time.
IBM Informix: Video Foundation DataBlade Module User's Guide	This manual describes how to use the IBMInformix Video Foundation DataBlade module to store video technology in a media management system.
IBM Informix: Web DataBlade Module Administrator's Guide	This manual describes how to administer web applications that use the IBMInformix Web DataBlade module to dynamically retrieve data from Informix databases.
IBM Informix: Web DataBlade Module Application Developer's Guide	This manual explains how to use the IBMInformix Web DataBlade module to develop web applications that dynamically retrieve data from Informix databases.