June 2010

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No we won't ever ever advertise individual products....

Submitted by eherber on Wed, 2010-06-30 14:59

We have heard it so many times from IBM: "No we won't ever ever advertise individual products...."

However it seems to me that for certain products IBM finds subtle ways to bypass their own policy:

Excerpt of the Advertisement Text:

"What exactly does a benchmark mean? For the last five years, IBM DB2® has spent more time

Accessing Databases from WebSphere V7

Submitted by eherber on Thu, 2010-06-24 20:33

For all of you working with Informix in combination with IBM Websphere, the following IBM RedPaper might be interesting and helpful. It covers the definition of data sources and contains a good description for performing those tasks in Websphere with IBM Informix as database backend: 

When an application or WebSphere® component requires access to a database, 
that database must be defined to WebSphere as a data source. Two basic 
definitions are required. First, a JDBC™ provider definition defines an

Informix Geospatial and Timeseries

Submitted by eherber on Thu, 2010-06-24 20:22

If you think about creating database powered Geospatial solutions, the following presentation from Mark Ashworth (IBM Informix Extensibility Architect) might be interesting for you:

Webcast - Best Practices for Running Informix in VMWare vSphere Virtual Environments

Submitted by eherber on Thu, 2010-06-24 20:07
  • Date: Tuesday, July the 13th
  • Time: 1.5 hour, 10:30 AM Pacific, 0:30 PM Central, 1:30 PM Eastern, 6:30 PM London, 7:30 PM Berlin/Paris
  • Title: Best Practices for Running Informix in VMWare vSphere Virtual Environments
  • Speaker: Sreeni Paidi (IBM)

You can register for the webcast here

                        
IBM Informix is voted #1 in customer satisfaction and it is IBM's

Informix Support Information on RSS

Submitted by Spokey on Wed, 2010-06-23 10:16

I wasn't, until very recently, aware of this extremely useful set of RSS feeds. I hope that somebody finds them useful!

(Eric, you might also want to put it up on this site somewhere?)

Meeting Communications Industry Imperatives with the Right Data Management Framework

Submitted by eherber on Mon, 2010-06-21 20:36

Date:
June 23, 2010, 12:00 PM EST, 9:00 AM PST

Speakers:
Larry Hargrove, Global Sales and Solutions Executive for Service Provider Software, IBM
Sally Hartnell, Worldwide Marketing Manager for Informix and solidDB, IBM

Registration:
Meeting Communications Industry Imperatives with the Right Data Management Framework

Content:

Because of intense competition and demands from consumers, Communications Service

Informix Performance Tuning: Virtual Workshop

Submitted by eherber on Mon, 2010-06-21 20:28

Advanced Data Tools hosts a series of webcasts covering Informix Performance Tuning. The webcasts will be held by IIUG Board of Directors member and IIUG Award Winner Art Kagel.

Here you can register for those webcasts:

Bilder vom 54. IUG-Workshop

Submitted by eherber on Mon, 2010-06-21 20:03

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In Ergänzung zur Workshop-Nachlese hier noch Links zu den Präsentationen sowie weitere Fotos von Stammtisch und Workshop:

Newsletter Juni 2010

Submitted by eherber on Mon, 2010-06-21 19:44

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Neue Ausgabe des IBM/Informix Newsletters

Im Newsletter-Archiv befindet sich die neueste Ausgabe (06/2010) des INFORMIX-Newsletters.

Inhaltsverzeichnis der Ausgabe Juni 2010:

  • Aktuelles
  • TechTipp: Bitmap Pages / oncheck -pp
  • TechTipp: ONCONFIG - MAX_FILL_DATA_PAGES
  • TechTipp: System Requirements und Recomended Fixes
  • TechTipp: SMI - Sysmaster Interface – sysbufpool - Cache-Statistik je Bufferpool

Nachlese: IUG-Workshop Boeblingen (Stuttgart)

Submitted by eherber on Fri, 2010-06-11 09:39

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Traditonell möchte ich Ihnen nachfolgend eine kurze Nachlese zum gestern stattgefundenen IUG-Workshop präsentieren und auf den ein oder anderen Punkt etwas näher beleuchten: