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Highlights: - Elections for IIUG Board of Directors 2012 will start March 19 Welcome to the International Informix Users Group (IIUG) Insider! Designed for IIUG members and Informix user group leaders, this publication contains timely and relevant information for the IBM Informix community. Contents:
In March we will have elections for the IIUG Board of Directors. The current IIUG board met for February 24-26 in Orlando Florida. For me it was a long flight followed by two and a half days of meetings and then a long flight back. Not really over the Jetlag. Being a board member is a lot of work. The community is unaware of the individual roles. Nevertheless, your support is important. Please vote for the board members you find worthy. We are hoping you will see some positive changes to our website real soon. So stay tuned. Gary Ben-Israel
Elections for IIUG Board of Directors 2012 will start March 19 The 2011 IIUG Board of Directors is a diverse group of users, partners and IBM employees from all over the world. The current IIUG Board will complete its term soon. In preparation for the upcoming election of the 2012 IIUG Board, a Nominating Committee has been established chaired by former Board Member James Edmiston. For additional info, visit: http://www.iiug.org/about/election.php. The election will be officially announced March 5th and will start March 19th. Stay tuned.
2012 IIUG Informix Conference Update
The 2012 IIUG Conference promises to be one our best conferences to date. We will still have a full day of tutorials, over 80 sessions, hands-on labs and of course several of your favorite speakers. But in addition, the conference will feature two new tracks and several new and exciting speakers. If you miss this year's conference, you're going to be missing a lot. How about sessions on Windows Active Directory, achieving single sign on via LDAP for Informix on Unix? That's a lot of tech speak, but that gets your users logged in quickly, with less hassle, and fewer phone calls to you! Then there's the session on using Informix on your Android device. Yup that screen may be small but it's big enough to get access to your data, as well as your instance configuration. Learn how at the conference. There is a session on migrating FROM Mysql TO Informix. What a concept! Another session will detail how to integrate the open source tool Python into your Informix toolkit. In addition to sessions detailing the many warehouse features available with Informix, you will also be able to learn about Basic Text Search, an enhancement which allows use of, and fast access to, very large text fields which are becoming more and more common in today's data structures. Don't forget the excellent tutorials that will be offered this year. For a nominal fee you can learn more about Informix Warehouse Accelerator. Get some hands-on experience with the new and exciting technology. We all experience performance issues why not try solving performance issues and other problems from a Holistic or whole system concept. Don't have an Informix Disaster Recovery (DR) plan or not sure if your DR plan is adequate? Check out our tutorial that will help you develop the best DR plan for your organization. How about an entire track dedicated to IBM Genero and its 4GL application modernizing! Something we have never done before at an Informix conference is an entire Business Track. This year we have one. So bring your management, as well as your application developers! Don't forget to check these out. Some of this year's speakers include: Noa Bar-Yosef, Tom Beebe, Nadir Doctor, Carlton Doe, Bharat Gera, Tom Girsh, Mark Jamison and Art Kagel. We also have Lester Knutsen, Scott Lashley, John Miller, Jack Parker, Mark Rees and Paul Watson. This conference has just so many great speakers you will find it hard to choose. This is just a VERY small sampling of what this year's conference has to offer and there is so much more. To see the complete list of sessions, tutorials and all things conference related please visit http://www.iiug.org/conf. Register today to take part of this technology packed conference. See you April 22 - 25 in San Diego! John Fahey and Rhonda Hackenburg
Informix Training - Online, Onsite or in Our Classroom Advanced DataTools Corporation has release our Informix training schedule for 2012. Art Kagel and Lester Knutsen will be teaching the Classes. This is your opportunity to learn from the best Informix DBA's in the Informix community. Attend the class in person or online via our Web Training Center. The follow is a link to the courses on our web site. http://www.advancedatatools.com/Training/InformixTraining.html Informix Course Schedule by Advanced DataTools (attend in person or online) All courses may be taken online on the web from your desk or at our training center in Virginia. March 5-8, 2012 - Informix for Database Administrators. May 21-24,2012 - Informix Advanced Enterprise Replication. June 25-28, 2012 - Advanced Informix Performance Tuning September 10-13 2012 - Informix for Database Administrators. December 3-6 2012 - Advanced Informix Performance Tuning. Registration Information: http://www.advancedatatools.com/Training/CourseRegistration.html or Call 703-256-0267 x101 for more information and to Register Informix Warehouse Accelerator and Pentaho BI WebcastAdvanced DataTools Informix Warehouse Accelerator and Pentaho Open Source Business Intelligence Webcast April 10, 2012 Pentaho is the open source business intelligence leader. Thousands of organizations globally depend on Pentaho to make faster and better business decisions that positively impact their bottom lines. Advanced DataTools is certified and we can help you implement an open source business intelligence solution. The Pentaho BI Suite provides a full spectrum of data integration and business intelligence (BI) capabilities including ETL, OLAP, query and reporting, interactive analysis, dashboards, data mining and a BI platform that has made it the world's most popular open source BI suite. Pentaho's platform also provides broad enterprise data services including integration with Hadoop for Big Data analytics and support for the company's Agile BI initiative, which enables organizations to build BI applications more quickly, respond to business changes more easily and expedite time-to-value for up to 90% less cost than traditional BI vendors. More Information coming soon! Register for the Webcast here! http://advancedatatools.com/Informix/IWAWebcasts.html Contact us for more information and to discuss your unique Informix database needs: Call: 1-800-807-6732 x101 Get the new and latest IBM Genero Education and Training courses online here: http://t.co/d5yQWEgq
Informix Chat with the Lab
Informix Dynamic Server(IDS) is well known for its fastest performance and most reliability, but accessing the data stored on IDS from clients also relies on the performance of hardware and operating system. This presentation will focus on how Informix takes care of some abnormal scenarios due to unpredictable random system events that can cause a database connection request or SQL request to take longer than expected, including slow networking speed and heavy system load. Through this presentation, the audience will learn how Informix handles the slow performance caused by something outside of Informix by taking advantage of the following features in different scenarios: Presented By: Informix 11.7 database software is designed to help our customers cut costs, and speed the deployment of critical business solutions while boosting performance. One of the key themes of this new release is Flexible Grid. This feature gives our customers the flexibility to scale data management across regional or global clusters while mixing different hardware and operating systems which translates into cost reduction for business operation. The Informix Flexible Grid keeps data available to applications at all times, even during planned maintenance and upgrades, without the need for temporary hardware. This easy-to-deploy and manage innovation lowers operating costs by reducing the need for new hardware, and reducing administration time up to 80%. Come and join us for this Event. Presentation material will be available at https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/ifmxchatwithlab/Home prior to the event. Register for this event at http://bit.ly/x7FxKb For questions about this event, contact the host at: mckeithe@us.ibm.com. New in DeveloperWorksPlease do check out the Informix smart meter central wiki on developerWorks which is dedicated to The smart meter support, created By Jacques Roy (IBM) For more information go to DeveloperWorks - Informix: http://www.iiug.org/url/devworks.html FreeInformixA complete analysis of TimeSeries: http://www.freeinformix.com/timeseries.html
The Secret of Informix IBM Champion and IIUG president, Stuart Litel, revealed the secret of Informix in a recent interview. He also discussed how he started using "this thing called Informix", and what's in store for the April IIUG conference. Database scalability for popular SaaS applicationInformix port delivers unlimited database scalability for popular SaaS application. IBM Academic InitiativeEarly adopter of cloud technologies : Spotlight on Dr. Praveen Rao (Assistant Professor of Computer Science Electrical Engineering University of Missouri-Kansas City). Informix Business Partner Newsletter - February 2012Editor's Corner At the outset, I wanted to quickly highlight about the BP forum on the IIUG which was created for you. This is an exclusive community created for Business Partners like you to collaborate, network, communicate with the IBM Informix team, the IIUG members and peers. We need you to join this community and stay connected and participate in the discussions to leverage each other's experience and benefit from it. This forum is only visible and accessible to business partners who sign up for it. Membership is open to any IBM Informix business partner (we will verify your business partner status) and you must also be an IIUG member. To sign up for access, please email Ted Wasserman (tedwas@us.ibm.com) or Gary Proctor (gproctor@us.ibm.com) and provide the main email address in your IIUG member record, or the SIGs email address in your Member record (under the Membership button). You will be sent a confirmation email when your access has been approved. http://www.iiug.org/forums/bizpartner/ So what is in store for you this month? This edition is packed with some key happenings, interesting articles, details on Webcast, upcoming events which you can leverage. Do utilize it and let us know if you have any requirements on what you would like to see or hear about in the near future. Before I sign off, I do want to thank you for your comments, suggestions and thoughts. It was really wonderful and helpful and we are working on incorporating those. Keep those thoughts, feedback, wins, and customer references coming in! Best wishes, Sapna Muralikrishnan Informix helps businesses of all sizes around the world save money and grow "I have found that most people in the database software arena have no idea how much Informix software continues to helps organizations of various sizes and industries around the world. Since I started this blog as a means to communicate both my views on database software and systems, and the truths about this part of the IBM portfolio, I believe it is incumbent upon me to do some education on this subject." Bernie goes on to talk about some of the success stories we have had in the recent past and how businesses across industries are benefitting tremendously with Informix. To read more about this, visit Bernie's blog at http://louistcherian.wordpress.com/2011/11/. IBM Informix goes to the University; Learned by over 4K students and still counting What is the connection between Dr. Mirta Baranovic and Informix? When asked "why Informix?" her reply is simple = "love at first sight". She gives a lot of credit to the architecture of Informix which in her words .brilliant and modern.. From an academic's point of view, there is another compelling reason for liking Informix, the fact that the concepts in Informix are clear and simple, and a student can easily grab those concepts. And thanks to the way Informix is built, it requires little or no effort to run. To read more about how Informix is being evangelized at the Unversity, visit Louis' blog. Informix India Annual User Group meet, 2012 This first of a kind user group in India was attended by partners, prospects, customers, students and technology specialists. The entire day was packed with sessions on value propositions of Informix, deeper dive into the technology, road maps, sessions by Informix Business partner etc., This forum reinforced to the user group about how important Informix is to IBM and what they could look forward to, in the future.
Effectively working with Informix Servers on AIX There are several variables that you need to consider for Informix to work on the AIX platform. We will take a quick look into the recommended installation levels, APARs, and known issues regarding the interaction between Informix and the AIX operating system that can affects Informix's performance. It is possible additional AIX APARs that are unrelated to Informix activity but may impact Informix databases. It is recommended that you consult the following AIX fix distribution site to search for other AIX APARs which could impact your system: http://www.ibm.com/eserver/support/fixes/fixcentral/main/pseries/aix Recommended Minimum AIX Technology Levels Recommendations for running Informix 11.70 on AIX
Recommendations for running Informix 11.50 on AIX
Recommendations for running Informix 11.10 on AIX
Recommended Minimum AIX Firmware Release AIX APARs which Affect Informix Server AIX 7.1 APARs for Informix servers
AIX 6.1 APARs for Informix servers
AIX 5.3 APARs for Informix servers
Known issues for Informix servers running on AIX
- Grant Flander
Informix blogs and things
Upcoming Events: Partnering for Growth - IBM and You on Tuesday March 13, 2012 from 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM PDT Explore the newest IBM Informix data server capabilities that can power your next generation solutions. Five great reasons to attend:
Free Lunch! Venue: IBM North San Jose Facility, CA IBM Informix Genero Bootcamp on Thursday, April 26, 2012 from 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM (PT), San Diego, CA. Join us at the IBM La Jolla facility in San Diego, CA for an Informix Genero Bootcamp with IBM and Four Js experts. This is a no cost, concentrated workshop that enables you with skills to modernize your legacy 4GL applications and develop new applications for virtually any platform. You will learn how to identify new market opportunities and enhance character-based applications into an exciting and engaging visual interfaces! Register here: http://bit.ly/zru5YK
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The International Informix Users Group (IIUG) is an organization designed to enhance communications between its worldwide user community and IBM. The IIUG's membership database now exceeds 25,000 entries and enjoys the support and commitment of IBM's Data Management division. Key programs include local user groups and special interest groups, which we promote and assist from launch through growth.
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