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Not enough room in ROOT DBspace
Reduce the size of your PHYSFILE. You probably moved it to another dbspace after setting up the first server. Start it smaller, then create the plog dbspace and move it there and resize. j. On 1/4/17 4:09 PM, STEVEN AB wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to setup a new server with the …
Encryption/compression of backups
Is onbar the only informix tool that will do compression and/or encryption of the data being backed up? Can onbar do that with the basic ISM, or do you have to purchase a storage manager from another vendor (Legato, Tivoli, etc.)? What type of encryption does the base ISM use?…
Upgrade from 10.00.FC6 - 11.70.FC1
Hi, I added more chucks into the dbspaces, and ran the conversion again. Here is the latest message. Any ideas would be appreciated. 11:47:25 Succeeded 11:47:25 Converting Partition Header Page 284:2017. 11:47:25 Converting Partition Header from version 10.00 11:47:25 Succeeded…
Simple String Manipulation
I'm pretty new to informix and I can't find out how to do this.. I'm try to just get everything before the ' [ ' symbol. My Cell Data: 5500 Front Street[Joes Bar and Grill I want to be: 5500 Front Street I thought I could use the TRIM function, but I failed. Thanks, James…
ESQL/C DESCRIBE OUTPUT after OPEN (with DECLARE CURSOR name) fails with -410
Trying to identify if IFX_DEFFERED_PREPARE=1 is taken into account with my test002.ec sample: With SQLIDEBUG=1 set, I can see differences in the client debug log files (assuming C->S means Client to Server, and S->C the Server to Client response): On the left, without IFX_DEFFERE…
External backups/restores and logical restoring of logs passed last Level-0 backup
Thanks Art. Yes, indeed it works. We have tested it with ontape, onbar and external backups. Logical logs are independant and you can restore older backups, or external backups, and restore logs passing other backups. Best regards, ------------------------------ Jose ------------…
C UDR using mi_trigger_get_old_row() and mi_trigger_get_new_row()
Hi Paul, I send the C UDR and a working.sql and a notworking.sql scripts. You will see in the DEBUG* files the tracing. What I need to do, is a generic UDR that take the old/new row and return a lvarchar containing a json of the data excluding TEXT, BYTE, BLOB, CLOB, row, collect…
Informix 43258 error onbar logical restore
Hello All. I ran onbar -r -p to restore the database which rab successfully. But after running onbar -r -l (Logical Restore) I got 43258 and 43168 error. Please let me know how to overcome from this issue and run the restore successfully. current Informix and OS version: Online.l…
onbar is rejecting my date for point-in-time restore
Two things: Why are you doing the onbar deamon? What is the od dump of you date string? ------------------------------ wayne martin ------------------------------…
Onbar: Failed to determine archive's encryption mode. Error code 2
HI Jacob, Try BAR_DEBUG 5 and if that does not help then BAR_DEBUG 9!! Also check the storage manager logs for a clue. Regards, David. ------------------------------ David Williams Senior Database Platform Engineer Flutter London ------------------------------…
Informix 15 is out! Well sort of...
About setting TAPEDEV/LTAPEDEV to /dev/null, I found that (new?) parameter LOG_BACKUP_MODE: https://help.hcl-software.com/onedb/2.0.1/bar/ids_bar_config_LOG_BACKUP_MODE.html To be set to NONE I will give it a try. Seb ------------------------------ Sebastien FLAESCH -------------…
Changing DBSPACETEMP run-time
Hi, IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.FC5XE Please, is there a way to change DBSPACETEMP for a session inside 4GL? ------------------------------ Sincerely, Dennis ------------------------------…
Why is `onbar -v` so slow?
Hi, While `onbar -b` takes 22 hours, `onbar -r` completes for 30 hours, `onbar -v` runs 7+ days. What is wrong with it? ------------------------------ Sincerely, Dennis ------------------------------…
start onbar and ontape simultaneously
You should NOT mix onbar and ontape. If you are using onbar for backup DO NOT USE ontape (except "fake" backups) otherwise you will LOOSE your backup data. Onbar is using ixbar file and sysutils database so onbar counts it can get all objects back - if you backup just one logical…
restoring informix using the onbar command. problem
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ism-imported-restore-returns-xbsa-error-bsagetobject-backup-object-does-not-exist-storage-manager Otherwise In the onconfig file set BAR_DEBUG=5 and BAR_DEBUG_LOG to a filename. Then you should be able to see which object onbar is looking for to…
archecker utility on ontape level 1 archive
Hi Arjen, Are you first restoring level 0 and then level 1. As far as i know, Archecker refer the L0 backup as baseline and perform log rollforward restore until given time which is from L1 backup. Or you are directly restoring from L-1 backup? Regards, Gaurav -------------------…
HDR
The secondary MUST be OFFLINE when you do the restore (a COLD restore). The restore of the secondary must use the backup that was taken from the Primary, so the backup MUST be copied over to the secondary BEFORE you begin the restore. Basically it should be similar to the followi…
Validate backup : archecker –tdsv and CommVault
Hello Yes, i saw that... and i don't know what happened . Unfortunately the BAR_DEBUG is off (0) But it's still very long ... I'll enable bar_debug and see what happens. Thanks ------------------------------ Sh To ------------------------------…
ADO - activex data object
What do I require, to connect "ado activex data object" to Informix ? AIX 7.2 IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 12.10.FC9W1 Regards Dirk…
Problem with backup
Hello, every time we release a copy with onbar , the Database server gets blocked one to three minutes. Is this normal ? Our version is 12.10.FC3WE and the command is onbar -b -w Thanks…
ontape restore problem
A customer want to restore the data from the tape, the date of backup file is about 2002. and No one remember the informix version, How to know the informix version from the backup file? thanks for your help.…
how to change the default location of rootdbs
I think you should be able to do a cold restore from backup, and use the -rename option of 'ontape'. DG…
listener-thread@soc_be.c:3073: err = -25582:
Adding Version details Informix Version : IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 12.10.FC6 O/S Version : Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.9 Thanks & Regards, Karthik Rajan…
Which is best On-Bar and On-Tape
Friends, I need all your opinions on the best approach in configuring onbar and ontape backups. 1) Which is easy to configure. 2) Which type of backup is easy to restore. 3) Is retention enabled for both types. 4) which one is best to configure continuous logical logs. 5) how to…
How to Restore Level 1 backup after level 0
Hi, let assume, today is Friday and i have level zero backup of Monday and level 1 backup of Wednesday. Now i restored Level 0 backup on an instance via ontape -r, it was done successfully.Now i also want to restore level 1 backup. How is it possible? to restore level 1 backup a…
Informix and speculative execution
Hi all, I have seen speculative execution patches for Firefox and SQL Server. Are there speculative execution patches for Informix in progress? There is no IBM Flash for Informix Dynamic Server and speculaative execution! Regards, David.…
Retoring the onbar backup
Hi friends, I want to restore our onbar backup from linux server to windows server, our onbar backup is scheduled through OAT.what is the procedure to restore?. Please help me on this. Thanks…
Rovoke insert permission but still can insert
I am doing it at the command line in the server directly in the directory C:\\\\Program Files\\\\IBM\\\\IBM Informix Dynamic Server\\\\11.50\\\\bin…
Secondary stuck in Fast Recovery
Ok, well I think I read in the Backup and Restore manual that you can from the primary, run a backup and send it over to the secondary and restore it at the same time possibly so this is a good excuse to try that. I will read up on that to see if I have that correct or not, and i…
Backup Help
Are you using "onbar"? If so it's likely a problem connecting to the storage manager or a problem on the storage manager side - maybe it's busy doing other backups. Check the onbar activity file (BAR_ACT_LOG) to see if it says anything interesting, or the BAR_DEBUG_LOG, if you h…
New Channel of Informix Server (Tech)
Hi guys There is a new channel of Informix Server in Spanish , enjoy It -Install , Backup , Restore , HDR and more. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVGD_IAhd0VGntXiSh_E6ew Best regards Luis devecua.com…
ownership of system processes
Are there any other states that would indicate an onbar process?…
ON-Bar / Last logical log saved number
Hi, After a backup with ON-Bar, I would like to get the number of the last logical log saved using a shell script.Please, can any one help me for that ? Thanks.Henri M. Envoyé depuis mon smartphone Samsung Galaxy.…
onbar ism assert faliure
Also set BAR_DEBUG_LOG in the onconfig file and set BAR_DEBUG to 5 to try again. Regards, David. > On 30 March 2017 at 12:02 Andreas Legner <andreas.legner@de.ibm.com> wrote: > > > Hi Juan, > > now, before you'd start backing up logical logs, you'd first take at least = > > a l…
log_full.sh getting Aborted by client.
Hi Adam, so you're using PSM, right? So onbar for log backups? How would this fit = the two ontape full backups? Can we have Informix version and platform info, please? And the bar=5Fact.log ... Andreas…
Failed to recover the logs after restore
Thanks Art. I've restored from our backup and works good now.…
Onbar and PSM
HI, IDS 12.10 FC4 I was testing onbar and using onsmsync to clean older backup files. When I run the onsmsync -i "3 00:00:00" , the following are logs of BAR and PSM. Both logs have error lines, but the it seems the old backup files were cleaned up as expected. Any comments …
ISM restore problem
It appears that ism /onbar are not able to restore a recent backup from another machine this way. The new machine, not member of any domain, was not able to restore from a backup of about 620 files and a size of 1.2TB…
Backup/Restore Primary/HDR
Hi, We are running 11.70.FC7 on Solaris 11. We use onbar for informix backups. How does backup/restores work when switching from a primary to HDR (new Primary) server? Do I need to do another full backup when promoting an HDR server to Primary or can the logs being backed up by …
Onbar output
Hi, Can I use onbar to backup to a local disk or I need to have an storage manager and tapes ? Thanks in advance.…
upgrade and onbar
hi to all i'm planning to upgrade informix, actually it contains also onbar running with tsm the new install will be in a new directory, so how can i keep onbar running, is there conf files to copy ?..etc ? thanks in advance…
bar_unix.c file error onbar
That error indicates a segmentation fault, even contacting the support they will ask you for the core dump. For what you told us these is always happening, check why the file is not being created and run again. One way to get more info on the subject is to change the BAR_DEBUG …
onbar error 151
Hello : I solved the issue. My INFORMIXSERVER was set up to a ipcshm server and onbar doesn't like this, setting this variable to an soctcp informix server works. I don't know why this happen but it works. Regards. 2016-01-22 19:25 GMT+01:00 Ricardo Henriques < ricardoaireshe…
onbar -c -F in Windows Informix instance
Thank you Ricardo. But there is no any error. There is nothing in BAR_ACT_LOG. We will try to change BAR_DEBUG and set a BAR_DEBUG_LOG and will keep updated accordingly. Thank you, Pravin Bankar…
12.10.FC6 Mac port released
IBM Informix 12.10.FC6 release for Mac OS is officially available! John F. Miller III STSM, Lead Architect miller3@us.ibm.com 503-747-1366 IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS)…
Problems with ON-Bar
Dear friends of the forum: I need to use onbar for my backups, but does not work me. I'm using the GUI of the ISM, which in its properties is the fully qualified name of the server. When I run the onbar not throw any errors and terminates the process within about 5 seconds. Wh…
Re: Problems with ON-Bar
Gustavo, please take note that your Informix is higly recommended to upgrade, unless you have extended your support, you are at risk in case of a failure. Onbar return codes ranging from 2 to 34 are external errors, from XBSA. Table 1. Common ON-Bar return codesDecimal value ON…
Problems with ON-Bar
Hello friends! I have a problem running the UN-Bar on my server because it aborts execution immediately. I find errors in the bar_x.log are: 2015-10-28 18:19:41 4156 4516 C:\\\\informix\\\\bin\\\\onbar_d: process exit 149 (0x95) 2015-10-28 18:20:12 1976 4240 C:\\\\informix\\\\bi…
Performance issue after migrate to IDS from Online
Questions: 1. After the database was recreated and loaded did you run the recommended suite of Update Statistics commands as described in the Performance Guide manual (or as implemented by my dostats utility) or are you depending on Auto Update Statistics (AUS)? 2. So, you m…
Doubts with ISM and ON-Bar
Dear Friends: I am evaluating backing up my database with Informix Storage Manager and ON-Bar in disk files, and there are some things we would like to consult them, such as: 1 - I see the ON-Bar generates a maximum of 2GB files, is this normal, or I have to change some paramete…
point-in-time restore
Oddly enough - it isn't the issue of the type of backup/restore (whole system versus "normal"). The engine continues to fall over with an assertion failure. Still working on it. Thanks - Mark…
Informix integration with DP
When setting debug for onbar (BAR_DEBUG in the onconfig), it could chew up a lot of disk depending on the level. If you'll post your error msgs from the $INFORMIXDIR/bar_act.log (or whatever log file is capturing onbar activity - $INFORMIXDIR/bar_act.log is the default) I can re…
Diffrences between ontape -l and ontape -l -C
My OS is RedHat 6.2 and IDS 11.7. I have some problems to restore the logical logs in the machine backup, If I use the command "ontape -l -C" the logical log are restored, but the chuncks are with inconsistent status. If I use the command "ontape -l", I can't repeat this command…
sh.addShard
When you create a collection, a unique index on the _id field is also automatically created. It seems that your collection table was created successfully but the index creation failed. You might want to check what your default sbspace is set to. Otherwise, if you restart the list…
restore question
Hi all, Is it possible to restore a backup from a 3rd party (Netbackup) into a new FS and get it the data from there using onbar?…
RSS not working
-bash-4.2$ onstat - IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.FC9 -- On-Line --…
ontape backup and restore
Hi, I'm running online ontape level 0 backup on my dataserver. The ontape begin at 7 PM and lasts 2 hours While this ontape is running, there are transactions running that modify datas in my instance at the same time. At 8 PM one transaction truncated data in a table called my_ta…
Ontape and onbar
Hi, Can I use onbar and ontape to backup an instance? I meant use onbar to send a backup on a storage and ontape to send another backup to the tape in diferents hours. Thanks in advance. Enviado desde mi iPhone…
Onbar Backup
Hi, If I always do a level 0 backup using onbar, Do I need to backup the logical logs to do a restore? Thanks in advance. Enviado desde mi iPhone…
Informix upgrade
Can we upgrade informix from Dynamic Server Version 11.70 to 12.1 workgroup edition directly?…
external restore 9.40.FC8X3
Reinhard, The answer to your question is going to be that you cannot mix onbar level 0 with logical logs backed up using ontape. This IDS version should have the built in ISM (Informix Storage Manager)...so you could backup the logs to disk using onbar/ISM. Mark…
Backup which is good on-bar or on-tape
Please let me know which method is best. I know if we use tape device on-tape is only option. I have external storage and which is good way whether on-bar or on-tape. I have tried use on-tape and able to backup. Please let me know which method is better Thank you --001a11c3704…
Informix Connection Manager - USEALIASES
I have 3 VMs setup - 1 w/Connection Manager, and the other 2 being a HDR pair. I'm noticing in the logs that CM tries to use all the DBSERVERALIASES that I have defined in the HDR pair ONCONFIG. Under the CM CONFIG, I have USEALIASES=OFF; so I'm a little confused as to why I am s…
Informix ODBC Error: Read error occured during con
I'm so happy to see the message... "from .... to server ...."... A few months ago it didin't contain that info, which made it nasty to debug... It's a proof that opening PMRs pays off :) On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 5:33 PM, SANJIV KUMAR <sanjiv@simple2call.com> wrote: > Yes, test co…
onbar -v
Hi Neil Can you spot in the log any dbspace that is taking longer (ie that is taking most of the 7 to 10 hours that you mentioned). You ca use the date of the message "Begin backup verification" to calculate the time it took to retrieve the dbspace before that one. If you canno…
when use IfxDataReader.GetIfxDateTime to NULL valu
Hello, The version of Informix products in my environment is: Database server: AIX IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.FC5 IBM Informix CSDK Version 2.90 IBM-ESQL Version 2.90.FC4 Client: PC Windows IBM Informix-ESQL 3.70.TC5DE.…
Passing LIST to SPL stored procedure or function
I have the need to pass an array to a stored procedure and have been slightly successful but have run into an issue that I do not understand. Here is my test stored procedure: create procedure testlist(mylist LIST(ROW (invid VARCHAR(30), category CHAR(8),qty DECIMAL(14,6)) NOT …
IDS 12.10 - dbimport very slow
Hi Markus, Is your import logged ? Regards, Henri MOUKOURI Le 25 juin 2013 à 10:45, "MARKUS BRINKBäUMER" <markus.brinkbaeumer@gmail.com> a écrit : > Hello, > > we have a new server (Windows 2012, 8 GB RAM, 4 x 600 GB SAS 15k HDD). On the > server we have installed an IBM Inf…
Onbar Restore of "Critical Files"?
Onbar now backs up "critical" files ixbar, onconfig and oncfg. What is the command to restore those files? Do the files get restored to the original location? If the path doesn't exist, will onbar attempt to create it? Can the file restore be redirected to an alternative loca…
Performance Tuning Discussion
Ok it seems you have a big hardware, what´s your Informix version? What´s your box architecture? For performance tips, there is a good article in Andrew Ford´s blog, that should clarify your thoughts.... http://www.informix-dba.com/p/informix-innovator-c-tuning-basics.html This…
DB_locale or local naming convention
Hi, I already mention the informix version. IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.TC1IE…
Restore individual dbspace with ontape
Is it possible to restore an individual dbspace with ontape using only a level 0 backup WITHOUT restoring any logical logs? I have tried using ontape -r -D dbspace, and also ontape -p -D dbspace. In both instances the dbspace is restored but left "down" (and I receive messages s…
Error -556 on @ reference
In IDS_A have a stored procedure do_some that has a insert into a local table. In IDS_B have a stored procedure do_some that does: call base@IDS_A:do_some(); Calling this sp works ok. In IDS_C i try to run: call base@IDS_B:do_some(); Fails with error -556 Cannot create, drop,…
Use of reserved word in the value of a INSERT
ie. INSERT INTO foo (bar) values ('MY SELECT VALUE')…
ontape backup/restore
Hi, I have IDS version 10: 10.00.FC10W4 and 10.00.UC11 I want to setup two new DB servers with the same versions as above. Using the ontape backup/restore I will restore the original database to the new DB servers. The setup of the new servers should be identical to the old on…
logical log backups & Net Backup
On Friday, July 27, 2012 3:07:45 PM UTC-5, tom...@gmail.com wrote: > We recently upgraded two instances from 11.7.FC4 to 11.7.FC5 on AIX 6.1 > > Strange situation arose in that the automatic firing of backing up the logical logs stopped happening. On instance one, it eventually s…
Config Help
Your biggest performance problem is that you are running your server on a VM. IO performance under VMWare is VERY VERY POOR and, as I've said several times already this month, databases live and die on IO performance. Art Art S. Kagel Advanced DataTools (www.advancedatatools.co…
ontape -r Problem
Vouching for myself, an ifx non-expert, could it be that 7.3 backup's are not compatible with 11.70 restore's? If they're not compatible, would an ETL be a viable alternative?…
Connection Manager fails w/network error -25572
Hello All, I have an enterprise replication environment with a primary machine and a backup machine. I am trying to use the connection manager in order implement failover in a flexible grid, but I cannot establish communications from the connection manager machine to the other m…
What are best onconfig parameters for a DSS app
Frank.... first question: Is your database installation being made for a production system???? Alexandre Marini IBM Informix Certified Professional v10 / v11.50 / v11.70 IBM Information Management Informix Technical Professional IBM Infosphere DataStage Technical Professional …
onbar restore
Solaris 9. Informix 11.50 Had damage on disk and two dbspaces were offline when try to start IDS. Informix startup stays on 23:43:43 Results: DBspace bddarea1 is disabled. 23:43:43 Action: Restore DBspace bddarea1 23:43:43 stack trace for pid 10581 written to /usr1/informix1150/t…
IDS 7.31 UD5 data(base) recovery
Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.31.UD5 I understood that IDS 7.31 entered End Of Support in September 2009 ( 2 and a half years ago) I hope this is not a business critical system…
onbar restore
Hi, I am able to make an onbar imported restore (with rename option) on an Windows IDS 11.10. I have the felling that every month restore time is increased. As you can see restore started at 2012-03-01 21:17:27 and actually data restore started at 2012-03-02 05:34:39. =========…
Ontape backup and restore with stdio
Does anyone know or recall which version of IDS where "ontape backup and restore with STDIO" feature becomes available? Thanks. Kern --…
enterprise replication time to replicate data
IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.FC6 Question for enterpise experts Does anyone know a command that will give me time that it takes to replicate data to a node? for example i update on server a and it replicates to server b . How long did it take? cdr view profile gives …
Informix 11.50fc9 - Netbackup
I have some experience with it. What you're describing looks lke communications or timeout errors. You should check the netbackup logs. If needed you can increase the debug level (BAR_DEBUG) of onbar, but that will cause too much info to be written in bar_debug.log The only spec…
reading: Bad file descriptor
I'm trying to restore an onbar backup that is done to disk does the error reading: Bad file descriptor in ism_watch refer to a corrupt onbar file or something else ?…
backup and restore
hello all we have a level 0 backup to disk from AIX 6.1 and were looking to restore on a Linux x86 (red hat) server, infromix version 11.50.FC7. error comes up as "Physical restore failed - function read archive backup failed code -1 errno 0" can this be accomplished between t…
Running onsmsync in single-user mode
On 30/08/2011 16:43, red_valsen wrote: > On Aug 30, 9:47 am, "Jonny...@Usenet-News.net"<Jonny...@Usenet- > News.net> wrote: >> On 30/08/2011 14:27, red_valsen wrote: >> >>> Precisely what does onsmsync do when it is run with no parameters, and >>> in what order, i.e., what is it…
Over 1,000 days of 24x7 database uptime!
On 29.07.2011 20:38 Lester Knutsen wrote: > From one of our customers, their Informix server hit 1,000 days today > .... congratulations;) > > IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.FC8 -- On-Line -- Up > 1000 days 00:31:45 -- They beat mine just bit ... IBM Informix D…
Could I execute ontape,onbar oronunload on HDR SEC
Hi, I want to reduce the workload in the primary server. Could I execute ontape,onbar or onunload on HDR Secondary server? thanks for your time.…
Could I execute ontape/onbar/onunload on HDR SEC
Hi, I want to reduce the workload in HDR primary server? Could I execute ontape,onbar or onunload on HDR Secondary server? thanks for your time.…
Database per dbspace scheme
I want to place one database per dbspace so that I can easily restore an individual database by using onbar to restore a single dbspace. Why will this not work?…
Setting up HDR- First Time -11.70 Innovator-C
Hi, I am setting up HDR for the first time. onstat - on primary shows IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.UC2IE -- On-Line (Prim) -- Up 0:11:5s onstat - on secondry shows IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.UC2IE -- Fast Recovery (Sec) -- Up 00s onstat -m on sec…
ONBAR performance tuning
Hello All, Is there any way to tune the performance of backup/restore using onbar and ontape?…
ISAM error 197: Partition recently appended to
Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC5 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (i586) I have done a level 0 backup directed to /dev/null and tried again. still it is throwing the same error.…
Backup from HDR
Hi, We are using IDS 11.50 FC6 & FC7 on Solaris Sparc. Is it feasible/reliable to get cold/hot backup from HDR ? I have tried and got successful while taking/restoring backup from HDR. Thanks.…
PIT Recovery
Thanks for the information. Can you also guide me how to use (backup/re-store) using onbar process. Thanks.…
RE: Archive using ontape with incryption
IDS 11.70.FC2 Solaris 10 - 64bit What is the easiest what to backup and restore to tape using `ontape` along with encryption? Has anyone restored, having used encryption for the backup, successfully and without incident? Thank you. Larry…
Informix Backups using ONBAR and TSM
If all else fails, you can set BAR_DEBUG to a number between 1 & 9 with 9 providing the most debug info. You can then check BAR_DEBUG_LOG to see what is going on. You may need support to help decipher that output. Dan -----Original Message----- From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailt…
IDS 7.31UD7 on MP-RAS not able to initialize
Wow didn't think MP-RAS still existed. If you search the CDI archives from around 1999/2000 then I know I was building a lot of MP-RAS/7.3x servers. You need/needed some very 'strange' settings - hopefully there is something there Cheers Paul > I am attempting to initialize 7.…
Onbar Help
IDS v11.50.UC6 Solaris 10 I am trying to restore an archive of my test instance to my testfms instance. These instances reside on the same Unix host. Here is what I have done: The DBSERVERNAMEs involved are test and testfms andthe SERVERNUMS are 3 and 5 respectivley. Here is w…
Physical Log Size
How did you "increase" the size? You can only do that song onparams. You cannot do that just by changing the Onconfig file Art On Jan 25, 2011 12:10 PM, "KENT GRUNDEN" <k.grunden@hoogwegtus.com> wrote: > IDS 11.50.FC4WE Windows Server 2008 64bit > > I keep getting the message wh…
error 38300 loading messages
Hi folks, hoping someone can help me out on this. Platform Solaris 9 Sparc, IDS 9.40 UC6 (old, I know) Can't backup logical logs, all I see is the error message in the subject. Any idea how to debug (or better solve this) ? Situation : due to a faulty remove, the OS had to be…
ON-Bar parallelization
Hello folks I am looking at using onbar to take advantage of the parallelization. Looking at the example at this address http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/library/techarticle/dm-0611sinha/index.ht ml the implication is onbar backs up the chunks in the dbpace in parallel. I…
Tool to estimate the size of an index
Sorry, I forgot to provide the version of the installation: IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.FC4 Operative System: AIX Version 6.1…
bar log message 43185
Hi All I have 11.5UC4 + TSM. L0 archives are scheduled weekly, and L1 Mon-Sat nightly. I'm seeing following error in bar log several times a week: 15335576 56099016 (-43185) A change in physical configuration has occurred. A level 0 backup of aimsdbs1 is being performed I know …
errors: -104 (too many files) and -242 (could not open database table), among others
hello all - we are on version 11.5.FC7 (from v10.fc5) running HDR on AIX 5.3 about 5 days after upgrading, the developers started getting an error report from their cold fusion servers with several errors in the debugging/catch information : Description: Error Executing Datab…
Logical log backup aborted (during ontape -r)
Art, I'm trying to restore an production database (backup done with ontape), in a test database (using ontape -r) and I've the messages in the online log Regards…
TSM and Informix 11.10 on Windows
Hi, Is it possible to explain anybody the way that TSM and onbar are related? For example in a imported restore attempt I was not able to restore anything until I ran the q backup .... command (in a different command prompt window). Why that happens? What about in the case that…
database backup using commvault simpana
Hi, Is anyone in the mailing list using Commvault Simpana's backup solution to backup their informix databases ?. are there any issues with this product's backup/restore procedures and is it a reliable tool ? any inputs will be appreciated Thanks Savio Pinto…
Can't access sysindexes remotely
Hi, We are using IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.FC6 using Platform: SunOS 5.10 Generic_125100-09 sun4v sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-T200 Thanks…
My Mul-Threads Data Export Tool
Hi, everybody, I'm a new guy here. First of all, my English is poor, I'll try my best to explain my tools. Ignore my spell and grammar errors please :D In these days, I study IDS socket communcation package and disk storage structure, and write 2 tools. One is fake a user and co…
Applying logical logs after level 0 restored
Hi Everyone, I just restored the complete level 0 backup of informix 7.13 on hp-ux 10.01 in our development environment. At the end of restore, I didn't forget apply logical logs to the database. can anyone advise me to apply the logical logs on the database that I restored? P…
new onconfig parameters added onconfig file 11.5
most of these aren't new at all. Some have been around since 7.10. Some were undocumented until around 9.30 or so. Others were new in 9.40 or 10.00. There are a few really new ones, but, the server upgrade does not, to my knowledge, update the ONCONFIG file at all. Art Art S. K…
onbar failed
Hallo, I'm trying to make a logical backup using onbar -b -l. bar_act.log says 'completed' but no log is created on file system. What does bar_srv_status: return 5 (0x05) mean? Whole log in bar_debug.log with level9: 2010-02-08 10:19:10 2460 2460 bar_get_hostname: enter 2010…
Random Server Slowdown "Redone"
There are some usual things you could do for now: 1) calc your database ratios, I think there are several NETTYPE, BUFFERS and even BTSCANNER options that could be optimized, you could download Mr. Art script to automatically know these important numbers!!! It´s on the download …
Re: Imported Restore with TSM and 2 engines with same DBSERVERNAME
Yes. :) Only, you have to find the actual number (logical log unique ID) and pass it on the command line to the "onbar -r -l -n <#>" command. Regards, Martin -- Martin Fuerderer IBM Informix Development Munich, Germany Information Management IBM Deutschland Research & Developm…
Onbar problem
Hi we have got another onbar problem : In the middle of a sbspace-backup , onbar was cut down by a sanswitch-port malfunction and now it looks like the archive-flag for the sbspace has been permanently set. When i try to start another backup on this instance , bar_act.log says…
Re: Imported Restore with TSM and 2 engines with same DBSERVERNAME
Martin, Thanks for the reply. Can I avoid this query by object_name by instructing the restore to stop at the last known logical log in the ixbar file? onbar -p onbar -r -l -n <last logical log in ixbar> Thanks, Andrew ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Fuerderer" <…
Re: Imported Restore with TSM and 2 engines with same DBSERVERNAME
Hi, yes, ON-Bar uses the CopyID fields (high and low) to ask the SM for backup objects, normally. This is why this CopyID info is diligently kept in the sysutils database and the ixbar-file (for cold restore scenarios). But I say "normally", because there is an exception: After…
Informix Dynamic Server Software Downloads
It appears IBM has cleverly hidden the IDS downloads again on the Passport Advantage Website, at least from my prying eyes. I can find the Solid DB and the DB2 links just fine. Does anyone out there in IIUG-land with a Passport Advantage account know where IBM has stashed the dow…
onbar
Hi All, I've encountered I/O error in informix and it needs a full-restore "onbar -r -p". While performing restore, it encountered problem due to some network issues. Is there a way the onbar command will start on the location it stopped? This is to mininize the downtime of the…
onbar
I need to add some logical logs to my XPS datawarehouse. There is no ontape and I need to do an onbar to /dev/null. I don't want to take a real backup. Can anyone give me the instructions for this? onbar -b -L 0 - but how do I direct this to /dev/null instead of a usual device? …
onbar problem
Hi We have recently upgraded to 11.50.FC5 on Hp-ux 11.31.ia and have problems running level 1 backups When we tried to start a level1 backup 22 hours after a level 0 , we got this message : 2009-10-05 19:00:41 18160 18157 Unable to start the storage space backup: The exis…
Table structure backup/restore
Hi All, How I can take the backup of table structure and all its data and how to restore that table including all data.We are using IDS 7.13 running on HP-UNIX 10.01. Thx,…
Occasional onbar log backup hangs
Hi all Every now and then (about twice a week) I have an issue whereby a log backup using onbar -b -l to TSM seems to hang, or take a very long time to complete. This means that subsequent log backups fail, with the message about cannot start a log backup because another one is …
OPTCOMPIND and perl
Anyone know if I can change OPTCOMPIND after establishing a DB connection or does it need to be set before connecting? ta SLES10 SP1 IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.UC5…
OAT SQL Trace Broken?
I'm running OAT 2.23 on WinXP against IDS 11.50.FC4 on HP-UX 11.23. I've logged in as user 'informix' and configured parameters via the GUI for a user to access the SQL Trace capabilities. But when the user attempted to use SQL Trace with OAT on his PC, a series of errors ensued…
ONBAR woes :-( Advice needed
Hello. We had to debug some netbackup processes also, and what helped was the following actions: I adjusted the BAR_DEBUG to 9 in onconfig file, I read the official documentation (a pdf file from symantec about NetBackup for Informix), and activated also the recording of netbacku…
Insert into an indexed table is really SLOW!
MIKE DUNHAM-WILKIE wrote: > I am running into performance problems inserting into an indexed table, using > Informix 11.50. The following timings for loading into > compressed/uncompressed, indexed/non-indexed tables using dbload/HPL-Deluxe > more illustrate the problem. The numb…
ONDBLOG COMPLETE ,returning 18 (0x12)
Okay, can u attach the last 100 lines of onbar log file and online log file, that would help…
HDR with level 1 backup
Hi, Disk containing the log backups got run out of space. So some of logical logs were not backed up. HDR secondary got out of synch. We are trying to make the secondary node again the part of HDR, but because of insufficient logical logs we are unable to do so. We can take 0-lev…
Onbar Issue
Hi, We are trying to use "onbar" to configure our TSM. While trying to use "onbar" in our Informix instance, I see the following error in the onbar log.. 2009-06-08 07:36:54 28855 28853 /usr/informix/bin/onbar_d -b -w -p - L0 2009-06-08 07:36:54 28855 28853 (-43231) An unex…
Connection Manager Cluster
Ok so that's why in case 1 application is communicating with database even the Connection Manager is down. And what goes wrong in case 2 (problem 2) where one of two Connection Managers become unstable and fails to detect primary node(instance restarted). And if Connection Manage…
IDS11.50.FC3 backup sequencing
On May 13, 6:24 am, "howie....@googlemail.com" <howie....@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hello all.... > > We have just upgraded from IDS9.3 to IDS11.50FC3.... > > All appears fine apart from the backup sequence whic I would like to > change.... > > I have googled the problem but can n…
Help on onbar
Anyone online at this moment? I'm traying to recover from onbar, as the root dbspace and a data dbspace where lost when a disk crashed. I did an onbar -r and all of the dbspaces were recovered but the dbspace dedicated to logical logs. online can't be started becaus of Logical …
Informix Dynamic Server Scheduler question
Hi! I'm working on a project at my faculty. It's a java desktop application with an informix database. I have a problem using informix dynamic server scheduler. I have a particular table in my database. This table contains records that are inserted by the desktop aplication I'm …
need to backup the individual database
Can i do a fake backup using onbar utility to avoid a forced level 0 backup after restore?…
sydbopen() issue
Hello all, IDS 11.10 FC3 on solaris 10 I need to log every odbcusr connection to our databases, No auditing so i tried sydbopen() and sysdbclose() procedures. The following works for me: CREATE PROCEDURE "public".sysdbopen() DEFINE SID INTEGER; LET SID = DBINFO('sessionid'); …
IDS 9.40 End of Support Imminent
I have seen a number of posts on CDI recently related to IDS 9.40 As per the announcement on September 7th 2007, effective on the dates listed below, IBM will withdraw support from the following product releases licensed under the IBM International Program License Agreement: 9…
Backup & Restore confusion
Hi, I'm a bit confused about backup and restore using ontape. Why do I need to take a logical log backup with ontape -a (log # 15) after a ontape -s -L 0? The full Level 0 archive says it contains the log # 15 but during restore I have to apply the logical backup also containing…
Is there any way to log failed insert row because of unique index violation - Informix
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 1:22 PM, <chavan1@gmail.com> wrote: > When I am trying to insert a row into a table I am getting the > following error. Is there any way to log this failed row (row values) > because of unique index violation. > > insert into t1 > select * from t2 …
rowids and logical logs and fragmented tables
I searched for this in the mailing list with no joy. BACKGROUND ============ We have a script which parses logical logs and produces a text output of the transactions in parallel, so that transaction behaviour can be viewed synchronically for debugging purposes. Handy for long-…
Pretty basic onbar restore question...
Hi everyone. I know this is a pretty basic, general question. But I would like to be sure about something related to restoring with onbar. My question is...regardless of what storage manager is being used...whether that be NetBackup, or ISM, or Networker or whatever....when you …
OnBar to HP Data Protector - XBSA API error codes?
We had On-Bar, too, but later switched to cold backups of all chunk files because it was more reliable and easy to maintain. If your backups have to be "hot" then ontape, dbexport or onunload might suit your needs. But if you are going to stay with On-Bar, here are some things …
Onbar / Netbackup issues
All, IDS version 10.00.UC8 on Solaris 2.8 Netbackup version 6.0 mp 7 The netbackup admins recently upgraded the version of netbackup to v6.0 maintenance pack 7 - since the upgrade we can no longer take a backup. Contents of the bar_act.log: 2008-11-03 09:32:57 10206 10204 Arc…
on bar restore from machine A to machine B?
Yes, performed this several times using TSM and onbar. If needed you can rename chunk names. Regards, Bart…
ontape causing problems with IDS 9.4
Hi. With an IDS 9.4 FCX21 server there have been chronic and highly intermittent issues with ontape. Sometimes during level 0 backups, level 1 backups, or ontape -a (just backing up the logs). Neither Informix Tech support nor any dbas I know have been able to figure this one out…
use stored proc that return multiple columns in a query
forgot to include version info: IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.UC6W5 -- On-Line -- Up 207 days 22:14:39 -- 1441100 Kbytes…
installing informix dynamic server in linux
hi, I'm new to informix... I tried to install informix dynamic server(iif. 11.50.UC2E.Linux-RHEL4.tar) in my linux machine. I'm getting an error like this... One or more prerequisite system libraries are not installed on your computer. Install libpam.so.0, libncurses.so.5…
Test Restoration failed
Finally i reinitialized the test instance and started the restore using ontape -r. But the restore which was suppose to finish in 7-8 hrs on this server (as tested many times before)is not running over 15 hrs and i can see in onstat -D that one complete chunk is yet to be restor…
RE: Onbar Restore
I knew I was being a numpty..... The oncfg file it was looking at was from a test which only had a rootdbs in it :-D, real name used and everything is as it should be. Regards Colin There are 10 types of people in the world, those that understand binary and those that don't …
Onbar Restore
I am trying to do a PIT restore of a db using onbar onto a different server, it does the rootdbs and nothing else. I've copied ixbar.? & oncfg_<servername>.? onconfig is exactly the same apart from CLEANERS/LRUS and DBSERVERNAME. I use Netbackup as the storage manager and I've s…
Informix Dynamic Server v 11.50 Developer's Edition
Does everyone know that the Informix Dynamic Server Developer's Edition v11.50 that you can download from the IIUG Web site (www.iiug.org) is NOT timebombed, is completely and fully functional (including HDR, MACH11, ER etc.). Do you know that the only limitations on this versio…
Informix Dynamic Server v 11.50 Developer's Edition
Does everyone know that the Informix Dynamic Server Developer's Edition v11.50 that you can download from the IIUG Web site (www.iiug.org) is NOT timebombed, is completely and fully functional (including HDR, MACH11, ER etc.). Do you know that the only limitations on this versio…
Network errors appear in online.log
ALEXANDRE MARINI wrote: > Hello again! > We have several errors appearing in online.log, and we don´t know how we could > debug them, or fix. > ----------------------------------- > The first number is error: > -25580 System error occurred in network function > > Is there any log…
Re: onbar
the limit is 4 sessions afaikr for ism so 4 devs each one session will hit the limit. or 1 dev and 4 sessions will also hit the limit (multiplex...) and 2 TB in 8 hours is not bad at all. Superboer. On 23 jul, 16:55, "Campbell, John (GE Money)" <John.Campbe...@ge.com> wrote: >…
onbar
Running IDS 9.40.FC5 onbar with ISM, Solaris 9 I'm planning to upgrade to 10 or 11 asap and want to use archecker for table-level restore. Currently, we have a hodge-podge of unload files and a level 0 onbar taken weekly to put the database back in case of a complete loss. I …
CONFIGURATION ONAUDIT-IBM Informix Dynamic Server
Hello, I need to configure onaudit and onshowaudit able to register for each of the consultations that are made to the database, either through dbaccess, ODBC or another application. I've been reviewing the IBM Informix Trusted Facility Guide, but I was not working. What param…
How to use Informix Dynamic Server
I have installed trial version of "Informix IDS Dynamic Server Developer Edition 11.5 for Windows 2003, XP, Vista, 32bit Version 1150TC1DE". But i am new to informix. Can anyone explain how to use IDS in detail.…
incremental onbars
9.40.FC5, Solaris 9. It seems to be my station in life to inherit things. When I inherited this db, we were running on some flavor of 7.31. Someone else designed the onbar backup and currently we run 1 level 0 a week. It is running muti-threaded and takes 6 to 8 hours to run. …
Veritas Netbackup to schedule onbar
Hi everyone. I have a IDS 9.4 database that uses Veritas netbackup to schedule the onbar backups on a Unix AIX machine. General question...If I were to need to do an onbar restore there is no reason why I would not just do a typical command line driven onbar restore...is that cor…
onlog and onbar
Hi all. IDS 9.40FC9W2, Solaris 9, Backup with onbar and Legato Networker (nsrdbmi). Following the manual it should be possible to retrieve Logical Logs file from backup medium by specifying the Log ID. The manual "Administrator Reference" says: You do not need to use the -d op…
Onbar and LTAPEDEV
All, 10.00.UC6 Solaris 2.8 What are the ramifications of setting the config parameter LTAPEDEV to /dev/null as it relates to onbar level 0 backups? For example with our current configuration LTAPEDEV points to a valid file. When we run onbar -b -L 0 the archive process backs up…
onbar restore blocked on checkpoint
Hi, > I would (again) like to know in more detail, what onbar > is doing when the logical log restore phase begins > (or should begin). At one point (I think) you said that > there is no message in the ON-Bar activity log file, > but this sounds a bit strange. Sorry for the con…
Restore backup and Archecker Failed...
Hi, IDS 7.31 FD2 HP-UX 11.00 first, sorry my poor english.. I tried restore a archive Level 0 and failed... When test the backup file with archecker , failed too... The backup file is create over file system: TAPEDEV /backup/L_backup TAPEBLK 1024 # Tape block size (Kbytes) TA…
Restore backup and Archecker Failed...
Hi, IDS 7.31 FD2 HP-UX 11.00 first, sorry my poor english.. I tried restore a archive Level 0 and failed... When test the backup file with archecker , failed too... The backup file is create over file system: TAPEDEV /backup/L_backup TAPEBLK 1024 # …
Imported restore with TSM and Informix 10
Hi all. I'm kind of stuck trying to do an imported restore using onbar with TSM. I've tried all kinds of different methods to trace what is happening, but I just can't get it going - so now I turn to you! ;o) I'm running 10.00.TC6X2 on Windows 2003 Standard Edition. I've got th…
Re: Backup/restore compatibility
On 18 Feb, 22:09, Fernando Nunes <s...@onlinedomus.net> wrote: > Troels Arvin wrote: > > Hello, > > > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:36:27 +0000, Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > >> This is what dbexport exists for. > > > Thanks - it looks like dbexport will be of use. And the dbexport word le…
parallel backup and restore w onbar
hello, In IDS10, using onbar, can I do parallel backup and restore on an instance that has no database transaction logging ? I think I should be able to, as long as I backup the logical logs and logs will need to be restored during a parallel restore. Is that correct ? ps. I rea…
Backup/restore compatibility
Hello, In the DB2 World, there is a (very annoying) constraint concerning backup/ restore: Data backed up on a big-endian host cannot be restored on a little-endian host, and vice versa. The constraint is very illogical considering that one of DB2's selling points is the possibi…
SECURITY VULNERABILITIES IN IDS
1. http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=630&context=SSGU8G&context=SSHPYE&dc=D600&uid=swg21294211&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en mentions an issue with ISM that allows gaining "administrator privileges" on the machine. Fixed in 10.00.xC8W1 due beginning of March. "Unix mach…
onbar label 0 backup will backup logical log ?
my box is ids10 with TSM. I issue 'onbar -b -L 0' or 'onbar -b -w -L 0' to backup label 0 archive. It will backup logical log automatically . Why It do this ? Can I backup full system not include logical log file just like 'ontape -s -L 0'?…
OnBar and ISM
Currently I am running IDS 9.21.HC6 and using On-Archive for backups. I am in the process of upgrading to 9.40.HC7 and On-Archive no longer exists. I have been trying to use OnBar and ISM but having various problems which IBM have so far been unable to resolve. Would On-Tape b…
What is IPA abbreviation ?
Hi all IBM INFORMIX DYNAMIC SERVER 10.00 PRODUCT RELEASE bug_number 168928 description WITH NON-DEFAULT PAGE SIZE AND ACTIVE IPA'S, TABLE LEVEL RESTORES FAIL product_code ONUTILS component_code ARCHECKR What is IPA ? Thanks…
Windows XP Registry
One way to backup the registry is to create a System Restore snapshot. System Restore returns your computer to a previous snapshot without losing recent personal information, such as documents, history lists, favorites, or e-mail. It monitors the computer and many applications fo…
ontape,onbar, HDR,ER-Which tool to use?
Onbar is extremely reliable and flexible. Perhaps ISM isn't but onbar is. We've used onbar for years with Veritas Netbackup. Do you have a corporate "standard" for your backup software such as Netbackup or IBM TSM (Tivoli)? Onbar will work very well with Netbackup, I have no expe…
Onbar - performance
Dear Listers We are moving our Informix 10 instance to a new host and during backup and restore testing I have identified a problem with recovery performance. Maury Tiller wrote some tools to test various components of the onbar/XBSA interface which were available from http://…
Newbie onbar vs ontape question..I hope that's ok
Hello everyone. I have a newbie question - I hope you don't mind. I have an IDS 9.4 database, although that should not really be relevant to my question - I think. Question is using both onbar and ontape. I understand of course that one cannot use an ontape archive tape and use o…
IDS 11 archecker ignores AC_RESTORE_FILTER
I would like to use IDS 11 ontape to directory devices with the new BACKUP_FILTER parameter in $ONCONFIG set to "gzip". Everything works fine except for archecker, which would be a big problem if you needed to restore individual tables. It is displaying but failing to apply the d…
ONBAR not working
Hello, From the ism commands below, we cannot tell what type of ISM device is this one (tape or file?). I think that, one of the steps missing here, before labeling the ISM device, is to add the device and indicate its type (file, in this case?), using the 'ism_add -device' comm…
Onbar fails to restore all dbspaces
On 17 Nov, 09:26, Ulf <ulf.akerb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 17 Nov, 03:42, "da...@smooth1.co.uk" <da...@smooth1.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > > > On 16 Nov, 19:57, Ulf <ulf.akerb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > We are using version 10.00.FC7 on HP-UX 11.11 with Omniback for > > > backups.…
Continuous log restore
Version IDS 10 I read in IBM's redbook for version 10 that continuous log restore can be used. I wanted to know the following: 1. Can onbar be used for backup and restore ? 2. What commands can be run to setup continuous log restore ? There is not enough information available a…
Kill Update Statistics
Is there any way to kill a running update statistics. UPDATE STATISTICS HIGH FOR TABLE foo (bar) DISTRIBUTIONS ONLY. I tried with with onstat -z several times but it runs and runs and seems to do nothing anyway. Regards Reinhard…
Re: Physical restore
mohitanchlia@gmail.com wrote: > Version: IDS 10 > > What does this mean ? > > 20:19:45 DR: Reservation of the last logical log for log backup > turned on > 20:19:45 Data replication type and state information reset. To start > DR, use > the 'onmode -d' command and wai…
update statistics on sysutils
On Sep 11, 4:46 pm, mohitanch...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sep 11, 1:28 am, "TBP (The Big Potato)" <T...@NotHere.Co.Uk> wrote: > > > > > mohitanch...@gmail.com wrote: > > > I am reading about various things that could make backing up logical > > > logs faster using onbar. One of the …
Fatal error in shred memeory creation
FYI - My UNIX Administrator has restored a system backup taken before the power failure and my Database server is now up and running.…
BAR_MAX_BACKUP - not spawning parallel threads
Version : 10 We are running onbar -b -l with BAR_MAX_BACKUP = 4 and BAR_NB_XPORT_COUNT = 10. But when I check the number of onbar process I just see one onbar_d process. I was expecting atleast 4 processes. Why is it just spawning one process. Is it because our SHMTOTAL is 0.…
Restoring Level 1 Backup ONLY - INFORMIX 9.4
Dear All, I am trying to restore level 1 backup ( with ontape -r ) on a machine ( solaris 8 )on which I have a level 0 backup already restored preveiously ( while restoring I terminated restore at the point when level 0 was completed and system was asking for level 1, my idea wa…
Research into onbar
I am trying to find out if anybody has any experiences of using onbar in an "emergency" situation. Especially with an "imported" restore or a "rename files" situation. I would be interested in knowing what operating system, what versions of IDS, and what backup storage manager …
Backup worked...restore doesn't...
Hi All, I was able to get my backup done the other day just using ontape -s -L 0, everything seemed just fine, total space of backup 497 GB. Now today I'm trying to restore that same tape onto another server. Informix has been installed, onconfig file was mirrored from original …
Re: Lazy IDS Onbar Backup
Hi, is it necessary to have separate pools for each instance? Well, it depends. If you want to back up all these instances at the same time, then it may indeed be useful. Otherwise you may see waiting times. If your schedule spreads the backups of the three instances over time…
Lazy IDS Onbar Backup
Hi, make sure that you have setup Tivoli to use separate (different) volumes and pools for dbspaces and logs. This is the equivalent to the ISM_DATA_POOL and ISM_LOG_POOL onconfig parameters for ISM. Then make sure that Tivoli can access (i.e. write to) these volumes concurrentl…
RE: IIUG Conference Topic Survey closing soon
>So then I guess I can save on my bar tab by not buying you a drink while at >the conference? You are buying us drinks at the conference? You may go home broke...I have seen some of the IIUG-ers drink.…
Commvault log backup failing
ok, my systems folks converted archive manager from Legato to Commvault After much gnashing of teeth we got the archive to work. Now we find that logical logs fail. Running onbar -b -l works fine, running onmode -l fails. It gets a BSACreateObject error with a return code of 3.…
IIUG TV
Great job on the video work!! I look forward to seeing more! -t- -- -- Informix Dynamic Server Database Engine -- http://www.informix.com --…
onbar on an inactive node?
Can I run onbar on an inactive node? We have a cluster env(ACTIVE/INACTIVE conf) and wants to run the onbar backup process on the inactive node? Thanks, Yogesh…
Room 1801 (was: Informix beats Oracle)
> > And this is why you go to the conference. ;-) > That and to do damage to the room 1801 bar tab. Still made it to the keynote in the morning, did not make it to the casino that night however. Cross reference to rec.gambling.poker: I'm oninit on bodog if anybody here plays.…
RE: IDS 11 - Press Releases
"Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@serendipita.com> wrote in message news:mailman.216.1182019175.13675.informix-list@iiug.org... Dale Gilbert said: > Yes, but OTC never pays the bar tab!!! > > :> >> Are you implying I'm a piker? Pikey.…
IDS 10.0 and Legato Networker
Thank you Javier. I have changed the variable DO_LOGFILE_BACKUPS from YES to NO in the nsrdbmi script. The database backups now complete successfully in Legato. I have successfully completed a full complete restore (onbar -r). Also I successfully completed a point in time or poi…
Re: admin tools like PC client
Mike, What version of Informix are you using? Informix SE? Informix OnLine? Informix Dynamic Server? Most Informix versions these days come with a product call I-Connect that needs to be installed on the PC and rovides the Informix ODBC drivers.…
Error when initializing
06:36:20 IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version [b]10.00.UC6TL[\\b] I believe this is likelt ot be a new ish instance to a newish user of the software…
ONLINE.log file enhancements
Firstly, you don't have control to filter such imp. log info. from online log. I would'nt think its a good idea either to stop recording such events in the log. The more info. in log, the more help in case of any debugging/investigation. On Unix, you can write couple of lines scr…
Allocation of the 80-90% of resources for dbexport
I'm use ext3 filesystem. I need this backup mechanism for restoring database on other sides/servers. Is it possible to allocate more resources for dbexport process namely?…
problems with Informix dynamic server 9.4 @ WIndows 2003
I have problems with connecting the server. I use correct user/password to connect to the server, but the server do not known the server. I'm sure the user exist and is one of the user in Informix_Admin group. I have installed Informix dynamic server 9.4 in a windows xp system in…
RE: onbar
ISM is the storage manager. -----Original Message----- From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:informix-list-bounces@iiug.org]On Behalf Of Campbell, John (GE Money) Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 3:36 PM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: onbar IDS 9.40.FC5 Solaris 9. I'm…
Re: onbar
John, Unfortunately you didn't mention the storage manager in use. If this is TSM, the IBM technote as per URL mentioned below might help. I remember that this could be related to dsm.sys parameter PASSWORDACCESS which should have set to value 'GENERATE'. Of course, the techno…
onbar
IDS 9.40.FC5 Solaris 9. I'm attempting to do an imported restore with onbar. I'm getting the following error: 2007-03-06 14:43:36 1164 1162 /opt/informix/bin/onbar_d -r 2007-03-06 14:43:36 1164 1162 Successfully connected to Storage Manager. 2007-03-06 14:43:36 1164 1162…
IDS 9.4 and On-Bar
On my Production machines I am still running IDS9.21 and On-Archive with 4 weeks of tapes that we recycle - Mon1 to Fri1, Mon2 to Fri2, Mon3 to Fri3 and Mon4 to Fri4. We run 3 archives a day onto each daily tape. Each archive command contains what it is you want archived, level …
Unable to backup using onbar
Just encounter this problem. It is strange that even the logical logs has been backup, when start backup using onbar, it complain the following error: 2007-02-14 01:02:51 8810 8806 /apps/informix/ids.93/bin/onbar_d -b -l 2007-02-14 01:02:52 8810 8806 Begin backup logical log 256…
Informix backup & restore
We have an IDS version 10 installation containing a number of dbspaces. We have created a database on each dbspace eg dbspace1 database1 dbspace2 database2 dbspace3 database3 Is it possible to restore a database (eg restore its correspondig dbspace) to a point-in-time withou…
onbar
9.40.FC5 Solaris 9. Attempting an imported restore with onbar. I have 4 devices on disk. I am able to mount 3 of the 4 with ism but one of them is giving the error "nsrmm: error, no file label found" when I try to mount it. I tried to read it into the catalog with ism_catal…
Veritas Net Backup : on-bar IDS 10.0 AIX 5.3
Hi, what exactly do you mean when you say "we are not able to connect to the new (dummy) instance for backup."? I guess you are able to connect to the new instance using a utility like dbaccess. Is it that when you want to execute onbar commands that they can't connect? How do…
Ontape backup/restore to disk
Hello All, I would like to use the Informix ontape utility for both Level 0 backup/restore and transaction log backup/restore. Instead of using an external tape device, I would like to back it up to disk (files). Currently we are running IDS 7.31 on Sun Solaris 9 servers. To …
Checkpoint taking more time
Hi Im having IDS 7.31 in HP-UX 4440 . Im having a problem with checkpoint taking lot of time when certain processes are running.rest of the time its taking 0 seconds. But sometimes its tabing 8,9,10 seconds How i can reduce the time taken for CKPT. I read that LRU writes should …
Re: archecker redux.....no P word
Hi, There are these issues -- 1) Do not use the -l phys option -- this does not mean to do physical restore only -- it means that you *intend* to do logical restore, but want to do the physical part and the logical part in separate commands. 2) Grep for ERROR from the archecke…
archecker redux.....no P word
i would restore the backup to a test box and check if it is there including checking if > Select * from book_history > > Where book_no > 10131825; returns any rows. Superboer. Tam O'Shanter schreef: > Okay, > > Here is a copy of the command used, the schema file used and the…
Backup Of Specific Tables
Hello All, Wondering if there is a way to script a backup operation for specific tables as opposed to an entire database? Our scenario involves backups being written to a tape drive. We would wish to backup a couple of tables to tape and then restore if a job to update said ta…
Informix 10 & NetBackup 6
Hi, from the info given, it is not possible to tell much, because it is not clear, where this error comes from. :-( I have the following suspicion: onbar connects to IDS to do some SQL queries on sysmaster and sysutils databases in order to do the backup. One of these queri…
Problem with 9.3 Onbar backup
Thank you for your feedback, Martin! I managed to get a low level debug (BAR_DEBUG=3) executed this weekend, but it also ended in failure. The only significant entries I could find in the bar_act log were: 2006-09-30 20:12:38 bar_debug: enter 2006-09-30 20:12:38 bar_debug: Calle…
What backup runs on-bar on Informix 10.0?
We are upgrading to Informix 10.0 using on-bar. Could anyone recommend a backup storage vendor/product that will support Informix 10.0? Frank Lai…
License Extension
Help.. I need a license extension for the IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.FC3R1TL which I downloaded to do a evaluation. How can I get the license extened..my project is in the final stages .. Dhaya Commercial bank…
RE: JDBC debug driver
And the documentation is IN THE PACKAGE. I have complained about that already ;-(. JDBC 2.x Manual is on the site. JDBC 3.x Manual is not on the site, but in the package. > -----Original Message----- > From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:informix-list- > bounces@iiug.o…
Re: JDBC debug driver
Here is a list of changes (as compared to pre-3.00.JC1 drivers. ) that have been done to tracing mechanism in informix JDBC driver * Debug (-g versions of jars) not included in the released product *Not possible to obtain Old plain text SQLI trace and function traces any more …
Re: JDBC debug driver
Jean Georges Perrin wrote: > Debug versions are not included anymore... I think there is some property to > set or logging to activate, but I can't remember... Amid???!!! > > > Thanks helping me, the manual downloadable from IBM web pages is obsolete (March 2003). One have to in…
RE: JDBC debug driver
Debug versions are not included anymore... I think there is some property to set or logging to activate, but I can't remember... Amid???!!! > -----Original Message----- > From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:informix-list- > bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Lukas Barton > …
OnBar
Hi, I configured onbar to generate files in a specific directory and works fine. When the directory has space works fine, but freeze when the space ends and we remove some files keep freeze. What can I do to resolve this? henrique_lima_2000@yahoo.com.br henriquelima@uol.com.br …
Onbar problem
Hi, The same manual, edition for IDS 10 (December 2004) says in addition: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ... Consider leaving these parameter values blank when you use ON?Bar because the storage manager sets these v…
Re: Security Vulnerabilities Addressed in Informix Dynamic Server
Clive Eisen wrote: > Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > > Yes the buffer overflow issues are a pain and frankly they shouldn't occur > > if IBM did formal code reviews. Or rather they should be caught and > > corrected prior to release. > > > > "Paul Watson" <paul@oninit.com> wrote in m…
Security Vulnerabilities Addressed in Informix Dynamic Server
Not sure if this has posted here or not but .... http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=630&context=SSGU8G&dc=D600&u id=swg21242921&loc=en_US&cs=UTF-8&lang=en Cheers Paul Paul Watson Tel: +44 1414161772 Mob: +44 7818003457 Web: www.oninit.com GO FURTHER with DB2 GET THER…
RE: Ontape question
----- Original Message ---- From: dawaves <dawaves@gmail.com> To: informix-list@iiug.org Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 8:12:37 PM Subject: Re: Ontape question hahahah....sorry for the confusion, I know it's a long description... "So why do you need the logical log backu…
onbar problem
this is my bar_act.log .......... .......... 2006-07-02 22:14:20 1553 1551 /home/informix/bin/onbar_d -r -t 2006-07-02 17:50:50 2006-07-02 22:14:21 1553 1551 Successfully connected to Storage Manager. 2006-07-02 22:14:21 1553 1551 XBSA Error: (BSACreateObject) A system error o…
restoring just from logical log tape
When I run 'ontape -r', it asks me if I want to restore from an archive tape (an 8mm tape) after restoring from level0 backup (a DLT tape). Is there any way to just go straight to that 8mm tape for restore and bypass the hour I have to wait for the level0 restore to complete befo…
dbaccess tool
> > I would like DBACCESS and DBSCHEMA tools being installed on client > > machines to let developers checking database. > > > > But I did not see the executables( dbaccess, dbschema) there after I > > insatlled CSDK on the client machines. > > I copied them from db server machin…
Re: Informix User Forum 2006 - Call For Presentations
Hamilton, Jerry wrote: > "At the Atlanta conference I did get talking to two ladies at the > bar..." > > I was only slightly offended by this... You rode to the bar with me and > three other blokes and before we knew it you ran off with a stiffy in > your pants. > Please do not…
TSM XBSA Error 96
Thank you, Darren for the reply. The ixbar.1 (servernum=1) contains the Storage ID #, one for each DBSpace. While restoring, Onbar requests the correct Storage ID#. I had set BAR_DEBUG (to) 7 and that's how I was able to get XBSA detail. It is a BIG file so I have pasted only t…
Re: Upgrading to version 10 ontape question
"Table Level Restore (TLR) is based on a normal backup/archive. Normal backups/archives are platform dependent, therefore TLR also is platform dependent." That is not what John Miller III said to me at the Atlanta conference! Table level restore can restore to remote instances …
Performance issue after 732 to 94fc6 upgrade
Doug- We discovered when we made a similar transition that temporary tables built and indexed in a program will not use their indexes unless update statistics is run against them. The 9.x engine apparently has a difference in the optimizer which caused this. --EEM > -----Origi…
Re: Upgrading to version 10 ontape question
For a platform independent backup/restore use version 10 and table level restore to restore all tables from a level 0 archive. This is platform independent. Backup/restore will always be version dependent since each new version has more features. David.…
Initialising Informix
I am trying to initialize informix on a new server and I am getting this error. The server is HP UX 11.11 and Informix IDS 7.31 What could be the problem / This action will initialize Informix Dynamic Server; any existing Informix Dynamic Server databases will NOT be accessible …
Informix Connection From WIN CE.NET Emulator?
How do I connect to informix dynamic server from WIN CE.NET Emulator? Is there a WIN CE informix driver?…
OnBar error.
Good morning all, thank you for your responses on my last posting, I am currently trying all the suggestions out and will get feedback for you shortly. Related to the unexpected No Response error from OnBar that stops the Continuous logging( I have a suspicion that this has to …
Onar failure
My Apologies for poor spell checking. The Title should read OnBar Failure.…
Re: Table Editor for Multiplatforms
Enhancements in Version 4.3 ..... also supports the Informix Dynamic Server 9.x. http://www.ibm.com/software/data/db2imstools/db2tools/db2te/…
HP Data Protector restore
Hello, How can I restore informix backup on other instance with Data Protect.…
Not using the 100% logical log page size alloacted to informix
it seems the alarmprogram executes the onbar commands onbar -b -l TIA…
/usr/informix/bin/onbar[84]: 22716 Memory fault
Hi, the first place to look for more info would be the ON-Bar Activity Log file (BAR_ACT_LOG parameter in the ONCONFIG file). If there actually is a core dump, this can be analysed. Though that info is a bit arcane, i.e. suitable for Tech Support. Also, if the problem reproduce…
Fragmentation Elimination Problem
I am on version IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.FC4.…
Re: Informix Dynamic Server 9.30 - Shared Memory
Ronald Schwingel wrote: > Can someone please tell me how much Shared Memory (gigabytes?) > Informix Dynamic Server 9.30 (32-bit version) for AIX 5L can use > before asserting with a Shared Memory access error? Can you provide > documentation that I can pass on also? It looked to…
Restore Informix-Emc-Data Protector 5.1
Valeriano V.... wrote > I want to restore the logs until 13:45:00, with Omni Back > Data Protector v5.1 > > On the GUI of Omni Back Data Protector, I don´t see the > option for do this. > > What is the Unix intruction for do this ?? onbar -r -l -t <point_in_time> Read the Infor…
RE: Informix Dynamic Server 9.30 - Shared Memory
First off you shouldn't be getting shared memory access errors. That sounds more like a bug that technical support should address. I wouldn't be surprised if your getting can't allocate additional shared memory segment messages. Informix 32-bit on AIX is a bitch. The problem …
Informix Dynamic Server 9.30 - Shared Memory
Can someone please tell me how much Shared Memory (gigabytes?) Informix Dynamic Server 9.30 (32-bit version) for AIX 5L can use before asserting with a Shared Memory access error? Can you provide documentation that I can pass on also? We are looking at providing one of cust…
create a DB on Linux
Hi! I have installed Informix dynamic server on Linux. Now I want to create a data base. What should I do? Thanks…
Re: flagship sunk
Funny I have been able to download IDS 10 for Solaris, Windows and Linux am I just smarter than everyone else? www.informix.com Support and downloads In the middle trials and betas Oh look Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) V10.0 easy!…
Backup on inst1 and restore on inst2
Hi all, I have 2 instances IDS 10 (inst1 and inst2) on the same machine Windows 2003. The 2 instances have the same configuration, unless DBSERVERNAME and SERVERNUM and the same structure. I would like to know if is it possible to backup the datas of the inst1 and make a restore…
Re: How to get the Status history of the backups
Hi, as others have pointed out before, the sysutils database contains info about successful ON-Bar backups of dbspaces and logical log files. However, it generally does not have info on failed backup attempts, because upon failure ON-Bar does not insert data into sysutils databa…
error on onbar
Hi everybody. Im reposting this email to ids list which should be more apropiate than classics for the issue. J Leffler corrected me about. Have any off you deal with something like this? Thanks in advance for your comments. On 1/2/06, Nstor Gme.... <nestorgm@prodigy.net.mx> wro…
IDS Feature Request List (including potential new requests).
Folks, I have updated the IDS Feature Request List a) The is a link from my Website www.smooth1.co.uk now b) Updated peoples email addresses (thanks!) but not managed to get everyone's. c) Added Last Updated Date and Version Number so people can see when it changed and I can …
Onbar with Arcserve
Has anyone any experiences in using onbar with Arcserve? It's a combination I've never seen before Regards Colin There are 10 types of people in the world, those that understand binary and those that don't sending to informix-list…
Re: sqlj.install problem
Here i have send the part of the onconfig file. I am looking forward for your kind reply. VPCLASS jvp,num=1 # Number of JVPs to start with JVPJAVAHOME # JDK installation root directory JVPHOME # Krakatoa installation directory JVPLOGFI…
ids10.force to drop a chunk
Can't onspace bring the chunk back online? Use onspaces -s <spacename> -p <path> -o <offset> -O Otherwise restore from a backup.…
Re: IDS 10 - documentation questions
Oops! I mean IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.TC3ET Althought the release notes (idse_win_release_notes_10.0.html) start with:- "Release Notes for IBM Informix Dynamic Server Express Edition for Windows Platforms 10.00.TC3E, 1 July 2005 " so it is TC3E or TCE3T? and …
RE: Onbar physical followed by onbar logical...then...ontape ?
-----Original Message----- From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] On Behalf Of scottishpoet Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 6:50 PM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: Onbar physical followed by onbar logical...then...ontape ? >since you wer…
Onbar physical followed by onbar logical...then...ontape ?
since you were taught not to mix onbar and ontape the, since you archive using onbar you will have been backing up your logical logs using onbar as well, I assume this is a purely hypothetical question…
Re: Sql to concatenate multiple rows to a single row / column
Thank you SaltTan - it works beautifully. BTW, we have IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.FC6.…
Onbar and ISM
Good day to all, I am interested in using Onbar with ISM to disk. The Informix instances are small < 10GB each. I have onbar running now but have noticed a few things and was wondering if anyone already had a script to share that performs the tasks outlinde below: 1) Level-zero …
Onbar - URGENT!!!
The problem is that we are trying to restore database but we have not enough space to restore all storage spaces of the instance, but we have enough to restore rootdbs, phyldbs, logsdbs and docubpudbs where the entire database "bpu" is contained to recover some tables deleted acc…
Onbar - URGENT!!!!
The problem is that we are trying to restore database but we have not enough space to restore all storage spaces of the instance, but we have enough to restore rootdbs, phyldbs, logsdbs and docubpudbs where the entire database "bpu" is contained to recover some tables deleted acc…
-201 A syntax error has occurred
On 10/8/05, MARIO TINO <mtino@modatek.com> wrote: > > [...]Has anyone ever seem this, when I try to run Onbar -b -L 0 manually I > get the following error message: > -201 A syntax error has occurred. I running Informix version 9.x on a > Windows 2000 machine. > Which version 9.x…
Re: External backup/restore - an idea - comments please
Thanks Martin for these links. Extremely valuable information on EBR those who are reviewing their backup & restore process. Hari…
Copy more than one instance on a single tape in Informix IDS 7.31
Hi. I would like to knwo whether is it possible or not to backup more than one instance in Informix IDS 7.31 on a single tape for later restore all of them. I tried it but after each backup the tape is automatically rewinded and so the other backup superposes the first one. The …
Script failure
Problem has moved to a particular onbar -s -l that seems to be hanging. No cpu, no memory is showing as used…
Re: ontape vs onbar
Hi, if you want to get to the bottom of this I think it is time to analyse, where the bottleneck is. Ontape is rather simple, writing directly to a (usually local) tape. ON-Bar involves several components and you should look at each of these and the communication between them. …
Re: ontape vs onbar
Hello Neil, sorry do not know that suppose it less efficient compared to ontape since it has to communicate with ism. i assume all the logging etc is switched of?? eq BAR_DEBUG is 0 also try and play with BAR_NB_XPORT_COUNT that's all; maybe top/sar/iostat can sched more ligh…
New IDS Forum on IBM Developerworks website
This forum provides a place for Informix Dynamic Server developers and users to share their questions, thoughts, and ideas with others. http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/dw_forum.jsp?forum=548&cat=19…
Both ontape and onbar on the same system?
<mweallans@panacea.co.uk> wrote in message news:1120664873.326218.218040@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > However their next challenge is that they would like to run both ontape > and onbar for a period of time to backup the same server. I don't > think that should present a p…
Re: ONCONFIG - comments
Juan Pablo said: > > Hi: > Let me begin by saying thanks to all of the frequent posters to this > group. > I wanted to offer my config for comments. > thanks > ============================================================ > Hola: > Muchas gracias por el tiempo y su ayuda. Est…
Re: ONCONFIG - comments
Juan Pablo said: > > Hi: > Let me begin by saying thanks to all of the frequent posters to this > group. > I wanted to offer my config for comments. > thanks > ============================================================ > Hola: > Muchas gracias por el tiempo y su ayuda. Estoy de…
Re: Help:informix database backup/restore with netbackup agent.
Hi, the message "could not fork server connection, SQLCODE -25596" means that the server (IDS's oninit processes) could not be started, or they could be started but it was not possible to connect to them. The XBSA error then is the following error caused by the resulting abort.…
Re: IDS 10 Express Edition
Note 10.00.xC3 = Enterprise Version 10.00.xC3E = Express Edition http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ids9help/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.relnotes.doc/uc3E/idse_win_release_notes_10.0.html Then click on "IBM Informix Dynamic Server Express Edition" in the right pane:…
onbar
hi, i try to use onbar to backup my informix 9.40 instances with TSM. when i backup manually all works fine, but when i do it by cron, i encounter two types of error : on one instance i have in the bar_act.log : 2005-06-17 09:33:00 352242 21878 /informix/bin/onbar_d -b -L 0 2005-…
ISAM error: illegal argument to ISAM function
A couple questions. How do you restore a dbspace from a point in time? I use onbar. Since it is no longer there & I took another backup since I dropped it, I can't just use onbar -r. I've tried restoring the entire instance from the backup but then I get error messages. Shou…
setup Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC1E1 to linux error
I setup Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC1E1 to linux execcute oninit -ivy is failed the online.log is write /// 16:31:32 Dynamically allocated new virtual shared memory segment (size 8192KB) 16:31:32 Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC1E1 Software Serial Number AA…
ONCONFIG comments
I find onstat -a output to be better to work from, otherwise you're guessing. I will also say that of the tuning knobs, $ONCONFIG represents many of the finer control knobs. Disk layout and fragmentation can be much more important. oncheck -pe output can be very revealing here. …
Re: Fail Level-0 backup with onbar
Hi, in order to find out more about the cause (and hance how to fix this) you can set parameter BAR_DEBUG in your onconfig file to a value like 4 or 5. Also set BAR_DEBUG_LOG parameter to a file path name. This is where the information will be written to. Regards, Martin -- Mar…
ONBAR Difference
Hi All Whats the difference between onbar -b -w and onbar -b -w -L 0 I think they both do the same thing ... The manual dosnt really clarify it. thanks…
RE: on bar procedure
Hi, only so-called "whole system backups" (done with "onbar -b -w ...") can be restored to a consistent system without logical log restore. Please read the "Backup and Restore Guide" manual for more information on the requirements and consequences of this. Normal ON-Bar backups…
RE: on bar procedure
In addition to what others have said, you may need your "emergency boot" file so onbar knows what volumes to ask from the volume manager. Hence your unix (assumption) backup should be after your informix archive. I presume whatever storage manager you use is retrievable or on a…
RE: on bar procedure
Additionally, if by any chance you find that the latest level 0 is unreadable you might need to go back more than 24 hours. So make sure that your log backup is getting backed up by OS backup as well, especially if you allow idiots to do sysadmin functions. Regards Malcolm --…
RE: on bar procedure
Yes, but you will not be able to roll forward you logs to reach the point of failure, therefore you risk losing up to 24 hours worth of processing. All well and good if you can afford this, however if not either make the directory and its contents bullet proof, or backup the logs…
on bar procedure
Hi all Just a quick question. My on bar procedure is to backup logs to the hardrive and do a level 0 to tape at night. If I loose the harddrive log backup (some idiot deletes the directory) can I still restore from the level 0. thanks…
Re: Onbar backup problems
Hi, so what's the debug log file look like ? I mean I strongly suspected to see 154 in there, but the interesting question is, what was it doing when it received/produced the error ? And the debug log file should allow clues into that ... :) Do you have a Tech Support entitleme…
Re: Onbar backup problems
Hi, so what's the debug log file look like ? I mean I strongly suspected to see 154 in there, but the interesting question is, what was it doing when it received/produced the error ? And the debug log file should allow clues into that ... :) Do you have a Tech Support entitleme…
Re: Onbar backup problems
Data Protector is HP's backup manager, the artefact formally known as Omniback. It has superb integration for Informix redolent of the heady days of onarchive ;-) "Martin Fuerderer" <MARTINFU@de.ibm.com> wrote in message news:1111149646.386901e76ea4f9ed08b7085c176b2221@teranews.…
Re: Onbar backup problems
Hi, I don't know about Windows things, but I've a few ideas: - I'm not sure how you are starting ON-Bar and what you mean by "Data Protector". "Data Protector" may be part of a storage manager. But it looks like the error is produced by ON-Bar. I do not really believe in …
Re: Onbar backup problems
Hi, I don't know about Windows things, but I've a few ideas: - I'm not sure how you are starting ON-Bar and what you mean by "Data Protector". "Data Protector" may be part of a storage manager. But it looks like the error is produced by ON-Bar. I do not really believe in …
Re: Informix Parallel Backup Question
Hi, a couple of things got confused. I try to clarify: a) - ON-Bar does support parallel backups and restores. The onconfig file parameter to configure this is BAR_MAX_BACKUP . - having set BAR_MAX_BACKUP to 1 will in fact make ON-Bar operate serially. - recommend…
Re: Informix Parallel Backup Question
Hi, a couple of things got confused. I try to clarify: a) - ON-Bar does support parallel backups and restores. The onconfig file parameter to configure this is BAR_MAX_BACKUP . - having set BAR_MAX_BACKUP to 1 will in fact make ON-Bar operate serially. - recommend…
Informix Dynamic Server information Centre
Great new utility just posted under IDS 10 on the docs site has uses for other products and versions than just IDS 10 so take a look even if you are not using 10 yet!! http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ids9help/index.jsp…
Cannot find message file. Check INFORMIXDIR and DBLANG.
im trying to run the oninit -i in the command prompt when the message appear... we installed... IBM Informix Dynamic Server 9.40 IBM INFORMIX-4GL Rapid Development System Version 7.32.UC2 IBM INFORMIX-4GL Version 7.32.UC2 set up sqlhosts, services, onconfig, path... but when tr…
ontape -r failed.
9.21 restores restore on 9.21 9.40 restores restore on 9.40 9.21 restores do not restore on 9.40 restore on 9.21 and then upgrade or dbexport on 9.21 and dbimport on 9.40 F. David wrote: > Hello, > I need help in restoring between different Versions of Informix. > We updated…
Onbar with 9.30
On a Windows 2000 Server. While performing a level 0 backup with onbar, = process appears to be hung. What is the process for shutting down the = onbar backup and restarting it? System was in quiescent mode when onbar = was started but was later brought on line. Onbar log indicat…
Restoring a level-1 backup at a later date?
Actually, I buggered up the timing calculations <fx:chagrin>. What I meant is that if we do a level-0 on the Friday night after the last user logs off then restore this to the new box this means the users are off for 7 hours for the backup and then 12 hours for the restore to the…
-25572 Network driver cannot bind a name to the port.
More, Shailesh wrote: you have DBSERVERNAME = kam940q1 and NETTYPE = ipcshm,1,20,CPUin you onconfig file. But for this combinations there is no entry in sqlhosts. You'll have to switch either DBSERVERNAME to kamxpsq1.1 to use the second entry or NETTYPE to tlitcp,1,20,NET to use…
on-Bar & ISM
I have our system working on Solaris 8 Here are my parameter settings BAR_ACT_LOG /export/home/informix/bar_act.log BAR_DEBUG_LOG /export/home/informix/bar_dbug.log BAR_MAX_BACKUP 1 BAR_RETRY 1 BAR_NB_XPORT_COUNT 10 BAR_XFER_BUF_SIZE 31 RESTARTABLE_RESTORE off LOG_BACKUP_MODE MA…
On-Bar & ISM
I have successfully set up On-Bar & ISM on my brand new test server. I am now experiencing problems migrating my development server from On-Archive to On-Bar; As far as I can see both machines are configured the same. I was previously getting the following error in the bar_act.l…
Do foreign keys have to reference primary keys
I have a foreign key question. The manual and I are having a disagreement. THis is IDS 9.3 create table cow foo char (5), bar char (10), bas char (11), woot char (4), primary key (foo, bar, bas) create unique index on cow(foo,bar); Can I do this? create table chicken foo ch…
Onbar - some advice please
Malcolm, "Is there a stable 9.3 release which supports point-in-time restore?" - Yes. I don't recall anything that stopped us. "Is there a stable 9.4 release which supports point-in-time restore?" - Yes. I don't recall anything that stopped us. "Have any of the members of th…
RE: URGENT IDS 9.4 and Legato Networker (7.1) I need help.
Hi, I am not familiar with Legato, but in Informix side, you can check bar_act.log and online.log. If you need more detail of XBSA, set BAR_DEBUG=7 in your onconfig file. More detail information will write in BAR_DEBUG_LOG of onconfig. Then ask Legato again. Just my $0.02. -- T…
OnBar & ISM
I am currently running On-Archive and am looking to migrate to OnBar & ISM. All the comments about On-Archive suggest it ought to be avoided at all cost as it is far too complicated but it has been set up here and works like a treat. With On-Archive the backup command issued co…
Restore from Level 0 Backup
With ontape, yes; with onbar, yes if you did a whole system backup, no if you used a parallel backup strategy. Take care. Clifton pamadeo@cespi.unlp.edu.ar wrote: Hi, in IDS9.21, is possible restore from backup without restore logs. When recovery starting, the process ask you …
ISM installation
Hi All, I will use ON-Bar backup on Informix 9.3 ( now we use ontape). How can I specify the location of the XBSA Library ? I don't find the library file, where can I find it ? Thanks David…
chunk capacity
we are using BM Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC2X3 on Linux Kernel 2.4.21 the command 'onstat -d' shows ... Expanded chunk capacity mode: disabled how can I change this mode to 'enabled'?…
HELP - RESTORE A TABLE
Can one table be restored from a backup created with ontape -L 0 (On version 7.31UD)?…
onbar -r -t "..." -p -w, recovery not successful
what is LTAPEDEV set to? "James Zheng" <james.zheng@gmail.com> wrote in message news:7d321437.0409011012.5f59cb7a@posting.google.com... > Database was backup in "onbar -b -w", but when perform point in time > restore, say if pick a time in between two full backups, only rootdbs …
ontape forma
Hello list. Does anybody know the format of an "ontape" backup? Can it be copied to another media and still be used for a restore? To be precise: we have an ontape backup on DDS3 format but we need DDS2 . Thanks Henk sending to informix-list…
IDS V7.30 and Windows 2000
Can Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.30.TC6 be run on a Windows 2000 host system? TIA Erwin…
Query on informix backup strategy
It depends what type of backup you are doing. With level-0 backup, there should be any problem. In case of incremental backup, it is recommended not to mix onbar and ontape. There may not be any issue with incremental backup too. But you cannot mix level-0 backup from one backup …
RE: ONBar Restores and Tivoli Storage Manager
> -----Original Message----- > From: Neil Truby [SMTP:neil.truby@ardenta.com] > Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 2:12 PM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Re: ONBar Restores and Tivoli Storage Manager > > > "Eric Herber" <eric@i-hate-spam.org> wrote in message > news:cess2p$…
Re: ONBar Restores and Tivoli Storage Manager
"Eric Herber" <eric@i-hate-spam.org> wrote in message news:cess2p$n8l3@news-1.bank.dresdner.net... > You could turn on debugging in your $ONCONFIG > by setting BAR_DEBUG to 9 and BAR_DEBUG_LOG. > This might give you a clue what is happening. More likely it'll jut fill your disks…
Re: Error Initialize Informix Dynamic Server
Art S. Kagel wrote: > On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 05:05:41 -0400, madiego wrote: >>I install Informix Dynamic Server and when I initialize 'oninit -iv' : >> >>This action will initialize Informix Dynamic Server; any existing Informix >>Dynamic Server databases will NOT be accessible - Do…
ONBar Restores and Tivoli Storage Manager
I am having problems with restores from ONBar via Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM). I can perform backups that complete fine according to the logs, and the verification using "onbar -v" reports successful with no errors. However when I go to attempt a restore, I get one of two situa…
Error Initialize Informix Dynamic Server
Hello, I install Informix Dynamic Server and when I initialize 'oninit -iv' : This action will initialize Informix Dynamic Server; any existing Informix Dynamic Server databases will NOT be accessible - Do you wish to continue (y/n)? y Checking group membership to determine ser…
Re: IDS9.4/AIX5.2 performace degradation
Dalibor, A piece of tuning advice that has many times hit this list, is that you should have one CLEANER per LRU. So, having LRUS = 8 implies that you should have CLEANERS=8 also, to keep up with the overhead. Ben Thompson wrote: > Dalibor Krleza wrote: > > I may have missed i…
Re: IDS9.4/AIX5.2 performace degradation
Dalibor Krleza wrote: I may have missed it in your long post, but I didn't see anything about disc layouts or number of CPUs. Also I may have missed it as well but I couldn't see any output from "onstat -g iof" or "onstat -g iov". I have commented on your onconfig anyway. > OK …
Re: Informix Dynamic Server and DB Tuning
I am experiencing similar problems with users migrating from Standard Engine to IDS 9.30. It appears that some applications are more susceptible than others. What application(s) are you running? We also have experience of adding more BUFFERS, LOCKS, etc and not improving the sit…
RE: Informix Dynamic Server and DB Tuning
Muthana Increase BUFFERS in onconfig file. UPDATE STATISTICS for each table (as a minimum) rerun the query and see what improvements you get. If you still have problems post the results of:- onstat -p onstat -m onstat -R and sqexplain.out of any particularly slow query or updat…
Informix Dynamic Server and DB Tuning
Dear Sir, The question how can make DB Tuning for Informix Dynamic Server version 9:30 to get the query faster. I used IDS 9:30 and it's not quick enough like our old Standard Engine. which Parameter can i change to make that or what shall i do? Regards Muthana AL-Temimi…
Can IDS accessing Informix SE Tables.
Hello, Now we are using Informix SE. We are planning to go Infomix Dynamic Server 9.x. Before migrating our current applications to IDS 9.x., first we have to develop a new application in IDS 9.x, in that we need to use some of the tables from informx SE. Could you please answer…
problem restauration ONBAR
hi all; i have a problem with ONBAR . i installed ONBAR with server ISM. when i run restauration the procedure take about 10 H for 20Go of data. have you a solution for this problem . thinks and have nice week-end.…
Re: Very slow onbar restore
Thanks Bruce. I note the comment about the old version. Most of your comments seem to relate to backup speeds: in this case the backup speeds are fine and the problem is with *restore* times. regards Neil "Brice Avila" <briceavila@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:c46e3ec5.04…
onbar performance
IDS 7.31.UD5 and 7.31.UC6 on SCO UnixWare 7.1.1 Can any of you give me an indication of speeds writing to disk and tape with onbar? I have onbar working ok, backing up and restoring without any problems, but it seems a little on the slow side. Backing up to tape is reporting a…
Very slow onbar restore
Neil, NetBackup 3.4_1 is a OLD, non-supported version of NetBackup, and there have been some performance improvements in newer vesions. The latest version is 5.0 MP1. That said, try the following: 1. Make sure that BAR_DEBUG is not set in the onconfig file. If it is, remove it …
are these backups the same?
Are the following two backup types the same where the IDS is in logged mode but "LTAPEDEV=/dev/null" and "ALARMPROGRAM=/..../log_full.sh" ? And we don't want to backup logical logs. 1) onbar -b -w -L 0 2)onbar -b -L 0 Thanks…
Database Restore Error
Dear All, I was restoring an ontape backup of 7.31 ver and got the following errors. 1) In online.log file Aborting physical restore of ROOT DBSpace Aborted by client. Informix Dynamic Server Stopped. 2) On the Console: physical restore failed function archive backup failed c…
RE: NetBackup restore issue.
--0-444482894-1084051867=:67842 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Thanks Savio. We are having problems. Here is the last lines of bar_dbug.log : 2004-05-07 19:07:13 18797 18795 od2bar_objdesc: return 0 (0x00) 2004-05-07 19:07:13 18797 18795 barGetObject: return 0 …
RE: onbar coring when backing-up the logical logs of a whole back
seeing your log file, it seems like there is some problem with sm_versions file, you may need to copy the sm_versions file that veritas provides for informix in $INFORMIXDIR/etc directory. you may also do the following 1) bounce the engine, clean up the oninit processes, and mak…
Re: A NetBackup restore question.
It's an external Veritas document linking to an internal Veritas document! Maybe if you open a case with them, and get an unsuspecting support engineer to send this to you? Brice Avila Minneapolis, Minnesota "David Williams" <djw@smooth1.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message news:<c7bk…
A NetBackup restore question.
"Brice Avila" <briceavila@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:c46e3ec5.0405051229.118c9450@posting.google.com... > If my assumption is not correct, try setting BAR_DEBUG as in the > following technote: > > http://support.veritas.com/docs/256662 > Like the link at the bottom of t…
SQLIDEBUG and sqliprint
I need to trace every sql of a session for debugging purpose. Reading c.d.i archives it looks like SQLIDEBUG and sqlprint is a good option. I believe this is how sqlidebug starts export SQLIDEBUG=2:/tmp/sqllog export SQLIDEBUG where /tmp/sqllog is the name of the file to hold …
Dose anybody have the dbtop script in the Troubleshooting informix course?
Dears, I study the Troubleshooting ibm informix dynamic server course. At the module 4 exercise need the dbtop script. Dose anybody has this dbtop script and post for me? Thanks. Philip Yeh.…
IDS 9.40 and Omniback/data Protector
Has anyone experience of getting IDS 9.40 and Data Protector working? The backup worked on Saturday, just before we converted from 9.30 to 9.40. Now it doesn't :-( We have the following problem. Informix call Case 400332 refers: Platform : HP-UX 11.11 Database: IDS 9.40.FC3W2…
Work group edition - Unlimited edition??
Taken from IBM web site:- =========================================================================== The following Informix Dynamic Server Workgroup Unlimited editions have been added to the IBM Data Management Gold Transaction Processing Bundle for SMB Unlimited: IBM Informix…
RE: onbar problem in 9.4
Verify that the permissions for onbar_d should be -rwsr-sr-x and the owner is root and group is informix. Permissions for the onbar executable should be -rwxr-xr-x and owner and group is informix. For all utilities that start with on, (i.e. onmode, onmonitor,etc) have the owner…
Re: onbar problem in 9.4
1. Try testing all your connections on this instance with "dbaccess --> connect --> connect". 2. Get a BAR_DEBUG_LOG on this failure and peruse. If needed, send this to Informix support. 3. Check your MSGPATH log for messages on the instance side . . . did it compain of a -951,…
Re: [Informix Dynamic Server (IDS):] Digest 2671
For a course in the US, check out: http://www-306.ibm.com/services/learning/ites.wss?pageType=course_description&co urseCode=L1760&country=us&language=en (IBM course L1760). There is probably a similar course offered in Europe somewhere. Hope this helps. Kevin Doiron Toronto,…
On-Bar - OmniBack II - Restore
Hola a todos, Necesito restaurar 2 dbspace's completos de una instancia ubicada en un servidor a otra instancia ubicada en otro servidor , los 2 servidores están con sistema operativo HP UX 11i, y estoy utilizando On-Bar con librerías HP OmniBack II, cuales son los pasos que deb…
OnBar Question
Hi Is it possible to restore a single database using onbar or is it the complete instance ?…
onbar script for logical logs
Anyone have a script to perform continuous logging using onbar to filesystems? I would like to write to a separate file on disk daily. Thanks for any help in advance.…
Re: Transaction support in informix dynamic server(IDS)
chaithra wrote: > i wanted to know, if in IDS we can get to know the status of a > transaction at any given time. or once any transaction commits or > rollsback we should be able to know the status. > is it possible through c++ interface provided by the IDS. I'm not quite s…
Transaction support in informix dynamic server(IDS)
hi all, i wanted to know, if in IDS we can get to know the status of a transaction at any given time. or once any transaction commits or rollsback we should be able to know the status. is it possible through c++ interface provided by the IDS. thanx in advace chaithra…
ISM on Aix
I am currently using TSM and a 3583 library to backup informix using onbar - I am trying to somplify the situation and am going to use ISM and backup to file space on a local SSA array and clone my backups to tape during the day onto an external 3580 LTO2 drive. Another setup I h…
configure computer for using informix
what shell I do to make my computer work with informix. I have installed winXP on my computer, informix 4 i informix dynamic server? THANKS…
Onbar without ISM
can informix back'ed up using ONBAR without install ISM?…
Where can I get the client API?
Hi, does anyone knows where to get the client API for Informix Dynamic Server 7.x? Perhaps we want to access the server via api directly. Kind regards, Joachim Engel.…
Informix optimizer
Hi, Does anyone know if the Informix Dynamic Server (7.31 or 9.4) database optimizer uses star schema optimizer techniques? Thank you, Tony…
ontape/onbar
Hi, we are proud owners of two aix pseries. On each server we have one online system with 25 databases. We use ontape (Level 0) to save the online system, but we have the problem that we can't restore one special database. Anybody better experiences, may be with onbar? Thanks f…
TRUNCATE TABLE command in 9.3?
I am aware that Informix Dynamic Server previously has not included the TRUNCATE TABLE command. Does anyone know if 9.3 or 9.4 include this command?…
IDS 7.31FC1 restore problem
I am having a problem restoring level 0 dbspace backups . the restore starts and root dbspace gets restored but the system then appear to hangs while waiting for a checkpoint. please help…
Linux fgl_getenv
Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.30.UC3 on Linux. Do I have to do something before I can use the fgl_getenv call in a stored procedure? When I try I get 674: Routine (fgl_getenv) can not be resolved.…
Re: Setting cookies using WebDatablade.
Paul Watson <paul@oninit.com> wrote in message news:<3FB10D7F.A62B9456@oninit.com>... > What is session set to in the config file? Do both Netscape and > IE have the problem > > Harry Johnson wrote: > > > > hjohnson@keeneinfo.com (Harry Johnson) wrote in message news:<6830f442.0…
Re: Setting cookies using WebDatablade.
hjohnson@keeneinfo.com (Harry Johnson) wrote in message news:<6830f442.0311101453.4852fa5@posting.google.com>... > I am having a problem passing multiple cookies from one page to the > other. I am using web.4.10.UC1. With debug level of "-1", I can see > the cookies are being s…
Re: Setting cookies using WebDatablade.
What is the webserver? and what is cookie variable set to in your config. 4.10.UC1 is very old now and had a number of problems, I'd upgrade to 4.13.x If you print out $session.ID on both pages are they the same? If they aren't then the problem is how you are referencing acr…
Setting cookies using WebDatablade.
I am having a problem passing multiple cookies from one page to the other. I am using web.4.10.UC1. With debug level of "-1", I can see the cookies are being set in the driver log but when I display the cookie, it is null. Has anyone had this problem? Thanks,…
SP Temp Tables
Here's a procedure I have that does the same kind of thing you're talking about. You could essentialy add the begin end block logic to the top of your procedure. Hope this helps. Gregg Walker Create Procedure ClearShiftEntries( pShiftCardID integer ) -…
I want to re-backup logs again. Can I reset is_backed_up flag?
Hi all, Our tape died. Logs that were saved to it are lost. I want to do an onbar -b -l again, but as the logs have been saved already, nothing is backup. Can I set the "is_backed_up" field to 0 in "syslogs" table of "systmaster" so that onbar will backup the logs again ?? Than…
Onbar
Is it suggested to use ISM bundled with the IDS installation to perform on-bar backups?…
ON-Bar archive system
Hi I am trying to set up the ON-Bar archive backup system on a Sun = Solaris 2.5 machine (Y2K patch) with the standard ISM storage manager = that comes with IDS 7.31 UD3-1. Is there anybody who can give me some helpful advice on how to set this = up? I think I have set up all o…
Backup/Restore
Hi brothers, here are some corrections 1)Create a pipe at any FS, say mknod /foo/bar p (the "p" at the end for a pipe special file) 2)Set TAPEDEV to /foo/bar in onconfig file (Must be the TAPEDEV backup device) 3) Creat a backup script ontape -s -L 0 <<EOF 1>/tmp/log 2>&1 & (a…
Re: Onbar imported restore fails
Well, you could check the storage manager logs but I'm guessing from the behavior of onbar that they do not show anything. Sometimes these could be a kernel issue, so make sure that your kernel settings are what is recommended in the "$INFORMIXDIR/release/en_us/0333/IDS_<version>…
Onbar imported restore fails
I have been doing an imported restore of 5 servers for 5 months without a problem. Recently I had a file system fail and my backup up scripts were not up to date, and I have had to modify them. Since then only 1 of the 5 restores has fails with the following error 2003-09-10 16…
Re: Is gradually increasing memory in long running session normal?
Hi Dave: Several months ago one of ours 4GL programs made a lot of DECLARE CURSOR/PREPARE without FREEing them, and yes the memory usage was increasing. In my case I use onstat -g stm to locate the statements prepared, fgrep the source to locate the offending code and adding th…
Is gradually increasing memory in long running session normal?
I've been trying to debug a problem with a constantly running application that is experiencing a performance degradation over time. Today I set up a script to run onstat -g ses every 60 seconds and log the results. One of the things that caught my eye is that this session's mem…
onbar
Starting to test onbar backups and restores. I have an issue that I hope someone can point me in the right direction. IDS 9.21.UC5 Sun 2.8 I can successfully do a whole backup and Cold restore. Everything seem to be working fine. However, when I do a point in time recovery the in…
Uninstall Veritas
It has been a while since I have touched Informix. Does anyone have any experience in uninstalling Veritas from IDS and going back to just On-Bar? Any table, database, configuration issues? Thanks Frank Frank Catrine frank-c@earthlink.net sending to informix-list…
Log Backups - Error 142 problem
> The 142 onbar error means: > > #define BAR_FILE_OPEN 0x8e /* (142) open() failed, usually fatal */ > > (you should be able to find a web page with all onbar errors by googling a bit... I've posted it here sometime ago, but I don't have the bookmark with me) Or you…
Can you back up a database using ontape ?
Is it possible to backup just a database as opposed to backing up dbspaces ? I want to only backup a database and restore it on another box. Is that even possible ?…
Problems with onbar
I have IDS 7.3 uc2 on SCO 5.05 and use onbar for backups. I am getting the error below in the root mail .. Informix Storage Manager Savegroup: (alert) ISMData completed, 1 client(s) (sage Failed) Start time: Mon Aug 04 09:26:16 2003 End time: Mon Aug 04 09:26:23 2003 --…
Re: onbar hangs
Hi Were there any unusual messages in the BAR_ACT_LOG file? If you have configured a BAR_DEBUG_LOG file, that may also contain some useful information. If those BAR files do not indicate anything unusual, email me your BAR_* configurations from ONCONFIG, along with the pertinen…
onbar hangs
IDS 9.21.UC4 Solaris 2.6 EDS takes our backup using onbar. What we have observed is that, quite frequently onbar hangs. By hangs it means, onbar processes keep running indefinitely. Since the backup is taken daily, all subsequent backups also hang until the earlier on is killed.…
onbar error on openserver 5.05
Hi It's not clear if you were doing a backup or restore since the beginning of the message mentioned executing "onbar -b" for backup, then the bar_act.log had 2 lines which indicate a restore. The signal 13 mentioned is some kind of pipe error SIGPIPE. So, I'm not sure what's ha…
RE: Dynamic Server versus Universal Server ??
Originally, Version 7.x was called 'Informix Dynamic Server', Version 9.0x was called 'Universal server' Starting with 9.1, Universal server became 'Dynamic server with Universal data option'. With 9.2, new names 'Internet Foundation 2000 ' and 'Dynamic server 2000' ware given…
Re: Linux onbar restore fails (IDS9.4)
David Stes <stes@D5E029DD.kabel.telenet.be> wrote in message news:<hNRUa.35876$F92.3876@afrodite.telenet-ops.be>... > Hello everybody, > <SNIP> > 2) Backup Environment > --------------------- > > Good; now that I have a fully supported RedHat 7.2 with a working IDS 9.40, > I co…
Informix Dynamic Server 2000 startup problem
Hi, While starting up informix in multi user mode , we wait for the database to come up by checking the onstat - o/p . But if the system is loaded, even after onstat shows status as online , the connection is rejected by the database . The wait loop that we do is as follow…
Onbar Backup?
Hi, I am running Level-1 backup on IDS 9.4.UC1 ,SunOS 8. My question is even though multiplexing is on and set to 8 in the onconfig as well as on the Netbackup side. (Veritas Storage Manager ), the Level-0 backups take about 12 Hours to complete for backing up 90 dbspaces. Each…
Onbar Backup?
Hi, I am running Level-1 backup on IDS 9.4.UC1 ,SunOS 8. My question is even though multiplexing is on and set to 8 in the onconfig as well as on the Netbackup side. (Veritas Storage Manager ), the Level-0 backups take about 12 Hours to complete for backing up 90 dbspaces. Each…
Onbar and ISM
The Informix FAQ includes the following statement by Clem Akins:- On 27th Feb 1998 clem@informix.com (Clem Akins) wrote :- The Informix Dynamic Server v 7.3 (no longer called OnLine) will have a version of Legato's NetWorker Server product bundled. This product has an interface c…
why I can't see the output of "onstat -g wts"
test:/informix>onstat -g wst Informix Dynamic Server 2000 Version 9.21.FC7 -- On-Line -- Up 5 days 13:23:03 -- 11132960 Kbytes Wait statistics not enabled How to enable the wait statistics???…
informix SDK 2.81 ifxoledbc OLEDB and ADO
When Updating or deleting a non existing row in a table, the informix oledb provider produces an "UnSpecified error". Environment: Informix Dynamic Server 7.31 Informix SDK 2.81 ADO 2.6 Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance…
ontape -r
Hi, I am trying to restore a 7.21 IDS DB on a DS10 box. The problem is that the database was first running on a DS20 dual-processor machine. Now I would like to restore the DB from a backup to the DS10 uniprocessor machine. While the restore begans (ontape -r) the machine stalls.…
onbar clones
I'm stumbling my way through setting up onbar and everything is good except for cloning the database archive I backed up to disk onto a tape. Logs are going to 1 tape drive and the database is going to disk. Perhaps what I'm trying to do is not even possible, but I want to stor…
onbar clones
I'm stumbling my way through setting up onbar and everything is good = except for cloning the database archive I backed up to disk onto a tape. Logs are going to 1 tape drive and the database is going to disk. Perhaps what I'm trying to do is not even possible, but I want to st…
Onbar Error
Hi, Could anyone let me know, what this error related to onbar means: #define BAR_AAPI_ERROR 0x83 /* archive api failed */ The Onbar exited with return code of 131 as stated above. Informix: 9.30.UC3 and Veritas: 3.4 Version. Thanks again. Venkatesh Konnur…
Onbar Error
Hi, Could anyone let me know, what this error related to onbar means: #define BAR_AAPI_ERROR 0x83 /* archive api failed */ The Onbar exited with return code of 131 as stated above. Informix: 9.30.UC3 and Veritas: 3.4 Version. Thanks again. Venkatesh Konnur…
Re: Onbar failing on IDS 9.40
Thankyou for the responses. Helen was right that the original 163 error was because the bar_act was owned by root. Changing the ownership to informix did not solve the problem though. I checked that the onbar command being used was actually the 9.40 one and it was. I then trie…
RE:informix log backups
HI, =20 I have a particular question about transaction logs which get backed up using ontape. =20 I know that you can do a... =20 Physical backup & restore (which is a backup/restore of a dbspace(s) or blobspace(s) Logical backup & restore (which is a backup/restore of a l…
dataprotector + onbar
Hi all Does anybody use Dataprotector 5.0 ( Omniback - HP) with Informix 7.31 ? I use Dataprotector 5.0 , HP-UX 11.11 and Informix 7.31FD5 I would like to know how to do only Physical restore ( onbar -r -p -w ) using Dataprotector . I am asking because in Dataprotector I only c…
Onbar -restart
Hi, I try to do an onbar -restart to restart a backup. In the online.XXX.YYY.log file, I get this message : shmget: [EEXIST][17]: key 52584801: shared memory already exists in the bar_XXX.log file, i get this error : 2003-01-29 15:55:34 16033 16010 Process 16033 received sign…
FW: ON-BAR
Make sure you understand "onbar" before you start testing - when can you do this, when can you do that - eg. physical and logical restores, how they work, etc. There is no easy way out. RTFM. -----Original Message----- From: owner-informix-list@iiug.iiug.org [mailto:owner-info…
RE: ON-BAR
We use OmniBack with onbar. Few files that onbar uses and creates are: ixbar.<instance number> oncfg.<informixserver name> These are need for restores. sysutil database is created by onbar and records inserted. We have omniback schedule the backup's, but use onbar for the re…
ON-BAR
Chris, one thing to check first is your BAR_XFER_BUF_SIZE in your onconfig file. I see you're running IDS on AIX which means your page size is 4K as opposed to 2K like other unix platforms (i.e. SCO, Solaris, etc.). The default setting in the onconfig file is 31 which is incorr…
HELP URGENT: Level 0 backup from system A (Solaris) to be restored to System B (SCO UNIX) - IS THIS POSSIBLE???!!!
Is there a way for a level-0 backup from a Solaris 2.5 Informix Online 7.x backup to be restored to an informix 7.0 instance running on SCO Openserver 3.0. We need to test the backup of System A to another place so we can perform some system upgrades confident that our backups a…
RE: Onbar performance question
Onbar uses a storage manager and sends data to it via your network. It will never be as fast a directly connected tape drive. However, it has other benefits. You should be able to run almost as fast as your hardware allows. We backup a 160GB SAP database in 3.4 hours with "onba…
Onbar performance question
We have just started using onbar with HP OmniBack II version 3.50. The performance, compared to ontape is so horrible it is useless. This is with Informix 7.31-UC5-1 on AIX 4.3.2. I have tried several things and I finally tested this on our production machine which runs 7.30-UC7-…
ONBAR
Hi All, Can you tell me please how to start backup using Onbar? Before I run the command "onbar -b", I suppose to set up onconfig and ISM. Is it right? I did it based on the Informix Backup and Recovery Book, but in several parts it doesn't explain clearly, like they ask to start…
Re: Backup and restore tools
Sounds like a decidedly cheesy question ... Tham Huei Hwan wrote: > Hi all, > > Can someone give me advice on what are the pro & con of using On-bar or > On-archive to run a dairy backup and restore (when necessary) of very > huge and fragmented databases. > > Thank You…
Backup and restore tools
Hi all, Can someone give me advice on what are the pro & con of using On-bar or On-archive to run a dairy backup and restore (when necessary) of very huge and fragmented databases. Thank You…
What requires an IDS Linux?
Hello What requires an Informix Dynamic Server Linux a desktop and/or a network version of Linux? Thanks in advance Jacqueline Romero Miranda…
Informix v Oracle
Hi Is there a function in Informix Dynamic Server 2000 that is like Oracles CREATE SEQUENCE that uses NEXTVAL/CURVAL and %ROWCOUNT, ect? Thanks for all contributions Jordan jbruce@asaglobalserv.com…
Which Informix software to restore a database?
Hi all, I'm using ontape command to do backup our Informix server everynight but the Informix's ontape command only allows to restore the whole Informix engine or dbspaces. I'm looking for Informix backup software which allows to restore a single database of Informix Server. T…
Backing Up IDS on NT using Veritas
I have IIF.2000 running on NT/Server 4.0. We will be using Veritas as our backup storage manager. Veritas has an agent that will work with ON-Bar for the Solaris environment, but not for NT ;-(. Veritas has a software bundle that allows you to back up "open files" on NT. I wou…
Retrieving product name
Hi all, Is their a system table somewhere on an informix server that stores the product name. For example 'Select owner from systables where tabname = � VERSION� will return the version of the server. I would like to be able to tell if a server is a Universal server or a Dynamic …
onbar with Tivoli data Protection for informix
Hello , Does anyone know a way to use onbar to backup the database with tivoli tsm Tivoli Data Protection version 4.1? Thanks, wdd…
IDS 7.3x on Win2000?
Does Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.3x runs on Windows 2000 (Professional)? Thanks for your help. Guy Dillen…
External restore plus ON-Bar Logical restore
Does anyone have experience of performing a physical restore, external to Informix, then using ON-Bar to perform the logical restore to bring the Instance current? Also can this be performes on a machine (identical configuration) other than the one from which the data was copied…
Informix error 1502 running onbar from crontab
Is there any trick to running onbar from cron? I have a Sun E3500 with sun unix version 7. When I type at a command line /informix/bin/onbar -b -L0 that works just fine. However, when I schedule it in cron I get an error 1502 - message 1502 not found. Any ideas? Thanks Paul J…
OnBar/OnTape
Onbar and Ontape are two different animals when it comes to logical logs. Remember that onbar is Storage manager based and the recover file it creates (ixbar.x) assumes that all the recovery media is in one location - the storage manager. With ontape, you could "mix and match" a…
ON-Bar Logical Logs to Disk
I am looking for any remarks, comments, how-to information on how to use ON-Bar with the logs going to disk (in case of a storage manager failure) and archives going to the storage manager. We are using 7.30, about to migrate to 7.31, Digital Unix.…
Archecker Tool
I am looking for any PowerPoint presentations, White Papers, Documentation on the Archecker tool, in conjunction with ON-Bar for Informix Versions 7.30 and 7.31. I have access to Microsoft Office 97. If you have or know where I can obtain any/all of the above, I would appreciat…
Remote ontape backup/restore
Does anybody know how I can do an ontape backup/restore using a tape drive on a remote server? Thanks in advance, John.…
OnBar unsing on NT not as Informix user
Do you know how can I configure Informix 7.30TC7 to run onBar as a simple user/NT admin? Andor Rozsnyai GE Medical Systems Hungary Software Developer…
On-Bar to ADSM
Hi Guy s I'm an AIX bod so excuse my lack of knowlege on Linux. Has anyone out there managed to find the Tivoli Storage Manager ( ADSM ) libraries that allow Onbar to work on Linux yet. We have linux adsm client level 3.1.0.1 on what ADSM says is linux 2.2.14-5.0 Please copy …
Re: How to search for a string in a TEXT field
Hi, :-( SELECT name, REPLACE(text,"ZNOTREADY","found") AS your_output FROM tablewithtextfield; Blobs are not allowed in this expression. I use Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.31.UC2A…
onbar onarchive or ontape which one??
onbar onarchive or ontape. Which one should we use for backups? We use IDS 7.30 UC2 Thanks, Isaac…
i4gl & bar code 39
Hi, does somebody have i4gl code to print barcode 3 of 9 on a dot matrix printer? I translated some old BBX code to print those barcodes on a laserjet, but now my customer wants to print barcodes on the old Okidatas too, and I don't have neither the documentation nor some code t…
RE: Bar Code input into SE SQL
Macris See below Chris. -----Original Message----- From: Spyros Macris [mailto:spyros@phillyc.com] Sent: 02 August 2000 12:12 To: informix-list Subject: Bar Code input into SE SQL My environment is Informix-SQL Version 7.20.UE2 and SE Version 7.24 UC8 Solaris Sparc 7 on an Ul…
RE: Bar Code input into SE SQL
>My environment is Informix-SQL Version 7.20.UE2 and SE Version 7.24 UC8 >Solaris Sparc 7 on an Ultra 10. > >I have 5 dumb terminals connected to the system. > >1) Would I have to use a PERFORM screen, dumb terminal, and a bar code >reader together to input data from a bar code i…
Re: Bar Code input into SE SQL
From: Spyros Macris <spyros@phillyc.com> > >My environment is Informix-SQL Version 7.20.UE2 and SE Version 7.24 UC8 >Solaris Sparc 7 on an Ultra 10. > >I have 5 dumb terminals connected to the system. > >1) Would I have to use a PERFORM screen, dumb terminal, and a bar code >read…
Bar Code input into SE SQL
My environment is Informix-SQL Version 7.20.UE2 and SE Version 7.24 UC8 Solaris Sparc 7 on an Ultra 10. I have 5 dumb terminals connected to the system. 1) Would I have to use a PERFORM screen, dumb terminal, and a bar code reader together to input data from a bar code into the…
Backup and Restore
Hi all, Does Informix support recovery of up to the last transaction? I was told Oracle did, ???, wanted to know if that was true and if so, does informix. Thanks in advance for the info. Marco Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.…
Backup to HP SureStore 2/20 (DLT8000)
Does Informix backup tools support this device on a HP L1000? onachive, ontape, onbar? Thank you, Jens…
On-Bar / Legato question
Hi all! I am trying to install the Legato module for Informix to work with On-Bar, and I have succesfully been able to backup and restore an instance. My next test is to backup an instance from one server, and restore it onto another instance. Can anyone point me to a step-by-…
Backups
As far as I am aware, using BAR in IDS 7.3 the only option available from the system is to backup to a tape device. Is it possible to backup to a file on the local machine, and if so how? Regards, Kirk…
backup and restore
I create a demo datebase on dbspace1 and I backup the IDS with ontape -s and ontape -a then I drop the demo datebase when I restore with ontape -r -D dbspace1 online I find the dbspace1 is down but I can not online the dbspace1 with onspaces -s dbspace1 -p PATH -o offset -O sor…
onbar
I have 2 instances I need to back up through onbar, and I'm wondering how many tape drives I need. They are both very small, about 1GB a piece, and should easily fit on the 4 GB dat drive I have. Of course I'm going to want the logs backed up too. I'm using onbar so that the w…
Create user in Informix Dynamic Server
Hello all I`m new in INS. Could you help me? I have Database server with one user Informix. How to create another user to Database?…
Informix ODS on Win 2000?
Does Informix Dynamic Server V7.31.TC5 for Intel Pentium Windows NT 4 also run on Windows 2000? Thanks for any help. Guy Dillen ITP…
Re:
Do you possibly have PSORT_DBTEMP set, or did you have it set when you kicked off the server? From: "Lewis, Keith A." <Lewis@timken.com> > > I have a problem with queries using all of the temp dbspace. We >just moved to IDS 7.31 FC4 from >IDS 7.30 UC3. The same queries run fin…
Posting from the Informix-list
Hello, I have a problem with queries using all of the temp dbspace. We just moved to IDS 7.31 FC4 from IDS 7.30 UC3. The same queries run fine under the previous version of Dynamic Server but now a single query uses all the temp dbspace and then abends with -229. Ihave 2GB as…
IDS 7.31 on DEC Unix
About month ago I have performance problems on 2 CPU DEC Alpha and one of advises was to add more CPUs. So we change old one Alpha with new one. New is Alpha 4100 with 4 CPUs and 2G of RAM. KIO is enabled. Now I have some problems: *************** 1. problem *******************…
No Rewind devices for Onbar on AIX
I am currently implementing Onbar on AIX 4.3.2. I have been using a no-rewind special device name (/dev/rmt0.1) to send output to. Onbar doesn't ever seem to find the end of the tape! Could someone using AIX and Onbar to tape share the device they are specifying? TIA Dave Th…
Re: IDS 9.2: ORDER BY UPPER(varchar)
Thomas Parsli <thomas.parsli@startsiden.no> writes: > Is it possible to sort by a function in IDS 9.2? > (and use a index;) > > SELECT foo, bar, baz > FROM urk > ORDER BY UPPER(foo) > > I've RTFM'd, but obviously not enough... SELECT UPPER(foo), foo, bar, baz FROM urk ORDER BY 1…
IDS 9.2: ORDER BY UPPER(varchar)
Is it possible to sort by a function in IDS 9.2? (and use a index;) SELECT foo, bar, baz FROM urk ORDER BY UPPER(foo) I've RTFM'd, but obviously not enough... Thomas…
Set debug file before tracing stored procedures (-648)
> I am running Informix 7.31 TC7 on NT and everything is seems to be working > fine except that nobody can write to the error log file that I specify in my > procedures (using SET DEBUG FILE TO ...), even though the file is fully > Any ideas/suggestions are greatly appreciated. …
Onbar, ADSM, and logical logs
We use OnBar and ADSM. When OnBar backs up logical logs ADSM uses the "uniqid" value as the low-level file name. The ADSM Policy Domain has been configured to keep three generations of a file so the standard OnBar backups of root and dbspaces cycle through and expire automatica…
Backing up with On Bar
Hi folks I want to ask for configuring "on Bar" utility to backup 2 Informix database servers running on the same machine having one tape device Data from the first IDS ---> tape A Data from the second IDS ---> tape B Log from the first IDS --> tape C Log…
Re: ontape
Hi Keith, Informix always starts it restore using the Level-0 backup. If you have Level-0 backups from different dates. You can restore whatever Level-0 you want. Don "Lewis, Keith A." wrote: > When using ontape as the backup and restore mechanism can the database be > restor…
ontape
When using ontape as the backup and restore mechanism can the database be restored to a previous backup or can you only restore to your latest archive?? Keith A. Lewis The Timken Company lewis@timken.com (330) 471-4119 (330) 471-4034 (FAX)…
Informix cost???
Someone can said how much does Informix cost? I need to know: -Informix costs -cost for client Thanks very much. I need the last version of dynamic server for Unix. Ciao, Berna…
onbar??
I noticed a bar_act.log file in our /tmp directory today...inside it had a lot of entries like this for different times during the day over a period of the last two months... 2000-05-19 10:11:00 25698 25697 /usr/informix/bin/onbar_d -l 2000-05-19 10:11:01 25698 25697 WARNING…
Replication
Hello everybody. I would like to know if it is possible to replicate an Informix database between a UNIX-based 7.32UC2 Informix Dynamic Server and an linux-based IDS2000 without problems. Thanks in advance. jhernandez@geuropa.com…
Determining (failed) client connections
Is there a way of finding out which user is failing his login attempts, and flooding my message log with that unhelpful "listener-thread: err = -952: oserr = 0: errstr = : User's password is not correct for the database server" message? Informix's tech support actually taught me…
Re: ON-BAR basic question
From: sveiga@my-deja.com > >Is it possible to make a remote backup using On-Bar ? > >I know this is possible using ontape, but I have an >Informix Dynamic Server with AD and XP Options, and >the only backup utility available is On-Bar. > >My server is running in a Sun Enterprise …
ON-BAR basic question
Is it possible to make a remote backup using On-Bar ? I know this is possible using ontape, but I have an Informix Dynamic Server with AD and XP Options, and the only backup utility available is On-Bar. My server is running in a Sun Enterprise Server with Solaris 2.6. Thanks i…
RE: Ontape returns errno 27
ulimit returns "unlimited" for user informix. as informix i can create large files to target filesystem. for testing i created successfully 5 GB file. but running ontape as informix gives this error after reaching 2 GB... what about on-bar? could i do this backup using on-bar …
dynamic server with Informix distant database
We have this problem : - write of a html page (this pages will contain many many fields). - Receiving of the page data on a http server based on a M1 machine. - Using of 4gl/informix programs based on the M2 machine with the pages data - 4GL programs will set up a � result � tabl…
Re: D4GL - Startwtk problem connecting on Linux 2.2.5
I would check the value of LOGIN_OK. I know on some flavors of Unix, the word "Last" would not show until the user has logged in at least once. But, the debug window should show the handshaking. I would also log in using a visible connection to help find the problem. Candy -- C…
Openlink and IDS 7.3 and esql
I'm having an enormously frustrating time trying to get Openlink (3.2 Win95 and Linux clients) to talk to Informix 7.3 on SCO 5.0.5a. The Openlink broker comes up OK and in debug mode reports a successful connection when a client logs in. Even the client 'test' utility reports …
Can Ontape restore a database?
Hi all, I run ontape level 0 backup every night but I feel stuck in restoring a single database of the IDS 7.30UC2. Does someone know an Informix Backup software which allows me to restore a single database as need it? Thanks in advance for any advise. H.V…
HELP! Informix Dynamic Server 7.3
I'm trying to install a new IDS on Linux (RedHat 6.1) on a cooked file. Everything looks right, but upon oninit, I receive the following: oninit: Cannot open chunk '/u1/naf_chunk'. errno = 2 oninit: Fatal error in shared memory initialization Log reflects: 09:11:07 Informi…
UDR Support in Informix Dynamic Server.
Can someone tell me what exact version of Informix Dynamic Server that first supported C User Defined Routines. I've tried searching for this on their website with no joy. (their advanced search doesnt work at all !) Rgds, Peter. Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before y…
OFFICE Connect V.1
Informix Office Connect, Version 1.0, is compatible with the following Informix servers: Informix Dynamic Server, Version 7.3 or later Informix Dynamic Server with Universal Data Option, Version 9.14 Informix Dynamic Server 2000, Version 9.2 or later e Informix-SE 7.23 n�o func…
switching disks then restoring with onbar problems
Try BAR_DEBUG=7 repeat the restore and check the trace for errors. Nona…
onbar and Netbackup
Hi, i'm now using NetBackup, STK 9730 tape array and onbar to backup our database, but i encounter a problem that: How can i tell onbar which backup to be restored from STK tape array, by "onbar -r -t" option? or NetBackup can tell us? Thanks! Chen…
Changing logging mode with onbar, is it possible?
I must be missing something. With ontape I can change the logging mode of a database. Now that we have switched to onbar (using adsm) I can't see the way to accomplish this with onbar. It talks about a "fake" backup, but I don't see the -A, -U, -B equivalents. Suggestions?…
Who can make backups using onbar
Can another user besides root or informix use onbar to make backups. We are new to the onbar world and have very little knowledge of what works and what doesnt within onbar. Everytime we backup our instance using onbar, following error is recorded in onbar's log file: 2000-02-1…
System catalogue
Hello! Can anybody explain me how I can create trigger on "informix".systables? (The server I deal with is Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.3.) Max…
Archive spanning tapes...
Art S. Kagel wrote: > > > Is an ontape to a disk a viable option? > > Worse since ontape will not write more than 2GB to a disk file. Really? I thought that was a bug that was fixed. June -- june_t@hotmail.com Living on Snickers bars in San Mateo…
On-line vs Off-line Backups
Sean Kelsey wrote: > I can't even believe I'm posting this, but I've exhausted all my arguments > for performing on-line backups over off-line backups specifically within a > 24 x 7 x 365 operation. Namely, > > On-Line Backups > > Pro's > > 1. The database backup will be consist…
browse_array() - ANybody use it ?
I guess that means no-one uses it bar me !! Well , even with the bugs, I'd recommend it.…
anyone good experience with IDS 7.30.TC9 on NT 4.0 ?
Hi, we upgrated Dynamic Server 7.23.TC2 to 7.30.TC9 in Dec 1999. We have some major problems. 1. onbar didn't work: NT-Error Message: Entry point "ca_hardlink_path_addr_func" in Library LIBNSR.DLL couldn't be found. Because we installed some days ago ArcServeIT as StorageManage…
Onbar
Hi ! We are using Omniback for Logical log backup. We have had many drive failures. I've been thinking if there would be some onbar parameter that logical log backup is done after 10 full logs ???. -Jukka…
Re: IECC problems with IDS Workgroup on NT
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999 10:04:02 +0100, Alain Mouligeaux <Alain.Mouligeaux@irislink.com> wrote: >2) Onbar problem: >when starting the Onbar utility for a complete backup, I have the >following message: "onbar-d.exe Entry point not found The Procedure >Entry Point ca_hardlink_path_ad…
Compatability between Informix products
Hi, I need some version compatability information for the following products. Hardware Platform: Hewlett Packard OS Platform: HP-UX version 10.20 Informix s/w: Informix Universal Server 9.20 Informix Dynamic Server 7.31 Informix Gateway to DRDA vers…
Help: Ontape Warm Restore
Also sprach "Bashar Chalabi" <bashar@ctl.com> : :Hello, : :IDS7.31 on NT4. : :I am trying to do a warm restore using ontape. I first do a cold restore :(not all DBSpaces), which works fine. I then bring the server online, and do :a warm restore of the remaining DBSpaces. After t…
ontape -r (restore error)
Hi all, I am perform test for the backup and restore by using "ontape" utility. But I am unable to restore it. I got the follow error: Physical restore failed - restore reserved pages failed The backup "onstat -s -L 0" is success completed but unable to restore. An…
Informix Backup with Omniback 3.1
We restore our Informix 7.31 database with Omniback 3.1. What is the right way to do full backups every night. When configuring Informix backup to Omniback, you must choose several options. Omniback manual says that "to select a whole system backup, click Backup all DbSpaces and …
Re: Confirm backups
From: "Tony Costa" <tcosta@bellatlantic.net> > >I am a bit concerned that the ontape -s backups I am running are infact >good >backups. How can a backup be confirmed to be a quality restorable backup? Restore it? :-) Archecker? __________________________________________________…
Confirm backups
I am a bit concerned that the ontape -s backups I am running are infact good backups. How can a backup be confirmed to be a quality restorable backup? -- tony.costa@usa.net "Every man dies, but not every man really ever lives" -Mel Gibson as William Wallace…
Java client for D4gl
In article <slrn851p1k.d5d.ifxrlf@Ralf.bj-ig.de>, ifxrlf@bj-ig.de wrote: > On Thu, 09 Dec 1999 23:27:16 GMT, mohdanas@my-deja.com <mohdanas@my-deja.com> wrote: > > > >Once cjac servlet is invoked by cja aplet, i am getting "Too many files > >open " error on java console. Is it …
Restoring backup on other system
Yes it is possible. I have done this successfully on a UNIX system with onbar and networker. But there was some steps to do before the restore. INF-ONL 7.24; Reliant UNIX V5.43; Networker V4.? 0, scan (networker) the backup tapes on the restore system. Maybe you have to add the…
informix dynamic server on linux help
Hi all, I am an informix newbie, and i have problems running it on redhat linux 6.0. The installation went just fine, but now when i start dbaccess and try to create a new database i get this error message: 25584: Network driver can not access server program /opt/informix/lib/sq…
Informix Dynamic Server on IBM SSA
Can any one share their experiences, recommendations, pit-falls, comments about creating an IDS db engineOLTP environment on an IBM SSA Raid system? We have 2 SSA adapters and have 4 loops with 4 drives each. The IBM techs for the Smoothstart services will be coming next Tuesday…
backup and restore
Hi, I have an IDS 7.30 on Solaris 2.6 with 5 databases. Which is the best method to backup and restore the databases. I need to restore the databases separately.…
Please help me!
Hello! 1, Can somebody give me information, what is the new features for Version 7.24 of Informix Dynamic Server according to Version 7.20 of Informix Dynamic Server? 2, Are Version 7.20 of Informix Dynamic Server and 7.20 INFORMIX-ESQL/C 2000 Year Compatible? 3, W…
move dbspace/chunks on NT
Is there any way other than backup/restore to move a chunk on NT to another disk. Can I move the root dbspace this way? TIA,…
Re: installing Informix dynamic server
From: "Joerg_Mauz@abs.org" <Joerg_Mauz@abs.org> > Is there something wrong the the gateway, Hotmail or are there just loads of idiots posting today. (Apart from me, that is! :-) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hot…
installing Informix dynamic server
hi all, can anybody give me an URL where to find a good description of how to setup and install an Informix Dynamic Server with using RedHat Linux ??? I've searched a whole day but founf nothing useful.. :( thx ind advance joerg…
OnBar & Ontape
Hi, Just wondering is it possible to archive using OnBar, and the logical logs to be done by ontape? In times of restoration, OnBar to restore the archive, followed by ontape for rolling forward transactions. Thanks Steven…
Help! Cant start database service
Hello All I had my informix dynamic server (7.3) running fine till a few days back. Now the dynamic server service and the informix messenger service won't start automatically and if I try to start the server, it does start but I'm unable to connect to it. If I try to start the…
Backup and Restore
Hello All- I am new in the Informix world. I've inherited an Informix database system with little documentation. One of the first things I'd like to do is know the procedures to backup and restore. The Informix version is 7.3. Is there something out there in print or someone…
Ontape -r failed
I am trying to do a restore of a level 0 backup. It is failing with an error "Physical restore failed - [db_sort ] Invalid DBspace list. I am getting this error eventhough the dbspaces and ids on the backup tape matches exactly to the dbspace list in onmonitor. Any ide…
Putting Blobs in the Database via DBD::Informix
> =o= Does anyone have a working example of what I'm looking for > in that subject line? =o= If anyone cares, I figured it out. It's something along these lines: my $query = "insert into whatever(foo, bar, some_blob)" . " values($foo, $bar, ?);"; my @params =…
RE: code bar
This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01BEFAD7.0060F27E Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In some HP…
RE: code bar
I'm sure I've seen something in the IIUG Software Suppository that prints barcodes. Try there. -----Original Message----- From: Ant�nio Roque [mailto:antonio.roque@auchan.pt] Sent: Thursday, September 09, 1999 10:34 AM To: informix iiug list Subject: code bar Hi , in informix …
code bar
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0011_01BEFAAE.D952FA60 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi , in informix 4gl for HP-UX systems is there a way to print code bars = ( eans ) into a HP pri…
Informix Online Dynamic Server DBA Book
Hello Could anyone recommend a good Informix Online Dynamic Server book. I did a search in Amazon.com but I could not decide on which one to choose. Thanks in advance. Ajay…
RE: ON-Bar problem
You must create a symbolic link from this library to the one supplied by your storage manager. For example, ADSM requires: ln -s /usr/lpp/adsm/api/bin/libXApi.a /usr/lib/ibsad001.a -----Original Message----- From: Admin Mail [ mailto:admin@fisher-two.alus.spb.ru <mailto:adm…
Onbar using ADSM as storage manager
Does anyone out there have any experience or comments on the choice of ADSM as the storage manager used by OnBar?…
backup / restore
Hi I have on my IDS 7.30 for solaris 2.6 5 databases, which I want to backup and restore separately. Which ist the best method ? Thanks…
pricing for informix info?
Hello, Was wondering what other people out there paid for informix dynamic server 7.3... Basically, i wanted to know if they had a web server licensing schem like microsoft. or ibm's db2 (per cpu license). and would the licenses be transferable if I decided to move from le…
On-Bar.
Hi people ! I would like to know more about on-bar utility. Something like positive and negative points. I will use on-bar with ADSM. I know exists the difference between ontape and on-bar, in on-bar I can do restore at in time, and I can schedule a backup. B…
ontape
Well.... You ONLY performed a level 0 backup so you CANNOT restore a level 1 backup because you do not have any level 1 backup that corresponds to the level 0 you have already restored. So? So reply 'n' no 'y'! Art S. Kagel Andreas Lommel wrote: > > Hi > I backuped my system …
Executing Stored Routine
Cook, Russell L (Russell.Cook@marconi-is.com) wrote: : : I need to build the name of the stored routine I would like to call based on : input value passed in. : : Example: LET query_return = "execute function sel_dsdt_" || datatype_code || : ";" : : In this example "datatype_code…
Check onbar process
Hi! We are facing a problem saving our logical logs using log_full.sh. Some of our production systems run Informix 7.24, others 7.31. We use the following line, to check whether a logical log backup runs already (starting onbar -l twice leads occasionally to a hang of the first…
Re: Determining version dynamically
Hi, If you have Informix Dynamic Server then use the following sql-statement ' select DBINFO('version', 'full') from systables where tabid = 1' result from the sql is : Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.30.UC5 Take a look in Informix Guide to SQL: Syntax for more about DBINFO…
KAIO: out of OS resources error
Hi~ My informix dynamic server write "KAIO: out of OS resources error .." in online.log. This error log is written during ontape task. How can I solve this problem? platfom : SunOs 5.5.1 Informix Dynamic Server 7.24 uc6 Thanks.…
on-archive / on-bar
Hi Gurus, I am new to Informix DBA activities (unix environment). I want to know the differences between On-Archive and On-Bar. Which one should I use for back up of databases ? Thanks in advance. Regards, Madhu _____________________________________________________________ D…
64bit IDS for Solaris 7/SPARC ?
Is there a 64bit Informix Dynamic Server 7.3x for Solaris 7/SPARC available? tia, joerg…
Posting from the Informix-list
what is the last version of Informix Dynamic Server for HP-UX 10.20, where can i find more Information about this.…
Latest versions for various Informix products ???
Which are the latest versions for Informix Dynamic Server Informix Dynamic Server, Workgroup Edition Informix 4GL Informix SQL on Solaris 7/SPARC ? Where can I find such informations on Informix's website ? tia, joerg…
Backing up tables or complete databases ?
Hello, Is it possible to make a backup from a table in one database to another (backup)database (by VB sourcecode) and restore earlier made backups ? Can I even make a backup of the complete database and also restore it by using VB-code ? I like to make an button which the use…
cdr command line utility in informix 7.24
Hi, Is there a cdr command line utility in informix dynamic server 7.24? I tried to locate it, but the executable is nowhere to find. Thanks, Lu…
Problem Installing Informix Dynamic Server
I downloaded a Try&Buy version of Informix Dynamic Server V7.30 for NT. I installed it on an NT Server. The install seemed to go ok, but after a short time of investigating IECC, I got a blue screen. After this when I started the Command Center, a task seemed to start, but it w…
Informix DLLs collision with Delphi program...
Hi ! I develop under NT4 since a while an application that often bug when I use an Informix database. I've tested the application running with a local Paradox database and things goes right. Here is my log when I start and close the application. I think the problem resides the t…
ONBAR and SYSUTILS
Has anyone found/developed tools for managing (i.e. purging and synchronizing with ONBAR) the sysutils database when using onbar/adsm? Walker…
Problems starting IDS 7.30.TC7 on Windows NT SP4.
When i try to start informix dynamic Server, the following message appears "Only informix user can start informix dynamic server" this message appears when i logged on with the informix's user. When i try to start the service on the control panel , error 2140 appears.…
TBLSPACE_STAT / LBU_PRESERVE
> > 1. TBLSPACE_STAT set to 1 in ONCONFIG .... what is its use. > TBLSPACE_STAT is undocumented Informix param, that is used by Informix Tech Support in debugging reasons. Do not set it in production environment. > 2. We use continous backup , so do we need to set LBU_PRESERVE …
Out of buffer?
Hi, I got the following error message from an Informix IDS 7.30: <<Informix Dynamic Server>>> WARNING! Buffer pool size may cause Dynamic Server to get into a locked state. Recommended minimum buffer pool size is 4 times maximum concurrent user thre…
On-Bar Interanl Subsystem Failure
We have Informix 7.30 uc 3 running on an RS/6000 with AIX 4.3.1. We are using onbar to backup to an ADSM storage manager. Periodically, when attempting to do a full backup we get the following message: 1999-05-20 07:39:47 7976 13138 /informix/bin/onbar_d -b -L 0 -w 1999-05-20 …
backups: Alexandria and on-bar
What experiences have other people had running Alexandria with Informix's on-bar software? We're running this on a Sequent DYNIX/ptx 4.4.2 OS, and have run into a number of issues related to logical logs. TIA! -cf…
Linux VS NT4.0
Hi, Is it true that Informix Dynamic Server workgroup edition 7.30 is ported for Linux, and if it is so does anyone can tell me what to chose between Linux and NT4.0 for running Informix Dynamic Server workgroup edition 7.30. Also I'd like to know for which version of Linux, Inf…
OnBar Parameter BAR_NB_XPORT_COUNT
The documentation is a little unclear on BAR_NB_XPORT_COUNT. Are these data buffers within the DB server or within the OnBar region? I assume these buffers are the same size as the database pages. What are some of you with good OnBar performance using as a value?? TIA Doug A…
onbar question
I am a little confused regarding the difference between a whole-system backup and a dbspace backup which backs up all dbspaces. If all my disks get blown away, can I use my dbspace backup (all dbspaces) to rebuild the database, or must I have a whole-system backup to recover? Th…
Starting Informix Dynamic Server !
Hi Gurus, Just wondering is there any difference in starting the informix engine as root user versus as Informix user. ? The reason why I ask this question is , the IDS 7.23 UC6 on HP-UX 10.2 crashes due to a bug (declared as bug by Informix Technical support)when we start in…
Informix Dynamic Server Archive/Restore
Hello All: We have a large scale Informix DB resident on an HP 9000, K460, with AutoRaid Disk Subsystem (218gb). And we are running IDS 7.30. Currently, we are using the Informix ontape archive/restore utility to archive the DB and to perform continuous logical logging. We u…
Any one know this?
Hi folks: Is there a script that can check informix on-line dynamic server is up and running or not? If not it will e-mail a note to D.B.A. groups Thanks in advance Garry…
BAR and NT :temporary files ?
Hi, I have an informix database of 3.5GB on a windows NT system. When I try to do a backup with the informix BAR I receive an error message "Error insufficientdisk spaces : files C:\\winnt\\ismXX.tmp " I suppose that this is a temporary file. I have only 200MB free on the disk …
converting Informix Online 5.1 esql/c to Dynamic Server esql/c?
Hi converting Informix Online 5.1 esql/c to Dynamic Server esql/c? What is the easiest way to do this? Is there a parser that could do this? edward…
More on the on-bar problem
Examining ixbar.0, I noticed that, after the backup (-b -w -L 0), the dataspaces were listed TWICE -- once in physical order, once in alphabetical order (the two lines are duplicates)…
RAID Technolgy
We are using Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.2. We are going in for a new DEC UNIX Server with RAID Technolgy. It incorporates mirroring at the hardware level. So is it not necessary to do mirroring using Informix?. Can anybody give suggestions regarding mirroring and other feat…
Informix on Linux
Does anybody know how much a copy of Informix Dynamic Server would run me for use on Linux?? Thanks in advance -steve…
onbar performance and restore
Ihave problem with onbar performance. It takes more than 2 hours to backup all database using onbar -b -w. Therefore I use onbar -b <all dbspaces list> to back up dbspaces parallely. It is fast. However there is a problem restoring database from above backup up to the poit in…
Eliminating Onbar archive history
Does anyone have a process in place to eliminate rows from the sysutils tables based on keeping a set number of onbar database backups (say, 3) and identifying/eliminating unneeded database backups and log backups?? Trying to set up SIMPLE procedures for using Onbar/ADSM. TIA …
Upgrade Dynamic Server 7.13 - 7.24
I need to upgrade Informix Dynamic Server version 7.13 to version 7.24. Can anyone advise of any problems they may have had whilst doing this?…
Backup/Restore Question
Hi all, Is there backup/restore system in Informix Online DS where I can restore an individual table, not complete dbspace? Thanks in advance.…
onbar
Hello I use Informix 7.23 Workgroup server. Can I trust onbar to backup and restore my data and the database ? Thanks…
On-bar on HP Omni
Does anyone have any exprience in performing On-Bar restore with using HP Omni Back? I have a difficulity to make this work. Alfred Ps. We have IDS 7.30 UC6 on HPUX 10.20.…
Onbar - suspend the logical restore?
Does anyone knows how to suspend the logical log restore in On-Bar? I am able to find a way to do this with On-archive but do not know how to do this in On-Bar. Any helps are highly appreciated. I am currently using 7.30 UC6 on HPUX 10.20. Thanks. Alfred…
Question about onbar & omniback
Environment: IDS 730UC3 HP/UX 11.0 Omniback (should be current but not sure of specific version) The Informix backups for the dbspaces and logical logs are setup & configured. Things run fine from the omniback gui component. (I know we need to use Bar_Debug_log an…
Informix Dynamic Server 7.31?
Is any information available regarding the release of IDS 7.31 for Unix? We have Sun E3000 and E4000 machines and are experiencing problems with both 7.30.UC3 and 7.30.UC5 and are curious about 7.31. Thanks. Carleen Avant Naval Safety Center Internet < cavant@safecen.navy.mil …
STRING FUNCTIONS
Are there functions for manipulating varchar type, like upper() or lower() in Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.2? Thanks in advance.…
Netscape Enterprise Connection for Informix Dynamic Server
Hi: Does anyone know the procedure for setting up a Netscape Enterprise Server to connect to an Informix Dynamic server on a remote machine? Michael…
oninit: shared library problem
I'm having problems when initialising the DB using oninit. Config: INFORMIX Dynamic Server Ver 7.23, on a UNISYS-UNIX SVR4. When Initializing, I get the error ...dynamic linker: oninit: symbol not found: gettimeofday The LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set to $INFORMIXDIR/bin and �INFORMIXDIR…
Initi DB
I'm having problems when initialising the DB. Config: INFORMIX Dynamic Server Ver 7.23, on a UNISYS-UNIX SVR4. When Initializing, I get the error ...dynamic linker: oninit: symbol not found: gettimeofday The LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set to $INFORMIXDIR/bin and �INFORMIXDIR/esql help wo…
ON-Bar w/ISM help
I'm trying to configure ON-Bar using ISM (Informix Storage Manager) for a datamart running on Solaris 2.5.1 with XPS 8.2.1. What I would like to do is either not backup the logical logs (similar to setting LTAPEDEV=/dev/null in versions 7.x and prior of OnLine) while still havin…
Index on Informix Online 7.22 ?
I have installed a new Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.22UC3 on our server (HP-UX 10.20). I find it is much much slower than the Informix 7.12 Online DS server if I do not create index for a same program. Why and what is the difference between the two version of Dynamic serv…
RE: Backup and Restore Question
SQL Bactrack (a product from BMC) provides the functionality of restoring a single table from the backups. We tried it and it actually worked. - Sri Chava -----Original Message----- From: -=Eclypse=- [mailto:eclypse@cdc.net] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 1998 3:26 PM To: informix…
Backup and Restore Question
Is there a good plan with Informix (we use BaaN as our app) for backing up and restoring individual tables/dbspaces? I've mentioned this to a couple of people. When we set up our new server, we're going to create a larger number of individual dbspaces so that we can restore them …
Re: esqlvers statement.....results are different on 2 DB servers ???
Tim Jones wrote: > > I've installed Informix 7.30UC3 with the ClientSDK 2.01 software on 2 > servers. Let's call them Server A and B. > > Both A and B had a prior ESQL/C versions. > > After the install, logged in as informix userid on A and ran "esqlvers" > and got this : > I…
esqlvers statement.....results are different on 2 DB servers ???
I've installed Informix 7.30UC3 with the ClientSDK 2.01 software on 2 servers. Let's call them Server A and B. Both A and B had a prior ESQL/C versions. After the install, logged in as informix userid on A and ran "esqlvers" and got this : INFORMIX-ESQL Version 7.22.UC1 …
onbar : error 329
Hi I am trying to restore two sets of dbspaces using onbar. I get the error 329 and 155 while trying to restore the second dbspaceset . Looks like I hit the foll bug : #96560 The followin senerio failes on step #2 with the error message below when trying to restore: 1. …
Informix Dynamic Server Personal Edition
What development apps are known to work with IDS-PE for 95? Infrmx wants to sell me licenses for Dynamic 4gl, esql-c, ddvb for 150usd. Do these work and are there others? 150 sounds ok but the catch is is that the Open-Line Support is outrageous for this (3K usd for unlim. suppor…
Will informix 7.24.uc5 compatiable with solaris 7?
Hi there, I was wondering if Informix Dynamic Server 7.24.uc.5 will be compatiable with solaris 7 when it comes out? Thanks advance, Pat Militzer pmilitzer@ultracom.com…
Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.2.2
When I try to iniailize the shared memory I get an error "oninit: Critical error initializing shared memory" I checked the log and it says the base memory address is 0x80080000 and should be 0x80400000 when I change it it reverses. this is on a SCO open server 5. nay ideas.…
Re: Fragmentation..
Art S. Kagel wrote: > (Actually I think that 4K page systems can hold 4095 chunks > and dbspaces, but I'm not sure of that.) No, the limit is 2047 chunks and dbspaces on 4K page systems as well. June -- june_t@hotmail.com Grounded in Palo Alto, living on KitKat bars…
Informix Dynamic Server on Linux NOW!
Check out the Informix WEB Site. There is an announcement that IDS 7.3 is shipping on Linux TODAY! http://www.informix.com/ Art S. Kagel…
Problem installing to NT4.0 server
I'm trying to install Informix dynamic server workgroup edition to Primary domain Nt 4.0 Server. I have created Informix-Admin group and Informix account and grant it all Administrators rights and also Domain administrator rights. The server setup runs ok, but when setup is tryi…
Re: OnBar - Legato
Well, maybe the library that comes with Business Module Suite. Be sure to have this symbolic link: # ls -l /usr/lib/ibsad001.sl lrwxrwxrwx 1 root sys 9 Jul 9 1998 /usr/lib/ibsad001.sl -> libbsa.sl David... -----Message d'origine----- De : Daniel Berry <daniel_berry@ml…
Re: OnBar - Legato
Thanks David But I had already checked this, the bar_version table has been updated on both prod and dr servers. What else can be on different versions?? Dan David Andrieu wrote in message <6vsmjl$c6n$1@news.xmission.com>... > >Hi, > > have you update bar_version table in …
Re: OnBar - Legato
Hi, have you update bar_version table in sysutils database? bar_version bsa_version bar_sm sm_version 1 1.0.1 ism 1 1 1.0.1 nwbsa 1 David... -----Message d'o…
OnBar - Legato
Hi all, I am trying to restore a backup of our prod server onto our Dr server using Onbar and Legato Networker. Backups working fine, but I cannot get it to load into the DR server. Im fairly sure everything is setup correctly, I've gone past the usual hurdles of onbar and lega…
Re: Restore to previous Zero level
There are two parts to this questions: 1. How to I get a previous archive to restore, onbar by default choose the most current? You will have to add into you restore command line a "-t <date/time just after the level 0>" If you do not …
Restore to previous Zero level
Hi, I'm using want to restore my informix database to the previous level zero backup. So for example I've done a level 0, some level 1's and another level zero backup. I now want to go backup to the first level zero backup. I'm using onbar to do both backups and restores and als…
Re: Onbar restore aborted - Help!
Hi! If you start onbar -r -w, onbar does the restore of your dbspaces first. If you look at your bar_act.log, you'll see, that the restore of your dbspaces was successfully completed. After this dbspace restore, onbar tries automatically to roll forward the instance to the actua…
Deployment Licenses of Informix Dynamic Server
I need a free Deployment Licenses of Informix Dynamic Server!…
Re: Informix Dynamic Server blocks
In article <3609EB18.2AB1B1CD@bull.net>, Helmut Leininger <Helmut.Leininger@bull.net> writes >Hi, > >Sporadically, the Informix server seems to block (every try to connect >or onstat times out and no reaction on onmode -ky). In the MSGPATH I >find the following message: > >09:03:…
Informix Dynamic Server blocks
Hi, Sporadically, the Informix server seems to block (every try to connect or onstat times out and no reaction on onmode -ky). In the MSGPATH I find the following message: 09:03:42 mt.c, line 8362, thread 2139, proc id 17096, mt_notifyvp timed out. Informix server is 7.22.UC2…
Informix Dynamic Server blocks
Hi, Sporadically, the Informix server seems to block (every try to connect or onstat times out and no reaction on onmode -ky). In the MSGPATH I find the following message: 09:03:42 mt.c, line 8362, thread 2139, proc id 17096, mt_notifyvp timed out. Informix server is 7.22.UC2…
Onbar
We face a problem for which we don't know the solution. We are using Informix Dynamic Server 7.30TC3 on a Win NT 4.0 computer. Whenever we try to use onbar -b -w -L 0 the Informix Storage Manager gives the following error message: media waiting event: bachup to pool 'ISMData' wa…
Appending to Informix backup
Hello. I need to append a NT4.0 backup on top of Informix database backup (using ontape ) tape. Does this override the existing informix backup. If not, will the ontape be able to know where to restore it's previous backup? TIA, Aik Khoon…
Appending to Informix backup
Hello. I need to append a NT4.0 backup on top of Informix database backup (using ontape ) tape. Does this override the existing informix backup. If not, will the ontape be able to know where to restore it's previous backup? TIA, Aik Khoon…
Re: Backup solution for Informix Dynamic Server NT
Reiner, Have you heard anything about the new Onbar utility that comes with v7.3 of IDS? I think that it is a GUI frontend that works with Legato. Cindy Rutherfurd DBA Printronix Irvine, CA…
Re: OnLine Dynamic Server 7.2 Vs INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3
On Tue, 28 Jul 1998 14:40:44 -0500, Ben Jazi <bjazi@fallschurch.esys.com> wrote: >What are the major differences between INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server >7.2 and INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3? Is it ORDBMS vs RDMBS? No, IDS 9.x is the ORDBMS. This autumn the 7.3 and 9.x code lin…
Re: OnLine Dynamic Server 7.2 Vs INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3
Ben Jazi wrote: > > What are the major differences between INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server > 7.2 and INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3? Is it ORDBMS vs RDMBS? > > Thanks, > Ben I don't know the differences in detail but you could check the following pages, where IDS 7.3 is described …
OnLine Dynamic Server 7.2 Vs INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3
What are the major differences between INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server 7.2 and INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3? Is it ORDBMS vs RDMBS? Thanks, Ben…
Re: Backup & Restore
Mike Morris wrote: > > We have a new informix database based application and we were following > the vendor's backup and restore procedures (as best we could) and we > have run into a few problems. > > First, what we did: > onmode -k (offline?) I don't see any need to do this - …
Backup & Restore
We have a new informix database based application and we were following the vendor's backup and restore procedures (as best we could) and we have run into a few problems. First, what we did: onmode -k (offline?) ontape -s (archive level 0 backup, no logs) drop a user table ontap…
free: Backup - Restore Seminar
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Informix computer Base classes
Has any body used the Informix computer base training classes. I am wondering if any of the computer based training classes: "Informix Dynamic Server System Administration" or the "Managing and Optimizing Informix Dynamic Server Databases" is good. Thank You…
Free Backup and Restore Seminar!
Target Audience: IT, I/S and CIO professionals concerned with the backup and restoration of their mission critical data. Seminar Description: This Seminar will address a growing concern among IT professionals in the area of backup and restore and define EMC's highly automated E…
Free Backup & Restore Seminar!
Target Audience: IT, I/S and CIO professionals concerned with the backup and restoration of their mission critical data. Seminar Description: This Seminar will address a growing concern among IT professionals in the area of backup and restore and define EMC's highly automated E…
Re: Informix Online Dynamic Server 7 on Linux
Piet le Roux wrote: > > If anyone has succeeded to run Informix ODS 7 (SCO) on Linux help would > be appreciated. > I have installed iBCS and the shared libraries and the binaries work, > except that the engine cannot initialize shared memory: Error message > semctl: errno 22…
Informix Online Dynamic Server 7 on Linux
If anyone has succeeded to run Informix ODS 7 (SCO) on Linux help would be appreciated. I have installed iBCS and the shared libraries and the binaries work, except that the engine cannot initialize shared memory: Error message semctl: errno 22 create_vp: cannot allocat m…
Problems with Informix Dynamic Server for NT
Hi Has anyone tried downloading and running the dynamic server product for NT? I have it installed, but get the following error when I boot the system: AdmAgent.exe - Applicatioin error The instruction at "0x10087c69 referenced memory at "0x00000000". The memory could not be r…
Veritas Netbackup and onbar.
We are trying to do backup of Informix 7 using Netbackup and onbar. The backup works fine but the restore doesn't. If ANYBODY has restored something using NETBACKUP and onbar please email lsolomonik@hotmail.com !!! -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion …
RE: What are the differences between Informix Dynamic Server
It is confusing! =20 Here's what I know: Prior to renaming: 7.2x =3D ODS 8.0 =3D XPS 9.1 =3D IUS After renaming: 7.2x =3D IDS 8.0 =3D IDS/AD/XP 9.1 =3D IDS/UDO=20 After the 7.3 release: 7.3 =3D IDS 9.1 =3D IDS/UDO After the 8.2 release: 8.0 =3D…
RE: What are the differences between Informix Dynamic Server and
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Re: Stored Procedure
Hi, The second error '255' occurs if your database is set to nologging. Use ontape command to set your database to any of the logging modes and level. Rgds .. Mahesh G. Hofinger, Christian wrote in message <6n85qo$1g0$1@news.xmission.com>... > .... ... >Two errors : 687 : Set…
Re: onbar with 7.24
I ran into this same problem when I first tested OnBar. Yes, Informix changed the behavior of OnBar between 7.22 & 7.23. Under 7.22 it was up to the alarm program to do a 'onbar -l' after the 'onbar -b' completes (current log change). Under 7.23 and greater an 'onbar -b' autom…
Re: Index for Informix Dynamic Server
William Lai wrote: > > Hello, > > We alreay upgrade our database server from SE5.X to IDS 7.3. After we > convert all the old data to the new server, we have some problems on the > index search. For example, a table: > > table : ith ( ithitno, ithname ), total 1,500,000 records…
Re: Index for Informix Dynamic Server
William Lai <rwie@netvigator.com> offerred: +We alreay upgrade our database server from SE5.X to IDS 7.3. After we +convert all the old data to the new server, we have some problems on the +index search. For example, a table: + +table : ith ( ithitno, ithname ), total 1,500,000…
Ontape - Any way to verify if the level 0 backup is any good?
Hi there, Is there any way to tell if your level 0 backup (ontape -s) or continous backup ( ontape -c) is any good. Basically is there a way to verify the data is readable without restoring it. thanks, Pat Militzer pmilitzer@ultracom.com…
Index for Informix Dynamic Server
Hello, We alreay upgrade our database server from SE5.X to IDS 7.3. After we convert all the old data to the new server, we have some problems on the index search. For example, a table: table : ith ( ithitno, ithname ), total 1,500,000 records index : ith_1 on ithitno, ithn…
Informix backups
Has anyone been able to allow a user(not Informix) to run the ONTAPE backups? what about with On-Bar? We are running AIX 4.2 and Informix 7.24. Currently we use the ONTAPE utility for our database backups but will be moving to ON-BAR soon. We would like to allow a user, who is in…
Informix Dynamic Server 7.3
Hello, Since I'm planning a Data Warehouse, I would to do it with the new version of Dynamic Server. Impressions, stability and on which platform? Regards. Fernando _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Fernando Collalti Phone: +…
Experience with On-Bar and Sun's NetBackup
Could some one give me their outlook on using On-Bar and Sun's Enterprise NetBackup. We will be using it with Informix On-line 7.23 on SUN (E4000 and E3000), O.S. Solaris 2.5.1. Do you have any recommendations on things to look out for? Problems you had with using this software?…
Re: Informix DSA : Default storage database location ........
JEAN-PHILIPPE_BATTU@Non-HP-France-om3.om.hp.com wrote: <snip> : When I create a table in a database, it is created by default in the rootdbs : If I specify a location, I can change the location dbspace : Do you know if I could specify on default dbspace into an environnement v…
Informix Dynamic Server & Text columns
Hi everybody, Can you help me ? I've created a table with the following structure : column type -------- ---- code smallint obs text How can I insert into this table with Java program ? I'm using Informix Java AP…
Intermittent Problem - error 529 Cannot attach to transaction
We have a HP-UX box (Ver 10.20) running Informix Online Dynamic Server Ver 7.13 and a NT Server (NT4.0) running Informix Online Dynamic Server Ver 7.23. We are trying to access some of the database tables resided in the HP-UX box from the NT Server via synonyms. But we faced inte…
Klingon Question.
I don't subscribe to this group so an e-mail would be appreciated. Q. I remember seeing in an episode of DS9 - them going back in time and meeting some Klingons in a bar - Worf wouldn't say why they looked different - does anyone know???? -- Regards, Ian J. -------------------…
ONBAR's use of XBSA
One of the software requirements for use of onbar is a shared library implementation of XBSA. Informix documentation does not elaborate on where said shared library can be obtained. Anyone out there running onbar on Solaris 2.5.1? Where did you obtain the shared library? -- Ma…
OpenLink ODBC Drivers running in debug mode ...
This posting is in response to the posting below, requesting information on how to enable Server side debugging of the OpenLink ODBC Drivers The OpenLink ODBC Scan utility can be used for tracing all ODBC calls being passed to the OpenLink or any other ODBC driver on the client…
verifying a (ontape) backup
Is there any way to verify the contents of a backup tape (used ontape for the backup) other then doing a restore? Chuck Wrobel Bellevue School District…
Onbar -w option
Hello, I am working on online7.23.UC4/HP-UX 10.20. I am working on an onbar/Omniback II 2.10 backup solution and I don't understand what is the difference between onbar -b and onbar -b -w or between onbar -r and onbar -r -w. Can somebody explain to me what is the use of the -w…
How can I read the header tape of the archive created by ontape?
I have Informix Dynamic Server 7.23.UC1. I would like know the tape header structure created by ontape.…
Re: Checking datatype of CHAR variable in 4GL
In article <p9evDCABX350Ew2j@smooth1.demon.co.uk>, David Williams <djw@smooth1.demon.co.uk> wrote: >>To make it more clear, this is the contents of my error log after running the >>following useless program (4gl/c 4.16UC2 x SCO 3.2.5.0) >>main >> define a smallint >> whe…
Informix ON-Bar/ADSM Info
I am forwarding a note to this list from an Informix/ADSM user. His experiences with ON-Bar may be helpful to others. From: David Hendrix <dmhendri@FEDEX.COM> Organization: Federal Express Corporation Subject: Informix ON-Bar/ADSM Info To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU For those w…
Re: Appending/Overwriting!?
Are you using ON-Bar on UNIX or NT? If ON-Bar is running on a UNIX box then it is up to the storage manager to append to the data on tape or overwrite the data on tape. Which storage manager are you using? Doug b. >Hello. > >I'm using ONBar to do backups of our single Informi…
Restore ONBAR backup to a different host using ADSM
I am attempting to back up using ONBAR and ADSM. I have gotten ONBAR to backup the database. Now I need to restore the database on a different informix server so that I can start replication. Can someone please give me the steps to retore the database to another server? I appreci…
Re: Upgrading Informix from Online engine to Dynamic Server
Seth Grimes wrote: > > Jane Vohden wrote: > > > > I have been talking with Informix about upgrading our site from the > > 5.xx Online engine to 7.2x Dynamic Server. They said there was no cost > > I don't think that anyone has pointed out the mistaken terminology > h…
What's the difference between ODS 7.22 and 7.23?
What's the difference between Informix Online Dynamic Server version 7.22 and version 7.23? Thanks in advance. Bill Westphal Rodney District Council mis@rodney.govt.nz…
ODBC unix and dynamic SQL
Hi, Can someone give me some help on using informix odbc drivers (unix) with dynamic SQL on Informix-online dynamic server (7.22 unix) when I use "SQLprepare" I receive the message "too many or too few host variables given" but I think all is Ok R. Gueye…
NewEra & Scroll Bars
Hey all - Is there any way to create Horizontal & Vertical scroll bars in NewEra (3.1)? I want to display them "automatically" whenever a window is smaller than the application. Thanx in advance!…
RE: Can I create a non-logged perm. table in a logged DB?
Kyle Campbell wrote: > I have Informix ODS 7.2. I'd like to be able to keep rows > inserted into a permanent table even if the 'insert' is in an active > transaction that was rolled back. The reason for this is that I'd like > to log atomic actions performed in a complex stor…
RE: Backup/Restore times
I have been experiencing a strange problem with backup and restores using ontape and onbar on my HP box. I have a small test database of 300Mb on a HPUX 10.20 box running 7.23 of Informix. I can backup the database in 5 mins but it takes 23 min to complete physical recovery and…
Re: Informix vs. Sybase vs. Oracle vs. (gasp) MS SQL Server
David Williams wrote: > And this is the CHEAPEST application that will perform the task? > Remember most business custoemrs want cheap system...(every supplier > says that there system will work!!) Well, you do get what you pay for. The app I was describing was an inhou…
Re: Informix vs. Sybase vs. Oracle vs. (gasp) MS SQL Server
In article <347E6F62.1AAA@agd.nsw.gov.au>, Anthony Mandic <no_sp.am@agd.nsw.gov.au> writes >David Williams wrote: > Yep, thats what was being guarded against. The app could have > been termed overly retentive for this reason. It had to be > as failsafe as possib…
Re: Informix vs. Sybase vs. Oracle vs. (gasp) MS SQL Server
David Williams wrote: > > Anthony Mandic writes > >David Williams wrote: > > > >> But what if the user wants to be able to undo all the changes they > >> made since they entered the screen? > > > > Er? Perhaps I didn't make myself clear enough. I'm not advocating > > …
Do I must buy "On-Bar" utility?
Hello everyone... I wanna use "On-Bar" utility. but I coudn't use On-Bar utility in Informix OnLine product. There is "On-Bar" command. but when I execute the command, "On-Bar" executed nothing. I wanna know how can I use On-Bar. Do I must buy "On-Bar" utility? Is there anyone …
Difference betw. ONBAR / ONTAPE / Command Center tools?
As a new ODS DBA, I'm beginning to examine backing up this beast of burden. But I see all these different tools! ONTAPE, ON-BAR, and the Command Center Backup and Resore tools. What's the difference between them? Why would I use one over the other? Can anybody help me with thi…
Re: ODS in Sun HA environment
Bear in mind that the Networker package will not allow you to restore to a machine with a different name. Apparently the next version does but this problem has meant that we are now using On-archive instead of On-Bar (yuk!) Gavin Convery Standard Chartered Bank UK Online 7.22 et…
Re: Barcode printing (code 39)
>Does anybody have an idea how to print barcodes on a dot matrix printer >using code 39 symbology. > I use Loftware Label Manager to construct the bar code formats using either code 128 or UPC-A. I then include the label specs into 4GL reports. We have at least 40 different bar…
Informix Level-0 (restore ?)
RE: Informix backup/restore, DLT4000 tape drive, HP70, HPUX9.04, Informix 5.3 Tape Device [/dev/rmt/3hc ] Block Size [64 ] Kbytes Tape Size [30000000 ] Kbytes Our Level-0 backup use to take 10 hours (DDS), we now have the DLT4000, Level-0 backup =3D 2 hours. On …
Next Extent Calc.
Hi, I have INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server Version 7.14.UD2. Does anyone know of a script or program to calculate the next extent size ? Thanks in advance Manuel…
XBSA API
We are running Solaris 2.51 and have SOLASTICE as our storage manager. Has anyone used this with On-Bar?…
Re: ontape
>We are running Online 7.22 on HP 10.20. I have just installed it recently. >I was not able to restore from the archive tape on other machine after >answering y or n to the back up logical logs. The Informix Tech Support >told me that we need to have symbolic debbuger installed …
ON-Bar Import Restore
Having struggle for about a month, I've ON-Bar in pretty good shape. The only thing I'm still in a myth is to do an import restore. Here is the configuration I have: Two machines with equal software version: AIX 4.1.5, Informix ODS 7.22UC2 - I did a whole system backup of a da…
ONBAR
Does anyone have any experience with ONBAR, OPENVISION and HP?'s and hooking them up? Thanks Ed edbid @ cobe.com…
onbar and ADSM
>Return-Path: <ilist@rmy.emory.edu> >From: "Howard Kerr" <howardk@pavilion.co.uk> >Subject: onbar and ADSM >Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 06:35:07 +0100 >Reply-To: "Howard Kerr" <howardk@pavilion.co.uk> >Organization: Pavilion Internet plc >Sender: informix-list-owner@rmy.emory.edu >To: …
onbar and ADSM
Has anybody else had problems restoring using onbar and ADSM. Our backups all report ok, but we have numerous problems restoring anything otherthan smallish instances. Informix versions 7.21, 7.22 and 7.23. ADSM Version 2.1.6. IBM AIX 4.1.5 Any info gratefully received.…
Re: CGI Webkit
Chad Laity <chad_laity@arrowintl.com> wrote: >I downloaded the cgi-stuff from Informix. I made my own little >program. Everything runs but I do not receive any data from the >database. I even name my database in the program and tried the >little environment variable stuff. >…
OnLine 7.2 3rd Party Backup / Restore Utilities
I have been using ontape to backup my database for about a year. I only have 1 (about 2GB with 300 tables) and I do a full backup every night onto DAT. The problems I have: - I cannot restore one table only. - I cannot "verify" backups (perhaps by restoring one table) - I cann…
Re: Trouble with SQL-Retriever JDBC demo "dbview" applet
Edwin Babadaglian (edwinb@panix.com) wrote: [...] : 2. Setting "DebugOptions=" does not generate $HOME/vwodbc.txt or : /usr/vision/log/vwdebuglog. Maybe these files can help here. I'm using Oracle here, so I can't say anything about your other questions. But the debu…
Onbar & Storage Managers
I am new to the Informix Online and I am trying to provide a way to manage backup and restore with On-bar. Here are some of the questions that I have: o Do I really need a storage manager (networker, netbackup). o Since onbar is a command line application, is it practical to wr…
onbar restore trouble
I've very anonying problem with restoring Informix database. Following is the Informix log, bar_act.log and daemon.log (/nsr/logs Legato Networker). What I did is to have a daily full backup: one on 7/18 and two on 7/19. I was having no problem at 7/19 to restore the 7/19 or 7/1…
Re: Backup and Restore Help!!!
Neal Leitner wrote: > My problem is: I want to backup my On-Line database each night to tape > and be able to selectively restore tables if needed. Ontape does a good ........... > I thought about a dbexport, but my users complained each night when I > kicked them off the syste…
Re: Backup and Restore Help!!!
Neal Leitner wrote: > My problem is: I want to backup my On-Line database each night to tape > and be able to selectively restore tables if needed. Ontape does a good ........... > I thought about a dbexport, but my users complained each night when I > kicked them off the syste…
Re: Backup and Restore Help!!!
Some salient issues for this debate: 1. onunload/onload do not support fragmented tables. 2. Why do you want to restore individual tables? If using OnBar (with 1 table per dbspace) then be aware that: a) you can only restore dbspaces that are 'down' (i.e. you c…
RE: Backup and Restore Help!!!
David, ONBAR system doesn't allow backup and restore operation at the table level. But you can backup and restore and the DBSPACE level. If you fragment your table you can backup and restore and the partition level ( That sounds good but it is still at the DBSPACE le…
RE: Backup and Restore Help!!!
Neal How about onload(tbload) and onunload(tbunload)? I haven't used it very = extensively but you can restore specific tables within a database if you = want to, and it is faster than dbexport/dbimport. I am not sure if you = need to kick your users off when you do it, but I ex…
Re: Backup and Restore Help!!!
Neal Leitner wrote: > > I have a problem, which I thought was a simple one to fix, but after > consulting with Informix, there is no current Informix utility to solve > my problem. > > My problem is: I want to backup my On-Line database each night to tape > and be able to select…
Re: Backup and Restore Help!!!
In article <33C6AC29.411B@netcomuk.co.uk>, Neil Truby <ntruby@netcomuk.co.uk> writes >Neal Leitner wrote: >> >> I have a problem, which I thought was a simple one to fix, but after >> consulting with Informix, there is no current Informix utility to solve >> my problem. >> >> My …
Backup and Restore Help!!!
I can think of 2 ways to work around this problem: 1. You can redo your production database to place the target restore tables each in their own smaller dbspace. You can then restore at the dbspace level. 2. If you have the luxury of a test box, restore your produc…
Backup and Restore Help!!!
I have a problem, which I thought was a simple one to fix, but after consulting with Informix, there is no current Informix utility to solve my problem. My problem is: I want to backup my On-Line database each night to tape and be able to selectively restore tables if needed. …
Java and Informix Dynamic Server 7.x
Hi friends! I am trying to do server-side java cgi programming to connect to I-ODS 7.x. Do you know how I can do that? I heard it is possible to use the jdbc-odbc bridge( intersolve or openlink's), but the performance is too slow, because of jdbc to odbc and odbc to jdbc convert…
onbar
I had a problem with onbar, simply we don't know how to set it up to work. We run AIX and HPUX and the release doc said onbar is supported on both platform (7.22). But when I use onbar on HPUX, it simply returns "not support on this platform", while on AIX, it can't find a librar…
Individual database backup/restore
Does anybody know what the best way is to is the setup Informix so that I can individually backup and restore databases on an Online 7.14 UD1 engine is without restoring the other databases as well. I have about 20 or 30 databases and splitting them up into there own dbspaces is …
OnBar with Alexandria ??
The subject say's it all. We are planning to implement Onbar using Spectralogic's Alexandria, and I'm looking for anyone with experience, using either, or both together. Thanks Jon ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Jon C. Vemo "Li…
On-Bar with ADSM
I am considering using On-Bar for logs and archives. I would be very interested in any comments from people who have experience (good or bad) with the tool. I am running on IBM RS/6000, AIX 4.1 Thank you…
Re: Webb + 4glcgi + graphs
In article <chr-2804971039180001@kaldalon.rhi.hi.is> chr@rhi.hi.is (Chabane Ramdani) writes: >Hello everybody. > >Has anyone succeded in displaying graphs on a webb browser for 4glcgi without >using C4gl? > >Any help would be apprciated. >Thanks >Chabane. e-mail: chr@rhi.hi.is y…
ONBAR/OPENVISION
Does anyone know if there is an API available for HP 10.20 - Informix 7.22 to run the Onbar utility against Openvision Software?? Tks in advance. Ed edbid @ cobe.com…
00 Informix Bar Code Applications
I am looking for any infomix applications for bar coding and warehousing. Our manual system is being upgraded to a comprehensive bar code system and would appreciate any info in this regard. Our systems in use ar HP-Unix , Informix with fourgen. The idea is to link the new system…
Barcode Applications for warehouse
Has anyone any info on applications available on implementing a bar coding system for warehouses. We use Informix 5 with HP-Unix and Fourgen. We are also looking at using telxon products in the implementation. Presently all work is done maually and the system will be developed so…
NEWERA - 2 dimensional arrays
I need to manipulate a row and column array on screen like I would handle a gridform supertable (with scroll bars etc). Are there any standard classes to do this? Or what is the quickest and simplest way to go about it? Thanks -- Tim Simpson…
Re: Bar Codes in a Report
Jacob Salomon wrote: > > OK, this has to be the 99th time this month someone has posted a > question about bar codes. I have always ignored these posts and now I > have to post one my self. Oh! The ignonomy of it all! ;-) > > I need for our applications to print shipping labe…
On-Bar, ADSM Redbook
If you are considering the use of On-Bar with ADSM you may want to check out the following url: http://ppdbooks.pok.ibm.com:80/cgi-bin/bookmgr/bookmgr.cmd/BOOKS/EZ319901/CO NTENTS#2.4.1 This is an online version of an IBM Redbook which discusses the use of ADSM with Inf…
Re: Bar Codes in a Report
In article <E95y5s.Fyq@nonexistent.com>, Jacob Salomon <jake@apparel.net> writes >OK, this has to be the 99th time this month someone has posted a >question about bar codes. I have always ignored these posts and now I >have to post one my self. Oh! The ignonomy of it all! ;-)…
Bar Codes in a Report -Reply
>>> Jacob Salomon <jake@apparel.net> 04/24/97 07:17pm >>> OK, this has to be the 99th time this month someone has posted a question about bar codes. I have always ignored these posts and now I have to post one my self. Oh! The ignonomy of it all! ;-) I need for our applicati…
Bar Codes in a Report
OK, this has to be the 99th time this month someone has posted a question about bar codes. I have always ignored these posts and now I have to post one my self. Oh! The ignonomy of it all! ;-) I need for our applications to print shipping labels, possibly in a 4GL report (th…
ONBAR Error
Can not find the file ibsad001.sl in the /usr/lib directory. Where does this file come from. Thanks…
Re: differences between 7.21 and 7.22
7.21 supports onbar, 7.22 supports Enterprise Replication. Madison Pruet…
RE: ONBAR
You will NOT get OnBar working with only the Backup Guide, it works with a Storage Manager such as Legato, HP Omniback, ADSM from IBM, every storage manager hast its own procedures, they don=B4t have standard=20 configurations, but all of them keep the same principle: Administra…
Re: ONBAR
In article <3338298B.5B9C@boat.bt.com>, John Hitchinson <hitchij2@boat.bt.com> writes >Dear All, > >Has anyone got this product working successfully using only the >information supplied in the backup and restore manual? > The manual states the required syntax to perform backups …
Re: ONBAR
John Hitchinson wrote: Dear All, Has anyone got this product working successfully using only the information supplied in the backup and restore manual? The manual states the required syntax to perform backups of dbspaces blobspaces, logical logs...however it isn't…
Re: ONBAR
I have made ONBAR work with a third party backup util ADSM (Adstar Distributed Storage Mgr) I used a special publication on ONBAR itself, from Informix. I have the book at work and I could give you the title if you send me email to alan.maxwell@autozone.com re:ADSM and ONBAR. I …
ONBAR
Dear All, Has anyone got this product working successfully using only the information supplied in the backup and restore manual? The manual states the required syntax to perform backups of dbspaces blobspaces, logical logs...however it isn't clear how to specify the destinatio…
ONbar missing library
ONbar 7.22.UC1 & Solaris 2.5.1. Attempting ONBAR -b -f dbspace_name, I get no error returned to the screen, but get an error locating ibsad001.so in the log file. Can anyone enlighten us as to who develops and supplies this library? Thanks in advance John Hitchinson Open Sy…
Re: onbar
David Williams wrote: > > In article <5ekg4q$3p0@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, Manoj <manoj@mailhost.tw > owaytv.co.uk> writes > >Has anyone got any experience of using onbar (v7.22) ? > >If so then I would like to hear the comments (i.e. problems, etc). > > > >Thanx > >==============…
OnBar Users
This is a general call for users that have had experience (any experience counts) with OnBar. We are a Sun/Solaris shop with multi-hundred GB V7 Informix engines. I am currently in the process of evaluating Legato's Networker as well SCH's ReelLibrarian. I would appreciate any in…
Re: onbar
In article <5ekg4q$3p0@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, Manoj <manoj@mailhost.tw owaytv.co.uk> writes >Has anyone got any experience of using onbar (v7.22) ? >If so then I would like to hear the comments (i.e. problems, etc). > >Thanx >====================================================…
onbar
Has anyone got any experience of using onbar (v7.22) ? If so then I would like to hear the comments (i.e. problems, etc). Thanx ======================================================= Manoj Schroff TWOWAYTV Lt…
Re: ONBAR (backup and restore)
Are you doing your archive to a single dat device? Do you have spare disk drives laying around? When I was confronted with this problem I created multiple archive directories on cooked drives. Then I defined multiple dbspace groups for my archive and ran it in parallel. Then I…
ONBAR (backup and restore)
Anyone using Online DSA v7.2 onbar for backups on an hpux10.10 server? Am interested to know what third party vendor you interface with. What backup devices are you using? What kind of performance are you getting? I am currently running onarchive and ontape for level 0 archives t…
Backup & Restore Granularity
I am fairly new to Informix admin. I was surprised (and disappointed) to learn that On-Tape, On-Archive (and, I believe the up-coming On-Bar) back up and restore only at the dbspace level. WHY NOT AT THE TABLE LEVEL? If a user is in dbaccess, it is frightlenly easy to drop a tab…
onbar
Does anyone out there have any experience with OnLine 7.21, "onbar" (Backup & Recovery System) yet? I'm just starting to try and use it, with Solaris 2.5.1. I don't even know if we have an XBSA installed!? Do we need one? Does one come with Solaris or do we need to buy Legato?…
Barcode FAQ v2.0
Barcode FAQ ver 2.0 12.12.96 copyright 1995, 1996 Azalea Software, Inc. info@azalea.com www.azalea.com >>> Introduction >>> Printing Bar Codes >>> UPC, EAN, JAN, Bookland, ISSN >>> Code 39 >>> POSTNET >>> Interleaved 2 of 5 >>> Code 128 >>> Codabar & MSI-Plessey >>> The New 2…
Re: Oracle vs Informix comparison
It seems to me, that a good transaction log should be "lean" - i.e., only contain the physical representations absolutely necessary to redo the transaction. If you agree with this, then consider the impact that this would have if the transaction log is the source of replication -…
Re: Oracle vs Informix comparison
In article <58if4p$oca@dfw-ixnews2.ix.netcom.com>, Rajashekar Sundaramurthy <rajsekar@ix.netcom.com> writes >You wrote: > > You are describing a synchronous replication scenario wherein the >updating transaction waits for the replication to be completed before >the commit occurs.…
Re: SP URGENT HELP: SYSTEM .. to keep a log file
Operating System: HP-UX B.10.01 A X-Mailer: Elm [revision: 111.1] > > I am using SP for Client Server application. > In order to monitor and check the update procedures I need to log the > progress in a unix text file. e.g.: > > SYSTEM "echo "||text||" >> log_file"; > > This co…
Re: SP URGENT HELP: SYSTEM .. to keep a log file
Hi, 28-Nov-96 14:08 George C Parobek wrote: > In message <199611280856.AA154661395@amsoas.nl.dhl.com>, Scott Hanson > <shanson@ams-co.nl.DHL.COM> writes > }Operating System: HP-UX B.10.01 A > }X-Mailer: Elm [revision: 111.1] > } > }> > }> I am using SP for Client Server applica…
Re: 4GL debugging tools
In article <327cf57b.12612813@194.204.96.1>, Matt <matt@waldonet.net.mt> writes >I am researching debugging tools for 4GLs - informix in particular. > >I would appreciate anyone helping me out by directing me towards some >sources on the web. > >Thanks, > >Matt. Informix supp…
Re: tbinit in debug mode?
David Williams wrote: > > In article <jlumbleyDxMLLz.Ip7@netcom.com>, Joe Lumbley > <jlumbley@netcom.com> writes > >zsun@br00dbss.med.osd.mil wrote: > > > >: Hi, > > > >: Has anyone heard of, or used tbinit in debug mode? I was told there was/is an > >: un-documented option to ru…
RE:debug mode, undocumented features, etc.
}In article <jlumbleyDxMLLz.Ip7@netcom.com>, Joe Lumbley <jlumbley@netcom.com> writes }zsun@br00dbss.med.osd.mil wrote: } }: Hi, } }: Has anyone heard of, or used tbinit in debug mode? I was told there was/is an }: un-documented option to run tbinit in debug mode, unfortunately t…
Re: tbinit in debug mode?
In a message dated 96-09-12 16:27:02 EDT, you write: << informix-list@rmy.emory.edu >> Undocumented People : Continuing on undocumented variables ... (OnLine 7.1x) : On specific systems and scenarios these may be helpful... In case of continuous logging of log files to tape, …
Re: tbinit in debug mode?
In article <jlumbleyDxMLLz.Ip7@netcom.com>, Joe Lumbley <jlumbley@netcom.com> writes >zsun@br00dbss.med.osd.mil wrote: > >: Hi, > >: Has anyone heard of, or used tbinit in debug mode? I was told there was/is an >: un-documented option to run tbinit in debug mode, unfortunately th…
verify that backup tapes are good
I have a customer who has had some problems recently with backups that can not be restored for various reasons. Are there any products that will perform a backup and then read the tapes to see that they are correct? Many Thanks, Cecil Broom broom@best.com…
Re: The Next INFORMIX party Was: Update on C.D.I gatherings....
Jack Parker wrote: > > Most of the technical content occurs in the bars afterwards anyway - so > we kind of bring our own content. > No, we have a wide selection of contents in most of our bars.... :-) -- Ciao, Billy +----------------------------------------------------------…
Re: NewEra and Windows95
Definitely upgrade to WIN 95 if you are using NE 2.11. Have had no major problems as I did under 3.11. Also easier to paint screens because the windows don't hide each other....you can make them primary windows by clicking on the task bar on the bottom instead of endless huntin…
Re: NewEra - Grid Scroll Bars
In article <31D83823.7D99@leg.wa.gov>, Schnabel_ri@leg.wa.gov says... > >Does anyone know if you can control when the scroll bars are displayed in a >supertable grid. > >I have a grid that has four columns, one is hidden. The three that remain all fit >on the grid. There is no ne…
Re: NewEra - Grid Scroll Bars
In article <31D83823.7D99@leg.wa.gov>, Schnabel_ri@leg.wa.gov says... > >Does anyone know if you can control when the scroll bars are displayed in a >supertable grid. Unfortunately, there is no such member function in the ixSuperTable class. Grid form SuperTable has horizontal s…
NewEra - Grid Scroll Bars
Does anyone know if you can control when the scroll bars are displayed in a supertable grid. I have a grid that has four columns, one is hidden. The three that remain all fit on the grid. There is no need for a horizontal scroll bar, yet one appears. I have not been able to find…
Re: c.d.i. gathering @ user conference
Nils Myklebust wrote: > > Yes of course - I agree. > But: We should still have a place to get together informaly on Monday. > So hopefully Mike Segel comes back with this to us. No need to > arrange much for Monday, simply decide on a place and give the > name and adress here in…
Re: One in the same ?
Scottish Humor.....???? That would be a very thin book, like Great English lovers' French guide to hygene etc. What's one thing a Scot never uttered in a bar... Gentlemen, the drinks are on me..... (Sorry, just defending Tim, He may in fact be Cheryl, I've never seen his clos…
Re: c.d.i. gathering @ user conference
Nils Myklebust wrote: > > clema@informix.com (Clem Akins) wrote: > >Is there anyone in Chicago-land who knows a suitable > >(Symmetric Multi-Beer Processing) location? > > A lot of people are probably coming in on Sunday so it would > be nice to have an informal place to get tog…
Informix Certified Professional Program Update
Informix offers two certification paths. Each path requires the successful completion of two exams. Each exam is US $250 and is between 60-90 minutes long. * Database Specialist for INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server 7.x 111 - Database Fundamentals Exam 112 - Managin…
Re: Bar Codes
> cherylk@prod1.jcdc.doleta.gov (Cheryl Kendricks) writes: > I'm interested in the reading more so then then the printing! Reading is real easy using a wand or other reader that gets connected between your keyboard and computer (be it on a PC or a terminal). Any input from th…
Re: Bar Codes
adamg@interconnect.com.au wrote: >There's also printer fonts that do barcodes. It works okay from 4GL >or C. I`m using Fujitsu DL1100 printer with built-in barcode command, and just send something like PRINT ascii 27, "Ee123456789". Andrej…
Re: Bar Codes
There's also printer fonts that do barcodes. It works okay from 4GL or C. Adam cherylk@prod1.jcdc.doleta.gov (Cheryl Kendricks) wrote: >I'm interested in the reading more so then then the printing! > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > …
Re: Bar Codes
I'm interested in the reading more so then then the printing! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cheryl Kendricks Internet:cherylk@prod1.jcdc.doleta.gov DTSI, Inc. Voice: 1-800-598-5008 Database Administrator - DOL …
Re: Bar Codes
Lee, We are printing several types of bar codes from within our 4GL application. We first have to send the printer some initialization codes that will inform it to use a specific bar code font. Once done, we send it the ASCII equivalent of the character we need. Viola, bar cod…
Re: Bar Codes
Hi, We do print bar codes in application which is a mixture of 4gl and ESQL/c. We output the print sequence for CODE 39 to a file. Write our formatted bar code ( the data should be enclosed by asterisk ) . Since our printers have the font cartridges. We r able to print bar code…
Re: Bar Codes
We purchased a package called "Bar Code Library" from: StrandWare P.O. Box 634 Eau Claire, WI 54702 (715)833-2331 (800)552-2331 This was several years ago, so I don't know if the company is still in existence. But, it was very cheap ($60…
Re: Bar Codes
Lee Sorry I'm not able to help. But I am interested in hearing from you concening your application. Did you all have to get a special bar coder? How complicated is it storing this information in the DB? Can your bar coder read any type of UPC or Barcode's or must they be within c…
Re: Bar Codes
In article <318f5219.0@stargate.imatrex.com>, Lee McCain <lmccain@imatrex.com> writes >Greetings: > >Is anyone out there in netland printing bar codes (CODE39, in our case) from an >application written in 4GL? > >If so, I would like to receive some pointers, as we are having diff…
Bar Codes
Greetings: Is anyone out there in netland printing bar codes (CODE39, in our case) from an application written in 4GL? If so, I would like to receive some pointers, as we are having difficulty doing it. We have written the code necessary to convert the data to a barcode bit pa…
Re: help with web-database
:-) :-) procedure showit is :-) ok boolean; :-) begin :-) ok:=owa_util.tablePrint('the_table','BORDER=6',HTML_TABLE, :-) '*','where foo=3 and bar > sysdate - 10 order by bar'); :-) end; :-) Is this standard O***cle syntax? If so, yuk! Give me Informix anyday :-) …
RE: On Bar Utility
What do you want to know?? They are coming....I hear beta is this summer. Originally scheduled for release in 7.2, but has slipped to a 7.21-ish release. Jon ------------------------------ Jon C. Vemo jvemo@cyberspace.com Bothell, WA U.S.A. ---------- From: Maurice J. Marong…
i-Star log file in 7.0 engine
Someone came into my office and asked me a question. I looked in the manuals and couldn't find anything. Now I am curoius.... In pre-6.0 engines, you could start I-net or I-star with a parameter that said log all incoming connections to a file. This was useful for debugging c…
On Bar Utility
Has anybody heard about the Informix On Bar utilities? Max…
Re: Audit Trail?
> Our application requires us to keep a human-readable audit trail of > every modification to our database (the Informix version doesn't exist > yet -- we're converting from isam files). So far the only thing we > know to do is to put insert, update, and delete triggers on every …
Re: Audit Trail?
Sorry, I forgot to mention that we're using a DSA engine, v7.11.x, I believe. michaell@sonic.net (M. Livenspargar) wrote: >Our application requires us to keep a human-readable audit trail of >every modification to our database (the Informix version doesn't exist >yet -- we're c…
Bar Code Class Libraries
The bar code that you are using is usually converted to an ascii input by the wedge software so that the input from the barcode appears in the field of the form which you are using as if it were typed by the keyboard. Indeed whether input is from the scanner or from the keyboard …
New Era and Bar Code Class Libraries?
I'm currently evaluating New Era for our new Windows Front end to our Informix 7.1 Engine. I need to convert our 4gl based Inventory Control Systerm to use bar codes and I'm thinking that I might convert the whole system to New Era (well, if 2.0 really deleivers on what is promi…
Customising user menu menu in ISQL
Is it possible to customise the menu bar for a user menu. I just want add, modify, delete and exit for a particular menu. Thanks, Kate…
Re: Bar coding and Informix
In article <41krbj$pnv@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu> melin@hermes1.sps.mot.com (Darin Melin) writes: >From: melin@hermes1.sps.mot.com (Darin Melin) >Subject: Re: Bar coding and Informix >Date: 25 Aug 1995 11:48:03 -0400 >On 24 Aug 1995, BCFlorian wrote: >> I am currently devolping an…
Re: Bar coding and Informix
On Aug 25, 8:14am, Darin Melin wrote: > Subject: Re: Bar coding and Informix > On 24 Aug 1995, BCFlorian wrote: > > > > > The bar code readers we use will work with ANY software. They are simply > > another input device like your keyboard. > > > > Bill, > > Gee that is very nic…
Re: Bar coding and Informix
In article <41krbj$pnv@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu> melin@hermes1.sps.mot.com "Darin Melin" writes: > On 24 Aug 1995, BCFlorian wrote: > > > The bar code readers we use will work with ANY software. They are simply > > another input device like your keyboard. They can be …
Re: Bar coding and Informix
On 24 Aug 1995, BCFlorian wrote: > I am currently devolping an Informix application that uses bar codes for > input. > > The bar code readers we use will work with ANY software. They are simply > another input device like your keyboard. They can be hooked up on a PC > between …
Re: Bar coding and Informix
In article <kcjDDt9vr.MBn@netcom.com>, Kate Juliff <kcj@netcom.com> wrote: > >Does anyone know if Informix supports bar coding input? Any information >appreciated. > >Kate The way we have done this is. . . INPUT CONTROL-B Call GetBarCodeField_xyz() returni…
Re: Bar coding and Informix
In article <41ithk$p1a@newsbf02.news.aol.com> bcflorian@aol.com "BCFlorian" writes: > I am currently devolping an Informix application that uses bar codes for > input. > > The bar code readers we use will work with ANY software. They are simply > another input device…
Bar coding input for 4gl
Why not write a small c routine to do the job? >In article <kcjDDt9vr.MBn@netcom.com> kcj@netcom.com "Kate Juliff" writes: > Does anyone know if Informix supports bar coding input? Any information > appreciated. >I made this work sme years ago along the lines of a program getti…
Re: Bar coding and Informix
I am currently devolping an Informix application that uses bar codes for input. The bar code readers we use will work with ANY software. They are simply another input device like your keyboard. They can be hooked up on a PC between the keyboard and the keyboard port, or on a u…
Re: Bar coding and Informix
In article <kcjDDt9vr.MBn@netcom.com> kcj@netcom.com "Kate Juliff" writes: > Does anyone know if Informix supports bar coding input? Any information > appreciated. I made this work sme years ago along the lines of a program getting it's input from the bar code reader not the scr…
Re: Bar coding and Informix
In article <kcjDDt9vr.MBn@netcom.com>, Kate Juliff <kcj@netcom.com> wrote: > >Does anyone know if Informix supports bar coding input? Any information >appreciated. There is a demo put together by Mike Reetz in the Denver, CO, user group section of the anon ftp archive at mathcs.…
Bar coding and Informix
Does anyone know if Informix supports bar coding input? Any information appreciated. Kate…
4GL Report/Long Transaction
Hi- I am in the process of debugging a 4GL report. Versions: 4GL 4.10.UE1 ISQL 4.10.UE1 OnLine 4.10.UF3 Running on a Pyramid ES-8(SMP_DC.OSx 1.1-93c063) Problem: The report runs fine if there is a small selection criteria used. However, if a large selection criteria i…
Restore life database backup to testing database
Dear Sir, Our informix Online Engine is version 5.0 and using raw disk device. We try to restore our life database backup to testing database so as to fix a program bug. When restore start, the online engine restore the backup to life database again since the system restore acc…
Re: INFORMIX-Online Dynamic Server intallation
copy the standard onconfig file and make as few changes as possible to the different parameters. after you are sure you can bring informix online, should you begin to make changes to the onconfig parameters. Use ONMONITOR to make the changes. It will protect you from many mista…
INFORMIX-Online Dynamic Server intallation
I'm about to install INFORMIX-Online Dynamic Server V.7.1 on a SPARC 1000. Has anyone installed this database on a sparc before? If yes...do you have any suggestions or could you give me any advice on certain aspects of the installation you felt might be important to take notice?…
QUES: How to get count using OnLine ESQL/C
How can I get the count of records returned after opening the database but before fetching the records? I'm using OnLine 5.01 and ESQL/C. Thanks and have fun! - Bob -- Any opinions are those of the poster and not G-Bar Limited Partnership. gbar@mcs.com…
Re: startlog() messages
The following is an articule I wrote for our User Group Newsletter last year which may be helpful in this discussion on startlog. I needed a way to get more information into the errorlog, and developed the following function, which combined with SCCS provide some very useful info…
Re: More bar codes
Con Woodall (cwoodall@vth1.vth.colostate.edu) wrote: : Does anyone have a snippet of code used to cause a 4gl report to cause : printing of bar codes? Maybe this is something for the FAQ? It is easy to print barcodes from 4GL reports, provided you have a printer with a barcode…
More bar codes
Dear Informix net (Does this qualify as Friends and Family or should they just give us our savings......) Does anyone have a snippet of code used to cause a 4gl report to cause printing of bar codes? I am trying to produce either 3 of 9 or code-a-bar format (and I have just wri…
Re: Bar codes
In article <2vkp6r$fin@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>, cwoodall@vth1.vth.colostate.edu (Con Woodall) writes: The cheapest most simple solution ( caveat: if you already have a HP laserjet III and above) is the HP Barcodes & More Printer Cartridge. It cost around $150 and is available…
Bar codes
What is the cheapest type of printer for producing adequate bar codes. I know that there may be a few "depends on " phrases there. I would like to produce codes on labels on a device that takes up very little desk space. Serial communications is probably necessary as well. If t…
Memory fault/Segmention fault executing a SELECT statement
Hi, i've some serious problems with the following SELECT SELECT a,b,c,d,e,f FROM t1, t2, t3 WHERE joining conditions INTO TEMP t_tmp WITH NO LOG Fields a-f have a size of about 50 Bytes and according to the joining condition the SELECT should retrieve about 120…
Re: Retrieving line number of error with err_get
There are two ways to get file names and line numbers into an error log file in Informix 4GL. One is to use SCCS to insert the line numbers when you check code out. The other is to user cpp and the DEFINES _LINE_ and _FILE_. The following is an articule on the topic that I am w…
Re: ?: Table Restore/Backup :?
In <1993May10.141515.1374@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> aburt@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (Andrew Burt) writes: >I wasn't making myself entirely clear: The restore should then restore >only those pages that reside on the dead chunk. So if table A lived on >chunks 1, 2, and 3, and chunk 2 went …
Re: ?: Table Restore/Backup :?
->From: ijk@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (ihor.j.kinal) ->Subject: Re: ?: Table Restore/Backup :? ->Date: Mon, 10 May 1993 14:13:01 GMT ->Reply-To: ijk@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (ihor.j.kinal) ->Organization: AT&T -> ->> Maybe I'm being simplistic, but wouldn't it make some sense to address ->> t…
Re: ?: Table Restore/Backup :?
Andrew Burt writes: |> |> Maybe I'm being simplistic, but wouldn't it make some sense to address |> this issue? Regardless of mirroring or raid5 type recovery ability, |> Informix still *ought* to provide a way to rebuild a table or all tables |> on a chunk that goes down. It s…
Re: ?: Table Restore/Backup :?
In <1993May10.095816.15007@pyra.co.uk> graeme@pyra.co.uk (Graeme Sargent) writes: >In <1993May8.140157.9963@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> aburt@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (Andrew Burt) writes: >>keep >>track of which chunks a table is on (kept redundantly on different chunks); >>if a chunk is…
Re: ?: Table Restore/Backup :?
> Maybe I'm being simplistic, but wouldn't it make some sense to address > this issue? Regardless of mirroring or raid5 type recovery ability, > Informix still *ought* to provide a way to rebuild a table or all tables > on a chunk that goes down. It sounds simple to me: Have i…
Re: ?: Table Restore/Backup :?
In <1993May8.140157.9963@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> aburt@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (Andrew Burt) writes: >Maybe I'm being simplistic, but wouldn't it make some sense to address >this issue? Regardless of mirroring or raid5 type recovery ability, It depends on how you define the issue. H…
Re: ?: Table Restore/Backup :?
In <1993May7.121212.23160@pyra.co.uk> graeme@pyra.co.uk (Graeme Sargent) writes: >In <1993May05.131535.949@sco.com> chrisw@sco.COM (Christopher J. Wood) writes: >>Is it possible to perform table backups/restores with >>Informix? >No. 6.0 is reputed to have dbspace level backup s…
Re: ?: Table Restore/Backup :?
In <1993May05.131535.949@sco.com> chrisw@sco.COM (Christopher J. Wood) writes: >Is it possible to perform table backups/restores with >Informix? No. 6.0 is reputed to have dbspace level backup support. >For example: if I'm running Informix OnLine and >multiple databases over …
Re: ?: Table Restore/Backup :?
Chris, This will be available when OnLine 6.0 (scheduled towards end of '93 I believe) is released. With 6.0 administrators will have the ability to backup/restore at the dbspace level. Since you can specify which dbspace you wish to create a table or database in, you could cr…
?: Table Restore/Backup :?
Hi, Is it possible to perform table backups/restores with Informix? For example: if I'm running Informix OnLine and multiple databases over multiple disks, would I have to restore the entire database to recover from one (1) disk going bad? Ideally I could simple restore the pa…
table backup/restore question
I tried to post this article yesterday however I doubt it made it outside our site since our news system is flakey. Sorry if this is a re-post. I would like to be able to backup/restore a database table to/from a tarfile (actually any type of file but a tarfile is preferred). …
Re: Copying .dat, .idx files
Mike - > I have a database with over 62000 records stored...The sysmenuitems.dat file > got corrupted and lost along with its index. I am recreating the menus to > get the user interface back. My question is this: If I create a new > database with the functionality of the old…
bar-code reader with I4GL
Forwarded from kjj@phx.mcd.mot.com: > I am looking for some help regarding the use of bar code readers as input > device in Informix 4GL applications. > > I wanted to find out if certain things will work before I go any further > in my development plans. > > What I know so far a…
Bar-code reader input in 4GL
> I am looking for some help regarding the use of bar code readers as input > device in Informix 4GL applications. The Winter 1990 issue of the Informix Tech Notes contains an article on reading ASCII files from within an I4GL program. You might find some of that dis- cussion o…