Draft Version: IBM Redbook - Customizing IDS for your Environment

• Customizing IDS for your Environment

From the table of contents:

• Chapter 1. IDS and your business
• Chapter 2. Optimizing IDS for your environment
• Chapter 3. Enterprise data availability
• Chapter 4. Robust administration
• Chapter 5. The administration free zone
• Chapter 6. An extensible architecture for robust solutions
• Chapter 7. Easing into extensibility
• Chapter 8. Extensibility in action
• Chapter 9. Taking advantage of database events
• Chapter 10. The world is relational
• Appendix A. Additional material

An excerpt from the preface:

In this IBM redbook we provide an overview of some of the capabilities of version 11 
of the IBM Informix® Dynamic Server (IDS) that enable it to be easily customized for 
your particular environment. Although there are many capabilities available, the 
focus of this publication is on the areas of ease of administration and application 
development. 

We describe and demonstrate these capabilities with examples to show how it can be done, 
and provide a model as you begin your customization. IDS11 provides nearly hands-free 
administration to businesses of all sizes. And it offers significant advantages in 
availability, manageability, security and performance. Built on the IBM® Informix Dynamic 
Scalable Architecture (DSA), all these capabilities can result in a lower total cost of 
ownership (TCO). 

For example, many of the typical database administrator operations are self-managed by 
the IDS database. IDS customers report that they are using one-third or less of the staff 
typically needed to manage other database products. Shortened development cycles are also 
realized due to rapid deployment capabilities and the choice of application development 
environments and languages. There are also flexible choices for business continuity with 
replication and continuous availability. This means there is no necessity for a 
one-size-fits-all solution - you can customize IDS to Your environment. 

Get the advantage, get Informix Dynamic Server Version 11- today.