IBM Informix Dynamic Server with Jfoundation v10.0

Scalable, reliable, high availability OLTP database

* Breakthrough scalability, manageability and performance.
* Superior total cost of ownership coupled with industry-leading
support.
* Strong application partner support.
* Industry-leading extensibility.
* Strong Integration with IBM software portfolio.
* Broad cross platform and open standards support including Web
Services, Linux, autonomic computing and on demand e-business.

What's New in IBM Informix Dynamic Server V10.0?

* A continued focus on improving quality and query performance.
Enhancements include better memory allocation, configurable
page sizes and being able to store and apply external
optimizer directives.
* Availability and reliability enhancements include being able
to create and drop indexes online without locking tables and
point in time table level restore capability.
* For Enterprise Replication users, multi-node online seamless
re-synch is now possible.
* For DBAs, the new true single user mode will make
administration of the database server much simpler than ever
before.
* There have also been significant improvements in recovery time
for fuzzy checkpoint users.
* Column level encryption will allow users to insert or update
encrypted column level data in the database as well as query
encrypted column level data WITHOUT application changes in
order to help meet government regulatory data security
requirements.
* Administrative enhancements including a more automated and
intuitive installation process and the ability to rename
dbspaces. Enterprise Replication administration and setup has
been made much easier with the addition of replication
templates and being able to alter replicated tables.
* To improve programmer productivity and provide choice of
programming environments, IDS V10.0 provides deep support of
both JavaÖ/Eclipse and MicrosoftÖ .NET IDEs. These include
the new IBM Rational« Development tools, JDBC 3.0
specification support and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET.
* IDS's LinuxÖ leadership is maintained by exploitation of the
Linux 2.6 kernel and the new I/O and memory management
features found in this release.

IDS V10.0 packaging and licensing changes include:

* High Availability Data Replication (HDR) now offered as a
separate chargeable option for IDS Workgroup Edition customers
(IDS V10.0 only).
* IDS Workgroup Edition can now be run on machines with up to
four CPUs (IDS V10.0 only).

IBM Informix Dynamic Server continues long-standing traditions
within IBM and Informix of delivering the mission critical data
infrastructure that enterprises need to run their businesses. The
latest IBM release of IDS contains significant enhancements in the
areas of performance, replication, availability, scalability and
security for superior on-line transaction processing computing. In
addition, IDS continues to reduce the complexity, time, DBA skills
and costs related to database management by simplifying and
automating many of the tasks associated with maintaining an
enterprise database. Upgrading from any previous release of IDS is
a simple, highly automated task. IDS continues to enjoy support
from many leading business partners and customers around the world.