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Webcast: What's New with the OAT (OpenAdmin Tool)

eherber — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:09:51 +0200

Webcast: What's New with the OAT (OpenAdmin Tool)

Date: Wednesday, August the 20th
Time: 1 hour -- 8 AM PST, 10 AM Central, 11 AM Eeastern, 4 PM London, 5 PM Paris, 5 PM Berlin
Title: What's New with the OAT (OpenAdmin Tool)
Speaker: John Miller III, Senior Technical Staff Member

You can register for the webcast here...

CDI - comp.databases.informix

eherber — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:31:56 +0200

CDI - comp.databases.informix

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IBM Database Magazine - Informix Content

eherber — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:06:19 +0200

IBM Database Magazine - Informix Content

New content arrived at the IBM Database Magazine website:

Extending the Open Admin Tool (OAT)

eherber — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:57:05 +0200

Extending the Open Admin Tool (OAT)

If you like programming in PHP, you might be interested in developing new functionality for the OAT (Open Admin Tool). A new Plug-In Manager makes it now easier to develop and integrate your own OAT PHP modules. An interesting article from Erika Von Bargen, which describes this new functionality, has been recently published on IBM developerWorks:

Newsletter August 2008

eherber — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:22:56 +0200

(german content)

Neue Ausgabe des IBM/Informix Newsletters

Im Newsletter-Archiv befindet sich die neueste Ausgabe (08/2008) des INFORMIX-Newsletters.

Inhaltsverzeichnis der Ausgabe August 2008:

Aktuelles
TechTipp: Datumsfunktionen
TechTipp: Rechnen mit DATE
TechTipp: IDS11 - MSG_DATE
TechTipp: Environments - GL_DATETIME
TechTipp: Open Admin Tool (OAT) 2.21
Hinweis: IBM DATABASE MAGAZINE
IDS Releases

IBM on Demand Webcasts

eherber — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:32:29 +0200

IBM on Demand Webcasts

New IBM on Demand Webcasts covering Informix Dynamic Server are available at the IBM website (registration required):

Carlton Doe - Developing IDS applications for Mac OS X
Jacques Roy - Developing and managing transaction intensive solutions for your industry

IBM Database Magazine

eherber — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:56:23 +0200

IBM Database Magazine

Some interesting articles from the current issue of the IBM Database Magazine:

IIUG 2008 - Presentation Download

eherber — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:02:34 +0200

IIUG 2008 - Presentation Download

The Int. Informix User Group has provided all presentations from this years IIUG conference in their member area for download. Remember that membership in the IIUG is free ! If you aren't already a member - join the IIUG !

Here is a list of all the great presentations from the Informix Experts available for download at the IIUG website. Become a member and access the member area to download them (Note for existing members: You might need to update your profile in order to be allowed to download the presentations):

New Content at the IDS Wiki

eherber — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:57:09 +0200

New Content at the IDS Wiki

New content has arrived at the IDS Developer Edition Wiki:

onstat Commands (Message Log) - Thank you Spokey for writing this article !
HDR - High Availability Data Replication

Making your online.log more readable with IDS 11.5

eherber — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:15:43 +0200

Making your online.log more readable with IDS 11.5

IDS 11.5 comes with a helpful new onconfig parameter which I didn't realize during the closed beta. It is also not mentioned in the New Features section in the releasenotes.

The name of the onconfig paramter is MSG_DATE and the allowed values are 0 (disabled, DEFAULT) and 1 (enabled). It could be dynamically set thru onmode -w[f|m]. If MSG_DATE is enabled, every message written to the online.log will be prefixed with the current date. Take a look at the following examples: