The OpenAdmin Tool (OAT) for IDS provides a graphical interface for IBM® Informix® Dynamic Server administration and performance analysis tools. A PHP-based Web browser administration tool, OAT provides the ability to administer multiple database server instances from a single location. Some of the tasks that you can perform with OAT include:
You can add your own extensions to OAT to create the functionality that you need. OAT is an open source program.
The OpenAdmin Tool Version 2.27 has the following new features:
The OAT user interface is available in multiple languages: Czech, Brazilian Portuguese, English, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, and Traditional Chinese. Earlier versions were available only in English.
The High Availability Clusters page (Server Administration > MACH) has the following enhancements to the Connection Manager wizard:
You can display performance and status information for a database server by using the onstat utility in OAT.
The Schema Manager plug-in Version 1.2 has the following enhancements:
See the Schema Manager plug-in for OAT help, for more information.
The Enterprise Replication (ER) plug-in Version 2.4 has the following enhancements:
See the ER plug-in for OAT help, for more information.
The following fixes were made for OAT Version 2.27:
| Problem Description | Resolution |
|---|---|
| The installation process fails when OAT is installed on a drive other than the C drive. | Fixed. |
| The IDS protocol is configured once for all OAT connections on the OAT Admin > OAT Config page. | Fixed. The protocol is configured for each connection on the OAT Admin > Add a Connection or Admin > Edit a Connection page. |
| OAT plug-ins must be enabled after they are installed or upgraded. | Fixed. OAT plug-ins are automatically enabled after they are installed or upgraded. |
| If the DELIMIDENT environment variable is set, modifying a task parameter through the Task Scheduler> Task Details page results in an error. | Fixed. |
| If the DELIMIDENT environment variable is set, accessing the Performance Analysis > SQL Explorer page results in an error. | Fixed. |
| On the Space Administration > DBSpaces page, when a dbspace is created, OAT makes the page size 2 KB regardless of the selected page size. | Fixed. |
| OAT does not work properly with PHP 5.3.0 because it uses deprecated functions. | Fixed. |
| If the DBSPACETEMP configuration parameter uses colons (:) as separators, the Server Administration > Configuration page incorrectly flags the parameter for not following the OAT recommendation. | Fixed. |
| On the Space Administration > Compression page, the Estimate button is enabled for read-only groups. This action should be disabled for read-only groups. | Fixed. |
| The SQL ToolBox > SQL Editor page does not support creating functions or procedures. | Fixed. |
| Changing an external directive that is attached to an SQL statement by using the Performance Analysis > SQL Explorer pages results in an error. | Fixed. |
| The Server Info box displays Primary as the server type for a standalone server. | Fixed. The Server Info box now displays Standard as the server type. |
| Accessing the SQL ToolBox > SQL Explorer page can result in error -310 from the server. | Fixed. |
| When a user who does not have user informix privileges attempts to connect to a database on the SQL ToolBox > Schema Manager page, OAT displays a PHP error. | Fixed. OAT displays the error message returned from the server that explains that the user does not have privileges on the database. |
| On the Performance Analysis > System Report page, the SQL with the Most IO Time report is not correct. | Fixed. |
| On the High Availability Clusters page (Server Administration > MACH), settings for a new service level agreement (SLA) are not applied. | Fixed. |
| On the Space Administration > Compression page, running compression on a table for the first time creates an unnecessary error in the online.log file. | Fixed. |
| On the High Availability Clusters page (Server Administration > MACH), in the list of servers for the cluster, the lag time for remote standalone (RS) secondary servers is displayed incorrectly as "0.00000s". | Fixed. When the lag time is not being updated, it is displayed as "Not updating". |
| On the High Availability Clusters page (Server Administration > MACH), in the list of servers for the cluster, the workload information for RS secondary servers that are inactive and disconnected is displayed incorrectly. | Fixed. When a server is inactive and disconnected the workload column displays a dash (-). |
| An IDS server problem can cause the Find Clusters button on the High Availability Clusters page (Server Administration > MACH) to fail. | Fixed. |
| On the SQL ToolBox > Schema Browser > Table Browser page, when the option to display all the table rows is selected for a large table, an error occurs. | Fixed. The option to display all the rows for a table is available only in tables with 500 or fewer rows. The options to view 50, 100, or 500 rows at one time were added. |
See the Release Notes for the OpenAdmin Tool for IDS: Enterprise Replication Plug-in (releasenotes_er.html) to view the fixed defects for the plug-in.
The following defects are known for Version 2.27:
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