Learn more about innovative new features and power in the new maintenance Release 8 of Server Studio(TM) and Sentinel(TM) for Informix. Upgrade today!.

Just in time to make your daily tasks easier in 2011! The new Release 8 is here Server Studio™ & Sentinel™ — the premiere suite of integrated system management tools for IBM Informix® data servers — has been updated! The new Release 8 of this industry-leading multi-platform graphical development and management environment provides DBAs and developers with an even richer collection of easy-to-use, proven tools to manage with unprecedented ease complexities of the Informix data servers' infrastructure — from initial design and development, all the way through to production deployment and successful operational service. All the vital Informix tools you need in one place This suite of highly intuitive tools provides wide-ranging functionality that enables database professionals improve efficiency of performing common database tasks such as: SQL development and debugging; schema management; configuration auditing and change management; data storage management and reorganization; security administration; rapid identification and remediation of performance bottlenecks and resources contention issues; server optimization and tuning; and whole lot more. What's new and noteworthy in this release Here are just a few of the new features and capabilities in the Release 8 of Server Studio & Sentinel that will take the drudgery out of your work and make you more productive: Full support for the IBM Informix® Dynamic Server — Version 11.70.x (Panther) New SQL Trace facilities enable easy configuration, analysis and reporting on SQL statements captured by the SQL Trace cache of IDS 11.x servers New Recovery Logs focilities significantly enhance ability to view and manage logical and physical logs, checkpoints and recovery policies Enhanced IDS Logs Viewer eases review of Online Message Log, Administrative Commands Log and Onbar Log Dbspaces and chunks management, as well as termination of user sessions operations now leverage IDS 11.5 SQL API, eliminating the need for direct telnet/SSH connections to the server Proactive data stores dynamic resource management capabilities have been added User Sessions Manager has been enhanced to provide the history of the SQL statements executed by a given user session, in addition to the last executed SQL statement and now provides the ability to terminate multiple user sessions in a single operation Server's properties views have been extended to include total and available OS memory, number of host CPUs, last backup date and expandability status for dbspaces and chunks Table reorganization tasks can now be scheduled for deferred execution Ability to actively monitor for and respond to the number of rows in table has been added Enhanced update statistics functionality with ability to schedule deferred execution Automation facilities have been significantly enhanced with the addition of the ability to dynamically pass monitors' parameters values to autonomic tasks International characters' set data encoding has been enhanced for LOAD/UNLOAD SQL commands and Data Import/Export operations Configuration change management facilities have gained the ability to automate the auditing process by the addition of the system snapshot scheduling Download Release 8 of Server Studio & Sentinel today and see for yourself what we've been busy working on for you. You'll be glad you did! Sincerely, AGS Informix Tools Team	Upgrade Today The Release 8 of Server Studio™ with Sentinel™ for IBM Informix® DBMS Servers is now shipping.   Get your free trial today! Even if you've worked before with prior releases of Server Studio™ & Sentinel™, you really should check out cool new features and power in the all-new Release 8. Unlimited functionality will be available to you during the free evaluation period. So, what are you waiting for? Download your copy here   Want to learn more? Review all the great tools and features in Server Studio here See the enhanced Informix data server performance and the brand new configuration change management facilities provided by Sentinel here
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