Includes Continental Breakfast 7:30 - 8:30

This tutorial will present in-depth information on the IDS 11 Certification Exam, including:

• What it means to be an IBM Certified System Administrator
• The benefits of being Certified
• Exam preparation strategies
• Preparation resources
• Recommended skills
• The exam structure
• Taking the exam

This tutorial presented by members of the Informix Labs Resolution Team will explain troubleshooting techniques through a mix of classroom material and case studies of real-life situations. Students will learn Informix diagnostic methods and tools, troubleshooting performance problems, and troubleshooting connectivity and network problems.

This tutorial will present a detailed discussion of various aspects of encryption in IDS. Topics covered will include Column-Level Encryption (CLE), encrypted communications, encrypted backups, and encryption on disk.

This tutorial will offer a lab on the new functionality which is part of the Cheetah2 open beta. At the time of this tutorial, the new functionality will still require a non-disclosure agreement, but that requirement can be met by simply signing up for the open beta. In this abstract, we cant go into a description of just what the new functionality is, but we can promise that it will be well worth your time. So join our expedition and see the big cats in action.

Includes Lunch 12:00 - 1:00

The content of the morning session (TM1) will be repeated in the afternoon. See the description of that session.

This tutorial presented by members of the Informix Labs Resolution Team will feature the same approach as the morning troubleshooting session, mixing classroom material and case studies. Best-practice methods will be presented for diagnosing memory problems, ER/HDR problems and Windows specific problems.

Hibernate is one of the most popular ORM (Object Relational Mapping) tools in the Java industry. During this tutorial, we will see how we can use open-source Hibernate to increase the developers' productivity when it comes to Java / IDS development. We will see a complete step-by-step project and various CRUD (Create, Read, Update and Delete) examples. Having basic Java / JDBC knowledge is not required but will greatly help in understanding some concepts.

This tutorial will cover the following topics through the use of classroom material and both simple and in-depth examples:

• SQL Admin API - How to use it, rolling out a system
• Improvements to starting the server
• Database Scheduler - What is it, why do you need it?
• New monitoring Actions - Thread resources, VP processor efficiency, I/O performance
• SQL query drill-down
• OpenAdmin Tool (aka OAT) - Overview, new functionality

The following all-day tutorials are provided at no charge by their sponsoring organizations. They will be conducted on-site at the conference hotel. You must register for them as with other conference tutorials.

This tutorial will discuss the migration of your current Informix-4GL applications, and how to create new applications for your Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) or Standard Engine (SE) databases for quick deployment in a Windows environment or over the Web. Covered topics will include Genero 2.10, Genero Studio, the Genero Application Generator, the Genero Web Client, and Genero Web Services. More...

This tutorial, designed for IDS developers and DBAs, will introduce attendees to the various tools at their disposal and demonstrate, with examples, how and when to apply each of these tools to efficiently manage and optimize performance of your IDS environment. Learn some of the best-practices, and save yourself many hours of wrestling with the complexity of your IDS infrastructure. Gain hands-on experience with how wide-ranging functionality provided by integrated suite of tools in Server Studio and Sentinel helps database professionals. More...