IIUG Survey #1 -- Unix OnLine DSA

As part of our continuing effort to improve communications between Informix and its customers, the IIUG is supporting the following user survey. This survey, and another survey on Windows NT products, is the first of what we hope will be an continual process of providing you the opportunity to express your opinions to those who shape Informix products and services. Future surveys will take a number of electronic and hard-copy forms in order to reach the broadest possible number of users. This particular survey was prepared by, and for, the Informix product development team to help make decisions on the future direction of the product line. Please take a few minutes to complete the questions and return your answers via e-mail or fax as described at the top of the survey. We will provide a summary of responses after they have been tabulated. Thank you Carlton Doe President, IIUG ******************************************************** Survey for UNIX customers running OnLine Dynamic Server - 10/96 Responses should be emailed to turh@informix.com or FAX to Helene Tur at 415-926-1157 With a future release of the OnLine Dynamic Server, Informix plans to provide a central console for managing single and multiple servers. As we look at the current single system tools and define what tools the new central console will include, we want to make sure we understand which of the current performance tools are most used and, perhaps, what is missing that would make it easier to manage the performance of your systems. 1. OnLine Version you are currently running [7.2, 5.x,etc.]: 2. Operating System(s) [HP-UX, Solaris, etc.] and versions: 3. Number of UNIX systems running OnLine: 4. Do you also run the Informix database on Windows NT systems? 5. Major types of applications the database supports: 6. What are the components of the OnLine database that you monitor and investigate most frequently when managing the performance of the system? [e.g. CPU usage] 7. What Informix tools do you find most useful? What do you use them for? [tool examples: onstat, onlog, oncheck, on-monitor, OnPerf, DB/Cockpit] 8. What other UNIX or 3rd party tools are you using to manage and/or monitor performance of your Informix database today? What do you use them for? [tool examples: SAR, HP Glance, EcoTOOLS from CompuWare] 9.If you could have one or two new tools, or expansions of existing tools, what would those tools do that you cannot do today? 10.As part of the new multiserver command center, we believe we will need to support the creation and deployment of scripts. We, therefore, need to better understand your use of scripts. What are the scripts designed to do? Who creates them? Do these scripts call custom applications? What languages are being used? How long do they run? 11. There is a lot of press recently around the use of Web tools and many of our customers are using these tools as part of their marketing efforts and for internal document distribution. There has also been some discussion of using Web tools as part of the database administration function. Do you see a use for Web based tools for database administration? And if so, how/where? 12. What database administration and monitoring tasks do you sometimes do from home or when you are traveling? What do you wish you were able to do? 13. What platform do you use to perform your database administration functions at work? 14. What platforms do you use for database administration functions at home and how do you connect to your work system when home or traveling? [e.g. Telnet, Web, ISDN] 15. Is there anything else you would like to tell us regarding any of the topics above, or any other OnLine related issue? ************************************************************************ Name: Company Name: Title: Country: Work phone Number: Would you be willing to discuss your responses further with an Informix representative? Thank you for taking the time to respond to this survey. Your responses will help us make decisions that better relate to the efforts you feel are most important to your success in managing and using our products.