Re: Supported Operating Systems
A poster complained that IBM's list of Informix supported operating systems was hard to find via Google, unlike the equivalent DB2 page. Others supplied the direct link (the Informix pubs/roadmaps page on ibm.com) and pointed out that search terms and word order matter — searching "informix operating systems", "informix roadmap" or "Informix platform matrix/availability" on Google or ibm.com finds it, with a downloadable spreadsheet of platforms. The original poster confirmed he found what he needed. A side question about the platform .zip not downloading on a Mac went unanswered, though others reported the zip worked for them.
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Here is the Link: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/informix/pubs/ roadmaps.html By copy to Andrea and Jeff, could you please get the Informix supported platforms link hooked to the major search engines? By copy to Jonathan, any hints on what may be wrong (user headspace, etc.), when I double-click the link to download the .zip file, nothing happens on my Mac. I can grab the documentation zip with no problems, but not this. Thanks, Christine Normile christinenormile@mac.com On Aug 23, 2006, at 1:15 PM, Hamilton, Jerry wrote: > > Go to Google and search for: > "Oracle" and "Piece of sh!t" > Hope you find fewer links than I did. > > -----Original Message----- > From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org > [mailto:informix-list-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of DA Morgan > Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 1:10 PM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Supported Operating Systems > > Just another note in the battle to get Informix some respect. > > Go to google and you can easily search for: > "DB2" and "Supported Operating Systems" > Try to find IBM's corresponding Informix page. > Hope you have better luck than I did. > -- > Daniel A. Morgan > University of Washington > damorgan@x.washington.edu > (replace x with u to respond) > Puget Sound Oracle Users Group > www.psoug.org > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list
Go go go Christine! You're doing a great job! When IBM announces the bomb-free IDS, any chance of getting XPS as a download too ( and bomb-free ) ? Christine Normile wrote: > Here is the > Link: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/informix/pubs/roadmaps.html > > > By copy to Andrea and Jeff, could you please get the Informix supported > platforms link hooked to the major search engines? > > By copy to Jonathan, any hints on what may be wrong (user headspace, > etc.), when I double-click the link to download the .zip file, nothing > happens on my Mac. I can grab the documentation zip with no problems, > but not this. > > Thanks, > > > Christine Normile > christinenormile@mac.com >
Christine Normile wrote: > Here is the > Link: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/informix/pubs/roadmaps.html > > > By copy to Andrea and Jeff, could you please get the Informix supported > platforms link hooked to the major search engines? > > By copy to Jonathan, any hints on what may be wrong (user headspace, > etc.), when I double-click the link to download the .zip file, nothing > happens on my Mac. I can grab the documentation zip with no problems, > but not this. > > Thanks, > > > Christine Normile > christinenormile@mac.com > > > > On Aug 23, 2006, at 1:15 PM, Hamilton, Jerry wrote: > >> >> Go to Google and search for: >> "Oracle" and "Piece of sh!t" >> Hope you find fewer links than I did. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org >> [mailto:informix-list-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of DA Morgan >> Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 1:10 PM >> To: informix-list@iiug.org >> Subject: Supported Operating Systems >> >> Just another note in the battle to get Informix some respect. >> >> Go to google and you can easily search for: >> "DB2" and "Supported Operating Systems" >> Try to find IBM's corresponding Informix page. >> Hope you have better luck than I did. >> -- >> Daniel A. Morgan >> University of Washington >> damorgan@x.washington.edu >> (replace x with u to respond) >> Puget Sound Oracle Users Group >> www.psoug.org >> _______________________________________________ >> Informix-list mailing list >> Informix-list@iiug.org >> http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list >> _______________________________________________ >> Informix-list mailing list >> Informix-list@iiug.org >> http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list > Thanks for the link ... Go to the search box at the top and enter: "Supported Operating Systems" and "Informix" What do you get back? I get DB2 ... not Informix ... as the number one item. At google I can't even find Informix (speaking of IBM sites) when I do the search. -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond) Puget Sound Oracle Users Group www.psoug.org
> >Here is the > >Link: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/informix/pubs/roadmaps.html > >By copy to Andrea and Jeff, could you please get the Informix supported > >platforms link hooked to the major search engines? >>Go to the search box at the top and enter: >>"Supported Operating Systems" and "Informix" >>What do you get back? >>I get DB2 ... not Informix ... as the number one item. >>At google I can't even find Informix (speaking of IBM sites) >>when I do the search. Of course not; the rule of most-significant/specific-term-first applies. Otherwise I can come up with a google search proving that so-and-so favors/disses what-not in any case. I search "informix operating systems" and the first link takes me right there. The fact that IBM often refers to "DB2 Informix" simply gunks up the search. And "informix roadmap" also takes me straight in. If people are determined to see a conspiracy, they will. > > By copy to Jonathan, any hints on what may be wrong (user headspace, > > etc.), when I double-click the link to download the .zip file, nothing > > happens on my Mac. I can grab the documentation zip with no problems, > > but not this. > >
Hi, What about : Go to www.google.de, type in "Informix support operating system" and let search. At time of my search the 2nd item in search result list might be one possible link which point to a IBM web page with some information I am suspecting you searched for. Probably it depends on the search words and of course the order of significant search words... Don't know whether google.de does have a different engine... Another try: What about: Go to www.ibm.com, look for the search area in the header, type in 'Informix platform Matrix' or 'Informix platform availability' and let search. I guess the 2nd item in search result list might be the link what you searched for... There is a link to a xls spreadsheet available on there, in which you may customize autofilter for the word 'IDS*' By the way, the zip worked for me. Robert Robert Seifert _________________________________________________________________ IBM Deutschland GmbH, Software, Information Management, Informix Products, Advanced Support Elite VAR support engineer Development Support for IBM Informix Products on-site @ SAP c/o SAP AG, -PS03-,Neurottstrasse 16, D-69190 Walldorf, Germany ________________________________________________________________ Take Back Control of your Information, your Risk, your Markets and your Future. Don't miss the IBM Information On Demand 2006 global conference in Anaheim, California on October 15th - 20th! http://www.ibm.com/events/informationondemand _________________________________________________________________ informix-list-bounces@iiug.org wrote on 23.08.2006 22:26:58: > Christine Normile wrote: > > Here is the > > Link: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/informix/pubs/roadmaps.html > > > > > > By copy to Andrea and Jeff, could you please get the Informix supported > > platforms link hooked to the major search engines? > > > > By copy to Jonathan, any hints on what may be wrong (user headspace, > > etc.), when I double-click the link to download the .zip file, nothing > > happens on my Mac. I can grab the documentation zip with no problems, > > but not this. > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Christine Normile > > christinenormile@mac.com > > > > > > > > On Aug 23, 2006, at 1:15 PM, Hamilton, Jerry wrote: > > > >> > >> Go to Google and search for: > >> "Oracle" and "Piece of sh!t" > >> Hope you find fewer links than I did. > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org > >> [mailto:informix-list-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of DA Morgan > >> Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 1:10 PM > >> To: informix-list@iiug.org > >> Subject: Supported Operating Systems > >> > >> Just another note in the battle to get Informix some respect. > >> > >> Go to google and you can easily search for: > >> "DB2" and "Supported Operating Systems" > >> Try to find IBM's corresponding Informix page. > >> Hope you have better luck than I did. > >> -- > >> Daniel A. Morgan > >> University of Washington > >> damorgan@x.washington.edu > >> (replace x with u to respond) > >> Puget Sound Oracle Users Group > >> www.psoug.org > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Informix-list mailing list > >> Informix-list@iiug.org > >> http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Informix-list mailing list > >> Informix-list@iiug.org > >> http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list > > > > Thanks for the link ... > > Go to the search box at the top and enter: > "Supported Operating Systems" and "Informix" > > What do you get back? > > I get DB2 ... not Informix ... as the number one item. > At google I can't even find Informix (speaking of IBM sites) > when I do the search. > -- > Daniel A. Morgan > University of Washington > damorgan@x.washington.edu > (replace x with u to respond) > Puget Sound Oracle Users Group > www.psoug.org > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list
Adam Tauno Williams wrote: >>> Here is the >>> Link: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/informix/pubs/roadmaps.html >>> By copy to Andrea and Jeff, could you please get the Informix supported >>> platforms link hooked to the major search engines? >>> Go to the search box at the top and enter: >>> "Supported Operating Systems" and "Informix" >>> What do you get back? >>> I get DB2 ... not Informix ... as the number one item. >>> At google I can't even find Informix (speaking of IBM sites) >>> when I do the search. > > Of course not; the rule of most-significant/specific-term-first > applies. Otherwise I can come up with a google search proving that > so-and-so favors/disses what-not in any case. > > I search "informix operating systems" and the first link takes me right > there. > > The fact that IBM often refers to "DB2 Informix" simply gunks up the > search. > > And "informix roadmap" also takes me straight in. > > If people are determined to see a conspiracy, they will. > >>> By copy to Jonathan, any hints on what may be wrong (user headspace, >>> etc.), when I double-click the link to download the .zip file, nothing >>> happens on my Mac. I can grab the documentation zip with no problems, >>> but not this. I've found what I was looking for. Thanks for the help. -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond) Puget Sound Oracle Users Group www.psoug.org