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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 …
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…
Data restore required from logical log
During activity we have mistakenly drop a partition . Now we want to restore data from logical log partially Kindly guide how we can perform this task. logical log backup is taken at 07:10 (388030) and next backup is take at 07:20 (388031) partition detach and drop time is 07:19 …
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 ------------…
oncheck warning,What impact will it have on the future?
Ok, I make sense. Althrough I can't see that parameter in ONCONFIG, but it really exists with default value. ------------------------------ chuan lu ------------------------------…
Onbar: Failed to determine archive's encryption mode. Error code 2
Hello Jacob, I would allways make backup/restore with -w (whole system backup flag). You can verify this in the ixbar file if the 4th field is set to 1 and 2nd field contains the dbspace name. It is also impossible to mix backup/restore with/without whle system backup flag... May…
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 -------------…
Large memory segment vs smaller ones
No ONCONFIG changes are required. ------------------------------ Doug Lawry Oninit Consulting ------------------------------…
restore through STDIO
HI, ifxclone can change the onconfig on the target instance E.g. it will turn off DIRECT_IO and can also change bufferpool entries! Regards, David. ------------------------------ David Williams ------------------------------…
restoring informix using the onbar command. problem
Which ixbar file ($INFORMIXDIR/etc/ixbar.<server_num>) are you operating on? Was this possibly also affected and had to be restored? Does it contain the backup you're hoping to restore? ------------------------------ Andreas Legner ------------------------------…
Problems with temporary dbspaces
Hello, Change the DBSPACETEMP entry in onconfig file , separated them with semi colon (;), instead of comma (,). Rebounce ids, and see whether the error disappear. Hope it works -Fauziah-…
ontape does not finish the backup: tape full
TAPESIZE in the onconfig set to zero? Backups to disk running into a tape full and asking for a second tape should not happen. Hal Maner M Systems International, Inc.…
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 onmode -d secondary <primary> MUST be done after the physical restore is done and BEFORE any onmode -m or oninit commands are executed on the restored server. If you do not do this, there will be activity in the logs of the restored server and you will not be able to establi…
Undocumented logical log flags
Hi Milan. That flag means we are currently in the process of flushing a log buffer to that log file on disk. An individual flush should be extremely brief but if you've got a lot of logging activity we're constantly writing out log buffers, so you may see that flag under load. It…
Slow running backup
Amit: You can check the progress of archives by zeroing out stats at the beginning of the archive (onstat -z) then monitoring the reads with onstat -D where you can see the heavy read activity slide from one chunk to another dbspace by dbspace. As to causes, heavy update activity…
Phys Log Size Inconsistency?
Disregard. I confused the ONCONFIG parm with the actual phys log. Forgot to actually run onparams! My total bad. DG…
Number of logical logs growing ?
Well, something is causing activity in the instance and consuming logical logs. The timestamps and ordering of the online log seem strange. All those entries on the same second, the backup start entries before the corresponding logical log completing. Is the machine hibernating? …
RSS: Different # CPUs?
Those were my thought exactly. But, was uncertain whether RSS required identical settings in ONCONFIG as the primary. Thank you. DG…
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…
onmode bug discovered (-wf)
Don't believe in a bug here. When starting the server he knows about the onconfig-file from the environment variable ONCONFIG. If you change this variable when the server is running it will not know the new value. Assuming that variable is only read once during the startup of th…
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…
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…
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…
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…
ROOTDBS file
I did not find the AUTOLOCATE parameter in onconfig file as well as onconfig.std file also. Im using IDS 12.10 FC8 version…
Update Statistics
what kind of things could I check in the onconfig file. They are working on getting me IBM technical support help, but that will be a few hours away.…
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
Can you find out whether one of the file systems on this box (not only the = one where ISM would have its devices) is defined with a block size >=20 1024000 (1MB) ? I'm afraid good old ISM isn't prepared for this and would run on a=20 division-by-zero error. From: "Juan Francis…
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…
IDS 12.10 - Query Slow
Hi, I means value on onconfig 12.10 same or better than value onconfig IDS 11.10. i don't copy onconfig file and put on IDS 12.10. I already rebuild of your statistics is highly. We don't have performance issue for overall our system, only a few program, especially program runn…
Failed to recover the logs after restore
Thanks Art. I've restored from our backup and works good now.…
dbaccess dbname hangs for seconds
Hi, I encounter a bizare problem, the connection to database just hangs at random for some seconds (10 to 50), I have nagios which monitor a transactionnal web site and we have noticed today some delay in the pagesn, when I have connected to the database server (Windowsd 2008 R2)…
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 …
ON-Bar database server is dismissing the logical
Thanks Art and Martin. IDS bounce worked as onconfig was changed for LTAPEDEV earlier. Thanks, ~ Pravin Bankar…
DBSPACETEMP Parameter
Hi, The DBSPACETEMP Parameter in onconfig file create automatically the temporally dbspaces ? Or They must be created with onspaces utility. Thanks in advance.…
Salvage inform on who drop a table from logical lo
PLATFORM : AIX INFORMIX VERSION : 11.70FC7 Hi all, we have a database with unbuffered mode and recently we found that there is a missing object. We want to find out who drop that particular object, given the fact that there is not much activities on the box and also all logical…
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…
Informix temp spaces
Hello everyone I have Informix 11.7 with UNBUFFER databases. I'm playing with informix temp dbspaces. I have create 8 temp dbspaces 4 are createt with "T" flag and 4 without, like regular dbspace. All 8 dbspaces are added in DBSPACETEMP on onconfig file. While monitoring temp…
onsmsync
Ben - If BAR_PROGRESS_FREQ was set to > 0, do you see any progress? Otherwise no progress messages are written to the bar_act.log and it's hard to see what progress is being made. I assume this config param would post progress of onsmsync. Anyone know for certain? Thanks - Mark…
sql trace not capturing all activity
Hi, I hope someone can help. I'm trying to trace all activity on one specific database, using commands select sysadmin:task('set sql tracing database add','trace_this_db') from sysmaster:sysdual; and select sysadmin:task('set sql tracing on',150000,'4000b','high','global') from s…
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…
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…
BTS fails after ontape Restore
Hi Mark, Backup is done by 'ontape -s -L 0' Restore was done with 'ontape -r' No extra special parameters. And as I was typing this email, I was collecting the appropriate BTS-related lines from the 4 onconfig's in play (we use a special 'backup' onconfig for ontape). Lo and b…
Root db space fills up
as metioned above, maybe you need set TEMPTAB_NOLOG in you onconfig file…
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?…
Error Message in online.log file
Hi André. What setting do you have for ALRM_ALL_EVENTS in the $ONCONFIG file? I have found "alarmprogram.sh" can loop if set to 1. Regards, Doug Lawry…
RSS not working
Fee disk space on the chunk partition ok on the RSS server? Can you post your onconfig?…
Setup HDR
Sounds like the onconfig has the same STACKSIZE but what both servers read in at initialization is different. Bounce both servers and see if it's fixed.…
Physical Log size 2000 is too small
Hi, the onconfig we are using is from a inf version 9.7 wherein no PLOG_OVERFLOW_PATH located in it. I tried adding it to the onconfig and put a location but the inf instance when restarted still always fails. As for the onmode command we are always using onmode -ky maybe it's b…
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…
ERROR doing ontape
Thanks for your response! So, is it possible to create a new dbspace then set it in $ONCONFIG and restart the instance? best regards…
virtual segment question
Did you try to increase the number of locks in the LOCKS parameter in Onconfig? Lloyd…
ontape error message
Increase the value of TAPESIZE parameter in onconfig and try the backup. Lloyd…
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…
Onconfig name
Hi, I am developing a JDBC application, and need to read from within SQL the onconfig environment variable. From with IDS 11.70, I can extract the need information using the query: select trim(env_value) env_value from informix.sysenv where env_name = 'ONCONFIG'; The code nee…
Problmes using ontape with an IBM TS2900 changer
The TAPEDEV section in the onconfig is as follow: TAPEDEV /dev/IBMTape0 TAPEBLK 512 TAPESIZE 0 We have played with the TAPEBLK from 512 to 4096 to no avail.…
IDS ... TSM
IDS 11.70,.fc3xc Aix 5.3 TSM 6.3 I asked a question the other day about TSM and IDS .. here is what I have found. When a dbspace was dropped from informix, nothing indicated to the sysutils database that this had happened. Thus in the TSM world, that file for the dbspace is stil…
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…
ER queue data
Folks, IDS11.70 FC7, RedHat Linux 5 These days, we are really struggling with Informix ER replication, it just queues data there ( see below, a three site replication Anywhere). The problem started after we upgraded from IDS11.50 FC8 . We were happy with IDS11.50 FC8 and had n…
Problem with ER replication
Is master node restored from backup ? If so, is it possible that point in time restore was performed on the master node, or logical log restore was skipped ? Can you check number of rows in servdef table in syscdr database ? There should be a row for each ER server. Also can yo…
How to set up temporary space per session
True, but I have noticed that you need register previously the temporary dbspace in onconfig file, I thought there was some way to make the settings "on the fly", by session. Roger…
Onmonitor does not display the backup status
Ok LLoyd. Notice that right after your archive backup, SM software starts a logical-log backup, that is returning error 152. It means that another "onbar -b -l " is running. I recommend you to change your SM job definition, since there seems to be a logical-log backup already ru…
recover SQLHOSTS file
Do the onconfig files also have that info?…
Auto Update Stats
Hi, I have one more query. I have the below entries in onconfig file for AUS AUTO_STAT_MODE 1 STATCHANGE 10 USTLOW_SAMPLE 0 Now all my tasks(mon_table_profile,Evaluator and Refresh) running fine at scheduled time. Now when I remove the above entries in onconfig file, still al…
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…
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…
Page size
Where do you set the page size when configuring Informix? I don't see it in the ONCONFIG anywhere.…
Re: manually edit onconfig?
You should never install the new version over the current one. If something goes wrong in the upgrade you'll have much more work to recover. Regards On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 6:38 PM, June Nebab LKINY <jnebab@gmail.com> wrote: > Planning an upgrade to 11.7UC6GE from 11.7UC5GE. I…
RE: manually edit onconfig?
I would give a try to the new onconfig_diff utility, it seems to help you identify and correct some of them.... Check it out! https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/idsteam/entry/how_to_use_the_onconfig_comparison_tool_onconfig_diff3?lang=en Regards. Alexand…
Re: manually edit onconfig?
I'm a big fan of copying the current settings into the new ONCONFIG file. It gives you a good chance to see the new parameters, like those you mentioned - all of which were available in 11.70.xC5 BTW, so someone used an older ONCONFIG instead of editing the new one last time. By…
Re: manually edit onconfig?
Figure out what each of the new ones do, whether you want to use them or not, then add them to your old onconfig. Ideally on a test environment. j. On Dec 17, 2012, at 1:38 PM, June Nebab LKINY wrote: > Planning an upgrade to 11.7UC6GE from 11.7UC5GE. Installing new version o…
manually edit onconfig?
Planning an upgrade to 11.7UC6GE from 11.7UC5GE. Installing new version on same $INFORMIXDIR and on same server. I noticed new onconfig params (ie: AUTO_READAHEAD, NUMFDSERVERS, etc) that are in the UC6GE onconfig.std that are not in my $ONCONFIG. What is the proper way to dea…
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 # 40002
Also set AUTO_REPREPARE 1 in your $ONCONFIG file. Regards, Doug Lawry…
Use of reserved word in the value of a INSERT
ie. INSERT INTO foo (bar) values ('MY SELECT VALUE')…
Re: help with informix on windows oncheck -pr erro
ok sounds like silly question but how do i find out what ONCONFIG variable is on windows ? which is likely to be correct set ONCONFIG=oncfg_apecert.0 ::set ONCONFIG=ONCONFIG.apecert…
ontape backup/restore
Hi, I have IDS version 10: 10.00.FC10W4 and 10.00.UC11 I want to setup two new DB servers with the same versions as above. Using the ontape backup/restore I will restore the original database to the new DB servers. The setup of the new servers should be identical to the old on…
Config Help
Your biggest performance problem is that you are running your server on a VM. IO performance under VMWare is VERY VERY POOR and, as I've said several times already this month, databases live and die on IO performance. Art Art S. Kagel Advanced DataTools (www.advancedatatools.co…
ontape -r Problem
Vouching for myself, an ifx non-expert, could it be that 7.3 backup's are not compatible with 11.70 restore's? If they're not compatible, would an ETL be a viable alternative?…
doubt about parameters (PDQ)
Sorry people, I meant the MAX_PDQPRIORITY 100 onconfig parameter.…
What are best onconfig parameters for a DSS app
Frank.... first question: Is your database installation being made for a production system???? Alexandre Marini IBM Informix Certified Professional v10 / v11.50 / v11.70 IBM Information Management Informix Technical Professional IBM Infosphere DataStage Technical Professional …
transaction quesiton
I have below shell script dbaccess - - <<! 1>>$HOME/log/front.log 2>&1 database $FRONTDB; begin work; update tablenameconfig set active='N'; update tablenameconfig set frontrecycle=$frontrecycle where tablename="$tablename"; update tablenameconfig set active='Y' where frontrecyc…
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 --…
NOFUZZYCKPT: onconfig parameter or environment variable?
Is NOFUZZYCKPT an onconfig parameter or an environment variable? Is there any definitive documentation? Still running IDS 10 on Linux.…
Testing the 'free' versions - moving from Dev edition to Innovator-C
Art, thanks - I've gone for the separate INFORMIXDIR install (just had to change $INFORMIXDIR, $PATH and some paths in $ONCONFIG) and it's come up just fine.…
Spatial Data
hello reading thru the manual states that the ONCONFIG parameters for SBSPACENAME and SYSSBSPACENAME must be set for the default sbspace. We are running an HDR pair and have the parameters set on the Primary Server - does it also need to be set on the Secondary Instance ? thank…
Informix 10.00.TC5 CKPT REQ Logica Log Full
I've called Informix support, the problem is the Informix database consistancy. When Informix restart, it try to recover data from physical and logical log. When Informix was stopped, the long transaction was still active in the logical log so when FAST RECOVERY try to recover …
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…
ONBAR performance tuning
Hello All, Is there any way to tune the performance of backup/restore using onbar and ontape?…
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.…
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…
Quick Recovery
Thanks for the info. If we enable STOP_APPLY, then how we need to keep RSS active (even behind primary) ? Do we need to apply logs (manually) ? Thanks.…
ontape -p/r with changed ROOTPATH
Jack Parker Wrote: ================================================================================ Not sure if you noted that you also need to change your $ONCONFIG = ROOTPATH to point to what is on the backup image. j. ==========================================================…
question about Query with joined view
Have you tried "IFX_FOLDVIEW 1" in your environment or $ONCONFIG file? Regards, Doug Lawry…
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…
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…
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 …
sqlerr:-243 and isam err:-111 in esql/c
This "may" be a good place for USELASTCOMMITTED set to all in the onconfig.…
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…
Primary Slowness when RSS is active
Hi Madison, Next release being Panther or 11.50FC8? Is there any way to get around the issue with the current version? Thanks, Jeff -----Original Message----- From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Madison Pruet Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 3…
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…
AF During Archive - Looks Familiar
No crashes ever on this box - very solid version and OS. We don't have any logged databases and don't backup logs at all. The only logs that get backed up are those that are active during the archive. I had this same issue in the past and may have discussed it with a former IBM c…
Re: RE: new onconfig parameters added onconfig fil
Typically, I make a copy of the onconfig.std, naming it something like cheetah_online. Then I open up both the old and new onconfig, side by side, and copy from old to new. Obviously, the new onconfig has new params that were not addressed in the old onconfig and may have elimina…
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…
Re: RE: new onconfig parameters added onconfig fil
Isn't that what I said? "If you simply just bring up the instance using your old onconfig, I believe that you will get whatever the default is for the new parameters, even though you do not mention them in your old ONCONFIG." -----Original Message----- From: ids-bounces@iiug.or…
new onconfig parameters added onconfig file 11.5
hello folks Can any one tell me at what stage the new onconfig parameters are added to the onconfig file when upgrading from 11.10 to 11.5. I have converted two instances from 11.10 to 11.50 One onconfig file has the new parameters at the end of the file the other doesnt have any…
Re: performance improvements for dbimport?
Thanks for all your valuable input. I changed some parameters now: 21:09:27 Onconfig parameter BUFFERPOOL modified from size=2K,buffers=262144,lrus=8,lru_min_dirty=5.0,lru_max_dirty=10.0 to size=2K,buffers=524288,lrus=8,lru_min_dirty=10.0,lru_max_dirty=50.0. 21:09:27 Onconfig p…
BACKUP_FILTER in onconfig
Hello, when I using BACKUP_FILTER in $ONCONFIG, parameter for "The tape block size, in KB, for backing up logical logs" is NOT LTAPEBLK, but it is TAPEBLK. Everything work fine (LTAPEBKL for logical log) when I turn off BACKUP_FILTER ... This is happening with ontape, with BAC…
garbage text in SHMNOACCESS parameter
On Jan 21, 8:15 am, Ian Michael Gumby <im_gu...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Just a guess. What's the hex value for that string? > grep ^SHMNOACCESS onconfig SHMNOACCESS �����������" ������� grep ^SHMNOACCESS onconfig |cut -c17- �����������" ������� grep ^SHMNOACCESS onconfig…
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 …
DYNAMIC_LOGS in ONCONFIG
Good afternoon, We occasionally have a programmer than needs a large amount of log space to move a very large table. Instead of fiddling with the HTXHWM and LTXEHWM in the ONCONFIG file, has anyone successfully setup DYNAMIC_LOGS with IDS 10.00 on HPUX? Where would the dynamic …
Unsufficient buffer size for error message
Hi Please check your online.log and check also your onconfig file. thanks.…
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,…
on-audit filtering via named pipe?
All: on-audit only allows audit filtering by action (e.g. ACTB) and not by which table is involved. This makes it painful to use the native audit utility when you're only interested in auditing activity on a small handful of tables. I was wondering (haven't actually tried anyth…
physical log might be too small
Hello, We are getting following error while checking checkpoints "Based on the current workload, the physical log might be too small to accommodate the time it takes to flush the buffer pool during checkpoint processing. The server might block transactions during checkpoints. I…
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…
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…
Active transaction logging / Level 0 Backup
Hi, how can I activate transaction logging for a specific database without having to make a level 0 backup for the entire instance producing offline-time for all databases of that instance? Is there somthing like level 0 backup for specific dbspaces? I only found restore with on…
need to backup the individual database
Can i do a fake backup using onbar utility to avoid a forced level 0 backup after restore?…
oninit fails reporting problem with DBSPACETEMP
But in my ONCONFIG file, i have mentioned the tape device as STDIO…
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…
Changing TAPEDEV from script
sed -e 's/^TAPEDEV/TAPEDEV NEW-TAPEDEV/g' onconfig > onconfig.other export ONCONFIG=onconfig.other after finishing just set the ONCONFIG to your default and delete onconfig.other Sebastian…
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 …
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…
Changing the Logging Mode
Hello ! IDS 11.10.FC2W1 on solaris 10. I am use ontape (no onbar) for back up. Q1)I have all my databases in one of the instance in LOGGING mode. for performing a very hectic parallel insert activity on one of my database whre logging is not that important for me i can take a …
Info require about COMMIT
yes ! i am learning the desing with some practicle's in another activity i did the following steps 1.took level 0 bkp (bkp1) on test1 server 2.started ontape -c in one session on test1 server 3.created table salary and inserted 100000 rows 4.interruped the ontape -c with cntrl^…
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 # …
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…
Re: How can fetch cause long transaction
> I have one more question: > > When DYNAMIC_LOG is set 2, does it starts to add more logical logs > dynamically when next logical log in the sequence has open > transaction. Does this become active only during roll back and next > logical log has an open transaction or could it …
Re: onconfig recommendations
mosserp@wellsfargo.com wrote: >> mosserp@wellsfargo.com wrote: >> >>>>> RESIDENT 0 # Forced residency flag >>>>> >>>>> >>>> (Yes = 1, No = >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Don't know HP model numbers, but it this is a PA-RISC machine, you >>>> almost have to …
RE: onconfig recommendations
> mosserp@wellsfargo.com wrote: > >>> RESIDENT 0 # Forced residency flag > >>> > >> (Yes = 1, No = > >> > >>> > >>> > >> Don't know HP model numbers, but it this is a PA-RISC machine, you > >> almost have to set RESIDENT to -1 to prevent poor performance > >>…
Re: onconfig recommendations
mosserp@wellsfargo.com wrote: >>> RESIDENT 0 # Forced residency flag >>> >> (Yes = 1, No = >> >>> >>> >> Don't know HP model numbers, but it this is a PA-RISC machine, you >> almost have to set RESIDENT to -1 to prevent poor performance >> due to the >> archi…
RE: onconfig recommendations
> > RESIDENT 0 # Forced residency flag > (Yes = 1, No = > > > Don't know HP model numbers, but it this is a PA-RISC machine, you > almost have to set RESIDENT to -1 to prevent poor performance > due to the > architectures restrictions of only four active shar…
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…
Re: onconfig recommendations
On Jan 2, 11:09 pm, "Kennedy, Randy" <RKenn...@scottsdaleaz.gov> wrote: > Would like to receive some feedback on our onconfig setup for current > platform. This is the 3rd physical server that the database has moved > to and just want to ensure we are using the best settings for…
[Fwd: Re: onconfig recommendations]
Kennedy, Randy wrote: > Would like to receive some feedback on our onconfig setup for current > platform. This is the 3rd physical server that the database has moved > to and just want to ensure we are using the best settings for given > platform. > > Current Server: HP rp5405 …
Re: onconfig recommendations
On Jan 2, 11:09 pm, "Kennedy, Randy" <RKenn...@scottsdaleaz.gov> wrote: > Would like to receive some feedback on our onconfig setup for current > platform. This is the 3rd physical server that the database has moved > to and just want to ensure we are using the best settings for…
onconfig recommendations
Would like to receive some feedback on our onconfig setup for current platform. This is the 3rd physical server that the database has moved to and just want to ensure we are using the best settings for given platform. Current Server: HP rp5405 4-Way (650 MHz) with 8GB RAM. 1 …
Newbie question-please don't shoot me
I have a newbie question. Please pardon my lack of knowledge with this. I have a Unix server (HP) that houses 2 9.4 Informix database servers (IE: there are 2 separate onconfig files that have unique INFORMIXSERVER parm values). The informix engine stopped (I think because the un…
Informix onconfig file configuration
Hello, We recently moved from a quad proc (hyper threaded to 8), 8GB RAM to a 2 socket dual core, 16GB RAM server. In order to maximize the cores and RAM what entries need to be modified, if any? Thanks, Jared…
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…
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…
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.…
Questions on Informix
Hi, I have been asked to research some details on Informix about which I know very little. Please can somebody advise me or point me in the right direction to where I can find out further information. My questions are:- 1) What is the best way to implement disaster recovery wit…
BAR_MAX_BACKUP and BAR_WORKER_MAX
What's the difference between BAR_MAX_BACKUP and BAR_WORKER_MAX. Both seem to be doing parallel/concurrent log backup. Which one should be specified in onconfig ?…
Fuzzy and Full checkpoint duration
IDS 9.4.FC4/HP-UX 11 It appears that my question was incorrectly phrased, in relation to fuzzy & full checkpoint duration. Therefore, did not get any response. Let me try again by rephasing my question: OnLine logs have got info. about fuzzy and full checkpoints duration. There…
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…
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.…
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: Digital UNIX V4.0F + 7.31.FD1 Performance
Thank you, today on evening we make this changes in $ONCONFIG, restart the machine and hope it works! Greetings from Austria…
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.…
onconfig problem
when i try to initialize server using oninit following message appears on screen "ONCONFIG can only specify a simple filename whith no path components" plz do replay me how to solve this one…
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?…
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…
RE: Listing all the tables in using a dbspace in Informix
> Make sure $INFORMIXDIR and $ONCONFIG are set and that you have > permissions with your login ID to access them. There is also system > tables that can give you this information. System tables which can list out all the tables in a particular dbspace ?…
Re: onconfig
Hello, apart from editing ONCONFIG directly, some parameters are dynamically changeable: Usage: onparams ... -m <param> <value> ... -m - Modify the value of one of the following configuration parameters: AFFAIL, AFCRASH, AFW…
RE: onconfig
I don't run onbar, but I suspect you're right. LTAPEDEV, etc. would also probably be in this group as well. Either way, restore the old onconfig and you're OK. It may be a good idea to check the permissions on the file before you're done, though... --EEM -----Original Me…
Re: onconfig
I think the onbar config parameters can be changed on the fly as well. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Everett Mills" <eemills@nationalbeef.com> To: <informix-list@iiug.org> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 11:45 AM Subject: RE: onconfig > Stan- > TAPEDEV, TAPEBLK and TAPESI…
RE: onconfig
Stan- TAPEDEV, TAPEBLK and TAPESIZE can be modified on the fly through onconfig. Restore your old onconfig and you should be fine. --EEM -----Original Message----- From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:informix-list-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Stan Sent: Friday, …
onconfig
Hello. What will happen when during work (online state) IDS unfortunately someone modify onconfig. Which paramaters takes effect immediately (without restrart IDS). Thanks in advance Stan…
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 …
Informix produces error -1263 after system time is changed
Also I forgot to mention that the onconfig USEOSTIME is set to 1 (gets time from the host)…
Re: infdump
couldn't we at least ask him for a tiny snippet of his online.log - maybe there's more wisdom in such file than you might imagine. Tip: set MSGPATH (in onconfig) to ... ... and don't forget to restart the engine ;-)…
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…
HELP : All logical logs are FULL
Hi All Thanks for your response. I solved the "All logical logs are FULL" . I did the following : ShutdownServer : onmode -ky Change Onconfig : LTAPEDEV in the onconfig to /DEV/NULL Restart Server : oninit After RECOVERY : onmode -ky Change Onconfig : LTAPEDEV change…
Re: Performance tuning suggestions needed
On 1 Oct 2006 20:10:51 -0700, calyanram@hotmail.com wrote: >this my onconfig file. > ...onconfig file snipped... Please give us a bit more information. Hardware specs (number of CPUs, memory, OS. etc.) would be good . . . JWC…
SHMADD and EXTSHMADD
Hi, What is the difference between SHMADD and EXTSHMADD? We know the meaning of the SHMADD onconfig parameter. Thanks, Khaled Bentebal ConsultiX Email: khaled.bentebal@consult-ix.fr…
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…
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: Logging of DBA activity for SOX
It's helpful to see these answers. I also have a need to evaluate the controls for database management relating to Informix. Does anyone know where to find an audit program for the "internal controls" for a Informix database. (From an auditor perspective, controls apply accross a…
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…
DBSPACETEMP
Hello All, Just a quick question for you to ponder. Is it possible to include random dbscpaces in the DBSPACETEMP parameter with the onconfig file to prevent space problems in the temp dbspace when creating indexes etc. on very large tables?…
Re: Logging of DBA activity for SOX
On 31 Jul 2006 05:21:05 -0700, SteveT68@gmail.com wrote: > I am not an Informix DBA, but have been challenged with implementing a > logging solution for Sarbanes Oxley compliance. Bad luck - that you got the assignment. I wish you good luck in achieving the "solution". What w…
Re: ONCONFIG and AIX
Hi, I would enable KAIO, too. Apart from KAIO the B-Tree Scanner usually benefits from some configuration: >From my experience increasing threshold (default: 500) reduces I/O significantly, enabling range scans (rangesize=500), too. BTSCANNER num=1,prio=low,threshold=50…
Re: Logging of DBA activity for SOX
SteveT68@gmail.com wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I am not an Informix DBA, but have been challenged with implementing a > logging solution for Sarbanes Oxley compliance. > > What we would like to do is log all activity on the database by the > Informix DBA's. In particular, we would like…
Re: Logging of DBA activity for SOX
SteveT68@gmail.com said: > Hi Guys, > > I am not an Informix DBA, but have been challenged with implementing a > logging solution for Sarbanes Oxley compliance. > > What we would like to do is log all activity on the database by the > Informix DBA's. In particular, we would like …
Logging of DBA activity for SOX
Hi Guys, I am not an Informix DBA, but have been challenged with implementing a logging solution for Sarbanes Oxley compliance. What we would like to do is log all activity on the database by the Informix DBA's. In particular, we would like to include log on/off activity, plus …
RE: ONCONFIG and AIX
> -----Original Message----- > From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:informix-list- > bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of tomcaml@yahoo.com > Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 12:57 PM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: ONCONFIG and AIX > > Hello All, > > I am looking for feed…
ONCONFIG and AIX
Hello All, I am looking for feedback, comments, etc. We are currently on IDS 10.FC4 on HP-UX 11 - migrating to IDS 10.FC5 on AIX on an LPAR partition on the i595 I have gotten this message in the log while performing some loads/alter tables/indexes, etc in development phase.…
Parametro TXTIMEOUT
Hola, quisiera saber si alguno de ustedes me puede informar que quiere decir el parametro del onconfig TXTIMEOUT 0x12c, a cuantos segundos se refiere. Gracias de antemano. Salu2...…
Re: checkpoint problem
On 19 Jun 2006 23:57:34 -0700, mchivaviro@okzim.co.zw wrote: > >I am runnind IDS 7.31 on HPUX 11 and my check points a taking too long. >What do I need to change. > >12:03:10 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 21 seconds. >12:09:48 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 34 secon…
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…
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…
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.…
HP Data Protector restore
Hello, How can I restore informix backup on other instance with Data Protect.…
Re: Thoughts on Logical Log use requested
Hi, that is no problem. Assuming you do backup your logs the only thing you need to be concerned with is that the backup of the logs can keep up with the logs filling. If log backup falls too much behind (e.g. 40 or 60 log files behind), then there is a chance that during a hig…
Can't INSERT blob into specific blob space using JDBC
I tried an example with 3.00.JC3 and it works fine without having a default SBSPACENAME in the onconfig file. VG.…
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…
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…
Re: Validating the 'SBSPACENAME' sblobspace
"Is a command-line call significantly different from file system access?" Well for SQL yes. In sysmaster.sysconfig there is a cf_effective column. This is the value in use by the database server NOW, this does not have to match the ONCONFIG value. You can change the onconfig …
Need to create my own environment variable in Informix
By clients do you mean connecting clients or customers? If you mean different customers then... Use m4 or cpp to preprocess the sql that creates the triggers. 1. Have two directory ../triggers/released and ../triggers/active 2. In the released directory have a single sql file…
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.…
Long transaction aborted in Informix IDS 7.31
Hi, I am running under Informix IDS 7.31 under Solaris 9 a data load on a database with logging mode actived (transactional). Qhen I execute my load query appears the following message: 458: Long transaction aborted. 847: Error in load file line 329334. It seems a problem …
Long transaction aborted in Informix IDS 7.31
Hi, I am running under Informix IDS 7.31 under Solaris 9 a data load on a database with logging mode actived (transactional). Qhen I execute my load query appears the following message: 458: Long transaction aborted. 847: Error in load file line 329334. It seems a problem …
v 9 stopping
search for a dir called informix (assume you installed it there) in there you should have a subdir called etc in there you should find a file called onconfig.<informixserver> search for MSGPATH which has the name of your logfile Superboer.…
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 …
Re: Long checkpoint duration
Keith wrote: > During the checkpoint, do you see activity from the flushers? Does No activity at all! > onstat -F show them active. Do you see write activity for those guys > with onstat -u? Do you see chunk writes with onstat -D? No nothing, it really seems to "hang". But t…
Long checkpoint duration
During the checkpoint, do you see activity from the flushers? Does onstat -F show them active. Do you see write activity for those guys with onstat -u? Do you see chunk writes with onstat -D? What's your checkpoint interval? lru max dirty? lru min dirty? How big is your phs…
Datetime of Altered Table
The column created in systables is the last time an alter table was run on that table. The only way of determinine when the last activity (excluding select) is to trawl through the logs with onlog, assuming you have sufficient logs to trawl through and you have not done your own …
Redirected restore failure
>From the backup and restore manual renaming chunks duing a restore..key considerations... "During a cold restore, ontape performs the following validations to rename chunks: 3. If renaming the primary root or mirror root chunk, it updates the ONCONFIG file parameters ROOTPATH…
onbar_backup
Hello, i am using informix 9.x on windows 2000 platform and i want to take a backup (logical log backup) by means of onbar by setting LTAPEDEV to c:\\\\backup_log.txt (because i want backup results go to disk on file c:\\\\backup_log.txt rather than tape) and alarmprogram.bat is…
hyperthreading and onconfig parameters
We are upgrading our database servers to HP ProLiant DL380 G4 two-way systems. This platform supports enabling or disabling "hyperthreading". (See, for example, http://sysadminforum.com/t36970.html.) With hyperthreading enabled, the OS (Solaris 9, x86) sees 2 logical processors …
RE: recording ONCONFIG changes
Tripwire or AIDE would do the trick too. -----Original Message----- From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Leffler Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 2:16 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: recording ONCONFIG changes mw…
Re: recording ONCONFIG changes
mweallans@panacea.co.uk wrote: > Scanning the old messages I came across a "suspicion" from Neil Truby > that IDS 9.2 was't recording all changes to ONCONFIG in the message > log. > I've recently spent many days trying to find why a problem had recurred > and eventually I discove…
recording ONCONFIG changes
Scanning the old messages I came across a "suspicion" from Neil Truby that IDS 9.2 was't recording all changes to ONCONFIG in the message log. I've recently spent many days trying to find why a problem had recurred and eventually I discovered that it was because a previous change…
Re: ONCONFIG - comments
Juan Pablo wrote: My comments below: > 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 tiem…
Re: ONCONFIG - comments
"Juan Pablo" <in4mixperu@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:1120173312.07d6de6c2486de67e3cad47cd40e6341@teranews... > > 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 > ====================…
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…
ONCONFIG - comments
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 dejando mi archivo ONCONFIG para pode…
ONCONFIG - comments
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 dejando mi archivo ONCONFIG para…
Process exited with return code 142: -logical logs
Hi, check what's in the ON-Bar activity log file (for pathname of the file check BAR_ACT_LOG in your onconfig file). Regards, Martin -- Martin Fuerderer IBM Informix Development Munich, Germany Information Management forum.subscriber@iiug.org wrote on 29.06.2005 10:37:19: > > …
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…
ONCONFIG comments
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 dejando mi archivo ONCONFIG para pod…
ONCONFIG comments
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 dejando mi archivo ONCONFIG par…
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: New installation
Yes I agree with Brian, you put something in the onconfig that required 161MB but you have defined the root dbs size 60MB that is not enought to cover all the requests. Check the PHYSFILE, LOGFILES LOGSIZE in the ONCONFIG file. If you need more help give us the full ONCONFIG. b…
Help with ONCONFIG needed
Having a problem with a client connection to an informix database. The server has two databases, db1 and db2. Each database has a separate ONCONFIG file which lists the different db names in them. ONCONFIG_db1 includes db1,but not db2 in the DBSERVERNAME/DBSERVERALIAS …
Informix History Log
Hi, Does Informix 9.x supports a History Log? (Who and when was logged in, = what he did or tried to do?). =20 After a little search (Trusted Facility Manual) I found that Informix = supports an Auditing mechanism that has to be activated.=20 Does any one has implement it?=20 Wh…
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…
The onconfig FILLFACTOR
My day for asking questions ... but that is how one gains knowledge :) The lead DBA for the company for which I am now working for as a consultant wants to establish an initial FILLFACTOR of 100 for those indices that represent a serial column. Since none of the tables having a…
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…
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 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…
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…
Cleared 1935 MB of the physical and logical logs in 1035 seconds...
--0-483730676-1101288734=:72855 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi all! IDS 9.30.UC3 on Sun Solaris 8. I have a small system with high transaction activity and near 2Gb of logical logs. During logical restore phase with ontape I see near 20 minutes cleanup: --------…
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…
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…
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 …
Catching runnig SQLs
Consider using I-Spy. See http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/informix/tools/ispy/ From the manual: I-Spy provides the following query monitoring and control features: - Logging SQL statement text and various statistics related to the statement, such as total time of execu…
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…
RE: parametros ONCONFIG
Los parametros del ONCONFIG que tienes que setear para inicializar tu instancia como MINIMO son: ROOTPATH Path completo del chunk creado para almacenar el root Dbspace ROOTSIZE Tama�o del chunk en Kbytes (Ejemplo: 2048000 # 2Gb) DBSERVERNAME Nombre l�gico del server.(Eje…
parametros ONCONFIG
Me podrian ayudar con los parametros del ONCONFIG. No las tengo muy clara cada parametro, por lo que la misma me trae problemas para el momento que quiero OPTIMIZAR el servidor de bases de datos. Si alguien me puede ayudar a conocer mejor cada uno de estos parametros .... les agr…
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 …
onconfig for analisis
Hi, I post the onconfig file for its analisis: Operating System: SuSE 9.0 RAM: 1024 Mb Informix version: 9.40 UC2 All chunks are raw devices. Thanks. #************************************************************************** # # INFORMIX SOFTWARE, INC. # # Title: onconfig…
ONCONFIG for 9.40 offered for comment
9.40 FC3W2 on HP-UX 11.11 The server has 6 cpus and 6G of RAM. 3 other, small, IDS 9.40 instances run on the server, and one small 7.31. kaio is enabled. Just put 9.40 live, and it's running about 5-10% more slowly on some key processes. This reflects what happened in testing. …
Re: OnConfig parameters tuning
Laverio wrote: > Hi guys, I'm trying to speed up an IDS 9.30 on a Sun 7.5 system w/ > 2Gb ram and 4 processors that seems very slow on a large sequential > write (I suppose that the problem resides in the dbspaces on > filesystem...). Any suggestion? The following is my standard…
Re: How to change number of logical log files ?
Tsutomu Ogiwara wrote: > Hi Jenifer. > > If you want to more logical logs, try the following. > > Modify LOGFILES in $INFORMIXDIR/etc/$ONCONFIG > LOGFILES 6 # Number of logical log files > > Change 6 to XX. > > Bounce engine. I didn't know this works - i'd h…
Re: OnConfig parameters tuning
"Laverio" <laverioNO@z-1000.net> wrote in message news:cac7sg$e8v$1@newsreader.mailgate.org... > Hi guys, I'm trying to speed up an IDS 9.30 on a Sun 7.5 system w/ 2Gb ram > and 4 processors that seems very slow on a large sequential write (I suppose > that the problem resides in…
Re: OnConfig parameters tuning
Laverio wrote: > Hi guys, I'm trying to speed up an IDS 9.30 on a Sun 7.5 system w/ 2Gb ram > and 4 processors that seems very slow on a large sequential write (I suppose > that the problem resides in the dbspaces on filesystem...). Any suggestion? > > My onconfig it's set as fol…
OnConfig parameters tuning
Hi guys, I'm trying to speed up an IDS 9.30 on a Sun 7.5 system w/ 2Gb ram and 4 processors that seems very slow on a large sequential write (I suppose that the problem resides in the dbspaces on filesystem...). Any suggestion? My onconfig it's set as follow: # System Configura…
Transaction Logging issues
WWe have a rather bizarre database environment which uses separate databases for separate processes. None of the db's had trans logging, so we turned it on for some of the most active. We just found out the hard way that you can't turn on trans. logging for a subset of our databa…
RE: Maximum Server Connections
Jane Vohden wrote: > I'm sorry, I guess my onconfig file didn't attach. I've included it in > the > text here. I have tried the several variations of NETTYPE. What vairiration have tried you? Am thinking the suggested I make will help, you have tried them? > Thanks for any…
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…
Howto for Onconfig
Hi everyone, This is probably a question which has been asked often. But I could not find proper documentation on how to calculate and set correct parameters for Onconfig. I understand this is a complex question. But are there any articles on this ? Maybe they covered the topic …
RE: Performance advice
On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 03:00:06 -0400, Willem Roos wrote: > I've been led to believe that all logged temp table activity goes to rootdbs > and all unlogged activity goes to temp dbspaces. Yes, no? <SNIP> If there are no 'normal' dbspaces listed in DBSPACETEMP then logged temp tabl…
Re: Performance advice
Willem Roos wrote: > I've been led to believe that all logged temp table activity goes to > rootdbs and all unlogged activity goes to temp dbspaces. Yes, no? By default. But when u have multiple disks you can spread the load. The applications I mess with tend to do a fair number…
RE: Performance advice
Well, Following up on two points : Willem Roos wrote: > I've been led to believe that all logged temp table activity goes to > rootdbs and all unlogged activity goes to temp dbspaces. Yes, no? > > Nearly : All logged temp table activity goes to the dbspace where the database …
Re: ontape vs onbar
Colin Bull wrote: >> Ontape is quick and easy, but does not guarantee consistent >> restores if databse is active when backed up. Sorry, but Wrong! I hope someone else refuted this statement. ontape puts in a lot of effort to ensure a consistent point-in-time backup of an activ…
Re: ontape vs onbar
Ontape can be used with logs to give consistent restores if the database is active in the same way onbar can. The only snag I am aware of is that if you only have one backup device you have to stop backing your logs to tape while you perform the ontape archive. onbar's major be…
RE: ontape vs onbar
brett wrote > > Is onbar a viable backup solution with IBS 9.x or is ontape > still the best ? > > I keep reading in the newsgroup, talk about using ontape as > backup and not > onbar. Why ? > Ontape is quick and easy, but does not guarantee consistent restores if databse is a…
Re: Where to put logs in a RAUD 1+0 system
On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 03:57:48 -0500, Andy Kent wrote: I mostly agree with Andy, put everything on the single RAID10 array. If the server were to be heavily loaded with update activity then perhaps you could make a case for reserving one pair of drives for a mirror (RAID1) to con…
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…
SHARED MEMORY LIMIT
Is posible to use with informix of 32 bits more than 2GB of shared memory in a Linux Machine? The base address in onconfig is: SHMBASE 0x41000000 Thanks in advance,…
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…
ER - Log space too small ?
"Madison Pruet" <mpruet@comcast.net> a �crit dans le message de news:EwgKb.750591$Tr4.2076788@attbi_s03... > The message is displayed based on an internal analysis of log consumption > and replay position advancement. I would guess that you have some periodic > large consumption…
Changing database local / dbexport tapesize
Hi, Did you change TAPESIZE on your onconfig file? That could be the restriction! REGARDS…
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…
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…
Re: onconfig and sqlhosts
Hi Thomas. Administrator's Guide for Informix Dynamic Server, Version 7.3 http://www-3.ibm.com/software/data/informix/pubs/library/ids_73.html HTH. -- Tsutomu Ogiwara from Tokyo Japan. ICQ#:168106592 >From: Thomas Ronayne <trona@ameritech.net> >Reply-To: Thomas Ronayne <trona…
onconfig and sqlhosts
I've managed to blow away my installed Informix system and cannot for the life of me find the notes I had about onconfig and sqlhosts. It's version 7.30.UC5 running on Slackware 9.0 -- can someone point me at the right document in Answers for the appropriate settings? Thanks.…
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: Clarification on ONBAR restore.....
You could try using HDR - once the level 0 has been restored to the new server (physical restore only) initiate HDR. All logged activity will be replicated to the new server. Once you are happy with the new server, switch it to standard mode, point the users at it, and then you c…
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…
I can't install IDS in domain.
I have logged-in as Domain Administrator and I want to install IDS in my Active Directory. but error occurs, "Failed to create the informix IDS = ids0000 service to run under DOMAINNAME\\informix account. This is a result of a synchronization delay between the domain controller(…
Re: Onconfig file parameters
Sometimes even the ontape parameters (TAPEDEV, LTAPEDEV, TAPESIZE, etc.) are not dynamic. What you can do is change a parameter in the onconfig file and then dump out the reserve page that holds the onconfig parameters with: oncheck -pP 1 1 Hope this suggestion helps. Brice Av…
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 ?…
onbar error on openserver 5.05
when I backup small data ,backup and restore all are normal.…
Re: Logging with CREATE INDEX
Andy, Yes, all system level activity is still logged but dat level activity is not. That includes database schema changes and space allocation, even if the database has NO LOG. You can easily confirm this by doing the CREATE INDEX and then using onlog to look at the output. An…
RE: HPL Unloading error [1467]
Here's my onconfig file SHMVIRTSIZE 147456 SHMADD 8192 SHMTOTAL 0…
onconfig file
The system administrator at my current site thought he would be very clever and he linked the onconfig files to different directories using ln -s. We have now discovered that these links are being lost when we use onmonitor and replaced by a local file, but not when we use vi. I…
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.…
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…
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
We are currently using ontape, and are planning to convert to ON-BAR. I am doing to RTFM work right now, but was wondering if there was anything else that any of you could add to make my experience less painful. We were going to use the ISM that comes for AIX, since we are using…
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…
SET LOG question
Bogdan Neagu wrote: > > Hi all. > > Let's say I have a database with Buffered Logging. > > I open a session and do a SET LOG; that redefines the logging mode to > unbuffered for this session only ( yes ? no ?) Yes. > How can I retrieve the logging mode of the session ? > > Does…
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…
IDS 7.31.Txx Windows NT Alaramprogram
i have change the path in the onconfig-file and restart the server but the alarmprogram will not be start if a event (logs) a generated! thomas…
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…
Re: ONCONFIG History
put it under source code control? SCCS and RCS are free tools and dont take too much resources. HTH Sujit testNews <mtabunda@amellar.com> on 10/04/2000 09:05:30 PM Please respond to testNews <mtabunda@amellar.com> To: informix-list@iiug.org cc: Subject: ONCONFIG History I…
RE: ONCONFIG History
Look at your online message log onstat -c |grep MSG -----Original Message----- From: testNews [mailto:mtabunda@amellar.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 9:06 PM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: ONCONFIG History Is there a way to know/track the changes made to ONCONFIG …
RE: ONCONFIG History
Changes are recorded in the message log at startup. Wayne E. Martin Informix Database Administrator Kmart Corp. -----Original Message----- From: testNews [mailto:mtabunda@amellar.com] Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 12:06 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: ONCONFIG History…
ONCONFIG History
Is there a way to know/track the changes made to ONCONFIG files?…
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…
TBLSPACE_STATS
Hi, what is the meaning of TBLSPACE_STATS variable in onconfig file? thank in advance.…
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.…
RE: Why is rootdbs busy?
Have you moved your logical logs and physical log into different dbspaces? If not, that will explain high I/O activity in rootdbs. -----Original Message----- From: B. Dana [mailto:bgdana@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 16:13 To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Why i…
Query Optimization: Wrong execution plan?
Xavi Tarafa Mercader wrote: > Any suggestion about how to improve the query performance? Set OPTCOMPIND parameter ( in onconfig file ) to 0. > Xavi. Leonid.…
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 …
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…
Onconfig Tweak Problem
Informix 7.30.TC7 on WINNT Server I'm opening up here and exposing my lack of knowledge so go gently on me. I've been tweaking my onconfig file to enhance performance and today I see an warning error in my online log. "Physical Log size 20000 is too small. Physical Log overflow…
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.…
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…
WSTATS and Performance
Hi, does anybody know the performance degradation by setting WSTATS 1 in the onconfig file? Is this 1%, 5% or 10% ??? TIA Ruediger Papke…
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…
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 *******************…
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…
OnLine Initialization failure.
Hi guys, I got the following Alarm message : Tue Jun 13 13:44:39 PDT 2000 Severity : 3 OnLine Initialization failure. WARNING! Physical Log size 40960 is too small. Physical Log overflows may occur during peak activity. Recommended minimum Physical Log size is 20 times maximum …
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)…
Re: Newbie question on logs
Whenever you backup the logs whether using onbar or ontape the flags will still say U-B and 100% used, it will only say 0% when you first create the log. When you create a new logical log the flag will display A which represents a newly added flag, this is still unusable. In ord…
Re: Newbie question on logs
From: "PS" <no@mail.please> > >How to empty the logical logs > >I tried to backup ( onbar -l ...) , but still they are full. >I also tried to create a 11th log, but it is marked as NEw, Inactive ! How >to activate it ? onbar -b will activate your new log, but what you should be …
Newbie question on logs
How to empty the logical logs I tried to backup ( onbar -l ...) , but still they are full. I also tried to create a 11th log, but it is marked as NEw, Inactive ! How to activate it ? Thanks…
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 …
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…
Re: Memory problems? Please help.
>>What is the connection type? shm or soc ? >> >What are these? See NETTYPE in your onconfig file. HTH Michael…
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.…
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…
IDS on Linux weirdnesses
Peter Eckhardt wrote: > > Hello to all, > > after we had a catastrophich failure yesterday (finally the restore from > tape > worked and everything seems to run smoothly again) i have some questions > about Linux and IDS. > > We made the following observations > > 1. > - when MUL…
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…
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…
Log space
Hi, Is there any "rule of thumb" that would give me an idea how much logical log space we need? In the Administrator's quide their give a following formula: TOTAL LOGSPACE = (users * maxrows) * 512 Is this working? What does the "maxrows" mean? I know there are several factor…
Re: Dumb question
Sorry all, I think I found the answer to my own dumb question in the documentation (last place I would have thought to look). "The database server uses the ONCONFIG file during initialization" >Is it safe to edit my onconfig file when the database is live ? > >Or should I stop…
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.…
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,…
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…
Lock Table Overflow - onconfig
We get an error in the Informix log-file. Lock table overflow. What do we have to change in the onconfig-file ? Kind Regards, Franky Thiel franky.thiel@Infohos.be…
Re: Tape drive or No tape drive ?
Octav has it right. In a power failure the engine should come up just fine. Remember that logs with active transactions are NEVER archived so after a power failure the engine will go through fast recovery fine. Now depending on the logging mode of your database you will either…
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 =…
Setting up shared memory connection
Did you add the DBSERVERALIASES line in the onconfig file? -- James Edmiston Quest Information Systems, Inc. www.questisinc.com…
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…
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…
Re: ontape in HP-UX
You need verify the sintax of onconfig file for this entries: TAPEDEV /dev/rmt/0m # Tape device path TAPEBLK 512 # Tape block size (Kbytes) TAPESIZE 7800000 # Maximum amount of data to put on tape (Kbytes) (This is my onconfig fil…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Re: Informix 7.3 UC5 on RH Linux 5.2
Additional INFO: Please see attached "sqlhosts" and ONCONFIG files...…
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…
Re: onconfig parameters
> onstat -c shows you the contents of the ONCONFIG file, but then so does vi > $INFORMIXDIR/etc/$ONCONFIG. Perhaps I did not understand the question? Does onstat -c reflect changes made by onmode commands? I should try that and see...that, to me, would be the compelling reason …
Re: onconfig parameters
Thomas onstat -c shows you the contents of the ONCONFIG file, but then so does vi $INFORMIXDIR/etc/$ONCONFIG. Perhaps I did not understand the question? HTH Sujit "Thomas G. Smith" <tsmith@wdn.com> on 04/28/99 12:19:10 PM Please respond to "Thomas G. Smith" <tsmith@wdn.com> …
onconfig parameters
Is there a command to force the engine to show me what all the onconfig parameters (and other perhaps unknown parameters) have been set to?…
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…
onconfig tuning
Hi all! I have posted to the web my collection of notes on onconfig parameters. It is not yet complete but pretty far along. http://home.earthlink.net/~mildness/bamph/informix.htm It has helped me over the years to have this list in my PDA. If you think it useful feel free…
Re: changing size of logs
Personally I like about 100 logs and try to scale then so only 75% are used during the processing day. I have no strong reasons for doing this I just find it works well for me, but like every hard and fast rule it's often changed :-) My 2c Paul Watson ---------- From: Mark D…
Re: changing size of logs
>Neil Truby wrote: >> >> Don't you think 1 megabyte logs is taking this a bit too far, though? > Mark wrote: >In general I would agree. But it depends on the transaction activity and >how quickly logs fill. It might take a day to fill a 5Mb log, so 1Mb >could take an hour or so.…
Re: changing size of logs
Neil Truby wrote: > > Don't you think 1 megabyte logs is taking this a bit too far, though? In general I would agree. But it depends on the transaction activity and how quickly logs fill. It might take a day to fill a 5Mb log, so 1Mb could take an hour or so. The other consider…
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 …
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)…
Regarding calling an INFORMIX procedure from a UNIX shell script
I use dbaccess for this purpose. Syntax is "dbaccess <database> <text file with sql commands>. Just be sure your informix environment variables are set properly (INFORMIXSERVER, ONCONFIG).…
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.…
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…
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…
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: IECC Server Discovery Failed 2nd
Hi Dale, sorry for not reading your article correctly: Are both agents running admagent and osagent ? If so, when you run stopsa, do both stop? If not, kill them and run startsa again. Is your onconfig still up to date? The agents seem to take all information from onconfig ra…
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…
Re: How i can active Transaction Log system ?
Pedro Ramirez wrote: > > I' have INFORMIX-ON LINE 5.08 in Aix 4.2.1, and Database work without > Transaction Log. I tray execute command : 'START DATABASE base WITH LOG IN > ....' and report this message: > > 554: Syntax disallowed in this database server. > > Thanks. Hi…
Re: How i can active Transaction Log system ?
Pedro Ramirez wrote: >I' have INFORMIX-ON LINE 5.08 in Aix 4.2.1, and Database work without >Transaction Log. I tray execute command : 'START DATABASE base WITH LOG IN >....' and report this message: > > 554: Syntax disallowed in this database server. > > Thanks. > It's On…
How i can active Transaction Log system ?
I' have INFORMIX-ON LINE 5.08 in Aix 4.2.1, and Database work without Transaction Log. I tray execute command : 'START DATABASE base WITH LOG IN ....' and report this message: 554: Syntax disallowed in this database server. Thanks.…
Updating databases
What must be done,eg onconfig, to get the fastest result on updating a database alter tables, inserts etc.…
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…
ONCONFIG on UNIX
What kind of use if the parameter "SYSALARMPROGRAM" for. And which input parameters are used. Thanks for mailing to baumschlager@pfeiffer.co.at…
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…
sizes in onconfig
OWS 7.2 on SCO UNIX: Does anybody know why all sizes of dbspaces or logs, etc. are just half as big as they are in the onconfig file. If I check the size of a dbspace, for example, its file size is 2 GByte, but oncheck -pe says it's 1 GByte. Thanks in advance, Pascal…
Re: Logical Log Sizing
The actual log size is not as imporatant as the total span size of all logs. You'll need to gather the requirements of log space needed by your transactions (use onlog utility for this). I'd also suggest taking a peak period of activity to do your sizing for. -Bill > > We are us…
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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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: Logging of database activity
Peter, Take a look at auditing. There is a guide called "Trusted Facility Manual - Version 7.2" that covers this. -jeff…
Logging of database activity
Maybe the utility onlog will help. It is discribed in "Informix Online Dynamic Server Administrator's Guide Vol. II" Wolfgang…
Logging of database activity
We have Informix dynamic server 7.22. We need to log the users activity on the database. I do not want to work via stored procedures and triggers if possible. Is there a way to use the logical logs for such a purpose ? Is there a document which describes the structure of the log…
Re: Doubt regarding L.Log size
Sadagopan, Sathish wrote: > > Hi, > LOGSIZE in the onconfig is shown as 1000 Kb, whereas size in onstat -l shows > > a figure of 5000 , Page size is 2K. > How can that be ? It looks like someone used onparams to add logfiles with sizes different from that stored in the onconfig.…
Doubt regarding L.Log size
Hi, LOGSIZE in the onconfig is shown as 1000 Kb, whereas size in onstat -l shows a figure of 5000 , Page size is 2K. How can that be ? TIA Sathish…
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…
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…
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: Size on Ontape Backup
Hi, >****************************************** The following types of page in chunks are not archived: 1) Phyiscal log extent 2) Pages in chunk free lists : those not allocated pages 3) Pages used by temp table, of course, chunks in dbspaces set with temporary flag 4) Pages all…
why archive vary in size
Hi, We are doing archive level 0 to disk daily. We noticed that the size of the file goes up and down greatly, more than the activities of the database itself. We have asked Informix, they dont have explanation. One guy said that it's because of logical logs that being backed u…
My weird problems
Thanks to all who replied. The Logical Log problem was with memory parameters in the onconfig file. DBSPACETEMP problem still exists however Regards Lee Robertson…
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. -------------------…
Onconfig Question
I sent this a few weeks ago and didn't get any responses. I am rephrasing the heading and trying again. We are not currently having any performance problems, but I am interested in hearing some opinions from the experts out here. One of our systems is as follows: Sun SPARCcen…
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…
Re: Checking datatype of CHAR variable in 4GL
Alan Denney writes: > If the log contents matter that much to you, you can stop and start > error logging when you change WHENEVER from STOP to CONTINUE and vice-versa. What's the format of the 4GL statement to stop error logging when you change WHENEVER from STOP to CONTINUE ?…
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…
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: 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…
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: Freeing Logical Log with Status U
What's LOGFILES set to in your onconfig file? Try forcing a checkpoint? Jon.…
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 …
Re: Logical Logs on OWS 7.20 UC2
ramp wrote: > > What i don�t know is what happen when the logical logs get full in a not > transactional evironment and with then devicel for logical logs set to > /dev/null . I will get a dead lock or the logs get empty when On-Line > need more space. If the LTAPEDEV=/dev/null …
XBSA API
We are running Solaris 2.51 and have SOLASTICE as our storage manager. Has anyone used this with On-Bar?…
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…
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…
Transaction logging
OK, here's a quick one. A quick look at the Databases option from the main menu of tbmonitor shows that neither of the databases on our system uses logging (I didn't set the system up!!). BUT, we have had problems with the logical logs filling up due to a long transaction (messag…
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. …
Re: Logical log could not be freed !
Since 7.11 the logical log is not marked as free until it is about to be re-used. This change was necessary to allow HDR and ER to function. Basically the only difference between the Free state and Used/Backed-Up is that the Free state does not have the unique id in the log desc…
Re: oninit -r
In article <5lqin1$i9m@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, thucn@email.utcourts.gov (Thuc Nguyen) wrote: > Hi everyone, > >I restored a full system from the tape and then started online. I checked >onlog file. The warning message: Physical Log size 0 is too small. >Physical Log overflows…
oninit -r
Hi everyone, I restored a full system from the tape and then started online. I checked onlog file. The warning message: Physical Log size 0 is too small. Physical Log overflows may occur during peak activity. Recommended minimum Physical Log size is 20 times maximum concurrent …
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 …
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…
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…
Re: Resizing Logical Logs
Also, there is a MAXLOGS parameter in the onconfig file that should be increased. Madison Pruet…
Re: Why long transaction cannot rollback?????
I am not sure whether this applies to your version of Informix; however, I was told in a performance and tuning class that the system will examine the logical logs after passing the high water mark and examine the processes active in the current logical log. If one has five logic…
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…
Re: ONCONFIG
Kerry Davids wrote: > > Jacob Salomon <jake@apparel.net> wrote: > > >Patrick, > > >onconfig.std is meant as a template to copy from. If I had my druthers, > >I would have it shipped with 666 permissions so that even user Informix > >could not (or at least is less likly to) inadv…
Re: ONCONFIG
>From: satriguy@aol.com (SaTriGuy) >Date: 21 Jan 1997 06:01:04 GMT >X-Informix-List-Id: <news.32813> > >If I had my way, I'd remove it from the system all together so that it >would not be possible to 'accidentally' use the wrong onconfig. ;) >Madison Pruet I think the 'it' refe…
Re: ONCONFIG
If I had my way, I'd remove it from the system all together so that it would not be possible to 'accidentally' use the wrong onconfig. ;) Madison Pruet…
Re: ONCONFIG
Jacob Salomon <jake@apparel.net> wrote: >Patrick, >onconfig.std is meant as a template to copy from. If I had my druthers, >I would have it shipped with 666 permissions so that even user nformix >could not (or at least is less likly to) inadvertently modify it. >(Actually, in …
RE: ONCONFIG
Hi Patrick! OK. please check with env command to see the ONCONFIG environment variable, this sould containg the file being use at this moment, and please, make a copy before you make any changes, Regards :) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Mario…
RE: ONCONFIG
You have to check your env variables. One of them is ONCONFIG which will be set to either of the files. Munaf g086mnf@bomplant3.appl.ge.com ---------- From: informix-list-owner[SMTP:informix-list-owner@rmy.emory.edu] Sent: Friday, January 17, 1997 4:04 PM To: informix-list S…
Re: ONCONFIG
In <32DF327E.1DBB@mediacity.com.sg>, Patrick Stacey wrote: }I see 2 onconfig files in my etc directory (sol 2.5.1 platform). } }one has .ifmx and the other .std } }which do I edit in order to change the system configuration? }Specifically I want to configure informix for a multip…
Re: ONCONFIG
Patrick, Type the command "onstat -c | more". This option prints a copy of the current configuration to the screen, but more importantly, the second line gives the path and filename of the current configuation in use. Tracy > > I see 2 onconfig files in my etc directory (sol …
Re: ONCONFIG
If you have to ask this you shouldn't attempt to modify the file. This is RTFM, very much so. You'll depend on knowing so much before tuning OnLine in this way that if you have missed this in the manuals, you may also have missed a lot of other info. Sorry for this. I don't mean …
Re: ONCONFIG
Patrick Stacey wrote: > > I see 2 onconfig files in my etc directory (sol 2.5.1 platform). > > one has .ifmx and the other .std Patrick, onconfig.std is meant as a template to copy from. If I had my druthers, I would have it shipped with 666 permissions so that even user nform…
ONCONFIG
I see 2 onconfig files in my etc directory (sol 2.5.1 platform). one has .ifmx and the other .std which do I edit in order to change the system configuration? Specifically I want to configure informix for a multiprocessor machine (4 CPUs actually). many thanks, /pks -- [ Pat…
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: Long transaction error with no-log
"Leonid Belov" <white@intek.spb.su> wrote: :Hi all, :I have a database with no logging under Informix-Online 7.11. :This database contains a big table. :When I try to update every row in this table using single UPDATE statement, :it stops with error :-458 Long transaction abor…
Long transaction error with no-log
Hi all, I have a database with no logging under Informix-Online 7.11. This database contains a big table. When I try to update every row in this table using single UPDATE statement, it stops with error -458 Long transaction aborted caused by logical log's overfull. Why server …
Re: Help I'm in crisis
Hi Tony, Check you $ONCONFIG file if the PDQPIORITY > 0, modify it to be 0, that means disable PDQ in $ONCONFIG. Please set PDQPIORITY as user environment variable for large report/ bach job only. Otherwise, every single session takes a lot of memory. Regards Eric Lam Taipei/Tai…
Re: DBMS Internals: Transactions vs. Redo Logs
Look at it this way ... 1) A transaction is started 2) A before image is made in the rollback segments 3) Update is applied to in memory copy of block 4) Transaction is closed (committed) 5) Transaction activity is written to redo log 6) Transaction is written from memory to dat…
Re: onconfig
Hi Sue, >Hi there. I am an Oracle/Sybase dba. I've just been put on a project >which uses Informix Workgroup Server V7.12 on Windows NT. I have no >training or manuals in either Informix or NT, so this question may >appear to come from a simpleton. Stop right there. Go and fin…
Re: onconfig
> From: Sue Alsbury <salsbury@mdshealth.com> > Date: Friday, October 18, 1996 4:11 PM > > Hi there. I am an Oracle/Sybase dba. I've just been put on a project > which uses Informix Workgroup Server V7.12 on Windows NT. I have no > training or manuals in either Informix or NT, so …
Re: onconfig
In article <3267E47A.54DA@mdshealth.com>, Sue Alsbury <salsbury@mdshealth.com> writes >Hi there. I am an Oracle/Sybase dba. I've just been put on a project >which uses Informix Workgroup Server V7.12 on Windows NT. I have no >training or manuals in either Informix or NT, so this …
onconfig
Hi there. I am an Oracle/Sybase dba. I've just been put on a project which uses Informix Workgroup Server V7.12 on Windows NT. I have no training or manuals in either Informix or NT, so this question may appear to come from a simpleton. I issue a select * from tablename. The tab…
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…
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…
On Bar Utility
Has anybody heard about the Informix On Bar utilities? Max…
Re: Log rolling
daniel@genesis.admin.bethel.edu ("Dan Madvig - Bethel College & Sem.") wrote: >Why is it that with OnLine 4 I could restore an engine and >roll the logs forward to the one just prior to the log >containing some catastophic activity, but now with OnLine 5 >I have to roll all the …
What is a best organization for dbspaces?
Hi Folks, I am trying to find out what is the best plan to organize dbspaces on online 5.x. The manual gives me some guide lines to put rootdb,logical log and phisical log in separate devices to aviod disk congestion and dbspaces with active tables at the center of the device. B…
Logging on rollback?
I have question on logging during a rollback and aborted long transaction. My understanding was that activity during a transaction is written to a logical log and if that transaction is rollbacked, the rollback is also logged. Thus, if you have a transaction involving 1 Meg of …
TEMP dbspace activity is logged?
Using Informix 7.11: In my testing, it appears that temporary table activity still generates physical logging, even when a temporary dbspace (and corresponding DBSPACETEMP setting) is used. Explicit and implicit temporary table references still fill the physical logs and still g…
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…
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…
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…
Process Priority with onilne 4.10
Does Online ver 4.10 have fixed priority support like ver 7.0 does with the NOAGE onconfig param. Thanks Chris…
Re: Transaction log grows w/o transactions
Peter Levine (peterl@minerva.robadome.com) wrote: : I've noticed that the transaction log of our SE 4.1 engine increases : when there is apparently no database activity occurring. : The timestamp on the transaction log is more current than the : timestamps on amy of the .dat or …
Transaction log grows w/o transactions
I've noticed that the transaction log of our SE 4.1 engine increases when there is apparently no database activity occurring. The timestamp on the transaction log is more current than the timestamps on amy of the .dat or .idx files which comprise the database and I've seen the b…
Re: problem: long transaction aborted, logs full
On 23 Oct 1994, John Blomberg wrote: } Messages from log file: } } 15:22:41 INFORMIX-OnLine Initialized -- Shared Memory Initialized } 15:22:41 Physical Recovery Started } 15:22:42 Checkpoint Completed } 15:22:42 Physical Recovery Complete: 16 Pages Restored } 15:22:42 Abor…
Re: Adding logical logs
Keith Davies asked about adding logical logs. Joe Lumbley responded: > I'm not sure about the levels. I always do a level 0 with the device set to > /dev/null to activate the logs. The archive can occur at any time, but the > logs don't become available until it is done. > …
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…
Log with incomplete transaction. How to get around?
Fellow Informix'ers, I was in the midst of a long transaction, and somehow the process got killed. Now when I bring up informix, it comes up in Recivery mode and stays there. I keep getting messages in my Online.log that the logs are full and a backup is needed. If I try to bac…
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…
Re: RDBMS Feature Matrix (FAQ in the works !!!)
|> In article <1993Mar22.151030.18234@ryn.mro4.dec.com>, |> abbott@priory.enet.dec.com (Robert Abbott) writes: |> |> This sounds like mirroring of the log at the file level rather |> than the device level. Correct? There is still only one logical |> log per database, although it…
Re: RDBMS Feature Matrix (FAQ in the works !!!)
> >Among the long list of features I have extracted these three. >I think I understand shared and multiplexed log files (and how >that is basically the same thing.) What I don't understand >is the multiple log files. > >Are you saying that Oracle (v7 ?) allows you to configure >m…
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…