Mark your calendars for December 11th to hear Deen Murad from Informix Advanced support talk about upgrading IDS to 11.50 and answer your questions.



Here is the announcement:

Informix Chat with the Lab - Thursday, December 11th 
8:30 AM Pacific, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eastern, 4:30 PM London, 5:30 PM Paris 
(note new start time - 30 minutes later)
IDS 11.50 Upgrade

As upgrades are a necessary ongoing process, choosing the time to upgrade
is critical to business continuity and technology availability.

New article available here.

This was posted on comp.databases.informix and I thought it would be useful to present it on a blog. I hope the author doesn't mind!

Linux/Desktop + SDS/MACH11 + iSCSI

By: cesar_inacio_martins@yahoo.com.br

This is a little cookbook/step-by-step which I tested successfully and want to share with everybody.

New article available here.

I just had a need for a function that takes a datetime year to second and returns the number of seconds since January 1, 1970.

That would be easy to do by writing a "C" UDR but I did not want to deal with compiling and installing a shared library so I decided to approach it as an SPL routine.

Not that it is a great thing but I thought I'd share it with whoever needs it. Let me know if you find this useful:

Bell Micro have made the presentations from the UKIUG available: OAT, Directory Security, Securing your database and MACH11 Continuous Availability.
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This blog entry is mostly a pretext to post a picture, so bear with me. Here are some reports on recent Informix events in Europe. I hope someone writes up the UK event too..



IUG Gießen 2008


The German Informix User group had a tech workshop on November 12th which included talks on topics such as Informix migration, requirements for Informix from developers, the Generous environment, COBOL, mobile devices, and top tips from support.

HP Data Protector has just completed certification with IDS 11.50.

Click here for a PDF on HP's website.

We have confirmed with HP that 11.x includes 11.50, apart from Windows 32-bit. HP are currently working on Windows 32-bit certification for IDS 11.50.

(Thanks to Venu for the tip!)

HP Data Protector has just completed certification with IDS 11.50.

Click here for a PDF on HP's website.

We have confirmed with HP that 11.x includes 11.50, apart from Windows 32-bit. HP are currently working on Windows 32-bit certification for IDS 11.50.

(Thanks to Venu for the tip!)

Deb Jenson unpicks the Data Studio stack here.