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E-News
Advantage™ Ingres® Enterprise
Relational Database Newsletter
Version 04.01
April 07, 2004

In This Newsletter
Product News
> New Beta Program for Advantage™ Ingres® Enterprise Relational Database Release 3
for Linux (32-Bit), Windows, Sun Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX
> Advantage™ Ingres® Enterprise Relational Database Release 2.6 for Linux for zSeries
and S/390 Now Generally Available
> Advantage™ Ingres® Enterprise Relational Database Release 2.6 Service Pack 2
Now Generally Available
> Advantage™ OpenROAD® Development Mailing List Back Online

Product Updates
> Advantage™ Ingres® Enterprise Relational Database, Advantage™ OpenROAD® Development,
and Advantage™ Enterprise Access Product Matrix
> Recent Service Packs and Patches

General Information
> Using JBoss Application Server With Advantage™ Ingres® Enterprise Relational Database
> Configuring Security in Advantage™ Ingres® Enterprise Relational Database
> Dragging and Dropping Values From a TableField to a ListviewField in Advantage™ OpenROAD® Development Release 4.1
> Advantage™ Ingres® Enterprise Relational Database Online Checkpoints
> Leveraging Advantage™ Enterprise Access
> How to Center Called Frames in Advantage™ OpenROAD® Development Release 4.1
> DMF Group Buffers

Special Events
> German User Group Conference - Benutzerkonferenz 2004
> caworldSM 2004 in Spectacular Las Vegas
> The North American Ingres® User Association is Restarting

Product News
New Beta Program for Advantage™ Ingres® Enterprise Relational Database Release 3 for Linux (32-Bit), Windows, Sun Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX
Beta testing for Advantage Ingres Enterprise Relational Database Release 3 for Linux (32-bit), Windows, Sun Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX is about to begin. Participate in the beta program and experience the latest technology for yourself.

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Advantage™ Ingres® Enterprise Relational Database Release 2.6 for Linux for zSeries and S/390 Now Generally Available
The Advantage Ingres Enterprise Relational Database team is pleased to announce that Advantage Ingres Enterprise Relational Database Release 2.6 for Linux for zSeries and s/390 is now generally available. This product announcement provides more information.

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Advantage™ Ingres® Enterprise Relational Database Release 2.6 Service Pack 2
Now Generally Available
The Advantage Ingres Enterprise Relational Database team is pleased to announce that Release 2.6 Service Pack 2 is now generally available for the following platforms:
  • Windows (32-bit)
  • Sun Solaris (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • HP-UX (32-bit and 64-bit) and HP-UX Itanium
  • Linux for Intel (32-bit) and Linux for AMD64
  • IBM AIX (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • Tru64
  • UnixWare (32-bit)
For more information about this release, please read the product announcement.

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Advantage™ OpenROAD® Development Mailing List Back Online
After being absent for several months, the Advantage OpenROAD Development mailing list is up and running again. This lively forum has been greatly missed and our thanks go to everyone concerned at Peerless IT for resurrecting and hosting the list. Within days of its restarting, there were a number of active discussion threads with users from around the globe exchanging views and ideas.

Subscribers to the old list should have been notified already and new subscribers are always welcome. Please visit peerlessit.com/mailman/listinfo/openroad-users for full details on how to subscribe.

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Product Updates
Advantage™ Ingres® Enterprise Relational Database, Advantage™ OpenROAD® Development, and Advantage™ Enterprise Access Product Matrix
An updated product matrix is available for Advantage Ingres Enterprise Relational Database, Advantage OpenROAD Development, and Advantage Enterprise Access. This matrix provides details about the platforms and operating system releases with which these solutions have been certified.

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Recent Service Packs and Patches
The following patches are currently available for Advantage™ Ingres® Enterprise Relational Database Release 2.6:

Current Installed Release Identifier Applied
Patch
Number		 New Release Identifier
II 2.6/0201 (axp.osf/00) 9481 II 2.6/0305 (axp.osf/00)
II 2.6/0201 (hpb.us5/00) 9395 II 2.6/0305 (hpb.us5/00)
II 2.6/0207 (hp2.us5/02) 9480 II 2.6/0305 (hp2.us5/00)
II 2.6/0201 (int.lnx/00) 9478 II 2.6/0305 (int.lnx/00)
II 2.6/0201 (int.w32/00) 9394 II 2.6/0305 (int.w32/00)
II 2.6/0201 (rs4.us5/00) 9396 II 2.6/0305 (rs4.us5/00)
II 2.6/0207 (r64.us5/02) 9477 II 2.6/0305 (r64.us5/00)
II 2.6/0201 (su4.us5/00) 9397 II 2.6/0305 (su4.us5/00)
II 2.6/0207 (su9.us5/02) 9479 II 2.6/0305 (su9.us5/00)

The characters in parentheses are the configuration strings. If you're not sure whether a service pack applies to your installation, run "sql iidbdb" and you will see the configuration string.

A list of current service packs is always available at: supportconnectw.ca.com/premium/ingres/downloads/patch_by_platform.asp.

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General Information
Using JBoss Application Server With Advantage™ Ingres® Enterprise Relational Database
JBoss is an open source J2EE application server from JBoss, Inc. A technical document (TEC317590) is now available to show you how to configure JBoss for use with Advantage Ingres Enterprise Relational Database.

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Configuring Security in Advantage™ Ingres® Enterprise Relational Database
Since Release 2.5, Advantage Ingres Enterprise Relational Database has supported two types of security mechanisms: its own internal security systems; and external or third-party security systems, including Kerberos.

Kerberos, which was developed at MIT, provides user authentication as well as secure data encryption. Prior to its development, security depended largely on roles, groups and password settings, and was built around operating system capabilities.

A technical document (TEC317141) is now available that describes the security mechanisms currently available in Advantage Ingres Enterprise Relational Database and how you can configure them.

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Dragging and Dropping Values From a TableField to a ListviewField in Advantage™ OpenROAD® Development Release 4.1
A new technical document (TEC318545) shows how to use drag-and-drop functionality to move values from a TableField to a ListviewField in Advantage OpenROAD Development Release 4.1.

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Advantage™ Ingres® Enterprise Relational Database Online Checkpoints
The Advantage Ingres Enterprise Relational Database checkpoint program (ckpdb) uses the tar command to back up data files. If the tar command fails for some reason, it returns with a return code different than 0, and the checkpoint is marked as invalid.

This technical document (TEC317591) provides more information about online checkpoints.

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Leveraging Advantage™ Enterprise Access
Advantage Enterprise Access is a middleware solution that provides data integration and flexible access to information resources that might reside in a variety of database sources across a range of platforms. It offers a uniform interface for Advantage™ OpenROAD® Development, Advantage™ Ingres® Enterprise Relational Database OpenAPI and embedded SQL applications that access relational data sources (Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, DB2 UDB, Sybase, Oracle Rdb, and Informix), as well as the nonrelational data source, VMS RMS. Applications that use Advantage Enterprise Access must be written to the OpenSQL standard for maximum application portability among different data sources.

Further information is available in this technical document (TEC318018).

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How to Center Called Frames in Advantage™ OpenROAD® Development Release 4.1
If you want to center the called frame over the calling frame in Advantage OpenROAD Development Release 4.1, this technical document (TEC318529) shows you how to do it.

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DMF Group Buffers
Each Data Manipulation Facility (DMF) page cache has a set of multipage or group buffers, which are most often used for sequential read-ahead processing or multipage updating of a block of pages within a table. Underconfiguration of group buffers can lead to increased disk IO and greater CPU usage, which might degrade performance.

For more information about DMF group buffers, please read this technical document (TEC318086).

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Special Events
German User Group Conference - Benutzerkonferenz 2004
The German Ingres® User Association (GIUA) - together with the German IDMS® User Group (Anwendervereinigung IDMS Deutschland und Schweiz, or AID), German Datacom® User Group (Anwendervereinigung Datacom Deutschland, or AVD) and Deutsche Unicenter® User Group (DUUG) - will hold their 2004 conference from Sunday, April 25, through Wednesday, April 28, in Lahnstein, Germany at the Dorint Hotel.

To view the agenda and register for the conference, please visit Einladung zur Datenbank und Unicenter® Benutzerkonferenz 2004. This is an exceptional opportunity to network with your peers and gain an innovative Advantage™ Ingres® Enterprise Relational Database education.

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caworldSM 2004 in Spectacular Las Vegas
Register today to attend caworld 2004, the annual conference and exhibition sponsored by Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA). This year's conference takes place May 23-27 at the Venetian Las Vegas and Sands Expo and Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. At caworld, you'll see firsthand the latest technology that can help you meet your evolving business challenges and successfully compete in an increasingly complex and challenging global marketplace.

Check out the latest conference and session information. We welcome your involvement with more than 75 informative sessions planned. Registration is open now. Don't miss out on this terrific opportunity to receive training on CA products and learn more about industry-related topics, including "Getting Started With Advantage Ingres Enterprise Relational Database on Linux" and "Advantage OpenROAD for Java Users."

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The North American Ingres® User Association is Restarting
Please join the new president of the North American Ingres User Association (NAIUA),
Carmen Huff, and other Advantage™ Ingres® Enterprise Relational Database users for a conference call on Tuesday, April 13, at 11:00 a.m. CT to discuss the future direction and plans for the NAIUA.

Dial-in number: 1-877-270-5348
                     1-706-634-1762 (outside North America)

Conference code: 6483567

The discussion will include the following topics:
  • Call for board members, including a vice president and a webmaster
  • Membership requirements and activities
  • Benefits of being part of a CA user group
  • Plans for a user group meeting at caworld 2004
We hope you will join us in a collaborative effort to restart and bring new energy to the NAIUA. This group gives us a great opportunity to share ideas and drive development for new features and functionality. Please provide your input and ideas about how this group could help support you. We look forward to meeting you.

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