Hi Spokey,

this is a good idea. I'll write this one to my ToDo list
and add some feeds during the next weeks.

Thank you.

-Eric

Nach meinen Informationen ist eine Ultimate-C Linux-Variante nicht geplant.

Das ist zwar schade, aber durchaus nachvollziehbar. Die installierte Basis auf Unix und Linux ist vermutlich zu groß und die Lizenzeinbußen wären für IBM vermutlich deutlich spürbar(er). Bei DB2 scheint das nicht so ein Problem zu sein, da hier die installierte Basis im Vergleich zu Informix m.E. wesentlich übersichtlicher ist.

Anyway, es ist auf jeden Fall ein großer Schritt in die richtige Richtung. Interessant ist auch die Open Source Initiative, um führende Open Source Projekte auf Informix lauffähig zu machen:

http://www.iiug.org/opensource/

Das Ganze garniert mit einem cleveren Marketing könnte durchaus das Produktbewusstsein für Informix im Markt positiv beeinflussen. Aber "Marketing und IBM" - zwei Welten treffen aufeinander :-)

Beste Grüße

Eric Herber

Thank you Spokey for the link about "Smart Metering".
This is a good one.

However I'm still convinced that a more product focused
advertising strategy would be much more benificial for
IBM itself and definitely for the many Informix business
partners.

Unfortunately IBM has a different thinking about how
clever marketing is done (:- Exchanging the IBM marketing
strategists with the ones from Apple for a couple of
months would probably show how a clever product focused
marketing could accelerate (Informix) sales :-)

Hi Robert,

yes, I'm fine with this. Informix should be the brand name used in public as it is more meaningful/significant than just IDS.

Thank you for your comment.

-Eric

Josem,

the newsletter is produced by the German Informix Tech Team, not by myself. I absolutely agree with you that it would be a great benefit to the Informix commmunity if the newsletter would be translated to English. I would also help to spread the word about Informix.

I already made this suggestion to IBM. Hopefully they'll agree with us and put some manpower behind it.

Thank you.

This is an excellent summary of the xC6 features. Thank you for providing it, Spokey !

However I wonder if the External Backup on an RSS Node is really that beneficial. Most customers that use EBR (External Backup Restore) have an underlaying SAN environment. So taking an External Backup on a Primary Node is normally only a matter of seconds where the instance needs to be blocked in order to split the mirrors.

Being able to perform a real backup on a RSS- or HDR-Node would be much more beneficial in terms of saving I/O on the Primary.

Hi,

I have been working on IDS 10 for one year and now plan to migrate to 11. I have passed IDS 7 Sys Admin few years back, and I plan to attempt IDS 11 exam soon.
Thanks for providing your input on the preparation.

Regards

Krish

Hi,

First question is: can you ping from the PC to the SLES box? And back again? Any firewalls in place?

And do you have any error numbers?

Even 'old news' are good news.

Looking at the attention that Informix receives from IBM Marketing, it is a 'wonder' that people stay on Informix. The excellent Informix technology is probably the main reason for that 'wonder'.

Just imagine how Informix would perform if IBM would start to market (and advertise) the product seriously.....

You store the next value in a table and that table has locking issues? I can't say I'm surprised.

Why do you not just use a normal serial?

thanks for the response. we use serial or integer now and store the next id in a field in one table. each of the tables has a corresponding row in the one table and fetches the next set of id's to use. sometimes this one table will get hit hard and it will experience locking issues. so there is some thought that sequences will eliminate this but i am not well-versed in sequences and what pitfalls may be there.

Hi Eric,

As I said, IBM is very conscious of how it spends its marketing money. And while I, personally, feel that it would be nice to see full-page adverts in the computer and broadsheet press advertising Informix, I have to agree that a) this kind of marketing is not very price-efficient and b) it is also hard to measure how effective it is.

Assuming that IBM has some money to spend on marketing and they can either a) spend it on some adverts but not be able to show a single sale as a direct consequence of the advert or b) run a telemarketing campaign which generates a million dollars in directly attributable revenue, which one do you think it would choose to spend its money on?