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There are three edition options for this server: ► Informix OnLine Extended Edition 5.20 This edition option is a full-featured, easy-to-use SQL database with low administrative overhead. It contains two popular Informix products, Informix OnLine and Informix STAR, and provides distributed computing with a proven database server. It allows the Rapid Application Development tools to use pipes to communicate with OnLine Extended Edition 5.20 servers running on the same system, instead of having to use a TCP/IP loopback connection with Informix Star or Informix Net. It supports greater than 2 GB chunk offsets, to use the entire capacity of the disk drive without partitioning it into smaller logical devices and employing logical volume managers. The operating systems this edition supports include AIX, HP UNIX, and Sun Solaris. ► Informix OnLine Extended Edition for Linux This edition is same as the Informix OnLine Extended Edition 5.20 but is but only available for Linux. ► Informix OnLine Personal Edition This is the single-user product version, available only on Linux. It provides the same functionality as IBM Informix OnLine Extended Edition, at an economical cost. It enables you to quickly become familiar with the ease-of-use and multimedia capability of this proven relational database management system. Standard Engine IBM Informix Standard Engine is an embeddable database server that runs on UNIX, Linux and Windows. It provides an ideal solution for developing small to medium-sized applications that need the power of SQL without database administration requirements (low-maintenance, high-reliability). For limited scale databases, it delivers excellent performance, adheres to data consistency standards, and still provides client/server capabilities. It can be seamlessly integrated with Informix application development tools and third-party development tools compliant with the ODBC and JDBC standards. This edition supports the following operating systems: ► AIX ► HP UNIX ► Linux ► Sun Solaris ► Windows 8 IBM Informix Developer’s Handbook
1.2 Informix tools for developers There is a significant list of tools available from Informix for developers. We focus on the available application programming interface (API) options and language possibilities. There are also other utilities and tools that are provided with the engine that promote further ease of use. The 4GL developer’s edition includes the ACE Report Writer, which can be used to generate forms and reports quickly. The High Performance Loader, onload, onunload, and External table are bulk load and unload utilities that provide fast flat file movements. Other tools include I-Spy for auditing, MaxConnect, and the OpenAdmin Tool (OAT) for remote server administration and SQL. For more information about these or other tools, consult with a sales representative or visit the Informix support website at: http://www-947.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/Overview/Software/Information_Manag ement/Informix_Product_Family 1.2.1 Informix Connect Informix Connect is the run time version of Client SDK that comes with the server engine. You use Client SDK and related tools to develop your application. When it is ready for use in production, Informix Connect is the tool used to deploy the application. It is supplied with the server engine software and provides the connectivity and runtime libraries which permit interaction between the engine and the application. While some Informix Connect development can be done without Client SDK, the great majority should be handled through the Client SDK API. 1.2.2 Informix Client Software Development Kit Client SDK is a package of several APIs that are optimized for developing applications for IBM Informix servers. Client SDK allows developers to write applications in the language they prefer and to build applications that can access multiple IBM Informix databases. In this section, we discuss the API packages that are included in Client SDK. Open Database Connectivity Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is a specification for a database API. It is based on the Call Level Interface specifications from X/Open and the International Standards Organization and International Electromechanical Commission (ISO/IEC). ODBC supports SQL statements with a library of C Chapter 1. Introduction to IBM Informix 9
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