Insider #58: Highlights: IIUG Conference in just two months, Denver CO, May 22 - 26, 2005 & More...

IIUG Insider (Issue #58) April 2005 Highlights: IIUG Conference in just two months, Denver CO, May 22 - 26, 2005 Online at http://www.iiug.org/news/insider.html ================================================================ 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. ================================================================ Contents: ================================================================ * Editorial... * Cover story: IIUG Conference * A Letter from the IIUG president * IBM InfoBahns * IBM Opens up Rational to Informix Developers! * SIGs * Visionary v4 for Informix - See it now! * IIUG Board member Paul Watson profiled * Informix Chat with the Lab * IIUG Shareware repository * Calendar of events * Developer corner * Reader's corner * Useful Links * Closing and Credits ================================================================ Editorial... ================================================================ This editorial is about the IIUG conference in Denver. In our cover story you can read all about it. In this editorial I am inviting you to share my feelings. I have been attending Informix conferences for many years. The last one convinced me we need a change. Our sessions were in small side rooms, the number of attendees dropped, there was nothing new to hear and there where too many sales and too few technical presentations. The IIUG board felt you deserve more. As the chare of Informix for DBAs I reviewed all the presentations in my track. I can assure you most of it is new, all of it is interesting. $1,750 for the conference plus $600 for the hotel not to mention air fair is a lot of money. This time it is worth it! You can find in the next section all the reasons and more to justify the price. But there is more to it. It is a demonstration of power -- a way to show there are Informix users seeking education. If you are hesitating don't. Come and help us build the mo!mentum. Cindy Lichtenauer, Stuart Litel, Walt Hultgren, Lester Knutsen and I have worked hard to make this a great conference. The rest is up to you. Gary Ben-Israel IIUG Insider Editor IIUG Board of Directors ================================================================ Cover story: IIUG Conference ================================================================ For the first time the IIUG is responsible for the Informix conference. This is what we did to offer you a conference that is better then ever: * We have set a conference committee of five Informix technical Informix veterans rather then an appointed clerk. * We approached the best speakers form IBM development and our user community in order to offer the best possible content. * We carefully picked the top 42 presentations out of 100 proposals. We took into account your preferences in addition to the speaker's talent and the presentation content. * We carefully reviewed every presentation to assure the best quality. * We joined forces with IDUG (International DB2 User Group) bringing together our Informix knowledge and enthusiasm with their experience in setting up large scale conferences, the DB2 content and the DB2 users, to make this conference a spectacular event. * Last but not least this is the Informix gathering of the year. It is the place to meet your fellow Informix users, IBM developers and experts and us the IIUG board. Want to take a deep dive into IDS 10.0 Internals, learn what's new in JAVA for the Informix Application Developer or find out about building a data warehouse with Informix? The IDUG/IIUG North America 2005 conference in Denver is the best place to do it. This is not just another conference. IDS 10.0, the greatest thing that happened to Informix, will be covered form all aspects for the first time.If you are still hesitating, read the conference program. DBA, System administrator, Developer, Manage -- there is much you can learn. And it is all in one week at one place. M: The Informix Edge L: Informix for Application Developers K: Informix for DBA's Monday May 23 M1 - Building a Data Warehouse With Informix, Jack Parker L1 - Informix SQL Tips and Tricks, Robert Carts, SAIC K1 - IDS 10.0 - Performance Tuning, Mark Scranton, IBM M2 - Enterprise Replication:9.5 New Functionality, Ajay Gupta, IBM L2 - Informix Stored Procedures, Kevin Fennimore, UCI Consulting K2 - IDS 10.0 feature of Configurable Page Size, Mark Scranton, IBM M3 - Large Objects and the 9.X Server, Nelson Corcoran, IBM L3 - Informix SQL Performance Tuning - An Introduction, Mike Walker, UCI Consulting K3 - IDS Internals and Disk Structures, Art Kagel, Bloomberg Tuesday May 24 M4 - Coppereye - A New and Faster Way to Look At Data, Carlton Doe, IBM L4 - Application Development With EGL and RAD, Venkatesh Gopal, IBM K4 - Exploring the IDS sysmaster Database, Lester Knutsen, Advanced Datatools M5 - Creating Web Applications Using the Web Datablade, Harry Johnson, Keene Information Systems L5 - Generating XML from IDS 9.X, Jacques Roy, IBM K5 - New Features in IDS 10.0, Jonathan Leffler, IBM M6 - Replication Toolkit, Ajay Gupta, IBM L6 - What's New in JAVA for the Informix Application Developer, Amit Dandekar, IBM K6 - Understanding the Query Optimizer Explain File, John Miller, IBM M7 - Implementing a Data Warehouse using IDS 9.x, Kevyn Schneider, Administaff L7 - How To Configure Informix Connect and ODBC, James Edmiston, Quest Information Systems K7 - New Kernel Features in the IDS 10.0 Server, Nelson Corcoran, IBM Wednesday May 25 M8 - DB2 UDB v8.2, Informix v9.4 vs. SQLSERVER 2005, Alex Cheng, Administaff L8 - Brewing JAVA with the IDS engine, Keshava Murthy, IBM K8 - Designing Informix Disk Subsystems, Thomas Girsch, Hilton Hotels M9 - Encryption End To End With IDS, Amit Dandekar, IBM L9 - Accessing Informix From .NET, Sean Durity, Cornercap K9 - Improved Scripting In IDS Alarms and Events, Thomas Horner, S1 Corporation M10 - IDS Fine-Grained Auditing: Trace Facility, Trigger, Jacques Roy, IBM L10 - Using EGL's Enhanced Reporting Capabilities, Venkatesh Gopal, IBM K10 - Unix Tools and Scripts to Monitor and Tune Your Informix Engine, Lester Knutson, Advanced DataTools IIUG Annual General Meeting M11 - WebSphere Meets Informix, Martin Lurie, IBM L11 - SQL Differences between Informix and DB2, Keith Gibert, SAIC K11 - The In's and Out's of Table Level Restore, John Miller, IBM Thursday May 26 M12 - Informix to DB2 Database Migration, J Warren Donovan L12 - Using IDS Extensibility in Applications, Keshava Murthy, IBM K12 - Connecting to Informix Databases, the Open Source Way, Jonathan Leffler, IBM M13 - Itroduction to Time Series Datablade, Sean Durity, Cornercap L13 - Using PERL and DBI/DBD With Informix Databases, Darryl Priest, Piper Consulting K13 - Unlocking the Mysteries Behind Update Statistics, John Miller, IBM M14 - IBM Pervasive RDBMS's: Cloudscape and DB2 Everyplace, Frank Koconis L14 - Info