Next CHIUG meeting
Tuesday, June 15 (FINAL)
Hoffman Estates

The next CHIUG meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, June 15, 2004, at the Sears complex in Hoffman Estates (directions), based on your input. The meeting will be a full day that includes updated Informix and IBM roadmaps as well as detailed technical and product presentations. Here is the final agenda:

• 8:30-9:00: Networking (note: beverages/snacks available at Java Shack in Sears complex)
• 9:00-9:45: IBM and Informix product roadmap, IDS future direction/enhancements
• 9:45-10:00: Questions/open discussion/technical roundtable
• 10:00-11:45: Office Connect, ISA, and Server Studio (details below)
• 11:45-12:15: Technical and free-form roundtable
• 12:15-1:00: Lunch, networking
• 1:00-4:00: Informix technical session:
  • - Websphere / 4GL integration with Websphere EGL
  • - IDS 9.4 feature usage and migration
  • - DBA tuning workshop

Our presenters include Chuck Renaud, IBM Systems Engineer from Chicago, and Christine Normile, IBM IT specialist, Informix Solutions. Please watch this Web site our join our E-newsletter to hear the latest!

RSVP. An RSVP is requested! Please rsvp by Friday, June 11th, to chiugrsvp@objectsoft.com. Please include your name and company name.

Topic Summary

1) Office Connect: Allows your company to use Microsoft Excel to enhance security and create report templates for end-users. It provides a simple GUI-based patented process that enables information in an Excel spreadsheet to be transferred seamlessly to multiple databases - Informix and others.

Office Connect homepage

2) Server Studio JE: An enterprise-level, Integrated Development and Management Environment (IDME) tools deployment platform developed by AGS.

Server Studio JE homepage
Server Studio homepage

3) Informix Server Administrator: A browser-based, cross-platform database server administration tool.

ISA homepage

Directions to Sears Home Office (3333 Beverly Rd., Hoffman Estates, IL 60179)

• Once inside the complex (more directions below): Follow the signs to visitor parking. After parking your car, return to the main entrance (you passed it on the way to visitor parking), and register at the front desk where you will be given a name tag.
• From the Loop or O'Hare Airport: Take I-90/I-94 West and stay on I-90 West (the Northwest Tollway) toward Rockford. Exit at Beverly Road and proceed North (right). You will see the Sears entrance on the right.
• From the South: Take the closest North/South expressway to I-90 (Northwest Tollway) West. Stay on I-90 West to the exit of Beverly Road and proceed North (right). You will see the Sears entrance on the right.
• From the West of Route 59: Take I-90 East (the Northwest Tollway) to Route 59 (first exit after Rt. 25). Exit and proceed North to Higgins Rd. (Rt. 72). Turn left on Higgins and proceed to Beverly Rd. which borders the complex on the West. (You will actually pass the complex which is located on the South side of Higgins.) Turn left (South on Beverly Rd.). You will see the Sears entrance on the left.

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We need your help. We are requesting volunteers to help with the meeting. We have been approached by some of you in the past... now is your chance! To keep the meetings going regularly, we ask for a couple of volunteers to carry out some of the tasks involved, some of which may take minutes. Interested? Please contact Ron Flannery or Sam Alwan.

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