A new IBM Redbook is currently in draft status:

• IBM Informix Flexible Grid: Extending Data Availability

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Overview
• Chapter 2. OpenAdmin Tool
• Chapter 3. Configuring server for Flexible Grid and Enterprise Replication environments
• Chapter 4. The Flexible Grid
• Chapter 5. Administering Enterprise Replication

• Date: Tuesday, October the 19th
• Time: 1.5 hour, 8:30 AM Pacific, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eastern, 17:30 Berlin/Paris
• Title: Informix Flexible Grid
• Speaker: Madison Pruet (IBM STSM)

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IBM seems to have "silently" published a new eBook covering the flexible cluster configuration options of Informix.

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IBM Deutschland betreibt einen sogenannten IBM Blue Blog, der sich mit diversen Themen rund um die IBM Produktpalette befasst.

Martin Fürderer - IBM Informix Entwicklung München - bloggt dort auch zum Thema Informix.

New Blog: IDS Replication Rounddtable

A new blog has seen the light of the day:

IDS Replication Roundtable

The author is Madison Pruet. Madison is an IBM Senior Technical Staff Member and is widely known as the Informix Replication Architect. Madison covers in his blog everything that is related to the outstanding replication capabilities of IDS:

• HDR - High Availability Data Replication
• ER - Enterprise Replication