IBM Informix Announcement Letters
Ankündigungsschreiben der IBM
Die IBM Announcement Letters sind verbindliche Mitteilungen der IBM zur Positionierung, der Lizenzierung und für den Vertrieb der Produkte.
Die IBM Announcement Letters sind verbindliche Mitteilungen der IBM zur Positionierung, der Lizenzierung und für den Vertrieb der Produkte.
IBM Informix Advanced Enterprise Edition Cartridge für IBM Cloud Pak for Data 14.10 und IBM Informix Advanced Enterprise Edition Modernization 14.10 unterstützen Kunden bei der Modernisierung auf Cloud-native Architekturen, beschleunigen die hybride Multi-Cloud-Bereitstellung und verbessern die Verwaltung von IBM Cloud Pack for Data.
Das neue Angebot wird ausschließlich über Virtual Processor Cores (VPC) lizenziert, Trade-Up von Informix Advanced Enterprise (PVU) oder (VPC) ist möglich.
Für einige ältere Informix Server bzw. Informix Tool Versionen, endet der IBM Support zum 30. September 2020. Bitte beachten Sie hierzu auch das Announcement ZP19-0171, vom 9. April 2019 mit der Abkündigung der Informix 11.7.x Versionen.
Progr. ID | Name | Version | End-of-Service | |
5724-C23 | IBM Informix Client Software Development Kit | 3.70.x | 30. Sept. 2020 | |
5724-C24 | IBM Informix Connect | 3.50.x and 3.70.x | 30. Sept. 2020 | |
5724-C24 | IBM Informix Connect Runtime | 3.0.0, 3.50.x, and 3.70.x | 30. Sept. 2020 | |
5724-C45 | IBM Informix Choice Edition | 11.7.x | 30. Sept. 2020 | |
5724-C55 | IBM Informix SQL | 7.50.x | 30. Sept. 2020 | |
5724-C59 | IBM Informix Image Foundation DataBlade | 2.00.x | 30. Sept. 2020 | |
5724-C66 | IBM Informix 4GL Rapid Development System | 7.50.x | 30. April 2020 | |
5724-C66 | IBM Informix 4GL Complier | 7.50.x | 30. April 2020 | |
5724-C66 | IBM Informix 4GL Interactive Debugger | 7.50.x | 30. April 2020 | |
5724-C67 | IBM Informix ESQL/C | 5.20.x | 30. April 2020 | |
5724-I35 | IBM Informix 4GL Rapid Development System | 3.70.x | 30. April 2020 | |
5724-C41 | IBM Informix C-ISAM | 7.25.x | 30. April 2020 |
Mit dem 137 Seiten umfassenden Announcement vom 9. April 2019, kündigt IBM für eine Vielzahl von Produkten neue End-of-Marketing (EOM) und End-of-Support (EOS) Termine an. Davon betroffen sind auch die Informix 11.7.x Versionen und die Informix Advanced Workgroup Edition 12.10.
Für die 11.7.x Versionen stehen als Nachfolger Informix 12.10 oder Informix 14.10 zur Verfügung.
Progr. ID | Name | Version | End-of-Service | Replacement |
5725-D14 | IBM Informix Ultimate Warehouse Edition | 11.7.x | 30. Sept. 2020 | 14.1 |
5725-A39 | IBM Informix Ultimate Edition | 11.7.x | 30. Sept. 2020 | 14.1 |
5725-A40 | IBM Informix Growth Edition | 11.7.x | 30. Sept. 2020 | 14.1 |
5724-Z04 | IBM Informix Express Edition | 11.7.x | 30. Sept. 2020 | 14.1 |
5724-C41 | IBM Informix CISAM | 7.24.x | 30. April 2020 | 7.25 |
5724-C43 | IBM Informix SE | 7.24.x | 30. April 2020 | 7.25 |
5724-C55 | IBM Informix SQL | 7.32.x | 30. April 2020 | 7.50 |
5724-C66 | IBM Informix 4GL Complier | 7.32.x | 30. April 2020 | 7.50 |
5724-C66 | IBM Informix 4GL Rapid Development System | 7.32.x | 30. April 2020 | 7.50 |
5724-D27 | IBM Informix DataBlade Workgroup bundle | 1.0.x | 30. April 2020 | No replacement |
IBM Informix V14.10 bietet eine leistungsstarke, zuverlässige und kostengünstige Datenplattform für unternehmenskritische Geschäftsumgebungen. Informix V14.10 baut auf seinem leistungsstarken Funktionsumfang mit neuen Funktionen und Verbesserungen in verschiedenen Bereichen auf, darunter Unterstützung für Online-Transaktionsverarbeitung (OLTP) und Replikations-Workloads, Zeitreihen und Geodaten sowie Verbesserungen der Datensicherheit. Informix bietet weiterhin optimierte Leistung und Zuverlässigkeit in einer kostengünstigen und einfach zu verwaltenden Datenbankplattform, die für die kontinuierliche Verfügbarkeit kritischer Datenressourcen ausgelegt ist.
IBM Informix V14.10:
• Verbessert die Leistung von Secondary-backups und OLTP-Transaktionen
• Bietet höhere Sicherheit für Verschlüsselungscodes und Transport Layer Security (TLS)
• Verbessert die Benutzerfreundlichkeit, rationalisiert die Verwaltung und erhöht die Verfügbarkeit
• Bietet ein neues grafisches Verwaltungstool - InformixHQ
• Verbessert die Unicode-Unterstützung auf aktuelle V11-Spezifikationen
• Verbessert die Granularität von Zeitreihen und räumliche Projektionssysteme
• Aktualisiert die Plattformunterstützung auf die aktuellen 64-Bit-Betriebssystemstufen
• Anhebung der Hardwarelimitierungen für die Workgroup Edition
• Enthält Storage-Optimization für die Enterprise Edition
Overview:
IBM IoT Building Insights is a solution designed for collecting sensor data, performing robust analytics, and enabling better decision making in connected buildings. Through the collection, analysis, and storage of a building's sensor data, owners and operators gain actionable insights to optimize building performance and management for financial and regulatory requirements.
As a robust, scalable, and flexible IoT platform, IoT Building Insights creates value along the entire building transformation journey for both new construction and retrofits.
• Collect, store, and analyze data across an entire global enterprise.
• View accurate contextual map of an enterprise's vitals.
• Develop brand-differentiating experiences in buildings through augmented intelligence.
• Advance extensive experience in real estate and facility management.
• Perform global and large-scale delivery.
Clients can also purchase non-production environment Instances of IBM IoT Building Insights. The non-production Instance can be used to test and prove value in the solution, test connecting devices of any type, and to run proof of concepts. Each non-production Instance can support up to 10 client devices. If the client wishes to increase the number of devices, they must deploy the production offering.
Part of this withdrawal:
Informix Workgroup Limited Use Socket License from marketing
D0D1WLL
IBM Informix WRKGRP Edition
CPU Option Limited Use Socket License + SW Subscription & Support 12 Months
December 12, 2017
No replacement
D0D1XLL
IBM Informix WRKGRP Edition
CPU Option Limited Use Socket SW Subscription & Support Reinstatement 12 Months
December 12, 2017
No replacement
Overview:
With IBM(R) IoT Service Offerings, IBM provides remote consulting based on the IBM Design Thinking methodology to help you identify Internet of Things (IoT) solution areas that have the greatest value. Design Thinking is the IBM approach to developing solutions at the speed and scale the modern enterprise demands. It is a framework for teaming and action.
IBM IoT Service Offerings consists of two offerings:
• In the IBM IoT Design Thinking Workshop, IBM will help you identify your highest-priority IoT use cases and define a minimum viable product (MVP).
• With the IBM IoT MVP Build-up, IBM will help you validate your IoT solution and create an implementation plan for your MVP.
These offerings are delivered remotely.
IBM Informix for Big Data bundle offers improved data analytics and management experience with IBM Informix V12.10 and IBM BigInsights V4.2
Overview
IBM Informix for Big Data is a software bundle that delivers two powerful product licensing options in a single offering. With their combined data management and analytical capabilities, IBM Informix V12.10 and IBM BigInsights V4.2 offer deployment flexibility and investment protection. Data intensive organizations are seeking transformative capabilities to accelerate their end to end analytics lifecycle to drive differentiation and competitive advantage. At the same time, funds are limited and any data management investments need to be effective, reliable, affordable, and future proof. IBM Informix for Big Data V1.0 delivers two powerful product licensing options in a single offering that provides clients the flexibility and agility to deploy both Informix and BigInsights as they choose to meet the analytical needs of their current and future business environments.
This single offering provides clients the flexibility to deploy:
IBM Informix on Cloud gives you the ability to speed innovation and save costs by choosing a cloud deployment for your workloads
At a glance
IBM Informix on Cloud delivers all of the capabilities of the Informix Advanced Enterprise server deployed in on-premises configurations but without the time and expense of a hardware purchase, system administration, and management. The cloud-delivered Informix server will be configured for OLTP workloads and also includes entitlement to Informix Warehouse Accelerator (IWA) that delivers incredible query acceleration through columnar, compressed, in-memory technology.
Description
IBM Informix Advanced Enterprise on Cloud offers the powerful feature set of Informix on-premises deployments without the cost, complexity, and risk of managing your own infrastructure.
Based on the Informix Advanced Enterprise edition, Informix on Cloud comes with a preconfigured instance configured for OLTP with storage optimization enabled and includes licensing for the Informix Warehouse Accelerator (IWA).
SPSS and Cognos are not included but are available as services on IBM Bluemix® that can be utilized with the Informix on Cloud offering.
Use of this offering reduces the time required for provisioning and deploying Informix so that application programming resources can focus on developing new solutions and innovation and database administrators retain full administrative control of their database environment.
Informix on Cloud includes the following optional services:
These setup services deliver 50 hours of remote consulting time so that organizations get expert guidance with setup activities and quickly get productive use of one or more software as a service (SaaS) offerings. Organizations can easily obtain expert assistance to become operational at the time of SaaS signup.
Effective on the dates shown, IBM will withdraw from support the following programs licensed under the IBM International Program License Agreement:
Program number VRM Withdrawal from support date Program name
5725-H01 All April 30, 2017 INFORMIX ENTERPRISE HYPERVISOR EDITION FOR RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX SERVER
5725-H00 All April 30, 2017 INFORMIX ENTERPRISE HYPERVISOR ENTERPRISE EDITION FOR AIX
5725-A38 11.5.0 April 30, 2018 ELITE SUPPORT FOR INFORMIX INNOVATOR-C EDITION
5725-A40 11.5.0 April 30, 2018 INFORMIX WORKGROUP EDITION
5725-A39 11.5.0 April 30, 2018 INFORMIX ENTERPRISE EDITION
5724-Z04 11.5.0 April 30, 2018 INFORMIX EXPRESS EDITION
5724-Z04 11.5.0 April 30, 2018 INFORMIX EXPRESS EDITION CPU OPTION
5724-C19 All April 30, 2018 INFORMIX XPS
5724-C29 All April 30, 2017 INFORMIX EXCALIBUR TEXT SEARCH DATABLADE
5724-C64 All April 30, 2017 INFORMIX VIDEO FOUNDATION DATABLADE
5724-C32 All April 30, 2017 INFORMIX I-SPY
5724-C56 All April 30, 2017 INFORMIX MAXCONNECT
5724-C18 All April 30, 2017 RED BRICK ENTERPRISE EDITION
Effective on the dates shown, IBM will withdraw from marketing the following programs licensed under the IBM International Program License Agreement:
Program number VRM Withdrawal from marketing date Program name
5725-H01 All April 12, 2016 INFORMIX ENTERPRISE HYPERVISOR EDITION FOR RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX SERVER
5725-H00 All April 12, 2016 INFORMIX ENTERPRISE HYPERVISOR ENTERPRISE EDITION FOR AIX
5724-C19 All July 18, 2016 INFORMIX XPS
5725-A40 11.5.0 July 18, 2016 INFORMIX WRKGRP EDITION
5725-A39 11.5.0 July 18, 2016 INFORMIX ENTERPRISE EDITION
5724-Z04 11.5.0 July 18, 2016 INFORMIX EXPRESS EDITION
5724-Z04 11.5.0 July 18, 2016 INFORMIX EXPRESS EDITION CPU OPTION
Effective on dates shown, IBM(R) will withdraw from marketing and withdraw from support the following programs licensed under the IBM International Program License Agreement: IBM Informix Genero - Program number 5725-D13
IBM Informix Genero, an application development environment that helps customers create innovative database applications and modernize existing 4GL code, is a product IBM offers through an OEM relationship with its partner Four Js. To better serve clients and deliver the latest Genero enhancements to them in the most timely manner, IBM is entering a new delivery phase of this product. Effective September 1, 2015, IBM will transfer the sale of Genero licenses to Four Js. Support for current customers will continue to be available from IBM until September 30, 2016. IBM considers Genero to be the best path forward for customers wishing to modernize Informix 4GL applications.
Effective July 1, 2015, IBM® is announcing a worldwide price harmonization across the software product portfolio.
Passport Advantage® Express Suggested Retail Prices (SRP) and Passport Advantage Suggested Volume Prices (SVP), as applicable, for the following categories of products, are included in this announcement:
For most products, the following price harmonization changes will apply:
Effective July 15, 2015 IBM will withdraw several Informix Datablade Modules, Red Brick Software and additional Informix Software from marketing, and effective April 30, 2016, withdraw from support.
Informix Client SDK is a supporting program for Informix database servers in the following Informix editions: Informix Advanced Enterprise Edition, Informix
Enterprise Edition, Informix Advanced Developer Edition, Informix Workgroup Edition, Informix Advanced Workgroup Edition, and Informix Express(R) Edition.
Customers with these Informix servers under a support contract are entitled to obtain support for Client SDK as part of their server support when Informix Client SDK is used to access the Informix server.
A previous announcement that removed Client SDK as a supporting program from some server versions, Software Announcement ZP11-0567, dated December 13, 2011, is decommitted.
You are entitled to obtain support for Client SDK at or above the version specified in your server license when Informix Client SDK is used to access the Informix server.
The Client SDK product will continue to be available as part of the Hosting products.
The code was never pulled from the DVDs that make up the Informix product orderables.
The Advanced Developer Edition V12.10, based on IBM® Informix® Advanced Enterprise Edition V12.10, is licensed in a way that matches requirements for preproduction development activities. Specifically, it is licensed to use the Authorized User metric so that a customers can name users to do the pre-production activities, such as testing, performance evaluation, and quality assurance, before deploying applications in production based on Informix.
Effective May, 2013, Informix is no longer included in the Database Developer Edition. For details, refer to Software Announcement ZP13-0191, dated March 26, 2013. This new edition provides both a path for new customers of Informix and previous customers who use the Database Developer Edition want to move to the latest Informix edition. As needed, existing entitlements of Database Developer Edition and associated support may be exchanged for Informix Advanced Developer Edition at a 1:1 Authorized User ratio.
The Informix Advanced Developer Edition contains the features of IBM Informix Advanced Enterprise Edition with a new software license that restricts usage to nonproduction
activities. On an Authorized User basis, the license permits customers to evaluate and test all features of Informix.
Software withdrawal: IBM Informix Genero Runtime for Growth Edition, Redbrick Gold Bundles, C-ISAM Datablade, Data Director for Web, NET Concurrent Session, and Office Connect, IBM InfoSphere Warehouse Advanced Edition, and IBM HRF for DB2 Enterprise Server Edition
Withdrawal from marketing and/or support for selected parts:
Please read the announcement for part and product details.
The terms and conditions in the software license for various Informix editions are revised to improve clarity and remove certain restrictions on the use of the products.
Informix Advanced Workgroup Edition:
Informix Advanced Enterprise Edition:
The Informix Warehouse Accelerator component can be used in conjunction with another Advanced edition.
Informix Workgroup Edition, Informix Innovator-C Edition, Informix Express Edition:
Partitioning is no longer mentioned in the license. Partitioning entitlement remains enforced in the product, as before.
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IBM Informix Software withdrawal selected products
Effective November 12, 2013 , IBM will withdraw from marketing the following products licensed under the IBM nternational Program License Agreement. A replacement product and availability date is listed if one is available.
Informix Choice Edition is being discontinued. Clients with existing Informix Choice Edition entitlements will have their entitlements automatically migrated to Informix Growth Edition. Clients requiring a migration to an product should contact their renewal representative.
The Floating User Single Session Single Install (FUSI) licensing metric is being discontinued. Clients with existing entitlements based on the FUSI metric will automatically be converted to the Authorized User Single Install (AUSI) metric at the rate of two AUSI's per FUSI. Clients requiring a migration to an alternate metric or product should contact their renewal representative.
The JDBC driver is being discontinued as a standalone product. Clients with existing entitlements for the JDBC driver will be automatically migrated to the Client SDK, which now includes the JDBC driver.
Overview:
IBM Informix Enterprise Hypervisor Edition V12.10 continues to support the deployment of Informix Enterprise Edition database server by IBM PureApplicationTM System and VMware ESX environments managed by IBM Workload Deployer.
Informix Enterprise Hypervisor Edition V12.10 combines IBM Informix Enterprise Edition and supported operating systems, and is optimized for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server and AIX . It can take the form of a single database server or a member of a cluster of database servers.
By deploying and running Informix Enterprise Hypervisor Edition in virtualized environments, you can better utilize hardware, which may ultimately reduce hardware, power, cooling, and real estate costs. Increased hardware utilization allows a single machine to be partitioned into multiple smaller virtual machines, each of which can run an instance of Informix Enterprise Hypervisor Edition.
IBM Informix V12.10 provides a powerful, reliable, and low-cost data platform for mission-critical business environments. Informix V12.10 builds on the proven capability of Informix with improvements in all areas, including support for online transaction processing (OLTP) and analytic workloads, IBM Informix TimeSeries and spatial data, and enhancements to Flexible Grid. Informix continues to provide the highest possible levels of performance and reliability in a cost-effective and simple to administer platform that is ideal if you need continuous availability of critical data resources.:
IBM Informix V12.10 delivers new functions, increases integration between functions particularly IBM Informix Warehouse Accelerator and IBM Informix TimeSeries, and retains expected levels of reliability. It delivers new levels of performance for both online transaction processing (OLTP) and analytic workloads. The Informix high availability features have significant enhancements. Taken as a whole, V12.10 helps you more efficiently meet business requirements and helps partners grow with minimal complexity as well as helps lower computing costs.
IBM® Informix® V12.10:
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Overview:
IBM Informix V12.10 provides a powerful, reliable, and low-cost data platform for mission-critical business environments. Informix V12.10 builds on the proven capability of Informix with improvements in all areas, including support for online transaction processing (OLTP) and analytic workloads, IBM Informix TimeSeries and spatial data, and enhancements to Flexible Grid. Informix continues to provide the highest possible levels of performance and reliability in a cost-effective and simple to administer platform that is ideal if you need continuous availability of critical data resources.
IBM® Informix® V12.10:
• Solves the Big Data challenge of sensor data, such as RFIDs, smart meters, and builting sensors
• Enhances performance for both online transaction processing (OLTP) and analytic workloads
• Provides easy-to-use interface to smart devices when on the go
• Makes it much easier to move applications from other database systems
• Reduces cost and risk for private cloud and distributed enterprise deployments via enhancements to Flexible Grid technology
• Provides new SQL compatibility with other leading database systems making it much easier to port applications to Informix and take advantage of the power and cost savings of Informix
• Is easier to embed in applications and devices
• Makes deployment simpler
• Delivers enhanced warehouse management infrastructure for increased manageability and performance
• Contains integration and simplification of management and administration
Optimizes Informix Ultimate Edition V11.70 for deployment into virtualized environments
Provides an Informix Hypervisor with deployed functionality on Red Hat Enterprise Linux™ Server for the IBM Enterprise Linux Server and AIX®
Overview
IBM Informix Hypervisor Edition V11.70 is a combination of IBM Informix Edition and an operating system optimized to run in server virtualization environments, enabling higher hardware utilization, while allowing you to spend less time on installation and configuration, and more time on strategic initiatives. Informix Hypervisor Edition helps you rapidly deploy Informix database servers and the associated operating system. Informix Edition V11.70 gives you more deployment options and enhanced management capabilities for server virtualization environments across different virtualization technologies.
Effective on the dates listed below, IBM® will withdraw from marketing, part numbers from the following product releases licensed under the IBM International Program License Agreement (...)
IBM Informix Genero, a 4GL solution, is compatible with existing Informix 4GL and provides a cost-effective path to modernize Informix 4GL applications through a graphical user interface, usually with minimal changes to existing code. Informix Genero V2.40 introduces enhancements that improve compatibility with Informix 4GL, as well as extend web development capabilities with the introduction of a new HTML5 theme that integrates well with a greatly enhanced Microsoft Silverlight template. Additional enhancements to the included Informix Genero Studio development environment component allows for application modelling with improved user navigation for its business application modeller and application generator, enabling developers to more easily create new applications. (...)
Overview:
IBM Informix Growth Warehouse Edition is a high-performance offering for delivering dramatically faster analytic query responses transparently to users when compared to an existing Informix environment without the capabilities available with the Informix Growth Warehouse Edition. It integrates into an IBM Informix data warehouse environment, providing high-performance query software that is based on advanced in-memory technology at an affordable price.
IBM Informix Growth Warehouse Edition consists of the following components:
• IBM Informix Growth Edition
• IBM Informix Warehouse Accelerator
IBM Informix Growth Warehouse Edition V11.7 provides:
• Faster query response times on unpredictable and long-running query workloads
• Help in lowering operating costs by reducing database tuning efforts
• Improved performance on analytical queries compared to your existing Informix environment
• The ability to run mixed workloads
Overview:
IBM Informix Ultimate Warehouse Edition is a high-performance offering for IBM Informix, delivering dramatically faster analytic query responses transparently to users when compared to an existing Informix environment without the capabilities available with the Informix Ultimate Warehouse Edition. It integrates into an IBM Informix data warehouse environment, providing high-performance query software that is based on advanced in-memory technology.
The IBM Informix Ultimate Warehouse Edition consists of the following components:
• IBM Informix Ultimate Edition
• IBM Informix Warehouse Accelerator
• IBM Informix Storage Optimization Feature
IBM Informix Ultimate Warehouse Edition addresses the following client challenges:
• Long-running queries with unpredictable response time that do not allow for adhoc processing
• Need for DBA to tune the system, with increasingly inadequate results, due to the ad hoc, unpredictable nature of the data warehouse / analytical requests
• Leveraging the same database server environment for mixed workloads
Informix Ultimate Warehouse Edition provides:
• Faster query response times on unpredictable and long-running query workloads
• Help in lowering operating costs by reducing database tuning efforts
• Improved performance on analytical queries compared to your existing Informix environment
• The ability to run mixed workloads
Overview:
Informix V11.70 provides a powerful, reliable, scalable, secure and low-cost data platform for mission-critical business requirements. Informix V11.70 provides capabilities for better workload management, resource utilization, warehouse and security management as required by multi-tenant applications and service-oriented architecture (SOA) environments today for 24x7x365 operation.
Informix V11.70 delivers functions, values and quality. It delivers newlevels of performance, availability, and autonomy that will help meet customer's modern business requirements and help partners grow with minimal complexity and lower computing costs.
Informix V11.70 offers:
• More Flexibility: Informix V11.70 offers more options and choices to scale capacity, and to better manage and utilize resources. Further, Informix V11.70
provides new interoperability with several open source tools, bringing a broad set of choices for application development.
• Higher Reliability: Informix V11.70 offers enhanced autonomics and greater automation including during failure recovery.
• Higher Performance: With Informix V11.70, business transactions run faster and analytic queries run up to 50% faster than before.
• Greater Efficiency: With the ability to better utilize existing hetergenous infrastructure, an automated task scheduler, higher performance and further reduced administration requirements, Informix V11.70 offers a higher level of efficiency.
New in Informix V11.70:
Overview:
New IBM Informix editions are now available to help deploy highly scalable, more reliable, and embeddable solutions at lower cost for mid-market and large enterprise business solutions.
IBM Informix Growth Edition V11.50
Informix Growth Edition is a high performance, more reliable, easier-to-administer edition of the Informix family that helps mid-market partners and businesses develop and deploy business solutions. Features include HDR, Enterprise Replication, SQL Warehousing Tool, Label Based Access Control, and clustering up to three nodes. These features enable a road spectrum of application and solution development.
IBM Informix Ultimate Edition
Informix Ultimate Edition provides enhanced capabilities over Informix Growth Edition, including capabilities required to run enterprise-level business applications. The Storage Optimization Feature (for Compression) is available as an option and may be purchased separately.
New no-charge editions
The following no-charge editions are now available as separate offerings subject to the IBM International License Agreement for Non-warranted Programs (ILAN).
IBM Informix Innovator-C Edition V11.50
Informix Innovator-C Edition is a no-charge, non-warranted production-ready, community-edition data server that is designed to help developers, mid-market partners, ISVs, and small businesses accelerate time to value and reduce total cost of ownership. Informix Innovator-C Edition is part of the IBM Informix data server family that is designed to support autonomic administration, higher performance, and greater reliability. It includes the powerful Enterprise Replication feature that helps replicate data between two Informix Innovator-C Edition installations for scalability and availability. It also includes Informix HDR with a warm or hot standby node for automatic failover.
IBM Informix Ultimate-C Edition for Windows® and Mac OS X
Informix Ultimate-C Edition for Windows and Mac OS X is a no-charge, nonwarranted, feature-rich edition for Microsoft® Windows and Mac OS X developers, solution providers, and ISVs. Features include Partitioning, Parallel features, HDR, Enterprise Replication, SQL Warehousing Tool, Label Based Access Control, and clustering up to two nodes. The Ultimate-C Edition brings database server capabilities to the mid-market, helping customers and partners develop solutions more easily and quickly.
Overview:
The Advanced Access Control Feature (ACCF) option is now included with the Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) Enterprise and Workgroup Editions V11.50 at no additional charge. The ACCF gives customers finer granularity of access controls to help protect sensitive and private data. Customers may create label-based access controls on sensitive and private data, facilitating management of data accesses. Access control can be defined at different levels from table to column, row, and even to specific data cells.
Businesses and governments with medium and enterprise size deployments on the IDS Enterprise and Workgroup Editions may more easily support security regulatory compliance efforts with the ACCF, using label-based access controls while helping to keep their infrastructure costs lower.
Overview:
IBM Informix Warehouse V11.50 brings to Informix customers a platform for integrated warehouse infrastructure with IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS), delivering data warehouse capabilities to business end users to optimize their business in real-time.
Informix Warehouse V11.50 is bundled with IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) V11.50xC4 and Informix Warehouse Feature V11.50. Informix Warehouse provides you with a warehouse platform with integrated tooling to help transform operational data; to build, deploy, operate, and maintain a data warehouse; and to deliver the managed information assets globally.
Integrated warehouse tooling capabilities include the Informix Warehouse Feature with:
Overview:
IBM Informix Warehouse Feature V11.50 offers Informix customers a platform for integrated warehouse tooling with the IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) V11.50xC3 release, delivering warehouse infrastructure to help customers extend and simplify their data into information assets to optimize their business performance in near real-time.
Informix Warehouse Feature provides you with integrated tooling to transform operational data; to build, deploy, operate, and maintain a data warehouse, and delivers the managed information assets globally. The Informix Warehouse Feature includes the SQL Warehouse (SQW) component, which offers the following:
Overview:
IBM Informix™ Dynamic Server (IDS) V11.50 addresses today's mission-critical business needs with legendary reliability, blazing speed, hands-free administration, and lowest total cost of ownership. IDS provides 24x7x365 global availability, integration of business data across the enterprise worldwide, and a secure, resilient, and agile information-management system for your valuable information assets.
IDS V11.50 offers low-cost, scalable, and simple-to-deploy multinode active clusters for high-availability (MACH 11) data servers for business continuity, scalability, and security.
Overview:
IBM Informix™ Dynamic Server (IDS) V11.10 addresses today's mission critical business needs with legendary reliability, blazing speed, and low total cost of ownership. IDS provides 24 x 7 x 365 global availability, integration of business data across the enterprise worldwide, and a secure, resilient, and agile information management system for your valuable information assets.
Resilient data server for business continuity and security IDS V11.10 enhances support for business continuity. The IDS Continuous Availability feature provides support for cluster solutions, scalability to meet growing business demands, and failover recovery from any node to ensure continuous business operations. IDS creates a fail-safe multi-site global availability plan while maximizing IT investment. Use Continuous Log Restore to recover to a backup server. IDS V11.10 enhances Enterprise Replication (ER) performance and dynamic administration, and delivers seamless and near real-time data replication to any server across your enterprise. The Advanced Access Control feature offers cell, column, and row level label-based access control for more secured data access.
Overview:
Sub-capacity licensing is a strategic IBM offering within the On Demand portfolio. It lets you license selected IBM products for use on less than the full-processor capacity of your machine, when they are used within one or more partitions. For a list of partitioning technologies supported under sub-capacity licensing terms, refer to Software Announcement 206-090, dated April 25, 2006.
In addition, the names of all IDS Enterprise Unlimited Editions have been changed to IDS Enterprise Unlimited Users Editions to clarify existing terms in the product name itself. This is a name change only. Licensing and terms and conditions are unaffected.
Overview:
IBM Informixä Dynamic Server (IDS) V10.0 offers outstanding online transaction processing (OLTP) database performance while helping customers simplify and automate many of the tasks associated with deploying enterprise databases. IDS V10.0 contains features that speed application development, increase performance, improve data security, make replication more robust, and further ease the burden of database administration. Organizations can now free up skilled database administrator (DBA) resources and leverage their existing investment to focus on next-generation enterprise applications.
Highlights of IDS V10.0 include:
Overview:
IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) V9.4:
· Delivers the performance and reliability needed for always available, global, Web application-based OLTP
· Allows more business to be done with fewer resources, saving time and money
· Allows unlimited scalability through the removal of previous size limitations
· Maximizes data operations for the workgroup and the global enterprise through enhanced replication capabilities
· Provides the ease of use, self-management, and embedded features needed to support Business Partners and their next-generation applications
· Improves usability for developers and system administrators by including Server Studio JE from AGS to allow SQL Editing and Schema exploration
The following Informixä products are now available through IBMs Passport Advantage offering:
Overview:
Selected Informixä products have been added to IBMs Passport Advantage program to support IBMs commitment of fully integrating Informix in the IBM Data Management family. The Passport Advantage program enables worldwide volume licensing of software from IBM, including DB2, WebSphere, Lotus, and Tivoli . This complete, flexible offering covers licenses and Software Maintenance for IBM distributed products.
The following Informix products are now available through IBMs Passport Advantage offering:
Overview:
IBM Informix Dynamic Server 7 (IDS7):
· Delivers superior reliability which meets the needs of todays demanding e-business environment — particularly for applications requiring high-performance transactions
· Supports complex and rigorous online transaction processing requirements
· Optimizes competitive business intelligence capabilities
· Maximizes data operations for the workgroup and the global enterprise
· Provides a proven, best-of-breed database
IDS7 is available in three configuration options:
Overview:
Informix information management solutions are open, scalable, manageable, and fully extensible, providing the kind of flexibility that is essential for growing organizations. From data warehousing, to analysis and decision support, to Web content delivery, Informix products are engineered to enable todays businesses to efficiently manage any kind of information, anywhere, and at any time.
With this announcement, the following Informix products are available through IBMs Passport Advantage offering: