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04 December 08 - Steeleye - Multicarta achieves 99.997% uptime for its Informix-based Credit Card Authorization Centre... Read
16 October 08 - VendorRate - Informix Earns Top Customer Satisfaction Score on VendorRate in Q3... Read
14 August 08 - IIUG.org - Sellout Expected for the 2009 IIUG Informix Conference... Read
29 April 08 - IntelligentEnterprise.com - IBM Informix Upgrade Enhances Clustering, Database Management... Read
29 April 08 - itweek.com - IBM 'Cheetah 2' mauls data costs... Read
28 April 08 - eWeek.com - IBM Uncages Cheetah 2 Data Server... Read
28 April 08 - CNNMoney.com - IBM Helps Clients Reduce Data Management Costs With New Informix Dynamic Server... Read
09 April 08 - CNNMoney.com - MediaSpan Embeds IBM Informix Dynamic Server Software for Delivering News to Print, Web and Wireless Devices... Read
08 April 08 - IT-Director.com - Informix seeks developers... Read
18 February 08 - marketwire.com - Icarus Studios Partners With IBM to Upgrade Performance, Availability for Its Online Games... Read
17 January 08 - eWeek.com - IBM Adds Mac Support to IDS for Higher Education... Read
17 January 08 - informationweek.com - Lotus Notes For iPhone Signals Closer Ties Between IBM, Apple... Read
16 January 08 - marketwire.com - IBM Informix Dynamic Server to Deliver Support for Mac OS X... Read
16 January 08 - internetnews.com - IBM's IDS to Support Mac Platform... Read
28 June 07 - REG Developer - IBM and Informix tie down Cheetah... Read
27 June 07 - CBRonline.com - IBM corrects its own Informix customer figures... Read
14 June 07 - vnunet.com - IBM changes spots with Informix 'Cheetah' database... Read
14 June 07 - eChannelLine - IBM expands scope for IDS... Read
14 June 07 - Resellernews - IBM: Informix database alive and kicking... Read
13 June 07 - DB2 Magazine - Cheetah is now out of the gate... Read
12 June 07 - IBM - IDS 11 release announcement (pdf)... Read
12 June 07 - ChannelWeb Network - IBM Uncages IDS 11, Aka Cheetah, Database... Read
12 June 07 - eWeek.com - IBM's 'Cheetah' Ready to Pounce... Read
12 June 07 - InformationWeek - IBM Unleashes 'Cheetah' Database... Read
12 June 07 - WebWire - IBM Strengthens Database Portfolio With New Informix Dynamic Server... Read
12 June 07 - Intelligent Enterprise - IBM Unveils Informix Upgrade... Read
12 June 07 - ComputerWeekly.com - IBM's Cheetah IDS makes leap to better data centre clustering... Read
12 June 07 - ebiz - IBM Unveils Next Generation Informix Dynamic Server... Read
12 June 07 - computerworld.com - Will 'Cheetah' help IBM's Informix chase down market share?... Read
12 June 07 - Internetnews.com - No Data Can Outrun This 'Cheetah'... Read
12 June 07 - de.internet.com - IBM neuer Datenbank-Server mit Codenamen Cheetah ist fertig... Read
12 June 07 - verifox.de - IBM stärkt Datenbank-Portfolio mit neuem Informix Dynamic Server... Read
12 June 07 - golem.de - Informix 11 vorgestellt... Read
12 June 07 - Computerwoche.de - IBM stellt neue Informix-Version vor... Read
12 June 07 - IBM.de - IBM stärkt Datenbank-Portfolio mit neuem Informix Dynamic Server... Read
12 June 07 - Heise - IBM gibt Informix 11 frei... Read
25 May 07 - Taiwan.CNET.com - Local Taiwan Informix user group established... (Chinese language) ... Read
18 May 07 - ChannelWeb Network - IBM Musters Partners For Cheetah Release... Read
18 May 07 - eWeek.com - IBM Looks to 'Cheetah' to Speed Up Blade Servers... Read
7 May 07 - DB2 Magazine - SQL Shortcuts - Use these tricks to generate IDS SQL scripts... Read

  Database-SQL  
  External Connectivity  

IDS New Feature Requests - 2007

External tools / product/user support Better .NET and OLEDB support. Better support for tools generally, there's no point in having the best database if nothing talks to it.
ability to 'load' and 'unload' databases by using select statement (or some other mechanism?) - so as users of third party sql editors can still perform load and unload and not have to switch back to server studio to do the task. add gui backup administrator of some sort OR at least ism_watch to Windows platforms.
Support for Java 5 or even 6 in UDR/UDT
More XML (ability to "digest" XML as is)
Support for UTF-16
PLAN_TABLE, V$SQL_PLAN Ability to describe plan of queries to temporary or system table. Some developers not have access to a server filesystem.
Syncing with PDA's (Microsoft Mobile OS) would be excellent
XML shredding is necessary and perhaps a XML native type like DB2.
unload statement within embedded-sql/c++-interface etc.
viewing of image ( not the file name) stored as a blob datatype through isql and i4gl forms without using any other front end
ISQL PRODUCT - support for lines longer than 80 characters in ACE and PERFORM ISQL PRODUCT - support for arrays in ACE ISQL PRODUCT - support for more than 100 variables/functions in ACE
.NET Support: - In Microsoft Windows Server environments, the ability to write functions and stored procedures in C#/VB.NET; - "anydata" data type; - Improve SPL language; - Authorization/Authentication inside the database; - "where" clause support for TEXT and CLOB datatypes; - Enlarge the maximum length of an IDS Index (390 bytes); - Savepoints (like Oracle: rollback to savepoint ...); - "Nested" transactions (like Oracle); - Better GUI tools!
Direct Informix to DB2 replication using ER
Full support for XML data type
provide SAP support !
Make the onstat -g commands visible again to non informix users
Client libraries for Mac OS X! I don't need the database on Mac OS X, but I do need to access the database from Mac OS X. It's Unix!!! It should be a no-brainer, especially since Informix used to have Mac client libraries.
Full Support for certified UDTs in replicated landscapes (especially spatial).
Don't neglect UDTs (spatial) when offering enhancements
Free GUI based Database Administration along with IDS Software. (Similar to Oracle)