The Informix Newsletter 2022/Q3

After almost three years of vacancy the Informix newsletter editorial staff publishes a new issue!

By the end of 2017, the editorial team, consisting mainly of IBM Informix employees, had published 125 issues of the popular Informix newsletter. With the integration of HCL into the further development of Informix, personnel changes followed. In the end, it was the EU guidelines of the GDPR that prevented further distribution among IBM.

With the logistic support of the German Informix User Group (IUG) the proven team is now back, offering the latest news, technical tips and tricks around Informix.

Issue 2022/Q3 now available!

Main topics in the current newsletter are for example:

• ONMODE options for a targeted reset of the buffer pool or for the short-term addition of an additional shared memory segment.
• Splitting of strings or the replacement of ASCII special characters with SPL.
• Determination of the isolation level of the current session via a simple SQL query.
•  ...

Read the whole article and view the Informix Newsletter online here!

IBM price adjustments for software effective January 1, 2022

As in previous years, IBM announces a price adjustment for its software portfolio at the beginning of the new year. This will also affect the Informix and Db2 products, new licenses and renewals. The price adjustment is for sales within the Federal Republic of Germany, usually an increase of about 3%.

The complete announcement can be found here:

IBM price adjustments for software effective January 1, 2023

On September 8, IBM published the annual announcement for the adjustment of prices. We will keep it short: Informix and Db2 customers have to be prepared for a solid increase of +8% at the turn of the year.

The complete announcement can be found here:

IIUG World 2021 – Virtual Event

IIUG World 2021 will take place October 5-7 starting each day at 10:00 am Eastern US Time!

The keynote speakers just confirmed:

• Arvind Krishna – Chairman and CEO of IBM. Arvind has been with IBM for over 30 years.
• Madhu Kochar – IBM Vice President, Product management, Data and AI.
• Seth Dobrin – VP and Chief Data Officer for IBM Analytics.

Registration for this event will be $199. Register by September 1st to take advantage of the early bird price of $150.

Register today, save money and get one Informix 14.10 Administrator certification test free!