SMI Query Series - Logical Log Space Used

The sysmaster interface (SMI) presents a comfortable way to extract information about various parts of your running IDS instance. This information can be used for:

• ad hoc analysis of performance problems
• determining the status of several IDS sub components
• monitoring replication metrics
• sampling data for capacity planning purposes

Time to Migrate: IDS V7 to IDS V11

There hasn't been a better time to upgrade old IDS V7 installations to IDS V11. IDS V11 comes with a whole bunch of new functionality, enhancements and "under the hood" improvements that will certainly boost your transaction throughput as well as increase the availability of your data.

The commitment of IBM to IDS is serious and rock solid, no doubt about that. The german "IBM Informix Infobahn" event, having been held this week in three different locations (Munich, Frankfurt, Hamburg), demonstrated that IDS is an absolutely strategic data server for IBM. IBM invests a bulk of development resources to make IDS the absolutely first class data server for extreme OLTP and continuous availability.

IBM Database Business Keeps Growing

eWeek.com:
IBM officials said the company's database business, bolstered by last year's releases
of DB2 9.5 and IDS 11, enjoyed a solid first quarter of 2008.

Good to see and hear that IBM now names the cow that is giving the milk: