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  • Admin-Scout 3.3 - Informix Enterprise Replication

    Admin-Scout 3.3
    Informix Enterprise Replication Module

    Informix ERInformix Enterprise Replication is a powerful way to replicate data assets across distributed installations and keep them consistent.

    With version 3.3, Admin-Scout helps Informix administrators to set up, configure and monitor Informix Enterprise Replications.

    This article provides an overview of Informix Enterprise Replication with our Admin-Scout for Informix.

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  • Admin-Scout 3.3 - Development and Release Steps

    Admin-Scout 3.3
    Development and Release Steps

    All changes up to Release 3.3
    of November 2022

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  • Admin-Scout 3.2 - Create individual users / test roles with the SQL Editor

    Admin-Scout 3.2
    Create individual users / Test roles with the SQL-Editor

    Informix compareCustomized use of the Admin-Scout thanks to the new role concept

    Whereas Admin-Scout previously only knew the default users "cursoradmin" and "openadmin", the new version 3.2 allows the creation of individual users. In combination with a dedicated assignment of rights on menu level, different roles can now be built up specifically.

    Checking role and rights concepts with the SQL-Editor

    Administrators have to deal with roles and access rights of database users. To make it possible to check the rights of a user, the new version allows to test accesses of the SQL-Editor under a different user name

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  • Admin-Scout 3.2 - New ONCONFIG Module

    Admin-Scout 3.2
    ONCONFIG Explorer

    Informix compareWith the ONCONFIG Explorer, Admin-Scout 3.2 offers a completely new module for managing ONCONFIG variables.

    The goal of our development was to clearly summarize the ONCONFIG variables in one place and to present all information related to selected variables.

    The ONCONFIG Explorer displays all ONCONFIG variables alphabetically sorted in a tree structure. A search field can be used to narrow down the number of hits.

    For all documented variables a help button supports the quick display of the reference entry from the manual.

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  • Admin-Scout 3.2 - New Storage Module

    Admin-Scout 3.2
    New Storage Module

    Informix compareThe entire storage administration clearly arranged in one module!

    Admin-Scout 3.2 offers a complete overhaul and restructuring of storage management. The new module combines storage administration and reporting in one menu item. Administrators are now able to see all storage objects immediately through a hierarchically sorted object tree. A simple click provides all relevant details, sensibly organized via individual tabs.

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  • Admin-Scout 3.2 - New module to compare DB objects

    Admin-Scout 3.2
    compare DB-objects

    Informix compareAdmin Scout 3.2 offers a long-awaited feature: easy comparison of the databases' structures in different instances.

    The new module compares the typical database objects such as tables, views, external tables, sequences functions and access rights, including the respective associated indexes, constraints and triggers.

    This premium feature increases productivity while matching and adapting database structures and objects.

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  • Admin-Scout 3.1 - Highlights for developers and administrators

    Admin-Scout 3.1 - Highlights for Developers and Admins

    Version 3.1 continues the journey to new functions for developers and administrators.
    Security UpdateDevelopment
    • Editing in multiple windows, parallel working with multi-tabs in the SQL-Editor.
    • SQL history accessible at any time.
    • Evaluation of dependencies and constraints for table objects.
    • Informix error numbers, direct access to IDs and descriptions.
    Administration
    • Database Explorer, auto generation of archecker scripts for table restore.
    • Locked tables, which sessions keep locks and which are waiting.
    • SSH shell to the server, now simply open via "shell in a box".
    Monitoring
    • Day- and Month-Reports, individual customization according to your personal requirements.
    • Performance checks, extended output with disk I/O per chunk.
    • Schema changes, logging with the new DDL-History2 Report.

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  • Admin-Scout 3.0 - Functional right from the start!

    Admin-Scout 3.0 - Functional right from the start!

    Admin-Scout 3.0 offers a completely revised design and up to 60% faster evaluations.
    Security UpdateRevised user interface

    The entire user interface of the Admin-Scout is designed more uniformly and with better performance. The access to configuration and server administration is clearly structured. Optimized table structures and scaling of the display, lead to a considerably faster page layout.

    New SQL Toolbox

    The version 3.0 impresses above all with the new SQL Toolbox with many powerful functions in the Database Explorer and SQL Editor. As a result the Admin-Scout offers more interesting functionalities for development and tuning of Informix databases.

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  • Admin-Scout 2.3 - New Scheduler Module

    Admin-Scout 2.3 - New Scheduler Module

    schweissen 600x400cWe asked the question, which areas of an Informix database system have to be administered manually and where is it possible to set up an automated administration? The goal is to achieve increasing automation and independent optimization of the system through an interaction of sensors and tasks.

    Informix provides an SQL API and corresponding commands as a basis for setting up tasks. If you are an Informix administrator and are rarely concerned with setting up and managing tasks and sensors, you will find that this can quickly become a complex challenge. Therefore, in the new version of our Admin-Scout, we have intensively addressed the topic of a task scheduler and developed a new Admin-Scout module for the administration of tasks and sensors.

    The new Admin-Scout 2.3 Scheduler module offers a centralized administration of all tasks and sensors

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  • Admin-Scout 2.3 - Overview new features in version 2.3

    Admin-Scout 2.3 - Overview new features in version 2.3

    Informix secure SSL connectionAlready in the last versions many improvements were introduced for the security of the Admin Scout. It was very important for us that during a login no more passwords are transferred between Admin-Scout and the browser.

    Version 2.3 continues our efforts to provide increased security against data spying between Informix Server and client or our Admin-Scout.

    Overview of the new features:
    • https port is now active - generating of a self-signed certificate.
    • Setting up an encrypted SSL connection on the database port.
    • Easier selection of instances - access to instances of different groups.
    • Autologon-Feature – automatic connection to a standard instance.
    • New Scheduler module - all Scheduler modules are now available in one place.
    • New module Cluster Configuration.
    • New module DBSpace Layout History.
    • Backup/Restore now with SQL Editor Files.
    • Additional reporting on the InformixHQ Monitoring Database.

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  • Admin-Scout 2.2 - Ready for Informix 14.10

    Admin-Scout 2.2 - Ready for Informix 14.10

    release 22 00 1080x360Important features for cluster configuration and better analysis of instances in a group
    Overview:
    • Informix Control Center (ICC) - Dashboard, new tabs and additional tooltips.
    • Better overview of Informix instances of a group.
    • Detailed overview of Informix cluster configurations.
    • Visualization without Adobe Flash (separate article).
    • New SQL editor with syntax highlight (separate article).
    • InformixHQ - Memory Requirements.

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  • Admin-Scout 2.2 - Now 100% Adobe Flash free!

    Admin-Scout 2.2 - Now 100% Adobe Flash free!

    • The CURSOR Service Distribution will release the new Admin-Scout Version 2.2 in March 2019.
    • The Admin-Scout 2.2 is the first release that is delivered without any Adobe Flash modules.
    Gießen, 22 February 2019

    For years, Adobe Flash was the first choice to visualize animations and sophisticated graphics in a browser. Due to recurring security issues, the use of Adobe Flash Player has long been discouraged. The IBM Informix OpenAdmin Tool also uses the Adobe Flash Player in some areas for the graphical representation of complex contexts.

    Security warnings and the end of support for the Adobe Flash Player, already announced for 2020, prompted us early on to switch the graphical interface of the Admin-Scouts to the Dojo Toolkit and HTML5. We have step by step converted all relevant modules. This involved the redesign of all charts and the elaborate redesign of important modules such as the SQL-Trace or the Storage-Module.

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  • Admin-Scout 1.4.4 - Dashboard Overview

    Admin-Scout 1.4.4 - the new dashboard, an overview

    Admin-Scout / the Dashboard OverviewThe Admins-Scout Dashboard is an extremely powerful and informative tool that gives you an overview of the state of your Informix servers
    • The Admin-Scout Dashboard is the central overview for important parameters and states.
      All Informix servers in a group are listed and the status of a server is displayed with icons.
    • The details of an instance are very useful for troubleshooting or for identifying optimization potentials. For example, it is very easy to find tables where indexes are missing or the index structure is not ideal.
    • In contrast to the OAT, the Admin-Scout offers the possibility to switch between the tabs - without waiting times and without having to start the reporting from the beginning.
    This article describes the Admin-Scout Dashboard and its individual sections.

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  • Admin-Scout 1.4.4 - DBSpaces and Storage Report

    Admin-Scout 1.4.4 - DBSpaces and Storage Report

    Admin-Scout DBSpaces and Storage ReportAn Admin-Scout feature for fast analysis of DBSpaces
    • DBSpaces - key data and workload at a glance
    • shows access, page I/O, read and write times
    • view details down to single a database
    • drill-down information down to chunk level
    • DBSpace history data for storage planning
    • The Admin-Scout Storage Report provides a basic overview of all DBSpaces.

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Fix list for Informix Server 14.10.xC9 release

Release Notes


Abstract

Informix Server provides periodic fixes for release 14.10. The following list is the most recent report of defect fixes for customer-reported defects in 14.10.xC9 releases. This report combines both Windows and UNIX-specific defect fixes, and is more current than the defect information included in the product release.

Content

Fix Pack 14.10.xC9

Fix release date: 21 October 2022

Status: Recommended

APAR

Abstract

IT32364

ONMODE -P START <SERVERNAME> on a port in use creates an assert warning instead of a simple error message

IT33601

DOC: ENCODEBASE64 FUNCTION SYNTAX IS WRONG

IT34407

WINDOWS: "STAT() FAILED FOR CHUNK FILE..." messages while creating a chunk larger tan 2GB

IT34842

Connection errors are not reported by drda-listener

IT36381

Exporting a backup from PSM with BACKUP_FILTER/RESTORE_FILTER reporting "(-43082) Writing to backup and restore filter failed"

IT37866

Various assertions seen in restorerow() on a nonlogged compressed interval rolling window table during a rollback of work

IT37894

HDR: Server crashes trying to change the type of an old primary to secondary with hdrmksec.sh if a logical log was not backed up

IT38830

COMPLEX QUERY WITH A MIX OF LEFT AND STANDARD joins CAUSE -768 IN OPJOIN

IT39100

MORE EXPLANATION IS NEEDED REGARDING WHAT AN ERROR OR WARNING IS (NEXT TO ONLINE.LOG IN SERVER STATUS)

IT39132

Informix HQ DBSchema SPF is displaying all the system defined functions and procedures in a user-defined database

IT39292

Running update statistics on a stored procedure that references a missing column throws error -217

IT39529

959/172 occurs when delete data from tables through synonyms

IT39652

count(distinct) over' in a 'case' statement with multiple 'when' clauses causing 768 in buildolapcol

IT39865

ONSMSYNC reports error 100 handling an older space from a different timeline, which does not exist

IT39982

On mode -c block or unblock on an empty RSS fails

IT40025

CDR sync REPL ON A TABLE IN A dbspace with 0 free pages can cause an AF on the target server

IT40075

"CDR DS CDRD_<##> THREAD IS ABORTING." messages with er target apply transaction aborts.

IT40127

"... FRAGMENT BY RANGE ... STORE IN" does not throw error -794 when dbspace does not exist

IT40128

"... FRAGMENT BY RANGE ...  STORE IN(D1, D2)" works when the dbspace have a different size page

IT40129

Conversion failed on RSS server when any logical log is not marked as backed up on RSS

IT40297

When online.log is empty Logs -> online log is throwing, "Could not position within a file via an index. "

IT40327

Query runs slower in 14.10 as compared to 11.50 with same distribution.

IT40423

"UDI Counter" doesn't seem to be useful

IT40493

AFTER A MODE CHANGE TO QUIESCENT/SINGLE-USER, CONNECTION MANAGER
NO LONGER ALLOWS DIRECT ACCESS TO THE SERVER

IT40516

Switching from secondary to primary role can hang in 'cond wait drcb_cond'

IT40623

Repack and shrink is not successful if table contains partition blobs with large addresses.

IT40736

Stressing shmtotal with disk_encryption turned on can crash server during physical or logical logging.

IT40737

Assert possible in ssc_link with stmt_cache enabled if shmtotal is stressed.

IT40738

A listen thread can assert mt_free_mutex call on already freed mutex and crash the server if SHMTOTAL stressed

IT40747

IN TIMESERIES AND VIRTUAL TABLE INSERT INTO TABLENAME SELECT * FROM TABLENAME WON'T POPULATE ANY ROW IN THE NEW TABLES USING SP

IT40774

-410 AFTER TRUNCATING A TABLE WITH INTERVAL FRAGMENTS WITH ATTACHED INDEXES WHEN TABLE WAS RUNNING OUT SPACE BEFORE

IT40805

AF on rss server after upgrade from 11.70 to 14.10.FC6.

IT40812

External table is not accepting "\" as an empty string when next field is TEXT

IT40822

MULTISET query produces memory leaks and crashes

IT40864

Error -768 on Table with count of rows > MAXINT

IT40875

Nested collection subquery returning empty with 'order by' on main query

IT40931

ONBAR -B -W -L 0 CAN FAIL WITH ERROR -131 DURING PARALLEL WORKLOAD ON THE DB SERVER

IT40932

Lock table in exclusive mode not propogated to rss/sds secondary.

IT40986

Enhancement for checkpoint processing

IT40999

Connection Manager throws syntax error in $INFORMIXDIR/etc/cmalarmprogram.sh on startup

IT41016

Defining DBSERVERNAME to create multiple listener threads is throwing Assert Warning

IT41041

Configuring multiple listen threads for an ONSOCTCP DBSERVER does not work

IT41114

Crash on ev_jnchar in a query with OLAP OVER (PARTITION BY) when aggregate function has a subquery

IT41138

HQ server writes to console

IT41196

Dropping an external table in a stored procedure can fail with -214/-106 when it is run with PDQ

IT41236

SIGBUS ASSERTION CRASH SEEN IN SQLISDRDAASCBGETDATAPTR WHEN USING DRDA AND AN INT8 PLACEHOLDERS

IT41351

Hash joins requiring overflow now failing with -208

IT41355

CLR SERVER CAN GET ASSERTION WHILE APPLYING LOG RECORDS PERASE AND PTRUNCATE DUE TO BREAK FLAG SET

IT41363

INFO when HQServer is started is displaying ssl.key.password in plain text

IT41365

AUS: AUS_CMD_ERR_SQL/AUS_CMD_ERR_ISAM IN AUS_COMMAND ARE NOT
FILLED PROPERLY

IT41368

HQ user interface might not show server information in a cluster setup with more DBSERVERALIAS

IT41374

Migrating H2 database for HQ 2.0.0 can corrupt H2 database

IT41405

INFO in HQ server logfile is still showing keystore password in plain text when intialAdminPassword commented out

IT41463

Query on columns sql_hvar_type and sql_hvar_data of table syssqltrace_hvar shows invalid information

IT41564

Syscluster entries are not consistent when HDR is defined between DBSERVERALIASES servers

IT41586

CDR CHECK REPL FAILS WITH "COMMAND FAILED -- WARNING: REPLICATE IS NOT IN SYNC (178)" FOR LOOPBACK REPLICATE.

IT41587

Command "cdr list catalog -r" should include option "--erkey" if the replicate was created with that option

IT41634

Assertion crash in doinsert

IT41708

Writing a shared memory dump with many shared memory segments causes exception recursion

IT41722

InformixHQ:  Clicking Performance -> Sessions -> Session ID hangs and throws "An attempt was made to divide by zero" exception

IT41728

Possible wrong results by using a compressed index depending upon isolation level

IT41816

SQL with "CONNECT BY" clause throws error -264 Could not write to a temporary file. / ISAM Error -112

IT41844

Onsmsync exits with 0x3 (Aborted) when exporting cloud (AWS) with split objects into multiple pieces.

IT41941

Backup data version is not compatible with Online version if using STDIO within different Special Build versions

IT42087

Onstat -g laq potentially showing garbage latency value


Document Information

Component:
Informix Publications->14.10

Software version:
14.10.0

Operating system(s):
AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Mac OS, Solaris, Windows

Document number:
6832820

Modified date:
03 November 2022

UID

ibm16832820