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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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ENUS213 156 560xIBM Informix V12.1
delivers enhancements for operational analytics, specialized workloads, and the private cloud, while continuing to advance core database capabilities
(IBM Europe Announcement ZENUS213-156, dated March 26, 2013)

Overview:

IBM Informix V12.10 provides a powerful, reliable, and low-cost data platform for mission-critical business environments. Informix V12.10 builds on the proven capability of Informix with improvements in all areas, including support for online transaction processing (OLTP) and analytic workloads, IBM Informix TimeSeries and spatial data, and enhancements to Flexible Grid. Informix continues to provide the highest possible levels of performance and reliability in a cost-effective and simple to administer platform that is ideal if you need continuous availability of critical data resources.

IBM® Informix® V12.10:

• Solves the Big Data challenge of sensor data, such as RFIDs, smart meters, and builting sensors
• Enhances performance for both online transaction processing (OLTP) and analytic workloads
• Provides easy-to-use interface to smart devices when on the go
• Makes it much easier to move applications from other database systems
• Reduces cost and risk for private cloud and distributed enterprise deployments via enhancements to Flexible Grid technology
• Provides new SQL compatibility with other leading database systems making it much easier to port applications to Informix and take advantage of the power and cost savings of Informix
• Is easier to embed in applications and devices
• Makes deployment simpler
• Delivers enhanced warehouse management infrastructure for increased manageability and performance
• Contains integration and simplification of management and administration

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ENUS12 0346 560xIBM Informix Hypervisor Edition V11.70
delivers increased deployment flexibility for IBM PureApplication System and VMware ESX environments managed by IBM Workload Deployer.
(IBM Announcement ENUSZP12-0346 - 11.12.2012)

Optimizes Informix Ultimate Edition V11.70 for deployment into virtualized environments
Provides an Informix Hypervisor with deployed functionality on Red Hat Enterprise Linux™ Server for the IBM Enterprise Linux Server and AIX®

Overview

IBM Informix Hypervisor Edition V11.70 is a combination of IBM Informix Edition and an operating system optimized to run in server virtualization environments, enabling higher hardware utilization, while allowing you to spend less time on installation and configuration, and more time on strategic initiatives. Informix Hypervisor Edition helps you rapidly deploy Informix database servers and the associated operating system. Informix Edition V11.70 gives you more deployment options and enhanced management capabilities for server virtualization environments across different virtualization technologies.

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ENUS12 0338 560xSoftware withdrawal:
IBM Informix tools, connectivity, data blades, and database editions
(IBM Announcement ENUSZP12-0338 - 17.07.2012)

Effective on the dates listed below, IBM® will withdraw from marketing, part numbers from the following product releases licensed under the IBM International Program License Agreement (...)

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ENUS12 0079 560xIBM Informix Genero V2.40
brings a wealth of enhancements to accelerate delivery of media rich applications
(IBM Announcement ENUSZP12-0079 - 06.03.2012)

IBM Informix Genero, a 4GL solution, is compatible with existing Informix 4GL and provides a cost-effective path to modernize Informix 4GL applications through a graphical user interface, usually with minimal changes to existing code. Informix Genero V2.40 introduces enhancements that improve compatibility with Informix 4GL, as well as extend web development capabilities with the introduction of a new HTML5 theme that integrates well with a greatly enhanced Microsoft Silverlight template. Additional enhancements to the included Informix Genero Studio development environment component allows for application modelling with improved user navigation for its business application modeller and application generator, enabling developers to more easily create new applications. (...)

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ENUS211 502 560xIBM Informix Growth Edition Warehouse V11.7
provides fast and predictable query response times for analytical workloads
(IBM Software Announcement ENUS211-502, dated October 25, 2011)

Overview:

IBM Informix Growth Warehouse Edition is a high-performance offering for delivering dramatically faster analytic query responses transparently to users when compared to an existing Informix environment without the capabilities available with the Informix Growth Warehouse Edition. It integrates into an IBM Informix data warehouse environment, providing high-performance query software that is based on advanced in-memory technology at an affordable price.

IBM Informix Growth Warehouse Edition consists of the following components:

• IBM Informix Growth Edition
• IBM Informix Warehouse Accelerator

IBM Informix Growth Warehouse Edition V11.7 provides:

• Faster query response times on unpredictable and long-running query workloads
• Help in lowering operating costs by reducing database tuning efforts
• Improved performance on analytical queries compared to your existing Informix environment
• The ability to run mixed workloads

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  1. IBM Informix Ultimate V11.70 Warehouse Edition Warehouse Accelerator (2011-03) ENUS211-148
  2. IBM Informix V11.70 Available Grid and Enhanced Embed Capabilities (2010-10) ENUS210-367
  3. IBM Informix V11.50 New Editions Ultimate Growth Innovator (2010-05) ENUS210-189
  4. IBM Informix Dynamic Server Workgroup Edition V11.50 Pricing Options (2009-11) ENUS209-332

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