Informix Questionnaire
Dear Informix User: Do you have a great need to load and unload databases frequently? Would you like to provide information to Informix that will help us validate that our design of the new Windows-based High Performance Loader (HPL) GUI will not only be easy to use, but also fulfill your load/unload needs? HPL is currently bundled with OnLine Dynamic Server and provides a Motif-based GUI. If the answers to the above are yes, can you please answer the following questions and email or fax the responses back to Informix? Thank you. Regards, Shirley ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please fill this out and email to "shirley@informix.com" or fax to Shirley Li Rexrode at 415-926-1157. Name : ________________________Email address: ________________ Company Name : ________________________Title: ________________________ Address : _______________________________________________________ Telephone : ________________________ Fax: _________________________ 1. What type of business is your company involved in? 2. What is your title and job responsibilities? 3. Why is there a large emphasis on parallel load capabilities? 4. What aspect of your current load/unload solution is most annoying and/or in most need of improvement? 5. What is the main application in which you need the load/unload utility? 6. What are the major requirements? 7. What is the window within which you must load the data? 8. How frequent are the loads? the unloads? 9. What types of data do you load/unload the most? 10. Do you do approximately equal amounts of loads and unloads, or not? Please answer in percentages, e.g., 70% loads, 30% unloads. 11. Amount of data being loaded/unloaded? 12. How many sources are you getting the load files from? 13. What are the sources for loading? 14. How many destinations will the unloaded files go to? 15. During the load/unload window, is the system dedicated for that purpose? If not, what activity is happening on the system? 16. What are the "typical" load time processing steps/functions (i.e., sort, filter, aggregate, convert (MF to ascii), merge, etc.) 17. Do you have Windows NT system as part of your network and have access to it? 18. Are you a Windows NT user? If so, which version of NT do you use? 19. If you are a Windows NT user not on version 4.0, do you anticipate switching to 4.0 soon? 20. Are you a Windows95 user? 21. Is the load/unload utility requirement for a data warehouse application? 22. Are you currently using the Motif-based High Performance Loader GUI? If yes, what is your general impression? 23. What version(s) of the Informix OnLine server, if any, are you currently using? 24. What type of hardware are you running the Informix OnLine server(s) on? 25. How many instances of the Informix OnLine server(s) are you running? 26. Do you have any unusual load/unload requirements? 27. Would you like to have input in the future Windows-based GUI for the load/unload utility? If yes, are you willing to fly to our location in Lenexa, KS or Menlo Park, CA, for two one day session? yes/no Design Session: Week of Sept 9, 1996 Verification Session: Week of Sept 23, 1996 *************************** * Shirley Li Rexrode * * Product Manager, Servers* * Informix Software, Inc. * * 4100 Bohannon Dr * * Menlo Park, CA 94025 * * 415-926-6334 * * Fax 415-926-1157 * ***************************