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.

Download Carlton Doe's IDS 11 Book

You can now download IBM IDS 11 - The next Generation in OLTP Data Server Technology as an eBook from the following IBM Website:

• Download: Carlton Doe's IDS 11 (eBook)

Please spread the news and recommend this free offer to your colleagues !!

ZIFF Davis presents: Securing Your Data - Choosing the Right Platform

• Date: Tuesday, Mar 4, 2008
• Time: 09:00 AM Pacific, 12:00 PM Eastern, 17:00 London, 18:00 Paris, 18:00 Berlin
• Speaker: Jonathan Leffler, Senior Technical Staff Member IBM IM
• Registration URL: Click here to register for the webcast...

Abstract:

Icarus Studios moves from MySQL to IDS 11

"IBM offers the high performance, scalability and data availability required
to deliver the best possible game experience to consumers, while keeping
operating costs low," said Daniel Witteveen, East Coast executive, IBM
Games and Interactive Entertainment. "Icarus Studios decision to migrate to
Informix Dynamic Server represents a shift now underway in the database
software market, with solution providers increasingly choosing IBM to better
serve their customers."

Read the full articles here...

IDS V11 Certification

Some kind of "house advertising":

There is a new article written by me and published in the DB2 Magazine that talks about IDS V11 Certification:

• Becoming a Certified Informix Professional

MACH 11 - Setup a SDS Node in 5 Minutes

If you didn't had the time to play with the SDS (Shared Disk Secondary) functionality which is part of the MACH 11 technology introduced in IDS 11, here is a short summary how to setup a SDS node on the same machine. It will take you only about 5 minutes to get the SDS node up and running.

I assume that you already have an IDS 11 instance running on your machine. If not, download the cost-free IDS Developer Edition:

Daily Backup via DB Scheduler

Applications that embed the database as part of their solution have challenging requirements regarding the data server:

• a customizable, small footprint
• a hardware gentle architecture
• rock-solid reliability
• flexible high availability options
• extremely low administration overhead
• smoothly backward application compatibility
• excellent performance

If you look at each of those requirements it becomes clear why IBM favors IDS as the data server of choice for integrated solutions. The new database scheduler introduced in IDS V11 offers extensive possibilities to automate routine tasks. Probably one of the most important DBA routine tasks is the regular backup of the data server.

IDS 11 Book ready to order via Amazon

If you didn't have the chance to get hold of the great new Informix Book (IBM IDS 11 - The Next Generation in OLTP Data Server Technology) written by IBM Informix specialist Carlton Doe you can now order it via amazon.com:

IBM IDS 11 - The Next Generation in OLTP Data Server Technology

IBM Data Studio and pureQuery

• Date: Thursday, Nov 29th, 2007
• Time: 1 hour -- 8 AM Pacific, 10 AM Central, 3 PM London, 4 PM Paris, 4 PM Berlin
• Title: IBM Data Studio and pureQuery
• Speaker: Dr. Stephen Brodsky, Senior Technical Staff Member

You can register for the webcast here...

IBM Data Studio is a comprehensive data management solution that empowers 

IBM Business Partner Training

If you are interested in the latest presentation from the IBM Business Partner Training, please contact John Dryburgh (Email: dryburj at uk dot ibm dot com). The presentation title is called Backup and Restore (BAR) in IDS 11.10. The presenter is Ron Privett who works as an Advanced Support Engineer at IBM.

This presentation contains additional information compared to the last Chat with the Lab session. It provides valuable information to anybody interested in the new functionality of IDS 11 in the area of Backup and Restore.