Heading down to Miami soon!

It is the middle days of Passover week and I am trying to squeak some work out between the first Seder days and the coming Sabbath. Part of that I am making final preparations to go down to Miami to the 2014 IIUG Conference. As others have said, this is the premiere conference for users of IBM's Informix database systems. I am excited about the coming conference, not just because I get to participate in one of my favorite activities - that being talking by presenting two sessions and helping out with a third - but I am hoping to hear about new Informix features for the next release. Already this year we have gotten some neat stuff in v12.10 through the first three releases: - Support for JSON and BSON data types. - Support for developing hybrid applications that incorporate both structured and semi-structured data together. - The ability to dynamically expand the buffer pools to handle unexpected data demands. - Improved dynamic logical log management. - Automatic management of the number of CPU VPs. - Automatic expansion of the physical log to handle unexpected transaction volumes. - The ability to specify that new tables should be placed in a specific dbspace or should be automatically partitioned across a number of dbspaces instead of defaulting to the dbspace in which the database was created. - SHMADD now automatically doubles every time 16 new segments have been added to the server. - The client side environment variables INFORMIX_CONTIME and INFORMIX_CONRETRY are now also ONCONFIG parameters that set the server's default connection timeout behavior. - The CPU VP private memory cache is now dynamic using VP_MEMORY_CACHE_VP as a starting value. The optional parameter STATIC can be added to the end of the size to revert to the previous fixed size behavior. - New onstat -g bth & -g BTH reports to better monitor resource contention causing blocked sessions. - Compression for indexes. - Automated compression for new tables. I hope to see more in Miami. I hope to see you all there as well!