IBM je objavio novi fixpack Informixa 11.50.xC6. Ispravljen je veći broj bug-ova i dodani neki novi featuri. Više informacija možete pronaći u release notesima (detaljnije u službenoj dokumentaciji) dok je ovdje izlistan samo određeni broj novih featurea.

Administration

• External Backups on RS Secondary Servers
• Dynamically Start, Stop, or Restart Listen Threads
• SQL Administration API Portal: Arguments by Functional Categories
• Connection Manager Proxy Support
• View Event Alarms in the Scheduler
• Improved Transaction Information
• Enhancements to the OpenAdmin Tool for IDS
• Enhancements to the Schema Manager plug-in for the OpenAdmin Tool for IDS

Application Development

• Enhancements to Merging Information into a Target Table with the MERGE Statement
• An ALTER FRAGMENT Operation Can Now Force Out Transactions to Get Exclusive Access to Tables
• RETAINUPDATELOCKS Environment Option
• New Column Size Field Format for CDC Records

Enterprise Replication

• Enhancements to the Enterprise Replication plug-in for the OpenAdmin Tool for IDS
• Enable or Disable Enterprise Replication Event Alarms

High-availability

• XA Transaction Support for Updatable Secondary Servers in a High-availability Cluster

Installation

• Deploying Instances with the Deployment Utility
• Installing IDS by Using an RPM package (Linux)

Migration

• Migrating or Upgrading High-availability Clusters
• Upgrading to a New Server or Fix pack
• Quickly Reverting to Your Source Server After a Failed Upgrade

Performance

• Light Scans on Tables
• Process Multiple Basic Text Search Queries Simultaneously

Warehousing

• Load and Unload Data with External Tables

Here is a complete copy of the 11.50.xC6 releasenotes.