planetIDS (via FeedRinse)
Informix on AIX patch levels
IBM has recently publish a document stating the OS levels required and other known issues:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21579767
If you're already running Informix on AIX, or are planning to, then you should took a quick look at it
ERP Solutions On Informix
I would like to start highlighting new solutions on Informix as well as share information on categories of existing solutions on Informix. I will add tags to my posts so that you will be able to easily find the categories of 1) types of solutions (ie ERP, CRM, Billing, POS, etc..), 2) Industry solutions (ie: Retail, Telco, Energy & Utilities, etc …), 3) Geographies (USA, China, Europe, etc …) and 4) New to Informix; on posts you are most interested in.
Hello Informix Business Partners and others …
I have decided to start my own blog in order to share information and get feedback on Informix Solutions, Business Partner Channel Activities, and other topics that I may want to hear back from the community from time to time. We are adding to the Informix solutions in the IBM Information Management (IM) Solutions Directory constantly, so for the latest information on solutions, please visit the link on the right of my Blog to the IM Solutions Directory. It is easy to search this directory just for the Informix solutions by selecting the “Informix” link under the “Search” menu drop down.
Sweet CRM / Doce CRM
This article is written in English and Portuguese
Este artigo está escrito em Inglês e Português
A recent press release by Oninit is being echoed across the Internet. Oninit have completed the port of SugarCRM, an open-source CRM system to Informix.
It seems that
It seems that my friends at Oninit UK have worked with i2Global to port the excellent open source CRM SugarCRM to use Informix as its repository. It will be no surprise to us that with Informix standing behind it, SugarCRM now scales much better than it did with its default repository RDBMS. Duh!
When is IBM going to get it that they have the best database without peer in Informix and finally get 100% behind it?
Informix Port Delivers Unlimited Database Scalability for Popular SaaS Application
Google Alerts has been depositing some interesting Informix news into my inbox lately, I thought this one was interesting. Glad to see open source applications being ported to Informix.
Informix Port Delivers Unlimited Database Scalability for Popular SaaS Application
Delivers enhanced ability to create and manage large SugarCRM databases without impacting performance even for extremely large users
Procedures / Procedimentos Owner vs Restricted
This article is written in English and Portuguese
Este artigo está escrito em Inglês e Português
English version:
Introduction
This article focus on a little known aspect of stored procedures or functions. That probably explains why it was the less voted in a recent poll I've conducted. Nonetheless it's (from my point of view) a very interesting topic. During this article I'll be referring to procedures, but I could use the term functions.
UDRs: ROWNUM in Informix / ROWNUM em Informix
This article is written in English and Portuguese
Este artigo está escrito em Inglês e Português
English version
ROWNUM again?!
This is more or less a FAQ. If you search the Internet for "rownum informix" you'll get a lot of links and several possible answers. I don't plan to give you a final answer, but I'll take advantage of this frequent topic to go back to something I do enjoy: User Defined functions in C language.
Backup Costs with/without Compression
Here is a short calculation of Informix Backup costs with and without compression.
Informix backup can be compressed in different ways:
- ontape to disk (with ONCONFIG Parameters BACKUP_FILTER and RESTORE_FILTER)
- onbar to tape (with ONCONFIG Parameters BACKUP_FILTER and RESTORE_FILTER)
- onbar to tape (with TSM compression)
Informix Chat with the Lab - January Events
In January there will be two Informix Chat with the Lab events. The first one is a repetition of an event from October 2011. The event discusses the advantages of Informix as backend for business software in conjunction with Genero.
Two notes to IBM:
1)
Is there no other software vendor left that bets on Informix and is willing to talk about it ?
Aller guten Dinge sind drei: 3x Informix in Frankfurt
(german content)
Auch in 2012 bietet die IBM wieder kostenlose Workshops rund um das Thema INFORMIX an. Den Anfang macht die Banken-Metropole Frankfurt wo gleich drei Informix-Workshops im Monat März stattfinden. Zur Zeit ist von IBM noch kein Anmelde-Link verfügbar. Sobald die Anmeldeseiten von IBM freigeschaltet sind, erhalten Sie hier auf der Informix Zone den entsprechenden Link:
Informix Newsletter Januar 2012
(german content)
Im Newsletter-Archiv befindet sich die neueste Ausgabe des INFORMIX-Newsletters.
Inhaltsverzeichnis der Ausgabe:
DNS impact on Informix / Impacto do DNS no Informix
This article is written in English and Portuguese
Este artigo está escrito em Inglês e Português
English version:
You decided...
Informix Newsletter Dezember 2011
(german content)
Im Newsletter-Archiv befindet sich die neueste Ausgabe des INFORMIX-Newsletters.
Inhaltsverzeichnis der Ausgabe:
Small query performance analysis / Pequena análise de performance de querys
This article is written in English and Portuguese
Este artigo está escrito em Inglês e Português
English version:
The need...
IBM Big Insights and Informix data exchange.
BigInsights v1.3 released in Nov adds support for data exchange with Informix.
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/bigins/v1r3/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.swg.im.infosphere.biginsights.doc%2Fdoc%2Fwhatsnew.html
Solution to a problem
I received an email this morning with a link to a Linked-In post that pointed to someone's BLOG. The Blogger was proposing a solution to a problem someone had presented to him at work that he thought was rather elegant and so posted it for the consumption and edification of the Linked-In community. The problem: In a single SQL statement register an attendee for an event unless the attendee is already registered for an overlapping event. The solution was, to me, overly complex and absolutely non-portable in that it takes advantage of Oracle's conditional INSERT statement, so I said to mysel
Optimizer secrets / segredos do optimizador
Este artigo está escrito em Inglês e Português
English version:Short notes / Notas curtas
This article is written in English and Portuguese
Este artigo está escrito em Inglês e Português
This is a very short article that consists of a few short notes.
