Creating the Staging Area

When TEXT or BYTE data moves from the Optical Subsystem environment to the optical-storage subsystem, the data is first directed to a memory cache or a blobspace, which is a staging area. Before using the optical-storage subsystem, the database server administrator must perform the following tasks:

• Name the staging-area blobspace
• Initialize the database server
• Create the staging-area blobspace

For more information, refer to your IBM Informix: Administrator's Reference and IBM Informix: Administrator's Guide.