We are continuing our quarterly Informix Business Partner Chat series, next one scheduled is November 15. Below are the details. Please send this invite onto others in your distribution lists that may be interested in Genero for business partner resale. We will give a brief update on the Informix Channels, fresh off of IOD Conference, at the beginning. We look forward to seeing you at the web cast, please note that there is no pre-registration required.
Informix Business Partner Chat – IBM Informix Genero

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A few month ago I wrote an article ( http://informix-technology.blogspot.pt/2012/03/why-or-why-not-prque-ou-porque-nao.html) where I picked on a twit made by someone who was asking why "some people still use Informix"... And hopefully I changed the point to "why shouldn't you use it"?

On my way to work this morning, there was a news story on the radio about a new cologne called Sushi. The product description explains this unique product:

Some things to note about IIUG 2013:

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This post's title is an allusion to "It's the economy, stupid" phrase that become popular in one of the USA presidential campaigns. It seems appropriate for today, and for the short problem description I'm going to describe.
Today, while working on a customer site, I was confronted with the following scenario:

I really like the new fragment by range method of partitioning new in 11.70 and have blogged about it before, but are IBM missing a trick somewhere?

IBM Informix Innovator-C edition provides a free version of the Informix engine, albeit with memory, CPU and feature restrictions. IBM describes it as useful for development, test and small production use, which is a fair summary. However, even for a test system you may find Innovator-C edition restrictive. To make things worse, with Informix 11.70 IBM reduced the number of CPU virtual processors (VPs) allowed from four to one and withdrew the 11.50 version, with its more generous limit.

The support portal for PureData systems (For both Transactions and Operational Analytics) is now live. We will continue to enhance the portal by adding key content like best practices and other PDPSI related material.

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Very quick post to document something which is not properly documented. While working at a customer I had the need to change the LRU cleaning parameters (min_dirty, max_dirty) without stopping the engine. The fine manual says this can be done by dynamically change the AUTO_LRU_TUNING parameter:

onmode -wm AUTO_LRU_TUNING=1,min=0.3,max=1