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Admin-Scout News & Developers Blog


  • 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 Pack 14.10.xC10

Fix release date: 15 Mar 2023

Status: Recommended

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APAR

Abstract

IT31055

onpsm cloud stdio documentation wrong/old

IT42767

Server generating the AF with "Assert Failed: yield_processor: Conditional latch count nonzero Error"

IT42053

"cdr modify replicate --cascaderepl y|n" nearly ineffective

IT42660

Informix dbms DataBlade returning 0 bytes for getlength on files > 2gb

IT42672

Replicating smartblobs greater than 2GB issue.

IT36979

An Admin CKPT is initiated during a Level 0 archive for each Logical Log dropped causing high contention in active environment

IT42221

Only one crypto vp is being used on the RSS node when the VP is set multiple.

IT42034

Update Statistics distributions are not using index when index definition matches table definition and FLS is enabled

IT42285

AF generated when using GROUP BY for select query with genbson function

IT42814

Running onstat -g cluster verobose on primary server with HDR setup shows "Time of last ack: 1970/01/01"

IT42433

Select first with year(today) query on fragmented table does not return any row

IT42536

Recursive CTE SELECT query works in 12.10 and fails in 14.10 with error 26088

IT42677

"onstat -g top session cpu 1" always throws "Errors found in session block list. May be caused by changing data structures."

IT41654

Massive parallel activity to the same table can create a bottleneck on mutex wait pt_partnum

IT42763

Error 706/111 - dbschema prints GRANT statements in alphabetical order

IT42601

Insert with a remote select part using a date/datetime SPL variable return -201 from the remote server

IT42999

Drop table with over 45 million sblobs can assert bad allocation size (negative) for pool smartblob

IT41553

DDRBLOCK / rsccompdict corruption after rollback of a transaction that created and filled a compressed table (For example,  slow ALTER TABLE)

IT40284

Missing read-ahead recovering CLR records

IT40416

Memory corruption when executing two Java udrs on the same column in the same statement

IT39411

Colmin, colmax explanation needs to be changed

IT36316

Installation documentation should include the requirement for both /tmp and IATEMPDIR to not have noexec set for their respective filesystem

IT31575

Remove "Smart Analytics Optimizer Studio" from 14.10 IWA documentation

IT42708

Silent install on Windows does not install IBM GSKit

IT42749

Trailing blank after ssl.enable=true are not removed, leading to cryptic error messages, as connection will not use SSL

IT42992

Naming Convention is not consistent for Secondary Informix Server in HQ Screen

IT43218

We should have an option to show the password being typed in the setup for both ids instance and hq agent

IT43217

The time for incidents should not be an interval, but a real date and time

IT43053

HQ screen should tell why index is greyed out

IT41932

The informix hq agent does not change the frequency of running if server is in quiescent mode

IT39486

InformixHQ: When HDR is disconnected and then subsequently reconnects there is no alert sent

IT42106

Allows to hide system catalog tables in system reports -> table activity

IT43219

Informixsq agent still logs exception

IT43222

In Storage Tables & Indexes "Include System catalogs" needs to be changed to "Include System catalog Tables"

IT36618

The onconfig parameter BAR_ENCRYPTION and BAR_DECRYPTION is missing