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.

Admin-Scout 1.4.4 - the new dashboard, an overview

The 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.

Admin-Scout 1.4.4 - DBSpaces and Storage Report

An 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.

The Informix Newsletter 2026/Q1:

Highlights of the Issue:

• TechTipp: Ergänzung "InPlaceAlter" Task
• TechTipp: Task "auto_crsd"
• TechTipp: ONCONFIG - NET_IO_TIMEOUT_ALARM
• TechTipp: UTL_File Package (Datablade)
• ...

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