1. Informix Integration with WebSphere and Tivoli
Jeanette Horan, Vice President World Wide Data Management Development, General Manager Silicon Valley Lab Gary Proctor, Sr. Development Manager - IDS

2. Presentation Overview
Informix – Key New Messages
On Demand Business Vision
Informix and WebSphere
Informix and Tivoli
Upgrading from SE or Online 5 to IDS 9.4
Summary
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3. Message to Informix Clients and Partners
Your existing Informix database investments will be protected and you will be able to take advantage of evolving technology
IBM continues to enhance and support Informix Dynamic Server 9.x. There are no end of life plans for IDS 9.x EOS will be extended for 5 addition years past April 2006.
IDS is IBM’s strategic database for enterprise level embedded solutions
IBM will ensure the ability to leverage your existing investment through integrated, cost effective and competitively based offerings with other IBM Software Group products
Existing 4GL skills can be leveraged in a modern application development environment by using EGL and WebSphere Studio going forward
For current Informix customers who are considering a move, move only when the result is better for you and consider DB2 for overall value advantage.
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4. Product Satisfaction Is High
The majority of Informix clients and partners are satisfied with the capabilities of the product.
Source: end 2003 Summary of worldwide market research done periodically by IBM since IBM acquisition in 2001, 644 respondents in total.
Informix Products have benefited from IBM’s development process, quality standards and technology sharing
Strong Performance
Stable
Fast
High Volume Capacity
Easy to Use
Tailored to Size
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5. Defining the next computing era
“An enterprise whose business processes -- integrated end-to-end across the company and with key partners, suppliers and customers – can respond with speed to any customer demand, market opportunity or external threat”
— Sam Palmisano, IBM Chairman and CEO
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6. IBM WebSphere Software Platform
WebSphere Portal
A single point of personalized interaction with applications, content, processes and people
Optimize Operations
WebSphere Commerce
Powerful sell- and buy-side solutions to handle the challenges encountered in customer and trading partner environments
WebSphere Business Integration
Software that delivers end-to-end integration through five proven capabilities: model, integrate, connect, monitor and manage
WebSphere Everyplace
Software for extending e-business applications to mobile devices
WebSphere MQ
Software to connect internal and external applications to exchange information reliably and securely
WebSphere Voice
Software for enabling natural voice interactions with applications and data
WebSphere Studio
An open comprehensive development environment for building dynamic
e-business applications
WebSphere Application Server
A high-performance and extremely scalable transaction engine for dynamic e-business applications
WebSphere Host Integration
Software to leverage and extend legacy assets for new e-business solutions
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7. IBM WebSphere Application Server Family
A high-performance and extremely scalable transaction engine
for dynamic e-business applications
A J2EE certified configuration optimized to the unique qualities of service provided by z/OS
A next generation application server that simplifies build-to-integrate tasks, accelerates application development and enables real-time adaptable capabilities
WebSphere Application Server Enterprise
The mainstream Web services J2EE certified application server enabling industry leading qualities of service and flexible deployment options
WebSphere Application Server for
z/OS
WebSphere Application Server
WebSphere Application Server - Express
An easily approachable “on-ramp” to e-business, providing fast and productive development, deployment of dynamic web applications
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8. WebSphere Studio Family
Workbench IBM’s commercially supported version of the Eclipse Workbench
Enterprise Developer
Application Developer Integration Edition
Application Developer
Site Developer
Professional Web, Java, XML, and Web services developers
SCM interface to connect to vendor software of your choice
Embedded WebSphere Application Server Express
J2EE developers
Relational DB tools
CCLT
Embedded WebSphere Application Server
Advanced J2EE developers
Service-oriented architecture
Flow composition
Embedded WebSphere Application Server Enterprise
Enterprise development organizations
Web services based enterprise modernization
Reuse of enterprise assets (COBOL,Pl/1)
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9. WebSphere Portal: Example of Collaboration
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10. Informix Dynamic Server Direct IDS to MQ interaction
MQ-Informix Database
Module
MQ Series Scenario.
Z/OS
HP UX
IBM AIX 5.x
Informix Dynamic Server
Websphere MQ
DB2 on Z/OS
MQ Datablade
Q1…
Q2…
Direct IDS to MQ interaction
MQ-DB2 database module
App-2
App-1
App-2
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11. Informix Dynamic Server
IDS Datablades
Informix Dynamic Server
DATABLADE API
Spatial
SQL Parser
Optimizer
Geodetic
Parallel Query
Manager
XSLT
Fragment Manager
MQSeries
Transaction Services
TimeSeries
SQL Parser
NAG
Access Methods
WEB
Data Access Interface
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12. IDS and WebSphere MQ MQSeries Transactional Support
Supports the coordination of IDS 7 & 9 servers from MQSeries in an XA environment
MQSeries acts as an XA transaction manager and IDS as an XA resource manager
Limited platform availability: for IDS initially AIX
IBM Informix MQSeries DataBlade
New MQ API for IDS 9, modelled after an existing DB2 MQ API
Allows an Informix application to easily interact with an MQ based infrastructure
Additional Virtual Table Interface (VTI) support for simple SQL-/Table-based access to MQ queues!
Initial version now available via IBM Alphaworks
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13. IDS and WebSphere Installations
Install IDS and Java Environment
Include the bin directory of J2SE in the PATH environment variable ie: Export CLASSPATH=/home/JDBC/lib/ifxjdbc.jar:/home/JDBC/lib/ifxjdbcx.jar TIP: Set the CLASSPATH environment variable in every user profile that will connect to IDS using JDBC.
Verify that your environment variables are properly set. Ie: INFORMIXSERVER, INFORMIXDIR, ONCONFIG, PATH, CLASSPATH
Install WAS (WebSphere App Server) to work with IDS
Install JDBC driver on the development server and separate App Server machine if using three tier architecture
Install WebSphere Studio App Server with WORF for IDS, on separate server, if using three tier architecture. Run Setup from temp directory.
Install WSAD (WebSphere Studio Application Developer) on Windows Client(s)
Run Setup, opens Installation Launcher window, follow instructions to point to WepSphere app server and IDS RDBMS server.
Install IDS and Java Env:
Set the CLASSPATH environment variable in every user profile that will connect to IDS using JDBC. In our case we added this variable in the profile_settings file and loaded this script in the user profiles that ran Java applications against IDS By including the Informix JDBC driver in the CLASSPATH we make available the necessary packages that a Java application needs to access to connect to an Informix server. Inside the application code we have to import the JDBC packages, load the JDBC driver, and then connect to the database.
Verify that your environment variables are properly set. IDS variables should be pointing to the correct server instance, PATH should include Informix and Java bin directories, and CLASSPATH should include the Informix JDBC jar files and the current directory. In our case we included all these settings in our $INFORMIXDIR/demo/server/profile_settings file. This is how it looked:
INFORMIXSERVER=demo_on
INFORMIXDIR=/home/IDS9.40
ONCONFIG=onconfig.demo
CLASSPATH=/home/JDBC/lib/ifxjdbc.jar:/home/JDBC/lib/ifxjdbcx.jar:.
PATH=/home/IDS9.40/bin:/home/IDS9.40/bin:/home/IDS9.40/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin:/usr/java/j2sdk1.3.1_08/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/informix/bin:/home/informix/bin:/root/bin:/usr/java/j2sdk1.3.1_08/bin:/opt/netscape/netscape:.
export INFORMIXSERVER INFORMIXDIR ONCONFIG PATH CLASSPATH
Install WebSphere to work with IDS
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14. IDS and WebSphere Installations
Install IDS and Java Env:
Set the CLASSPATH environment variable in every user profile that will connect to IDS using JDBC. In our case we added this variable in the profile_settings file and loaded this script in the user profiles that ran Java applications against IDS By including the Informix JDBC driver in the CLASSPATH we make available the necessary packages that a Java application needs to access to connect to an Informix server. Inside the application code we have to import the JDBC packages, load the JDBC driver, and then connect to the database.
Verify that your environment variables are properly set. IDS variables should be pointing to the correct server instance, PATH should include Informix and Java bin directories, and CLASSPATH should include the Informix JDBC jar files and the current directory. In our case we included all these settings in our $INFORMIXDIR/demo/server/profile_settings file. This is how it looked:
INFORMIXSERVER=demo_on
INFORMIXDIR=/home/IDS9.40
ONCONFIG=onconfig.demo
CLASSPATH=/home/JDBC/lib/ifxjdbc.jar:/home/JDBC/lib/ifxjdbcx.jar:.
PATH=/home/IDS9.40/bin:/home/IDS9.40/bin:/home/IDS9.40/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin:/usr/java/j2sdk1.3.1_08/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/informix/bin:/home/informix/bin:/root/bin:/usr/java/j2sdk1.3.1_08/bin:/opt/netscape/netscape:.
export INFORMIXSERVER INFORMIXDIR ONCONFIG PATH CLASSPATH
Install WebSphere to work with IDS
Machine C (Optional)
WebSphere App Server
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15. The First IBM Informix Redbook!
Covers all IDS / WebSphere Topics
Lots of step-by-step examples (example code downloadable)
Based on Linux and Windows platforms
Available Now!
Download at:
Redbook ID: SG
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16. IBM Informix and WebSphere Bundles
Enterprise Bundle
IDS 9.4 Enterprise Edition Unlimited
WebSphere Application 5.1
WebSphere Studio Application Developer 5.1
Enterprise Trade-up
Includes IDS 9.4 EE Unlimited Trade-up From 7
Workgroup Bundle
IDS 9.4 Workgroup Edition
WebSphere Application Server Express 5.1
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17. Informix and Tivoli - What Value Does Tivoli Deliver?
Intelligent Systems Management
Monitor your IT resources
Automate & correlate problems
Optimize Business Systems with IT
Intelligent identity management
Integrate identity management and access control providing single sign-on
Protect IT against security threats
Maintain privacy commitments
Intelligent Storage Management
Optimize storage resources and server consolidation
Automate backup and recovery
Simplify storage capacity planning
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18. Tivoli addresses these IT business areas!
Helps ensure the health and appropriate functioning of IT
Helps ensure information assets, confidentiality and data integrity are protected
Availability
Security
27-32% savings triage time
25-35% higher first call close rates
35-40% reduced admin time
35-40% reduced access time
Helps ensure the most productive utilization of IT
Makes available right resources to right processes and people
Optimization
Provisioning
20-25% greater utilization
40-50% fewer batch restarts
15-35% reduced capital outlay
25-30% reduced staff req’ts
Senses, triggers , responds according to business goals.
BSM
Manage using business priority, manage service levels
Orchestration
Increase resource utilization from 20% avg. to as high as 50%
30-40% reduced admin time
40-50% savings in SLA reporting
15-30% savings on time for root cause determination, downtime
Provides a single, consolidated, logical view of and easy access to all available resources in a network
Virtualization
10-25% saving in physical consolidation
Increased storage utilization up to 3X
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19. Informix and Tivoli Architecture
Tivoli Mgmt. Solution
Business Systems Mgmt.
Configuration & Operations
Centralized Control
Service Delivery
Web Management
Pervasive Management.
Storage
Storage Management
Storage Area Network Mgmt.
Data Protection
Disaster Recovery
Performance & Availability
Monitoring
Analysis
Central Console
Reporting
Security
Access Management
Identity Management
Risk Management
Auditing
Common Infrastructure / Services
IDS
WebSphere App Server
DB2
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20. Intelligent Management Software – Why Tivoli?
Ability to move customers from reactive to proactive management
Ability to help customers map IT assets into business processes
Ability to “do more with less” with autonomic and correlation engines
Ability to incorporate “best practices”
Ability to help customers move to the on demand world
Intelligent Management
Software
Optimized for
business value
Integrated
for
efficiency
Automated for productivity
“Tivoli’s autonomic approach to systems management goes well beyond integration to the truly intelligent, responsive and proactive capabilities that will enable IBM to actually deliver e-business on demand.” —Carol Baroudi
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21. Tight integration helps keep applications and data available.
Tivoli Partnering with DB2 / IDS Enabling application and data availability
What is it?
Monitors DB2 / IDS databases
Automatically backs up IBM DB2 / IDS databases
Provides historic and trending analytics
Value to customer:
Ensure data available automatically
Plan storage capacity to avoid availability issues
Free resources to focus on business critical tasks
Key competitive features:
Shared storage and data repositories help keep data securely backed up and available
Key Plays
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
IBM Storage Manager for Databases
IBM Tivoli Access Manager
IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases
Tight integration helps keep applications and data available.
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22. IDS and Tivoli Installations
Install IDS and Java Environment
Include the bin directory of J2SE in the PATH environment variable ie: Export CLASSPATH=/home/JDBC/lib/ifxjdbc.jar:/home/JDBC/lib/ifxjdbcx.jar TIP: Set the CLASSPATH environment variable in every user profile that will connect to IDS using JDBC.
Verify that your environment variables are properly set. Ie: INFORMIXSERVER, INFORMIXDIR, ONCONFIG, PATH, CLASSPATH
Install Tivoli Monitoring for DBs to work with IDS
Can be installed from Desktop or Command Line
From Desktop -> Install -> Install Product (Select correct Product for IDS agent)
Run DMLinkJRE; from Desktop -> Navigator -> DMLinkJRE; specify end points, click Execute
Set up different “administrators” for different DBs and/or different roles (optional)
Install IDS and Java Env:
Set the CLASSPATH environment variable in every user profile that will connect to IDS using JDBC. In our case we added this variable in the profile_settings file and loaded this script in the user profiles that ran Java applications against IDS By including the Informix JDBC driver in the CLASSPATH we make available the necessary packages that a Java application needs to access to connect to an Informix server. Inside the application code we have to import the JDBC packages, load the JDBC driver, and then connect to the database.
Verify that your environment variables are properly set. IDS variables should be pointing to the correct server instance, PATH should include Informix and Java bin directories, and CLASSPATH should include the Informix JDBC jar files and the current directory. In our case we included all these settings in our $INFORMIXDIR/demo/server/profile_settings file. This is how it looked:
INFORMIXSERVER=demo_on
INFORMIXDIR=/home/IDS9.40
ONCONFIG=onconfig.demo
CLASSPATH=/home/JDBC/lib/ifxjdbc.jar:/home/JDBC/lib/ifxjdbcx.jar:.
PATH=/home/IDS9.40/bin:/home/IDS9.40/bin:/home/IDS9.40/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin:/usr/java/j2sdk1.3.1_08/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/informix/bin:/home/informix/bin:/root/bin:/usr/java/j2sdk1.3.1_08/bin:/opt/netscape/netscape:.
export INFORMIXSERVER INFORMIXDIR ONCONFIG PATH CLASSPATH
Install Tivoli to work with IDS
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23. IDS SE and ONLINE 5 Migrations to IDS 9.40
SE Migrations to IDS 9.40
Requires an Unload from SE and a Load of Data into IDS
SPL Migration
DataType Differences
SQL Syntax Differences
ONLINE 5 to IDS 9.40
Requires an Unload from Online and a Load of Data into IDS
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24. Thanks for participating.
Questions and Answers
YOUR TURN!
Thanks for participating.
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25. Additional Resources Technical Enablement Christine Normile
Informix Product Page
DM Today
db2infonews/
IBM Information Management
Product Managers: Jerry Zhu (IDS)
Omkar Nimbalkar (Clients, Blades)
Worldwide Database Server Sales Support:
Technical Enablement
Christine Normile
Jacques Roy
Sales
Scott Pavlot
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26. Informix and U2 Integration Days
Come learn the latest Informix and U2 product strategy and how you can leverage your Informix and U2 investment across IBM Software.
Thursday, August 26 – Bethesda, MD
6710 Rockledge Drive, 4th Floor, B Wing, Room 24B235
Tuesday, August 31 – Atlanta, GA
4111 Northside Drive, Ground Floor (3rd), Room 03F23
Continental breakfast served at 8:30 a.m.
Customers 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., includes Lunch
Business Partners 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Please RSVP by calling or via
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