IIUG World 2021 – Virtual Event

IIUG World 2021 will take place October 5-7 starting each day at 10:00 am Eastern US Time!

The keynote speakers just confirmed:

• Arvind Krishna – Chairman and CEO of IBM. Arvind has been with IBM for over 30 years.
• Madhu Kochar – IBM Vice President, Product management, Data and AI.
• Seth Dobrin – VP and Chief Data Officer for IBM Analytics.

Registration for this event will be $199. Register by September 1st to take advantage of the early bird price of $150.

Register today, save money and get one Informix 14.10 Administrator certification test free!

Admin-Scout 3.1 - Highlights for Developers and Admins

Version 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.
  

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• 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".
  

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• 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.

Admin-Scout 3.0
Functional right from the start!

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.

IBM Informix vulnerability CVE-2020-4799 in Spatial Datablade Module

A security warning was issued on October 8, 2020 (CVE-2020-4799) for IBM Informix Dynamic Server.

This vulnerability affects the Spatial Datablade Module in Informix Server versions 12.10 and 14.10.

A specific function in the Spatial Datablade can be called with an out-of-range parameter. A local user logged on with SQL privileges could use this vulnerability to attempt to execute an SQL injection. If the attack is successful, the attacker would be able to grant himself extended user rights and execute his own code

Help provides a Fix Pack that IBM has released on Fix Central.