IBM® Informix® Excalibur Text Search DataBlade® module, Version 1.31

Excalibur Text Search DataBlade Module User's Guide

These topics describe the IBM® Informix® Excalibur Text Search DataBlade® module and how to access and use its components.

The Informix Excalibur Text Search DataBlade Module includes the etx access method, the etx_contains() search operator, and data types and routines that enable sophisticated search operations, such as filtering, matching, and highlighting. These topics also include a tutorial for setting up and performing example text searches.

This publication is written for the following groups:

Users who want to perform SQL searches of text data stored in proprietary format.
Programmers who want to build applications that call on the Excalibur text search engine to perform text searches.
Programmers who want to modify existing applications to take advantage of etx indexes.

You must have the following IBM Informix software to use the Informix Excalibur Text Search DataBlade Module:

IBM Informix, Version 11.50 or later
The IBM Informix Large Object Locator DataBlade Module. (The Large Object Locator DataBlade module is shipped with IBM Informix.)
The IBM Informix Text Descriptor DataBlade Module. (The Informix Text Descriptor DataBlade Module is shipped with the Informix Excalibur Text Search DataBlade Module.)

You can use the following application development tools with the Informix Excalibur Text Search DataBlade Module:

DB-Access
IBM Informix ESQL/C
DataBlade API

These topics are taken from IBM Informix Excalibur Text Search DataBlade Module User’s Guide.

Examples exchange | Troubleshooting

To find the PDF, see IBM Informix DataBlade Modules: Publication library in PDF.
For the release notes, documentation notes, and/or machine notes, see the Release Notes page.

Release date: July 2014