Table of Contents

Welcome Letters ........................................................................................................................................................... 1 Welcome Letter from the IIUG President ............................................................................................................. 1 Welcome Letter - Jerry Keesee, World Wide Director, IBM Informix Software ................................................... 2 

Conference Planning Committee .................................................................................................................................. 3 

Board of Directors ......................................................................................................................................................... 3 

General Information ...................................................................................................................................................... 4 San Diego Marriott Mission Valley ............................................................................................................................ 4 Conference Admittance ............................................................................................................................................ 4 Food and Drink ......................................................................................................................................................... 4 Conference Materials ............................................................................................................................................... 4 Conference Evaluations ........................................................................................................................................... 4 Wireless Internet ....................................................................................................................................................... 4 www.iiug.org/pda ...................................................................................................................................................... 5 Personal Expenses ................................................................................................................................................... 5 

Conference Highlights ................................................................................................................................................... 6 Certification Testing .................................................................................................................................................. 6 Hands-On Labs ......................................................................................................................................................... 6 Evening Entertainment ............................................................................................................................................. 7 Exhibit Hall ................................................................................................................................................................ 7 Meet with an IBM Executive or Architect .................................................................................................................. 7 IBM Client Reference Lounge .................................................................................................................................. 7 Product Demonstrations ........................................................................................................................................... 8 Usability Sandbox ..................................................................................................................................................... 8 

General Sessions ........................................................................................................................................................ 13 Monday, April 23 ..................................................................................................................................................... 13 Tuesday, April 24 .................................................................................................................................................... 13 Wednesday, April 25 .............................................................................................................................................. 14 

Technical Sessions ..................................................................................................................................................... 15 Monday, April 23 ..................................................................................................................................................... 15 Tuesday, April 24 .................................................................................................................................................... 29 Wednesday, April 25 .............................................................................................................................................. 44 

Sponsors and Business Partners ............................................................................................................................... 56 

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Welcome Letter from the IIUG President On behalf of the International Informix Users Group Board of Directors and Conference Planning Committee, welcome to beautiful southern California and the 2012 IIUG Informix Conference. This year we are excited to have Jerry Keesee, Worldwide Director of the IBM / Informix Development Lab open the conference. No one works harder for the Informix product and as the old EF Hutton commercial used to say: When Jerry talks, we listen. Tuesday morning we are especially lucky to listen to David Barnes of IBM. Now most of you may say: Who is David Barnes? Well, David is one of the top specialists of IBM on the latest hype of Big Data. Now I am not saying David is “big Hype” but I have personally heard him speak and it was that one time that I thought he would be a great keynote speaker. I mean he is the only person at IBM who has shared the stage with the likes of the late great Steve Jobs, Henry Kissinger and Lady Gaga! We are pleased to welcome our favorite General Manager, Dr Arvind Krishna, General Manager of IBM Information Management to start the day on Wednesday. Also with Arvind will be Martin Wildberger, Vice President of Development of IBM Information Management. These are the two people at IBM ultimately responsible for the success of the Informix business. So pay special attention to what they have to say. I’d like to say a special thank you to many people for their help in making this event possible, all of whom are here: the entire IIUG Board, and the AMAZING Conference Planning team of Matt Elders, John Fahey, Andrew Ford, Sam Gentsch, and Kernoal Stephens. Also from IBM: Jerry Keesee, Bernie Spang, Pradeep Kutty, Sally Hartnell, Louis T. (don’t forget the “T.”) Cherian, Al Martin, Beth Flood, Priya Govindarajan , Steve Troisi and Tom Rieger. Thanks go to all the speakers who have made this event possible, and to the great people of the Marriott Mission Valley. Have you ever found the TRUE GEM of a person who always is the first to volunteer, the first to help and the first to do anything? Well we have two of them. First is Anita McKeithen from IBM, whom NONE of us would be here if not for her and second is Rhonda Hackenburg who is truly the IIUG conference’s secret weapon. Thank You to both of you for ALWAYS volunteering and the amazing work you did (and it really is Rhonda’s 29th Birthday this week .) I would also like to thank all our Sponsors for attending this event and it is the sponsors that help us keep the cost of this conference among the lowest in the industry but special thanks goes to Bruce Simms who coordinates and recruits all these sponsors. Thank you to Bruce for helping us keep that cost low. Also deserving special THANK YOU is David Link who was responsible for the entire schedule of events and ultimately responsible for all the presentations. We always joke about David having a Birthday every day and this year he is deserving of all the free deserts! Each year I leave my last paragraph to the special person to the conference, all of us and especially myself. Cindy Lichtenauer and I came to visit San Diego about eight months ago with only the slimmest of possibilities of actually holding the event here but after being here for only 48 hours, we convinced each other this is the place. Cindy “Thank You” for just being you! I will finish by saying welcome to sunny southern California and welcome to the conference. Look around you—you’re surrounded by the best and brightest Informix people in the world, On behalf of the IIUG Board of Directors, the outstanding Conference Team, and all the speakers, sponsors and attendees, please take this opportunity to learn, network, make new friends, and enjoy this wonderful event. “Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.” Stuart Litel President

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Welcome Letter - Jerry Keesee, World Wide Director, IBM Informix Software

I would like to welcome each of you to the fifth annual International Informix User Group Conference. It is electrifying to be here in sunny California at the Marriott San Diego, Mission Valley. This is an exciting time for IIUG and IBM as we continue to grow and adapt, remaining always motivated and responsive to you, our clients and partners. The world of IIUG is a stimulating area and we will continue to meet and bring inspiring people together in forums like this to ensure Informix remains at the cutting edge of technology. The 2012 IIUG conference represents a rich and strong partnership between IBM and IIUG. With that in mind, the conference committee has put together what we believe will be both an enjoyable and learning experience for everyone. We have a great line up of keynote speakers including Arvind Krishna, General Manager, Information Management and Martin Wildberger, VP, WW Information Management Development, with a very special guest David Barnes who is the Program Director, Emerging Technology. I would like to give you an idea of what you can expect and what we hope to achieve over the next few days. We have two new tracks for sessions this year, one that features Informix and other products in the IM portfolio, and one that highlights Informix Genero. The Informix track will entice you with the latest technologies to help you grow and sustain your business. The Informix Genero track will focus on the latest features of the Genero product line. We strive to have our technical sessions exceed your expectations. You will hear tips and tricks about performance enhancements, Informix in the Cloud, and new applications on Informix. You will hear how DBA's can monitor their Informix servers from an iPhone. Some favorites will round out the track with solutions such as Informix TimeSeries, Informix Warehouse and our world class Flexible Grid technology. Plan to arrive early to get a good seat at these popular sessions. I personally ask each of you to take advantage of the usability sandbox to give us your feedback. In addition, we always want your success stories. Check the schedule of the Client Reference Lounge at the Information Table and sign up to tell us your stories! You may also sign up for one-on-one meetings with IBM executives and Informix architects. And don’t forget to consider being part of the upcoming early validation programs. In closing, I would like to thank each of you for attending the 2012 IIUG Conference and bringing your expertise. You have the vision, the knowledge, the resources and the experience to help us pave our way into the future. This conference promises to meet and exceed your expectations and I look forward to meeting with you. Best Wishes for a successful conference.

Jerry

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2012 IIUG Informix Conference Planning Committee

Matthew Elders Kingwood, Texas, USA

David Link Omaha, Nebraska, USA

John Fahey Stone Mountain, Georgia, USA

Anita McKeithen (IBM) Lenexa, Kansas, USA

Sam Gentsch Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Cindy Lichtenauer Lenexa, Kansas, USA

Andrew Ford Austin, Texas, USA

Bruce Simms St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Rhonda Hackenburg Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA

Kernoal Stephens Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Pradeep Kutty (IBM) Lenexa, Kansas, USA

2011–2012 IIUG Board of Directors

Khaled Bentebal Paris, France

Cindy Lichtenauer Lenexa, Kansas, USA

Gary Ben-Israel Jerusalem, Israel

Stuart Litel Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Miguel Carbone Sao Paulo, Brazil

Bruce Simms St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Andrew Ford Austin, Texas, USA

Jean Georges Perrin Haguenau, France

Art Kagel East Brunswick, New Jersey, USA

Kernoal Stephens Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Pradeep Kutty (IBM) Lenexa, Kansas, USA

Kate Tomchik Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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General Information  

San Diego Marriott Mission Valley The San Diego Marriott Mission Valley is our new host for this year’s IIUG Conference. They offer indoor and outdoor lounge areas for gathering, an outdoor pool and many amenities for an enjoyable stay. The hotel is just minutes from several San Diego’s popular attractions: SeaWorld, Qualcomm Stadium, Balboa Park, Historic Old Town and the Gaslamp Quarter.

Conference Admittance All attendees receive a Conference badge at the time of registration. You must present this badge to participate in all Conference functions: tutorials, hands-on labs, technical sessions, keynote presentations, the exhibit hall, scheduled meals and evening events.

Food and Drink The Conference package includes all meals, beverages and snacks. Meals included with the package begin with the Sunday night reception and continue through the Wednesday afternoon snack. You must wear your conference badge to all meals. NOTE: Morning tutorial attendees are entitled to breakfast ONLY. Afternoon tutorial attendees are entitled to lunch ONLY. Full-day tutorial attendees are entitled to breakfast and lunch. You will receive a special ticket for admittance to your Sunday meals in your registration packet.

Conference Materials PDFs of the speaker presentations are available for download. Log into the Member area on the IIUG web site, or go to the direct link at http://www.iiug.org/members. Click on the 2012 IIUG Conference button to download the conference proceedings. The link will only be visible if your conference registration email address is the same as your IIUG Member email address. If you are unable to see this link, please come to the Conference Registration desk for assistance. Please contact your speaker if the presentation you are looking for does not appear.  

Conference Evaluations Evaluations will be given out at the Wednesday morning keynote and available at the conference registration desk on Wednesday AM. We will have a raffle for prizes at lunch on Wednesday for those that hand in their survey by lunchtime. Prizes will include a Kindle Fire and other Kindles courtesy of IBM. Also anyone who submits their survey by 12:30 PM Wednesday will receive a IIUG gift. You will need to be present to win the Kindles. We cannot ship any prizes.

Wireless Internet The Marriott has large bandwidth to provide reliable and speedy internet connection. You will access the Marriott Internet under the Hotel guidelines. This is free to conference attendees. We are told the speed is in excess of 20 Meg. and we have tested the wireless internet out and found that to be true. ENJOY!

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www.iiug.org/pda Point your mobile device to www.iiug.org/pda to have the Session Matrix at your fingertips all day!

Personal Expenses Attendees are responsible for all personal expenses, and must settle with the hotel prior to their departure. All rooms include free in-room internet, but may not include use of the telephone services. For information on telephone charges, consult with the Hotel Front Desk.

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Conference Highlights

Certification Testing Certification testing is available at this year’s conference. Certification testing will be offered in the Private Dining Room which is the room located just before entering the main conference area. You may take one exam free of charge for a savings of $200.00. Additional exams are available for a nominal fee of 25.00 per exam. As always, this is subject to IBM Certification rules. Consult with the IBM Certification staff for testing hours, length of tests and testing requirements. You must provide photo identification to sit for a test. Special thanks to Susan Weaver of IBM for all her help! In Addition to Informix family of exams and the new Genero exam, all the Information Management Exams should be available. Check with the Certification staff for a complete list:

IBM Informix Dynamic Server Fundamentals

IBM Informix Dynamic Server V11.50 Application Developer

IBM Informix Fundamentals V11.70

IBM Informix Genero v1 *NEW*

Informix 4GL Development

System Administration for Red Brick Decision Server V6

System Administration for IBM Informix Dynamic Server V11

System Administration for IBM Informix V11.70

Exam Seating Hours

Sunday, April 22 12:30 PM – 4:00 PM *

Tuesday, April 24 9:45 AM – 4:00 PM *

Monday, April 23 9:45 AM – 4:00 PM *

Wednesday, April 25 9:45 AM – 3:00 PM *

* End time represents the last seating time. You will have UP TO two hours to complete the test.

Hands-On Labs Learn new tips and tricks by taking an interactive mini-course. IBM will provide the laptops, the experts, the VMware images and course material for these in-depth training sessions.

Each topic will last approximately one hour and includes several different exercises and/or demos. Space is limited. The labs are located in Cabrillo Salon 1(A).

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Evening Entertainment Your conference badge is required for admittance. Each evening event will include an open bar for beer and wine. Welcome Reception Sunday, April 22 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM

The welcome reception offers the best opportunity to reminisce with old friends, make new acquaintances, and chat with conference sponsors and Informix vendors while enjoying excellent food and beverages. Casino Night Monday, April 23 6:30 PM – 10:00 PM

Casino night has been so popular that we are bringing it back. The evening begins with dinner at 6:30. Games start at 7:00. There will be special prizes, including a free IIUG 2013 Conference Registration pass, amazon Kindles and other prizes for the top winners. Try your luck and join us for a fun night! Conference Party – including a Passport to Prizes Tuesday, April 24 6:30 – 9:30 PM Join the conference committee and party poolside, “California style”! The evening begins with dinner at 6:30 and continues poolside where you can network with old and new friends, IBM staff and conference vendors. Remember to get your passports stamped to be eligible for one of many great prizes.

Exhibit Hall The exhibit hall is a very important component of the Conference. The sponsors have a lot to offer the Informix community, and we encourage you to spend time with them. Remember to wear your badge. The exhibit hall will be open during the scheduled conference hours beginning with the Opening Reception Sunday night at 6:30 through Wednesday lunch.

Visit the sponsor booths to talk with product experts and see demonstrations of Informix in action with the latest Informix technology. See how these new features can save you time and money.

Meet with an IBM Executive or Architect IBM Informix executives as well as IBM Informix R&D and Support engineers look forward to talking with you at the conference. This is a great networking opportunity! Set up a one-on-one private discussion with an IBM Informix executive or architect by signing up at the IBM Information table outside the main hall.

IBM Client Reference Lounge IBM is looking for a few good references for both video and written Informix related success stories. Interested in talking to someone at IBM about this UNIQUE opportunity and getting a small gift of appreciation from IBM for your time to learn more about it? Sign up at the information desk by the main ball room entrance. You can see the available hours and sign-up at the IBM Information table outside the main hall. Also, check the daily newsletters for times.

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Product Demonstrations Don't miss the opportunity to learn more about IBM products and solutions from the people who built them. Let the experts take you through the latest enhancements, functionality, and tips for optimization. Get more information at the IBM Information Table and the IBM exhibit booth.

Usability Sandbox Sign up to participate in the Informix Usability Sandbox, where IIUG attendees can help shape and improve the usability of Informix. You can make a difference and influence future product direction by participating in one-on-one usability studies, group brainstorming sessions for gathering requirements, or group validation sessions of current and future Informix features. This year the Usability Sandbox will address topics such as schema and space management, up-and-running experience, deployment, and the information/resources you need from IBM to successfully deploy and maintain IBM Informix. Sign up at the IBM Information Table for a session that fits your schedule! Please check the daily newsletters and the Information Desk for times and locations.

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POOL

SANTAFE 3

SANTAFE 4

BALBOA 1

BALBOA 2

SANTA FE 3

SANTA FE 4

RIO VISTA PAVILION

FOUNTAIN TERRACE

SIERRA 6

SIERRA 5

RIO VISTA GRAND BALLROOM

CABRILLO SALON 1

CABRILLO SALON 2

PRIVATE DINING ROOM (certification)

DEN RESTAURANT &

LOUNGE

HOTEL LOBBY

GUEST ROOM ELEVATORS

FRONT DESK

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Informix Centaurus

Early Validation Program Announcement You asked for it and we are pleased to announce the Informix Centaurus managed Early Validation Program (EVP),will include more features. Stay tuned and follow my blog for updates on kickoff, news program days and upcoming events. This will be a closed EVP with a limited number of participants. Participants will be expected to actively engage in testing and provide timely feedback on the EVP releases. You might also have the opportunity to participate in early product usability studies.

Program objectives The objectives of this Informix Centaurus EVP are:

To validate product acceptability (functionality, usability) with key customers and gather input for this and future releases

To validate General Availability (GA) readiness To provide direct customer input to development, marketing, and sales To identify early adopter reference accounts

Program Schedule

These are planned dates, however please note that they are subject to change, as planning progresses. (Dates subject to change)

Nominations required by July 30, 2012 Customer "Kick Off" call including education Sept Mid Month

Code Shipment Sept EOM

Support

The following support will be provided during the beta program:

Education: Will be provided as part of the formal beta "kick off" meeting. Please see the schedule above for dates, with further details later.

Documentation: All documentation will be provided in electronic format. Service: Advocate will be assigned to answer questions

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Participants Participant Selection Criteria

Willingness to accept the terms of an Early Projects legal agreement and a code license agreement Agreement to participate in status calls and provide regular feedback Ability to work with English versions of the product and publications Willingness and ability to apply resources to testing the EVP code Willingness/ability to configure an environment to utilize and test the product Compliance with the EVP product prerequisites

Nomination Process To nominate yourself for the Informix Centaurus managed Early Validation Program (EVP):

Please send email to Anita McKeithen (mckeithe@us.ibm.com) expressing your interest in participating in this program.

Contacts The managers for this program are:

Role Contact Telephone

Informix EVP Manager Anita McKeithen 913-599-7171

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General Sessions

All General Sessions will take place in the Exhibit Hall.

Monday, April 23

8:00 am – 9:15 am Jerry Keesee, Director of Informix Database Development – IBM

Jerry leads the Informix database portfolio software development efforts. Since joining IBM in 2001, Jerry has led his team in multiple releases of IBM Informix Dynamic Server as well as other products in the portfolio.

Prior to joining IBM, Jerry spent eight years with Informix where he was Vice President of Database Development. Jerry has more than 25 years of experience in leadership roles in the software industry. Jerry received a degree in computer science from Missouri Southern State College.

The Informix Way - Forever Relevant For A Growing Smarter Planet Jerry Keesee will once again deliver a keynote presentation providing his unique perspective on Informix development. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear how Informix clients and partners are using the newest Informix innovations, as well as key focus areas that are driving the Informix roadmap.

Tuesday, April 24

8:00 am – 9:15 am David Barnes, Strategy and Emerging Internet Technologies, IBM

Early in his career, David worked as both a hardware engineer and software engineer, focusing on IBM mainframes. During the birth of the PC in 1981 he became IBM's first official 'technology evangelist', traveling the world, updating customers on IBM's software strategy and relaying customer requirements back into IBM's development labs. Later David went on to lead IBM's evangelism and strategy efforts around Web services, SOA, and then IBM's WebSphere software offerings.

Most recently, David managed the IBM Solutions Experience Lab in Austin Texas, and the IBM Extreme Blue innovation laboratory, also in Austin. Today he is helping shape IBM's strategic efforts around innovation in Big Data and other emerging technologies.

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Big Data With the emergence of Big Data, new technologies have appeared that can gather and process massive amounts of information in a cost-effective way. These storage and processing technologies, such as Hadoop, have been the focus of attention in most Big Data discussions. Now, with new analytic solutions like IBM’s Jeopardy!-winning Watson, organizations are turning their attention to how analytic solutions can unlock the economic value of Big Data and provide actionable insights by putting powerful and easy to use tools in the hands researchers, business users, and domain experts. In this presentation, David Barnes, Program Director for IBM’s Emerging Internet Technologies group, will discuss how Big Data and analytics can be used to create solutions in fields ranging from medicine to sustainable power generation. He will also discuss some of the components that are essential to building out a Big Data strategy within both traditional IT and research organizations

Wednesday, April 25

8:00 am – 9:15 am Dr. Arvind Krishna, General Manger, Information Management – IBM

Dr. Arvind Krishna has responsibility for WW development for Information Management Software within IBM Software Group. Dr. Krishna defines the business & technical strategy, and is responsible for the development, delivery, sales, and ecosystem of the data management segment, a multibillion dollar market for IBM. Previously, Arvind was the VP, Strategy for IBM Software Group. Arvind has been in many other key roles within both IBM Software and IBM Research, e.g. defining and leading the security software segment. Arvind has an undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at

Urbana-Champaign. He is the recipient of a distinguished alumni award from the University of Illinois, and is the co-author of 15 patents. Martin J. Wildberger, Vice President, WW Information Management Development – IBM

Martin is the Vice President, WW Information Management Development. In this role he has responsibility for the worldwide development of IBM’s Information Management portfolio within IBM Software Group. Martin is responsible for defining the business and technical strategy for the development of the data management segment, a multi-billion dollar market for IBM. Martin is, responsible for the worldwide development of IBM’s Information Management portfolio.

Martin joined IBM in 1984 as a software developer inside the Toronto Lab after graduating from the University of Toronto with a degree in Electrical Engineering.

IBM - An Investment in Informix - Innovation for Champions Dr. Arvind Krishna and Martin Wildberger will host a keynote presentation which is sure to be a highlight of the conference. Plan to attend to hear how Informix fits within IBM’s larger IM strategy and how ongoing investments are delivering new value propositions to clients and partners alike. You will also have the opportunity to hear about important global advancements in Information Management, Big Data, and Business Analytics and Warehousing.

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Technical Sessions

Monday, April 23

9:30 am – 10:30 am

A01: Generate Reports using Excel - drivers not required Doug Lawry, Oninit Location: Sierra 5

Demonstration of techniques to enable self-refreshing Excel workbooks linked to Informix databases that don't need drivers or anything else installed on the client PC. Faster, cheaper and more flexible than reporting packages. More secure and controllable than ODBC, with configurable limits on rows returned and run time. Full support for enterable parameters. Data extraction can alternatively be run centrally in advance and results retrieved in Excel. ..

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B01: Informix SQL - Using New SQL Features Jeff Filippi, Integrated Data Consulting, LLC Location: Sierra 6

Give examples of how to use many of the new SQL features that have been added to 11.50 and 11.70 versions. Since there are many new SQL features, I will give examples on how they can be used in their database systems.

C01: Put your storage on a diet Scott Lashley, IBM Location: Balboa 1

Get the skinny on upcoming Informix compression technology for blobs and indexes. Includes discussion on performance impacts of using compression.

D01: Informix Warehouse Accelerator on Cluster Andreas Breitfeld, IBM Location: Balboa 2

The presentation shows a live demo of Informix Warehouse Accelerator (IWA) on a cluster of cheap computers. Main topics explained are: - hardware and software prerequisites to build a cluster of cheap computers for IWA - IWA configuration and administration for cluster operation - demo shows scaling of IWA for load and query tasks.

E01: Loading Data Warehouses without any Fancy Schmancy stuff Mike Walker, IBM Location: Santa Fe 3

This presentation will show how a robust and very flexible datamart load process can be written using nothing more than UNIX scripts and the standard Informix utilities - dbaccess, dbload, High Performance Loader and External Tables. This session will cover how to load multiple tables in parallel to maximize performance, validate the loads and follow best practices. It will also include suggestions for improving the flexibility of the datamart loads, and to simplify modifications.

F01: Data Warehousing Technology Trends - What You Need to Know Frederick Ho, IBM Location: Cabrillo Salon 2

There have been many changes in data warehouse technologies spanning a few generations, with recent trends toward columnar and in-memory databases. Learn what technologies are hot, why they matter, and how you can benefit from them.

G01: From I4GL to Genero - Modernization 101 Ramesh Srinivasan, IBM Location: Santa Fe 4

Modernizing legacy I4GL code is easy with Genero Studio and the BDL language. We will use Genero 2.40 and the Informix Stores demo database to demonstrate how to: - Import a migration project into Genero Studio - Re-compile and run the Stores demo applications with Genero BDL - Enhance the migrated application with Genero features - Enable the application for the web (time permitting).

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H01: Informix Warehouse Accelerator - Installation and Setup Sudhir Katke, IBM Location: Cabrillo Salon 1(A)

The Informix Warehouse Accelerator (IWA) is a workload optimized, appliance-like, add-on, that enables the integration of business insights into operational processes to drive winning strategies. It accelerates select queries, with unprecedented response times. This session will be used to explain the installation and setup of IWA software.

10:50 am – 11:50 am

A02: How To Achieve Leaps in Warehouse Query Performance with IDS Frederick Ho, IBM Location: Sierra 5

See how to get mind-blowing leaps in warehouse query performance in orders of magnitude with IDS Ultimate Warehouse Edition. The query timings also can potentially change the way we do application development since you wont have to work around some limitations. Informix Ultimate Warehouse Edition released this Spring enables OLTP customers to get performance leaps in orders of magnitude for their warehouse queries. Attendees will learn how to set up, which queries will get the performance benefit and how this blows the competition. It will also touch up on the change in application development methods that this opens up.

B02: Do--Stats Better - AUS pre-11.xx and doing AUS better than AUS Art Kagel, Advanced DataTools Corp Location: Sierra 6

The Informix Version 11.10 Auto Update Statistics feature is a good idea, but it is not available if your organization is still on an Informix version earlier than 11.10 or if you are using ANSI mode or non-logged databases. Learn how you can implement Auto Update Statistics in these environments. Even if you are using version 11.10 or later, AUS may be taking excessive resources to run and if you have large numbers of tables, the AUS Evaluator may never complete and your AUS runs may not be processing all tables. Learn how you can do AUS the "right" way.

C02: Writing C-UDR (User Defined Routine) the basics John Miller III, IBM Location: Balboa 1

A Want to write a C-UDR but not sure where to start? Want to write highly efficient procedures in the database engine? This presentation will focus on the basic of writing C-UDRs. Example will be given along with the do's and don't of writing C-UDRs. This includes an example of a datetime data type which automatically adjusts for timezones.

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D02: Support of Case Insensitivity in IDS Ajay Gupta, IBM Location: Balboa 2

When you query your data, you may wish your query to be case-sensitive, or you may wish to ignore upper and lower-case differences in data. In the past, IBM Informix databases were case-sensitive, and it required some effort to perform a case-insensitive search. Now with the latest release, Informix supports case-insensitive databases. This presentation will highlight on how to create a case-insensitive database and explore considerations for implementing check/unique constraints, using distinct searches, using group-by aggregate queries, implementing distributed queries, and more, in a case-insensitive database environment.

E02: All about Virtual Tables: The Secret of TimeSeries Pradeep Natarajan, IBM Location: Santa Fe 3

TimeSeries data is all the rage now! Even though Informix has supported TimeSeries data since the 90s, the rest of the world has just woken up to this fact. The functionality that makes TimeSeries processing possible is Virtual Table Interface (VTI). VTI is not just for TimeSeries data. It is an extensibility feature that allows the users to manipulate their own data type in very unique ways. In this session, the audience will have a chance to learn about VTI, how it enables TimeSeries, and how to take advantage of it.

F02: IBM Informix in the Social Media - A snapshot Louis Cherian, IBM Location: Cabrillo Salon 2

This session will present information as it relates to social media. The following topics will be discussed: 1. A snap shot of IBM Informix in the social media 2. Our growth in the past 1 year 3. Some of the highlights 4. How can we make this initiative better for all of us and Especially Informix, by helping each other.

G02: Desktop vs. Webtop Laurent Galais, 4J's Location: Santa Fe 4

Since many applications are moving to the Web, do we still need desktop applications ? With the emerging trend towards the Software as a Service (SaaS) business model, this is a hot topic that will drive architectural decisions. Join us for a high-level exploration of the pros and cons, technologies and challenges of developing desktop versus Rich Internet Architecture applications with Genero.

H02: How to Speed up Data Warehousing with Informix Warehouse Accelerator Andreas Weininger, IBM; Sandor Szabo Location: Cabrillo Salon 1(A)

The lab gives an overview of the Informix Warehouse Accelerator (IWA). It shows how to set up IWA in a cluster and in a non-cluster environment, and how to speed up queries with IWA. Best practices derived from several PoCs with IWA will be given to allow participant to get the best performance out of their IWA.

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1:05 pm – 2:05 pm

A03: Application Security For Informix Developers Tom Beebe, Advanced DataTools Corp Location: Sierra 5

You have heard about the ever growing frequency of companies in peril after web based attacks. This presentation will cover a number of the common mistakes that developers far too often make when writing web based database code. It can be trivial to secure your code if you know what to look for. Live examples of common exploits will be shown.

B03: Informix and Android: dbaccess, OAT, and more Marty Lurie, Cloudera Location: Sierra 6

Use the Android open platform to work on Informix! This session will provide a brief introduction to the Android OS. We'll then bring up dbaccess and some other command line options on the smartphone. Using browser capabilities we'll show OAT running on the phone. And we'll wrap up with a REST based web service to show native application development options to access Informix data.

C03: Eat OATs? Keeping Healthy with Informix’s Graphical OpenAdmin Tool John Miller III, IBM Location: Balboa 1

Understand the capabilities and architecture of OAT, OpenAdmin Tool for informix. This will be an overview of the capabilities of OAT, highlighting such things as, Replication, Query Tracing, Storage Optimization, Performance History Graphs, Auto Update Statistics, Space Management, along with the many other capabilities.

D03: An Overview and Discussion of Stored Procedures as User Defined Routines David Jay, IBM Location: Balboa 2

Being able to graph trends for each profiled event in the database will greatly enhance your performance analysis. You will be able to determine when a change occurred and show the impact on the database. You can show the need for additional resources (like CPU, memory, disk) and then be able to show the impact additional resources have had. You'll be able to research performance issues occurring at times you are not in front of a monitor. This presentation will cover real examples using trends from the database profile. Currently in IDS 11.50, there are 45 different database events profiled in the ‘sysmaster:sysprofile’ table, 19 buffer pool events in ‘sysmaster:sysbufpool’ and 13 table events in ‘sysmaster:sysptprof’. This presentation covers the database profile from sysprofile, but the same techniques can be used for other profiled events. An overview of how to implement these tools in your own environment will be covered using Perl, RRDTool, and stored procedures.

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E03: Maximizing Performance With Informix TimeSeries Kevin Brown, IBM Location: Santa Fe 3

Discover the latest best practices to optimize performance with Informix TimeSeries. - Create basic TimeSeries data in your database. - Use container pooling to spread container usage for optimal i/o. - Best practices when loading TimeSeries data. - Best practices when purging TimeSeries data. - Monitoring loads and purges to ensure maximum throughput. - Discuss practical lessons learned from the IBM/AMT-Sybex benchmark whitepaper.

F03: Enabling Social Media analytics with IBM Infosphere Biginsights Zach Zakharian, IBM Location: Cabrillo Salon 2

Social Media Analytics with InfoSphere BigInsights - Your customers are effectively leveraging social media to make informed purchasing decisions. Blogs, forums, twitter feeds are rife with discussions about your products. Are you leveraging this bank of information ? How do you make sense of all this unstructured data and effectively leverage this in your decision making. This session will focus on InfoSphere BigInsights as a platform and how it enables one to glean useful information from social media and other sources of unstructured information. The focus of this session will be on text analytics over unstructured data, and integration with existing Informix infrastructure. Why Enterprise customers are struggling to understand how to tackle analytics over social media. This session will give them an overview of BigInsights as a platform with emphasis on text analytics.

G03: Modernizing Case Studies Mark Rees, Century Software Location: Santa Fe 4

Century Software has migrated over 7 million lines of Informix 4GL legacy code to Genero. The expertise and tools developed by Century Software in porting their Enterprise Financial Suite to Genero has also been used to migrate other clients 4GL applications. This presentation via case studies and code examples will describe our methodology and tools for migrating a large codebase.

H03: Demo of IDS Security features Jonathan Leffler, IBM Location: Cabrillo Salon 1(A)

The audience would learn to setup any IDS security feature of their interest. IDS authentication mechanisms like Single Sign-On and PAM authentication need more machine specific setup before usage. This demo would show example setup for security features such as Single Sign-On, PAM authentication, Mapped users and SSL encryption.

2:15 pm – 3:15 pm

A04: Migrating from Mysql to Informix Tom Beebe, Advanced DataTools Corp Location: Sierra 5

If you have ever looked at an open source project and noticed that it required mysql yet again, don't fear, you can do something about it! This presentation will cover the basics of moving data from mysql to Informix, will compare some of the differences between the two engines, and cover some of the code changes that will need to happen to migrate an application from mysql to Informix.

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B04: Exploring and Understanding Flexible Grid for your industry using real customer scenarios Tom Rieger, IBM; Rajesh Nair Location: Sierra 6

Flexible Grid is often confused to be a problem for complicated requirements. This session will take the audience through building up the requirements : 1)from a simple HA primary-secondary environment , 2) an existing ER deployment and 3) multiple independent deployments that can benefit by defining a grid environment. The session will use real-life scenarios from various industry/customer scenarios that highlight the industry's business challenge, an existing configuration and how using capabilities of Flexible Grid, the customer can address current challenges or gain new benefits.

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C04: Informix High-Performance Federated Database System Yunming Wang, IBM Location: Balboa 1

Informix high-performance federated database system refers to the integration of the Informix Dynamic Server and the Informix Enterprise Gateway for DRDA or ODBC. It allows Informix users to interoperate with non-Informix database systems transparently as if the underlying target DBMS appear to both client and server applications as an instance of Informix. You can integrate data from Informix and almost every heterogeneous database, such as DB2, Oracle, MySQL, etc. This presentation will cover everything you need to know about the Informix Enterprise Gateway for DRDA and ODBC, including the architecture, installation, configuration, administration, and troubleshooting

D04: Query rewrite performance for Views and Derived Tables Ajay Gupta, IBM; Keshav Murthy Location: Balboa 2

When you have large tables and ANSI joins inside Views or Derived tables, IDS will perform Query rewrite to provide maximum performance benefits. Learn various techniques in query rewrite area. This presentation will provide examples and sqexplain information in different customer environment.

E04: Informix Enterprise Gateway Jacob Shadix Location: Santa Fe 3

Presentation includes an overview of gateway concepts, terminology, and practical usage. Dive into the installation, configuration, and security components of the Informix Gateway and resurface with a unique perspective on all things gateway.

F04: Informix and open source: big data with Hadoop Marty Lurie, Clodera Location: Cabrillo Salon 2

Planning to implement a big data solution and not sure where to start? Massively Parellel Processing (MPP), Hadoop, NoSQL - what does it all mean and how do you know the right solution for your requirements? This session will explore these technologies and includes some hands-on testing and demos.

G04: What's new in Genero 2.40? Laurent Galais, 4J's Location: Santa Fe 4

Join us for an interactive overview and demonstration of the new features in Genero 2.40. Find out about the latest language, Web, desktop and application generator features provided in this latest release of Genero.

H04: Test Drive some of the notable new Informix 11.70 features Rakesh Naik, IBM Location: Cabrillo Salon 1(A)

Rather than just reading about new Informix features, actually implementing and testing those features goes a long way in understanding what the feature is all about, how it works, what it takes to implement, and whether it would be practical in your production environment. In this hands-on-lab, you will work with some of the more noteworthy new features in 11.70 including transaction completion during cluster failover, automatic storage provisioning, defragmenting partitions, flexible grid setup and management, quickly clone a primary server, convert cluster servers to ER nodes, fragment level statistics + update statistics, interval fragmentation, multi-index scans, and some of the new built-in scheduler tasks including automatically terminate idle sessions and notification of corrupt indexes. With each feature, you will learn how to monitor related information using command line utilities and/or OAT.

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A05: Exploring the system catalogues Jack Parker, Cisco Location: Sierra 5

With the advent of data warehousing and its requirement for information about data, there has been a great deal of focus on metadata. Much of it deals with external repositories, and many have forgotten or do not realize that substantial metadata already exists within any Informix© SQL database in the system catalogs. Furthermore, knowledge of the system catalogs is a highly useful tool for the day-to-day maintenance of the database. This discussion will walk through what is available in the system catalogues and how that information can prove useful.

B05: WebData Blade Paul Watson, Oninit Location: Sierra 6

The Web Datablade ships with the engine and is the easiest and simplest way to generate database driven web applications. This presentation will cover the installation and configuration and show how simple table maintenance pages can be written in a couple of minutes.

C05: Informix Applications Uncovered on iOS Jacques Roy, IBM Location: Balboa 1

The presentation will cover iOS support for Informix. Business / Utility / Gaming Applications can be seamlessly written to Support Informix as the backend. The development environment used on iOS via open source, web services etc. will be detailed for application development. Commercial vendors in the space will be detailed additionally. DBA's can manage the Informix Servers on their iPhones. The upcoming vNext Genero stack integration on Smartphones will be covered in conjunction to the above. The whole new associated Smartphone business opportunity will be uncovered.

D05: Informix PDQ - pretty darn quick Jeffrey Bohm, IBM Location: Balboa 2

This presentation goes into the what, when, how, and why of Parallel Data Queries (PDQ). It explains what PDQ is, when to use it, how to use it and of course why should it be used. This also includes a few slides on the Informix Warehouse Accelerator (IWA) as an extension/alternative to DSS queries that can benefit from PDQ.

E05: Maximizing DBA Resources with Database Autonomics Tom Rieger, IBM Location: Santa Fe 3

The more a data server can automatically sense and respond to change without human intervention, means DBA resources can do more. This helps keep costs down while ensuring reliable and robust operations. This session will examine what "self configuring", "self healing", and "self managing" mean, and how organizations can take advantage of autonomic data management capabilities.

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F05: Improve database development productivity & save tooling cost by using IBM Data Studio Lakshman Sakaray, IBM Location: Cabrillo Salon 2

Presentation will take a customer user case and go thru each step of development how IBM Data Studio going to help to improve the productivity of Informix users. IBM Data Studio has something to offer for each type of users, demo for Java developers the rich Eclipse development Integrated development environment and utilities and tools to support Java application database development. For SQL developer and Administrator users how the IBM Data Studio going to help to improve productivity by using various features like object management explorer, powerful stored procedure debugger and deployment manager to deploy multiple scripts on test and production database at once. We will also go thru the customer experiences how enterprise customers savings thousand of dollars by using free IBM Data Studio and support. How Independent Software Vendor users can make use of its various platform support for Informix, Sybase, Oracle, DB2 LUW, DB2 Z and Derby instead of paying for various tools.

G05: Software-as-a-Service with the Genero PaaS Stephen Sykes Location: Santa Fe 4

Cloud as-a-Service platforms are being rapidly adopted by enterprises to deliver more agile IT services, and ISVs must develop Software-as-a-Service offerings to maintain and grow market share in a competitive cloud world. This session will discuss the path forward for ISVs and enterprises who wish to leverage the cloud and develop Genero based Software-as-a-Service offerings.

H05: Analysis of Implementing Storage Compression in an Embedded Enterprise Replication Environment Scott Lashley, IBM Location: Cabrillo Salon 1(A)

We performed a case study with a customer's environment and data that gave us very positive results with Storage compression. This study will help our user community decide the benefits to them. The first session will deal with the steps to enable Storage Compression and what to monitor. Attendees will perform the changes on a 2 node ER pair. The second session will deal with analysis of the results and when to enable the feature and if time permits other tuning trials.

4:45 pm – 5:45 pm

A06: A customer explores the sysadmin database Jack Parker, Cisco Location: Sierra 5

The sysadmin database provides some new functionality to the Informix product and a rich new environment to explore. Come listen to such an explorer report back on his findings. This is useful to two communities 1 - colleagues who want to take advantage of the features and want to hear from a fellow traveler, 2 - from the IBM developers standpoint to understand how their features have been interpreted in the field.

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B06: Using Informix dynamic server compatibility features Ramesh Srinivasan, IBM Location: Sierra 6

Over the years Informix server have been supporting many compatibility features which will help the customers move from other database vendors to IBM Informix database servers. In recent years , we have seen support of many such features. The presentation will cover explanation and best usage practices of compatibility features like Sequences , MERGE INTO , CONNECT BY , built-in functions like RADIANS() , SUBSTRING_INDEX() , XPS API functions , star join optimization etc.

C06: Informix implementation on Farmaceutical distribution company: HDR, ER, Hardware Vicente Salvador, DEISTER Location: Balboa 1

Fedefarma is a Large Pharmaceutical distribution Company. This presentation, shows how Informix is used in a distribution company environment with more than 350,000 order lines each day and 7 warehouses around the country. Customer experience transforming their legacy multiDB centralized systems to ER-Informix that allows centralized analysis and distributed processing transparently. Hot Topics: HDR, ER, Data centralization, Offline processing, Datawarehouse.

D06: Automatic database tuning and monitoring with Informix Sanjit Chakraborty, IBM Location: Balboa 2

This session will explain how Informix can helps enterprises better manage their database administration operations, reducing down-times as well as the overall time taken in database management. We will discuss: - Different automatic tuning features available with Informix. For example: automatic readahead, checkpoint, virtual processes, LRU, re-optimize SQL routines etc.. - Different database administration activities that can manage dynamically. For example: dynamically defragment partition extents, automatic update statistics, dynamic configuration changes, dynamic logical logs, PDQ, query explain, optimizing data storage etc.

E06: PHP and Informix Jacques Roy, IBM Location: Santa Fe 3

This session introduces PHP and its use in the marketplace. It then continues to cover the different ways it can be used to access Informix and provides examples of how it is coded. After this session, participants should be able to quickly create a PHP program that accesses Informix..

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F06: Beyond Relational - Leveraging User Defined Data Types and Routines to Develop Advanced Applications Madison Pruet, IBM Location: Cabrillo Salon 2

The development of some of today's most advanced applications requires an extentsion of the relational data model to include more complex data types. Many of these applications pose new functionality and performance requirements as well, such as with multi-media web applications, geographic information systems, and time series applications. This session will give an overview of data management requirements for complex data types, and will attempt to demystify to concepts of user-defined data types and routines.

G06: Genero Deployment Strategies Oscar Vera Location: Santa Fe 4

Should you be deploying with the Genero Application Server? Should you be deploying with SSH, SSL? This session examines the deployment of web applications and web services with a look at performance, security, and authentication.

H06: TimeSeries Data Type: Know It Better Pradeep Natarajan, IBM Location: Cabrillo Salon 1(A)

In this hands-on lab, you gain firsthand experience in using the Informix TimeSeries server extension to enhance and manage huge quantities of time stamped stream data to get maximum performance and storage saving compared to other competitor database. This technology forms the heard of the smart metering solution offered by IBM-Informix.

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A07: Overcoming Performance Challenges - [Your organization]'s Got Talent Nadir Doctor, United Healthcare Location: Sierra 5

Performance Tuning Made Easy - Performance tuning is hard, everyone knows that. Attend this performance sequel show session for a fast track to desired performance. It will discuss several tips, techniques & tricks for a varied audience of developers, dbas, architects, system administrators & managers and provide an excellent guide to obtaining optimal performance. Leave this session knowing what actions to take when you get back to work on Monday. Objective 1: Focus on system performance Objective 2: Focus on application performance Objective 3: Focus on database performance Objective 4: Focus on writing efficient sql Objective 5: Provide an A-to-Z checklist for an overall IDS Health Check.

B07: Using XML capability in Informix dynamic server John Paul To, IBM Location: Sierra 6

Informix dynamic server has been XML capable database for few years. This presentation will explain the XML functionality of IDS and how best it can be used in the application world. Main topics to discuss will be , XML publishing , XPATH evaluation functions , XSL transformation functions etc. There is good amount of customer base which use the XML functionality from few years and continue to do so in future. The XML functionality is fully supported in some of the key platforms like Linux , Solaris , HP , HP Itanium, AIX, Windows 32 bit.

C07: Dude, Where's My Buffer? Tom Girsch Location: Balboa 1

Revised, corrected, and expanded from last year, this presentation covers how to monitor and manage the buffer pool, deal with contention issues, and generally understand what's happening with your buffers. It covers how to look at the buffer pool using both onstat and SMI, and should allow time for a free-form question-and-answer session.

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D07: Best practice for database object placement Sanjit Chakraborty, IBM Location: Balboa 2

Informix allows you to control the placement of databases objects across physical storage devices. A poor database objects placement can cause significant performance impact. This presentation will discuss how users can achieve optimal database performance by : - Intelligent disk layout - Table-location and partition strategy - Consideration index performance - Impact of logical logs and physical logs size and location - Deal with smart large objects.

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E07: I4GL to Genero – In the Trenches Randall Johnson, Strategy 7 Location: Santa Fe 3

This session focuses on practical considerations for upgrading your I4GL applications to the new IBM Genero language. It is based on scenarios encountered with actual client I4GL programs, where upgrades to Genero resulted in significant advances in ease of use and greatly enhanced access to information. The session addresses two primary concerns most clients encounter:

What is the minimum I need to do to get to Genero How can I easily take advantage of Genero functionality to make my system more useful

The session addresses technical implementation details, and is oriented toward the software developer with existing experience with I4GL. Topics include:

Getting Started – Making I4GL work in the new Genero environment o Screen changes o 4GL Changes o Database Changes

Modernization o Screens

Widgets Containers Additional Actions Dynamic UI changes

o 4GL Changes Built-In Classes Access to Additional Databases

o Other Additions Web Services Genero Web Client.

F07: Informix in the Cloud Mahesh Dashora, IBM Location: Cabrillo Salon 2

Informix already exists in the cloud. This talk will discuss the common cloud providers and describe how Informix can be deployed in each of them.

G07: UI Design Concepts for Genero Applications Shannon Wallner Location: Santa Fe 4

Do you need a crash course in Graphical User Interface design? If you’ve moved from developing for “green screens” to a graphical desktop or web environment, this session is for you. We’ll look at graphical user interface (GUI) concepts and standards and how to apply them to your Genero applications. We’ll also explore common mistakes ASCII-oriented developers make when moving to a GUI environment. You’ll leave with a checklist that you can apply to your applications to easily identify and resolve common GUI mistakes.

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H07: The Beauty of Informix Disk Structures Andreas Legner, IBM Location: Cabrillo Salon 1(A)

The simple beauty of Informix disk pages their various contents and how they play together is one of my favorite topics. Occasionally it’s good to know a bit about them. I'll present on and have people look at these evergreen subjects

- chunks - pages and their structure - page types - all sorts of spaces, physical and logical logs - data and index partitions - compression internals - timeseries on-disk representation (if I make it this far) - SMI interface to disk structures - migration and platform aspects - all people ever wanted to know

Besides bundled utilities like oncheck and SMI, a support tool called 'onion' will be used that allows for that certain something that traditional tools sometimes are missing.

10:50 am – 11:50 am

A08: A Guide to Securing the Database Noa Bar-Yosefo, Imperva; Rob Rachwald Location: Sierra 5

The enterprise database infrastructure houses a gold mine of information highly coveted by malicious hackers and spiteful insiders. As database threats escalate and the government tightens compliance regulations, the need for database security is imperative. Imperva's own research organization, the Application Defense Center (ADC), has identified the top 10 most dangerous threats affecting today's organizations, as well as provided background and general risk mitigation strategies. Included among the Top 10 list are the following three threats:

• Excessive Privilege Abuse: When users (or applications) are granted database access privileges that exceed the requirements of their job function, these privileges may be abused for malicious purpose. • SQL Injection: When a perpetrator inserts (or injects) unauthorized database statements into a vulnerable SQL data channel. • Denial of Service: When access to network applications or data is denied to intended users.

B08: Faster, faster and then slow - performance measurements for an Informix instance Michael Pintus,IBM Location: Sierra 6

This talk is aimed at customers new to Informix and will be building up on the information provided in "up and down around we go". This session will focus on measurement helpful to investigate the performance of an Informix instance. Examples will be taken from real life problems support has dealt with during the last year.

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C08: Performance Monitoring using Health Advisor OAT Plugin Darin Tracy, IBM Location: Balboa 1

Using the Health Advisor Oat Plugin to monitor and improve performance for the Informix Dynamic Server.

D08: Is your Linux system ready for Informix database? Sanjit Chakraborty, IBM Location: Balboa 2

Problem is not always resided inside the database. It can lies within the operating system. Is your Red Hat Enterprise Linux system optimally configured for Informix? This presentation is a step by step guide for tuning and optimizing Red Hat Enterprise Linux running Informix database. It covers following topics on Linux:

- Kernel Upgrades - Kernel Boot Parameters - Memory Usage and Page Cache - Swap Space - Setting Shared Memory and Semaphores - Setting File Handles - Adjusting Network Settings - Setting Shell Limits for the Informix User - Enabling Asynchronous I/O Support - Configuring I/O for Raw Partitions - Large Memory Optimization.

E08: Modernizing your 4GL application using Lycia Hubert Hölzl, Querix Location: Santa Fe 3

Lycia is a complete 4GL development solution giving you all the necessary tools for your daily development tasks. We will be illustrating some of the most common task of modernizing a 4GL application using Lycia.

‐ Utilizing extended 4GL functions and methods to control the graphical user interface ‐ Running your applications with Desktop and Web clients ‐ Debugging your application using the interactive graphical debugger ‐ Creating a graphical XML form using the LyciaFormDesigner ‐ Consuming and providing Web Services ‐ Designing an application theme using the LyciaThemeDesigner ‐ Generating a graphical business report using LyciaBI

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F08: Seamless Installation and Deployment of Informix software Sudhir Katke, IBM Location: Cabrillo Salon 2

Installation via GUI, command line, RPM or Response files.

G08: Business Application Modeling in Genero Part 1 Christophe Meyer Location: Santa Fe 4 Business Application Modeling tools shipped with Genero Studio provide a high productivity environment for creating business application from design models rather than coding. The pre-defined template set shipped with the product permits the development of applications with complex forms implementing CRUD, master-detail, lookups, and zoom modules, as well as complex reports which support (as default) export to PDF, Excel, and RTF. Learn how to take advantage of the power of these tools using the default template to create fully functional applications in a just few clicks.

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H08: Limber Up: Flexible Grid for the Stiff Nicholas Geib, IBM Location: Cabrillo Salon 1(A)

You’ve used Informix for years, no decades. You’re a master. What about all that replication technology? Well you’re heard about it, know a little about, but just scratched the surface. Can it really replicate DML and DDL? Do all I really need to know is SQL? Is it possible to work with multiple servers as easily as a single one? Could it help my business? This Hands-On Lab explores various aspects of the Flexible Grid in a way that gives the stiff and rigid time to warm up.

1:05 pm – 2:05 pm

A09: Insights from the Top 10 Database Breaches of the Past Year Noa Bar-Yosef, Imperva; Rob Rachwald Location: Sierra 5

The cost of a data breach continues to rise. Last year was the first time data theft exceeded the loss of physical assets in dollar value. This talk will present data breach findings from the past three years and investigate trends in incidents. The presentation will also explore the top ground-breaking database breaches of the past year. The selected breaches represent a blend of innovative attacks, updated vectors, and good old entertaining hacks. Each attack has one common thread: all proved costly for enterprises and governments. How can organizations reduce these costs and prevent such breaches? By comparing data breaches in 2010 to those in 2011 this talk will present a clear statistical graph on the state of today’s database breaches. Based on lessons from this past year, this presentation will provide security practitioners guidance for their 2011-2012 database security initiatives.

B09: Doing Storage Better Art Kagel, Advanced DataTools Corp Location: Sierra 6

Planning your next storage subsystem for your server? Choosing between alternatives such as: RAW Devices -vs- COOKED Devices -vs- Filesystem Files Normal IO -vs- DIRECT IO (-vs- CONCURRENT IO on AIX) RAID5 -vs- RAID10 Disk -vs- SSD With so many options and combinations, what are the trade-offs? This presents the results of actual testing and real results.

C09: Index Design: Myths, Realities, and Magic Martin Hubel, MHC Inc. Location: Balboa 1

Many applications enter production with sub-optimal indexing strategies. Regardless of the reasons for this, performance can be substantially improved if indexes are designed or redesigned to better match the needs of the application, to reduce search times, and to avoid sorts. This presentation will review index structure, and discuss a number of ways to use and redesign indexes without affecting application integrity.

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D09: Best Practices in .NET development with Informix Brent Gross, IBM Location: Balboa 2

This presentation focuses on application development in .NET with Visual Studio 2010 and .NET providers available for Informix servers. Application development techniques are presented for both windows apps and web apps, both traditional ADO.NET as well as the Entity Framework - enabling LINQ applications. This presentation also discusses schema evolution available within Visual Studio as well as common pitfalls and how to avoid them. Finally - direction is given relative to future priorities.

E09: Genero. The Future of 4GL Bryn Jenkins, Four Js Development Tools Ltd. Location: Santa Fe 3

The computer industry has witnessed many disruptive technologies over the last 50 years from mainframes through client-server to the Internet and now the Cloud. This session lays out Four Js vision and describes its role in the next wave of computing.

Genero. The Future of 4GL.

Modernize your IBM Informix 4GL applications quickly

Reduce costs and risk

Protect investments in skills and code

Focus on developing new value 5 to 10 times faster

Deploy on desktops, webtops, smartphones and the Cloud

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F09: Informix Roadmap - 2012 and Beyond Mahesh Dashora, IBM Location: Cabrillo Salon 2

IBM has delivered many Informix innovations in the past few years, enabling significant business benefits for clients and partners. This session will examine where Informix is relative to the data management market, where we expect to go in 2012, and will provide a glimpse of the ongoing strategy for continuing to enable smarter solutions.

G09: Creating a Web Service with Genero / Interoperating with Java and Web Services Florencia Vitale Location: Santa Fe 4

Transforming your existing 4GL business logic into a Web Services application and deploying it to the world. Integrating Genero in your Enterprise Environment. This would focus on leveraging your 4GL based components in other applications across the enterprise.

H09: Crash course on Enterprise Replication Vijay Lolabattu, TBD Location: Cabrillo Salon 1(A)

This presentation will give you introductory information on Informix Enterprise replication. Quick architectural overview on how ER works(source/target/replication queues etc.)? How to setup and ER and start replicating. ER related configuration parameters. Onstats to monitor ER.

2:15 pm – 3:15 pm

A10: Exercising with IDS and Perl Nadir Doctor, United Healthcare Location: Sierra 5

Perl is now a popular open source & versatile cross-platform programming language which is no longer just for text processing. It has grown into a sophisticated, general- purpose programming language with a rich software development environment complete with debuggers, profilers, cross-references, compilers, interpreters, libraries, syntax-directed editors and all other trappings of a "real" programming language. People know that they can be creative in Perl because they have freedom of expression. Computer languages differ not so much in what they make *possible*, but in what they make easy. Perl is *different*. In a nutshell, Perl is designed to make easy jobs easy, and hard jobs possible. This session will provide a brief discussion of how to use IDS with Perl. It will cover some Perl basics, advantages of scripting with Perl, connecting to databases, selecting & modifying data, creation of Perl modules & utilizing them to reuse code.

B10: Live Platform Migration of Informix – The British Sky Broadcasting Experience Nicholas Geib, IBM; Andrew Curry Location: Sierra 6

Does moving production database servers from Solaris on Sparc to Red Hat on AMD sound like a challenge? Well how about doing this with minimal downtime? This Fall we undertook this project, and thanks to teamwork, careful planning, and powerful Informix technologies like High Performance Loader (HPL) and Enterprise Replication (ER) achieved some results worth talking about.

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C10: Migrating a VLDB Informix to 11.70 with zero downtime using ER and Compression feature Celso Cabral Coimbra, Cleatech Ltda Location: Balboa 1

Migrating a Very Large Informix Database to a new box using version 11.70 with zero downtime using Enterprise Replication and deep compression feature in the target database. Moving from a Solaris box using Informix 11.50 to a Linux Red Hat box using Informix 11.70 reorganizing the fragmentation strategy and without enough space to load all the data uncompressed in the target database. All the tables in the legacy database 11.50 are compressed as well.

D10: Basic Text Search Kate Tomchik Location: Balboa 2

A presentation on how to set up the BTS blade for your environment followed by examples of how the Searches work.

E10: Presenting, Designing, and Implementing an Integrated Data Warehouse using Informix and Cognos Ron Flannery, One Point Solutions Location: Santa Fe 3

Does your management constantly ask you to create spreadsheets rather than focusing on your “real” job? Do you have challenges integrating data from your Informix and other data sources? Would a dashboard-driven drill-down environment help your company grow and understand its business in this competitive world? One Point Solutions will explain what it costs companies in time and profits, and how to use Informix, Cognos, and other IBM tools to resolve it. Using a real-world One Point Solutions success story for Superior Manufacturing in Chicago, He will explain: the process of presenting and “selling” the idea to management; identifying the company’s true business needs; designing, populating and implementing the data warehouse and associated Cognos reports and dashboards. We’ll also help you unravel the diverse IBM licensing options so you can identify only what you need, concluding with a real-world demo of how we created and implemented both the warehouse, reports, and dashboards.

F10: Ensuring Business Continuity with Always-On Data Access Tom Rieger, IBM Location: Cabrillo Salon 2

Continuous access to business information can rarely be achieved with a “one-size-fits-all” solution. A business employing 10 people requires information availability on a much different scale than a corporation of thousands. And, as businesses grow and expand across geographies, their information infrastructure needs the flexibility to meet new business opportunities without missing a beat. This session will examine different options and technologies for achieving high availability without breaking the bank.

G10: RESTful Genero applications Mark Rees, Century Software Location: Santa Fe 4

The Genero programming language has supported SOAP web service consumption and provision for many years. But Representational State Transfer (REST) has gained acceptance across the Web as an alternative to SOAP Web services. Google, Facebook, and Yahoo either deprecating or removing their SOAP services and replacing with RESTful web services is proof of this trend. So how can you use Genero to participate in this RESTful environment. This presentation will show (with code examples) how to consume and provide a RESTFul web service using the Genero Web Service COM library. Also the handling of non XML payloads like JSON will be discussed.

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H10: Crash course on Enterprise Replication Vijay Lolabattu, TBD Location: Cabrillo Salon 1(A)

This presentation will give you introductory information on Informix Enterprise replication. Quick architectural overview on how ER works(source/target/replication queues etc.)? How to setup and ER and start replicating. ER related configuration parameters. Onstats to monitor ER.

3:35 pm – 4:35 pm

A11: Data Integration with Informix Rob Beal, IBM Location: Sierra 5

Today, the Informix database shares the data environment with other databases and non-relational sources of data. This presentation will explore the many different ways to get data into and out of Informix. We will discuss tools that are native to Informix, and those that are not. Most experienced DBAs will have used some of the tools discussed in this presentation, but there will probably be one or two that you have not used, but wanted to check out, and possibly one or two you never heard of. The purpose of this presentation is to provide a short overview of the tools, when and why to use them, and directions on where to find more information.

B11: Onlog Paul Watson, Oninit Location: Sierra 6

onlog has been around since the product was first released, however most people don't or won't use it as the output can be hard to interpret. This presentation will show how onlog can be used as a forensic tool to determine what has occurred.

C11: Implementing Database Encryption with Informix Mark Jamison, IBM Location: Balboa 1

This presentation compares the various methods of Database encryption "at rest" and then discusses implementing encryption using IBM's Database Encryption Expert.

D11: How to combine Informix TimeSeries with the Informix Warehouse Accelerator for analytic performance Kevin Brown, IBM; Andreas Weininger Location: Balboa 2

The Informix time series data type has been already optimized for performance and storage requirements of time stamped data in operational data stores. For some specific in depth analytic requirements, based on the stored time series data, it might be beneficial to offload some of those data into the Informix Warehouse Accelerator to gain additional query performance. This session will discuss some use cases when it might be appropriate to consider the combination of Informix time series data with the Informix Warehouse Accelerator. In addition it will introduce the technical steps required to make such a combination happen.

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E11: To Be Determined Location: Santa Fe 3

To be determined.

F11: A Case Study of the German Aerospace Center: Using Satellite Imagery to Help Build A Smart Alexander Koerner, IBM Location: Cabrillo Salon 2

The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), acquires information from imaging satellites to help provide rapid response to major world disasters. This session will look at the myriad of requirements and technologies used to provide smarter data to authorities and aid workers alike. Management System (DIMS).

G11: Designing Graphical Reports with Genero Studio Part I Shawn Moe, IBM Location: Santa Fe 4

In this session, you will learn about the feature set of the Genero Report Writer and how to publish and design graphical reports: invoices, accounting reports, pre-printed forms, labels, and more. This session will demonstrate the steps for creating graphical reports using report wizards and output reports to various formats (pdf, image, MS Excel, and so on).

H11: Limber Up: Flexible Grid for the Stiff Nicholas Geib, IBM Location: Cabrillo Salon 1(A)

You’ve used Informix for years, no decades. You’re a master. What about all that replication technology? Well you’re heard about it, know a little about, but just scratched the surface. Can it really replicate DML and DDL? Do all I really need to know is SQL? Is it possible to work with multiple servers as easily as a single one? Could it help my business? This Hands-On Lab explores various aspects of the Flexible Grid in a way that gives the stiff and rigid time to warm up.

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4:45 pm – 5:45 pm

A12: Debugging java udrs: a primer Lakshman Sakaray, IBM Location: Sierra 5

Modern database engines allow developers to design user defined routines in a multitude of languages. Though most languages are specific to a single database engine, Java is available in most, which makes it a viable proposition for this reason alone. Sounds interesting? Not all that glitters is gold though: the other side of the coin is that debugging java udrs running inside a database engine is not as straight forward as debugging standalone ones. This presentation steps through the basics of getting a java debugger to look under the covers of a java udr as it runs inside an Informix Dynamic Server instance.

B12: Add a Python to your Informix programming toolbox Mark Rees, Century Software Location: Sierra 6

Python is an open-source, dynamically typed, object-oriented programming language. It offers an easy learning curve and access to a vast array of libraries including Informix database access. With implementations available for most operating systems as well as the versions that run under the Java and .NET virtual machines, you can add Python to your Informix database administration and application programming toolbox. The presentation will give an overview of the Python programming language, discuss the Python DBI and the libraries that allow access to Informix databases. Code examples will also be provided and explained.

C12: Troubleshooting and tuning Informix I/O performance Vijay Lolabattu, IBM Location: Balboa 1

Often times database I/O can be a bottleneck in application performance. This presentation will help identify where those bottlenecks are and how to overcome the problem. This presentation will show how to narrow down the I/O related problems to specific databases/tables/sessions/physical log/logical log etc.. What tools(onstats, SQL, OAT) you can use to troubleshoot and how? What configuration parameters affect the I/O and how to fine tune.

D12: Informix Warehouse and Pentaho Open Source Business Intelligence Lester Knutsen, Advanced DataTools Corporation Location: Balboa 2

Pentaho is the open source business intelligence leader. Thousands of organizations globally depend on Pentaho to make faster and better business decisions that positively impact their bottom lines. The Pentaho BI Suite provides a full spectrum of data integration and business intelligence (BI) capabilities including ETL, OLAP, query and reporting, interactive analysis, dashboards, data mining and a BI platform that has made it the world's most popular open source BI suite. We will how you how to setup Pentaho with Informix and get started building a data warehouse using Open Source Software.

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E12: Making Smart Metering Smarter: TimeSeries to the Rescue - A case study Shawn Moe, IBM; Anup Nair Location: Santa Fe 3

This session explores the solution implemented at a large utility industry (Energy and Utility ) while migrating to Informix using Time Series data type, that enabled them to cut the storage cost in half with increase in performance and reduction of total cost of ownership.

F12: Case Study for TPC-C Informix Innovator-C benchmarks Eric Vercelletto Location: Cabrillo Salon 2

300 TPC-C terminal sessions on a low range server with Informix Innovator-C? you bet ?” A large number of Informix users have been wondering about how much load would Informix Innovator-C handle. This session will provide you with the answer.

G12: Developing a mobile application in Genero David Jay, IBM Location: Santa Fe 4

A step by step guide to developing a functional mobile application in Genero.

H12: Hands-On Lab for On-line Data Migration from native codeset to UTF8 for 24/7 business Paul-John To, IBM; Brian Cahill Location: Cabrillo Salon 1(A)

When organizations go global. there is a need for central database to accept data from multiple languages to simplify data management tasks, and to make quick business decisions. For this reasons organizations would like to migrate data stored in native codeset to UTF8. This is a challenging task for 24/7 businesses to make data available for business "all the time" while migrating data to UTF8. Using IBM Informix Enterprise Replication technology, organizations can migrate and consolidate data stored in native codeset format to UTF8 with zero down time to data and applications. This Hands-On Lab helps audience to just start on how to setup Enterprise Replication and migrate data to UTF8 codeset without downtime to applications and data, and also troubleshoot problems while migrating data.

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Wednesday, April 25

9:30 am – 10:30 am

A13: Best Practices for Upgrades with Large Deployment Requirements Jeremy Bowman, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Location: Sierra 5

Points that will be covered include upgrade goals across a large enterprise, best practices in performing upgrades in such a way as to end up with standard layouts and configurations across the enterprise as a condition of success, and how to work with the business and technical customers to ensure success while overcoming obstacles like switching operating systems on the fly, Informix bugs, lost source code and high availability systems that can have no or minimal downtime.

B13: Update Statistics and related FAQ's from 11.70 Hyun-Ju Vega, IBM Location: Sierra 6

Since 11.10, there has been continuous improvements to the Update Statistics commands, as well as improvements to the way table and index statistics are collected. In 11.70, the new "smarter statistics", fragment-level statistics, and update statistics low performance improvement features were introduced. This presentation is a Quick Summary Guide of the new landscape of update statistics and query plans in 11.70, based on questions asked by customers. For example, if you are upgrading, you may be wondering what changes need to be made in monitoring. For upgraded, new, and existing 11.70 instances, you may be wondering how best to make sure update statistics is run efficiently, taking advantage of the new features and improvements.

C13: What's inside Informix shared memory Vijay Lolabattu, IBM Location: Balboa 1

This presentation will give an in-depth understanding of Informix shared memory(Resident, Virtual, messagig) components. Will provide details and different types of bufferpools. How memory allocation happens for sessions and how it grows. What onconfig parameters control the shared memory. What onstat commands can be used to monitor shared memory. Internal tables and thread specific memory information. How stacks are allocated and how stack size can be controlled.

D13: Never Hard-Code Anything, Ever! Darryl Priest, Advanced DataTools Location: Balboa 2

This session will discuss how to avoid the pitfalls of hard-coding in code. Examples will be shown in many different forms, SQL, Shell, Perl, etc.

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E13: Informix Bells WallStreet! Michael Pintus; IBM Location: Santa Fe 3

In times where the Global economic backbone WallStreet is more intensely technologically challenged than ever in the past decade, Informix is fully geared to be the database choice. The presentation walks thorough the recent additions of Flexible Grid, TimeSeries and the Warehouse Accelerator wrt to WallStreet or other global Stock Exchange requirements. Grid has enabled the connected exchanges to seamless inter-operate while Time Series is ticking all volatile market movements with half the data storage … Informix Grid enables server and storage resources to be added to or removed from the system without requiring complicated configuration changes, thereby enabling flexible deployment that avoids the problems inherent in the fixed topology model. Stock Financial Analysis is now more readily processed with Informix Warehouse Accelerator. The presentation provides live demos of "Belling the WallStreet"!.

F13: Using Predictive Analytics With Informix Priya Govindarajan, IBM Location: Cabrillo Salon 2

IBM SPSS and other vendors, e.g. Pentaho, provides a set of data and predictive analytic tools for business users, analysts and statistical programmers. This presentation will see how predictive analytics and visualization tools can be used. A demo will include application of predictive analytic tools on a sample dataset for Informix Warehouse Accelerator.

G13: HTML5 . The Universal Client for Web, Desktop, Mobile and Tablets Olivier Imbert, IBM Location: Santa Fe 4

This session examines how to use Snippets, CSS3 & Javascript customization with the HTML5 client, as delivered with Genero 2.40. You will learn about the changes in the technologies between the AJAX and HTML5 offerings, examining HTML5 as a unique renderer for native client : the hybrid application concept. The schedule and roadmap for further HTML5 development will be presented.

H13: Analysis of Implementing Storage Compression in an Embedded Enterprise Replication Environment Nicholas Geib, IBM Location: Cabrillo Salon 1(A)

We performed a case study with a customer's environment and data that gave us very positive results with Storage compression. This study will help our user community decide the benefits to them. The first session will deal with the steps to enable Storage Compression and what to monitor. Attendees will perform the changes on a 2 node ER pair. The second session will deal with analysis of the results and when to enable the feature and if time permits other tuning trials.

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10:50 am – 11:50 am

A14: Rolling Upgrade of IBM Informix Server Keshava Murthy, IBM; Sapna Ramesh Location: Sierra 5

Informix 11.7 supports "rolling upgrade," a method of upgrading a running instance in a cluster with zero application downtime. This presentation will discuss IBM experience upgrading the 50 GB "ATM" database, used by Informix Development and QA to store the test data for Informix Server for almost a decade. A rolling upgrade uses several features of Informix Flexible Grid!.

B14: Backup and Restore Tips and FAQ's Hyun-Ju Vega, IBM Location: Sierra 6

This presentation is a summary of the Informix backup and restore landscape from the view of the perennial questions that seem to come up. Why is ontape backup faster than onbar serial backup? What affects backup/restore performance? Do I have to restore all dbspaces? How does onsmsync work? What's the relationship between the ixbar file and sysutils? How do I restore a fragmented table using table-level restore (all the examples just show a table in a single fragment)? What's the proper way to run archecker (backup verification)? And more ...

C14: Update on Informix and Open Source Jacques Roy, IBM Location: Balboa 1

This presentation gives an update of the activities that occurred related to Open source and Informix over the last year.

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D14: Informix Warehouse Accelerator ** Billion rows benchmark demo Lester Knutsen, Advanced DataTools Corporation; Mike Walker Location: Balboa 2

I have been using the Informix Warehouse Accelerator for over a year and I am continually shocked at how fast it is. In one set of benchmarks it ran 9 hours of queries in 14 minutes. Mike Walker and I will demonstrate our current benchmarks with this exciting new database technology. We will demonstrate ad-hoc queries on a bookstore database with 250 million customer records and over a billion sales transaction records in the fact table. Informix Warehouse Accelerator Demo Agenda: 1. Benchmarks - Fast Performance Demo 2. How to Setup the Accelerator 3. How the Accelerator Works 4. Smart Mart Demo - How to Automatically Build a Data Mart.

E14: Preparing your UDT for ER Madison Pruet,IBM; Davis Kwong Location: Santa Fe 3

User Defined Types are an excellent way to add new functionality to your database. But UDTs require a bit of preparation in order to replicate between servers. This talk will describe what must be done to your UDT in order for ER to successfully replicate that UDT.

F14: Best Practices for Embedded Data Management Pradeep Natarajan, IBM Location: Cabrillo Salon 2

A small footprint, a silent install, self-managing capabilities - these are some of the critical things to consider when choosing to embed a data management solution. This session will look at requirements and best practices for embedding data management in your application to offer customers a world-class solution at a reasonable cost.

G14: Debugging Genero Applications Delane Freeman Location: Santa Fe 4

Understanding all different possible layers & technologies involved in a typical Genero deployment/architecture is key to debugging Genero applications. Join us for this session, where will discuss the debugging tools and features of Genero Studio and other products from the Genero product suite, and how they can help you in your debugging efforts. We will end the session by briefly introducing you to some of the more common third-party tools that are being used to aid in debugging Genero applications, their environment, and the solution architecture.

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H14: Installation and Configuration of Optim for Informix - Optim in action! Laksmana Skaray, IBM Location: Cabrillo Salon 1(A)

IBM Optim is an enterprise data management product that addresses critical business issues, such as Data Growth Management, Data Privacy Compliance, Test Data Management, migrations and retirements. In this hands-on-lab session, we would cover Optim installation and configuration for Informix. This session will not only cover ASCII (single byte) code pages but also how Optim needs to be configured for multi-byte code pages. This hands-on-lab would demonstrate all the data types supported by Optim for Informix including large objects. This session would cover all the aspects of Optim solutions i.e. Data Growth, Test Data Management and Data Masking. Informix flagship innovation MACH11 will also be demonstrated with Optim. Add-on for this session would also cover configuration of Optim for Informix across Unix/Linux platforms. This 3 hours session promised to be action packed and full of new and exciting learnings for Informix in Optim!

1:05 pm –2:05 pm

A15: SDS architecture and testing scenarios in the real world Sun Guo Rong, IBM Location: Sierra 5

In China, Informix HDR has supported many 24*7 banking applications for years. Now, Informix SDS is challenged and demanded to provide near 100% high availability and scalability. In this session£¬ we will present a real world SDS architecture and 15 testing scenarios. These scenarios simulate possible man-made and/or hardware failure by unplugging network cable, unexpectedly killing server daemon process and connection managers, etc. Some scenarios are listed below. 1.1st SDS server shutdown normally, 2nd SDS server switch to Primary, 1st server recover.. 2.1st server shutdown abnormally, 2nd SDS server switch to Primary, 1st server recover.. 3.2nd SDS server shutdown abnormally, 2nd SDS server recover.. 4... With 1700 session simulations, we demonstrate how our SDS architecture behaves, response, and shifts primary role from one server to another within 45 seconds flawlessly to achieve near 100% high availability.

B15: Mobilize your data with Informix & Android Vicente Salvador, DEISTER Location: Sierra 6

On a mobile world, this conference shows DEISTER's experience on creating a framework for developing mobile applications. Which are the new challenges for mobile applications? This conference answers this questions: security, offline operation, business intelligence features, etc.

C15: Dummies guide to Time Series Jacques Roy, IBM Location: Balboa 1

This presentation provides the essential knowledge required to get started with using TimeSeries. It describes why you would want to use TimeSeries and then goes into what it is, It then proceeds to show you how to create, load, and query TimeSeries.

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D15: What's new in IDS Indexing? Mark Jamison, IBM Location: Balboa 2

Learn about the new index types in IDS, including Forest of Trees and partial column index. Some new index controls are also enabled including extent size manipulation, and create if not exists.

E15: Informix port for Identity Insight Dennis Allen, IBM Location: Santa Fe 3

IBM InfoSphere Identity Insight is a powerful identity and social network analysis platform that combines pioneering identity and relationship disambiguation technology with innovative event processing capabilities to quickly and automatically provide actionable intelligence on persons, things and their connections. In this session, you will learn how Identity Insight helps organizations around the world use threat and fraud analytics to establish a unique identity, discover obvious and obscured relationships and monitor and correlate individual actions.

F15: What's new in Optim 8.1 release? Mukta Singh, IBM Location: Cabrillo Salon 2

IBM Optim is an enterprise data management product that addresses critical business issues, such as Data Growth Management, Data Privacy Compliance, Test Data Management, migrations and retirements. This session would cover all the new innovations/enhancements has been part of latest and greatest release of Optim 8.1 version. Many new enhancements particularly for Informix has been implemented in Optim. Ranging for new data types support to Unicode and MBCS code pages support etc. This session will cover key changes done in Optim Archival solution to get even more benefits on storage savings. New Audit capabilities added to track who is doing what and when! One of the latest innovations to create XML, ECM (Enterprise Content Management) and CSV file formats to convert your production data and masked the same. Did you know that now Optim has set of APIs which could be called from any applications for data masking? All these and many more would be discussed!

G15: Private Meeting Location: Santa Fe 4

H15: Demo of IDS Security features Jonathan Leffler, IBM Location: Cabrillo Salon 1(A)

The audience would learn to setup any IDS security feature of their interest. IDS authentication mechanisms like Single Sign-On and PAM authentication need more machine specific setup before usage. This demo would show example setup for security features such as Single Sign-On, PAM authentication, Mapped users and SSL encryption.

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2:15 pm – 3:15 pm

A16: SDS exploration, limitations, and demo Sun Guo Rong, IBM Location: Sierra 5

During the severe SDS testing simulation, we have identified 2 SDS limitations which are read-delay and not-supported Select-for-Update features at 2nd SDS server. In this session, we demonstrate our research work in how we explore the SDS internal work, why it prefers the higher read/write ratio. We also demonstrate the limitations by real cases with different read isolations. Under different read isolation, we prove some limitation are irrelevant, some limitation is ignorable. 1.How SDS redo simple transaction and complex transaction with log at 2nd SDS server 2.Read-delay at 2nd SDS server and scenarios 3.Read-delay with long transaction 4.Select-for-Update and RETAINUPDATELOCKS… With our experimental findings, you will recognize that SDS is best simple database cluster technology available by comparing other expensive and complex technology. When you implement your SDS deployment, you know exactly how to take advantage of it strength and avoid its limitations.

B16: Performance Tuning with SQL Shared Memory caches Mark Jamison, IBM Location: Sierra 6

This session introduces you to the SQL Shared Memory caches. Focusing on Data Dictionary, Data Distribution and UDR caches. You will learn what they do, how they work, How they impact performance and good methods to estimate the right settings.

C16: Implementing your own CDC application Madison Pruet, IBM; Davis Kwong Location: Balboa 1

Anyone can implement a Change Data Capture application fairly easily. This talk will describe the steps necessary to implement such a solution.

D16: Informix DBA Guided Client Application Development Yunming Wang, IBM Location: Balboa 2

Client application for accessing databases in a multitier architecture is usually developed and maintained independently. It is very important for client application developers to understand how Informix database server handles the requests sent from an application, including requests for connections, transactions, locks, etc. This presentation will discuss some good practices in terms of performance from an Informix DBA's perspective that developers should follow during their application development: 1) Database connection management 2) Static SQL vs. Dynamic SQL 3) Singleton updates, Bulk updates, and Violations table 4) Constraints and Indexes 5) Cursors, Locks, and Transactions 6) Data Types and Codepage conversion.

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E16 IBM Infosphere Guardium and Informix - How does it work in the governance space? Daniel Perlov,IBM Location: Santa Fe 3

IBM InfoSphere Guardium addresses the entire database security and regulatory compliance life cycle in a homogenous and holistic fashion. It enables finding and classifying sensitive data and monitor access to it and helps meet privacy regulations and laws such as SOX, PCI DSS. It creates a single, centralized audit repository for enterprise-wide compliance reporting, investigation and forensics. Guardium provides Informix Database Audit Officers a centralized, extensive and extendable audit and regulatory compliance solution, independent of the audit configuration of the databases and their distribution. It helps prevent unauthorized access through its robust Vulnerability Assessment tests, thus ensuring the integrity of the data in the Informix data center. Guardium provides nearly fifty Informix specific Vulnerability Assessment tests to enable database security administrators to identify and assess security vulnerabilities..

F16: Building an operational data store with Informix data on Netezza Paul-John To, IBM Location: Cabrillo Salon 2

Create operational data stores to produce day-to-day or week-to-week executive summary reports in seconds. Netezza's workload management and massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture makes it the ideal platform for running complex analytical queries. Learn how to integrate ETL practices with the Informix and Netezza loaders, differences in schemas between Informix and Netezza, and everything you need to create dynamic reports and support dynamic decision-making processes.

G16: Private Meeting Location: Santa Fe 4

H16: Informix Warehouse Accelerator - Installation and Setup Sudhir Katke, IBM Location: Cabrillo Salon 1(A)

The Informix Warehouse Accelerator (IWA) is a workload optimized, appliance-like, add-on, that enables the integration of business insights into operational processes to drive winning strategies. It accelerates select queries, with unprecedented response times. This session will be used to explain the installation and setup of IWA software.

3:35 pm – 4:35 pm

A17: Deploying Solutions with Informix Warehouse Accelerator - Customer Experiences Rajesh Nair, IBM; Dennis Allen; Frederick Ho Location: Sierra 5

Primary focus on - Understanding the different warehouse offerings, related tools - "When, what, how, why" of the two strategic offerings - Examples from different real life deployments/testing - How the different warehouse offerings fit into these scenarios.

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B17: Performance Tuning and Indexes, Understanding BTSCANNER Mark Jamison, IBM Location: Sierra 6

This presentation will discuss in detail how the BTREE Scanner works, how it impacts performance, how to tune it for performance, as well as what additional components are Driven by btscanner (like Index compression and Index cleaning modes).

C17: Best Practices for Availability Davis Kwong, IBM Location: Balboa 1

This talk will discuss many of the best practices for a site using any form of availability, including clustering, basic ER, or The Flexible Grid.

D17: IDS Single Sign-On (SSO) Authentication Priya Govindarajan, IBM Location: Balboa 2

We see more of our customers using SSO. This will be a comprehensive SSO presentation (what, why, how) from an SSO expert. Demo would show step by step configuration of SSO authentication (any audience requested platform) with IDS server.

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E17: Informix Warehouse Accelerator - A look at the First Year and Beyond Frederick Ho, IBM; Dennis Allen Location: Santa Fe 3

The Informix Warehouse Accelerator was first released at the end of March 2011. In this session, I will provide a summary of customer deployments, Proof of Concepts, and Partner initiatives on how this product is changing how customers view Data Warehousing on Informix. I will then discuss plans for future enhancements and releases.

F17: Diary of Information within Informix Dynamic Server Mukta Singh,TBD Location: Cabrillo Salon 2

IBM ® Informix OLTP and Informix Warehouse accelerator are optimal and low-TCO database software that reduces costs and increases productivity by providing near-zero administration for small to highly distributed environments regardless of platform. When combined with IBM ® InfoSphere Integration and Governance Solutions - it delivers the winning combination of performance, cost and agility to help businesses of today enhance information integrity, availability and quality. IBM ® Informix and IBM ® InfoSphere Integration and Governance Solutions' synergy brings to the table essential capabilities for data consolidation, data quality, data governance, life cycle management with high ROI that is a top differentiator for companies. IBM® InfoSphere Information Server, Optim and Guardium Solutions delivers the speed, quality and availability to reduce operation risks of an Enterprise Data, and ensures Trusted and Compliant data for today’s businesses.

G17: Private Meeting Location: Santa Fe 4

H17: The Beauty of Informix Disk Structures Andreas Legner, IBM Location: Cabrillo Salon 1(A)

The simple beauty of Informix disk pages, their various contents and how they play together is one of my favorite topics. Occasionally it's good to know a bit about them. I'll present on and have people look at these evergreen subjects

- chunks - pages and their structure - page types - all sorts of spaces, physical and logical logs - data and index partitions - compression internals - timeseries on-disk representation (if I make it this far) - SMI interface to disk structures - migration and platform aspects - all people ever wanted to know

Besides bundled utilities like oncheck and SMI, a support tool called 'onion' will be used that allows for that certain something that traditional tools sometimes are missing.

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4:45 pm – 5:45 pm

A18: Tuning Data Warehouse for High Performance in Informix Alex Cheng, Insperity Location: Sierra 5

One of the big myths, if not the biggest one, about Informix is that it is only good for OLTP. The purpose of this session is to bust the myth and share with you the tuning techniques to achieve high performance in the business intelligence/data warehouse (BI/DW) environment using Informix. This session is a case study of tuning work that achieved a 12-fold performance improvement in the worst-performing BI query and substantial performance gains in overall BI/DW environment using Parallel Database Query (PDQ) and partitioned indexes. The session will cover the details in the following areas: 1) how a set of configuration parameters are changed for PDQ and how PDQ is used for each user session; 2) how other configuration parameters are changed for the non-PDQ queries since not all queries in the BI/DW environment can or should use PDQ; 3) how to get peak performance from the tables joined in a star schema.

B18: Using SSL to encrypt Database Network traffic Jonathan Leffler, IBM Location: Sierra 6

This presentation will discuss the benefits of Using SSL, and how to implement SSL communication for Informix. Session will also include a brief tutorial on how to implement SSL protocol with self signed certificates.

C18: How do I share data from other Database Vendors in OLTP environment? Sudhir Katke, IBM Location: Balboa 1

Today companies use various Database Technologies within their environments. There is a need for them to share the data without duplicating the data. This session will explain the way to achieve that.

D18: Informix DBA - A Newbie's Perspective Jacob Shadix Location: Balboa 2

Necessary skills that college "failed" to teach. Transition from college graduate to entry DBA Building a DBA from the ground up - Recommendations to build on for any DBA skill-set.

E18: To Be Determined Location: Santa Fe 3

To be determined.

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F18: Using Cognos Dashboard and Widgets with Informix Keshava Murthy,IBM Location: Cabrillo Salon 2

Show how easily Cognos dashboards can be built by dragging and dropping of Cognos Widgets with full support on Informix. Real-life customer example and demo will be shown.

G18: Private Meeting Location: Santa Fe 4

H18: Test Drive some of the notable new Informix 11.70 features Rakesh Naik, IBM Location: Cabrillo Salon 1(A)

Rather than just reading about new Informix features, actually implementing and testing those features goes a long way in understanding what the feature is all about, how it works, what it takes to implement, and whether it would be practical in your production environment. In this hands-on-lab, you will work with some of the more noteworthy new features in 11.70 including transaction completion during cluster failover, automatic storage provisioning, defragmenting partitions, flexible grid setup and management, quickly clone a primary server, convert cluster servers to ER nodes, fragment level statistics + update statistics, interval fragmentation, multi-index scans, and some of the new built-in scheduler tasks including automatically terminate idle sessions and notification of corrupt indexes. With each feature, you will learn how to monitor related information using command line utilities and/or OAT.

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Advanced DataTools Corporation

4216 Evergreen Lane, Suite 136 Annandale, VA 22003 USA www.advancedatatools.com Main Phone: 703-256-0267 x101 800-807-6732 x101 Fax: 703-256-2660 Contact Name: Lester Knutsen Phone: 703-256-0267 x102 Email: lester@advancedatatools.com Advanced DataTools provides the best Informix database training, performance tuning, support, consulting services and data warehouse implementations to Informix users. We have been developing, designing and implementing Informix solutions since 1993. We have successfully implemented web-enabled data warehouses and OLTP systems. We provide Remote and On-site DBA Support, Performance Tuning, Informix Training and Informix Project Consulting. Advanced DataTools is an Advanced IBM Partner. Our team has been working with Informix since its inception, and includes 12 Senior Informix Database Consultants, 3 IBM Information Champions, 2 IIUG Director’s Award Winners and an IBM Gold Consultant.

Strategy 7 Corporation

Western Region 500 Newport Center Drive, Suite 620 Newport Beach, CA 92660-6454 www.s7.com Main Phone: 949-719-9410 Fax: 949-719-6142 Contact Name: Joseph Rodriguez II Phone: 949-719-9410 Email: jper@s7.com  Strategy 7 is an IBM Premier Business Partner with more than 20 year’s experience in installing and supporting data management systems for 77,000 users at nearly 800 sites, including a number of Fortune 500 companies. We are an established integrator and developer of IBM Informix IDS and 4GL solutions on all versions of open source, UNIX, Linux and Windows operating systems, making us your single source provider. Strategy 7 comprises a collective group of seasoned professionals with a wealth of INFORMIX knowledge and a proven track record of success in meeting and exceeding clients’ needs and expectations.

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Bronze Sponsors

AGS Ltd.

One West Street, Suite 100-13 New York, NY 10004 USA www.serverstudio.com Main Phone: 646-274-1385 Fax: 646-274-1386 Contact Name: Anatole Vishon Phone: 646-274-1389 Email: sales@agsltd.com AGS, the leader in enterprise database application management technology, gives organizations confidence in their critical application infrastructure by delivering reliable software products that help develop, deploy, manage and maintain enterprise database systems without expensive downtime or interruption to operations. AGS’ Server Studio and Sentinel comprise the principal suite of integrated tools for IBM Informix Dynamic Server.  

Century Software

4825 Franklin Pond NE Atlanta, GA, 30342 www.censofinc.com Main Phone: 877-221-1972 Fax: 877-221-1972 Contact Name: Ravi Durairaj Phone: 404-867-8545 Email: ravi@censofinc.com Century Software is the Pioneer and Poster Child for Informix Genero based Enterprise Financial Management suite of solutions. In business for 25 years with over 150,000 users globally, Century has significant experience developing on and migrating to the Informix Genero platform. Our scalable solutions cater to organizations of all sizes.

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Exact Solutions

1650 Broadway, Suite 704 New York, NY 10019 USA www.exact-solutions.com Main Phone: 212-707-8630 Fax: 212-707-8632 Contact Name: Ned Hudson Phone: 212-707-8630 x 304 Email: info@exact-solutions.com Exact Solutions is a focused specialist that develops innovative solutions for monitoring and testing critical databases. The company's key products include iWatch, which allows database users to measure 100% of their SQLs without impacting production performance, and iReplay, a testing solution that allows companies to create full-scale replicas of their production workloads. iReplay can precisely re-create multi-day workloads with thousands of concurrent sessions and tens or hundreds of millions of SQL requests, for risk-mitigation, stress and load testing, problem resolution and performance assurance. Exact's customers include some of the world's largest banking institutions, and other global customers in diverse sectors such as consumer products, government, education, transportation, retail, and interactive games. Go to the Exact Solutions website. .

Kazer

4959 NE Goodview Circle, Suite A Lee’s Summit, MO 64064 USA www.kazer.com Main Phone: 816-373-2300 Fax: 877.892.0144 Contact Name: Thad Kelsey Phone: 816.373.2300 x 108 Email: thad@kazer.com A Premier IBM Business Partner dedicated to serving the Informix community. In addition to reselling Informix we offer consulting services, remote DBA services, Disaster Recovery implementation, Archiving solutions and complementary products from 4J’s, AGS, Hit Software, and Exact-Solutions. Let us be your source for all things Informix.

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Business Partners

IBM Data Management Magazine

TDA Group 800 W. El Camino Real, Suite 380 Mountain View, CA 94040 www.ibm.com/dmmagazine IBM Data Management magazine (IBMdatamag.com) is the essential information resource for technical and business professionals who depend on IBM databases, software, and partner solutions to achieve their organization's goals. The magazine provides an actionable mix of in-depth technical content, practical advice, and real-world examples demonstrating how the smart use of data improves performance and reduces costs. At the same time, expert commentary helps data management professionals make better-informed decisions, explaining how information architectures are evolving to shape organizational strategies and fuel business success. Published by TDA Group, the magazine is sponsored by IBM.

Database Trends and Applications

630 Central Avenue Murray Hill New Providence, NJ 07975 www.dbta.com Main Phone: 908-795-3701 Email: info@dbta.com For the last twenty five years, Database Trends and Applications (DBTA) magazine has covered the technologies and processes involved in every aspect of the creation, management, application and storage of structured and unstructured data to create business value and competitive advantage for enterprises of all sizes in all industries. To achieve this end, DBTA's content is original, factual and uniquely valuable - providing clarity, perspective and objectivity in an increasingly complex and exciting world where data assets hold the key to organizational competitiveness.

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Conference Schedule – Tutorials AM Sunday 04/22 

Start  Stop    

7:30a  8:30a      Breakfast Exhibit Hall Hallway

8:30a  10:00a  TAM1A.  Certification Preparation –  Informix 11.70 

System Administrator 

TAM2A. Discovering and using Informix TimeSeries 

TAM3A.  Using tools to 

monitor and tune Informix. 

TAM4A.  Unknown or TBD 

TAM5A.  HELP!!! I need an Informix Disaster Recovery plan! 

TAM6A.  Holistic Problem Solving with IBM Technical Support and You : Part 1 

and 2 Sanjit Chakraborty  Carlton Doe  Art Kagel  Unknown or TBD  Rakesh Naik  Mark Jamison 

      Darin Tracy

      Hyun‐Ju Vega

Balboa 1 (25)  Santa Fe 4 (25) Balboa 2 (25) Santa Fe 3 (25) Sierra 5 (32) Sierra 6 (32)

10:00a  10:30a  Break Location TBD

10:30a  12:00p  TAM1A.  Certification Preparation –  Informix 11.70 

System Administrator 

TAM2A. Discovering and using Informix TimeSeries 

TAM3A.  Using tools to 

monitor and tune Informix. 

TAM4A.  Unknown or TBD 

TAM5A.  HELP!!! I need an Informix Disaster Recovery plan! 

TAM6A.  Holistic Problem Solving with IBM Technical Support and You : Part 1 

and 2 

Sanjit Chakraborty  Carlton Doe  Art Kagel  Unknown or TBD  Rakesh Naik  Mark Jamison       Darin Tracy

      Hyun‐Ju Vega

Balboa 1 (25)  Santa Fe 4 (25) Balboa 2 (25) Santa Fe 3 (25) Sierra 5 (32) Sierra 6 (32)

12:00p  1:00p  Lunch Exhibit Hall Hallway

12:30p  6:00p  Certification Exams Private Dining Room

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Conference Schedule – Tutorials PM Sunday 04/22 

12:00p  7:00p  Registration 

Registration Desk

1:00p  2:30p  TPM1A. Windows ActiveDirectory 

Single‐Sign‐On and LDAP with IDS on 

Unix 

TPM2A. Hands‐on with Informix Warehouse Accelerator 

TPM3A. Crash course on Enterprise Replication 

TPM4A. Achieving Blazing speed with 

the Informix Database Engine 

TPM5A. Data Warehousing with 

Informix 

TPM6A. Holistic Problem Solving 

with IBM Technical Support and You : 

Part 1 and 2 

Andreas Legner  Carlton Doe  Vijay Lolabattu  John Miller III  Andreas Weininger  Mark Jamison    Scott Lashley  Darin Tracy

      Hyun‐Ju Vega

Balboa 1 (25)  Santa Fe 4 (25) Balboa 2 (25) Santa Fe 3 (25) Sierra 5 (32) Sierra 6 (32)

2:30p  3:00p  Break Exhibit Hall Hallway

3:00p  4:30p  TPM1B. Windows ActiveDirectory 

Single‐Sign‐On and LDAP with IDS on 

Unix 

TPM2B. Hands‐on with Informix Warehouse Accelerator 

TPM3B. Crash course on Enterprise Replication 

TPM4B. Achieving Blazing speed with 

the Informix Database Engine 

TPM5B. Data Warehousing with 

Informix 

TPM6B. Holistic Problem Solving 

with IBM Technical Support and You : 

Part 1 and 2 

Andreas Legner  Carlton Doe  Vijay Lolabattu  John Miller III  Andreas Weininger  Mark Jamison    Scott Lashley  Darin Tracy

      Hyun‐Ju Vega

Balboa 1 (25)  Santa Fe 4 (25) Balboa 2 (25) Santa Fe 3 (25) Sierra 5 (32) Sierra 6 (32)

5:00p 5:30p

Speaker Meeting Sierra 5

6:30p 9:30p Welcome Reception Location TBD

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Conference Schedule – Sessions Monday - Wednesday Monday 04/23

Start Stop A. Track A B. Track B C. Track C D. Track D E. Track E F. Business G. Track G H. HOL 7:00a 8:00a Breakfast

Rio Vista Pavilion

8:00a 9:15a The Informix Way - Forever Relevant For A Growing Smarter Planet

Jerry Keesee Exhibit Hall

9:15a 9:30a Break Exhibit Hall Hallway

9:30a 10:30a A01. Generate Reports

using Excel - drivers not

required

B01. Informix

SQL - Using New SQL Features

C01. Put your

storage on a diet.

D01. Informix

Warehouse Accelerator on Cluster

E01. Loading Data Warehouses without any

Fancy Schmancy

stuff

F01. Data

Warehousing Technology

Trends - What You Need to Know

G01. From I4GL to

Genero - Modernization

101

H01. Informix

Warehouse Accelerator - Installation and Setup

Doug Lawry Jeff Filippi Scott Lashley

Andreas Breitfeld

Mike Walker Frederick Ho Ramesh Srinivasan

Sudhir Katke

Sierra 5 Sierra 6 Balboa 1 Balboa 2 Santa Fe 3 Cabrillo Salon 2 Santa Fe 4 Cabrillo Salon 1(A)

9:45a 6:00p Certification Exams Private Dining Room

10:30a 10:50a Refreshment Break Exhibit Hall Hallway

Green = Vendor Orange = Hands-on-Labs

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Monday 04/23

Start Stop A. Track A B. Track B C. Track C D. Track D E. Track E F. Business G. Track G H. HOL 10:50a 11:50a A02.

How To Achieve Leaps in

Warehouse Query

Performance with IDS

B02. Do--Stats

Better - AUS pre-11.xx and doing AUS better than AUS

C02. Writing C-UDR (User

Defined Routine) the

basic

D02. Support of

Case Insensitivity

in IDS

E02. All about

Virtual Tables: The

Secret of TimeSeries

F02. IBM Informix in the Social

Media - A snapshot

G02. Desktop vs.

Webtop

H02. How to

Speed up Data

Warehousing with Informix Warehouse Accelerator

Frederick Ho Art Kagel John Miller III Ajay Gupta Pradeep Natarajan

Louis Cherian Laurent Galais

Andreas Weininger

Neeraj Kapoor

Sierra 5 Sierra 6 Balboa 1 Balboa 2 Santa Fe 3 Cabrillo Salon 2 Santa Fe 4 Cabrillo Salon 1(A)

11:50a 1:00p Lunch Rio Vista Pavilion

1:05p 2:05p A03. Application Security For

Informix Developers

B03. Informix

and Android:

dbaccess, OAT, and

more

C03. Eat OATs?

Keeping Healthy with

Informix’s Graphical

OpenAdmin Tool

D03. An Overview

and Discussion of Stored

Procedures as User Defined

Routines

E03. Maximizing

Performance With Informix TimeSeries

F03. Enabling

Social Media analytics with IBM

Infosphere Biginsights

G03. Modernizing Case Studies

H03. Demo of IDS

Security features

Tom Beebe Marty Lurie John Miller III David Jay Kevin Brown Zach Zakharian

Mark Rees Jonathan Leffler

Sierra 5 Sierra 6 Balboa 1 Balboa 2 Santa Fe 3 Cabrillo Salon 2 Santa Fe 4 Cabrillo Salon 1(A)

2:05p 2:15p Break Exhibit Hall Hallway

Green = Vendor Orange = Hands-on-Labs

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Monday 04/23

Start Stop A. Track A B. Track B C. Track C D. Track D E. Track E F. Business G. Track G H. HOL 2:15p 3:15p A04.

Migrating from Mysql to Informix

B04. Exploring and Understanding Flexible Grid

for your industry using real customer

scenarios

C04. Informix

High-Performance

Federated Database System

D04. Query rewrite

performance for Views

and Derived Tables

E04. Informix

Enterprise Gateway

F04. Informix and open source: big data with

Hadoop

G04. What's new in Genero

2.40?

H04. Test Drive

some of the notable new

Informix 11.70

features

Tom Beebe Tom Rieger Yunming Wang

Ajay Gupta Jacob Shadix Marty Lurie Laurent Galais

Rakesh Naik

Rajesh Nair Keshav Murthy

Sierra 5 Sierra 6 Balboa 1 Balboa 2 Santa Fe 3 Cabrillo Salon 2 Santa Fe 4 Cabrillo Salon 1(A)

3:15p 3:35p Refreshment Break Exhibit Hall Hallway

3:35p 4:35p A05. Exploring

the system catalogues

B05. WebData

Blade

C05. Informix

Applications Uncovered

on iOS

D05. Informix PDQ - pretty darn

quick

E05. Maximizing

DBA Resources

with Database

Autonomics

F05. Improve database

development productivity

& save tooling cost by using IBM Data Studio

G05. Software-

as-a-Service with the Genero

PaaS

H05. Analysis of

Implementing Storage

Compression in an

Embedded Enterprise Replication

Environment

Jack Parker Paul Watson Jacques Roy Jeffrey Bohm Tom Rieger Lakshman Sakaray

Stephen Sykes

Scott Lashley

Sierra 5 Sierra 6 Balboa 1 Balboa 2 Santa Fe 3 Cabrillo Salon 2 Santa Fe 4 Cabrillo Salon 1(A)

Green = Vendor Orange = Hands-on-Labs

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Monday 04/23

Start Stop A. Track A B. Track B C. Track C D. Track D E. Track E F. Business G. Track G H. HOL 4:35p 4:45p Break

Exhibit Hall Hallway

4:45p 5:45p A06. A customer explores the

sysadmin database

B06. Using

Informix dynamic server

compatibility features

C06. Informix

implementation on

Farmaceutical distribution company: HDR, ER, Hardware

D06. Automatic database

tuning and monitoring

with Informix

E06. PHP and Informix

F06. Beyond

Relational - Leveraging

User Defined Data Types

and Routines to

Develop Advanced

Applications

G06. Genero

Deployment Strategies

H06. TimeSeries Data Type:

Know It Better

Jack Parker Scott Lashley Vicente Salvador

Sanjit Chakraborty

Jacques Roy Madison Pruet

Oscar Vera Pradeep Natarajan

Sierra 5 Sierra 6 Balboa 1 Balboa 2 Santa Fe 3 Cabrillo Salon 2 Santa Fe 4 Cabrillo Salon 1(A)

6:30p 10:00p

Casino Night Exhibit Hall

Green = Vendor Orange = Hands-on-Labs

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Tuesday 04/24

Start Stop A. Track A B. Track B C. Track C D. Track D E. Track E F. Business G. Track G H. HOL 7:00a 8:00a Breakfast

Rio Vista Pavilion

8:00a 9:15a Big Data Keynote

David Barnes Exhibit Hall

9:15a 9:30a Break Exhibit Hall Hallway

9:30a 10:30a A07. Overcoming Performance Challenges -

[Your organization]'s

Got Talent

B07. Using XML

capability in Informix dynamic server

C07. Dude,

Where's My Buffer?

D07. Best

practice for database

object placement

E07. Strategy 7 -

I4GL to Genero – In

the Trenches

F07. Informix in the Cloud

G07. UI Design

Concepts for Genero

Applications

H07. The Beauty of Informix

Disk Structures

Nadir Doctor Paul-John To Tom Girsch Sanjit Chakraborty

Randall Johnson

Mahesh Dashora

Shannon Wallner

Andreas Legner

Sierra 5 Sierra 6 Balboa 1 Balboa 2 Santa Fe 3 Cabrillo Salon 2 Santa Fe 4 Cabrillo Salon 1(A)

9:45a 6:00p Certification Exams Private Dining Room

10:30a 10:50a Refreshment Break Exhibit Hall Hallway

Green = Vendor Orange = Hands-on-Labs

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Tuesday 04/24

Start Stop A. Track A B. Track B C. Track C D. Track D E. Track E F. Business G. Track G H. HOL 10:50a 11:50a A08.

A Guide to Securing the

Database

B08. Faster,

faster and then slow -

performance measuremen

ts for an Informix instance.

C08. Performance Monitoring

using Health Advisor OAT

Plugin

D08. Is your Linux

system ready for Informix

database?

E08. 4J's -

Modernizing your 4GL

application using Lycia

F08. Seamless

Installation and

Deployment of Informix software

G08. Business

Application Modeling in

Genero Studio Part I

H08. Limber Up:

Flexible Grid for the

Stiff

Noa Bar-Yosef

Michael Pintus

Darin Tracy Sanjit Chakraborty

Hubert Hoelzl Sudhir Katke Christophe Meyer

Nicholas Geib

Rob Rachwald

Sierra 5 Sierra 6 Balboa 1 Balboa 2 Santa Fe 3 Cabrillo Salon 2 Santa Fe 4 Cabrillo Salon 1(A)

11:50a 1:00p Lunch Rio Vista Pavilion

1:05p 2:05p A09. Insights from

the Top 10 Database

Breaches of the Past Year

B09. Doing

Storage Better

C09. Index

Design: Myths,

Realities, and Magic

D09. Best

Practices in .NET

development with Informix

E09. Genero - The

Future of 4GL.

F09. Informix

Roadmap - 2012 and Beyond

G09. Creating a

Web Service with Genero / Interoperating with Java and Web Services

H09. Crash

course on Enterprise Replication

Noa Bar-Yosef

Art Kagel Martin Hubel Brent Gross Bryn Jenkins Mahesh Dashora

Florencia Vitale

Vijay Lolabattu

Rob Rachwald

Sierra 5 Sierra 6 Balboa 1 Balboa 2 Santa Fe 3 Cabrillo Salon 2 Santa Fe 4 Cabrillo Salon 1(A)

Green = Vendor Orange = Hands-on-Labs

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Tuesday 04/24

Start Stop A. Track A B. Track B C. Track C D. Track D E. Track E F. Business G. Track G H. HOL 2:05p 2:15p Break

Exhibit Hall Hallway

2:15p 3:15p A10. Exercising

with IDS and Perl

B10. Live Platform Migration of Informix – The British

Sky Broadcasting Experience

C10. Migrating a

VLDB Informix to 11.70 with

zero downtime

using ER and Compression

feature

D10. Basic Text

Search

E10. One Point Solutions -Presenting,

Designing, and Implementing a

Data Warehouse

using Informix & Cognos

F10. Ensuring Business

Continuity with Always-On

Data Access

G10. RESTful Genero

applications

H10. Crash

course on Enterprise Replication

Nadir Doctor

Nicholas Geib Celso Cabral Coimbra

Kate Tomchik

Ron Flannery Tom Rieger Mark Rees Vijay Lolabattu

Andrew Curry

Sierra 5 Sierra 6 Balboa 1 Balboa 2 Santa Fe 3 Cabrillo Salon 2 Santa Fe 4 Cabrillo Salon 1(A)

3:15p 3:35p Refreshment Break Location TBD

Green = Vendor Orange = Hands-on-Labs

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Tuesday 04/24

Start Stop A. Track A B. Track B C. Track C D. Track D E. Track E F. Business G. Track G H. HOL 3:35p 4:35p A11.

Data Integration

with Informix

B11. Onlog

C11. Implementing

Database Encryption

with Informix

D11. How to

combine Informix

TimeSeries with the Informix

Warehouse Accelerator for analytic

performance

E11. To Be

Determined

F11. A Case

Study of the German

Aerospace Center: Using

Satellite Imagery to

Help Build A Smart

G11. Designing Graphical

Reports with Genero

Studio Part I

H11. Limber Up:

Flexible Grid for the

Stiff

Rob Beal Paul Watson Mark Jamison Kevin Brown Alexander Koerner

Shawn Moe Nicholas Geib

Andreas Weininger

Sierra 5 Sierra 6 Balboa 1 Balboa 2 Santa Fe 3 Cabrillo Salon 2 Santa Fe 4 Cabrillo Salon 1(A)

4:35p 4:45p Break Location TBD

Green = Vendor Orange = Hands-on-Labs

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Tuesday 04/24

Start Stop A. Track A B. Track B C. Track C D. Track D E. Track E F. Business G. Track G H. HOL 4:45p 5:45p A12.

Debugging java udrs: a

primer

B12. Add a Python

to your Informix

programming toolbox

C12. Troubleshooting

and tuning Informix I/O

performance.

D12. Informix

Warehouse and Pentaho

Open Source

Business Intelligence

E12. Making Smart

Metering Smarter:

TimeSeries to the

Rescue - A case study

F12. Case Study for TPC-C Informix

Innovator-C benchmarks

G12. Developing

a mobile application in Genero

H12. Hands-On

Lab for On-line Data Migration

from native codeset to UTF8 for

24/7 business

Lakshman Sakaray

Mark Rees Vijay Lolabattu Lester Knutsen

Shawn Moe Eric Vercelletto

David Jay Paul-John To

Anup Nair

Sierra 5 Sierra 6 Balboa 1 Balboa 2 Santa Fe 3 Cabrillo Salon 2 Santa Fe 4 Cabrillo Salon 1(A)

6:30p 9:30p

Conference Party Location TBD

Green = Vendor Orange = Hands-on-Labs

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Wednesday 04/25

Start Stop A. Track A B. Track B C. Track C D. Track D E. Track E F. Business G. Track G H. HOL 7:00a 8:00a Breakfast

Rio Vista Pavilion

8:00a 9:15a IBM - An Investment in Informix - Innovation for Champions

Arvid Krishna Martin Wildberger

Exhibit Hall

9:15a 9:30a Break Exhibit Hall Hallway

9:30a 10:30a A13. Best

Practices for Upgrades with Large

Deployment Requirements

B13. Update

Statistics and related FAQ's from

11.70

C13. What's inside

Informix shared

memory

D13. Never Hard-

Code Anything,

Ever!

E13. Informix

Bells WallStreet!

F13. Using

Predictive Analytics

With Informix

G13. HTML5 . The

Universal Client for

Web, Desktop,

Mobile and Tablets

H13. Analysis of

Implementing Storage

Compression in an

Embedded Enterprise Replication

Environment Jeremy

Bowman Hyun-Ju

Vega Vijay

Lolabattu Darryl Priest Michael

Pintus Priya

Govindarajan Olivier Imbert Scott Lashley

Sierra 5 Sierra 6 Balboa 1 Balboa 2 Santa Fe 3 Cabrillo Salon 2 Santa Fe 4 Cabrillo Salon 1(A)

9:45a 5:00p Certification Exams Private Dining Room

10:30a 10:50a Refreshment Break Exhibit Hall Hallway

Green = Vendor Orange = Hands-on-Labs

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Wednesday 04/25 Start Stop A. Track A B. Track B C. Track C D. Track D E. Track E F. Business G. Track G H. HOL

10:50a 11:50a A14. Rolling

Upgrade of IBM

Informix Server

B14. Backup

and Restore Tips and

FAQ's

C14. Update on Informix

and Open Source

D14. Informix

Warehouse Accelerator

** Billion rows

benchmark demo

E14. Preparing your UDT

for ER

F14. Best Practices for Embedded

Data Management

G14. Debugging

Genero Applications

H14. Installation

and Configuration of Optim for

Informix - Optim in action!

Keshava Murthy

Hyun-Ju Vega

Jacques Roy

Lester Knutsen

Madison Pruet

Pradeep Natarajan

Delane Freeman

Laksmana Skaray

Sapna Ramesh Mike Walker Davis Kwong

Sierra 5 Sierra 6 Balboa 1 Balboa 2 Santa Fe 3 Cabrillo Salon 2 Santa Fe 4 Cabrillo Salon 1(A)

11:50a 1:00p Lunch Rio Vista Pavilion

1:05p 2:05p A15. SDS

architecture and testing scenarios in

the real world

B15. Mobilize your data

with Informix & Android

C15. Dummies guide to

Time Series

D15. What's new

in IDS Indexing?

E15. Informix port for Identity Insight

F15. What's new in

Optim 8.1 release?

G15. Private Meeting

H15. Demo of IDS

Security features

Sun Guo Rong

Vicente Salvador

Jacques Roy

Mark Jamison Dennis Allen

Mukta Singh Jonathan Leffler

Sierra 5 Sierra 6 Balboa 1 Balboa 2 Santa Fe 3 Cabrillo Salon 2 Santa Fe 4 Cabrillo Salon 1(A)

2:05p 2:15p Break Exhibit Hall Hallway

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Wednesday 04/25 Start Stop A. Track A B. Track B C. Track C D. Track D E. Track E F. Business G. Track G H. HOL 2:15p 3:15p A16.

SDS exploration, limitations, and demo

B16. Performance Tuning with SQL Shared

Memory caches.

C16. Implementing

your own CDC

application

D16. Informix DBA Guided Client Application

Development

E16. IBM

Infosphere Guardium

and Informix - How does it work in the governance

space?

F16. Building an operational

data store with Informix data on Netezza

G16. Private Meeting

H16. Informix

Warehouse Accelerator

- Installation and Setup

Sun Guo Rong

Mark Jamison Madison Pruet Yunming Wang Daniel Perlov Paul-John To Sudhir Katke

Davis Kwong

Sierra 5 Sierra 6 Balboa 1 Balboa 2 Santa Fe 3 Cabrillo Salon 2 Santa Fe 4 Cabrillo Salon 1(A)

3:15p 3:35p Refreshment Break Exhibit Hall Hallway

3:35p 4:35p A17. Deploying Solutions

with Informix

Warehouse Accelerator - Customer

Experiences

B17. Performance Tuning and

Indexes, Understanding BTSCANNER

C17. Best

Practices for Availability

D17. IDS Single

Sign-On (SSO) Authentication

E17. Informix Warehouse

Accelerator - A look at the

First Year and Beyond

F17. Business: Diary of

Information within Informix

Dynamic Server

G17. Private Meeting

H17. The Beauty of Informix

Disk Structures

Rajesh Nair Mark Jamison Davis Kwong Priya Govindarajan

Frederick Ho Mukta Singh Andreas Legner

Dennis Allen Davis Kwong Dennis Allen

Sierra 5 Sierra 6 Balboa 1 Balboa 2 Santa Fe 3 Cabrillo Salon 2 Santa Fe 4 Cabrillo Salon 1(A)

Green = Vendor Orange = Hands-on-Labs

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Wednesday 04/25

Start Stop A. Track A B. Track B C. Track C D. Track D E. Track E F. Business G. Track G H. HOL 4:35p 4:45p Break

Exhibit Hall Hallway

4:45p 5:45p A18. Tuning Data Warehouse

for High Performance in Informix

B18. Using SSL to encrypt Database Network

traffic

C18. How do I

share data from other Database

Vendors in OLTP

environment?

D18. Informix DBA - A Newbie's

Perspective

E18. To Be

Determined

F18. Using Cognos Dashboard and

Widgets with Informix"

G18. Private Meeting

H18. Test Drive some of

the notable new

Informix 11.70

features

Alex Cheng Jonathan Leffler

Sudhir Katke Jacob Shadix Keshava Murthy Rakesh Naik

Sierra 5 Sierra 6 Balboa 1 Balboa 2 Santa Fe 3 Cabrillo Salon 2 Santa Fe 4 Cabrillo Salon 1(A)

Green = Vendor Orange = Hands-on-Labs

CONFERENCE NOTES

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