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IDS 11
Information On Demand for Your Resilient Business
Informix Dynamic Server 11 “Formerly Code Named Cheetah”
Overview
Oct 2007
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Content
 IDS 11 in the Marketplace
 IDS 11 Why Upgrade?
 Product Direction
 IIUG Community and Users’ Conference 2008
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Commitment from the top – Ambuj Goyal
“As an integral element of IBM’s data server business, the future for IDS is
very bright.”
“Our current product plans outline significant technological enhancements
through the next five years, consistent with IBM software policy with regard
to product strategy roadmaps.”
“You can have confidence that new and existing Informix database software
investments will retain their strong standards and business relevance
moving forward.”
“This relevance is highlighted by IBM’s support of a growing worldwide
ecosystem of Informix application providers, solution providers and
resellers.”
“I urge you to learn more about IDS 11 and how IBM has improved upon an
already innovative data server, offering you the stellar performance,
reliability and ease of use your business demands.”
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IBM’s Positioning of IDS:
Capitalize on it’s market strengths!
On line Transaction Processing
Integrated Solutions
V.11 new features increase the
performance of IDS for OLTP.
IDS is IBM’s leading data server for
industrial-strength integrated and/or
embedded solutions.
Location Based Services
Small & Medium Businesses
RFID, Spatial, Geo-Spatial,
Time-Series
Customized Development with IDS
Low DBA requirements and small
Footprint are strong selling points.
Express and Workgroup Editions
available.
Key Industries
IDS key industries including Telco, Retail, Banking/Financial, Gaming/Entertainment,
Travel Transportation/Hospitality, Manufacturing/Electronics, Energy, &
Public/Government
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IDS 11 Launch Facts
 Over 80 unique press URLs worldwide.
 Over 20000 Open Beta Downloads, over 400 of these were business partners
and ISVs
 The International Informix User Group (IIUG) membership has increased by 2.3
times since Informix was acquired by IBM in 2001.
 Over 40 cities have had IDS 11 Launch Infobahns and Technical Workshops
 In 2006 and 2007, IDS has experienced double-digit new license revenue
growth, well above the 6-7% for the database market
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Press reports on the next generation of Informix
IBM Unveils Next Generation Informix Dynamic Server
IBM Uncages IDS 11, Aka Cheetah, Database
06/12/2007
By Barbara Darrow
June 12, 2007
The new IDS 11 is tuned to deliver a combination of increased
performance, reliability and scalability, along with the ability to
handle massive volumes of complex data at very high speeds –
essential capabilities in today’s demanding, time-sensitive
information management environments.
The database, which IBM calls the second major release
in two years, was optimized to run well on distributed
commodity blade servers. IDS 11 will enable continuous
availability in blade-based multi-node server environments
and will provide workload balancing across those servers,
said Bernie Spang, IBM's director of marketing for data
servers.
This release should signal Informix partners that IBM
is serious about continuing to build on the Informix
database technology it acquired six years ago, Spang
said.
IBM Unveils Informix Upgrade
By Doug Henschen
IBM today announced Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) 11, an upgrade of Big
Blue's database aimed at exceptionally fast OLTP performance and reliability
in massive-data-volume environments such as retail, telecommunications,
government and banking. The upgrade, which is set for worldwide availability
July 6, enhances the data server's availability and disaster recovery
capabilities while also driving toward "administration free" operation.
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June 12, 2007 (Computerworld) - "Sure enough, IBM discovered that Informix's installed base was not for moving," wrote Wayne
Kernochan, an analyst at Nashua, N.H.-based Illuminata Inc., in a recent blog post (username and password required). "Moreover, IBM
discovered that Informix had a lot of attractive features, many of which it has been busy incorporating in DB2."
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The latest version of IDS, code-named Cheetah, includes enhancements to Informix's speedy transaction processing, as well as what IBM calls
"mainframe-like" high-availability and clustering features.
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IDS 11, formerly code-named ‘Cheetah,’ sprints its way
into the news
IBM's 'Cheetah' Ready to Pounce
June 12, 2007 - IBM released on Tuesday the Informix Dynamic Server 11, a
new data server company officials expect to give them a leg up in the global
database market.
IDS 11, code-named "Cheetah," offers significant cost savings with support for
cluster tools and, through a feature code-named "Mach 11," provides failover
recovery from any node to ensure continuous business operations.
In addition, IDS 11 offers cell-, column- and row-level LBAC (label-based
access control) in the name of security. LBAC allows users to define security
hierarchies and classification levels and then apply these definitions to the
information being managed. The new labeling capability provides new ways to
control access to sensitive data stored within the database.
IBM Unleashes 'Cheetah' Database
June 13, 2007
(TechwebNews.com Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) IBM on Tuesday
unveiled a database offering that the company says will bring mainframe-like
reliability to small and midsize businesses while delivering advanced features
to large enterprises that require high-speed transaction processing.
The company said its Informix Data Server 11, code-named "Cheetah," offers
hands-free administration despite a range of advanced features such as the
ability to pull data from geographically dispersed server clusters. IDS 11 also
allows users to conduct text searches of unstructured information across
multiple data sources.
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Database Trends: Q&A with Gartner's Donald
Feinberg
By Doug Henschen
IBM has been making database news of late, introducing an
upgrade of the Informix Database Server and announcing a
major deal with the City of Los Angeles. IBM says the city is
moving from Oracle to IBM's DB2 9 in order to "lower the
costs of running the city's geographic information system
(GIS)." Oracle declined to comment on the deal or IBM's claim
that its DB business is "soaring." To get an independent
assessment of the DB market, we called on analyst Donald
Feinberg of Gartner for his take on the latest trends and
technical advances and the upcoming Oracle 11g release, set
for July.
You don't hear much about Informix. What's significant about the
upgrade IBM announced today?
IBM's critics have been saying that the company has been
ignoring Informix. That's simply not true. The new release has
many enhancements, many coming directly from user-group
requests. With IDS 11, they have sent a message to IDS users
that they are serious about the DBMS and that it's part of
IBM's overall DBMS strategy.
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Press reports the uncaging of IDS 11, formerly called
‘Cheetah’
No Data Can Outrun This 'Cheetah'
June 12, 2007
By Clint Boulton
Informix isn't ready to retire.
IBM said today it has refreshed its Informix Dynamic Server (IDS),
adding continuous availability and disaster-recovery features to its
online transaction-processing (OLTP) database.
IDS 11, code-named Cheetah, handles massive amounts of data at
very high speeds and with little maintenance. This means that even
small businesses with tiny or no IT staffs, but with multiple data-server
locations, can process transactions.
To boost this iteration, IBM took continuous data-availability and
disaster-recovery technology from its mainframe machines to help
customers better manage their server clusters regardless of the
distance between backup datacenters.
IBM: Informix database still alive and kicking
IBM promises “mainframe-like” continuous availability in Informix
database upgrade.
By Jon Brodkin, Network World, 06/12/07
IBM Tuesday released an upgraded version of its Informix database
server, promising to give global data centers “mainframe-like
continuous availability and disaster recovery capabilities.”
Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) 11, which had been released in a public
beta program earlier this year under the code name “Cheetah,” borrows
technology from IBM mainframe systems to enhance information
management for cluster server environments. IBM says in a press
release that this feature allows continuous data availability and disaster
recovery “regardless of the geographic location or distance between
backup data center sites.” General availability begins July 6.
www.channelweb.co.uk
IBM changes spots with Informix ‘Cheetah’ database
IDS 11 gives new lease of life to veteran product
Martin Veitch, IT Week, 14 Jun 2007
IBM will next month reward loyalists to the veteran Informix database by releasing the first major upgrade of the product for over two years.
Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) 11, codenamed Cheetah, is touted as bringing high-availability and disaster recovery capabilities through
clustering routines adopted from mainframe technology. IDS 11 also leans on DB2 technology with Advanced Access Control, which lets
DBAs lock down cells, columns and rows for flexible security hierarchies. Monitoring has also been polished with a SQL-based Admin API for
admin tasks, and a query scheduler for automated reporting. XML and web services support is also extended.
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IDS 11 Launch Web Site
 “… we are impressed with the new
capabilities that IDS will offer…."
-- Markus Holzbauer, senior
database administrator for
ProSiebenSat.1 Produktion
 "… our major focus was the nonblocking checkpoints in "Cheetah"
which will bring our customers
additional performance boost.. New
features [justify] the new IDS slogan
“Administration Free Zone”. -Wolfgang Kraus, Bytec GmbH, Head
of IT-Services
http://www.ibm.com/informix/new
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TECSYS praises large number
of improvements in IDS 11
"This next release is the largest improvement in IDS for quite a while. It
has features to satisfy and excite everyone: the DBAs, the
Programmers, the System Administrators, the Integrators and even the
End-Users.”
“From our perspective, several features stand out: read last committed
isolation mode, the IDSAdmin console, session configuration routines,
row level security using label based access control, the administration
API, the scheduling of tasks and the ability to analyze recently executed
statements.”
“I see a great effort on IBM Informix’s part to enhance the administration
capabilities, the performance and the overall usability of the database
engine."
- Catalin Badea, CTO, TECSYS INC.
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Jenzabar goes to the head of the
class with IDS
Jenzabar: means “Class of the Best and the Brightest”
"We are looking forward to the general availability of IDS Cheetah. We are
impressed with the new capabilities that IDS Cheetah will offer. Specially, the
high reliability and superb transaction throughput really appealed to us and our
higher education customers. With the development of 'Cheetah', IBM makes it
clear that IDS continues to be a key strategic product in its portfolio."
- James Chen, CTO, Jenzabar, Inc.
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Are you “Ready for Informix?”
Access the Informix Solutions Portal!
Ready for Informix Dynamic Server Technical Validation program:
Designed for Independent Software Vendors (ISV's), Solution Integrators (SIs).
Validation of software solutions for compatibility with IBM Informix data server
 Value for IBM Business Partners:
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Leverage IBM and Informix brand equity.
Product differentiation and broader customer reach.
Greater customer interest and consideration through assurance.
Business Partner Connection Portal.
IBM Quote in partner Press Release.
 Value for Customers:
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Authenticated compatibility and high standards of testing for integration with Informix data server software.
Easy integration of the validated solution with Informix data server software products.
Lower development cost to integrate Informix data server software with the validated solution.
Greater value and return of the investment.
 The Validation Process Provides:
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No-cost self-validation by partner.
Worldwide Technical Support to assist in validation.
Pointers for obtaining data server software education and training at no charge.
Handover to Informix technology, marketing and alliance management teams to assist with IBM-BP Joint initiatives.
Sales Enablement materials.
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For Informa, ‘Cheetah’ Has Sprinted
Its Way to the Top
“IDS is well known for its high performance and reliability. Now with IDS V11.10,
IBM has enhanced performance and manageability, and lowered total cost of
ownership even further to make it the clear winner against Oracle and other
database vendors.”
“IDS V11.10 provides companies with a powerful, scalable and easy-to-integrate
data server for their business applications—one that does not require full-time
monitoring. This is critical in helping organizations reduce the time and cost of
both launching and managing new services.”
“We have seen enormous performance improvements—up to seven times faster
in some cases—using IDS V11.10.”
- Rob Prop, Manager, Professional Services, Informa
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IDS 11 Why Upgrade?
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IBM Data Servers
Reduce cost of deployment and management of data
• Innovation to reduce the cost of infrastructure
• Innovation to manage the lifecycle of data from modeling and design through change management and sunsetting
Enable rapid use of data throughout the enterprise
• Innovation that accelerates SOA and XML initiatives
• Innovation that leverages Web 2.0 and situational applications
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Why upgrade to IDS 11 ?
 IDS 11 is a superset of functionality in all prior versions of IDS. It is the
logical upgrade path for all previously supported versions of IDS. Upgrade
is a direct step from 7.31, 9.21, 9.30, 9.40, 10.0
 Exponential gains in performance and scalability, reliability and
availability, manageability, application development features, and
more.
 Every version of IDS is faster than the prior version -- IDS 11 is the fastest
yet
 Upgrade is simple: Install IDS 11, bring up the server, and the upgrade is
complete in a few minutes during server initialization.
 Better resource utilization results in lower costs of operation, higher up
time due to innovative enhancements in security, reduced administration
overhead with the new manageability features, and easier software
development with new server features and programming language
support.
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Agile
WorldWinner
Agility drives business for online game company
 1,600 concurrent games
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600,000 games per day
100 percent increase
No hardware upgrade
20% faster time to market
Lower cost than alternatives
“Informix Dynamic Server has helped make us the predominant site on the
Internet for skill-based game tournaments.
We’re seeing such extreme performance improvements that our speeds are
now serving as a benchmark in the industry.”
- Joe Bai, Chief Information Officer, WorldWinner
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IDS 11.10: TPC-C 57% Faster than IDS 9.40 on zLinux
IDS TPC-C 9.4 and 11
IDS 9.4 Z900
IDS 11 Z990
IDS 11+ Z990
1
2
4
# CPUs
8
12
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Bytec GmbH Praises ‘Cheetah’s’
New Features
"During the IDS ‘Cheetah’ beta program, we extensively tested IDS and
it has already proved to be extremely stable. We were not able to find
any major issues, so we could concentrate on the new features. Our
major focus was the none blocking checkpoints in ‘Cheetah’ which will
bring our customers additional performance boost. In addition, new
features in Cheetah will free up the IDS database administrator and
justify the new IDS slogan ‘Administration Free Zone.’ We are
anxiously looking forward to test in the near future the alreadyannounced features like the “IDSAdmin” and the new full text search.“
- Wolfgang Kraus, Head of IT-Services, Bytec GmbH
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Administration Free Zone
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Low Total Cost of Ownership and
Deployment
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Easy Scalable Administration
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Open Admin API for customized
administration
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Autonomic architecture
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IDS Open Admin tool
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Industrial strength, highly reliable - Install
it, Set it up, and Forget about it.
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Why
 Focus on infrastructure for customizable Self-Optimizing and Self-Healing
features
 Assist customers, partners and support engineers in answering the age old
question
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Solutions Developed
 SQL based monitoring and administration interface
 Database Scheduler
 Health Management System
 SQL Query Tracing and Profiling
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What is OpenAdmin Tool for IDS?
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OAT is a web-based administration tool for
the IBM Informix Database Server V11 and
moving forward
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A single OAT installation can administer
one or more data servers
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No additional software is needed on the
data server
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PHP based Open Source download from
IIUG website!
IDS
Servers
Web Server
OAT
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ProSiebenSat.1 Production Impressed
with ‘Cheetah’s’ Capabilities
"As a participant of the 'Cheetah' closed beta program, we are impressed with the
new capabilities that IDS will offer. Specially, the high reliability and superb
transaction throughput really appealed to us. With the development of 'Cheetah',
IBM makes it clear that IDS continues to be a key strategic product in its
portfolio."
“The new features of IDS V11.10 will further improve manageability of our
information infrastructure and reduce DBA workload by up to 20 percent. As a
result, we can continue to manage our environment with just three DBAs, even as
our company grows.”
- Markus Holzbauer, senior database administrator, ProSiebenSat.1
Produktion
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Every Business Needs to Be Resilient
Resilient
Business Continuity for Business Survival
“In some industries,
downtime costs can amount
up to 16% of revenue.”
“Nearly 30% of companies
do not have a disaster plan
in place.”
Source: "The Costs of Enterprise Downtime:
NA Vertical Markets 2005" Information Research
Source AT&T, "AT&T 2006 Business Continuity
Study", January - May 2006
For 32 percent of
organizations, just 4 hours
of downtime could be fatal.
“Companies can expect staff
absences up to 40% during a
pandemic.”
Source: Continuity Central, "Business Continuity
Unwrapped," 2006;
Source: U.S. Homeland Security Council, "National
Strategy for Pandemic Influenza", May 2006
99.999% uptime
= 5 minutes down per year
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Availability
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IDS Availability Options – Solution that fits your needs
 High Availability (HA)
HDR
HDR+RSS
 Scale Out
Continuous
HDR+SDS
Availability
IDS
GA
 HA with Scale Out
HDR+SDS+RSS (The IDS Cluster)
 Enterprise Data Replication (ER)
IDS ER
 Not one size fits all
Any combination of HDR along with
SDS, RSS and ER or just ER alone
can be used to meet your
requirements
HA
HDR
or
HDR
+
RSS
Scale Out
IDS Cluster
HDR
+
SDS
HDR
+
SDS
+
RSS
Data
Replication
ER
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Availability
IBM Software Group
IDS Shared Disk Architecture
LSN
Primary
ACK
LSN
SDS
SDS
Shared
Disk
Optional
Mirrored
Disk
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Blade center or standalone servers
HDR on top of shared disk subsystem
Primary role can shift to any SDS node
Minimal startup time – only a checkpoint
is required to start the SDS
• additional read capacity without requiring
additional disk
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Availability Fabric
Flexible Capabilities to Span the Spectrum
Global
Data Availability
London, UK
Secondary
• Single Secondary Server
• Multiple Secondary Servers
• Read on Secondary
• Remote or Local
New!
Failover
Ready
Denver, Colorado
Secondary
Primary
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Maintain
Availability
during
Planned
Outages
Shanghai, China
Secondary
Secondary
Mexico City, MX
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Availability Fabric
Flexible Capabilities to Span the Spectrum
Global
Data Availability
London, UK
• Geographically dispersed
• Scales to 1,000s of servers
• Read & Write on all servers
Denver, Colorado
Primary
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Maintain
Availability
during
Planned
Outages
Shanghai, China
Mexico City, MX
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Availability Fabric
Flexible Capabilities to Span the Spectrum
Local
Data Availability
New!
Secondary
• Single Disk Image
• Near Instant Failover
• Seamless Scale
• e.g., Blade Systems
Secondary
Primary
Maintain
Availability
during
Planned
Outages
Shared
Disk
Secondary
Secondary
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Verizon Experiences Success
with IDS
“We saved millions of dollars by
migrating the database for our national
provider directory from Sybase to IDS.”
“IDS is a core solution that helps us
maintain 99.98 percent availability. We
push it quite a bit because it is a very
stable environment and it can handle
massive loads very efficiently.”
Estimated 20,000 CPUs
Between 200 and 300 systems
426,000 concurrent sessions (with
142,000 individual users on a single
12 CPU system)
“The innovations of the new Continuous
Availability feature of IDS Cheetah will
assure Verizon's ability to provide
uninterrupted service to our customers,
day and night."
- Geoff Poole, Lead Informix Database
Administrator, Verizon
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Resilient
Legendary Reliability
Our customers say it all
“This database has never been
down except for server OS
upgrades”
- Bob Ungaretti, CTO, Garett Group Inc.
“Informix IDS has been … a very
solid DBMS”
- James Xu, Safeway
“Can’t remember the last
outage… over 5 years ago”
- Rich Campbell
“I have clients who have over 500
days of uptime.”
- MM, Financial Software
“I have worked here for almost 4
years and we have never had an
outage”
- MG, Manufacturing
“Better with every release.”
- DG, Logistics
“Been extremely reliable and low
“The last unplanned outage was
maintenance”
in 2004 when we had a massive
- BG, Construction
power failure”
* Survey results from 2006
- Lennie Jarratt
“Can't remember ever having an
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New!
Invisible
OpenAdmin Tool for IDS
Remote GUI Administration
 Web-based
administration
 Single Web server
 Monitor all instances
 Graphical, locationbased
 Drill down to details
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IDS 11 Features
Application Development
Trigger Enhancements
High Availability/
Scalability/
Performance
Multiple Remote Secondary
Replicas
Shared Disk Secondary
Backup/Restore to Directory
Parallel Whole System Backup
Ordering of DBSpaces During
Backup/Restore
Continuous Log Restore for
disaster recovery
Non-Blocking Checkpoint
Optimistic Concurrency
Enterprise Replication
Enhancements
Named Parameters in a Callable
Statement
Indexable Binary Data Types
Admin Free Zone
Open Admin Tool
ER Support for Truncate Table,
Rename and Configuration
Changes
Improve Statistics Maintenance
Windows Installer Updated to
Installshield ISW
Derived Tables in the FROM Clause of
Queries
Security
Common Criteria
(ISO/IEC 15408)
Index Self Join
Label Based Access Control
Basic Text Search
Encrypted Communication
Enhanced Data Types for Distributed
Queries
in HDR
Deployment Wizard
Optimizer Directives in ANSI-Compliant
Join Queries
Sysdbopen / Sysdbclose
XML Publishing
Web Feature Service
Auto Re-prepare
Onbar Performance monitoring
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SAP certification of IDS 11
 SAP has certified IDS 11 for
products based on 6.40 Kernel and 4.6D Kernel,
such as
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SAP Netweaver 04,
mySAP ERP 2004,
R3 Enterprise 4.7,
SAP Business
Warehouse 3.1,
SAP CRM 4.0,
SAP SRM 4.0,
SAP R/3 4.6C
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/inf
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Announcing the new IDS Developer Edition
Announcing the new IDS Developers Edition
– Promote application development and facilitate BP recruitment
– Drive market share and future revenue growth
– Free of charge, development use only edition
– No support, no production use
– Redistribution requires explicit IBM approval
– Available to all potential customers, applications developers, and BPs
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IDS Developers Edition
 1 CPU VP (i.e. 1 processor core)
 1 GB memory
 8 GB database size
 20 connections limit
 Full functionality with IDS 11 Enterprise Edition, Continuous Availability
Feature, Advanced Access Control, Remote Secondary Server, HDR, etc
 Includes CSDK, Java (Krakatoa), OpenAdmin Tool for IDS, AGS Server
Studio, DBDK, built-in datablades, Onbar & Ontape, DBExport/DBImport
 For development and testing
– Developers can use existing IBM or IIUG forums
 Available on large number of platforms: linux32, linux64, win32/64, hp64,
sun64, aix64
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IDS Application Development
Agile
Choose your environment and language
 Create applications and Web services with ease
 Superior application development capabilities
 Comprehensive tools
New!
 Application portability
Updated!
Updated!
Updated!
The freedom of Linux
The power of IDS
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Unleash the new Client for IDS 11
Java
PHP
.NET
Ruby
Optimized for IDS
Optimized for IDS
Optimized for IDS
Optimized for IDS
Simple to deploy
Simple to deploy
Full function type 4
Simple to deploy
(binaries or RYO)
32 and 64-bit providers
Simple to deploy
(binaries and GEMs)
JDBC 3.1
PHP Data Objects (PDO)
.NET Framework 2.0
Rails 1.2.3+
JDBC 4.0 (coming soon)
.NET Framework 3.0
IBM Websphere
Application Servers
Zend
Visual Studio 2005
Zend Framework support
Integrated add-ins
testing underway
( support coming soon )
Zend Core for IBM
database designers
integrated intellisense
Ruby on Rails
framework
Rapid web application
development and
deployment
Flexible client packaging (IDS Data Server client forum now available)
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3.
4.
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IBM Data Server Driver for ODBC, CLI, and .NET
IBM Data Server Runtime Client
IBM Data Server Client
IBM Data Server Driver for JDBC
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Unleash the new Eclipse-based tools with IDS 11
 Common set of tools (IDS and DB2)
 Easily integrated into existing Eclipse environments
–JDBC drivers embedded to simplify connectivity
–Free to download – currently in BETA ( forum also available )
Design
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Physical Data Modeling
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Data Distribution Viewer
Deploy
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Manage
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Object Management
– Object Filtering and Browsing
– Create, Alter and Drop
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Data Management
– Extract, Load, Browse, Edit
Develop
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Integrated Query Editor
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Integrated Query Editor
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SQL Builder
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XML Schema Editor
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XML Editor
Govern
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pureQuery for Java
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Data Web Services
Security Access Controls
– Grant and Revoke Privileges
– Manage Security Objects ( Roles, Users)
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Tech Support Initiatives
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Improving the Customer Experience
 IDS11 Enablement
• Migration Portal & Toolkit
• Trade-Up promotion
• Tech fairs/roadshows
 Client Self-Assist Focus
– New features, navigation, and
layout of support pages
• MustGather documents
• AutoPD scripts
• IBM Support Assistant (ISA)
 IGS/ISS EMEA L1 Support
• Initiated April 1, 2007
• Support for NE & SW
European countries.
• Improved language capability
 New PLC Policy Initiated
• 5 years of Support and 3 years
extended service
• V11, v10 under new changes
 FixCentral
• Optimized maintenance
delivery
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Service through Education
 OEM / Business Partner Informix PDPSI Course
– Currently available in a class room format delivered onsite (3 day or 5
day format)
– Conversion to modular structure in the works and will be available via
DeveloperWorks
 Cheetah Features for OEM/ Business Partners
– New EDU Series available via PartnerWorld
 Cheetah Certification Tutorials on DeveloperWorks
– http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/offers/lp/db2cert/ids-cert918.html
 Redbooks Articles
– Informix Dynamic Server V11.1 - Advanced Functionality for Modern
Business
– Informix Dynamic Server V11.10 - Extending Availability and Replication
– Customizing Informix Dynamic Server for your environment
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Documentation Initiatives
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Documentation Status and Future Plans
 IDS Info Center
– Fully searchable, navigation-based HTML version of full IDS library
with links to troubleshooting resources
– Print topics or sections, bookmark favorite topics
– V11 documentation updated for every fixpack
– publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/idshelp/v111/index.jsp
 IDS Information Roadmap
– Collection of links to a wide variety of IDS technical information,
organized by task.
– www.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/roadmaps/roadmap_ids.html
 Future Enhancements
– DeveloperWorks IDS Examples Exchange. View and share code
examples with IBMers and other IDS users
– Locally Installable infocenter
– Ability to rate and add comments to topics in the Info Center
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IDS 7-11 Worldwide Trade-up Promotion
 Start on 2 October, End on 31 December 2007
– IDS V7 EOM September 2008, EOS September 2009
– IDS V9 EOM April 2008,
EOS April 2009
 Offer trade-up at same price of IDS 11 renewal
– Include IDS V7, Standard Engine and Online (Classics)
 Offer extending migration support from 6 to 12 months
– Support dual IDS versions – old and new upgrade releases
– Offer separately, not part of the promotion announcement
– Dual-support period starts at time of trade-up purchase
 Additional incentives to upgrade to IDS 11
– Offer 25% discount on
• Continuous Availability Feature (CAF) for EE
• Advanced Access Control Feature for EE
• HDR for Workgroup, Parallel Performance for Workgroup
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 No reinstatement penalty on trade-up licenses
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Announcing Informix Dynamic Server 11 Cup
competition
 Register by logging in with your PartnerWorld id at www.ibm.com/partnerworld/vic.
Registration begins on Tuesday, October 9, 2007.
 Build your Informix Dynamic Server 11 skills via free online courseware from
October 9th until November 9th.
 Prizes awarded* in two areas to the Top 3 registrants:
1.Highest scores on the test + taken in the least amount of time
2.Most amount of time spent within the identified courses
3.Prizes for both are in USD: $300, $200, $100
Test opens on Monday, November 5th and closes on Friday, November 9th!
Attention Information Management Business Partners!
Build skills and test your knowledge while competing for prizes!
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IDS Product Direction
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IDS: Then, now, and what’s to come
Dynamic Enterprise
Business Continuity Continuous
OLTP
Availability
&
with Security &
Data Server
Performance
IDS 10
 Fastest, mostavailable
Informix OLTP
engine ever
 Continuous
advances to
solidify market
position
 IDS Express
 PHP driver
 Baan
benchmarks
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IDS 11 “Cheetah”
2007
 High Availability enhancements
 Significant security and
encryption enhancements,
LBAC and Common Criteria
certification
 Enhanced spatial & geodetic
web-services for location-based
services
 Further reduction in TCO with
improved administration
functions,
 Advance application
development, XML & SOA
 Enhanced solutions integration,
Admin API, customizable
footprint
Scalability
“Cheetah 2”
Vnext*
2008
 High power
scalability and
availability solutions
 Application
Development
 Performance
enhancements
 Server Admin
Enhancements
 SOA enabled 4GL
 Enhanced enterprise
data management
 Dynamic
provisioning
 Performance
enhancements
 Additional security
management
 Enhanced
administration
functions
 Data Compression
* Subject to change
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IDS 11
There’s so much more
 Get this *FREE* 100+ page
IBM publication
 Explains all the major
features from a technical
and business perspective
 Contact your IBM sales or
technical sales
representative for your
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2008 International Informix
Users Group Conference
April 27 – 30, 2008 – Overland Park, KS
(suburb of Kansas City and Lenexa home of the IBM Informix Development and Support Team)
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Six half day Educational Seminars – Sun April 27
Four Tracks of Informix Sessions Mon – Wed April 28 - 30
IBM Executives as Keynote speakers
Over 120 sessions submitted and at least 50 will be presented from users
and IBMers from around the world.
At the Marriot
Overland Park
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‘Cheetah’ Goes Beyond DBA’s Dreams
“…to sum it all, IDS 10 was a
DBA’s dream, IDS 11 goes beyond
my wildest dreams.”
- Gary Ben-Israil, CIO, National Institute
for Testing and Evaluation, Jerusalem
The best data server for providing flexible,
highly available, high transaction OLTP
data services
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