Administrator's Guide

These topics provide the information required to administer IBM® Informix®.

A companion volume, the IBM Informix Administrator's Reference, contains reference material for using IBM Informix database servers. If you must tune the performance of your database server and SQL queries, see your IBM Informix Performance Guide.

This publication is written for the following users:
  • Database users
  • Database administrators
  • Database server administrators
  • Performance engineers
  • Programmers in the following categories
    • Application developers
    • DataBlade module developers
    • Authors of user-defined routines
This publication is written with the assumption that you have the following background:
  • A working knowledge of your computer, your operating system, and the utilities that your operating system provides
  • Some experience working with relational databases or exposure to database concepts
  • Some experience with computer programming
  • Some experience with database server administration, operating-system administration, or network administration

This publication is written with the assumption that you are using Informix Version 12.10 as your database server.

These topics are taken from the With the release of Informix 12.10.xC10, the compression of binary large objects (BLOBs) has been enhanced:.