Informix supports Java UDRs by running a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) in a named Virtual Processor class inside the server. So, in order to run any Java UDR, the first thing you need to do is to configure your server to include at least one instance of the "jvp" Virtual Processor class:

You can create a Java™ opaque type from an existing Java class that implements the SQLData interface.

1 Enable Java Virtual Processors

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#Java Parameters
VPCLASS         jvp,num=1

In a production installation, where performance is important, you'll have more than one instance -- probably many more than one. But just one is probably adequate for development.

Notice that you will have other VPCLASS entries for other processors. So your config may look like

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VPCLASS     cpu,num=3,noage    
VPCLASS     jvp,num=1

2 Setup JVP variables

The following variables should be configured on database server instance.

Variable Description
JVPCLASSPATH sets the CLASSPATH for the J/Foundation JAR files (krakatoa.jar and jdbc.jar) for the database server to use during startup
$INFORMIXDIR/extend/krakatoa/krakatoa.jar:$INFORMIXDIR/extend/krakatoa/jdbc.jar
JVPHOME The following is the directory where the J/Foundation classes and JDBC classes are installed
$INFORMIXDIR/extend/krakatoa
JVPLOGFILE Java traces, output, and stack dumps are written to this file by the database server
$INFORMIXDIR/extend/krakatoa/jvp.log
JVPPROPFILE Optional properties file. Trace level settings, trace verbosity settings, monitor port, and a few other properties are set in this file.
$INFORMIXDIR/extend/krakatoa/.jvpprops
JVPJAVAHOME The directory where Java JRE is installed
$INFORMIXDIR/extend/krakatoa/jre
JVPJAVAVM The list of the JVM libraries that the database server loads. Unless you have very specific requirements, leave the default values
jsig;dbgmalloc;hpi;jvm;java;net;zip;jpeg
JVPARGS The settings for the JVM
-Dcom.ibm.tools.attach.enable=no;-Xms128m;-Xmx128m

IBM® Informix 12.10.xC5 software supports Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE), Version 7.

Informix installation applications install IBM Runtime Environment, Java Technology Edition, Version 7 on most platforms by default. That version is used to run Java user-defined routines that are created in the server.

To determine the installed JRE version:

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$ onstat -g cfg | grep JVPJAVAHOME
/home/informix/extend/krakatoa/jre
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$ /home/informix/extend/krakatoa/jre/bin/java -version
java version "1.7.0"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build pxa6470sr7fp1-20140708_01(SR7 FP1))
IBM J9 VM (build 2.6, JRE 1.7.0 Linux amd64-64 Compressed References 20140627_204598 (JIT enabled, AOT enabled)
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You can check your current setting by using onstat -g cfg command.

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$ onstat -g cfg | grep JVP
JVPCLASSPATH              /home/informix/extend/krakatoa/krakatoa.jar:/home/informix/extend/krakatoa/jdbc.jar
JVPHOME                   /home/informix/extend/krakatoa
JVPLOGFILE                /home/informix/tmp/jvp.log
JVPPROPFILE               /home/informix/extend/krakatoa/.jvpprops
JVPJAVAHOME               /home/informix/extend/krakatoa/jre
JVPJAVAVM                 jvm
JVPJAVALIB                /bin/j9vm
JVPDEBUG                  0
JVPARGS                   -Dcom.ibm.tools.attach.enable=no

3 Creating the JVP properties file

A JVP properties file contains property settings that control various runtime behaviors of the Java virtual processor. The JVPPROPFILE configuration parameter specifies the path to the properties file. When you initialize the database server, the JVP initializes the environment based on the settings in the JVP property file. The .jvpprops.template file in the $INFORMIXDIR/extend/krakatoa directory documents the properties that you can set. To prepare the JVP properties file:

  1. Copy the JVP properties template file, jvphome/.jvpprops.template into jvphome/.jvpprops where jvphome is the directory $INFORMIXDIR/extend/krakatoa.
  2. Edit .jvpprops to change the trace level or other properties if necessary.
  3. Set the JVPPROPFILE configuration parameter to jvphome/.jvpprops.

A sample properties file might contain the following items:

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JVP.trace.settings:JVP=2
JVP.trace.verbose:1
JVP.trace.timestampformat:HH:MM
JVP.splitLog:1000
JVP.monitor.port: 10000

The database server provides a fixed set of system trace events such as UDR sequence initialization, activation, and shutdown. You can also generate application-specific traces.

Look for extended log file under $INFORMIXDIR/tmp directory (like tmp/jvp.log22).

4 Monitor Java Virtual Processors

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$ onstat -g glo | grep jvp
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5 Data types

The following table summarizes the mappings of DB2 or IBM Informix data types to Java data types for ResultSet.getXXX methods in JDBC programs, and for iterators in SQLJ programs. This table does not list Java numeric wrapper object types, which are retrieved using ResultSet.getObject.

Java data type Database data type
short, java.lang.Short SMALLINT
short, java.lang.Short BOOLEAN
boolean, java.lang.Boolean BOOLEAN
int, java.lang.Integer INTEGER
int, java.lang.Integer SERIAL
long, java.lang.Long INT8
long, java.lang.Long BIGINT
long, java.lang.Long SERIAL8
long, java.lang.Long BIGSERIAL
float, java.lang.Float SMALLFLOAT
double, java.lang.Double FLOAT
java.math.BigDecimal DECIMAL(p,s)
java.math.BigDecimal DECIMAL(p)
java.math.BigDecimal DECIMAL
java.math.BigDecimal MONEY(p,s)
java.lang.String CHAR(n)
java.lang.String NCHAR(n)
java.lang.String VARCHAR(m,r)
java.lang.String LVARCHAR(m,r)
java.lang.String NVARCHAR(m,r)
java.lang.String INTERVAL
java.lang.String CLOB
byte[] BYTE
java.sql.Blob BLOB
java.sql.Clob CLOB
java.lang.Clob TEXT
java.sql.Date DATE
java.sql.Time DATETIME HOUR TO SECOND
java.sql.Timestamp DATETIME YEAR TO FRACTION(5)
java.io.ByteArrayInputStream BLOB
java.io.StringReader CLOB
java.io.ByteArrayInputStream CLOB