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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.

• Date: Tuesday, Mar the 23th
• Time: 1 hour, 8:30 AM Pacific, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eastern, 4:30 PM London, 5:30 PM Berlin/Paris
• Title: What's new in IDS 11.50xC6 ?
• Speaker: Cosmo David (IBM)

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IBM IDS 11.50 release has been enhanced with new functionality to timely 
meet several customer needs. These features cover a range of areas, 

Webcast: Top 10 reasons to consider IBM Data Server Driver for JDBC and SQLJ for IDS servers

• Date: Wednesday, Feb the 24th
• Time: 1.5 hour, 8:30 AM Pacific, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eastern, 4:30 PM London, 5:30 PM Berlin/Paris
• Title: Top 10 reasons to consider IBM Data Server Driver for JDBC and SQLJ for IDS servers
• Speaker: Satheesh Bandaram (IBM)

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Reminder: HDR Webcast

• Date: Wednesday, Jan the 20th
• Time: 1.5 hour, 8:30 AM Pacific, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eastern, 4:30 PM London, 5:30 PM Berlin/Paris
• Title: HDR Best Practices and Performance Tuning
• Speaker: Ronald Privett (IBM)

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• Date: Wednesday, Dec the 16th
• Time: 1.5 hour, 8:30 AM Pacific, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eastern, 4:30 PM London, 5:30 PM Berlin/Paris
• Title: IDS Security Best Practices
• Speaker: Jonathan Leffler (IBM)

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Join IBM architect Jonathan Leffler at the upcoming Informix Chat with the Labs 

• Date: Thursday, Nov the 18th
• Time: 1.5 hour, 8:30 AM Pacific, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eastern, 4:30 PM London, 5:30 PM Paris
• Title: MACH11 best practices around HDR/RSS
• Speaker: Madhuri, Madison Pruet (IBM)

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Jerry Keesee, Director of the Informix Lab will introduce the call 
and Madison Pruet, Informix STSM will be our technical speaker.

• Date: Thursday, Oct the 15th
• Time: 1 hour -- 8:30 AM PST, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eeastern, 4:30 PM London, 5:30 PM Paris, 5:30 PM Berlin
• Title: Advanced Text Searching Topics in IDS
• Speaker: Mark Ashworth

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This month's Informix Chat with the Lab will be deep dive into how to setup and 

• Date: Thursday, July the 15th
• Time: 1 hour -- 8:30 AM PST, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eeastern, 4:30 PM London, 5:30 PM Paris, 5:30 PM Berlin
• Title: Compression and Storage optimization support in IDS
• Speaker: Kevin Cherkauer

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This month's Informix Chat with the Lab will be related to Smarter 

• Date: Thursday, June the 11th
• Time: 1 hour -- 8:30 AM PST, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eeastern, 4:30 PM London, 5:30 PM Paris, 5:30 PM Berlin
• Title: Virtualization and Cloud Computing with IDS
• Speaker: Guy Bowerman

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This month's Informix Chat with the Lab will be on the popular 

A new podcast has been published. Jerry Keesee - Director IBM Informix Development - talks about the new IDS Warehouse Offering as well as the sweet spots of IDS:

• Podcast with Jerry Keesee

BTW, IBM Informix Tech Support has put together an excellent knowledge collection about IDS compression:

• Date: Wednesday, April the 29th
• Time: 1 hour -- 8:30 AM PST, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eeastern, 4:30 PM London, 5:30 PM Paris, 5:30 PM Berlin
• Title:
• Speaker: Fred Ho

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This month's Informix Chat with the Lab will be live from the 

You may have already seen Spokey's blog entry about the IDS bootcamp. I just saw scottishpoet mentioning this on comp.databases.informix.

I think the IDS bootcamp is a great opportunity to learn more about the superior technology in IDS 11.5. So it is worth repeating this information here on The Informix Zone.

• Date: Thursday, March the 26th
• Time: 1 hour -- 8:30 AM PST, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eeastern, 4:30 PM London, 5:30 PM Paris, 5:30 PM Berlin
• Title: IDS 11.50 and solidDB Universal Cache 6.3
• Speaker: No Information

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This presentation is an introductory technical session that will cover the 

YouTube Informix Videos

Two new IDS videos - at least I haven't seen them before - on YouTube:

English Translation: Interview with Jerry Keesee in Czech Computerworld

As promised here is the english translation from Jerry's interview with the Czech Computerworld.

I would like to say THANK YOU to my good friend Milan for sharing this translation with us. Thank you also to Pamela who did send me a Google translation of the interview. However I think humans can still do this job better than software programs :-).

• Czech Computerworld: Interview with J. Keesee

MACH11: TEMPTAB_NOLOG

In IDS V11.1 there has been a new onconfig parameter introduced: TEMPTAB_NOLOG

The purpose of this parameter is:

• Allowing the creation of unlogged temporary tables on secondary servers (SDS,HDR,RSS) without the need to explicitly add the with no log extension
• Increasing performance for operations on temporary tables on the primary (PRI) as statements against them will not be logged and hence not transfered to a secondary server

Let's have a deeper look at this technique. In the following example we have a primary server and a secondary HDR server. I leave SDS and RSS secondary servers out, as they show exactly the same behaviour as a HDR secondary regarding the TEMPTAB_NOLOG parameter. The dbspace layout looks like this:

Reminder: Webcast - IDS 2009 Roadmap and Future Direction

• Date: Thursday, January the 29th
• Time: 1 hour -- 8:30 AM PST, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eeastern, 4:30 PM London, 5:30 PM Paris, 5:30 PM Berlin
• Title: IDS 2009 Roadmap and Future Direction
• Speaker: Jerry Keesee, Director of the IBM Informix Lab

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HP takes Informix seriously

There are two interesting whitepapers available from IBM's (hardware) competitor HP.

The first one discusses how to to scale up and scale out with IDS 11.5 on HP Integrity Servers thru the HP Virtual Server environment. This is an excellent example that shows the versatility of IDS that is able to scale on a single SMP machine as well as on a cluster of (SMP) machines.

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IBM Informix Infobahn 2009

Die IBM Deutschland laedt zur diesjaehrigen Informix Infobahn Veranstaltung ein. Die Infobahn startet diesmal in Muenchen, macht dann am naechsten Tag Station in Frankfurt/M. und findet ihren Abschluss in Hamburg.

Wie immer gibt es interessante Neuigkeiten rund um das Thema INFORMIX. Hier der Ueberblick zu den diesjaehrigen Themen:

• Die IBM Vision des Smart Planet - Information On Demand
• Informix Business Update aus weltweiter Sicht

Informix displaces Oracle at China Telecom

A strategic win for IBM Informix at the China Telecom has been reported by Informix City:

Excerpt:

Earlier this year, an IBM team set out to change that by focusing on converting 
China Telecom, the country's largest telephone provider, into a dual database
account. The team proposed that Informix Dynamic Server 11.5 would replace Oracle 
for the company's Integrated Settlement System. They also planned to convince local