Informix Table Level Restore

Informix provides the functionality to restore a single table or a subset of a table to a point in time or to the last archive.  This functionality was originally released in IDS v10 and is provided through the archecker software which is included with the...

Add a Layer of Informix Security

I have been working with Informix for just over 15 years.  This has caused me to stop, pause and think about all the changes in the industry that have happened in that time.  Back when I started, databases were still small.  Databases were maintained to...

Informix SE And The 32-bit File System

XTIVIA has a client who runs an old Informix database product, Standard Engine (SE) version 5.01.UD3, on SCO UNIX version 5.0.5.  Both have been running well for at least twenty years without much in the way of outages.  Over the years XTIVIA has assisted...

IBM Informix Trusted Client Connections

In the past, using a client-server architecture with IBM Informix database software required adding an entry on the database server with the client details, either in a .rhosts file in a specific user directory or the/etc/hosts.equiv file. If one of these was not...

Informix DRDA Connections

One of our Virtual-DBA clients recently contacted me for assistance in setting up connections using the DRDA protocol.   They are moving from Java to .NET for their development work, and when they tried to connect via the .NET drivers, they received the...