Just a quick reminder of next week's UKIUG meeting near Bicester on the 13th.

Details here.

The idsteam blog has a couple of posts on working with locales, here and here.

I was doing a search for some information on the web when I hit the following page:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/im/Informix+Solution+Por...

This is the Informix Solution Portal. It includes links to:

It also includes information on the IDS business partner program and a link with information on how to join the solution portal.

There is an article here about upgrading from earlier versions to 11.50. Unfortunately, it seems that upgrading 11.10 to 11.50 specifically is not straightforward on Windows.

I understand that this is "enjoying urgent attention" for the 11.50.xC4 release.

There is an article here about upgrading from earlier versions to 11.50. Unfortunately, it seems that upgrading 11.10 to 11.50 specifically is not straightforward on Windows.

I understand that this is "enjoying urgent attention" for the 11.50.xC4 release.

Informix has a very nice utility called "finderr" that takes an SQL error code and returns a meaningful message describing the problem. oninit have made a nice online utility available on their website, making it easy to access "finderr" messages using your PDA or smartphone.

Simply go to www.oninit.com/&LT error number &GT where the error number is the positive number. So for example, for error -201, you would go to www.oninit.com/201, which returns:

201 A syntax error has occurred.

Informix has a very nice utility called "finderr" that takes an SQL error code and returns a meaningful message describing the problem. oninit have made a nice online utility available on their website, making it easy to access "finderr" messages using your PDA or smartphone.

Simply go to www.oninit.com/&LT error number &GT where the error number is the positive number.

IOD 2008 is now over. as I mentioned in my blog during the conference, there was a lot of interesting content. And that was just in the Informix track. Many other sessions in other tracks are relevant to Informix since we can use Informix with the other Information management products. Now, if I only had the time to go over all the sessions to see what's interesting...

Overall, this was a great conference to attend for the sessions and for the interactions with customers, partners, and IBMers.

Waiting at McCarran airport in a contemplative frame of mind for a flight back to Portland afforded some time to reflect on the recently completed IOD 2008 conference..



Sadly I did not get to attend as many talks or keynotes as I would have liked to this week, having had multifarious
activities to work on or prepare for every day, but the main themes of the
conference for me were...

Virtualization and Virtual Worlds

We announced the IDS 11.50 Developer Edi

Fernando Nunes has a summary of new features at his blog. Some cool stuff I like the sound of:

• Implementation of SAVEPOINTsSAVEPOINTS are an SQL standard that allows the programmer to establish some points after the begin of a transaction to where he can ROLLBACK. Imagine that you're running a batch file, processing several customers in a FOREACH cycle. You may want to do all the customers as a unit, so you would COMMIT at the end.