1. Advanced Informix Performance Tuning – July 13-16, 2020 by Lester Knutsen and Art Kagel Are you ready to take your DBA Skills to the next level? This course is for database administrators and application developers who will be responsible for managing, optimizing, and tuning an Informix database server. The focus is on skills, procedures, […]

Migrating and Upgrading to Informix 14 and Migrating to the cloud. The easy and the hard way.
IBM User Group DayPresentation
Migrating and Upgrading to Informix 14 or the cloud. The easy and the hard way.
There are several easy procedures to upgrade and migrate Informix. We will look at the easy way (in-place upgrades, dbexport, cdr migrate, backup/restore), but sometimes they may not work for you, and you need to create a custom process. We will go over a set of procedures and scripts using HPL, external tables, and parallel unloads/loads that I have used over the last few years to migrate from small systems up through terabyte-sized databases to VMs, new hardware, and the cloud.
Informix Tutorial – Managing Informix Logs
configure and maintain Informix Logs

Advanced DataTools Newsletter – April 2020
Our Remote Informix DBA Support is Uninterrupted Advanced DataTools operations are uninterrupted by COVID-19 and we continue to support our customers in these difficult times. All our senior Informix DBAs are effectively working remotely and maintain the high standard of support to which we are committed. Our Informix DBA consultants are working and supporting our […]
Informix Tutorial – Managing Informix Disk Space
Disk IO is often the performance bottleneck for databases, every transaction needs to get written safely to disk fast. How do you set up and configure the disk space for an Informix Server? What disk and RAID configurations provide the best performance and reliability?

Informix Tutorials – Configuring a New Informix Server
Informix Tutorials Webcast Replay – Informix Tutorial – Configuring a New Informix Server by Lester Knutsen, February 27, 2020.
How to script configuring an Informix Server? This Webcast will cover everything you need to know to build with scripts, a new medium, or large server. The Webcast will be a review of the Informix ONCONFIG file and configuring memory, CPUs, Network, and Disk for a more extensive Informix Server configuration.

Informix Tutorials – Getting Started with Informix
Informix Tutorials Webcast Replay – Getting Started with Informix by Lester Knutsen on Thursday, January 30, 2020. The Webcast is a step by step guide to installing and getting up and running a basic Informix Server. We will demonstrate using InformixHQ, the IBM Informix Knowledge Center, and how to find resources to get started with Informix.

Congratulations Arman Prescott
21 Years of Great Work Arman Prescott started with Advanced DataTools in January 1999 and was our first Senior Database Consultant to move to Denver. He has supported our projects with the Bureau of Land Management in developing and supporting the Collections and Billing System, which manages over a billion dollars in revenue for over […]
Happy New Year from the Informix Champions
Happy New Year from the Informix Champions at Advanced DataTools, providing Informix Training, Consulting, Support, and Free Tech Information.
Informix 14.10 Command Line Utilities Quick Reference Guide
I have updated our series of Informix Command Line Utilities Quick Reference Guides. Folks, you can download the Informix 14 Quick Reference Guide here. The Quick Reference Guide includes the following Informix commands: Oncheck Oninit Onmode Onparams Onspaces Onstat Ontape In 1995, after years of trying to find a manual to check the command line […]

Is Your Organization Ready For Informix 14?
Informix 11.70 versions reach end of support in 2020. Is your organization ready to make the change? Informix 14.10 brings in a wide number of new features and options and an entirely new installation method. Contact the experts at Advanced DataTools to help you plan, coordinate, and execute an upgrade plan to get you on […]

Exploring the Sysmaster Database – My New Scripts from the IIUG World 2019 Conference
These are my latest Sysmaster Scripts from my presentation at the Informix IIUG World Conference in 2019. Download presentation PDF: advancedatatools.com/…/Sysmaster_IIUG_Conf_2019_A12_LesterKnutse.pdf Download New Sysmaster 2019 Scripts (zip file): advancedatatools.com/…s/sysmaster2019.zip Download Past Sysmaster 2017 Scripts (zip file): advancedatatools.com/…s/sysmaster2017.zip




Informix Webcast 2019 – Installing and Upgrading to the New Informix version 14 and an introduction Informix HQ
IBM just announced the exciting new Informix 14 version in March. Advanced DataTools taught our first course for Informix DBAs on release 14 in April. We have been part of the beta programs and would like to share our findings including how to use the new installer, how to upgrade a database, and an introduction to the new Informix HQ server management.








Loading and Unloading With Informix – FAQ, by Jack Parker
Loading and Unloading with Informix Note, for simplicity these facilities will herein be referred to as ‘loaders’. This is not meant to be a definitive document defining everything there is to know about the subject. This is meant to be a starting point on your road to understanding this topic and a roadmap […]












Running Informix in a Monster Virtual Machine
Running Informix in a Monster Virtual Machine Lester Knutsen presented at the IIUG Informix Conference April 23-27, 2018 in Raleigh, NC.
A monster virtual machine is a VM with lots of memory, CPUs and disks. I have been dealing with many Informix database servers running in a virtual environment and will share some of the problems and solutions for Informix to work well in VM. We will talk about everything from a VM on my laptop to a VM with more than 256 GB of memory and more than 96 Virtual CPUs.








