Informix

DSI provides affordable, high quality Informix administration support, including proactive monitoring and maintenance services, so your staff can focus on corporate initiatives. We are able to accomplish this through our shared services model where our DBAs manage multiple database clients. Our shared services approach provides you with highly experienced DBAs at a fee which is significantly less than the cost of an employee.

We provide remote Informix database support for clients with large ERP packages such as PeopleSoft,
Lawson and SAP, so we have the experience of addressing and resolving complex database and infrastructure issues.

DSI has been successfully done Informix database installation and administration since version 7.3. Our consultants can provide database support including design, backup & recovery review and performance administration. We can also with conversions to or from Informix and with complex applications such as PeopleSoft.

Informix specific issues like sizing the extent and chunk size for optimal performance is managed by our experts so that we mitigate the performance problem both at design stage and post going live.

Understanding the execution plans in Informix and coming up with solution to improve the performance is handled in a timely fashion so the end user experience is maintained even when the data load and user load increases.

Analyzing ISAM errors and troubleshooting database specific issue is done proactively by monitoring the database logs.

DSI has extensive experience High performance loader (HPL). HPL is a feature of the database server that allows you to load and unload large quantities of data efficiently to or from a database. The HPL
lets you exchange data with tapes, data files, and programs, and converts data from these sources into a format compatible with Informix databases. The HPL also allows you to manipulate and filter the data as you perform load and unload operations.

Our consultants know ipload and onpload utility whether it is the initial setup and ongoing use. Whether using it for logical back up of specific tables or tablespaces or the entire database we have a mastery on the utility.