This Month's Kazer Newsletter
Chat with the Lab - Data Encryption: Protecting Your Sensitive Database Data
Thursday, July 10th 8 AM Pacific, 10 AM Central, 11 AM Eastern
Do you have credit card data in your databases? Personal data in your
databases? Confidential business data in your databases? The pressure is
on to get this sensitive data encrypted and this pressure comes from
government regulations, industry mandates, or simply fear of damaging
your company's reputation due to an embarrassing public disclosure about
losing private data. While encryption technology has existed for some
time, only now are there software solutions that provide effective
protection with operational simplicity. Come join us on this call which
will discuss the importance of data encryption, introduce the IBM
Database Encryption Expert for DB2 and (soon) IDS, and dive into its
capabilities and user experience. Our speaker for this session is Peter
Mandel, Optim Product Manager for Data Governance.
RSVP to:
https://ww4.premconf.com/webrsvp/register?conf_id=9642047
For RSVP assistance via phone, you may call 1-800-289-0579 and reference
call 9642047.
What's New for Client SDK and IConnect 3.50
Changes were made in this version of Client SDK and IConnect to allow
you to use these new features of IBM Informix Dynamic Server, Version
11.50. See the IDS release notes for that version to learn more about
the new features:
• The new BIGINT and BIGSERIAL data types
• Single sign-on authentication
• Support for IS NULL or IS NOT NULL with expressions
• Encrypt data with secure sockets layer (SSL) communications
• Dynamic SQL Statements in SPL Routines
The following new features are included in Client SDK and IConnect
3.50.xC1.
Managing Connections for High Availability Clusters
Connection Manager dynamically routes client application connection
requests to the most appropriate server in a high-availability cluster.
Connection Manager connects to each of the servers in the cluster and
gathers statistics regarding the type of server, unused workload
capacity, and the current state of the server. From this information,
the Connection Manager is able to redirect the connection to the
appropriate server. In addition, Connection Manager Arbitrator provides
automatic failover logic for high-availability clusters. You configure
Connection Manager Arbitrator using a configuration file to specify
which secondary server should take over the role of the primary in the
event of a failure of the primary server.
The Connection Manager utility is installed with CSDK.
The Connection Manager includes these utilities:
oncmsm: starts and configures the Connection Manager
onpassword: encrypts and decrypts the password file that stores
information for connecting to IDS
The Connection Manager is primarily documented in the Administration
Guide and the Administrator's Reference.
Improve Query Performance for ODBC Applications by Disabling Parsing
You can now disable the ODBC parser for queries in ODBC applications.
Disabling ODBC parsing can improve the performance of queries and
prevents ODBC parser messages from being written. You can disable ODBC
parsing by using the SKIPPARSING=1 attribute in the connection string or
odbc.ini file, or by using the SQL_INFX_ATTR_SKIP_PARSING attribute in
SQLSetConnectAttr or SQLSetStmtAttr.
Download the latest version of Informix Client SDK.
http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/download/search.jsp?rs=ifxdl
HiT Software DBMoto Gains IBM Informix Dynamic Server Validation
San Jose, California, June 25, 2008 - HiT Software, Inc., an established
player in the data integration and access (DIA) market, today announced
that its prominent real-time data replication product, DBMoto v6.2, has
gained validation for IBM Informix® Dynamic Server (IDS).
For the first time, using DBMoto, IT teams can incrementally and
intelligently replicate IDS database transactions to all other major
databases. DBMoto’s support for transactional replication ensures that
remote databases always use the latest data for accurate application
processing or decision support in business intelligence and reporting.
DBMoto also supports third-party database replication to IDS as a
target. DBMoto architecture allows for customizable data transformations
via scripting support, offering intelligent, business logic-based
replication. To date, IDS-based enterprises have lacked such a powerful,
flexible heterogeneous data management tool.
"IBM is committed to helping companies like HiT Software achieve high
performance through data management innovations. There's a shift
underway in the database software market as our partners and clients
increasingly choose IBM," said Inhi Cho, Vice President, IBM Data
Management Marketing. "The combination of IDS and DBMoto provides
customers a fast, secure, reliable, and scalable data management system
to help clients increase their competitive advantage now and as their
businesses grows."
DBMoto v6.2 can be downloaded immediately for a no-cost 30-day
evaluation from www.hitsw.com.
To learn more about DBMoto visit our website.
www.kazer.com/products_dbmoto.html