This document summarizes an IBM webinar about realizing the benefits of using IBM Informix on Cloud. The webinar covered the business case for moving to a cloud database, an overview of what IBM Informix on Cloud offers, including its key benefits and features. It also provided details on how to set up and use an IBM Informix on Cloud instance, including initial configuration options, administration responsibilities, and documentation resources.

1. Realize the Benefits of a Database
Cloud service
Pradeep Natarajan @pradeepnatara
IBM Webcast 10 August, 2017
http://bit.ly/2uBRTyt

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Agenda
§ Cloud Economics
§ Business Requirements
§ How does IBM Informix on Cloud fit into existing IT investments?
§ Why consider IBM Informix on Cloud
§ What is IBM Informix on Cloud
§ Using IBM Informix on Cloud
§ Informix Advanced Enterprise Edition
§ Backup to cloud object store
§ Questions & Feedback

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Cloud Agility Accelerates Innovation-Outthink The Economics
Development
Infrastructure
Public Cloud
Hosted Private
Cloud
Dedicated
Environment
• Simplified development process
• Portable and collaborative
• Reimagine your business
• Application development for apps with mission critical
data
• Business process automation, secured
More
Productivity
Greater
Flexibility
Better
Economics
Continuous
Innovation
Risk
Mitigation
Hybrid Cloud
End Game for Most
Enterprises
• Business process applications stay intact
• Managed / new applications on the cloud
• Ubiquitous data management software

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Business Requirement
How can I reduce my ongoing
business cost?
How can I analyze the data in IoT
and in the edge?
How do I reduce time to market?
Desired outcome
§ Informix on Cloud is aimed for enterprise who are wanting to
innovate to save costs by choosing a cloud deployment for their
workloads but do not want to compromise on enterprise level
security and performance, and need a robust and proven
technology choice.
• IT infrastructure platform cost is
the biggest recurring cost for
enterprises
• On-prem RDBMs represents one
of the most expensive recurring
expenses for enterprise IT
organizations.
• It is necessary to innovate and to
be able to innovate you look at
different deployment options ie
cloud

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IBM Informix on Cloud - Key Benefits
• Accelerates deployment
Informix on Cloud will accelerate and simplify you cloud deployments and take
advantage of the high performance Informix engine that integrates Time Series,
Spatial, NoSQL and SQL data together.
• Lower your total cost of ownership
Lower your cost and complexity on infrastructure maintenance, software
licensing, and support; choose the size you need and pay a monthly
subscription
• Enterprise security
Informix on Cloud Offers native encryption with all configurations, you are in
control of your data at rest and in flight.
• Analytics for IoT Solution
Easy replication of your time series and other data from the edge into the IBM
Informix on Cloud for performing deeper analytics, including predictive analytics.

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• Enterprise performance available in the cloud (without the cost, complexity and risk of
managing your own infrastructure)
• Bring Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) economics to your data
• Maintain control, and you determine the performance, security, and availability needs for
your business
How can IBM Informix on Cloud help me?

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§ As a CTO, I need to be able to quickly and inexpensively add additional development and test
instances of Informix to support our product development and release goals.
§ As a software engineer, I need another large instance of an Informix database for stress testing our
new application. None of our current test environments are large enough to effectively test this
application.
§ As a manager, I want my team to try the latest version of Informix without impacting any of my
current systems and without going through a long budget approval process.
§ As a developer, I want to try out new features in Informix like NoSQL and the REST API, but I
currently don’t have access to a version with these features.
§ As a DBA, I want to experiment with Informix’s clustering, replication, and sharding technologies to
see how they might help my business.
Why consider IBM Informix on Cloud

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What is IBM Informix on Cloud
The latest version of IBM Informix
Advanced Enterprise Edition,
on a machine in a SoftLayer data center,
provisioned on-demand,
billed monthly,
accessible on the Internet,
dedicated to you,
entirely under your control.

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Ready to Order?
I know what I need IBM Sales, help me!

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Price/month: $1,250 $2,200 $4,000 $8,000

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Live Demo

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Decisions & Responsibilities
§ What are my choices?
- Size
- DataCenter, e.g Dallas, London, Sydney
- Number of machines with Informix
- Self-serve (immediate provisioning) or IBM Sales
§ You don’t get a choice about the edition, version of Informix, OS, etc.
§ What is IBM responsible for?
Fulfilling the order; IBM provides you with an account on Bluemix if necessary, obtains the machine from
SoftLayer, installs and configures Informix, and makes the machine accessible to you.
§ What am I, IBM’s customer, responsible for?
All administration of the OS, network, Informix, database, etc.
Installing, configuring, and/or running applications, managing a schema, loading data, etc.
You have complete control and flexibility to use the system to serve your business needs.

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Documentation in Bluemix

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Log in for the first time
§ When logging into the machine for the first time, you will immediately be required to change your
password.
§ You’re the only one that knows the password now. You have complete control over the system.
§ IBM support cannot log in.
$ ssh root@1.2.3.456
root@1.2.3.456's password:
You are required to change your password immediately (root enforced)
Changing password for root.
(current) UNIX password:
New password:
Retype new password:
[root@myinformixhost ~]#

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Administration
§ You have full power and responsibility to administer the machine.
§ Administer the machine just like you do machines in your current data center/office. This includes:
- Updating the Operating System
- Backing up the machine and the Informix databases
- Installing and/or updating any software
- Configuring the firewall
- Managing OS user accounts
- Upgrading Informix version
- Transferring data to/from the system
- Configuring clients to connect to Informix
- Changing Informix ONCONFIG settings, adding db/sbspaces, etc.

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Initial Configuration of Machine
§ We’ve made some decisions about the initial configuration of the OS, Informix, etc. This is your
machine, so change whatever you like to fit the needs of your business.
§ Informix version: 12.10.FC9AEE
Every order gets the latest available Informix release.
§ OS: CentOS 7
§ File system:
- / for OS
- /data for dbspaces, logs, etc.
§ OS accounts:
- root, only customer knows password
- informix, initially configured without a password

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Initial Configuration of Machine
§ Product locations
- $INFORMIXDIR /home/Informix/server
- WL /opt/ibm/wire_listener
- IWA /opt/ibm/iwa Only .tar; not configured
§ Firewall à la iptables allows traffic:
- SSH (22)
- SQLI over SSL (9089)
- DRDA over SSL (9091)
- Mongo over SSL (27018)
- REST over SSL aka HTTPS (443)
§ Informix and Wire Listener configured with a self-signed certificate
§ Informix also listens for non-SSL traffic:
- SQLI (9088)
- DRDA (9090)
- Mongo (27017)
- REST, aka HTTP (80)

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Configuring Remote Client Connectivity
§ All traffic goes over the Internet – encryption (SSL) recommended
§ Documentation for using SSL with SQLI, DRDA, Mongo, and REST at Bluemix

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All the Good Stuff We Love About Informix
§ Transaction processing speed machine
§ Low administration
§ Full spectrum of replication solutions
- Cluster with three secondary types
- Enterprise Replication
§ TimeSeries for efficient storage and querying of sensor data
§ Accelerate queries with in-memory, columnar IWA
§ REST API
§ NoSQL functionality that developers love
- JSON data
- MongoDB client compatibility
§ Scalability with sharding
§ Data Security – at rest and in motion

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IBM Informix on Cloud - Still Not Convinced?
§ No capital expense for hardware
- Monthly charge; pay only for what you use;
cancel any time
§ Informix software support included
- No additional fee for support
§ Entitlement and software license
- What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG)
- No license metrics to track
- No worries about license compliance
§ More power – Informix Advanced Enterprise
Edition

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Informix Advanced Enterprise Edition
§ Storage optimization (compression)
included
- For purchase, add-on Informix feature in all
editions except AEE
- Lossless compression reduces the space
occupied by a row of data
§ Informix Warehouse Accelerator
- /opt/ibm/iwa
- Product is included as .tar file
- Setup and configuration required
TCP/IP
Bulk Loader
SQL Queries (from apps)
Informix Warehouse Accelerator
Compressed
DB partition
Query
Processor
Data Warehouse
Informix SQL
Query Router Results

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Backup to Cloud Object Store

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Cloud Backups using On-Bar
• It is possible to use STDIO devices to take direct backups from On-Bar to a Cloud Provider
• The feature is implemented in the Primary Storage Manager (PSM)
• It is NOT possible to use this if you use a third party storage manager

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STDIO devices
• A new type of device called “STDIO device” was implemented in PSM
• This new device type will send the backup stream data or get the restore stream data from a
separate process (ie sftp)
• Communication to/from this process will occur using the standard input/standard output of that
process, very similar to use a pipe
Archive API
IDS curl,
sftp, or
aws-cli
OBJECT
STORAGE
On-Bar
PSM

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Create STDIO device
onpsm -D -add /home/shawn/mycurl -t STDIO
--stdio_warg "BACKUP @obj_name1@.@obj_id@.@obj_part@"
--stdio_rarg "RESTORE @obj_name1@.@obj_id@.@obj_part@"
--stdio_darg "DELETE @obj_name1@.@obj_id@.@obj_part@"
--max_part_size <size in KB>
• Notice the type “STDIO”
• Notice the device path is a path to an executable, usually a shell script that will take/retrieve the
data
• We have to provide the arguments that we will use to invoke the program for backup (send
data), restore (get data) and delete (erase data)

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Getting help
§ View documentation on Bluemix
https://console.ng.bluemix.net/docs/services/InformixOnCloud/InformixOnCloud.html
§ Use the forums
- Stack Overflow – tags “informixoncloud” and “bluemix”
http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=informixoncloud+bluemix
- IBM developerWorks dW Answers – tags “informixoncloud” and “bluemix”
https://developer.ibm.com/answers/smartspace/bluemix/
§ Open a Bluemix ticket

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Getting help
§ Have a problem with Informix (e.g. AF)?
Have a problem with physical infrastructure (e.g. disk, memory, network)?
Open a Bluemix ticket
§ Different than opening a PMR, if you are
familiar with that process
§ SLAs
http://www-03.ibm.com/software/sla/sladb.nsf/sla/bm-6605-08

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§ As a CTO, I need to deploy our solution in a distant geography we’ve never done business in
before.
§ As a project manager, I need to have an Informix database environment that both my developers
and individual beta customers can easily access. My developers are creating a Proof of Concept
and my customer will access it.
§ As a DBA, I need to have an offsite copy of our Informix database for the purpose of disaster
recovery.
§ As an architect, I want to prototype Informix Warehouse Accelerator with my application as my
customers are asking for performance improvements on various queries in our application. With
our Workgroup Edition, I don’t have access to IWA.
Why consider IBM Informix on Cloud continued

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Want something more? Something different?
Do you want something else from this IBM offering?
Please give us your feedback!
Milind Tamaskar tamaskar@us.ibm.com
For example:
§ Can I order a multi-machine cluster?
§ Can IBM help me transfer data to and from the machine using e.g. Aspera?
§ I’d like IBM to be responsible for backing up the Informix server.
§ I wish this would integrate with technology xyz.

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Learn more
§ Documentation in the Bluemix catalog
https://console.ng.bluemix.net/docs/services/InformixOnCloud/InformixOnCloud.html
§ Videos
http://ibm.biz/informix-learning
§ IBM Informix on Cloud Solution Brief
https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?htmlfid=IMS14505USEN&
§ Bloor White paper: IBM Informix on Cloud
https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?htmlfid=IMW14922USEN&
§ Milind Tamaskar tamaskar@us.ibm.com
General Questions?
§ Through Bluemix @ www.bluemix.net
§ Contact your local IBM representative, or your IBM Business Partner.
Order today

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Pradeep Natarajan @pradeepnatara