Erik Stahlhut

CURSOR Expert Solutions

We have reorganized our service and support offerings for our database business and consolidated them into CURSOR Expert Solutions GmbH (XPS).

We are continuing our existing offerings seamlessly through XPS while also intensifying the further development of CURSOR Admin-Scout.

Our entire service portfolio will be provided through XPS in the future. As a subsidiary, we remain part of the CURSOR Software AG group in Giessen.

Our contact details remain unchanged – just get in touch with us.

All Informix service and support offerings are now available through CURSOR Expert Solutions
XPS Data Suite for Informix – 12-month subscription, integrated DBMS included
Informix Monitoring and Support—with the Informix experts of CURSOR Expert Solutions

XPS Data Suite

XPS Admin-Scout

Service & Support

About Our Company

Written on 2026-06-23

Admin-Scout 4.1
Development and Release Steps

All changes up to Release 4.1
of May 2026

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Written on 2026-03-31

The Informix Newsletter 2026/Q2:

Highlights of the Issue:

TechTipp: ONCONFIG - DUMPSHMEM
TechTipp: Funktionen even() / odd()
TechTipp: SHM-Listener unter Ubuntu
TechTipp: Version 15.0.1.4 ist verfügbar
...

Read the whole article and view the Informix Newsletter online here!

Written on 2025-04-07

Informix Feature Request

Vote now for an upgrade of the editions!

The limitations of the smaller Informix editions have long been outdated and an obstacle to the future-oriented use of Informix. As part of Informix Technology Days 2024, a call was made to product management to review and upgrade the limits. There has been no response from IBM to date.

You can also support this feature request!

Written on 2025-02-24

Technology Days 2025

IBM TechXchange: Informix Technology Days 2025
on March 12th/13th, 2025, at IBM Watson Center in Munich.

Informix Technology Days 2025: like last year, at the same place but one day earlier and one major release further! Two days of lectures and hands-on labs with discussions about IBM Informix.

Written on 2025-01-24

Obituary - Carlton Doe

We were saddened to have heard of Carlton Doe's death.

Carlton came to IT in the 1980s. He began working with the Informix database as a 4GL developer, administrator and consultant. His high technical understanding, communication skills, and passion for advancing projects, made him a globally recognized expert on Informix over the course of his professional life.

Written on 2024-07-31

Admin-Scout 4.0
Development and Release Steps

All changes up to Release 4.0
of August 2024

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Written on 2024-07-04

NSI changes to CURSOR XPS

We have combined our service and support capabilities for high-performance databases with the system-oriented tool development of Nonne & Schneider.

Written on 2024-02-19

Informix Technology Days 2024

IBM TechXchange:
Informix Technology Days 2024 - on March 13th/14th, 2024 at the IBM Watson IoT Center in Munich.

After a pause caused by the Corona pandemic, we are pleased that IBM is offering the Informix Technology Days at the Watson Center in Munich again this year. The planned event is, as in previous years, aimed at decision-makers, developers, and system technicians who work with the database system in their professional daily life. IBM expressly invites all Informix users - including those who may have a potential interest in the technology - to join us.

Written on 2022-11-27

Admin-Scout 3.3
Informix Enterprise Replication Module

Informix ER Informix Enterprise Replication is a powerful way to replicate data assets across distributed installations and keep them consistent.

With version 3.3, Admin-Scout helps Informix administrators to set up, configure and monitor Informix Enterprise Replications.

This article provides an overview of Informix Enterprise Replication with our Admin-Scout for Informix.

Written on 2021-11-21

Admin-Scout 3.2
Create individual users / Test roles with the SQL-Editor

Customized use of the Admin-Scout thanks to the new role concept

Whereas Admin-Scout previously only knew the default users "cursoradmin" and "openadmin", the new version 3.2 allows the creation of individual users. In combination with a dedicated assignment of rights on menu level, different roles can now be built up specifically.

Checking role and rights concepts with the SQL-Editor

Administrators have to deal with roles and access rights of database users. To make it possible to check the rights of a user, the new version allows to test accesses of the SQL-Editor under a different user name

Written on 2021-10-25

Admin-Scout 3.2
ONCONFIG Explorer

With the ONCONFIG Explorer, Admin-Scout 3.2 offers a completely new module for managing ONCONFIG variables.

The goal of our development was to clearly summarize the ONCONFIG variables in one place and to present all information related to selected variables.

The ONCONFIG Explorer displays all ONCONFIG variables alphabetically sorted in a tree structure. A search field can be used to narrow down the number of hits.

For all documented variables a help button supports the quick display of the reference entry from the manual.

Written on 2021-10-25

Admin-Scout 3.2
New Storage Module

The entire storage administration clearly arranged in one module!

Admin-Scout 3.2 offers a complete overhaul and restructuring of storage management. The new module combines storage administration and reporting in one menu item. Administrators are now able to see all storage objects immediately through a hierarchically sorted object tree. A simple click provides all relevant details, sensibly organized via individual tabs.

Admin-Scout - start a demo session

Admin-Scout for Informix - start your demo session

Dear Visitor,

the Admin-Scout demo session runs within a VM on an Informix Innovator-C database.

You can test all features of the Admin-Scout (Informix Control Center).

However, you have no access to the items Configuration, Time Settings and Backup/Restore. Here we offer slide shows for an overview.

The following tools are available:


ICC Informix Control Center	Time setting / Service status (Slides)
Configuration of the Admin-Scout (Slides)	Backup / Restore and Update (Slides)
Installed Version: Admin-Scout 4.0 / August 2024	Help for the Admin-Scout (english version) - (Hilfe auf Deutsch)

CURSOR Expert Solutions

We have reorganized our service and support offerings for our database business and consolidated them into CURSOR Expert Solutions GmbH (XPS).

We are continuing our existing offerings seamlessly through XPS while also intensifying the further development of CURSOR Admin-Scout.

Our entire service portfolio will be provided through XPS in the future. As a subsidiary, we remain part of the CURSOR Software AG group in Giessen.

Our contact details remain unchanged – just get in touch with us.

Admin-Scout 4.1 Development and Release Steps

All changes up to Release 4.1 of May 2026

The Informix Newsletter 2026/Q2:

Highlights of the Issue:

Informix Feature Request

Vote now for an upgrade of the editions!

You can also support this feature request!

Technology Days 2025

IBM TechXchange: Informix Technology Days 2025 on March 12th/13th, 2025, at IBM Watson Center in Munich.

Obituary - Carlton Doe

Admin-Scout 4.0 Development and Release Steps

All changes up to Release 4.0 of August 2024

NSI changes to CURSOR XPS

Informix Technology Days 2024

IBM TechXchange: Informix Technology Days 2024 - on March 13th/14th, 2024 at the IBM Watson IoT Center in Munich.

Admin-Scout 3.3 Informix Enterprise Replication Module

This article provides an overview of Informix Enterprise Replication with our Admin-Scout for Informix.

Admin-Scout 3.2 Create individual users / Test roles with the SQL-Editor

Customized use of the Admin-Scout thanks to the new role concept

Checking role and rights concepts with the SQL-Editor

Admin-Scout 3.2 ONCONFIG Explorer

With the ONCONFIG Explorer, Admin-Scout 3.2 offers a completely new module for managing ONCONFIG variables.

Admin-Scout 3.2 New Storage Module

The entire storage administration clearly arranged in one module!

Admin-Scout for Informix - start your demo session

The following tools are available:

ICC Informix Control Center

Time setting / Service status (Slides)

Configuration of the Admin-Scout (Slides)

Backup / Restore and Update (Slides)

Installed Version: Admin-Scout 4.0 / August 2024

Help for the Admin-Scout

(english version) - (Hilfe auf Deutsch)

Admin-Scout configuration pages

Admin-Scout Time settings / Service status

Admin-Scout Backup / Restore and Update