Informix library

	Alphabetical listing of titles (2006 and earlier)
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Informix Dynamic Server 9.4

• Complete Documentation Set for IDS 9.4
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• Hardcopy Documentation Set for IDS 9.4
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• Administrator's Guide, Version 9.4 (G251-1249-00)
  This manual is both a user guide and a reference manual to the features of IBM Informix Dynamic Server. It is intended to help you understand, configure, and use your database server.
• Administrator's Reference, Version 9.4 (G251-1250-00)
  This manual provides reference material for IBM Informix Dynamic Server. It provides the syntax of database server utilities such as onmode and onstat, and comprehensive descriptions of configuration parameters, the sysmasters tables, and logical-log records.
• Backup and Restore Guide, Version 9.4 (G251-1240-00)
  This manual explains the concepts and methods that you need to understand when you use the ON-Bar and ontape utilities to back up and restore data.
• Client Products Installation Guide for UNIX, Linux, and Windows, Version 2.81 (G251-1269-00)
  This manual explains how to install IBM Informix Client Software Developer's Kit (Client SDK), Version 2.81, and IBM Informix Connect, Version 2.81, on computers that use UNIX, Linux, and Windows.
• DB-Access User's Guide, Version 9.4 (G251-1239-00)
  This manual describes how to use the DB-Access utility to access, modify, and retrieve data from IBM Informix databases.
• DataBlade API Function Reference, Version 9.4 (G251-1257-00)
  This manual describes the DataBlade API functions and the subset of ESQL/C functions that the DataBlade API supports. This C-language application programming interface is provided with IBM Informix Dynamic Server. You can use the DataBlade API to develop client LIBMI applications and C user-defined routines that access data in an IBM Informix Dynamic Server database.
• DataBlade API Programmer's Guide, Version 9.4 (G251-1258-00)
  This manual describes the DataBlade API, the C-language application-programming interface provided with Dynamic Server. You use the DataBlade API to develop client and server applications that access data stored in a Dynamic Server database.
• DataBlade Developers Kit User's Guide, Version 4.0A (G251-1267-00)
  The DataBlade Developers Kit User's Guide describes how to develop and package DataBlade modules using BladeSmith and BladePack.
• DataBlade Module Development Overview, Version 4.0 (G251-1266-00)
  This manual provides a basic orientation for DataBlade module development. It begins with a conceptual overview of DataBlade modules, then provides a specific example illustrating the development of a DataBlade module. Two appendixes discuss current DataBlade module documentation and several released DataBlade modules.
• DataBlade Module Installation and Registration Guide, Version 4.0A (G251-1268-00)
  This guide explains how to install DataBlade modules and use the Blade Manager application to manage DataBlade modules in Informix databases. BladeManager runs on client computers and requires a connection to Informix Dynamic Server.
• Database Design and Implementation Guide, Version 9.4 (G251-1245-00)
  This manual provides information to help you design, implement, and manage your IBM Informix databases. It includes data models that illustrate different approaches to database design and shows you how to use Structured Query Language (SQL) to implement and manage your databases.
• Embedded SQLJ User's Guide, Version 1.01 (G251-1270-00)
  This manual contains information about using IBM Informix Embedded SQLJ. IBM Informix Embedded SQLJ enables you to embed SQL statements in your Java programs. It consists of the SQLJ translator, which translates SQLJ code into Java code, and a set of Java classes that provide runtime support for SQLJ programs. When you run a SQLJ program, it uses IBM Informix JDBC Driver to connect to an IBM Informix database.
• Enterprise Replication Guide, Version 9.4 (G251-1254-00)
  How to design, implement, and manage an Enterprise Replication system to replicate data between multiple database servers.
• Error Messages, Version 9.4 (G299-2018-00)
  This file includes causes and solutions for numbered error messages that you might receive when you work with IBM Informix products.
• GLS User's Guide, Version 9.4/8.4 (G251-1241-00)
  This manual describes the Global Language Support (GLS) feature, which allows IBM Informix application-programming interfaces (APIs) and database servers to handle different languages, cultural conventions, and code sets.
• Getting Started Guide, Version 9.4 (G251-1253-00)
  Describes the products bundled with IBM Informix Dynamic Server and interoperability with other IBM products. Summarizes important features of Dynamic Server and the new features for each version.
• Guide to SQL: Reference, Version 9.4 (G251-1242-00)
  This guide provides information on the following topics: IBM Informix databases, data types, system catalog tables, environment variables, and the stores_demo demonstration database. It also contains a glossary.
• Guide to SQL: Syntax, Version 9.4 (G251-1243-00)
  This guide provides detailed descriptions of the syntax for all IBM Informix SQL and SPL statements.
• Guide to SQL: Tutorial, Version 9.4 (G251-1244-00)
  This guide provides a tutorial on SQL, as implemented by IBM Informix products. It describes the basic ideas and terms that are used when you work with a relational database.
• High-Performance Loader User's Guide, Version 9.4 (G251-1255-00)
  This manual describes how to access and use the High-Performance Loader (HPL), a feature of Dynamic Server that allows you to load and unload large quantities of data to and from an IBM Informix database.
• Informix Server Administrator
  Informix Server Administrator (ISA) is a browser-based, cross-platform database server administration tool. ISA provides an easy-to-use interface to access every Informix database server command-line function. Documentation for ISA is provided by help files integrated into the product. You can download ISA from the IBM Informix Software Evaluation Download Site.
• Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows, Version 9.4 (G251-1265-00)
  This guide contains instructions for installing IBM Informix Dynamic Server on Windows.
• Installation Guide for UNIX and Linux, Version 9.4 (G251-1264-00)
  This guide contains instructions for installing IBM Informix Dynamic Server on UNIX and Linux.
• J/Foundation Developer's Guide, Version 9.4 (G251-1251-00)
  This manual describes how to write user-defined routines (UDRs) in the Java programming language for IBM Informix Dynamic Server with J/Foundation.
• JDBC Driver Programmer's Guide, UNIX and Windows Environments, Version 2.21 (G251-1271-00)
  This guide describes how to install, load, and use Informix JDBC Driver to connect to an Informix database from within a Java application or applet. You can also use Informix JDBC Driver for writing user-defined routines that are executed in the server.
• Large Object Locator DataBlade Module User's Guide, Version 1.2 (G251-1272-00)
  This guide explains how to use the Large Object Locator, a foundation DataBlade module that can be used by other modules that create or store large-object data. The Large Object Locator enables you to create a single consistent interface to large objects and extends the concept of large objects to include data stored outside the database.
• Migration Guide, Version 9.4 (Updated in September 2004) (G251-2440-00)
  Conversion to and reversion from the latest versions of Informix database servers. Migration between different Informix database servers.
• ODBC Driver Programmer's Manual, Version 3.82 (G251-1273-00)
  This manual is a user guide and reference manual for Informix ODBC Driver, which is the Informix implementation of the Microsoft Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) interface, Version3.0. This manual explains how to use the Informix ODBC Driver application programming interface (API) to access an Informix database and interact with an Informix database server.
• Optical Subsystem Guide, Version 9.4 (G251-1256-00)
  This manual describes the Optical Subsystem, a utility that supports the storage of BYTE and TEXT data on optical disk.
• Performance Guide, Version 9.4 (G251-1259-00)
  This guide provides information on how to configure and operate IBM Informix Dynamic Server to achieve optimum performance.
• R-Tree Index Developer's Guide, Version 9.4 (G251-1260-00)
  This manual describes the IBM Informix R-tree secondary access method and how to access and use its components. It describes how to create an R-tree index on appropriate data types, how to create a new operator class that uses the R-tree access method to index a user-defined data type, and how to manage databases that use the R-tree secondary access method.
• SNMP Subagent Guide, Version 9.4 (G251-1247-00)
  This manual describes the IBM Informix subagent that allows a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) network manager to monitor the status of IBM Informix database servers.
• Storage Manager Administrator's Guide, Version 9.4 (G251-1248-00)
  This manual describes IBM Informix Storage Manager (ISM), which manages storage devices and media for your IBM Informix database server. ISM also performs ON-Bar backup and restore operations.
• Trusted Facility Guide, Version 9.4 (G251-1261-00)
  This manual describes the secure-auditing capabilities of Dynamic Server, including the creation and maintenance of audit logs.
• User-Defined Routines and Data Types Developer's Guide, Version 9.4 (G251-1252-00)
  This manual describes how to define new data types and enable user-defined routines (UDRs) to extend IBM Informix Dynamic Server. 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, to write opaque data types, and to create and register routines.
• Virtual-Index Interface Programmer's Guide, Version 9.4 (G251-1262-00)
  This manual explains how to create a secondary access method with the Virtual-Index Interface (VII) to extend the built-in indexing schemes of IBM Informix Dynamic Server, typically with a DataBlade module.
• Virtual-Table Interface Programmer's Guide, Version 9.4 (G251-1263-00)
  This manual explains how to create a primary access method with the Virtual-Table Interface (VTI) so that users have a single SQL interface to IBM Informix tables and to data that does not conform to the storage scheme of IBM Informix Dynamic Server.