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Keynote Presentations
SESSION: Keynote - The Future
of IBM-Informix
SPEAKER: Don Top, VP, IBM Informix Product Development
Don Top began his technology career answering product questions
on the phone for Informix Software in 1986. Over the next 6 years
he became the most senior advanced support engineer at Informix, with ultimate
responsibility for diagnosing the most difficult problems experienced by
Informix database customers. Don then spent 6 years engineering improvements
to Informix's new Dynamic Scalable Architecture (DSA) engine, concentrating
on high availability and product serviceability. He then managed
development, and in 1997 directed all development for IDS 7.3, the product
currently in use by more Informix customers than any other database engine.
For the last 3 years prior to IBM's acquisition, Don was Vice President
of Product Development at Informix Software, beginning with full responsibility
for Informix Extended Parallel Server (XPS) and, in August 2000, became
responsible for all product development at Informix, overseeing the activities
of 500+ engineers. Upon IBM's acquisition of the Informix database
business in July 2001, Don retained this responsibility over continuing
development of the Informix product. In March 2002, Don stepped into
the new role of Informix Customer Advocacy Executive where he now ensures
the issues and concerns of the Informix customer and partner base receive
the necessary attention.
SESSION: Keynote
- The Future of Informix Technology
SPEAKER: Paul Taylor, VP, IBM
Email: paultay@us.ibm.com
Paul Taylor is an IBM Distinguished Engineer for IBM data management
software. Paul has 18 years of experience building high performance and
reliable distributed data management systems. He spent 5 years at BNR in
Ottawa, Canada developing access methods and file systems that are used
in telephone switches. He was at Informix Software in Menlo Park, CA for
12 years where he was heavily involved in the design and implementation
of the Informix DBMS server product line. At Informix, he was responsible
for designing and implementing technology in the areas of distributed databases,
data partitioning, shared nothing architectures, and high performance infrastructure
for OLTP and Data Warehousing. Paul joined IBM as part of the Informix
acquisition in July 2001. Paul currently works in the Data Management architecture
team at IBM, and is involved in IDS product strategy, integration of the
Informix technologies into DB2, and with other DB2 initiatives. Paul has
a BSc from UBC in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
SESSION: Keynote
- The International Informix Users Group
SPEAKERS: Jerry Hamilton, President, International Informix Users Group
Email: jerry@iiug.org
Jerry Hamilton is the current IIUG President and concurrently
serves on the St. Louis Area Informix Users Group Board of Directors, and
has been involved with the meeting organization committee. Jerry has worked
hard to help resurrect the local user group and his efforts are paying
off as membership is on the rise and attendance at local meetings is quickly
growing. Jerry has over 20 years experience with relational databases,
including TOTAL, Supra, IMS, and Informix. He has spent the last 10 years
working with Informix products as a DBA, developer, and programmer. Jerry
is a Senior Manager of Database Administration for Fleishman-Hillard, Inc.
at their world headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri.
Technical Sessions
SESSION: IDS Internals
and Disk Structures. Everything you never knew!
SPEAKER: Art Kagel, Bloomberg, L.P.
Phone: 212-318-2697
Email: kagel@bloomberg.net
Detailed description of IDS 7 & 9 internals including many reserved
page data structures. Attendees will gain a clearer knowledge of
the internal structure of IDS servers and databases. Observant attendees
will have the tools to build utilities to peruse the reserved pages.
Brave attendees may be able to repair minor damage, rename chunks, and
other operations they should never attempt.
Art S. Kagel has been using Informix database products since the first
SQL version of 4GL, far too long to remember. He has been the catalyst
for bringing relational database technology to several organizations as
a consultant and employee. Art is a recognized expert on the use
and maintenance of Informix database servers (a fact to which he readily
admits) and is the author of a suite of DBA tools for IDS that extend beyond
the functionality of IBM's own Informix tools.
SESSION: Using
Perl and DBI/DBD with Informix Databases
SPEAKER: Darryl Priest, Piper Rudnick LLP
Phone: 410-580-4737
Email: darryl.priest@piperrudnick.com
We will be discussing the use of Perl and the database connectivity
modules DBI and DBD::Informix used with Informix databases. Darryl
Priest has worked with Informix as a programmer and/or DBA for 10 years.
He discovered the pleasure of programming connecting Perl and Informix
on UNIX about 4 years ago and hesitates to work in any other environment.
He currently supports both an Elite accounting system and a PeopleSoft
system for a large law firm.
SESSION: Windows,
Web, and Web Services for I4GL Applications
SPEAKER: Don Bizell, Four J's Development Tools
Phone: 972-893-7300 x205
Email: tonylt@4js.com
Unlock the jewels hidden in your 4GL applications by providing Windows,
HTML, and Java front-ends for them. Then bring them right up to the minute
with support for Web Services - WSDL, SOAP, and UDDI. Too good to be true?
Four J's Development Tools will show you how in this session.
Don Bizzell is a Principal Systems Engineer for Four J's Development
Tools. Previously he was a Director of Services at Ascential after being
a Systems Engineering Manager, and Systems Engineer for Informix for over
five years. He has been a programmer since the late 70's working
mostly on financial analysis applications.
SESSION: IDS Troubleshooting
SPEAKER: Joseph Lobo, IBM
Email: loboj@us.ibm.com
The session will cover a number of topics that will help a
user to troubleshoot an instance. A brief discussion of the interaction
between IDS and UNIX will be followed by a discussion of assertion failures,
shared memory dumps, and the development of test cases.
Joseph Lobo has been teaching Informix classes (System Administration,
Performance Tuning, Internals, Troubleshooting, and Advanced Performance
Tuning) at IBM for the last four years. In the past, he has also taught
UNIX classes (System Administration, Performance Tuning, Internals) on
a number of platforms.
SESSION: Informix 9.4
SPEAKER: Jonathan Leffler, IBM
Email: jleffler@us.ibm.com
Jonathan Leffler started using Informix SQL and Informix 4GL in 1986.
He joined Informix UK in 1990, and moved to the USA in 1993 to be the technical
lead for the I4GL maintenance team. He wrote a book, Using
Informix SQL, which is now out of print. He has been involved with
D4GL since its introduction in 1998. He has long been active in the
comp.databases.informix newsgroup, and developed and maintained the Perl
DBD::Informix module.
SESSION: Websphere Meets Informix
SPEAKER: Marty Lurie, IBM
Phone: 781-895-2743
Email: lurie@us.ibm.com
WebSphere is IBM's industry leading Java Enterprise Edition
platform for high performance web sites and advanced e-business deployments.
IBM Informix IDS is a best-of-breed, general purpose, mission-critical
OLTP database for e-business. How do these two excellent offerings interoperate?
This session will first review the concepts of Java applications and databases.
Then you'll see how to combine WebSphere with Informix. Additionally
the Websphere Application Development Workbench will be used to illustrate
object mapping for making Java objects persistent. Metrics for optimal
configuration of IBM Informix will be provided as well as hints and tips
on application design for optimal performance.
Marty Lurie started his computer career generating chads while
attempting to write Fortran on an IBM 1130. His day job is in Systems Engineering
for IBM's Informix organization, but if pressed he will admit he mostly
plays with computers and has also worked with DB2. His favorite program
is the one he wrote to connect his Nordic Track to his laptop (the laptop
lost two pounds, and lowered its cholesterol by 20%). Marty is an IBM-certified
DB2 DBA, IBM-certified Business Intelligence Solutions Professional, and
an Informix-certified Professional and a Certified IBM Senior Consulting
IT Specialist.
SESSION: Comparison of DB2 UDB
and Informix Data Administration Tools for Unix
SPEAKER: Nalini Subu, Home Depot
Phone: 770-433-8211 ext. 10916
Email: Nalini_Subu@homedepot.com
Compare and Contrast IDS and UDB (EE) with regard to overall architecture,
disk components, concurrency, utilities etc. Nalini Subu has been
a Home Depot Associate for the last 4.5 years supporting DB2 UDB, Informix,
and SQL Server. She has approximately 15 years experience with a
variety of RDBMSs, both from an application development and an administration
standpoint.
SESSION: (Not) A "DB2 IDS Comparison"
SPEAKER: Serge Rielau, IBM Canada
Phone: 905-413-3907
Email: srielau@ca.ibm.com
In this session, Serge Reilau will try to match up IDS tasks
and features with their DB2 equivalents. If time permits, he will
try to give a DB2 V8 overview demo. Serge Reilau is a technical manager
in the DB2 SQL compiler. After 6 years with IBM, including one as
a student, he is involved in most DB2 SQL language related changes as well
as driving his colleagues and various news groups nuts.
SESSION: Building
Secure Web Applications with IDS
SPEAKER: Michael Chaney, ChainLink
Phone: 703-430-5752
Email: mikec@chainlink.com
Security is more than just a buzz-word, it's imperative in
today's environment where everything is connected to the net. This session
provides hands-on advice on how to design, build, deploy, and maintain
secure web applications.
Michael Chaney is the Co-founder and Technical Director of
ChainLink Networking Solutions, Inc. located in Reston, Virginia. The company
is an IBM Informix System Integration and Consulting partner and was established
in 1995 to offer Internet software development, Web technical consulting,
and network security services. Chaney is a certified professional who has
been dedicated to Internet development and database integration on the
Web since the conception of the Internet for commerce use. He has worked
on many exciting e-business projects and has created the ChainLink Halo
network security product.
SESSION: Enterprise
Replication and Availability in the IDS Server
SPEAKER: Madison Pruet, IBM
Phone: (972) 561-6156
Email: mpruet@us.ibm.com
This session will focus on the setup and monitoring of ER on
the IDS server. Items covered will be 1) internal logic used by ER,
2) significance of tables used within the syscdr database, 3) troubleshooting
ER, 4) workarounds to existing limitations, and 5) new stuff in 9.3 and
9.4. Madison Pruet joined Informix as a regional advanced support
engineer in 1994. Prior to that he worked with La Quinta Inns as
systems/dba engineer, Sperry Corperation as a field engineer on the Univac
system, and Xerox as an application developer. He is currently
acting as one of the IDS lead developers.
Technical Tutorials
SESSION: Upgrade to 9.3
SPEAKER: Carlton Doe, IBM
Phone: 972-561-6103
Email: cdoe@us.ibm.com
In this session, Carlton will cover the various steps and things
to look out for in upgrading from IDS ver. 7 to ver. 9. He will also
cover, in detail, most of the new functionality ver. 9 provides and how
it can be used
Carlton Doe had over 10 years of Informix experience as a DBA,
Engine Administrator and 4GL Developer before joining Informix in 2000.
During this time, he was actively involved in the local Informix user group
and was one of the five founders of the IIUG. He served as IIUG President,
Advocacy Director, and sat on the IIUG Board of Directors for several years.
He is best known for having written two Informix Press books on administering
the IDS engine as well as several whitepapers and technical articles. Carlton
currently works for IBM as a Technical Sales Manager in Dallas.
SESSION: Windows,
Web, and Web Services for I4GL Applications
SPEAKER: Don Bizell, Four J's Development Tools
Phone: 972-893-7300 x205
Email: tonylt@4js.com
Unlock the jewels hidden in your 4GL applications by providing Windows,
HTML, and Java front-ends for them. Then bring them right up to the minute
with support for Web Services - WSDL, SOAP, and UDDI. Too good to be true?
Four J's Development Tools will show you how in this session.
Don Bizzell is a Principal Systems Engineer for Four J's Development
Tools. Previously he was a Director of Services at Ascential after being
a Systems Engineering Manager, and Systems Engineer for Informix for over
five years. He has been a programmer since the late 70's working
mostly on financial analysis applications.
SESSION: DSS and HPL
SPEAKER: Jack Parker, Artentech
Email: jparker@artentech.com
HPL has the power to load and unload data to your Informix database
an order of magnitude faster than traditional methods. This makes
it the optimal tool not only to load and unload data, but also for data
migration, as an adjunct to your backup strategy, data reorganization,
or any other reason you might have to move large chunks of data around
your database. Come find out how best to take advantage of this facility.
Jack Parker is a Systems Architect who has been building and running
Informix based solutions for the past sixteen years. For the past
seven of these he has been involved in the data warehousing industry.
He is an occasional writer, speaker, and contributor to comp.database.informix.
He is a partner with Arten Technology Group, a consulting company in Southern
New Hampshire.
SESSION: SQL Performance Tuning
SPEAKER: Kevin Fennimore, UCI Consulting
Email: kfenn@uci-consulting.com
In this session we will discuss various performance tuning topics such
as indexing strategies, schema, query and application optimization, correlated
sub-query enhancements in 7.3, and optimizer directives.
Kevin Fennimore has been working with Informix for over 12 years, specializing
in the area of performance tuning. Most recently his company, UCI Consulting,
Inc., has concentrated on tuning PeopleSoft applications running on Informix
and Oracle and has become one of the top companies in this area. He can
be reached by phone at 1-888-UCI-FOR-U or by email at kfenn@uci-consulting.com.
SESSION: Managing
and Tuning your IDS Server using the Sysmaster Database
SPEAKER: Lester Knutsen, Advanced DataTools Corp.
Phone: 703-256-0267 x 102
Email: lester@advancedatatools.com
This session will focus on scripts to manage and tune your Informix
Server using the Sysmaster database. The presentation will include
managing and tuning user sessions, server configuration, dbspaces, chunks,
tables, and monitoring IO using the sysmaster database. This session
was originally presented at the Informix User Conference and is the basis
of the chapters I wrote for The DBA Survival Guide (http://www.dbasurvivalguide.com),
the Informix Handbook (http://www.informixhandbook.com), and for the Informix
Tech Notes. The session has been updated to include material for
Informix IDS 9.3.
Lester Knutsen has been developing applications with Informix software
since 1983. He is president of Advanced DataTools Corporation, an
IBM-Informix Consulting, Training, and Tools Partner specializing in data
warehouse development, database design, performance tuning, and Informix
training and support. Currently, Lester specializes in developing
web-enabled data warehouse systems. He provides training and consulting
in database design and performance tuning, and is widely known in the Informix
community for his extensive experience and teaching skill. Lester
is also president of the Washington D.C. Area Informix User Group, one
of the largest and most active Informix user groups, and is one of the
founding members of the International Informix Users Group.
SESSION: How
to Spatially Enable Your IBM Informix Database
SPEAKER: Chris Bosch, IBM
Phone: 301-803-2276
Email: bosch@us.ibm.com
Learn how you can generate vital business intelligence and gain competitive
advantage by spatially-enabling your IBM Informix database. Topics covered
in this tutorial include the installation, configuration, and use of DataBlade
modules that extend IBM Informix Dynamic Server with data types, functions,
and indexes for managing spatial data.
Chris Bosch is an Advisory Software Engineer at IBM where he contributes
to the DB2 Spatial Extender and Informix Spatial DataBlade Module development
efforts. He joined Informix Software over six years ago and is an Informix
Certified Professional.
SESSION: Bringing
IDS Internals to the Surface - Using Internals for Performance Tuning and
Troubleshooting
SPEAKER: Mark Scranton, IBM
Phone: 303-973-2213
Email: mscranto@us.ibm.com
This session exposes IDS internals that could be used daily in the configuration,
performance tuning, and maintenance of IDS. Included are topics such as
physical log overflow, physical/logical page addresses, fragmentation,
disk/page level overhead, max number of extents, and long transactions.
Mark Scranton is a Principal Consultant/Trainer with IBM in Denver.
Mark joined Informix in 1995, and has focused exclusively on IDS, XPS,
and DB2 engines, including internals, performance tuning, and configuration.
Mark can be contacted at mscranto@us.ibm.com, mail@markscranton.com, or
at his website at www.markscranton.com.
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