Highlights: IIUG 2021 Survey is still open
Welcome to the International Informix Users Group (IIUG) Insider! Designed for IIUG members and Informix user group leaders, this publication contains timely and relevant information for the IBM Informix community.
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Editorial
Happy New Year to all Informix users.
In December 2020 I wrote: “2020 was not an easy year. I hope 2021 will be better.” It was not.
In 2022 we are trying to move from virtual to hybrid meetings.
Our next board meeting, in February, is planned as a hybrid meeting with some attending virtually and some in person. Since no one knows what the Covid situation will be in February it may be another virtual meeting as our meetings were in 2021.
Gary Ben-Israel
IIUG Insider Editor
IIUG Board of Directors
gary@iiug.org
Highlights
IIUG 2021 Survey is Still Open
The IIUG board has prepared a very short survey about the state of Informix in 2021. It is a shorter version of our 2020 survey; some questions are the same. The goal is to track down changes in the community with the minimum effort. The estimated time to complete the survey is 3 minutes on any device, since there may be at most one answer that needs typing.
Please, go to https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/IIUG2021 to complete your survey. Your participation is of great importance.
The survey will be open until January 31st.. As before, we will communicate the results through IIUG channels. Thank you for your time!
Ognjen Orel
Informix Corner
IIUG World 2021 Sponsor Session Replays
IIUG 2021 Virtual Conference Sessions by Sponsors will be posted to our Informix Tech Talks on YouTube channel on January 10th, 2022. Watch the sessions at:
https://www.youtube.com/c/InformixTechTalksbytheIIUG
C02. Everything you wanted to know about the IBM Community – Doug Moran, IBM
C03. FOUR J’s – Genero: the 21st Century 4GL – Bryn Jenkins, Chief Executive Officer / Four J’s
B04. Informix Performance Tuning 38 years of lessons learned – Art Kagel, ASK Database Management
A05. Making the most of Informix Primary Storage Manager – Tom Beebe, xDB Systems
B06. Informix SQL Performance Tuning Tips – Jeff Filippi, Integrated Data Consulting, Inc.
C06. Informix Benchmarks on Cloud Systems – Lester Knutsen, Advanced DataTools Corporation
Wednesday Keynote – Dr. Seth Dobrin
C07.Querix – Cloud-Native development in 4GL – Hubert Hoelzl, Querix
C08. Extend your 4GL resources with Four Js Professional Services – Mike Folcher, WW Delivery Director, Professional Services / Four J’s
B11. Happy Database=Happy Life – keep Informix up and running – Mike Walker, xDB Systems
C13. 4GL is dead, long live BDL! – Laurent Galais, USA & Canada Technical Support Manager / Four J’s
C14. Developing IoT and Hybrid applications with 4GL: am I dreaming or is this really – Eric Vercelletto for Querix
IBM Informix Roadmap on YouTube
In case you missed IBM Community Day 2021, check out this replay of the IBM Informix Roadmap presented by Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Product Manager, Informix.
Informix Tech Talks on YouTube
234 subscribers, 23 great videos. Subscribe to our channel and enjoy great content.
All Past Tech Talks:
https://www.iiug.org/en/category/techtalks/
RFE Corner
IBM has an RFE – Request For Enhancements website.
https://ibm-data-and-ai.ideas.aha.io/?project=INFX
Please visit this site to vote for your favorite enhancements and place new requests. It is friendly and has a nice look and feel.
Popular (Over 50 votes)
Obtain the query plan of a running query
Many times a DBA is called to check upon a slow process. Most of the times those processes are running a slow query.
Sometimes it’s hard to know if the query is using the best query plan or not. A DBA can reproduce the query, but it it was prepared without values or if the statistics were changed after it started there is no guarantee that the query plan seen by the DBA is the same as the running query.
We have “onstat -g pqs” which sometimes can give us a clue, but it’s mostly cryptic and undocumented. If a user has X-Windows he can try xtree, but it’s a bit strange for todays standards.
We also have SQLTRACE, but if it was not set when the query was launched it will not capture the info (and besides, due to the circular nature of the buffer it may not be there at the time we need it).
A simple pseudo-table in sysmaster could probably implement this with ease.
It could also be extended to support the “last” query plan making it easy to get the query plan in any tool
Votes: 99 (+0)
Created: December 24, 2018
Status: Future consideration
Informix should be able to change owner on tables and any other objects
If user=informix creates all database and all tables, then programmer creates table but user=informix cannot change it. Only drop it.
Votes: 92 (+0)
Created: December 24, 2018
Status: Future consideration
Backup Individual database, not entire instance
Need a mechanism, similar to ontape, to backup a live database (as opposed to entire instance), without locking it.
Votes: 85 (+0)
Created: December 24, 2018
Status: Future consideration
Gary Ben-Israel
IBM Informix Forum Corner
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Recent posts
Informix 4GL Resources for Developers
Gary Ben-Israel
Informix Resources
IIUG website
www.iiug.org
IBM Informix community
http://www.iiug.org/community
Informix Blogs and Wikis
Please note: The list below contains only blogs that were active in the last six months.
There was nothing new in the past six months.
Technical articles
https://www.oninitgroup.com/technical-articles/
https://www.oninitgroup.com/faq-items/cloud-backups-with-informix-14-10/
Social Media
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/InformixTechTalksbytheIIUG
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/25049
Twitter : https://twitter.com/iiug
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/IIUG.Informix
Forums, Groups, Videos, and Magazines
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The IIUG old forums at http://www.iiug.org/forums/technical.php *** NO LONGER ACTIVE ***
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Informix Marketing channel on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/informixmarketing?feature=results_main
Closing and Credits
The International Informix Users Group (IIUG) is an organization designed to enhance communications between its worldwide user community and IBM. The IIUG’s membership database now exceeds 25,000 entries and enjoys the support and commitment of IBM’s Information Management division. Key programs include local user groups and special interest groups, which we promote and assist from launch through growth.
Sources: IIUG Board of Directors
IBM Corp.
Editors: Gary Ben-Israel, Rhonda Hackenburg
For comments, please send an email to gary@iiug.org or rhonda@iiug.org
