Re: IDS Next Version - features wanted.

you obviously haven't gone beyond a standalone online 5? IDS v7 has had 2PC (to and from any informix version, including xps, of late) since 1995 or there about, and with none of the federated complexity - you just do it without having to create anything. And you could do that kind of stuff with online 5 too, if you bought the I-Star addon.. XPS has had external (as in file system, and multiple formats supported) tables since day one, while V9 has had a virtual table interface and virtual index interface since 97 I believe. you can create table representation of just about anything:- from directory structures, to pipe delimited files, to cisam files, to oracle databases, to ... you name it, it can be done. True, you don't get that many prebuilt access methods, but that doesn't mean to say that a very powerful feature isn't there... And gateways have been around for quite some time, anyway gsturkenboom@lic.co.nz wrote: > Federation as per DB2. The ability to access external databases such as > other Informix databases on different instances, and oracle, DB2 databases > etc. Also the ability to access flat files and spreadsheets. This is done > in DB2 II with federated objects such as wrappers, servers, user mappings > and nicknames. Refer to DB2 Information Integrator (DB2 II) documentation. > After all they (Informix and DB2) are both owned by the same company. > > > > Jonathan Leffler > <jleffler@earthli To: informix-list@iiug.org > nk.net> cc: > Sent by: Subject: Re: IDS Next Version - features wanted. > owner-informix-li > st@iiug.org > > > 31/05/2005 17:53 > Please respond to > Jonathan Leffler > > > > > > > gsturkenboom@lic.co.nz wrote: > >>Federation. > > > Please define what you mean by that. > > > >>david@smooth1.co.uk wrote: >> >>What features do you want for the next version of IDS? >> >>The Key Features in IDS Version 10.00 by Jerry Keesee >>mentions... >> >>- Smooth Upgrade of HDR >>- Online table re-org >>- Dynamic Reconfiguration >>- Auto Update Stats >>- Auto Disk Mgmt >>- RAS >>- Autonomics >> >> >>a) What does Smooth Upgrade of HDR mean? >> >>b) What else do people want as features? > > > > > -- > Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> > Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com > Guardian of DBD::Informix v2005.01 -- http://dbi.perl.org/ > > > > > > sending to informix-list > -- Ciao, Marco ______________________________________________________________________________ Marco Greco /UK /IBM Standard disclaimers apply! Informix faq http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/informix.htm 4glworks http://www.4glworks.com Informix on Linux http://www.4glworks.com/ifmxlinux.htm sending to informix-list