Here is a short calculation of Informix Backup costs with and without compression.
Informix backup can be compressed in different ways:
- ontape to disk (with ONCONFIG Parameters BACKUP_FILTER and RESTORE_FILTER)
- onbar to tape (with ONCONFIG Parameters BACKUP_FILTER and RESTORE_FILTER)
- onbar to tape (with TSM compression)

In January there will be two Informix Chat with the Lab events. The first one is a repetition of an event from October 2011. The event discusses the advantages of Informix as backend for business software in conjunction with Genero.

Two notes to IBM:

1)
Is there no other software vendor left that bets on Informix and is willing to talk about it ?

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Aller guten Dinge sind 3: Dreimal Informix Workshop in Frankfurt

Auch in 2012 bietet die IBM wieder kostenlose Workshops rund um das Thema INFORMIX an. Den Anfang macht die Banken-Metropole Frankfurt wo gleich drei Informix-Workshops im Monat März stattfinden. Zur Zeit ist von IBM noch kein Anmelde-Link verfügbar. Sobald die Anmeldeseiten von IBM freigeschaltet sind, erhalten Sie hier auf der Informix Zone den entsprechenden Link:

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Neue Ausgabe des IBM/Informix Newsletters

Im Newsletter-Archiv befindet sich die neueste Ausgabe des INFORMIX-Newsletters.

Inhaltsverzeichnis der Ausgabe:

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You decided...

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Neue Ausgabe des IBM/Informix Newsletters

Im Newsletter-Archiv befindet sich die neueste Ausgabe des INFORMIX-Newsletters.

Inhaltsverzeichnis der Ausgabe:

This article is written in English and Portuguese
Este artigo está escrito em Inglês e Português

English version:

The need...

BigInsights v1.3 released in Nov adds support for data exchange with Informix.
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/bigins/v1r3/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.swg.im.infosphere.biginsights.doc%2Fdoc%2Fwhatsnew.html

I received an email this morning with a link to a Linked-In post that pointed to someone's BLOG.  The Blogger was proposing a solution to a problem someone had presented to him at work that he thought was rather elegant and so posted it for the consumption and edification of the Linked-In community.  The problem:  In a single SQL statement register an attendee for an event unless the attendee is already registered for an overlapping event.  The solution was, to me, overly complex and absolutely non-portable in that it takes advantage of Oracle's conditional INSERT statement, so I said to mysel

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