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  • Admin-Scout 4.0 - Development and Release Steps

    Admin-Scout 4.0
    Development and Release Steps

    All changes up to Release 4.0
    of August 2024

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  • Admin-Scout 3.3 - Informix Enterprise Replication

    Admin-Scout 3.3
    Informix Enterprise Replication Module

    Informix ERInformix 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.

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

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

    Informix compareCustomized 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

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  • Admin-Scout 3.2 - New ONCONFIG Module

    Admin-Scout 3.2
    ONCONFIG Explorer

    Informix compareWith 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.

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  • Admin-Scout 3.2 - New Storage Module

    Admin-Scout 3.2
    New Storage Module

    Informix compareThe 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.

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  • Admin-Scout 3.2 - New module to compare DB objects

    Admin-Scout 3.2
    compare DB-objects

    Informix compareAdmin Scout 3.2 offers a long-awaited feature: easy comparison of the databases' structures in different instances.

    The new module compares the typical database objects such as tables, views, external tables, sequences functions and access rights, including the respective associated indexes, constraints and triggers.

    This premium feature increases productivity while matching and adapting database structures and objects.

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  • Admin-Scout 3.1 - Highlights for developers and administrators

    Admin-Scout 3.1 - Highlights for Developers and Admins

    Security UpdateVersion 3.1 continues the journey to new functions for developers and administrators.
    • Editing in multiple windows, parallel working with multi-tabs in the SQL-Editor.
    • SQL history accessible at any time.
    • Evaluation of dependencies and constraints for table objects.
    • Informix error numbers, direct access to IDs and descriptions.
    • Database Explorer, auto generation of archecker scripts for table restore.
    • Locked tables, which sessions keep locks and which are waiting.
    • SSH shell to the server, now simply open via "shell in a box".
    • Day- and Month-Reports, individual customization according to your personal requirements.
    • Performance checks, extended output with disk I/O per chunk.
    • Schema changes, logging with the new DDL-History2 Report.

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  • Admin-Scout 3.0 - Functional right from the start!

    Admin-Scout 3.0
    Functional right from the start!

    Security Update Admin-Scout 3.0 offers a completely revised design and up to 60% faster evaluations.
    Revised user interface

    The entire user interface of the Admin-Scout is designed more uniformly and with better performance. The access to configuration and server administration is clearly structured. Optimized table structures and scaling of the display, lead to a considerably faster page layout.

    New SQL Toolbox

    The version 3.0 impresses above all with the new SQL Toolbox with many powerful functions in the Database Explorer and SQL Editor. As a result the Admin-Scout offers more interesting functionalities for development and tuning of Informix databases.

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  • Admin-Scout 2.3 - New Scheduler Module

    Admin-Scout 2.3 - New Scheduler Module

    schweissen 600x400cWe asked the question, which areas of an Informix database system have to be administered manually and where is it possible to set up an automated administration? The goal is to achieve increasing automation and independent optimization of the system through an interaction of sensors and tasks.

    Informix provides an SQL API and corresponding commands as a basis for setting up tasks. If you are an Informix administrator and are rarely concerned with setting up and managing tasks and sensors, you will find that this can quickly become a complex challenge. Therefore, in the new version of our Admin-Scout, we have intensively addressed the topic of a task scheduler and developed a new Admin-Scout module for the administration of tasks and sensors.

    The new Admin-Scout 2.3 Scheduler module offers a centralized administration of all tasks and sensors

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  • Admin-Scout 2.3 - Overview new features in version 2.3

    Admin-Scout 2.3 - Overview new features in version 2.3

    Informix secure SSL connectionAlready in the last versions many improvements were introduced for the security of the Admin Scout. It was very important for us that during a login no more passwords are transferred between Admin-Scout and the browser.

    Version 2.3 continues our efforts to provide increased security against data spying between Informix Server and client or our Admin-Scout.

    • https port is now active - generating of a self-signed certificate.
    • Setting up an encrypted SSL connection on the database port.
    • Easier selection of instances - access to instances of different groups.
    • Autologon-Feature – automatic connection to a standard instance.
    • New Scheduler module - all Scheduler modules are now available in one place.
    • New module Cluster Configuration.
    • New module DBSpace Layout History.
    • Backup/Restore now with SQL Editor Files.
    • Additional reporting on the InformixHQ Monitoring Database.

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  • Admin-Scout 2.2 - Ready for Informix 14.10

    Admin-Scout 2.2 - Ready for Informix 14.10

    release 22 00 1080x360Important features for cluster configuration and better analysis of instances in a group

    Overview:

    • Informix Control Center (ICC) - Dashboard, new tabs and additional tooltips.
    • Better overview of Informix instances of a group.
    • Detailed overview of Informix cluster configurations.
    • Visualization without Adobe Flash (separate article).
    • New SQL editor with syntax highlight (separate article).
    • InformixHQ - Memory Requirements.

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  • Admin-Scout 2.2 - Now 100% Adobe Flash free!

    Admin-Scout 2.2 - Now 100% Adobe Flash free!

    For years, Adobe Flash was the first choice to visualize animations and sophisticated graphics in a browser. Due to recurring security issues, the use of Adobe Flash Player has long been discouraged. The IBM Informix OpenAdmin Tool also uses the Adobe Flash Player in some areas for the graphical representation of complex contexts.

    Security warnings and the end of support for the Adobe Flash Player, already announced for 2020, prompted us early on to switch the graphical interface of the Admin-Scouts to the Dojo Toolkit and HTML5. We have step by step converted all relevant modules. This involved the redesign of all charts and the elaborate redesign of important modules such as the SQL-Trace or the Storage-Module.

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  • Admin-Scout 1.4.4 - Dashboard Overview

    Admin-Scout 1.4.4 - the new dashboard, an overview

    Admin-Scout / the Dashboard OverviewThe Admins-Scout Dashboard is an extremely powerful and informative tool that gives you an overview of the state of your Informix servers
    • The Admin-Scout Dashboard is the central overview for important parameters and states.
      All Informix servers in a group are listed and the status of a server is displayed with icons.
    • The details of an instance are very useful for troubleshooting or for identifying optimization potentials. For example, it is very easy to find tables where indexes are missing or the index structure is not ideal.
    • In contrast to the OAT, the Admin-Scout offers the possibility to switch between the tabs - without waiting times and without having to start the reporting from the beginning.

    This article describes the Admin-Scout Dashboard and its individual sections.

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  • Admin-Scout 1.4.4 - DBSpaces and Storage Report

    Admin-Scout 1.4.4 - DBSpaces and Storage Report

    Admin-Scout DBSpaces and Storage ReportAn Admin-Scout feature for fast analysis of DBSpaces
    • DBSpaces - key data and workload at a glance
    • shows access, page I/O, read and write times
    • view details down to single a database
    • drill-down information down to chunk level
    • DBSpace history data for storage planning
    • The Admin-Scout Storage Report provides a basic overview of all DBSpaces.

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ENUS16 0003 560xSoftware withdrawal and support discontinuance:
IBM DB2 & Informix - selceted products
(IBM Announcement ENUSZP16-0003 - 12.04.2016)

Effective on the dates shown, IBM will withdraw from support the following programs licensed under the IBM International Program License Agreement:

Program number VRM Withdrawal from support date Program name
5725-H01 All April 30, 2017 INFORMIX ENTERPRISE HYPERVISOR EDITION FOR RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX SERVER
5725-H00 All April 30, 2017 INFORMIX ENTERPRISE HYPERVISOR ENTERPRISE EDITION FOR AIX
5725-A38 11.5.0 April 30, 2018 ELITE SUPPORT FOR INFORMIX INNOVATOR-C EDITION
5725-A40 11.5.0 April 30, 2018 INFORMIX WORKGROUP EDITION
5725-A39 11.5.0 April 30, 2018 INFORMIX ENTERPRISE EDITION
5724-Z04 11.5.0 April 30, 2018 INFORMIX EXPRESS EDITION
5724-Z04 11.5.0 April 30, 2018 INFORMIX EXPRESS EDITION CPU OPTION
5724-C19 All April 30, 2018 INFORMIX XPS
5724-C29 All April 30, 2017 INFORMIX EXCALIBUR TEXT SEARCH DATABLADE
5724-C64 All April 30, 2017 INFORMIX VIDEO FOUNDATION DATABLADE
5724-C32 All April 30, 2017 INFORMIX I-SPY
5724-C56 All April 30, 2017 INFORMIX MAXCONNECT
5724-C18 All April 30, 2017 RED BRICK ENTERPRISE EDITION


Effective on the dates shown, IBM will withdraw from marketing the following programs licensed under the IBM International Program License Agreement:

Program number VRM Withdrawal from marketing date Program name
5725-H01 All April 12, 2016 INFORMIX ENTERPRISE HYPERVISOR EDITION FOR RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX SERVER
5725-H00 All April 12, 2016 INFORMIX ENTERPRISE HYPERVISOR ENTERPRISE EDITION FOR AIX
5724-C19 All July 18, 2016 INFORMIX XPS
5725-A40 11.5.0 July 18, 2016 INFORMIX WRKGRP EDITION
5725-A39 11.5.0 July 18, 2016 INFORMIX ENTERPRISE EDITION
5724-Z04 11.5.0 July 18, 2016 INFORMIX EXPRESS EDITION
5724-Z04 11.5.0 July 18, 2016 INFORMIX EXPRESS EDITION CPU OPTION

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ENUS15 0357 560xSoftware withdrawal and support discontinuance
IBM Informix Genero
(IBM Announcement ENUSZP15-0357 - 09.06.2015)

Effective on dates shown, IBM(R) will withdraw from marketing and withdraw from support the following programs licensed under the IBM International Program License Agreement: IBM Informix Genero - Program number 5725-D13

  • Withdrawal from marketing September 1,2015
  • Withdrawal from support September 30, 2016

IBM Informix Genero, an application development environment that helps customers create innovative database applications and modernize existing 4GL code, is a product IBM offers through an OEM relationship with its partner Four Js. To better serve clients and deliver the latest Genero enhancements to them in the most timely manner, IBM is entering a new delivery phase of this product. Effective September 1, 2015, IBM will transfer the sale of Genero licenses to Four Js. Support for current customers will continue to be available from IBM until September 30, 2016. IBM considers Genero to be the best path forward for customers wishing to modernize Informix 4GL applications.

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ENUS15 0241 560xSoftware withdrawal and support discontinuance:
Select IBM Informix products
(IBM Announcement ENUSZP15-0241 - 14.04.2015)

Effective July 15, 2015 IBM will withdraw several Informix Datablade Modules, Red Brick Software and additional Informix Software from marketing, and effective April 30, 2016, withdraw from support.

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ENUS15 0265 560xIBM Informix Client SDK continues as a supporting
program for IBM Informix Editions
(IBM Announcement ENUSZP15-0265 - 31.03.2015)

Informix Client SDK is a supporting program for Informix database servers in the following Informix editions: Informix Advanced Enterprise Edition, Informix
Enterprise Edition, Informix Advanced Developer Edition, Informix Workgroup Edition, Informix Advanced Workgroup Edition, and Informix Express(R) Edition.

Customers with these Informix servers under a support contract are entitled to obtain support for Client SDK as part of their server support when Informix Client SDK is used to access the Informix server.

A previous announcement that removed Client SDK as a supporting program from some server versions, Software Announcement ZP11-0567, dated December 13, 2011, is decommitted.

You are entitled to obtain support for Client SDK at or above the version specified in your server license when Informix Client SDK is used to access the Informix server.

The Client SDK product will continue to be available as part of the Hosting products.
The code was never pulled from the DVDs that make up the Informix product orderables.

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ENUS14 0452 560xIBM Informix Advanced Developer Edition V12.10
(IBM Announcement ENUSZP14-0452 - 19.08.2014)

The Advanced Developer Edition V12.10, based on IBM® Informix® Advanced Enterprise Edition V12.10, is licensed in a way that matches requirements for preproduction development activities. Specifically, it is licensed to use the Authorized User metric so that a customers can name users to do the pre-production activities, such as testing, performance evaluation, and quality assurance, before deploying applications in production based on Informix.

Effective May, 2013, Informix is no longer included in the Database Developer Edition. For details, refer to Software Announcement ZP13-0191, dated March 26, 2013. This new edition provides both a path for new customers of Informix and previous customers who use the Database Developer Edition want to move to the latest Informix edition. As needed, existing entitlements of Database Developer Edition and associated support may be exchanged for Informix Advanced Developer Edition at a 1:1 Authorized User ratio.

The Informix Advanced Developer Edition contains the features of IBM Informix Advanced Enterprise Edition with a new software license that restricts usage to nonproduction
activities. On an Authorized User basis, the license permits customers to evaluate and test all features of Informix.

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  1. IBM Software withdrawal selected Informix Infosphere and DB2 products (2014-01) ENUSZP14-0059
  2. IBM Informix Advanced Workgroup Edition Revised License Terms (2013-09) ENUSZP13-0404
  3. IBM Informix Software withdrawal selected products (2013-07) ENUSZP13-0367 09.07.2013
  4. IBM Informix Hypervisor Edition V12.10 delivers rapid deployment (2013-06) ENUS213-283

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