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This is a small repository of information and a few articles about IBM Informix technology
InformixV15 is Out: onstat -
IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 15.0.0.0AEE -- On-Line -- Up 00:11:43 -- 20241119 Kbytes
2024-11-19 14:52:08 -- Infrastructure Version: 1
InformixV15 is Out:
👏😉💪
"The report of my death was an exaggeration". (original version here)
English version
I will not waste too much time rumbling about my absence in this blog. Just a fact of life due to lack of time. I haven't stopped working with Informix. Haven't lost interest nor have turned away from it...
But this news are so important that I can't look away and not post something. After the change to HCL many people predicted (again) the dismiss of Informix.... guess what... They were wrong again... HCL/IBM are launching the next major version of Informix (14.10). And they/we also improved communication and asset sharing because the Knowledge Center is already updated ( https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGU8G_14.1.0/com.ibm.po.doc/new_features_ce.htm). The packages should be "arriving" at the customer's passport advantage sites and hopefully the trials should be refreshed soon.
I will not detail the new features here, as I hope to do it later with more time. But they range from the technical stuff, immediately visible and usable by customers to commercail licensing changes, and to infra-structure changes that will bring benefits in the future but are relatively "silent" for now.
Stay tuned and take a look at your PA sites... It should arrive there pretty soon...
Versão Portuguesa
Não vou perder muito tempo a explicar a minha ausência deste blog. Apenas um facto da vida causado pela falta de tempo. Não deixei de trabalhar com o Informix. Não perdi o interesse nem me afastei do produto...
Mas esta notícia é tão importante que não poderia olhar para o lado e não publicar nada. Depois da mudança para a HCL, muitas pessoas anteciparam (outra vez) que o Informix morreria... Pois... Enganaram-se outra vez. A HCL/IBM estão a lançar a próxima versão do Informix (14.10). E também melhoraram a comunicação e partilha de ativos, pois a documentação já está atualizada ( https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGU8G_14.1.0/com.ibm.po.doc/new_features_ce.htm).
Os pacotes devem estar a chegar aos websites do Passport Advantage e as versões de teste devem estar a ser refrescadas brevemente.
Não vou detalhar as novas funcionalidades desta vez, pois espero fazê-lo em breve com mais tempo. Mas vão dos aspetos técnicos disponíveis de imediato para uso dos clientes até a alterações de licenciamento, e melhorias na infra-estruturas que gerarão frutos no futuro mas que por agora são quase "silenciosas"
Mantenham-se atentos e vão verificando o site de downloads... Deve lá chegar dentro em breve...
Posted by Fernando Nunes at 10:22 AM 0 comments
Labels: 14.10, hcl, IBM, informix, new version, nova versão, release
A webcast about Informix backup integration with cloud storage(original version here)
English version
One of the features in the latest fixpack (12.10.FC10) was the ability to send your backups to the cloud. This can be achieved by integrating PSM (Primary Storage Manager) which is bundled with Informix with cloud services (like Amazon S3 or IBM Cloud Storage, previously Softlayer).
IBM and HCL will present a webcast this March 15 at 9:00AM PDT.
Get more information and register here:
http://ibm.biz/InformixTT_Mar2018
Versão Portuguesa
Uma das funcionalidades deo último fixpack (12.10.FC10) foi a capacidade de enviar os backups para a núvem. Isto pode ser feito integrando o PSM (Primary Storage Manager) que vai incluído com o Informix, com os serviços de armazenamento na núvem (como Amazon S3 ou IBM Cloud Storage, antigamente SoftLayer).
A IBM e a HCL irão apresentar um webcast no dia 15 de Março às 9:00AM PDT dedicado ao tema. Mais informação e registo aqui:
http://ibm.biz/InformixTT_Mar2018
A webcast about HCL offering of Informix in the cloud (Amazon) (original version here)
English version
HCL has just made Informix database available on the Amazon AWS cloud. Find out more on this blob post: http://www.informixcommunity.com/blogs/the-power-of-informix-the-convenience-of-aws
And register for a webcast on March 13 at 2:00PM GMT here:
Get more information and register here:
https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/7607840200007271682?
Versão Portuguesa
A HCL acaba de disponibilizar o Informix na núvem da Amazon AWS. Descubra mais neste artigo da Informix Community: http://www.informixcommunity.com/blogs/the-power-of-informix-the-convenience-of-aws
E registe-se num webcast no dia 13 de Março às 2:00PM GMT aqui:
https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/7607840200007271682?
A new success story about #Informix and Internet Of Things (#iot). Congratulations Shaspa
Original version here.
English version
IBM has just published a new success story involving a partner deeply related in the Internet Of Things hot topic. You can read it here: http://www-03.ibm.com/software/businesscasestudies/us/en/corp?synkey=W874536K43808P17
As you'd expect, because you're reading it in an Informix dedicated blog, and hopefully because you've read one of my last posts, it deeply refers to Informix. I already mentioned that we already provide an ARM port and that we're working on an Intel Quark port, and this partner is one of the driving forces behind it. As you can read from the story, they created small intelligent devices that can collect data from a lot of various sources and act as a gateway between those devices and a back end service.
Informix is used inside the devices and as the back end database. I can assume that some of the reasons for that are:
Posted by Fernando Nunes at 6:42 PM 0 comments
Labels: gateway, gps, IBM, informix, internet of things, iot, json, rest, sensors, shaspa, spatial, TimeSeries
This article is written in Englsih and Portuguese (original version here)
Este artigo está escrito em Inglês e Português (versão original aqui)
English version:
Do you remember the funny video "Informix is everywhere"? It was created several years ago (2007) and it made fun with the fact that Informix is said to be everywhere, but nobody can see it:
This article is written only in English (original post here)
If you're interested in Informix and will be present at 2013 IBM IOD (Information On Demand) conference in Las Vegas, 3-7 November, you can find your complete list of Informix related sessions in this URL:
https://www-950.ibm.com/events/global/iod/agendabuilder/preview.html?agendaid=495
Topics that will be covered include:
Posted by Fernando Nunes at 12:47 AM 0 comments
Labels: 2013, genero, IBM, information on demand, informix, iod, mongodb, nosal
This article is written in English and Portuguese
Este artigo está escrito em Inglês e Português
English version:
The PMR opening...
I'm going to use an IBM announcement as an excuse to talk a bit about technical support. The announcement in question is that IBM is trying to get their customers to use a web based tool for opening PMRs (or Service Requests) for severity 2, 3 and 4 (higher means lower business impact, 1 being most critical, eventually a system down). The status of this change may vary with your geography, so if you still have any doubts after reading the information provided in the announcement and the links it includes, don't hesitate to contact IBM to clarify.
The change is that currently you can open the service requests by phone. In the future that will be reserved for severity 1 issues. I haven't received any feedback on the announcement, but I can imagine there will be different reactions to this:
Posted by Fernando Nunes at 4:06 PM 0 comments
Labels: case, electronic, IBM, informix, open, pmr, service request, sr, suporte, support, technical, tecnico
This article is written only in Portuguese, given it's local nature (announcing the Informix Roadshow 2012 in Lisbon)
Este artigo está escrito apenas em Português
Informix Roadshow 2012 em Lisboa
A IBM vai realizar o Informix Roadshow 2012 em Lisboa nos próximos dias 2 e 3 de Abril. O evento terá lugar no IBM Forum Lisboa e contará com a apresentação de Scott Pickett (world wide technical sales). Será portanto apresentado em Inglês.
Os convites estão a ser enviados, bastando enviar um email para ibmdm@pt.ibm.com para efetuar a inscrição. Caso não receba o convite não hesite em contactar-me. Garanta que recebe a confirmação da inscrição. Os lugares são limitados.
O evento conta como habitualmente com uma componente de laboratório, de forma a que não se resuma a apresentações. Naturalmente para além das apresentações e dos laboratórios haverá também oportunidade de contacto com os elementos da IBM e com outros clientes e parceiros, utilizadores de Informix.
A agenda do evento incluí:
This article is written in English and Portuguese
Este artigo está escrito em Inglês e Português
Posted by Fernando Nunes at 1:02 AM 1 comments
Labels: #informix, #sugarcrm, cognos, crm, i2global, IBM, informix, lotus, oninit, opensource, scalability, sugarcrm, TimeSeries
This article is written in English and Portuguese
Este artigo está escrito em Inglês e Português
English version
On July 2, 2001, IBM announced the completion of Informix acquisition. So, 10 years have passed since the deal that changed many people lives. A lot was written at the time and since then about the deal, about Informix future, about competitors reactions etc. This historical milestone made me take a look back and think about what's been going on. There are several perspectives about this: The professional, personal, the technical and the marketing ones (and probably more that don't come to mind at this moment). Personally, the acquisition happened three years after I joined Informix Portugal. At the time I was already deeply involved with a Portuguese customer (large Telco) and I believe I gained precious experience since then. Being at IBM I had the opportunity to have some experience with other products (from areas that touch the database area), although the focus was and still is Informix. Informix allowed me to interact with many large (from a small country perspective) companies. So, it was a very positive transition. Of course not everything is perfect. Needless to say that the environment in a small company branch (around 20 people at the time) is by no means similar to the environment of a larger corporation like IBM. The processes inside big corporations are more complex. This is a fact and there's nothing we can do against it.
From a technical perspective, the Informix evolution was incredible. For those of you who know Informix, just think about the releases that came out inside IBM: 9.3 (little to no influence from IBM because it was launched in 2001), 9.4 (2003), 10 (2005), 11.10 (2007), 11.50 (2008) and 11.7 (2010). By the way, from these, only 9.3 has no support at all and 9.4 and 10 are on limited support. There's value for money here, and investment protection. You can compare this to our main competitor for example. They launched 9i R1, 9i R2, 10g R1, 10 R2, 11g R1 and 11g R2. To the best of my knowledge only latest two are fully supported, so more or less the same number of releases and more supported versions for us. Not bad for a database which had no future ten years ago, I'd say.
If I try to recall all the new features I'll end up with another very large article. But some of them must be mentioned:
JK; I don't think you can make that general a statement. Oracle is trying to give the impression that we are going to tell the Informix customers that they've now got to move to DB2. But obviously we aren't doing that. We acquired the Informix assets because we value them. We aren't going to force a migration on customers and partners that isn't right for them - that makes no business sense at all. We've spoken to the Informix customers and partners and have told them that Informix will be supported and developed for the foreseeable future - and the Informix customers are very happy with this. They appear to like the whole proposition so we certainly don't anticipate losing them to Oracle." , Jim Kelly, IBM's Vice President, Marketing Data Management Solutions Division, in an interview to an analyst from Bloor Research, on July 2001
JK; Não me parece que se possa generalizar essa afirmação. A Oracle está a tentar dar a impressão que nós iremos dizer aos clientes Informix que agora têm de migrar para DB2. Mas obviamente não faremos isso. Adquirimos os bens da Informix porque os valorizamos. Não iremos forçar uma migração em clientes e parceiros que não seja indicada para eles - Isso não faz qualquer sentido em termos de negócio. Temos falado com clientes e parceiros Informix e temos dito que o Informix será suportado e desenvolvido no futuro previsível - e os clientes Informix estão muito contentes com isto. Parecem gostar de toda a proposição de valor e portanto não antecipamos perdê-los para a Oracle", Jim Kelly, IBM's Vice President, Marketing Data Management Solutions Division, numa entrevista a um analista da Bloor Research, em Julho de 2001
Posted by Fernando Nunes at 12:25 AM 0 comments
Labels: acquisition, aquisição, future, futuro, história, history, IBM, informix
This article is written only in Portuguese due to it's local nature
Este artigo só está escrito em Português dada a natureza local
Versão Portuguesa:
A IBM vai realizar o Informix Roadshow 2011 no dia 3 de Maio, no IBM Fórum Lisboa (instalações da IBM no Parque das Nações).
Será meio dia dedicado às últimas novidades da família Informix. Em particular:
Posted by Fernando Nunes at 11:56 PM 0 comments
Labels: 2011, IBM, IBM Portugal Informix warehouse evento Forum Lisboa, informix, Informix Genero, Informix Warehouse Accelerator, panther, roadshow
This article is written in English and Portuguese
Este artigo está escrito em Inglês e Português
English Version:
A new draft Redbook was announce by IBM through RSS feeds. It's called IBM Informix Developer's Handbook and it covers lots of aspects of Informix application development and several client technologies (ESQL/C, Java, ODBC, OleDB, PHP, .NET, Hibernate, Ruby...).
I took the opportunity to include some direct RSS feed on the right side of the blog. You can check it for new APARs, announcements etc.
Portuguese Version:
Um novo Redbook, ainda em versão "rascunho" foi anunciado pela IBM através dos feeds RSS. O título é "IBM Informix Developer's Handbook e cobre muitos aspectos do desenvolvimento de aplicações em Informix, e várias tecnologias cliente (ESQL/C, Java, ODBC, OleDB, PHP, .NET, Hibernate, Ruby...).
Aproveitei a oportunidade de inserir alguns feeds RSS no lado direito do blog. Pode utilizá-los para consultar novos APARs, anúncios etc.
This post regards an IDS Roadshow in Lisbon, so it will be written in Portuguese.
A IBM vai realizar o IDS Roadshow 2009 em Lisboa nos dias 13, 14 e 15 de Outubro.
O evento terá lugar nas instalações da IBM em Lisboa (IBM Forum Lisboa) o parque das nações.
A agenda do evento inclui:
I recall that when I was around my 16 to 19 years old I was completely amazed by the possibility of running a different operating system inside a window on my system. At the time I was using a Commodore Amiga, and I had software to emulate Atari, Apple and MS-Dos systems. The first two used the same CPU as my native system, and the later was a complete emulation off an Intel x86 CPU. Because of this, performance was really awful, but nevertheless it was very interesting to use.
At that time we called that emulation. And the purpose was a bit different than what we currently call virtualization. The similarity lies in the fact that in both situations we create a virtual hardware environment in which we run a operating system and applications. Today, virtualization is a widespread technology, used in high-end systems as well as in plain simple laptops. Some examples of virtualization technologies and uses include:
Posted by Fernando Nunes at 11:34 AM 1 comments
Labels: amazon, EC2, IBM, informix, S3, virtual image, virtual machine