Title: Best Practices for Embedded Data Management
Date: Thursday, May 24, 2012
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Central Time), 16:30h Germany
Presented By: Pradeep Natarajan - Software Developer (IBM)
Registration: Best Practices for Embedded Data Management

Description:

 
A small footprint, a silent install, self-managing capabilities - these 
are some of the critical things to consider when choosing to embed a 

For Informix Fanatics and developers my friend Jean Georges Perrin invites you to Developer Forum 2012/Informix Tech Day as a joined event.

The workshop takes place in Strasbourg (France) on May, the 25 from 08:30h to 23:30h :-)

Registration thru Facebook: DeveloperForum / InformixTechDay 2012

Here is the invitation text from Jean Georges:

Come to our free (and independent) conference around Informix Technologies. 

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Neue Ausgabe des IBM/Informix Newsletters

Im Newsletter-Archiv befindet sich die neueste Ausgabe des INFORMIX-Newsletters.

Inhaltsverzeichnis der Ausgabe:

• Aktuelles
• TechTipp: HASH ON - forest of trees index
• TechTipp: onstat -g ses 0 – Snapshot für alle aktiven Sessions
• TechTipp: Informix Warehouse Accelerator: CPU-Nutzung konfigurieren
• TechTipp: Extent Size / Next Size beim Erstellen von Indices

The Int. Informix User Group has provided the presentations from the IIUG 2012 conference on their website.

However you must be logged in to your IIUG member account in order to access the presentations. Membership in the IIUG is free, so just register and you could access this valuable Informix education material:

• IIUG Website - Logon to member area in order to download the 2012 IIUG conference presentations

IBM has published a new eBook covering the Informix Warehouse Accelerator.

The eBook is a high level overview describing the numerous advantages of the IWA technology for ultra fast analysis and business decisions:

Extreme warehouse speed for fast business decisions

Hopefully IBMs Informix marketing budget for this year is not already utilized with this new eBook and the IWA video :-)

There are two new marketing videos covering Informix available on YouTube:

Informix Warehouse Accelerator

Informix Genero

Title: Good Practices and Performance on ETL in Informix
Date: Thursday, April 19, 2012
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Central Time), 16:30h Germany
Presented By: Veronica Gomes - Software IT Specialist (IBM)
Registration: Good Practices and Performance on ETL in Informix

Description:

 
This session will explore good practices, performance tuning, and common 
issues and resolution alternatives, when extracting, loading and 

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Inhaltsverzeichnis der Ausgabe:

• Aktuelles
• TechTipp: Die Tabelle sysdistrib enthält interessante Zugriffsstatistiken
• TechTipp: syslcktab - Wann wurde die Sperre gesetzt ?
• TechTipp: Das wahre Alter der Datenbank und Instanz
• TechTipp: Alter Data Mart im Informix Warehouse Accelerator

If you are an IIUG member - that joined before February the 19th, 2012 - you can now vote for the IIUG board of directors:

IIUG Board of Directors - Voting

Please make your vote to ensure that we have a strong IIUG board of directors that represent the Informix users worldwide.

Attention: Event has been rescheduled !

Title: Informix BP Kick-off Webcast
Date: Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Time: 08:45 AM - 10:00 PM (EST), 16:45h Germany
Presented By: Gary Proctor - Informix Channel Sales Leader (IBM), Dennis Allen - Sales leader, Informix Warehouse, Douglas Dailey - Informix Product Manager
Registration: Informix BP Kick-off Webcast

Every time Suse comes with a new version of its operating system we must carefully have a look on how they handle raw devices resp. logical volumes. This week i  upgraded from Suse 11.4 to Suse 12.1, IDS remains unchanged on version 11.70. There is no substantial change in handling raw-devices by Suse 12.1, but it is very important to use the correct udev-file. otherwise you can get a surprise - may be that mouse and keyboard does not work....

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Inhaltsverzeichnis der Ausgabe:

• Aktuelles
• TechTipp: INFORMIX Replikation mit InfoSphere Change Data Capture
• TechTipp: Suche über alle Spalten einer Tabelle hinweg
• TechTipp: Zugriff auf den Informix Warehouse Accelerator über das Oracle Gateway
• TechTipp: DBMONEY und „update statistics medium/high“

Title: Informix Flexible Grid Technology
Date: Thursday, March 22, 2012
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Central Time), 16:30h Germany
Presented By: Madison Pruet(IBM, Mahesh Dashora (IBM)
Registration: Informix Flexible Grid Technology

Description:

 
Informix 11.7 database software is designed to help our customers 
cut costs, and speed the deployment of critical business solutions 
while boosting performance. 

Subsequent to this this years IIUG Conference there will a an IBM Informix Genero Bootcamp in San Diego.

Here are the detail of this event:

IBM Informix Genero Bootcamp

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.

Title: Informix Warehouse Accelerator
Date: Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Time: 02:00 PM (EST), 20:00h Germany
Presented By: Mike Walker, Art Kagel, and Lester Knutsen
Registration: Informix Warehouse Accelerator

We are hosting a Webcast to demo the Informix Warehouse Accelerator 
on February 28th at 2:00pm EST. I have been using it for over a year 
and I am continually shocked at how fast it is. 

Title: Now Everything You Have Ever Wanted in Business Intelligence is Possible
Date: Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Time: 09:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Central Time), 15:00h Germany
Presented By: Fred Ho Program Director (IBM)
Registration: Now Everything You Have Ever Wanted in Business Intelligence is Possible

The new Informix Warehouse Accelerator technology from IBM has completely 

Title: Making Your Informix Database Access More Efficient and Bulletproof
Date: Thursday, February 16, 2012
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Central Time), 16:30h Germany
Presented By: Yuming Wang (IBM)
Registration: Making Your Informix Database Access More Efficient and Bulletproof

Description:

 
Informix Dynamic Server(IDS) is well known for its fastest performance and 
most reliability, but accessing the data stored on IDS from clients also 

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Achtung:
Für die im März stattfindenen Informix-Workshops wurde die Agenda sowie die zuständigen IBM Ansprechpartner ergänzt. Die Anmeldung kann nun erfolgen. Nachfolgend die Agenda und Ansprechpartner in der Kurzübersicht. Die Langfassung finden Sie hier:

Aller guten Dinge sind drei - 3x Informix in Frankfurt

INFORMIX Warehouse Workshop in Frankfurt

Agenda:

• 13.03. 10:00-18:00 Uhr

Gary Proctor - IBM Business Development Exec - has started a new blog. Gary's blog is focused on solutions build on Informix:

• Gary Proctor's Blog

For your convenience Gary's blog has been added to Informix Zone (right side) and will also be re-published on planetIDS.com.

I believe that Gary's postings will help to spread the word about Informix and I wish him a successful start !

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Inhaltsverzeichnis der Ausgabe:

• Aktuelles
• TechTipp: Rechteverwaltung (Teil 4: Spalten-Ebene)
• TechTipp: Rechteverwaltung (Teil 5: Rollen)
• TechTipp: Rechteverwaltung (Teil 6: Hierarchische Rechtevergabe)
• TechTipp: Einfache Benutzung von “SmartMart” für den Informix Warehouse Accelerator . 7