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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.xC9W1 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 W1 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 W1

Fix release date: 02 Feb 2023

Status: Recommended

APAR

Abstract

IT39132

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

IT42471

'onaudit' -f <loadfile> returns "Badly formatted mask/role/event definition at line 1" starting with 14.10.FC9

IT42470

 Upgrade of an instance with audit on and DBDELIMITER env var set to not "|" fail in sysmaster build

IT42531

'cdr' sync/check replset --allrepl --background  crashing the database server

IT42497

Error Code -528 (maximum output row size (32767) exceeded) is thrown when SQL is returning 17 multisets

IT40423

 "UDI Counter" doesn't seem to be useful

IT41722

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

IT40297

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

IT39100

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

IT41932

HQ Agent should consider when Informix Server with repository database is not available instead of flooding the HQ agent log with messages.

IT41931

The default settings for the loggers defined in server.log4j.xml are not documented or explained.

IT42600

'onaudit' -c returns "Unable to connect to shared memory" when an upgrade happened from 14.10.FC8 to 14.10.FC9

IT41658

Not getting output when executing compression on a fragmented table, Whereas getting result on the fragment of the table(row)

IT41785

AUTO_STAT_MODE setting is not recognized on a detach fragment for tables with stat level fragment

IT41062

Running admin task de-fragment partnum can yield various asserts

IT41063

The admin task de fragment partnum should have SCHAPI and admin_fragment_command messages in MSGPATH

IT42448

'gskcrypt64_8.0-55.26.linux.x86_64.deb and gskssl64_8.0-55.26.linux.x86_64.deb missing in gskit'

IT42320

Missing or invalid OS locale information may lead to Assert Failure or instance hang during KAIO thread start.

IT42548

'onstat' -g ses <sessid> throws "Changing data structure-forced command termination."

IT39132

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

IT42471

'onaudit' -f <loadfile> returns "Badly formatted mask/role/event definition at line 1" starting with 14.10.FC9
IT42470

Upgrade of an instance with audit on and DBDELIMITER env var set to not "|" fail in sysmaster build

IT42531

'cdr' sync/check replset --allrepl --background crashing the database server

IT42497

Error Code -528 (maximum output rowsize (32767) exceeded) is thrown when SQL is returning 17 multisets

IT41722

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

IT40423

"UDI Counter" doesn't seem to be useful

IT40297

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

IT39100

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

IT41932

 HQ Agent should consider when Informix Server with repository database is not available instead of flooding the HQ agent log with messages.

Document Information

Software version:
14.10.0

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

Document number:
6954419

Modified date:
09 February 2023

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ibm16954419