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Informix Technology Day 2018

IBM is again organizing an Informix Technology Day - on Tuesday, 27.11.2018 in Munich!

There will be the opportunity to find out about new developments in Informix and best practices for the successful use of Informix. In addition, the Technology Day will also provide numerous opportunities to share experiences not only with other customers and partners, but also with IBM and HCL employees.

Speakers include the following:

•  Pradeep Muthalpuredathe, Technology Director and Head of Engineering for Informix at HCL,
•  Shawn Moe, Architect for Informix Development at HCL,
•  Scott Pickett, responsible for Informix at IBM worldwide,
•  Martin Mählmann from the Hamburger Pensionsverwaltung,
• as well as other speakers from the local HCL and IBM.

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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.

About Admin-Scout development

CURSOR Informix Support employees have more than twenty years of experience in supporting and administering Informix databases. We have been developing the Admin-Scout since mid-2015 and the first customer installations took place in 2016.

With the release 2.2, from March 2019, the Admin-Scout will only be provided on the basis of the Dojo Framework with HTML5 and without Adobe-Flash.

In the Admin-Scout developer blog we present some new features as articles. A good overview of the enhancements can be found in the article Development and Release Steps, in which we also give a preview of the features of the next version

Informix Technology Day 2017

Pradeep Muthalpuredathe / Director - WW Informix Engineering

Pradeep Muthalpuredathe present the basics of the collaboration between IBM and HCL and the roadmap for the coming years at the Informix technology day.

HCL has taken over development and support on May 1. Most of the development and support staff have agreed to a change to HCL so that the usual contacts and existing structures are available to customers.

IBM Informix – HCL IP Partnership
(April-28-2017)

Dear Informix Partners,

below we share actual news about the IBM/HCL Informix partnership, provided today by Tomas Escobar
(WW Sales and Strategy Leader, DB2 and Informix).

Your CURSOR Service Distribution Team

Tomas Escobar
short overview:

Informix Development and support teams will move to HCL and HCL will further accelerate Informix development work.

Nothing changes for existing customers - and there is a guarantee for next 15 years of continued Informix availability, enhancements and support.

IBM did not sell the IP, not the product, not the source code - we did not sell the Informix business.

IBM remains the point of contact for sales, contracting, licensing, pricing, support towards customers. IBM product lifecycle policies remain unchanged for Informix.