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Advantage™ Ingres® Newsletter
Version 03.06
December 22, 2003

In This Newsletter

Product News

	>	Advantage™ Enterprise Access 2.1 Service Pack 2 is GA
	>	Participate in the Beta Program for Advantage™ Ingres® Enterprise Relational Database 2.6 for OpenVMS
	>	Advantage™ Ingres® Enterprise Relational Database and Advantage™ OpenROAD® Projects are Award Finalists
	>	Croydon Uses Advantage™ Ingres® Enterprise Relational Database for Parking System

Product Updates

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

General Information

	>	Advantage™ Ingres® Enterprise Relational Database Forum
	>	Advantage™ Ingres® Enterprise Relational Database Tips for Unicode
	>	Comparing VMS Clustered Ingres II 2.0 Performance to Stand-Alone Installations
	>	Trace Point DM420 Output Explained

Special Events

Cast Your Vote in the LinuxWorld Magazine 2003 Readers' Choice Awards

Advantage™ Enterprise Access 2.1 Service Pack 2 is GA
The Advantage Enterprise Access product team is pleased to announce that Advantage Enterprise Access 2.1 Service Pack 2 (SP2) is generally available (GA). We urge you to order this release today and take advantage of all that it has to offer.

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Participate in the Beta Program for Advantage™ Ingres® Enterprise Relational Database 2.6 for OpenVMS
Beta testing for Advantage Ingres Enterprise Relational Database 2.6 for OpenVMS is now under way. Sign up for this program and experience CA's latest technology for yourself.

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Advantage™ Ingres® Enterprise Relational Database and Advantage™ OpenROAD® Projects are Award Finalists
At the UK's recent IM2003 Awards, two Advantage Ingres Enterprise Relational Database and Advantage OpenROAD projects were finalists.

The Pesticide Safety Directorate (PSD) Digital Signatures project was a contender in two categories: B2B Commerce Project and the Premier Project Award. The latter award is for the project that the judges consider the best information management project of the year and carries enormous prestige.

TNT UK was also a finalist in the B2B Commerce Project category for its use of the Advantage™ OpenROAD® Application Server. This company implemented a new system that allows its customers to track consignments on the Internet or even via SMS messaging. A success story for this project is currently being written and will be posted to ca.com/success very soon.

Congratulations to both PSD and TNT for reaching the finals. About 1,800 projects were reviewed by the judges before they drew up the list of finalists, so it is a tremendous achievement for all concerned.

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Croydon Uses Advantage™ Ingres® Enterprise Relational Database for Parking System
The London Borough of Croydon has found that Advantage Ingres Enterprise Relational Database is just the ticket when dealing with parking violations. Responsibility for handling parking offenders now rests with local councils rather than the police and systems had to be put in place to deal with them. Finding no suitable off-the-shelf solution, Croydon (London's largest borough) chose to build an application using Advantage Ingres Enterprise Relational Database. This has proved so successful that additional systems have also been built using Advantage Ingres Enterprise Relational Database to support other activities, including control of residents' parking permits and bus lane violations.

Using Advantage Ingres Enterprise Relational Database to keep traffic moving in Croydon is a success story.

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Updated Product Matrix for Advantage™ Ingres® Enterprise Relational Database, Advantage™ OpenROAD® Development, and Advantage™ Enterprise Access
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 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 2.6/0303 (a64.lnx/00)	9680	II 2.6/0305 (a64.lnx/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)
II 2.6/0201 (usl.us5/00)	9482	II 2.6/0305 (usl.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 for Advantage Ingres Enterprise Relational Database is always available on the SupportConnect website.

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Advantage™ Ingres® Enterprise Relational Database Forum
Have you ever wanted to discuss issues and share information with other customers? Now you can by joining the Advantage Ingres Enterprise Relational Database forum.

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Advantage™ Ingres® Enterprise Relational Database Tips for Unicode
Users might encounter a number of possible problems when using Unicode for the first time. A technical document (TEC292466) is now available that describes how Advantage Ingres Enterprise Relational Database 2.6 provides superior Unicode support, making it easy to help ensure consistency of multilingual data in a heterogeneous environment. This paper provides information on generic Unicode problems, such as ensuring data consistency and sizing requirements within your database.

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Comparing VMS Clustered Ingres II 2.0 Performance to Stand-Alone Installations
When running Ingres II 2.0 (now known as Advantage™ Ingres® Enterprise Relational Database) as a clustered installation configuration, additional processing is required. As a result, this type of installation can't match the performance that can be achieved in a
stand-alone installation.

A technical document (TEC293552) is now available that describes in detail why this is the case and offers an alternative if you chose the clustered option.

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Trace Point DM420 Output Explained
The output from Trace Point DM420 has changed. This technical document (TEC294203) explains the output and annotates each value. This document relates specifically to the output for Advantage™ Ingres® Enterprise Relational Database 2.6/0305 (Service Pack 2).

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Cast Your Vote in the LinuxWorld Magazine 2003 Readers' Choice Awards
Please cast your vote for Advantage™ Ingres® Enterprise Relational Database for the Best Linux Database in the LinuxWorld Magazine 2003 Readers' Choice Awards.

Every vote counts!

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