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Highlights: IBM has received a Software Excellence award for Informix from Cisco 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:
We have successfully passed three Jewish holidays: Rosh Hashanah, our new year; Yom Kippur and Sukkot. So I had little time for editing the Insider. I promise to work harder next month. If you will look at the conference corner you will find valuable information about the Informix sessions at the IBM Insight. So if you are going, take a hard copy so you do not miss them. Gary Ben-Israel
IBM has received a Software Excellence award for Informix from Cisco IBM has received a Software Excellence award for Informix from Cisco (every year for past 3 or so years, Cisco has spent $10-12 million on Informix licenses to embed in their solutions. This is 90% of Cisco's annual IBM software purchase). This recognition definitely strengthens IBM's position with re-sellers and VADs, especially those that are in the Informix business. The award speaks to IBM's commitment to developing strong collaboration with our strategic partners such as Cisco, to continuously deliver the high quality solutions that lead to high customer satisfaction. For about a decade, Cisco has relied on Informix core strengths to embed in various Cisco Collaboration solutions. IBM's relentless attention to customer and partner satisfaction and leading technology innovation are critical success criteria for Cisco. During the award ceremony Cisco publicly recognized that the IBM team went well above and beyond by:
Informix — The next generation database platform for IoT  Mark your calendar to learn about the latest Informix developments. During these sessions, you will hear directly from:
Meet with Insight 2015 customer speakers and leverage their experiences all week!! For more information, contact: Gary Procter: gproctor@us.ibm.com Data Management Keynote — Meeting the challenges of ground to cloud data management: Monday, October 26th, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, Mandalay Ballroom Roadmap — Informix
Now you know where IIUG 2016 will be held, Sawgrass Marriott Golf Resort & Spa, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. And, you know when IIUG 2016 will be held, Wednesday, May 4 - Sunday, May 8, 2016. It's time to start thinking about what you want to present at IIUG 2016. The Planning Committee is always interested in getting some great topics for this exclusive Informix event. IIUG 2016 is all about Informix, but is not limited to Informix. There are many products and technologies that work well with Informix. You may have a solution using one these technologies that others would appreciate learning about. Or, maybe you are doing something innovative with Informix that you want to share with our attendees. This is your opportunity to share your knowledge and experiences to help others who may be looking for new ways to use Informix to improve their business strategies. If you are interested in presenting at IIUG 2016 and can't think of a topic you can always contact the IIUG 2016 Team for help. Look for the submission announcement towards the end of October 2015 or you can keep updated at IIUG 2016. We will also be opening registration for IIUG 2016 about this same time. As you think about registering for IIUG, please remember we have reserved a limited number of rooms at the Sawgrass Marriott for this event. So you might want to consider booking soon before these rooms are gone. We will not be able to help you if you don't reserve a room at this top rate Resort. Several of our attendees like to incorporate other activities with their IIUG event. If you are looking to extend your trip it may help you to know that Mickey, Minnie and all of their Disney friends are only a short 2 hour drive from Sawgrass Marriott Golf Resort and Spa. You could extend your trip by flying into or out of Orlando. Why not rent a convertible and enjoy the drive in the beautiful Florida sun. So, keep watching for the announcement for Speaker submissions and IIUG 2016 registration openings. We look forward to seeing you at IIUG 2016. IIUG 2016 Planning Committee
New and Improved Over many weeks, support has noted an increase in the number of installation questions, perhaps because of a change in the command line options available during installations. On the Informix Dynamic Server 12.10, we have made improvements by way of better logging and debugging options, and easier silent installations. The default name and location of the installation log file for either the database server or client products has changed to /tmp/iad_act.log (UNIX, Linux, Mac OS X) or \tmp\iad_act.log (Windows). You also have the choice to specify a different name and location for the installation log file with the -DLOG_FILE option in the installation command. The -DDEBUG option is being dropped. Instead, we allow for tracing levels (1-9) that use the ‘-DEBUG_LEVEL' option in the installation command. If tracing is enabled, the default name and location of the debugging file is /tmp/iad_dbg.log (UNIX, Linux, Mac OS X) or \tmp\iad_dbg.log (Windows). You can set the name and location of the debug file with the -DDEBUG_FILE option. Click here for more information on what's new. - David Jay
Just in case you are not aware, some time ago IBM created a public website to collect the requests for new features directly from users. The RFE (Requests For Enhancements) website is included in developerWorks. You can access it here. Once you logged in with your usual IBM ID, choose "Information Management" in the Brand dropdown box and "Informix Servers" or "Client Products" in the Products dropdown box. The interesting thing is that any request, including your request, if you place one, are submitted to be voted on. This means the RFEs that receive more votes have a greater chance to be considered by the architecture and development teams for further consideration. In other words, this IS the opportunity to provide enhancement ideas even if you are not the biggest IBM customer on the planet Earth. Some RFEs will be of great interest, others will not seem useful to you. This is why your opinion is important. Do not hesitate to vote and place comments! The idea of the RFE corner is to provide a digest on new Informix RFEs and make those RFEs more visible and accessible for the community, so that you can vote for them in a faster and easier way. By participating actively in this website, IBM will have solid and useful elements from the customer base to introduce new functionality to Informix product. Please also note that now on we can see the last comments of the IBM Lab about each RFE, and its status now appears clearly. (Login at DeveloperWorks to see the RFEs.) New RFEs for September 2015 The activity has been rather low this month. We can see that the Backup from RSS or HDR server is again progressing. Some other interesting features are also requested. To be followed next month. Print session info for long transaction in msg log or DUMPDIR INFORMIX Servers Management table Auto Repair Tool TS Rolling Window Containers dropping dormant window should be similar to D... Enable HDR Secondary to perform archives A Java JDBC program has a problem with displaying the content of column "fe... Customer requesting JSON data type support in 4GL Top 13 RFEs (by votes)
Do not forget to vote for one or several of those RFE's if they fit your requirements. The more vote, the more chances that the Dev Team will seriously consider the request. You can access each RFE by clicking on the above links. At the bottom of each RFE page you will find a hyperlink to vote for it. You will see the Request stats, including number of votes for this request, on the right side of the request page. The more votes, the greater the chance an enhancement will be addressed by the Development Team, taking into consideration the general interest. Take some time to examine the full list and vote for the enhancements you would like to see implemented. Eric Vercelletto
IoT event at San Paulo IBM will be hosting an IoT event in Sao Paulo, Brazil on Oct 16th. Stay tuned for further details.
IBM builds toward next phase with IoT push Top 10 Enterprise Database Systems to Consider in 2015 CX Down Time September 25-26 IBM partnership with Chinese company to make US unhappy
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