On Sep 6, 3:37 am, "Neil Truby" <neil.tr...@ardenta.com> wrote:
> "Neil Truby" <neil.tr...@ardenta.com> wrote in message
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> news:5jtt59F17lkhU1@mid.individual.net...
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> >I urgently need the media for recent SE on Linux. Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks to Goradz, and to Cats for pointing out where the media is freely
> available for download.
>
> I've visited the customer who has an elderly green-screen
> 4GL-on-Standard-Engine system. Strategically they are moving away from
> Informix. What benefits, other than the ability to take online backups, can
> I offer them to move to IDS?

Online archiving
HDR Replication
ER Data Distribution and Gathering
RSS and SDS servers for load balancing
Virtually unlimited server capacity (4PB)
Parallel query processing for complex queries
Additional data types
Business logic in the database engine through UDRs
User defined types to better map business objects
XML integration for improved WEB product publishing
SQL-92+ syntax extensions
Horizontal table partitioning (fragmentation) to improve performance
for large tables
Simplified/faster history cleanup (detach fragment)
Integration with all IBM development tools for faster response to
requirements

Art S. Kagel