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Below is the webcast replays for the Informix Chat with the Lab Series.




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Originally presented April 8, 2008
In this Chat, some of the more popular onstat options for performance issues will be covered, showing how they have evolved throughout the history of IDS. With this as a backdrop, guidance will be given to a performance-minded administrator on how to use the improved onstat information to get the most out of IDS. Our speakers will be Jerry Keesee, Informix Lab Director and John Miller III, Senior Technical Staff Member.
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Originally presented January 30, 2008
Jerry Keesee, Director of the Informix Lab, discusses the latest information about the Informix product family, and provides a roadmap for future initiatives and releases. Included in this discussion will be a new announcement for an additionally supported platform.
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Originally presented December 17, 2007
One of the hidden treasurers of IDS is the High-Performance Loader. If you are not familiar with it, or think it is difficult to use, this presentation will show you how to get started. The session will cover when and why to use it as well as present easy ways to generate load and unload jobs. Add on tools and scripts will also be discussed. Our speakers for this session will be Jerry Keesee, Director of the Informix Lab, and Robert Beal, Senior Field Sales Technical specialist. This session was presented at IOD and was very highly rated by the attendees.
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Originally presented November 29, 2007
IBM Data Studio is a comprehensive data management solution that empowers you to effectively design, develop, deploy and manage your data, databases and database applications throughout the entire application development life cycle using a consistent and integrated user interface. pureQuery is Data Studio tooling runtime that improves application performance, manageability, and problem determination across the life cycle. Our speaker is Dr. Stephen Brodsky, Information Management Architect and Senior Technical Staff Member. This Chat is for both Informix and DB2 customers.
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Originally presented October 31, 2007
High-Availability Data Replication (HDR) and Backup and Restore (BAR) are long-established components of the IDS engine which are both robust and reliable. Both of these components have been enhanced in the new version of the engine, which is IDS 11. This discussion covers the following topics in depth: HDR Encryption, Index Page Logging, Global Temp Table Logging, Parallelized Whole System Backups, Ordering of Dbspaces, Backup to Directories, and Continuous Log Restore. Our speakers are Jerry Keesee, Director of the Informix Lab and Ron Privett, Advanced Support Engineer.
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Originally presented September 20, 2007
This feature implements an Open GeoSpatial Consortium(R) Web Feature Service (OGC WFS) in IDS to act as a presentation layer for the Spatial and Geodetic DataBlade modules. The OGC WFS interface allows requests for geographical features across the web using platform-independent calls. The XML-based GML (Geography Markup Language) is used as the encoding for transporting the geographic features. Our speakers for this Chat will be Jerry Keesee, Director of the Informix Lab and Alan Caldera, Senior IDS Development Engineer.
Originally presented September 6, 2007
The focus of this Chat is using XML to help solve business integration and data integration problems. IDS 11 has features for publishing the result set from IDS as XML documents and functions for searching XPATH expressions inside XML documents. This talk will explain the IDS/XML usage scenarios and how the new functions can be used in your applications. Our speakers for this Chat will be Jerry Keesee, Director of the Informix Lab and Keshava Murthy, IDS Architect.
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Originally presented July 31, 2007
The focus of this Chat is on the new functionality in the IDS server to take advantage of non-blocking checkpoints. We discuss tuning LRU flushing and the new ONCONFIG parameters RTO_SERVER_RESTART, AUTO_CKPTS and AUTO_LRU_TUNING. We also discuss the new onstat -g ckp output. Our speakers for this Chat are Jerry Keesee, Director of the Informix Lab and Scott Lashley, IBM Senior Technical Staff Member, Informix IDS Kernal/Performance Architect.
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Originally presented June 28, 2007
Hear Madison Pruet discuss the new capabilities that IDS 11 brings for Continuous Availability. Adding to the long-time HDR and ER features of IDS, two new types of secondary servers sharing the same physical disk (SDS) and Remote Standalone Secondary (RSS), extend HDR to provide multiple local or remote backup servers that also replicate data. Both these servers offer customers a way to get increased capacity by distributing workload across multiple servers. Our speakers for this Chat are Jerry Keesee, Director of the Informix Lab and Madison Pruet, IDS Replication Architect, Informix R&D. This session is open to customers, partners and IBMers.
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Originally presented May 30, 2007
Join Jerry Keesee and Jonathan Leffler to discuss LBAC and why you might want to use it. The topics covered include how to set-up and use a simple policy, the role of DBSECADM and its ramifications, backup and restore and import and export.
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Originally presented April 18, 2007
Sentinel R.6 is the industry-leading solution for automating 24x7 real-time monitoring and management of Informix IDS data servers. Learn more about Sentinel and its newest features from Lester Knutson, President of Advanced Data Tools Corp and a founding member of the IIUG and the DC area Informix Users Group. One of the features highlighted with be Auditing which is in IDS 11. A trial version of Sentinel, from AGS, is packaged in with IDS licenses. Joining Lester will be Jerry Keesee, Director of the Informix Lab, who will give opening comments.
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Originally presented March 14, 2007
This chat is a webcast and is sponsored by IBM Developer Relations highlighting the Cheetah test run program.
Customers of IDS have always known the business advantages they gain by integrating IDS into their solutions. IDS11 makes it easier than ever to deliver SOA-enabled applications and information on demand. IDS provides outstanding online transaction processing (OLTP) performance with highly integrated characteristics that help simplify and automate many of the tasks associated with enterprise database deployment.
Jerry Keesee, Director of the Informix Lab, will discuss the Cheetah features and test drive program. Syed Kamal, president and CEO of Gilliani, Inc., who has been involved in the early beta program will also talk about their experiences with IDS, and how the next evolution with ‘Cheetah’ gives their businesses strategic advantage. Information will be provided about how to participate in the test run program.
You may register to hear this webcast replay here
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Originally presented February 28, 2007
Hear John Miller discuss the new features of the next release of IDS that lowers the total cost of ownership by providing easy, scalable administration. Features such as SQL Tracing for detailed performance monitoring, the open Admin API for custom administration and a built-in database scheduler allow for an industrial strength, highly reliable environment. John is an IBM Senior Technical Staff Member who is joined on the call by Jerry Keesee, Director of the Informix Lab.
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