Informix 11.70 database versions will be out of support as of September 30, 2020. For Informix users, this means IBM/HCL is discontinuing security updates, patches, and other services (even if you have an existing maintenance contract). For the Informix DBA, this...
It's been a little more than two years since IBM and HCL Technologies entered into their 15-year partnership, but there's still a lot of confusion around their collaborative motives. Putting their efforts toward marginal software hasn't been a primary concern; rather,...
The Informix -908 error is returned when an attempted connection to an Informix server is unsuccessful. The vagueness of the message can be frustrating, but knowing what to look for can help to pinpoint the problem and resolve the connection issues. When setting up an...
Ahhhhhh—the fresh smell of a brand new laptop, being pulled out of its box for the first time. Breathe it in. Your tax return really paid off this year, but your shopping doesn’t end with this new device. On the contrary, you’ve got a spree ahead of you. This laptop...
Online Defragmentation Do you have large tables that contain too many extents but haven't been able to schedule a maintenance window to reorganize? With the release of Informix 11.70, IBM introduced a new defragmentation utility that lets you reorganize a table or...
With the newer releases of the IBM Informix Dynamic Server engine, the capability to perform backups to the file system has been greatly improved. The TAPEDEV onconfig parameter can now be set to a single file, a directory, or the value STDIO for standard output. With...