September 2009

Webcast - Advanced Text Searching Topics in IDS


  • Date: Thursday, Oct the 15th
  • Time: 1 hour -- 8:30 AM PST, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eeastern, 4:30 PM London, 5:30 PM Paris, 5:30 PM Berlin
  • Title: Advanced Text Searching Topics in IDS
  • Speaker: Mark Ashworth

You can register for the webcast here...

This month's Informix Chat with the Lab will be deep dive into how to setup and 

onaudit + onshowaudit Utility (How auditing is made in the IDS 11.5)

Hi ,

I want to make use of the onaudit and onshowaudit utility in IDS 11.5 (Express Edition )

As I have configured the onaudit in the /home/informix/aaodir

O/P of onaudit -c
ADTMODE = 1
ADTERR = 0
ADTPATH = /home/production/audit_log
ADTSIZE = 5000000
Audit file = 0

When i try to run the new log audit file with the option
onaudit -n
Onaudit -- Audit Subsystem Configuration Utility
The directory name specified by the ADTPATH configuration parameter does not exist or does not have the necessary permissions.

Newsletter September 2009

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Neue Ausgabe des IBM/Informix Newsletters

Im Newsletter-Archiv befindet sich die neueste Ausgabe (09/2009) des INFORMIX-Newsletters.

Inhaltsverzeichnis der Ausgabe September 2009:

  • Aktuelles
  • TechTipp: Merge von Tabellen
  • TechTipp: Instead-Of-Trigger
  • TechTipp: Trigger References
  • TechTipp: Schnellere CDR Konsistenzprüfung mit zusätzlichem Index
  • Hinweis: Informix Tech Workshops in Deutschland

2010 IIUG Informix Conference - Call For Presentations

2010 IIUG Informix Conference - Call For Presentations

Proposal Submission Deadline: November 1, 2009

The Conference Planning Committee is currently soliciting presentation proposals for the 2010 IIUG Informix Conference, to be held April 25-28 in Overland Park, Kansas USA - http://www.iiug.org/conf. The conference provides a forum for the exchange of information among Informix DBAs and developers and is the premier technical Informix event of the year.

Oracle's database sales declined - But there is more than a single truth...

Oracle's database sales declined - But there is more than a single truth...

You will have probably already read about the considerable decline in Oracle's database business in the first quarter of their fiscal year:

Which technique do you prefer to achieve "unlimited" scalability of your DBMS ?

Scaling Up (Adding CPU, Mem, I/O to a single big SMP box)
9% (6 votes)
Scaling Out (Building a cluster of IDS nodes on cost efficient Intel/AMD based hardware)
83% (53 votes)
Using Virtualization Technology
8% (5 votes)
Total votes: 64

Invitation to the Bell Micro Informix Community Event

UK Informix Community Event 2009

I'm happy to announce the UK Informix Community Event 2009 which will be hosted by my friends from Bell Micro:

Date and Location:
Thursday 12th November 2009, Henley, Warwickshire

Der Ball mit dem Chip wird salonfähig

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1:0 für IBM Informix Technologie

Viele Fussball-Fans fordern schon seit längerem die Einführung eines Torlinien-Schiedsrichters oder einer Tor-Kamera. Immer wieder kommt es zu kniffligen Situationen, wo die Schieds- und Linienrichter innerhalb Sekunden-Bruchteilen auf Tor oder Nicht-Tor entscheiden müssen. Diese schwierige Entscheidung zu treffen ist sicherlich nicht beneidenswert und hat in der Vergangenheit des öfteren zu hitzigen Diskussionen während und nach des Spiels geführt.

Academic Inititative: Informix in a Box

Please take a look at the late-breaking Informix in a Box program offered by IBM:

52. Workshop der Deutschen Informix User Group (IUG)

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52. Workshop der Deutschen Informix User Group (IUG)

Der 52. Workshop der deutschen Informix User Group findet am Mittwoch, den 28.10.2009 in Hamburg statt.

Weitere Informationen zum Workshop finden Sie auf der Webseite der Deutschen IUG: