A whole bunch of new INFORMIX articles

During the last 3-4 weeks a whole bunch of interesting new articles about INFORMIX technology has been published on IBM developerWorks.

First of all I like to promote the article about IDS/Linux/Xen written by my friend Martin Fuerderer (IBM IDS development group Munich/Germany) and Nicole Neubuerger (student at the University of Applied Sciences Munich). The article provides a great overview about IDS running on Linux in a Xen virtual machine:

Informix moves on ?

IBM just published their Q2 results and the Information Management software segment, where IDS is a part of, increased by 30 %. Unfortunately IBM doesn't report numbers on individual products but looking at the high growth rate of IDS in 2006 and 2007 it is most likely that INFORMIX is the driving force behind those exceptional results.

As a result of the increased demand for IDS, we have now two new distributors here in Germany which are authorized to sell the INFORMIX product portfolio beside the well known Bytec GmbH:

Two interesting Informix Blogs

The following two blogs contain interesting and useful technical information regarding IDS:

• Informix Technical Blog (nameless author)
• Informix Technical Blog (Obnoxio the Clown)

I also added them to the community section of the Informix URL Compilation.
Have fun.

Final 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

Informix Code Exchange at IBM developerWorks

Share your clever scripts and code snippets on the the new Informix Code Exchange website at IBM developerWorks:

• IBM developer Works - Informix Code Exchange

Another great place to look for existing scripts and programs around IDS is the Software Repository at IIUG:

How to sell IDS / Erfolgreich IDS verkaufen

• Date: June the 12th, 2008
• Time: 11:00 AM Eastern Time, 17:00 Uhr (MEZ)
• Registration: ThinkThursday - How to sell IDS

I only have the german invitation text, but this the event will held in english. It will give you an overview about IDS 11.5, how to identify new business chances and how to compete against other database products:

Draft Version: IBM Redbook - IDS 11.5: Extending Availability and Replication

• IDS 11.5: Extending Availability and Replication

The new draft is based on the already published Redbook IDS 11: Extending Availability and Replication which covered IDS 11. The following chapters contain updated and additional information regarding IDS 11.5:

• Chapter 7 - Updatable Secondary servers

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

Haste makes Waste - Stored Procedure Recompilation

During the study of the release notes of the new IDS 10.00.FC8 version I noticed a long anticipated feature that already made it into IDS 10.00.FC7:

Enhanced Concurrency after Recompilation of SPL Routines

The problem of locked rows in the dictionary table sysprocplan is something that comes up in many IDS installations that work intensively with stored procedures. The recommendation to reoptimize the stored procedures manually after DDL changes - update statistics for procedure - helps to avoid the problem but is more a kind of a workaround and is often forgotten by the administrator or application developer.

Final Version: IBM Redbook about IDS Security

A new interesting Redbook Redbook has left the draft status and has been officially published:

• Security and Compliance Solutions for IBM IDS

Download the Redbook to gain an understandig on the robust and comprehensive security technology that IDS offers. IDS is IBM's safest and most performant data server for business critical data on the Linux, Unix and Windows platforms.