Insider #51: IIUG's successes, plenty of events, AGS Server Studio 4 finally covered & More..

IIUG Insider (Issue #51) 01 September 2004 Highlights: IIUG's successes, plenty of events, AGS Server Studio 4 finally covered & More... Welcome to the International Informix Users Group (IIUG) Insider! Designed for IIUG members and Informix user group leaders, this publication contains timely and relevant information for the IBM Informix community. Online at http://www.iiug.org/news/insider.html ================================================================ Contents: ================================================================ 1) Editorial... 2) Hot news - IIUG Advocacy Pays Off! IDS 7.31 Still on Tracks! 3) Hot news - IBM Informix Portfolio: Executive Overview July 2004 4) IIUG - Seen on Forums 5) Event - The IIUG's Ask The Experts Session And Your Input - Ask Your Questions Now! 6) Event - Informix Chat with the Lab - Next call is October 6th 7) Event - Must Attend Birds-Of-a-Feather @ Data Management Technical Conference: Informix Futures - ISQL Modernization, CopperEye DataBlade 8) Product News - AGS Launches Server Studio(tm) JE with Sentinel(tm) V.4.0 9) Product News - IDS 7.x to 9.4 trade up Promo! 10) Product News - Awoma Suite 2.3.0 11) Product News - Four J's Development Tools Announces Availability of Genero 1.3 12) Developer Corner - Get FREE Awoma DevWorkshop! 13) Developer Corner - Generating Java using EGL and JSF 14) Developer Corner - At Last! IBM's Big Studio Release Delivers RAD for Java 15) Developer Corner - Nimbalkar says "EGL Webcast a Success Thanks to IIUG" 16) Useful Links ================================================================ 1) Editorial... ================================================================ We would love to hear [more] from you! Thanks to Jim, John, Arthur, Tim, Fabrice and all the others that provided very useful feedback on the Insider. We love to hear from our members and readers. So drop us a few words at enews@iiug.org. After all, this is your newsletter! Product News and Developer Corner sections are really growing and this is really cool! We just wonder what DBAs are doing; but that's true, there are a lot of worse jobs than being an Informix DBA! You may have noticed that we are in the second half of September and your favorite Insider did not hit your inbox! Hopefully your SPAM filter is set correctly... Insider is late and I beg for your indulgence. We are all on our way to the IBM Data Management Technical Conference (once more in Las Vegas, NV, USA) and we had breaking news prior to getting there... Anyhow, there's plenty of great content in this issue, IIUG being successful in keeping IDS 7.31 in the loop for another few years and making the EGL webcast a success. I wish you a pleasant reading. Jean Georges Perrin Editor ` ================================================================ 2) Hot news - IIUG Advocacy Pays Off! IDS 7.31 Still on Tracks! ================================================================ Due to customer and business partner requests and with advocacy from IIUG, IBM has extended the planned end-of-service (EOS) date for Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) 7.31 to September, 2009. The planned end-of-marketing (EOM) date is now September, 2008. For details on EOM and EOS dates for all Informix products, go to the Informix Product Lifecycle page at http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/informix/support/plc/. ================================================================ 3) Hot news - IBM Informix Portfolio: Executive Overview July 2004 ================================================================ IIUG recently got a copy of "IBM Informix Portfolio: Executive Overview July 2004". Although it is not described as an update of previous White Papers, it looks strangely like it!. It sure is a recommended reading. Find out the link on IIUG's web site: http://www.iiug.org/news/newsitems/04jul04_Informix_Exec_Overview.pdf. ================================================================ 4) IIUG - Seen on Forums ================================================================ On "classics", IIUG friend Jonathan Leffler recalls us a little bit of the past history of IDS. First Y2K compliant database is 7.24, hey, maybe it's [past] time to upgrade! On "ids", an interesting debate about cooked vs. raw... I still wonder why I order my T-bones medium rare! The "iiug-esp" Spanish community is doing well, at least I hope so, messages are flowing around. "sapmix" is alive and doing well. Let me remind you the 2 newbies: EGL Development Forum (dev-egl@iiug.org) and Java Development Forum (dev-java@iiug.org). There must be a forum for you! To join, simply go to the membership area, login, click on the on "Subscribe to E-Mail lists", choose the lists you wish to subscribe to and click "Subscribe". ================================================================ 5) Event - The IIUG's Ask The Experts Session And Your Input - Ask Your Questions Now! ================================================================ Submit your questions NOW to moderator Ron Flannery at ron@iiug.org. Two big sessions (session R03): Tuesday September 21, 2:15 - 3:30 PM and 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM Sponsored by the International Informix Users Group (IIUG), the IDS Ask The Experts session has traditionally been one of the most popular sessions at past Informix User Conferences. These TWO sessions are moderated by Ron Flannery, long-time IIUG Board member, president of One Point Solutions, and author of The Informix Handbook. Ron will host a panel of IBM specialists in IDS and in other Informix products -- the people that develop and service the products. You never know who might show up! We'll take questions (written or verbal). Questions are mostly technical DBA/architecture questions but we also discuss tuning and other items of concern for DBAs. If this panel can't answer your questions, no one can! ================================================================ 6) Event - Informix Chat with the Lab - Next call is October 6th ================================================================