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HDR : Primary et secondary OS Comptability ?
Hello, I red here (http://www.informix-dba.com/2010/08/informix-hdr-will-save-your-butt.html) that for HDR, primary and secondary servers can be on différents Opérating Systems, is there a compatibility matrix ? For my case i have a primary on AIX ans maybe a future one on Linux…
Technological Differences between HDR & RSS
We want to use HDR, as we can then switch HDR to Primary. Is there any technological difference between HDR & RSS, that might impact Transaction Processing on Primary Instance. Thanks.…
No Trust/No HDR?
Is it necessary to use either a hosts.equiv or .rhosts file to maintain a "trust" between two hosts which are members of an HDR pair? Is there any _secure_ method to establish and maintain the trust which the informixserver recognizes aside from using a dated technique that has …
Connection Manager - spelling of DISABLED not checked for FOC
Just saying … spell DISABLED wrong under FOC and nothing reported BUT failover can be performed by CM … and lo - two headed PRI. Having two CMs in failover for two clusters and they seem real flaky on startup as regards consistent behaviour (I.e. sometimes works, sometimes doesn'…
DRDA redirection to HDR primary
Hi Gerd. Thanks, but the purpose of this thread is to get automated HDR fail-over redirection working without Connection Manager. ------------------------------ Doug Lawry Oninit Consulting ------------------------------…
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 ------------------------------…
Large memory segment vs smaller ones
No ONCONFIG changes are required. ------------------------------ Doug Lawry Oninit Consulting ------------------------------…
Changing DBSPACETEMP run-time
Hi, IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.FC5XE Please, is there a way to change DBSPACETEMP for a session inside 4GL? ------------------------------ Sincerely, Dennis ------------------------------…
Informix HA Cluster and CM
I need to setup a HA cluster with replication. We are able to replica and test failover both ways on node1 and node2. HOw do I get a cluster server on these 2 nodes. so that the Connection Mgr is able to control failover and route connections to the new active node? Do I need to…
Drop table with no-logging mode
Hello Nasiha, you are aware that no-logging tables are not transferred to the secondary server, so HDR does not work for no-logging tables? Regards the hanging HDR server you should open a case. Regards, Henri ------------------------------ Henri Cujass leolo IT, CTO Germany IBM …
Replication of Informix
Gerd I don't believe that matters. If you wanted to keep your HDR traffic separate from your user traffic, an option would be to create the HDR connection with an INFORMIXSERVER setting defined as part of DBSERVERALIASES and operating through a different port. Koonjul, Is port 16…
restore through STDIO
Hello. Unless you are trying to create an RSS node on your cluster, I don't see any benefits in using zip/unzip. 1-huge cpu consumption in a serialized method. 2-your network link should be already a high speed to accomodate your primary load for HDR replication. 3-if you are dea…
Manual Switch Primary , Secondary while RSS exist
Hi I have a client running IBM Informix 12.14 in RedHat 7.6. They have IDS Primary & IDs Secondary in HQ Data Centre while IDS RSS in DRC Data Centre. I didnt setup Control Manager. All this while I'm using manual via onmode command. I always refer Art Kagel document how to sw…
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.…
HDR
Hello all, I'm doing the HDR setup on my personal laptop with IDS 11.50(OLD ONE) for learning purpose. I created two server on VMWARE and did FIREWALL off and both server can ping to each other. I'm facing problem when I go to create 2ndary Server. I've attached the doc for the s…
Things That Should Never Happen
Already done. The connected CMs also dropped out during that window, but did NOT initiate a failover, even though failover was enabled. ------------------------------ TOM GIRSCH ------------------------------…
Promoting RSS nodes
1. Promote ifxdb03 to HDR secondary. onmode -d secondary ifxdb01 2) Promote ifxdb03 from HDR secondary to primary onmode -d make primary ifxdb03 3) Promote ifxdb04 from RSS to HDR secondary onmode -d secondary ifxdb03 ------------------------------ Nagaraju Inturi --------------…
Automated HDR/RSS Failover
Good Morning Informixland, IDS 12.10.FC9AEE AIX 7.2 We typically have failover exercises between data centers and I have a set of manual procedures that work quite well (saving the secondarieshowever it is time to automate. I amwondering if anyone else has done this and how. The…
ADO - activex data object
What do I require, to connect "ado activex data object" to Informix ? AIX 7.2 IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 12.10.FC9W1 Regards Dirk…
Phys Log Size Inconsistency?
Disregard. I confused the ONCONFIG parm with the actual phys log. Forgot to actually run onparams! My total bad. DG…
RSS: Different # CPUs?
Those were my thought exactly. But, was uncertain whether RSS required identical settings in ONCONFIG as the primary. Thank you. DG…
configure sds with raw device
Hello. Informix SDS depends on a cluster filesystem, managed by your OS to work. I think this article will give you some more details: https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21623842 Just remember that SDS in read/write mode need according licensing. If you will use …
IBM Data Server Provider for .NET HDR Failover
We are using the IBM Data Server Provider for .NET with our Windows client applications and are trying to configure it to use the Connection Manager to handle auto fail-over when our primary goes down. With the Informix .Net Provider one may configure a fail-over server group na…
How to tell if logs are caught up in HDR
"onstat -g dri" on both , hdr and primary to check if they are sync'ed Also, you can see in the logs messages like "DR: Secondary server needs failure recovery" "Start Logical Recovery - Start Log ..." When you'll see "DR: HDR secondary server operational" then primary and HDR ar…
RSS Encryption Performance Hit?
Since RSS is a special case of HDR, does ENCRYPT_HDR also have to be set? DG…
listener-thread@soc_be.c:3073: err = -25582:
Adding Version details Informix Version : IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 12.10.FC6 O/S Version : Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.9 Thanks & Regards, Karthik Rajan…
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…
reading committed data on hdr
We are using informix IDS 12.1 with an HDR in near_sync mode. Some applications read data from hdr. We found that uncommitted data is also read n hdr that some times rollaback and information delivered at that instance does not recoincile. One solution might be keep the hdr in fu…
Informix and speculative execution
Hi all, I have seen speculative execution patches for Firefox and SQL Server. Are there speculative execution patches for Informix in progress? There is no IBM Flash for Informix Dynamic Server and speculaative execution! Regards, David.…
Re: HDR Question
Back in business. Did a reboot and it must have freed up the port. Now back to trying to get HDR going.…
HDR Configuration
Hi Friends, After a lot of study and IIUG members help, we are ready to implement HDR in production environment. But I need your help to get move forward to successfully implement HDR without any issues. Which is the best approach to get high performance and without any data lo…
HDR scenarios
Dear Informix Guru's I have successfully implemented High availability HDR in Windows environment with auto switch-over using Connection manager with the IIUG members help. Especially Mr. ART Now pulling my hair with some sort of scenarios, which i mentioned below, because of f…
Rovoke insert permission but still can insert
I am doing it at the command line in the server directly in the directory C:\\\\Program Files\\\\IBM\\\\IBM Informix Dynamic Server\\\\11.50\\\\bin…
Informix HDR
Hi, I'm currently running Informix HDR (IDS 12.10FC8 on Windows server 2012 R2) in Async Mode. I just have a few questions: In Async Mode, the log is flushed to disk without waiting for a confirmation from the Secondary. What happens if a transaction is committed on the Primar…
Switching HDR to RSS replication
This is a follow up to my earlier post on IIUG (July 19, 2017): HDR-Distance and Latency Our HDR distance is changing from 40 miles (NEAR) to 1200 miles (FAR) after 2 months. After testing with a set of simple update/delete statements on triggerred and non-triggerred tables I co…
Connection Manager Automatic Failover
Several years back we tried to implement automatic failover on a cluster handled by 2 Connection Managers instances , this was on 11.5, but we had some horrors moments like ending up with 2 primaries getting updates simultaneously without communicating with each other. Since then…
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…
Rebuid sysmaster database and effects in a HDR/RSS
Hello I need rebuild sysmaster database in our production instance. I think running the "$INFORMIXDIR/etc/buildsmi" script will not cause problems with our HDR/RSS instances, but I'm not sure. Anyone know if there is any kind of incompatibility (rebuilding sysmaster) with an H…
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.…
Re: RE: HDR replication setup on Windows
Hi, Did you got the information on HDR implementation on Windows. If, could you help me on this. I have stuck at this point since last three weeks.…
Automatic Failure in HDR Setup
Thanks for your response. Is there any other than cmsm.cfg.sample to configure for automatic failover.…
HDR Implementation
Hi All While HDR implementation on Unix My scenario: 1. Two different servers with identical hardware and software. 2. Installed IDS on both servers. 3. Created Instances manually with all onconfig, sqlhost, environment variables set. 4. set all HDR related parameters in oncon…
HDR implementation on Windows server 2012 R2
Hi Every one. Hope all are doing well. I need a assistance in implementing HDR in Windows environment. My OS is : Windows server 2012 R2. Can anyone plz provide the key parameters to implement HDR in windows environment. I had implemented in Linux environment. its successfully…
HDR Implementaion
Hello All, Need a Fast response. Thank you Advance. On implementing HDR I have strucked at one point. My Environment: Primary Server Name : primary Secondary Server Name : hdr_secondary I had configured all the paramenters in oncongif, sqlhost, services, hosts, host.equiv. I…
sqlhosts file
blockquote, div.yahoo_quoted { margin-left: 0 !important; border-left:1px #715FFA solid !important; padding-left:1ex !important; background-color:white !important; } I wouldn't use a shared memory connection because of the issues that it will cause if a failover is required. Clie…
Configuring HDR
We have a primary and secondary setup in PROD that I am trying to mimic in dev with version 11.5 I watched Lesters webinar, and he mentions the use of an rhost file. On other searches, I see some people use hosts.equiv file When I look for both of these in our PROD environment,…
HDR Solution
Hi, Currently we have used informix IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.FC8GE workgroup edition running on hpux. Our production load already full utilize during peak hour. To reduce load on production server, we plan to separated process to another server, means OLTP proce…
Switching Primary and Secondary with CM's
Since CM is arbitrating the failover, drauto value is 3, so it's another case compared to what you've told me. Yes, it's possible to switch when drauto is 2 but my case is different:drauto 3 - proxy mode…
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…
DBSERVERNAME in an HDR Environment
Hi, In an HDR Environment, the DBSERVERNAME of the primary server must be the same of the secondary or they must be differents ? Thanks in advance.…
HDR - export on secondary
On an existing HDR (11.70) I'd like running an export on the secondary node while the primary server still needs to continue running. On secondary node: onmode -d standard perform the export onmode -d secondary (HDR should start re-syncing) Any suggestions or recommendation…
Compress Repack Slow Performance
Dear All, Have an instance of Informix 11.7.FC4 that runs on AIX PowerHA Cluster, IBM POWER machines, with 64 logical cores, 160GB or RAM memory and FC storage. Have a total of 600GB of chunks, containing few big tables within 1 DB (100GB (100mil records), 70GB, 50GB) fragmented…
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…
Re: jdbc connect to cluster
I must be doing something wrong, with both cm up everything works ok always. When I turn one cm down I get exceptions randomly. Am I missing something else to force the swtich in case of failover? jdbc:informix-sqli:informixserver=ifx_lab_ps;SQLH_TYPE=FILE;SQLH_FILE=/opt/infor m…
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.…
Data loading quesiton
I will figure out the loading time with standard table without HDR on this thursday or friday. My Ids VERSION is 12.10FC6. currently DRINTERVAL is 0,HDR is near_sync; and I will do the testing according your suggestion, convert it to RSS before loading ,and conver it back to HDR …
12.10.FC6 Mac port released
IBM Informix 12.10.FC6 release for Mac OS is officially available! John F. Miller III STSM, Lead Architect miller3@us.ibm.com 503-747-1366 IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS)…
HDR,RSS and ER
Hello all, I will be implementing ER in the very near future and have an ok grasp on the basics I think. The current setup is with a Primary Node, a Secondary node running an HDR instance, and a Tertiary Node running RSS. The ER configuration will be from the Primary node to the …
tuning HDR
Hi, A customer use HDR in IDS 10.They use async mode and DRINTERVAL is 30. database is unbuffered. a batch job run below two sql. 1, insert into A select * from B where condition; 2,delete from b where condition; they found those SQL become 10 times slow after using HDR. How to t…
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…
HDR
Hi Scenario: 1. Primary failed 2. Secondary changed to Primary. 3. Primary initial Recovery (Step 1). 4. Can Sincronice from Secondary to Primary initial ? Comments Please. -- Saludos Cordiales Rubén Dután Gerente APLEXT CIA. LTDA. Soluciones AX-ERP & TIC www.aplext.com.ec …
Root db space fills up
as metioned above, maybe you need set TEMPTAB_NOLOG in you onconfig file…
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…
SQLHOSTS for HDR
What are the benefits to defining groups in sqlhosts for an HDR pair? I have had some issues with multiple instances (each with an HDR secondary on a separate server) where I left the group definitions out and came across some unexpected behavior when dealing with failover. After…
RSS not working
Fee disk space on the chunk partition ok on the RSS server? Can you post your onconfig?…
Setup HDR
Informix = IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.FC7GE Unix = HP-UX rafdr B.11.31 I am trying to set up HDR between two servers. After I successfully ran the command "onmode -d primary serverA" , I ran the command "onmode -d secondary serverB" I then get the following messag…
Connection Manager - Sessions Terminate Abnormally
let me rephrase, I have 3 instances - ifx1, ifx2, ifx3 and then each of these has a designated HDR secondary. sorry for the confusion…
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…
Error HDR
Hello There I have the following error in secondary server 16:50:58 Start Logical Recovery - Start Log 9539, End Log ? 16:50:58 Starting Log Position - 9539 0x47832e4 16:51:03 Started processing open transactions on secondary during startup 16:51:03 Finished processing open trans…
HDR
Dear folks For HDR I need de same version of OS & IDS -- Saludos Cordiales Rubén Dután Gerente APLEXT CIA. LTDA. Soluciones AX-ERP & TIC www.aplext.com.ec -- Este mensaje ha sido analizado por MailScanner en busca de virus y otros contenidos peligrosos, y se considera que est…
Adding a Chunk in a Cluster
A failover cluster as in only one is online at a time and the disks it will look at at failover time are mirrored from one system to the other using disk or SAN level mirroring? That should work. Honestly, I trust Informix HDR far more than any disk mirror based failover cluster…
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…
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…
Swapping HDR
Hello, IDS 11.70.FC7W3X3 AIX 6.1 I thought this should have been simple and maybe it still is... I want to swap modes in HDR. In other words, I want my secondary to become my primary and my primary to become my secondary. I have DRAUTO set to 0 and I do NOT want to have to res…
Álter Add fragment on HDR environment
Hello: I tried to alter fragmentation on a hdr environment with no succes due long transaction. Shall I change this database to non logging and try to alter? Shall I unset hdr, do the alter and set hdr environment? Regards…
Upgrading IDS version on PRI need rebuilt HDR/RSS?
Hi All, I have a question related to informix upgrade. If I am running Primary, HDR & RSS, then when i upgrade the primary informix version (from IDS 11.70 FC4 to FC7), then HDR & RSS remain intact or not? And does it requires the rebuilding of HDR & RSS again using level-0 back…
Informix upgrade
Can we upgrade informix from Dynamic Server Version 11.70 to 12.1 workgroup edition directly?…
BlobSpace replication
Hello, I read somewhere that blobspace in not replicated with HDR, is it true ? and if so what informix technology to use to do so ? Thank you :)…
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.…
can we have to hdr servers ?
In fact i will use it for backuping the production. Is the rss read. Only. Likr hdr ?…
Using Informix ODBC with connection manager
Hello. As soon as you implement your CM, it will be a "network gateway" for your production cluster (and maybe redirect your connections to any cluster node, according to your CM defined policy). So, your ODBC connection will be changed from your database, to your CM hostname/p…
HDR question
IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.FC8W2 Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 I have a server that is running in standard mode with 1 RSS attached. I can I do the following without bring the engine(s) down On standard onmode -d primary <rss name> on RSS onmode -d secondary <prim…
Connection Manager - Automated Failover
I am in the middle of stress tests against a HDR pair (Primary + Updateable). I took down the primary and waited for CM to start the automated failover; it didn't. CM said "Arbitrator detected majority of secondarys are still connected." Please note that I had already tested the …
when use IfxDataReader.GetIfxDateTime to NULL valu
Hello, The version of Informix products in my environment is: Database server: AIX IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.FC5 IBM Informix CSDK Version 2.90 IBM-ESQL Version 2.90.FC4 Client: PC Windows IBM Informix-ESQL 3.70.TC5DE.…
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…
HPL unload on secondary HDR
We have a backup script that does HPL unloads on certain tables throughout the day. When I run the scripts on an HDR secondary however, it hangs for a bit, then times out with error "Cannot open database 'sysmaster@servershm' - SQL error -25588, ISAM error 2". The strange part is…
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…
Replication with multiple network interfaces
The ER connection should be the only thing in the ER group - if you wa= nt to restrict the connections that ER is to use. Generally the only time that it makes sense to have multiple entries in= the ER group is for failover. The ER port on the secondary servers should = be in th…
redundant connection manager configuration using H
correct. since PRIMARY always has zero latency, so most time Connection Manager will route client application to the PRIMARY. if you want use secondaries and low the connections to the PRIMARY, you can define cm_sla1 as SLA cm_sla1 DBSERVERS=(RSS,HDR),PRIMARY if all RSS and HDR…
cmsm in a cluster + switchover? DRAUTO=1+3 ???
Hello. He have a cluster, version 11.50 (plans to upgrade soon) with one primary, one SDS, and one HDR. I have a simple question, but didn´t find the answer yet, so maybe someone could help me. If I enable DRAUTO=1, I can easily see the changes rolling from hdr secondary to pri…
Auditing HDR server
good evening, can we audit an hdr server ? which is, by definition, on read only mode :) thanks in advance…
DB_locale or local naming convention
Hi, I already mention the informix version. IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.TC1IE…
Page size
Where do you set the page size when configuring Informix? I don't see it in the ONCONFIG anywhere.…
Some strategy to resize logical-logs in HDR
Thanks a lot, I am even more impressed about Informix HDR features now. Regards, Keith!…
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…
Error -556 on @ reference
In IDS_A have a stored procedure do_some that has a insert into a local table. In IDS_B have a stored procedure do_some that does: call base@IDS_A:do_some(); Calling this sp works ok. In IDS_C i try to run: call base@IDS_B:do_some(); Fails with error -556 Cannot create, drop,…
Error # 40002
Also set AUTO_REPREPARE 1 in your $ONCONFIG file. Regards, Doug Lawry…
Using ifxclone to setup HDR
Thanks Madison, so what I did was correct. A big thanks to IBM for coming up with this feature. I am trying to setup Connection Manager in our environment for one production database server which has HDR and RSS. Is there any guidelines/best practices from IBM for setting up Co…
SQL/Optimizer Question
Just eyeballing the schema provided I am guessing you will get 16 rows per 2KB data page. assumed row size of 120 bytes. WHERE i_case_relation_cd = 3 is currently evaluated to return 98,108 rows while we do not have the statistics on the table, the cluster value would indicate h…
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…
Effect of SAN-level replication on Informix
Does anyone have experience with SAN-level replication and its effect on Informix, especially with respect to disaster recovery/restore? We're examining different redundancy schemes of our environment across a WAN using Redhat Linux 4/5/6, Hitachi SANs, VMware and Informix (and …
Upgrading HDR to 11.70
Hello All, IDS 11.50.FC8W2 on Hp-Ux 11.23 I have gone through a post for upgrading to 11.70, just want some one to help me with sequence of steps. 1) Make the HDR standalone 2) Upgrade the Primary to 11.70 3) Level 0 backup on primary 4) Upgrade the HDR to 11.70 5) Restore the…
HDR in Windows
I need do an HDR in two instance in windows. How I do it. Thanks Wanderlei…
HDR and ER Running Together
Lets try again, this may be easier to read !! Set up is as follows: IDS 9.4 on AIX 5.3 --> ER over LAN --> IDS 10 on Solaris 2.8 | |-> IDS 11 on Solaris 2.10 V Sync HDR over WAN | V IDS 9.4 on AIX 5.3 Note ER is Primary to Secondary (one way). With this setup I am seeing line…
HDR and ER Running Together
Set up is as follows: IDS 9.4 on AIX 5.3 ----------> ER over LAN -----------> IDS 10 on Solaris 2.8 | |------> IDS 11 on Solaris 2.10 V Sync HDR over WAN | V IDS 9.4 on AIX 5.3 Note ER is Primary to Secondary (one way). With this setup I am seeing lines in the error log o…
Query Performance on HDR instance
Recently we have faced a scenario, a query was running quite fast on primary instance but performing poorly on HDR instance. The execution plan on both instances were different as well. After running "update stats" on tables involved in query, the execution plan on HDR become sam…
HDR Setup
I "was" in the middle of setting up HDR between a pair of AIX 5.3 servers running IDS 9.4.FC6 (upgrade planned), but have just noticed in the Admin Ref that the servers should be quiescent when issuing the onmpde -d primary/secondary 'server name' commands. This requirement isn't…
doubt about parameters (PDQ)
Sorry people, I meant the MAX_PDQPRIORITY 100 onconfig parameter.…
IDS 7.31 UD5 data(base) recovery
Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.31.UD5 I understood that IDS 7.31 entered End Of Support in September 2009 ( 2 and a half years ago) I hope this is not a business critical system…
Failover setup
We have production databases, informix 11.10.FC2 on SLES 10, currently w/o failover servers. We are deciding upon the type of failover setup (HDR/ER) to be set for these servers. Some databases are in "no logging" mode (due to business requirements) while some are using blobspace…
enterprise replication time to replicate data
IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.FC6 Question for enterpise experts Does anyone know a command that will give me time that it takes to replicate data to a node? for example i update on server a and it replicates to server b . How long did it take? cdr view profile gives …
Informix Clustered Indexes
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 07:53, Tom Lehr <tomcaml@gmail.com> wrote: > Have been doing some reading about clustered indexing and wondering > what experiences other folks have had with them? > We currently do not use them in our high transaction OLTP world and am > a bit wary due t…
HDR not working
Newbie to Informix Cannot get HDR to work. Can anyone help? Thanks Derrick Muller Secondary stays in Fast Recovery mode. Here are configurations for both primary (runix) and secondary (backix) Running SLE 11, IDS 11.70 PRIMARY hostname:dm_runix Instance: ol_dm_runix service: …
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.…
Speed discrepancy between prod and a lab
I've been over-looking the HDR Remote Secondary that prod has, so I should add that we have one. I don't think it can account for a 25% speed difference. The other production environment has the same type of HDR, and we don't see the speed discrepancy with it.…
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…
HDR/ER mixed environment testing
hello we are working in development on adding ER to our existing HDR system (version 11.50.FC7 on AIX 6.1). However, when trying to test failover scenarios we are running into a problem making the secondary a primary and having the ER instance hook up to it and move forward. It …
HDR & RSS
Hi, I am trying to find out which is the best way to have an Standby IDS server a long distance away. I have IDS 11.10 on windows with actual database data 250GB. On Live IDS server we use onbar and TSM for whole system backup. Our database is in logging mode but we don;t need t…
Over 1,000 days of 24x7 database uptime!
On 29.07.2011 20:38 Lester Knutsen wrote: > From one of our customers, their Informix server hit 1,000 days today > .... congratulations;) > > IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.FC8 -- On-Line -- Up > 1000 days 00:31:45 -- They beat mine just bit ... IBM Informix D…
Could I execute ontape,onbar oronunload on HDR SEC
Hi, I want to reduce the workload in the primary server. Could I execute ontape,onbar or onunload on HDR Secondary server? thanks for your time.…
Could I execute ontape/onbar/onunload on HDR SEC
Hi, I want to reduce the workload in HDR primary server? Could I execute ontape,onbar or onunload on HDR Secondary server? thanks for your time.…
HDR setup- Network driver system error
Just to be clear. You cannot use a shared memory connection in HDR, etc as DBSERVERNAME. You may use it in DBSERVERALIASES. My HDR is operational. I have identified the problem ( with tips from Madison) and posted below.…
blobs and HDR
Is it still true in 11.5 and/or 11.7 that you can't have HDR of a blob space? Is there a way to work around that? Thanks! Kate Tomchik [ kate@iiug.org ] www.iiug.org International Informix Users Group Board of Directors A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any inv…
Setting up HDR- First Time -11.70 Innovator-C
Hi, I am setting up HDR for the first time. onstat - on primary shows IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.UC2IE -- On-Line (Prim) -- Up 0:11:5s onstat - on secondry shows IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.UC2IE -- Fast Recovery (Sec) -- Up 00s onstat -m on sec…
ISAM error 197: Partition recently appended to
Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC5 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (i586) I have done a level 0 backup directed to /dev/null and tried again. still it is throwing the same error.…
DB Restore From HDR Files
Hi, We are using IDS 11.50 FC6 & 11.50 FC7 on solaris sparc. We have tested the following Case 1: We've shutdown HDR and taken its dbspace files (OS files) and re-stored (using oninit -v -S) it to another machine/instance, and it was successful. Case 2: While the HDR was opera…
same ports in Primary , HDR and RSS
hi, I have a plan to use same ports at Primary, HDR and RSS servers. Is there any implication or availability or performance overhead. Kindly share the findings. anees…
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…
Problem with HDR
I have upgraded my database from 11.5.FC6 to 11.5.FC7 but facing some issues with HDR. Its observed that when HDR is lagging behind the primary there are number of sessions goes into " G waiting on write of the logical log buffer" and primary goes slow and lot of load on primary …
how to do a full restore at HDR primary server
ids 9.40 , HDR Primary & secondary at normal status. Can I do a full restore 'ontape -r' at primary server. Is that will affect HDR functioning after ? Or I should restart the HDR setup steps ?…
RE: HDR+Connection Manager in intermittent network scenario
Cesar, I must have missed the FAILOVER_CALLBACK parameter in the docs. Thanks for pointing it out, I'll take a look. Speaking more generally to both you and Pravin, I must confess, I haven't experimented much with DRAUTO set to 0 or 1. The impression I got from the documentation…
Tool to estimate the size of an index
Sorry, I forgot to provide the version of the installation: IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.FC4 Operative System: AIX Version 6.1…
Re: HDR+Connection Manager in intermittent network scenario
Hi Nate, I guess the manual failover (DRAUTO=0) is the best configuration for HADR and CM environment for handling the conditions described by you in you mail below. (dealing with network issues) Hi Cesar, This look like a little different behavior than in the earlier version …
Re: HDR+Connection Manager in intermittent network scenario
Nate, you will found information about this on the manuals. Check for DRAUTO, FAILOVER_CALLBACK... Just sharing a issues what I got with IFX 11.50 FC7W1GE + CM 3.50 FC7, Linux. On environment with similar configuration, using HDR, I have trouble with CM FOC and DRAUTO configura…
ER out of sync
On 12 нов, 19:51, "Jonny...@Usenet-News.net" <Jonny...@Usenet- News.net> wrote: > Hmmm ... are ALL your replicates Primary / Receive only? Yes. > Can you on the standby server do dbaccess / connect / "Standy instance" > using any of the DBSERVERNAME / DBSERVERALIAS / group name…
sqlerr:-243 and isam err:-111 in esql/c
This "may" be a good place for USELASTCOMMITTED set to all in the onconfig.…
HDR licenses
Hello, Does HDR (standby server) require a separate Informix license? Can anyone point me to a documentation that deals with that issue? Thanks…
Primary Slowness when RSS is active
You need to set LOG_STAGGING_DIR parameter in onconfig of the rss…
HDR Information
I'm getting ready to start working on setting up HDR and have gone searching google for information about doing so. There seems to be a wealth of it out there, but I'm wondering if there is one in particular that would be classified as " the best ". Jonathon Wyza CX & CBORD Syst…
SDS and SAN Storage
On Aug 12, 8:21 pm, rpa <ruediger.pa...@t-online.de> wrote: > Hi all > > what is possible and what is the best way to create chunks on a SAN- > Storage (NetApp) for SDS. > We are planning for IDS 11.50 database installations with SDS feature. > > OS will be LINUX (SLES or UBUN…
Can't access sysindexes remotely
Hi, We are using IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.FC6 using Platform: SunOS 5.10 Generic_125100-09 sun4v sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-T200 Thanks…
RE: Failover question (Solved)
In case anyone else wants to know how to do this: When the primary server server1 goes down: 1. Change server2 (the RSS secondary) to a standalone server – onmode -d standard. Once server1 (the old primary) is fixed do the following: 1. (Optional) Stop the connection ma…
Re: Failover question
The standard method is to bring up the old primary, make it an RSS secondary to the new primary, then, once it has caught up, reverse them making the old primary primary again and the original RSS secondary secondary again. The second part will have to be done during a maintenan…
Failover question
Scenario: Client has a primary server and an RSS server and the primary goes down. The RSS server is changed to standard to allow clients to continue to connect. Is there a way of bring up the old primary and revert the new primary back to an RSS server without major interruptio…
hdr and statistics
Ever since I started HDR on a second server, the statistics have been different. After a db restart, sometimes onstat shows statistics on the primary server and the secondary shows as zeroed out, sometimes the opposite. Then it stays that way to another restart. Can't figure out …
Switch RSS secondary back to Primary
The switch back to re-establish the Primary-Secondary HDR pair after a failover is documented and the scripts to do this are in $INFORMIXDIR/bin (hdrmkpri.sh* hdrmksec.sh*). Are there similar scripts available to re-establish a Primary-RSS secondary server after a failover to the…
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…
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…
HDR failing
Hi All, I got this message from the primary that the replication failed... Please see below 19:54:42 listener-thread: err = -25582: oserr = 9: errstr = : Network connection is broken. System error = 9. 19:56:21 DR: ping timeout 19:56:21 DR: Receive error 19:56:21 ASF Echo-Threa…
Reverting from HDR failover to secondary
I did a simple test of HDR failover from primary server to the secondary server. I shutdown the primary (onmode -yuk) and after 30 secs (setup in connection manager config file) the old secondary became the new primary server. What are the exact steps to restore to my original HD…
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…
HDR Error
I keep getting an error when I attempt to turn on HDR on my secondary server with "onmode -d secondary <primaryserver>." The informixserver message log reads: 16:26:23 DR: Reservation of the last logical log for log backup turned off 16:26:23 DR: new type = secondary, primary…
HDR Problem
Hi All, I've take the whole day configuring the HDR but it didn't work. I have the same machine and OS configuration. This is the procedure i've done so far: on Primary server, i have this configuration Primary sqlhosts #Primary ipc_ross1 onipcshm ross1 ipcshm ol_ross1 onsoc…
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…
HDR not working
Hi all, It's my first time to configure a replicated machines. I'm using the same machine specification (all hardware), same IDS 11.5, same all up to the configuration. I also performed a backup using ontape -s -L 0 and ontape -r in secondary. on primary server, i performed on…
IDS V11.50FC5: AUS error.
yes, in a HDR system..…
RE: Found a possible bug in IDS 11.x... and a nasty one at that... has anyone suffered this?
> From: domusonline@gmail.com > Subject: Re: Found a possible bug in IDS 11.x... and a nasty one at that... has anyone suffered this? > Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 23:14:12 +0000 > To: informix-list@iiug.org > > Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > > I have to agree that the issue is interesting…
MACH 11 questions
Zev, Can you draw me a picture? While the active SDS node must be using the same shared disk as the primary, there is nothing which says that the secondary node (HDR/RSS) = can not be using a different shared disk. And since the amount of time to start up a SDS node is fairly s…
HA (HDR) Configuration Parameter FAILOVER_CALLBACK
The definition of this parameter (from the Admin Reference Manual, page 1-74) states: "The database server executes the script specified by FAILOVER_CALLBACK when a database server transitions from a secondary server to a primary or standard server. Set FAILOVER_CALLBACK to the f…
Informix Dynamic Server Software Downloads
It appears IBM has cleverly hidden the IDS downloads again on the Passport Advantage Website, at least from my prying eyes. I can find the Solid DB and the DB2 links just fine. Does anyone out there in IIUG-land with a Passport Advantage account know where IBM has stashed the dow…
ANYONE KNOW IDS USERS OR CONSULTING FIRMS IN NYC
I am looking for work in the New York City metro area. Can anyone refer me to an end-user or a consulting firm?.. below is my resume: Frank J. Rotolo, frank.pr@msn.com _______________________________________________________________________________ Summary: Over twenty six years…
Question on HDR
Hi All, Just a question on HDR of Informix.. The scenario is the DB primary server went down. The secondary server is up and running. The replication is fine before the primary shuts down. Here are the questions: 1. Is the Secondary server will function right away as the Prim…
HDR
Hi Would anyone tell me on a HDR pair in IDS 7.31, if I bring down the primary server (say for 2 hours appx for maintenance ) and make the secondary server as STANDARD, after primary server comes up, do I need to restore logical logs from secondary server? I want to bring the …
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.…
RSS problem
Hi! IDS 11.50FC4 Sun Solaris I have Primary, Secondary HDR and RSS servers. When I run: 1. Stop HDR (onmode -d standard) 2. After 50 or more logical log files completed I start HDR - onmode - d primary ... 3. While logical files send to Secondary HDR, new logical log files compl…
HDR
I'm getting ready to turn on HDR between our production site and our D/R site located 7 miles away. We are running Jenzabar CX on Informix 10 and HPUX 11i v2. Our 2 servers are connected via a 20 MB pipe. I've gone through the documentation but I have some questions below. We hav…
Re: SDS performance
Alexander wrote: > Hello everybody, > > Our is planning to upgrade IDS from 9.4 to 11.50 along with hardware > upgrade which includes FC attached disk array that will be shared by > two servers. It looks like we can try to use what is called Sared-Disk- > Secondary server. > > I'…
OPTCOMPIND and perl
Anyone know if I can change OPTCOMPIND after establishing a DB connection or does it need to be set before connecting? ta SLES10 SP1 IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.UC5…
How to config J/Foundation for multiple instances
And, that is what I did: moved jre to /usr/lib/informix and recreated the IDS.11.50.FC3-JRE1.5 symlink to it. Now any version 11.5 package that happens to be on that node thru failover, or during upgrades to other nodes will have no problem. But, it still bugs me that I can't ch…
I/O writes
Hi Art, These stats are of a primary node in HDR cluster with 1 secondary and 2 RSS nodes. Does HDR also has non-blocking checkpoints?…
HDR
Hello, I'm getting ready to set up Informix HDR between our primary server and our secondary server at our D/R site. We are running Informix 10.00.HC5 on HPUX. Both servers are HP 9000 systems (rp7410). I've been getting some ideas from another University who has implemented HDR…
HDR recovery in asynchronous mode
So can someone tell what is "dr.lostfound" for? Is there something related to "dr.lostfound" w.r.t. HDR recovery…
SQLTRACE on HDR Secondary
Is there a trick to get SQLTRACE to work on the HDR Secondary. We use our secondary for some read only applications and would like to be able to analyze the queries with SQLTRACE. This is for HDR, but also wonder if SQLTRACE works for RSS and SDS Read Only Secondaries? IDS 11.…
Re: 11.50.xC4 Compression with workgroup edition?
An easy way to distinguish between IBM (DB2 and IDS) compression and Oracle compression is to look at e.g. an employee table with, say names and addresses and other junk (like salaries ;-) Block compressions wins, as Mark points out, in fast changing data. Global compression wins…
Informix Dynamic Server Scheduler question
Hi! I'm working on a project at my faculty. It's a java desktop application with an informix database. I have a problem using informix dynamic server scheduler. I have a particular table in my database. This table contains records that are inserted by the desktop aplication I'm …
Monitor HDR
Informix 11: We run HDR and I see waits on logbf0, logbf1. I think it's something to do with log shipping to secondary node. Is there a way to look at to make sure that log shipping is not the issue why I see some of the high response times on the user sessions. How can I monito…
IDS 9.40 End of Support Imminent
I have seen a number of posts on CDI recently related to IDS 9.40 As per the announcement on September 7th 2007, effective on the dates listed below, IBM will withdraw support from the following product releases licensed under the IBM International Program License Agreement: 9…
oninit fails reporting problem with DBSPACETEMP
But in my ONCONFIG file, i have mentioned the tape device as STDIO…
Tables of type raw
Is there a way to create a table with type raw on HDR primary? I get the following: 19844: Tables of type raw are not allowed in a logged database on an HDR primary server.…
Building Indexs on Primary Server
Informix 11: We have HDR servers, I am seeing that creating an index on table of 100M rows takes more than 16hrs. Could it be because of HDR secondary server trying to build the index at the same time? We have PDQ priority set to 100 and PSORT_NPROCS set to 4…
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…
general IDS 10 FC9 install questions?
Hey everyone. I have some basic IDS Fc9 install kind of general questions... I have tried finding answers on this and believe it or not have not been able to.... Has anyone installed IDS 10 FC9 on any unix machine? If so do know what the size of the informix install tar file is? …
HDR systems
Informix 11 Is there a way to determine which system is currently up among HDR secondary or primary?…
Re: Smoke and mirrors...
On Oct 12, 2:20 pm, InDeep <ind...@indeep.com> wrote: > Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > > To your point. Yes IDS will perform much better that either Oracle or > > DB2 in a VM environment. > > Let's not make sweeping statements without facts. I have been happy with IDS > so far on VM…
Re: Smoke and mirrors...
Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > To your point. Yes IDS will perform much better that either Oracle or > DB2 in a VM environment. Let's not make sweeping statements without facts. I have been happy with IDS so far on VMware Fusion on my Macbook Pro, but I have not had a history of ex…
use stored proc that return multiple columns in a query
forgot to include version info: IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.UC6W5 -- On-Line -- Up 207 days 22:14:39 -- 1441100 Kbytes…
installing informix dynamic server in linux
hi, I'm new to informix... I tried to install informix dynamic server(iif. 11.50.UC2E.Linux-RHEL4.tar) in my linux machine. I'm getting an error like this... One or more prerequisite system libraries are not installed on your computer. Install libpam.so.0, libncurses.so.5…
Informix Dynamic Server v 11.50 Developer's Edition
Does everyone know that the Informix Dynamic Server Developer's Edition v11.50 that you can download from the IIUG Web site (www.iiug.org) is NOT timebombed, is completely and fully functional (including HDR, MACH11, ER etc.). Do you know that the only limitations on this versio…
Informix Dynamic Server v 11.50 Developer's Edition
Does everyone know that the Informix Dynamic Server Developer's Edition v11.50 that you can download from the IIUG Web site (www.iiug.org) is NOT timebombed, is completely and fully functional (including HDR, MACH11, ER etc.). Do you know that the only limitations on this versio…
Re: active-active DB
Mohit Anchlia said: > As far as I remember from presentation it's something like HDR, only that > the other node is not read only. It could be used to update data. ER can do everything HDR can do (and more) but in update-anywhere mode. This is old technology. With Redirected Wr…
CONFIGURATION ONAUDIT-IBM Informix Dynamic Server
Hello, I need to configure onaudit and onshowaudit able to register for each of the consultations that are made to the database, either through dbaccess, ODBC or another application. I've been reviewing the IBM Informix Trusted Facility Guide, but I was not working. What param…
RE: HDR on IDS WE
Has anyone added HDR to a WE instance. I was wondering on what the process is once licenses have been purchased. Is there HDR software that you download to install on top of a WE installation or what? Once it is installed, does it operate just like EE when setting up HDR? Larry…
Re: Ok, call me silly...
In article <1213380586.945676@bubbleator.drizzle.com>, DA Morgan says... >No: Not my point at all. My point, the only point I've been making in >this thread, is that IBM is not giving Informix the respect it deserves. > And that by putting following features in Informix and not…
How to use Informix Dynamic Server
I have installed trial version of "Informix IDS Dynamic Server Developer Edition 11.5 for Windows 2003, XP, Vista, 32bit Version 1150TC1DE". But i am new to informix. Can anyone explain how to use IDS in detail.…
Re: Cheetah2 connection manager and failover arbitrator
I thought it would work that way but apparently it doesn't. I've opened a defect for the issues you noticed. Thank you for pointing that out. Regards, Nilesh informix-list-bounces@iiug.org wrote on 06/09/2008 02:08:54 PM: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Nilesh Ozarkar…
Re: Cheetah2 connection manager and failover arbitrator
"Art Kagel" <art.kagel@gmail.com> wrote in message news:mailman.1204.1212948745.20610.informix-list@iiug.org... >> [Daniel] You cannot be this dense and still hold a chair at a major >> University! >> Among other posts that I saw, I said Informix Dynamic Server Shared Disk >> Se…
Re: Cheetah2 connection manager and failover arbitrator
----- Original Message ----- From: Nilesh Ozarkar To: Andrew Ford Cc: informix-list@iiug.org ; informix-list-bounces@iiug.org Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 11:13 AM Subject: Re: Cheetah2 connection manager and failover arbitrator > I think so - depends on how you configure SLA. To…
Re: Cheetah2 connection manager and failover arbitrator
Is IDS SDS equivalent to RAC? Nope! But, lets make sure we understand the market that IDS SDS is aimed at. SDS (like HDR) is aimed at the 2 node active/active paradigm. Its aimed at applications which do mostly reads. Horizontal scaling for reads is at 100%... for writes... well…
Re: Cheetah2 connection manager and failover arbitrator
informix-list-bounces@iiug.org wrote on 06/09/2008 09:54:41 AM: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Andrew Ford" <aford@networkip.net> > To: <informix-list@iiug.org> > Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 12:53 PM > Subject: Cheetah2 connection manager and failover arbitrator > > > >…
Re: Cheetah2 connection manager and failover arbitrator
----- Original Message ----- From: "DA Morgan" <damorgan@psoug.org> Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix To: <informix-list@iiug.org> Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2008 5:02 PM Subject: Re: Cheetah2 connection manager and failover arbitrator > I would suggest the Oracle newsgroup is the…
Re: Cheetah2 connection manager and failover arbitrator
----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Ford" <aford@networkip.net> To: <informix-list@iiug.org> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 12:53 PM Subject: Cheetah2 connection manager and failover arbitrator > IDS 11.50.UC1 > Red Hat Linux 5 > Simple HDR environment 1 Primary - 1 Secondar…
RE: Cheetah2 connection manager and failover arbitrator
Sebastian, Norma J. said: > Tom Kyte Wow! Is he still around? He was good value, a bit like Mark Townsend, but with a sense of humour. :o) -- Bye now, Obnoxio "There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got th…
Cheetah2 connection manager and failover arbitrator
IDS 11.50.UC1 Red Hat Linux 5 Simple HDR environment 1 Primary - 1 Secondary I'm taking a look at the connection manager and failover arbitrator shipped with the CSDK in IDS 11.50 and am wondering if there is a better way to recover from a Primary server failure that doesn't req…
Informix Continuous Availalbility Feature Demo
This marketing video of IDS HDR, SDS, RSS and Updatable Secondary Nodes came in on my Google alerts this morning. http://www.cocktail-server.com/informix-caf/ Andrew…
Execute HPL
Hi all ... is possible execute HPL in Informix HDR ??? Thanks _________________________________________________________________ Descargá ya gratis y viví la experiencia Windows Live. http://www.descubrewindowslive.com/latam/index.html…
Managing IDS in IBM HACMP environment
> -----Original Message----- > From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of > ROBERT ROMERO > Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 1:59 PM > To: ids@iiug.org > Subject: Re: Managing IDS in IBM HACMP environment [12053] > > Appreciate the comments. > > We are plan…
Re: So now Informix has RAC
On 29 Apr, 22:44, dcrunch...@aim.com wrote: > http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Database/IBM-UnCages-Cheetah-2-Data-Server/ > > "IDS (Informix Dynamic Sever) 11.5, code-named "Cheetah 2," builds on the > failover-recovery capabilities of its predecessor by now supporting full > read/write…
HDR Performance
I want to know - How to measure/estimate the Network Bandwidth for a HDR pair over a WAN ? - What will happen to the performance of the Primary server if Network slows down ? - If Primary fails during high trasaction processing will the Secondary be in Sync - Are there too…
Re: iDS-On-iPhone
Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > InDeep said: >> Has anyone ported or installed IDS to the iPhone? >> >> >> What is the current buzz? Is it possible? >> >> Any other databases jumping in to the iPhone? > > Get a grip man, it's a phone and not even a very good one. > Yeah but if I clu…
Re: Optimizer Issues with 10.00.xC8
Another point of confusion that has me summoning the UPDATE STATISTICS gods. As a reminder, my test table ("foo") looks consists of five columns, col1-col5. Col1, Col2, and Col3 are integers, while Col4 and Col5 are character fields. I have a unique index on (Col1, Col3) and a…
Informix HDR and ER
Dear All, I am in the process of setting up Informix HDR on IDS 11. I need your inputs and assistance. Can you please give me the steps to configure HDR. Also would like to know whether the main requirement for HDR is two servers with identical configuration or can we setup HDR …
replication HDR
Hi, Last night I recycled informix engine 10.00 FC7 (which is also primary in hdr pair) and brought back up in half a minute. It sent replication failure immediately on secondary server online message. but when I brought primary back online, it gave this message in online: DR: F…
High Extent Tables.
Quick question: 1. If I create a clustered index and drop it on a table with high extents, will that reorganize it and reduce the extents or 2. Do I have to unload the data, drop the table, re-create the table, and re-load the data or 3. Should I rename the original table to a…
One temp space fills and 4gl fails
Everett -- This is the primary server in an HDR pair, could that have something to do with it not filling the temp table round-robin?…
backup replicated database
Hi, Can somebody tell me if replicated (read-only) database on HDR can be backed up ontape? or is it only primary can be backed up? Thanks, Sunita…
HDR questions
Couple of questions on HDR for the wise. We are at the testing stage of an ODBC-based application and want to test failover. HDR was working fine until I shut down both the instances and set DRAUTO to 1 on both sides; now the primary and secondary just say they can't find one a…
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…
What is IPA abbreviation ?
Hi all IBM INFORMIX DYNAMIC SERVER 10.00 PRODUCT RELEASE bug_number 168928 description WITH NON-DEFAULT PAGE SIZE AND ACTIVE IPA'S, TABLE LEVEL RESTORES FAIL product_code ONUTILS component_code ARCHECKR What is IPA ? Thanks…
HDR failure handling on network disconnection
As I know that HDR is working by HDR buffer for transferring primary data to secondary data. But what if the failure of network connection occurrs intermittently and the primary physical log was backed up to tape for freeing its space, how the informix data server handles it? Wil…
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…
How to Setup IDS for all IPs
Martin Fuerderer wrote: > Hi Art, > You do mention DBPATH and 'methods' but I think the focus on: "... the Secondary can keep running using its own IP-address. Then of course the clients will have to use that IP-address for the re-connect after failover." Doesn't make it clear…
HDR to more than one secondary
Client wants to do HDR to two backup servers. Can this be done? They're going to be on 10, possibly moving to 11 Q3-ish 2008. Thanks Andy…
HDR quirk?
IDS 10.00.UC4 RedHat AS 3 U 8 Re-org a table under HDR with the following quirky result: tab_b created like tab_a with new extent sizing tab_b loaded from tab_a without indices create one index on tab_b applications accessing HDR secondary stopped applications accessing HDR pri…
OFF_RECVRY_THREADS and ON_RECVRY_THREADS
Does these parameters help in logical log recovery. I was wondering if increasing ON_RECVRY_THREADS help in HDR on secondary server.…
HDR recommendations
Could somebody tell me their experiences about HDR. I am reading about HDR to see where we can improve. We ran our tests and the performance was less than .5 of what we generally get. Do things like log file size make difference ? Would increasing memory help ? We have huge blobs…
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 ?…
HDR or storage remote mirroring, which is better?
I like to make a Diaster Recovery system, and just wondering which system I should choose:Informix HDR or storage remote mirroring . storage company told me that remote mirrroring can copy primary server's modifying block to the secondary server immediately. The functions that r…
IIUG TV
Great job on the video work!! I look forward to seeing more! -t- -- -- Informix Dynamic Server Database Engine -- http://www.informix.com --…
DR failover server
Hello all: This is my first posting. We are running IDS 9.40.HC3 on HP-UX B.11.11 with a small EMC RAID array and I am working on a disaster recovery document. We currently have 2 servers (dev and prod) and will be moving the dev server to a disaster recovery site which has a T3 …
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…
Types of dbspaces
Hi all: In INFORMIX+HDR that types of dbspaces support ???? Thanks _________________________________________________________________ MSN Amor: busca tu ½ naranja http://latam.msn.com/amor/…
Re: Informix beats Oracle
IDS HDR has auto failover via the DRAUTO onconfig parameter: 0 signifies OFF = Do not automatically switch the server type in the HDR environment. 1 signifies RETAIN_TYPE = Automatically switch secondary to standard during an HDR failure. Switch back to secondary when restartin…
DDL with HDR
We have an Informix 10 system with an HDR mirror, and we are having trouble with DDL statements getting "non-exclusive access" errors. We have a piece of software that is used by many organisations, and each organisation has a seperate database on the server. When we have a new …
Storage Area Network Fails for Unix/Netware
We want to run our Informix 9.40 database on a SAN, and we've tried this using an HBA fiber-optic (dual channel) card, with HP Secure-Path failover software. This has worked, to a point, except that each time a SAN controller fails for any reason, the Linux-based Informix server…
Re: admin tools like PC client
Mike, What version of Informix are you using? Informix SE? Informix OnLine? Informix Dynamic Server? Most Informix versions these days come with a product call I-Connect that needs to be installed on the PC and rovides the Informix ODBC drivers.…
Error when initializing
06:36:20 IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version [b]10.00.UC6TL[\\b] I believe this is likelt ot be a new ish instance to a newish user of the software…
IDS down while log back. is it a bug?
The 'onstat -l' showing it's a HDR secondary server. Wondering, are you trying to log backup on secondary server? When you use HDR, you must back up logical-log and storage spaces only on the primary database server. -Sanjit Chakraborty…
HDR Transaction
Hi Guys, I got a enviroment with HDR in two AIX maxhines. What is the rule for backup logs in secondary server? I try to start a logical log backup and, the only situation it was finished with sucess, the secondary server was turned to standard mode. What is the problem if I don…
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…
problems with Informix dynamic server 9.4 @ WIndows 2003
I have problems with connecting the server. I use correct user/password to connect to the server, but the server do not known the server. I'm sure the user exist and is one of the user in Informix_Admin group. I have installed Informix dynamic server 9.4 in a windows xp system in…
RE: 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…
mystery server in HDR
Hello all, upon bouncing our secondary server, the log shows it is trying to connect to a primary server that does not exist! we have searched the secondary server itself, system tables, etc and cannot find a reference to this mystery server we are on ids 10 fc5 on AIX 5.3 usin…
changing HDR dbserver names
IDS 10.00.UC5 on RHEL3 2.4.21 kernel Is it possible to change the dbserver names used for HDR without reinitializing HDR? For example, a while ago I initialized HDR like so: physical restore of serverB from backup of serverA onmode -d primary serverB onmode -d secondary server…
Re: Senior Oracle DBA now Learning Informix by Request
Tambi Dude wrote: > "DA Morgan" <damorgan@psoug.org> wrote in message > news:1166401364.229016@bubbleator.drizzle.com... >> Tambi Dude wrote: >>> "DA Morgan" <damorgan@psoug.org> wrote in message >>> news:1166388023.574809@bubbleator.drizzle.com... >>>> How one defines quality is…
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)…
HDR Question
>From IBM Informix Tech Notes, why would you want to do this? Problem This article describes how to disable parallel clearing of the physical and logical logs on the secondary of a HDR pair during its logical recovery. Solution Q. How do you disable par…
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 ;-)…
HP-UX PA-RISC/Itanium
HP claims that HP-UX maintains high degree of compatibility between PA-RISC and Itanium based system. Here is the quote from document they published on their website (http://h21007.www2.hp.com/dspp/tech/tech_TechDocumentDetailPage_IDX/1,1701,9928 ,00.html): "One of the design go…
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…
License Extension
Help.. I need a license extension for the IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.FC3R1TL which I downloaded to do a evaluation. How can I get the license extened..my project is in the final stages .. Dhaya Commercial bank…
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: Security Vulnerabilities Addressed in Informix Dynamic Server
Clive Eisen wrote: > Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > > Yes the buffer overflow issues are a pain and frankly they shouldn't occur > > if IBM did formal code reviews. Or rather they should be caught and > > corrected prior to release. > > > > "Paul Watson" <paul@oninit.com> wrote in m…
Security Vulnerabilities Addressed in Informix Dynamic Server
Not sure if this has posted here or not but .... http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=630&context=SSGU8G&dc=D600&u id=swg21242921&loc=en_US&cs=UTF-8&lang=en Cheers Paul Paul Watson Tel: +44 1414161772 Mob: +44 7818003457 Web: www.oninit.com GO FURTHER with DB2 GET THER…
Re: 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: 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.…
HDR questions
> What about backing up without marking the database as backed up? Isn't > that a new feature of informix 10? ontape -F in think. > > Would this allow a backup to be done on the secondary, because it isn't > updating the system tables? > > > > Yes you can run ontape on the secon…
Re: Mirror or Raid1? Replication or DRBD?
Got HDR running so far, looking good ... except for when I tried to do a failover, the failover did work out, but I couldn't get the boxes to switch back over to the original setup... guess I still need to do some testing ... Tnx for now!…
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...…
HDR and Indexes
Most of the folks using HDR know about the create index issue. Can I have honest reaction on this issue? Thx…
Re: Need info on blobspace blobs
We use blobspace blobs. Recently we have decided to implement HDR for that server. Now we are looking for a way to replicate our BYTE columns. It will be very useful for us if HDR can support blobspace blobs. Madison Pruet wrote: > I need an idea of the number of customers who a…
Re: Dumb DBA mistakes
How about this: A site I am aware of set up a pair of machines with Sun's failover and the DB data disks on swingable drives. However they put the IDS installation and all of the config files on local drives. Of course, duplicated on both sides. Don't get ahead of me here! N…
Initialising Informix
I am trying to initialize informix on a new server and I am getting this error. The server is HP UX 11.11 and Informix IDS 7.31 What could be the problem / This action will initialize Informix Dynamic Server; any existing Informix Dynamic Server databases will NOT be accessible …
Informix Connection From WIN CE.NET Emulator?
How do I connect to informix dynamic server from WIN CE.NET Emulator? Is there a WIN CE informix driver?…
Re: Table Editor for Multiplatforms
Enhancements in Version 4.3 ..... also supports the Informix Dynamic Server 9.x. http://www.ibm.com/software/data/db2imstools/db2tools/db2te/…
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.…
HDR on win2k
Hi All, Is anyone out there successfully running Informix 9.4 HDR on win2k (with tape backup or with out tape backup systems). I am getting an error "unable to change server type" after I type "onmode -d secondary pri_server_name". Thanks, Bes…
Fragmentation Elimination Problem
I am on version IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.FC4.…
Re: Informix Dynamic Server 9.30 - Shared Memory
Ronald Schwingel wrote: > Can someone please tell me how much Shared Memory (gigabytes?) > Informix Dynamic Server 9.30 (32-bit version) for AIX 5L can use > before asserting with a Shared Memory access error? Can you provide > documentation that I can pass on also? It looked to…
Re: Defrag large fragmented table in 7.32
Coming in v.Next. I seem to remember seeming something about online upgrades whilst HDR is in use for v.Next but I can't find the slide again on IBM's website...…
RE: Informix Dynamic Server 9.30 - Shared Memory
First off you shouldn't be getting shared memory access errors. That sounds more like a bug that technical support should address. I wouldn't be surprised if your getting can't allocate additional shared memory segment messages. Informix 32-bit on AIX is a bitch. The problem …
RE: HDR Sync/Async mode
We've run HDR in sync mode across a dedicated link, didn't notice any performance issues.…
Informix Dynamic Server 9.30 - Shared Memory
Can someone please tell me how much Shared Memory (gigabytes?) Informix Dynamic Server 9.30 (32-bit version) for AIX 5L can use before asserting with a Shared Memory access error? Can you provide documentation that I can pass on also? We are looking at providing one of cust…
HDR Sync/Async mode
Could I do a quick survey to see how many folks are using HDR Sync mode and how many are using HDR Async - and why? Thanks M.P.…
create a DB on Linux
Hi! I have installed Informix dynamic server on Linux. Now I want to create a data base. What should I do? Thanks…
Fied wtlist gt 0 _ onstat -k
Hi Masters: What is the query to get wtlist > 0 onstat -k IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.31.UD7W4 -- On-Line -- Up 2 days Locks address wtlist owner lklist type tblsnum rowid key#/bsiz 80e20b70 0 cd6a6f08 0 S 100002 204 0 820b9958 d62b1a38 d62b4cd8 80e2d280 HDR+X b0001…
Re: Another IDS Feature Request
Madison Pruet wrote: > "Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.net> wrote in message > news:43E0E317.2080907@bloomberg.net... > >>bozon wrote: >> >>>Art S. Kagel wrote: >>> >>> >>>>bozon wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>It would help us. I think it would be a feature that would really fit >>>>>in w…
Re: flagship sunk
Funny I have been able to download IDS 10 for Solaris, Windows and Linux am I just smarter than everyone else? www.informix.com Support and downloads In the middle trials and betas Oh look Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) V10.0 easy!…
Probably a dumb question but...
Guys (particularly IBMers)- Since Apple is porting its OS to Intel processors and since Mac OS is really just a GUI sitting on top of UNIX... It shouldn't be much of a stretch to take the Linux port of IDS and create a Mac port. Is there a snowball's chance in Hades that IBM wo…
IDS cluster
Dirk Moolman wrote: > My company is talking about moving IDS on SUN, to IDS on Linux - and > also clustering the servers. > > The only failover I know (on the Informix side), is ER and HDR. Is > clustering possible on Linux ? > > > (they mentioned having 2 DB servers and 2 appli…
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 …
Re: 2xSMP vs RAC for failover - was Re: informix market share
DA Morgan said: > > Serge Rielau wrote: > >> Duly noted. Thoughts for the road: If you use a 2 node cluster and one >> goes down you're dead unless you kept load very low when the RAC system >> is up. That is the 2 node RAC cluster competes with a 2x4 SMP box which >> of course w…
Re: 2xSMP vs RAC for failover - was Re: informix market share
Serge Rielau wrote: > Duly noted. Thoughts for the road: If you use a 2 node cluster and one > goes down you're dead unless you kept load very low when the RAC system > is up. That is the 2 node RAC cluster competes with a 2x4 SMP box which > of course will price hardware wise t…
Re: 2xSMP vs RAC for failover - was Re: informix market share
DA Morgan said: > > Serge Rielau wrote: >> DA Morgan wrote: >> >>> Serge Rielau wrote: >>> >>>> *chuckle*And there always will be because SMP scales better than RAC >>>> (more CPUs needed) and RAC is cited as a major contributer to Linux >>>> licenses... it ain't free. >>> >>> >>…
2xSMP vs RAC for failover - was Re: informix market share
DA Morgan wrote: > Serge Rielau wrote: > >> *chuckle*And there always will be because SMP scales better than RAC >> (more CPUs needed) and RAC is cited as a major contributer to Linux >> licenses... it ain't free. > > > Of course if you also want transparent failover with that bi…
Re: informix market share
Serge Rielau wrote: > *chuckle*And there always will be because SMP scales better than RAC > (more CPUs needed) and RAC is cited as a major contributer to Linux > licenses... it ain't free. Of course if you also want transparent failover with that big SMP box you get to buy at …
Re: IDS 10 - documentation questions
Oops! I mean IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.TC3ET Althought the release notes (idse_win_release_notes_10.0.html) start with:- "Release Notes for IBM Informix Dynamic Server Express Edition for Windows Platforms 10.00.TC3E, 1 July 2005 " so it is TC3E or TCE3T? and …
Re: Sql to concatenate multiple rows to a single row / column
Thank you SaltTan - it works beautifully. BTW, we have IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.FC6.…
Free space...Clustered Data
Urich Ann wrote: > Do many companies use clustering indexes...via table data ordered by a > key (clustered)? > > Is there a performance boost in Informix when the data is clustered -- > and then retrieved via cluster sequence? The performance benefit is marginal - and debatable.…
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: IDS 10 erratic run times
"Neil Truby" <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote in message news:3pliprFb403pU1@individual.net... > IDS 10.0FC3 on Solaris 2.9 > >>> This is a brand new server which we are preparing to migrate a v9 system >>> to. > Over the past few weeks I have run multiple dbimports from more-or-le…
Re: Multiple HDR secondaries...
Common uses I can recall hearing of for this kind of capability: (1) One secondary current (for 'normal' failover), plus one secondary with delayed replay (for errant transaction protection). (2) One local secondary for more convenient failover, plus a remote secondary for less…
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…
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 …
New IDS Forum on IBM Developerworks website
This forum provides a place for Informix Dynamic Server developers and users to share their questions, thoughts, and ideas with others. http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/dw_forum.jsp?forum=548&cat=19…
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…
HDR problems
Hello , Iam doing a HDR for 2 informix servers on HP-UX :- Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.31.FD6 -- On-Line -- Up 33 days 07:46:25 - - 661824 Kbytes But when I was doing a ontape -p on secondary server , it showed or asked me "do you want to restore a level-1 backup ?" ...I …
Re: IDS 10 Express Edition
Note 10.00.xC3 = Enterprise Version 10.00.xC3E = Express Edition http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ids9help/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.relnotes.doc/uc3E/idse_win_release_notes_10.0.html Then click on "IBM Informix Dynamic Server Express Edition" in the right pane:…
Re: Update Statistics
The order I run update statistics is 1) MEDIUM DISTRIBUTIONS ONLY, 2) HIGH for first column in an index, 3) LOW for all other columns in an index, 4) UPDATE STATISTICS FOR PROCEDURE <procname> Is this still the recommended order? Regards Colin >From: "Andrew Ford" <andrewfor…
Re: Update Statistics
Yeah. I've got all of that. But is it true that running update statistics high (or medium) without the 'distributions only' clause does the work of low (building statistics) plus some extra stuff (building distributions). I've been putting a lot of work and thought into optimi…
RE: Update Statistics
Update statistics low doesn't build distributions, the way high does. It compiles information about the structure of the indices (depth, leaf nodes, clustered-ness, second-highest and second-lowest values, etc), and places them in systables, sysindexes (or sysindices, in IDS 9.4.…
Re: XPS
"Mark Townsend" <markbtownsend@comcast.net> wrote > Oracle was using three pricing metrics in those days - unlimited user > pricing based on the MHz of the CPUs, named users and concurrent user. > > In 2000 the unlimited user pricing for Oracle Standard Edititon was $15 > per MH…
setup Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC1E1 to linux error
I setup Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC1E1 to linux execcute oninit -ivy is failed the online.log is write /// 16:31:32 Dynamically allocated new virtual shared memory segment (size 8192KB) 16:31:32 Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC1E1 Software Serial Number AA…
ONCONFIG comments
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: 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 …
Replication question...
I'd definitely agree with that. I think Smart LOBs are replicated in HDR when they are logged, but they are so slow we can't use them with logging on! Regards, Donny superboer wrote: > > enable HDR for (s) blobs in sbpaces and blobspaces. >…
Informix Dynamic Server information Centre
Great new utility just posted under IDS 10 on the docs site has uses for other products and versions than just IDS 10 so take a look even if you are not using 10 yet!! http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ids9help/index.jsp…
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…
Cannot find message file. Check INFORMIXDIR and DBLANG.
im trying to run the oninit -i in the command prompt when the message appear... we installed... IBM Informix Dynamic Server 9.40 IBM INFORMIX-4GL Rapid Development System Version 7.32.UC2 IBM INFORMIX-4GL Version 7.32.UC2 set up sqlhosts, services, onconfig, path... but when tr…
Re: serial and sequential scan
superboer7@planet.nl (superboer) wrote in message news:<bb790a36.0502160532.2c2ac371@posting.google.com>... > where is OPTCOMPIND set to???? if 2 then set it to 0 > > or > > export OPTCOMPIND=0 > > start dbaccess with your problem qry. > > Superboer. > > > > "Bill Dare" <dareb@je…
Re: serial and sequential scan
hajek@nspuh.cz wrote: UPDATE STATISTICS MEDIUM FOR TABLE... Is insufficient. Unlike HIGH and LOW, MEDIUM does NOT update the systables, syscolumns, and sysindexes records. It is the information in the latter that IDS uses to determine the cost of using a particular index. I …
Re: Restoring a level-1 backup at a later date?
To all those who suggested we use HDR for this; there was a small bell ringing at the back of my mind and eventually I worked out why. You CANNOT USE HDR TO REPLICATE BLOBSPACES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (At least in IDS9.30 anyway). Why oh why oh why the hell not? Malc (seething 'cos we'd…
HDR issues
All, I had a peculiar problem with HDR last night. We had a software = upgrade, which made some changes to the db schema (columns added, indexes created). In order to = facilitate this,=20 I shut down the secondary server until the everything was complete. = When I started up th…
HDR feedback
Just a little bit of feedback (for those interested). A while back I posted a reply to an HDR mail, saying that we have loads of problems with HDR, and I was about to give up on using HDR. We kept loosing the link between the 2, and I kept rebuilding the secondary server. W…
chunk capacity
we are using BM Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC2X3 on Linux Kernel 2.4.21 the command 'onstat -d' shows ... Expanded chunk capacity mode: disabled how can I change this mode to 'enabled'?…
HDR Logging
Hi, I need to configure HDR on two IBM AIX servers running IDS 9.40 I cannot use Transaction Logging. Will HDR work without having Bufferd/Unbufferd logging enabled? Thanks Trevor…
HDR question
Hi all, Is there anyone know which SMI table keep track of the Last DR CKPT info? sysdri tables from sysmaster database doesn't contains the info. I need to know what is the current log id that being replicated to the secondary server. Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.31.UC2 …
HDR Interval
Hi, I'm wanting to implement HDR between two IBM AIX servers running Informix 9.4 UC3. I have 53 (2mb) logical logs. I've been asked to have a replication period of 1 hour DRINTERVAL of 3600. We do an ontape -c on the primary server. Would there be a problem if all the logical …
IDS V7.30 and Windows 2000
Can Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.30.TC6 be run on a Windows 2000 host system? TIA Erwin…
Re: HDR: MULTISET gives -626 on secondary
This is a limitation on using extensibility on HDR secondary. I think workaround mentioned in release notes will work (provided you wait for DRTIMEOUT after running the query on primary).…
Re: Error Initialize Informix Dynamic Server
Art S. Kagel wrote: > On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 05:05:41 -0400, madiego wrote: >>I install Informix Dynamic Server and when I initialize 'oninit -iv' : >> >>This action will initialize Informix Dynamic Server; any existing Informix >>Dynamic Server databases will NOT be accessible - Do…
Error Initialize Informix Dynamic Server
Hello, I install Informix Dynamic Server and when I initialize 'oninit -iv' : This action will initialize Informix Dynamic Server; any existing Informix Dynamic Server databases will NOT be accessible - Do you wish to continue (y/n)? y Checking group membership to determine ser…
RE: 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: Informix Dynamic Server and DB Tuning
I am experiencing similar problems with users migrating from Standard Engine to IDS 9.30. It appears that some applications are more susceptible than others. What application(s) are you running? We also have experience of adding more BUFFERS, LOCKS, etc and not improving the sit…
RE: Informix Dynamic Server and DB Tuning
Muthana Increase BUFFERS in onconfig file. UPDATE STATISTICS for each table (as a minimum) rerun the query and see what improvements you get. If you still have problems post the results of:- onstat -p onstat -m onstat -R and sqexplain.out of any particularly slow query or updat…
Informix Dynamic Server and DB Tuning
Dear Sir, The question how can make DB Tuning for Informix Dynamic Server version 9:30 to get the query faster. I used IDS 9:30 and it's not quick enough like our old Standard Engine. which Parameter can i change to make that or what shall i do? Regards Muthana AL-Temimi…
Can IDS accessing Informix SE Tables.
Hello, Now we are using Informix SE. We are planning to go Infomix Dynamic Server 9.x. Before migrating our current applications to IDS 9.x., first we have to develop a new application in IDS 9.x, in that we need to use some of the tables from informx SE. Could you please answer…
HDR using encryption with CSM ??
HDR is using full duplex protocol. The CSM is using half duplex. That means that HDR can not be using encryption. "rvb" <rvbon@gmx.de> wrote in message news:6e9a0040.0407060058.a949384@posting.google.com... > Madison, > > I isolated HDR communication with option s=6 as follows…
HDR for high availability
How many customers use HDR for high availability purpose. Meaning, they use it for failover when the primary node goes down. If possible, can those customers contact me off-line. Thanks. Ravi…
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…
HDR on Windows 2000
Has anyone tried HDR on Windows 2000. Is it even available. Version can be either 9.3 or 9.4. Thanks. Ravi…
Re: Views question?
Comments in-line. rkusenet wrote: > "Mark Townsend" <markbtownsend@comcast.net> wrote > >>Hey - I'm the bug, fat buzztard. Anyhow, still no winner. I believe both >>of these do have Alter Table Drop Column. So who could it be ? Lets >>think about this for awhile. Are we all thi…
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: 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…
HDR Question
Officially, you need identical engines and operating systems to use HDR. However, during an upgrade, we tested and used HDR between identical 7.31 versions with the primary on solaris 8 and the secondary on solaris 7. Has anyone tried using HDR between 9.40 versions, one on sola…
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 …
Dose anybody have the dbtop script in the Troubleshooting informix course?
Dears, I study the Troubleshooting ibm informix dynamic server course. At the module 4 exercise need the dbtop script. Dose anybody has this dbtop script and post for me? Thanks. Philip Yeh.…
Work group edition - Unlimited edition??
Taken from IBM web site:- =========================================================================== The following Informix Dynamic Server Workgroup Unlimited editions have been added to the IBM Data Management Gold Transaction Processing Bundle for SMB Unlimited: IBM Informix…
Re: An interesting meeting with IBM
"Andy Kent" <andykent.bristol1095@virgin.net> wrote in message news:ac5fb36.0404080205.28a8b515@posting.google.com... > Data, > > Yes, I've worked with Oracle. > > Not sure why you ask. > I needed to get answers first before proceeding. Most of the time when people say they will…
Re: [Informix Dynamic Server (IDS):] Digest 2671
For a course in the US, check out: http://www-306.ibm.com/services/learning/ites.wss?pageType=course_description&co urseCode=L1760&country=us&language=en (IBM course L1760). There is probably a similar course offered in Europe somewhere. Hope this helps. Kevin Doiron Toronto,…
Re: Oracle 10G
Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > What are you talking about? You talked about hash partitioned tables, not > transparent failover. And many different types of partitioning have been in > IDS for years. You then tried to imply some sort of grid-ness, because > these might be on differe…
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,…
Re: Whatcha' wanta have?????
How much is Madison paying you? LOL Rob Vorbroker --- Ben Thompson <ben@nomonitorsoftspamthanks.com> wrote: > Art S. Kagel wrote: > > > - Support for multiple HDR replicants. > > This would be a boon for us as it would remove the > need for ER. The > ability to use HDR+ER togethe…
Re: Whatcha' wanta have?????
Art S. Kagel wrote: > - Support for multiple HDR replicants. This would be a boon for us as it would remove the need for ER. The ability to use HDR+ER together is useful but an all-HDR solution would be a nirvana. HDR is just so much easier to use and set up. Ben.…
Re: Transaction support in informix dynamic server(IDS)
chaithra wrote: > i wanted to know, if in IDS we can get to know the status of a > transaction at any given time. or once any transaction commits or > rollsback we should be able to know the status. > is it possible through c++ interface provided by the IDS. I'm not quite s…
Transaction support in informix dynamic server(IDS)
hi all, i wanted to know, if in IDS we can get to know the status of a transaction at any given time. or once any transaction commits or rollsback we should be able to know the status. is it possible through c++ interface provided by the IDS. thanx in advace chaithra…
configure computer for using informix
what shell I do to make my computer work with informix. I have installed winXP on my computer, informix 4 i informix dynamic server? THANKS…
RE: Changing hostname / IP address
Five Cats wrote > > >DNS contains a wonderful, underused facility called ALIAS records. > > It would be so wonderful if the site was using DNS. They are > not, hence > the problem! Most unixes have the facility of an IP alias that does this locally. In Tru64(RIP) it is - ifc…
Where can I get the client API?
Hi, does anyone knows where to get the client API for Informix Dynamic Server 7.x? Perhaps we want to access the server via api directly. Kind regards, Joachim Engel.…
Re: Anyone seen this behaviour before ?
TBP <TheBIgPotatoe@Nospam.Nothere.Co.Uk> wrote in message news:<brn87n$vi0$1@sp15en20.hursley.ibm.com>... > mad_villan wrote: > > I have a HDR pair which were working fine up until lately. The primary > > runs in a veritas clustered environment - secondary is standalone. > > Conf…
Anyone seen this behaviour before ?
I have a HDR pair which were working fine up until lately. The primary runs in a veritas clustered environment - secondary is standalone. Configuration is fine. However, when i recently failed over to the second node in the cluster the instance came up cleanly BUT there was a con…
Informix optimizer
Hi, Does anyone know if the Informix Dynamic Server (7.31 or 9.4) database optimizer uses star schema optimizer techniques? Thank you, Tony…
about HDR
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_05EF_01C3BD8A.4C96BEB0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi there. Is there a way for me to get the HDR kit? Maybe a url to = download? Best regards, Mar…
Changing database local / dbexport tapesize
Hi, Did you change TAPESIZE on your onconfig file? That could be the restriction! REGARDS…
TRUNCATE TABLE command in 9.3?
I am aware that Informix Dynamic Server previously has not included the TRUNCATE TABLE command. Does anyone know if 9.3 or 9.4 include this command?…
Linux fgl_getenv
Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.30.UC3 on Linux. Do I have to do something before I can use the fgl_getenv call in a stored procedure? When I try I get 674: Routine (fgl_getenv) can not be resolved.…
HDR
hi, We are trying to setup HDR (using IDS 7.31UD3X5a) on NCR UNIX. The two enviroments are configured identically. HDR starts successfully (We also created databases and table and everything works fine), when we try to simulate a failure on the primary (onmode -ky), then the sec…
oncheck -me Feature Request
OK, I've collected the comments of the discussion on oncheck -me, and my own correspondence with contact, and these are the results of my investigations: 1- oncheck -me was never intended for general release 2- it was not completed internally and is not completely safe, meaning…
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.…
HDR & backups
Informix 9.30 Solaris 8 We are planning to do the following: Have a primary server, and then use HDR to replicate this server onto a secondary server. Question: Can I do my backups by only running them on the secondary server? I haven't done this before, and 1 question popp…
HDR & backups
Informix 9.30 Solaris 8 We are planning to do the following: Have a primary server, and then use HDR to replicate this server onto a secondary server. Question: Can I do my backups by only running them on the secondary server? I haven't done this before, and 1 question popp…
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…
Restarting HDR
I know i've asked everything there was to this but here's some more. My server is set up for 20 logical log files. Assume the uniq ids are also from 1 to 20. I backed up my instance yesterday night and it has logical logs 14 and 15. I will restore it on the secondary today nigh…
hdr hang
Hello, ids 9.30uc1 on unixware 7.x. hdr seems to be hang when checkpoint increase on my secondary server (>200). I increase drtimeout on primary to the maximum checkpoint value. It doesn't solve the problem. hdr need to be stop an restart frequently. Any possible tuning and moni…
HDR sites
Hi, Did anyone affected by the blackout have the secondary outside of the blackout area?…
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…
Taking care of Fail Back in HDR
Again this is another surprise for me in Informix that failover is not automatic. In fact they expect the application logic to be written keeping replication in mind. How crappy is that ? For all the guys that use HDR how do you take care of the primary going down ? The manual m…
RE: Dynamic Server versus Universal Server ??
Originally, Version 7.x was called 'Informix Dynamic Server', Version 9.0x was called 'Universal server' Starting with 9.1, Universal server became 'Dynamic server with Universal data option'. With 9.2, new names 'Internet Foundation 2000 ' and 'Dynamic server 2000' ware given…
Re.continuity
Hi everybody, IDS.9.3 uc3/ AIX 5.1 with HACMP, during the failover we have outage of 3.5 mins. Is there any option or any technology recommended to avoid the outage of 3.5 mins and have the continuity in the service. Thanks in advance. Sushil.. ________________________________…
HDR , logs
Hi all, (linux, 940UC2) cause of batchjob problems I have to disable HDR during job. The batch job needs ~45 logs with 10 MB, what is the better way, increas size of logs to 20MB or increase logs to 100, I have 50 logs! Thanks Sven…
HDR
Hi, I have an async HDR running under 940UC2 and linux! Wenn I am running a batchjob, a lot of tables are created and some indicies and so on, there is always a DR: Send error created, and some indicies are not transfered to secondary, and because of that some locks not disapear,…
Informix Dynamic Server 2000 startup problem
Hi, While starting up informix in multi user mode , we wait for the database to come up by checking the onstat - o/p . But if the system is loaded, even after onstat shows status as online , the connection is rejected by the database . The wait loop that we do is as follow…
hdr installation
Hi all, I have to identical Severs on Linux and INF940UC2! both have two NIC 1x global LAN, 1x HDR LAN(direct LINK) with user informix I am able to connect from each of them to the other with no password. after HDR restore an the secondary the HDR won't establish. What is wr…
RE: HPL Unloading error [1467]
Here's my onconfig file SHMVIRTSIZE 147456 SHMADD 8192 SHMTOTAL 0…
why I can't see the output of "onstat -g wts"
test:/informix>onstat -g wst Informix Dynamic Server 2000 Version 9.21.FC7 -- On-Line -- Up 5 days 13:23:03 -- 11132960 Kbytes Wait statistics not enabled How to enable the wait statistics???…
RE: is hdr on?
Not to worry, Alex. The "Last DR Ckpt" discrepancy is a "cosmetic" bug in some versions. Can't remember the bug number, but it is fixed in later versions. What you see in the message logs confirms that HDR is still running. The "server operational" messages are the keys. HTH…
informix SDK 2.81 ifxoledbc OLEDB and ADO
When Updating or deleting a non existing row in a table, the informix oledb provider produces an "UnSpecified error". Environment: Informix Dynamic Server 7.31 Informix SDK 2.81 ADO 2.6 Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance…
Re: is hdr on?
Thanks for reply. This is a message log fragment. As if hdr on? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- server1: 12:12:50 Informix Dynamic Server Initialized -- Shared Memory Initialized. 12:12:50 DR: Logs already cleared 12:12:50 DR: Try…
is hdr on?
Hi ! I have 2 Informix servers (7.31UC7) with HDR - server1 and server2. Is HDR on? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- server1: [informix@server1]$onstat -g dri Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.31.UC7 -- On-Line (Prim) -- Up 23 day…
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…
HDR questions
We're running IDS versions 9.21.UC5 and 9.30.UC3, both on Sun Solaris = 2.8 We currently use "smart-blob" dbspaces (sbspace) for xml data storage. = Does HDR support sbspaces? Terrence Mullins Sr Database Administrator WagerWorks.com…
secondary server
hi, i'm using HDR with Aix5.1 and IFX 7.31 i want to make Level 0 backups on the secondary server. can i do it ???…
Informix Disaster Recovery Strategy
All, Thanks for the input. It looks like HDR is the way to go. We have a fairly flexible recovery period and most of the data is entered data enry staff. Now I just need to figure out how to implement HDR.…
hdr not working
Hi, We have a HDR setup here. We rebooted the secondary server and then we could no longer make the HDR work. The error message in the primary server is: 19:18:36 DR: Failure recovery error (2) 19:18:37 DR: Turned off on primary server 19:18:38 Checkpoint Completed: duration was…
force engine to use indexes
Because your update statistics indicate that the data is highly unordered and will result in multiple hits for the same data page. Because of that, it is mathematically faster to do a sequential scan of the data pages and sort them than it is to hit the same data pages multiple …
RE: failover
Check out Informix's High-availability Data Replication (HDR). You can RTFineM about it in the two "Data Replication" chapters in the Admin Guide. HDR works well, is easy to set up and maintain, and is very reliable. HTH, Paul Mosser -----Original Message----- From: ajhowell@m…
failover
We are on Informix 7.30.UC3 and Solaris 7. We are considering Legato or Veritas for a high-availability/failover solution. Any comments or opinions regarding either of these options (reliability, ease of use, etc) or a different option would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Sen…
RE: Clustered Servers
Not a problem, but you will only have Informix active on any one member at a time. In a 2 member config, the second member will can only be used as a failover instance. In other words: Mem1: Informix instance 1, Database/Instance 1 Mem2: Informix failover instance 1, Database/In…
Replication
We are considering using some method of data replication/failover. Some of the options we have considered are Informix Enterprise Replication, Informix Data Replication, Legato, and Veritas. I would like to hear from users with experience on any of those methods regarding the ea…
What requires an IDS Linux?
Hello What requires an Informix Dynamic Server Linux a desktop and/or a network version of Linux? Thanks in advance Jacqueline Romero Miranda…
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…
Informix v Oracle
Hi Is there a function in Informix Dynamic Server 2000 that is like Oracles CREATE SEQUENCE that uses NEXTVAL/CURVAL and %ROWCOUNT, ect? Thanks for all contributions Jordan jbruce@asaglobalserv.com…
Re: Eliminate ontape? failover issue
From: lopez@abqato.abq.sc.philips.com > >Strange. Trying that, We get a message saying the transaction log can not >be >dumped to /dev/null. If you set LTAPEDEV to /dev/null, it automatically backs up logical logs as they fill up. But running ontape -a does produce an error. >R…
Re: Alpha Cluster + Informix ?
Hannes Visagie wrote: > > Hi all > > Anybody experience with Informix on Compaq Alpha set up as cluster. ? Yes, but only set up for failover. Shared disks, etc. > Can you set up INF to use all members processing power ? {Single DB} I think you need to look at IDS-EPO (version …
Eliminate ontape? failover issue
WE are moving an application suite to a HP server cluster which offers the MC Service Guard to move the suite of tools as one "package" to an other server of the cluster in the event of a failure on the home server. We are thinking about what to do with the tape drive and tape th…
Avoiding rebuilding of indexes
<Jinu.Joseph@citicorp.com> > We operate on a database of size 22 GB. For operational efficiency and > speed it was suggested that the indexes be dropped and recreated on a > weekly basis. Now the problem is that this takes 7 hours, and we dont > have that much time. So there are …
Retrieving product name
Hi all, Is their a system table somewhere on an informix server that stores the product name. For example 'Select owner from systables where tabname = � VERSION� will return the version of the server. I would like to be able to tell if a server is a Universal server or a Dynamic …
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?…
IDS 7.3x on Win2000?
Does Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.3x runs on Windows 2000 (Professional)? Thanks for your help. Guy Dillen…
TBLSPACE_STATS
Hi, what is the meaning of TBLSPACE_STATS variable in onconfig file? thank in advance.…
HDR incremental backups?
Why should only level 0 backups be used with HDR databases and not incremental? Thanks Sue…
Re: NUMCPUVPS
mmmmm In addtion to what the others said.... Are you running KAIO? If you are do the following echo "_ncols/D"|adb -k /stand/vmunix /dev/kmem If this going up at all be worried, if it's going up real fast be very worried. It measures the number of collisions ie the number o…
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.…
Re: How to search for a string in a TEXT field
Hi, :-( SELECT name, REPLACE(text,"ZNOTREADY","found") AS your_output FROM tablewithtextfield; Blobs are not allowed in this expression. I use Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.31.UC2A…
IDS 9.20 in a Clustered Environment
Hi All, Has anybody implemented or used IDS 9.20 in a clustered environment? I would particularly like information regarding its uses as a High-Availability and Scalability Solution. Any information will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, DOn…
ODBC connectivity with EDS
Hello Admins, I having a problem connecting to my EDS environement running in a clustered environment. I have SDK (2.40 TC1) in my windows NT workstations and when I do Ilogin demo and try to connect to the EDs database I get -952 error. I have a IDS 7.31 enviroment in the sa…
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…
Create user in Informix Dynamic Server
Hello all I`m new in INS. Could you help me? I have Database server with one user Informix. How to create another user to Database?…
Informix ODS on Win 2000?
Does Informix Dynamic Server V7.31.TC5 for Intel Pentium Windows NT 4 also run on Windows 2000? Thanks for any help. Guy Dillen ITP…
Split AIX mirror to bring up HDR replacation
Has anyone split an AIX mirrored VG, to bring up HDR replication. If so what are the steps. -- Kevin H. Hunt khhunt@triplecrownsvc.com…
RE:
From: SAMPATH <sampath@gulfins.com.kw> > Its not RAID. Its a cluster software as series of disks will be >in a box accessed by differenct Unix servers. Thanks. I believe the technical term is "disk farm" :-) OK, as long as it's not RAID 5, you're over hurdle no 1. Now for hur…
Re:
From: SAMPATH <sampath@gulfins.com.kw> > > We're having IDS 7.3 running on Alpha 4100. All DBspaces are raw >partitions and mirrored. We are planning to move the disks out of >machine and put them as a disk array with clustering software from >Compaq. 5 disks + 1 emergency disk. …
RE:
Hi, Its not RAID. Its a cluster software as series of disks will be in a box accessed by differenct Unix servers. Thanks. Sam > -----Original Message----- > From: Obnoxio The Clown [SMTP:obnoxio@hotmail.com] > Sent: 01 June, 2000 11:44 � > To: sampath@gulfins.com.kw; informix…
Posting from the Informix-list
Hi, We're having IDS 7.3 running on Alpha 4100. All DBspaces are raw partitions and mirrored. We are planning to move the disks out of machine and put them as a disk array with clustering software from Compaq. 5 disks + 1 emergency disk. Has anyone tried this before? If one of t…
Informix cost???
Someone can said how much does Informix cost? I need to know: -Informix costs -cost for client Thanks very much. I need the last version of dynamic server for Unix. Ciao, Berna…
Replication and PeopleSoft
Art, It might be worth asking this on the Peoplemix mailing list. > Anyone have any experiences with using HDR or ER with PeopleSoft?…
HDR
Having problems initiating HDR. Platform specifics: IBM RS6000 h70 AIX 4.3.3.0 IDS 2000 9.20.UC3 Archive and Restore accomplished using onbar and the Informix Storage Manager. Problem occurs when trying to restore the archive created from the primary server on the secondary serv…
Replication
Hello everybody. I would like to know if it is possible to replicate an Informix database between a UNIX-based 7.32UC2 Informix Dynamic Server and an linux-based IDS2000 without problems. Thanks in advance. jhernandez@geuropa.com…
Re: Top Databases Used
Well it depends on all what you will be doing with your database. OLTP "based stuff" Informix, no doubt, fastest in the market at oltp with little or no headaches. Warehousing data of 1 terabyte or more, Teradata, period. Easy to manage, DBA's dream. "Stuff's not running fast…
RE: Informix and HP MC/ServiceGuard implementation
We are in the process now. So far, I am leaning toward Informix HDR replication for the database failover and using MC/Serviceguard for application failovers. * Sent from RemarQ http://www.remarq.com The Internet's Discussion Network * The fastest and easiest way to search and …
Re: informix, linux and beowulf
Informix does NOT use that kind of clustering as is present in Beowulf. The Informix clustered product, XPS or IDS 8.xx, uses multiple co-servers in two distinct ways. 1) It can spread a database, indeed even a single table, across multiple coservers on the same or on different…
dynamic server with Informix distant database
We have this problem : - write of a html page (this pages will contain many many fields). - Receiving of the page data on a http server based on a M1 machine. - Using of 4gl/informix programs based on the M2 machine with the pages data - 4GL programs will set up a � result � tabl…
HELP! Informix Dynamic Server 7.3
I'm trying to install a new IDS on Linux (RedHat 6.1) on a cooked file. Everything looks right, but upon oninit, I receive the following: oninit: Cannot open chunk '/u1/naf_chunk'. errno = 2 oninit: Fatal error in shared memory initialization Log reflects: 09:11:07 Informi…
UDR Support in Informix Dynamic Server.
Can someone tell me what exact version of Informix Dynamic Server that first supported C User Defined Routines. I've tried searching for this on their website with no joy. (their advanced search doesnt work at all !) Rgds, Peter. Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before y…
Re: Memory problems? Please help.
>>What is the connection type? shm or soc ? >> >What are these? See NETTYPE in your onconfig file. HTH Michael…
OFFICE Connect V.1
Informix Office Connect, Version 1.0, is compatible with the following Informix servers: Informix Dynamic Server, Version 7.3 or later Informix Dynamic Server with Universal Data Option, Version 9.14 Informix Dynamic Server 2000, Version 9.2 or later e Informix-SE 7.23 n�o func…
IDS replication Solaris->Linux
Madison Pruet <mpruet@informix.com> wrote in message news:38B1A9B9.9183BF5D@informix.com... > ER can be used between solaris and Linux, HDR will not work. What's "ER"? Sorry to be a thicko, but I've only heard of CDR and HDR - and I know that I can't use CDR because of the seri…
System catalogue
Sounds like HDR to me. * Sent from RemarQ http://www.remarq.com The Internet's Discussion Network * The fastest and easiest way to search and participate in Usenet - Free!…
Borland Delphi and Informix
Hello everybody, we have huge performance problems on our 2-node Sun-Cluster with Informix: Environment: Sun E4500, 6 CPU's, 1GB Memory (primary host for database) Sun E3500, 4 CPU's, 1GB Memory (secondary host for takeover) 4 A5000-Diskarrays with 14 9,2GB disks each connec…
Compatability between Informix products
Hi, I need some version compatability information for the following products. Hardware Platform: Hewlett Packard OS Platform: HP-UX version 10.20 Informix s/w: Informix Universal Server 9.20 Informix Dynamic Server 7.31 Informix Gateway to DRDA vers…
temporary
The secondary in a HDR setup will let you create implicit temp tables. -- Kevin H. Hunt khhunt@hunts.com…
informix dynamic server on linux help
Hi all, I am an informix newbie, and i have problems running it on redhat linux 6.0. The installation went just fine, but now when i start dbaccess and try to create a new database i get this error message: 25584: Network driver can not access server program /opt/informix/lib/sq…
IDS on NT feasability
This is an OLTP or DSS system? For a 50GB system, personally, I'd opt for some kind of UNIX. NT just chugs its heart out and as was mentioned, is more expensive the bigger it gets. Of course, you could pilot the system on both NT and a UNIX of some kind. IBM has good NT, in …
Informix Dynamic Server on IBM SSA
Can any one share their experiences, recommendations, pit-falls, comments about creating an IDS db engineOLTP environment on an IBM SSA Raid system? We have 2 SSA adapters and have 4 loops with 4 drives each. The IBM techs for the Smoothstart services will be coming next Tuesday…
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…
Software FailOver
Hi, does anyone now if informix dynamic server can do a software failover without hardware clustering ? We are planning to use two servers with replication. The Clients should see one server. In case of failur, the standby server should take over client requests. Thanks in adwan…
Please help me!
Hello! 1, Can somebody give me information, what is the new features for Version 7.24 of Informix Dynamic Server according to Version 7.20 of Informix Dynamic Server? 2, Are Version 7.20 of Informix Dynamic Server and 7.20 INFORMIX-ESQL/C 2000 Year Compatible? 3, W…
Re: installing Informix dynamic server
From: "Joerg_Mauz@abs.org" <Joerg_Mauz@abs.org> > Is there something wrong the the gateway, Hotmail or are there just loads of idiots posting today. (Apart from me, that is! :-) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hot…
installing Informix dynamic server
hi all, can anybody give me an URL where to find a good description of how to setup and install an Informix Dynamic Server with using RedHat Linux ??? I've searched a whole day but founf nothing useful.. :( thx ind advance joerg…
Help! Cant start database service
Hello All I had my informix dynamic server (7.3) running fine till a few days back. Now the dynamic server service and the informix messenger service won't start automatically and if I try to start the server, it does start but I'm unable to connect to it. If I try to start the…
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…
A question about Indexing.
Vijith Gunawardhana wrote: > > Hi > > In my work environment we are using Informix Dynamic Server AD and XP > Options 8.2. > Seems that nobody else has taken a crack at this, so I'll have a go (and try to leave my prejudices at the door :-)). > > Here they don't use indexes at …
Setting up shared memory connection
Did you add the DBSERVERALIASES line in the onconfig file? -- James Edmiston Quest Information Systems, Inc. www.questisinc.com…
Informix Online Dynamic Server DBA Book
Hello Could anyone recommend a good Informix Online Dynamic Server book. I did a search in Amazon.com but I could not decide on which one to choose. Thanks in advance. Ajay…
Re: 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…
pricing for informix info?
Hello, Was wondering what other people out there paid for informix dynamic server 7.3... Basically, i wanted to know if they had a web server licensing schem like microsoft. or ibm's db2 (per cpu license). and would the licenses be transferable if I decided to move from le…
Re: Determining version dynamically
Hi, If you have Informix Dynamic Server then use the following sql-statement ' select DBINFO('version', 'full') from systables where tabid = 1' result from the sql is : Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.30.UC5 Take a look in Informix Guide to SQL: Syntax for more about DBINFO…
KAIO: out of OS resources error
Hi~ My informix dynamic server write "KAIO: out of OS resources error .." in online.log. This error log is written during ontape task. How can I solve this problem? platfom : SunOs 5.5.1 Informix Dynamic Server 7.24 uc6 Thanks.…
64bit IDS for Solaris 7/SPARC ?
Is there a 64bit Informix Dynamic Server 7.3x for Solaris 7/SPARC available? tia, joerg…
Posting from the Informix-list
what is the last version of Informix Dynamic Server for HP-UX 10.20, where can i find more Information about this.…
Latest versions for various Informix products ???
Which are the latest versions for Informix Dynamic Server Informix Dynamic Server, Workgroup Edition Informix 4GL Informix SQL on Solaris 7/SPARC ? Where can I find such informations on Informix's website ? tia, joerg…
cdr command line utility in informix 7.24
Hi, Is there a cdr command line utility in informix dynamic server 7.24? I tried to locate it, but the executable is nowhere to find. Thanks, Lu…
Problem Installing Informix Dynamic Server
I downloaded a Try&Buy version of Informix Dynamic Server V7.30 for NT. I installed it on an NT Server. The install seemed to go ok, but after a short time of investigating IECC, I got a blue screen. After this when I started the Command Center, a task seemed to start, but it w…
Anyone using HDR with SAP?
I am considering using HDR to provide a "hot site" backup for my 24x7 SAP production database. I would appreciate input from anyone who has done this already. Has it worked as expected? Have you experienced failover to secondary and back again? How do your application servers get…
Problems starting IDS 7.30.TC7 on Windows NT SP4.
When i try to start informix dynamic Server, the following message appears "Only informix user can start informix dynamic server" this message appears when i logged on with the informix's user. When i try to start the service on the control panel , error 2140 appears.…
Re: Informix 7.3 UC5 on RH Linux 5.2
Additional INFO: Please see attached "sqlhosts" and ONCONFIG files...…
IDS 7.30 Linux ed. - Unpleasant surprise
Hi! I planned to use IDS 7.30 Linux ed. with HDR. But after unsuccessful try to install it I discovered in release notes that replications in IDS 7.30 Linux ed. are not supported at all. (oh, yes for $99 can I expect HDR!?) Any idea when (and if at all) will be replications sup…
HDR and enterprise replication
Does anyone know the difference between HDR and enterprise replication? It seems they both exist in version 7.3, but only HDR is available in 9.14. Thanks in advance, david.tamburin@protegrity.com…
Out of buffer?
Hi, I got the following error message from an Informix IDS 7.30: <<Informix Dynamic Server>>> WARNING! Buffer pool size may cause Dynamic Server to get into a locked state. Recommended minimum buffer pool size is 4 times maximum concurrent user thre…
RE: -710 Error in Multithreaded Informix 7.24 UCX5 on HP-UX 10.20
We also had this problem and figured out that when we did a HPL it changed the constraints and indexes, loaded the data and then changed the constraints and indexes back to what they were defined originally. -----Original Message----- From: Art S. Kagel [SMTP:kagel@bloomberg.n…
-710 Error in Multithreaded Informix 7.24 UCX5 on HP-UX 10.20
Jim Maus wrote: > > My multi-threaded Informix esql process received a -710 (table-name has been > dropped, altered, or renamed) error. The process was using a prepared > statement to fetch using a cursor. The source table was not dropped, > altered, or renamed. I cant reproduce…
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?…
Linux VS NT4.0
Hi, Is it true that Informix Dynamic Server workgroup edition 7.30 is ported for Linux, and if it is so does anyone can tell me what to chose between Linux and NT4.0 for running Informix Dynamic Server workgroup edition 7.30. Also I'd like to know for which version of Linux, Inf…
Starting Informix Dynamic Server !
Hi Gurus, Just wondering is there any difference in starting the informix engine as root user versus as Informix user. ? The reason why I ask this question is , the IDS 7.23 UC6 on HP-UX 10.2 crashes due to a bug (declared as bug by Informix Technical support)when we start in…
Informix Dynamic Server Archive/Restore
Hello All: We have a large scale Informix DB resident on an HP 9000, K460, with AutoRaid Disk Subsystem (218gb). And we are running IDS 7.30. Currently, we are using the Informix ontape archive/restore utility to archive the DB and to perform continuous logical logging. We u…
Any one know this?
Hi folks: Is there a script that can check informix on-line dynamic server is up and running or not? If not it will e-mail a note to D.B.A. groups Thanks in advance Garry…
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…
converting Informix Online 5.1 esql/c to Dynamic Server esql/c?
Hi converting Informix Online 5.1 esql/c to Dynamic Server esql/c? What is the easiest way to do this? Is there a parser that could do this? edward…
RAID Technolgy
We are using Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.2. We are going in for a new DEC UNIX Server with RAID Technolgy. It incorporates mirroring at the hardware level. So is it not necessary to do mirroring using Informix?. Can anybody give suggestions regarding mirroring and other feat…
Informix on Linux
Does anybody know how much a copy of Informix Dynamic Server would run me for use on Linux?? Thanks in advance -steve…
Upgrade Dynamic Server 7.13 - 7.24
I need to upgrade Informix Dynamic Server version 7.13 to version 7.24. Can anyone advise of any problems they may have had whilst doing this?…
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).…
Informix Dynamic Server 7.31?
Is any information available regarding the release of IDS 7.31 for Unix? We have Sun E3000 and E4000 machines and are experiencing problems with both 7.30.UC3 and 7.30.UC5 and are curious about 7.31. Thanks. Carleen Avant Naval Safety Center Internet < cavant@safecen.navy.mil …
STRING FUNCTIONS
Are there functions for manipulating varchar type, like upper() or lower() in Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.2? Thanks in advance.…
Netscape Enterprise Connection for Informix Dynamic Server
Hi: Does anyone know the procedure for setting up a Netscape Enterprise Server to connect to an Informix Dynamic server on a remote machine? Michael…
oninit: shared library problem
I'm having problems when initialising the DB using oninit. Config: INFORMIX Dynamic Server Ver 7.23, on a UNISYS-UNIX SVR4. When Initializing, I get the error ...dynamic linker: oninit: symbol not found: gettimeofday The LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set to $INFORMIXDIR/bin and �INFORMIXDIR…
Initi DB
I'm having problems when initialising the DB. Config: INFORMIX Dynamic Server Ver 7.23, on a UNISYS-UNIX SVR4. When Initializing, I get the error ...dynamic linker: oninit: symbol not found: gettimeofday The LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set to $INFORMIXDIR/bin and �INFORMIXDIR/esql help wo…
Index on Informix Online 7.22 ?
I have installed a new Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.22UC3 on our server (HP-UX 10.20). I find it is much much slower than the Informix 7.12 Online DS server if I do not create index for a same program. Why and what is the difference between the two version of Dynamic serv…
Re: esqlvers statement.....results are different on 2 DB servers ???
Tim Jones wrote: > > I've installed Informix 7.30UC3 with the ClientSDK 2.01 software on 2 > servers. Let's call them Server A and B. > > Both A and B had a prior ESQL/C versions. > > After the install, logged in as informix userid on A and ran "esqlvers" > and got this : > I…
esqlvers statement.....results are different on 2 DB servers ???
I've installed Informix 7.30UC3 with the ClientSDK 2.01 software on 2 servers. Let's call them Server A and B. Both A and B had a prior ESQL/C versions. After the install, logged in as informix userid on A and ran "esqlvers" and got this : INFORMIX-ESQL Version 7.22.UC1 …
Informix Dynamic Server Personal Edition
What development apps are known to work with IDS-PE for 95? Infrmx wants to sell me licenses for Dynamic 4gl, esql-c, ddvb for 150usd. Do these work and are there others? 150 sounds ok but the catch is is that the Open-Line Support is outrageous for this (3K usd for unlim. suppor…
Will informix 7.24.uc5 compatiable with solaris 7?
Hi there, I was wondering if Informix Dynamic Server 7.24.uc.5 will be compatiable with solaris 7 when it comes out? Thanks advance, Pat Militzer pmilitzer@ultracom.com…
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…
Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.2.2
When I try to iniailize the shared memory I get an error "oninit: Critical error initializing shared memory" I checked the log and it says the base memory address is 0x80080000 and should be 0x80400000 when I change it it reverses. this is on a SCO open server 5. nay ideas.…
Informix Dynamic Server on Linux NOW!
Check out the Informix WEB Site. There is an announcement that IDS 7.3 is shipping on Linux TODAY! http://www.informix.com/ Art S. Kagel…
Problem installing to NT4.0 server
I'm trying to install Informix dynamic server workgroup edition to Primary domain Nt 4.0 Server. I have created Informix-Admin group and Informix account and grant it all Administrators rights and also Domain administrator rights. The server setup runs ok, but when setup is tryi…
Updating databases
What must be done,eg onconfig, to get the fastest result on updating a database alter tables, inserts etc.…
Deployment Licenses of Informix Dynamic Server
I need a free Deployment Licenses of Informix Dynamic Server!…
Re: Informix Dynamic Server blocks
In article <3609EB18.2AB1B1CD@bull.net>, Helmut Leininger <Helmut.Leininger@bull.net> writes >Hi, > >Sporadically, the Informix server seems to block (every try to connect >or onstat times out and no reaction on onmode -ky). In the MSGPATH I >find the following message: > >09:03:…
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…
Informix Dynamic Server blocks
Hi, Sporadically, the Informix server seems to block (every try to connect or onstat times out and no reaction on onmode -ky). In the MSGPATH I find the following message: 09:03:42 mt.c, line 8362, thread 2139, proc id 17096, mt_notifyvp timed out. Informix server is 7.22.UC2…
Informix Dynamic Server blocks
Hi, Sporadically, the Informix server seems to block (every try to connect or onstat times out and no reaction on onmode -ky). In the MSGPATH I find the following message: 09:03:42 mt.c, line 8362, thread 2139, proc id 17096, mt_notifyvp timed out. Informix server is 7.22.UC2…
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: OnLine Dynamic Server 7.2 Vs INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3
On Tue, 28 Jul 1998 14:40:44 -0500, Ben Jazi <bjazi@fallschurch.esys.com> wrote: >What are the major differences between INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server >7.2 and INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3? Is it ORDBMS vs RDMBS? No, IDS 9.x is the ORDBMS. This autumn the 7.3 and 9.x code lin…
Re: OnLine Dynamic Server 7.2 Vs INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3
Ben Jazi wrote: > > What are the major differences between INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server > 7.2 and INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3? Is it ORDBMS vs RDMBS? > > Thanks, > Ben I don't know the differences in detail but you could check the following pages, where IDS 7.3 is described …
OnLine Dynamic Server 7.2 Vs INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3
What are the major differences between INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server 7.2 and INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3? Is it ORDBMS vs RDMBS? Thanks, Ben…
Informix computer Base classes
Has any body used the Informix computer base training classes. I am wondering if any of the computer based training classes: "Informix Dynamic Server System Administration" or the "Managing and Optimizing Informix Dynamic Server Databases" is good. Thank You…
Re: Informix Online Dynamic Server 7 on Linux
Piet le Roux wrote: > > If anyone has succeeded to run Informix ODS 7 (SCO) on Linux help would > be appreciated. > I have installed iBCS and the shared libraries and the binaries work, > except that the engine cannot initialize shared memory: Error message > semctl: errno 22…
Informix Online Dynamic Server 7 on Linux
If anyone has succeeded to run Informix ODS 7 (SCO) on Linux help would be appreciated. I have installed iBCS and the shared libraries and the binaries work, except that the engine cannot initialize shared memory: Error message semctl: errno 22 create_vp: cannot allocat m…
Problems with Informix Dynamic Server for NT
Hi Has anyone tried downloading and running the dynamic server product for NT? I have it installed, but get the following error when I boot the system: AdmAgent.exe - Applicatioin error The instruction at "0x10087c69 referenced memory at "0x00000000". The memory could not be r…
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…
RE: What are the differences between Informix Dynamic Server
It is confusing! =20 Here's what I know: Prior to renaming: 7.2x =3D ODS 8.0 =3D XPS 9.1 =3D IUS After renaming: 7.2x =3D IDS 8.0 =3D IDS/AD/XP 9.1 =3D IDS/UDO=20 After the 7.3 release: 7.3 =3D IDS 9.1 =3D IDS/UDO After the 8.2 release: 8.0 =3D…
RE: What are the differences between Informix Dynamic Server and
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HDR
Hi I am trying to establish HDR between to of my 7.23UC7 Informix servers. I can connect the primary to the secondary vice versa, but my secondary server is sleeping forever on recovery. Following are the outputs from the 2 servers: Primary: 10:28:03 DR: new type = primary, se…
Re: Index for Informix Dynamic Server
William Lai wrote: > > Hello, > > We alreay upgrade our database server from SE5.X to IDS 7.3. After we > convert all the old data to the new server, we have some problems on the > index search. For example, a table: > > table : ith ( ithitno, ithname ), total 1,500,000 records…
Re: Index for Informix Dynamic Server
William Lai <rwie@netvigator.com> offerred: +We alreay upgrade our database server from SE5.X to IDS 7.3. After we +convert all the old data to the new server, we have some problems on the +index search. For example, a table: + +table : ith ( ithitno, ithname ), total 1,500,000…
Index for Informix Dynamic Server
Hello, We alreay upgrade our database server from SE5.X to IDS 7.3. After we convert all the old data to the new server, we have some problems on the index search. For example, a table: table : ith ( ithitno, ithname ), total 1,500,000 records index : ith_1 on ithitno, ithn…
Informix Dynamic Server 7.3
Hello, Since I'm planning a Data Warehouse, I would to do it with the new version of Dynamic Server. Impressions, stability and on which platform? Regards. Fernando _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Fernando Collalti Phone: +…
Re: How to reduce SE .dat & .idx file sizes?
We're also running SE-Databases and there is only one way to downsize the dat and idx file sizes: unload, drop, load or an dbexport/dbimport. My solution for this problem is to do a weekly dbexport/dbimport in cron. If greater/more lecks in your dat / idx files, this will slow d…
Informix Dynamic Server & Text columns
Hi everybody, Can you help me ? I've created a table with the following structure : column type -------- ---- code smallint obs text How can I insert into this table with Java program ? I'm using Informix Java AP…
Intermittent Problem - error 529 Cannot attach to transaction
We have a HP-UX box (Ver 10.20) running Informix Online Dynamic Server Ver 7.13 and a NT Server (NT4.0) running Informix Online Dynamic Server Ver 7.23. We are trying to access some of the database tables resided in the HP-UX box from the NT Server via synonyms. But we faced inte…
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…
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…
How can I read the header tape of the archive created by ontape?
I have Informix Dynamic Server 7.23.UC1. I would like know the tape header structure created by ontape.…
Re: Informix Directions
Has anyone out there been working with Informix since the late '80s? Remember how they simply dumped VMS support back then? Seth "Tim Schaefer" <tschaefe@mindspring.com> writes: >Yeah, um, but I heard that the SCO porting of Informix is over. There = >will be >no more SC…
Re: Informix Directions
Yeah, um, but I heard that the SCO porting of Informix is over. There = will be no more SCO ports, and Informix is dumping the small end. What does this do to the market, and in particular, my career path? It = goes in the dumper to stay with Informix. Apparently this is prob…
XPS failover
All, Can anyone tell me how Informix XPS handles failover? The XPS Tech Brief on Informix's website describes Informix XPS on a clustered system as having an Informix database server (called a coserver) running on each node of a cluster. Each coserver then has access to its own…
Re: Upgrading Informix from Online engine to Dynamic Server
Seth Grimes wrote: > > Jane Vohden wrote: > > > > I have been talking with Informix about upgrading our site from the > > 5.xx Online engine to 7.2x Dynamic Server. They said there was no cost > > I don't think that anyone has pointed out the mistaken terminology > h…
What's the difference between ODS 7.22 and 7.23?
What's the difference between Informix Online Dynamic Server version 7.22 and version 7.23? Thanks in advance. Bill Westphal Rodney District Council mis@rodney.govt.nz…
HDR
Recently we encountered a similar problem. Our primary DB was running on an HP K9000 (120Mhz) and secondary DB on an HP K9000 (180Mhz). After many OS upgrades (recommended by Informix support), the problem was still not resolved. We then moved the primary DB to an HP K9000 (180…
HDR
I have a question about HDR on the Informix online workgroup server for Unix v. 7.12 (irix). We have completed the preliminary tasks -- Both machines are O2s running Irix 6.3, We replicated chunks and dataspaces identically on the second machine, assigned a temp dbspace on both …
Re: De-fragmenting tables. Some questions
An even easier way is to use the "ALTER FRAGMENT ... INIT ... " to rebuild the taregt table wherever you want. For a big table I'd do it at odd hours with logging off so you don't get bit by a long transaction. Greg Thomas J. Girsch wrote: > > Expanding on Art's expansion on …
Re: De-fragmenting tables. Some questions
Expanding on Art's expansion on David's suggestion: A quick-and-dirty way I used to use to defragment tables was to do an ALTER TABLE NEXT SIZE to set the next extent size sufficiently high, and then do ALTER INDEX <pick-an-index> TO CLUSTER. Be warned, though, that this method…
ODBC unix and dynamic SQL
Hi, Can someone give me some help on using informix odbc drivers (unix) with dynamic SQL on Informix-online dynamic server (7.22 unix) when I use "SQLprepare" I receive the message "too many or too few host variables given" but I think all is Ok R. Gueye…
Re: Informix vs. Sybase vs. Oracle vs. (gasp) MS SQL Server
Chris Curvey wrote: > > > If you have row level locking, the first select stmt will lock one row. > > As the primary key is 4 bytes you can potentially put 4-500 keys on any > > page (if you have 2K pages). In a page lock system (like Sybase and > > MSSQL) the probability of a us…
Re: Freeing Logical Log with Status U
What's LOGFILES set to in your onconfig file? Try forcing a checkpoint? Jon.…
Re: Question on Update Statistics
[This followup was posted to comp.databases.informix and a copy was sent to the cited author.] In article <19971107041400.XAA11881@ladder01.news.aol.com>, kponn@aol.com says... > Hi > > If I want to run update statistics on busy tables, can I do the following: > > 1. select tabn…
Re: [Q] How do I force usage of index
Daniel Williams <#danny@uk.ibm.com> wrote in article <341014AA.41C6@uk.ibm.com>... > > Is there any way I can force usage of the indexes to see if it makes any > > difference (presuming that the the query optimizer has decided not to > > use them for some reason) ? > > Have you r…
Next Extent Calc.
Hi, I have INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server Version 7.14.UD2. Does anyone know of a script or program to calculate the next extent size ? Thanks in advance Manuel…
Re: script or spl for update statistics
In article <5ujprh$mcu@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, zeljan@laus.hr says... > Hi, > > in Informix Guide To SQL Syntax there is recommendation for updating > statistics: > 1) run update statistics with distributions only > 2) run update statistics high for columns with indexes > 3) run…
Re: Informix and Clustering
Nils Myklebust wrote: > > Informix and NCR have some special cooperative solutions to this used > successfully by several customers. There was even a setion on this at > the reasent user conference that your local Informix office may be > able to get information on for you. SUN, …
Java and Informix Dynamic Server 7.x
Hi friends! I am trying to do server-side java cgi programming to connect to I-ODS 7.x. Do you know how I can do that? I heard it is possible to use the jdbc-odbc bridge( intersolve or openlink's), but the performance is too slow, because of jdbc to odbc and odbc to jdbc convert…
Re: Help: Reducing Extents -Reply
Just a comment about Gregs posting. I have also used fragment to rewrite a non-fragmented table in place. I have found afterwards a high likelihood of receiving 243/172 errors on such tables. This seems to be reduced if they are [de]fragmented into a different dbspace that they…
Re: Help: Reducing Extents
Chad, after increasing the NEXTSIZE in systables (don't worry too much about the first extent, it'll tend to be coalesced pretty well unless you have a lot of fragmented tables in the same dbspace). two methods not mentioned are: 1. use onunload/onload - it's waaaay faster tha…
Re: Informix vs. Sybase vs. Oracle vs. (gasp) MS SQL Server
In article <862264236.20961@dejanews.com>, Brenda Muller <muller.brenda@primestar.tci.com> writes: > > >plans like clustered SMP systems with fiber between the boxes, > > >or some NUMA-like MPP systems with "memory" connectivity > > >between boxes (I still don't see how that woul…
Re: Resizing Logical Logs
Also, there is a MAXLOGS parameter in the onconfig file that should be increased. Madison Pruet…
Foreign keys and indexes
We use a mixture of foreign keys and application managed referential integrity, depending on our application. I prefer application managed RI on our larger databases because it is more efficient. We have some very large tables with highly duplicate values on the child columns t…
Re: ***Bitmapped Indexing API Beta - Now Available***
Patrick Gainer <gainer@64k.com> wrote: >Deon du Plessis wrote: >> 3) THE ROUTINES OVERCOME THE PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH HIGH CARDINALITY >> >> DATA. This is basically acheived by breaking the data into sections. >> If there is no data in a particular section, a BM for that secti…
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…
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: cluster index
I agree with Billy et al regarding the process for updating. I thought I might add that we use clustered indexes as a means of database maintenance. Every so often we will suspend use of the database, run appropriate clustered index creates, and then remove the indexes on compl…
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…
Need help with hp volume management and Informix
Greetings, I work with a large non profit relief and development organization that uses informix7.2 on a hp9000 version 10.10 of the os. We have created for each db space a hard link to logical volume within a volume group. So what we have is 30 volume groups with 30 logical vol…
Re: Indexes and Stored Commands/Procedures
On 12 Sep 1996 01:49:06 GMT, sammers@pop03.ca.us.ibm.net (crunch) wrote: > >General question on indexes. > > IMHO tables (with indexes) that have high volumes of insert and >delete operations need to be re-index periodically, else 'bad' things >will happen. Please comment. Hi, W…
Informix Certified Professional Program Update
Informix offers two certification paths. Each path requires the successful completion of two exams. Each exam is US $250 and is between 60-90 minutes long. * Database Specialist for INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server 7.x 111 - Database Fundamentals Exam 112 - Managin…
Re: Informix, Sybase, Oracle or MS SQL server
> : Sybase: > : Liked dealing with them but it seems that they have some serious > : problems--no row-level locking, no two-phase commit. I like their > There's another thread in here kicking around row level vs page level locking. > It pops up periodically. I have not found …
PRESS: EDS' dbINTELLECT TECHNOLOGIES & INFORMIX FORM STRATEGIC
EDS' dbINTELLECT TECHNOLOGIES AND INFORMIX SOFTWARE FORM STRATEGIC=20 RELATIONSHIP MENLO PARK, Calif. (April 8, 1996) -- Informix Software, Inc.,=20 (NASDAQ: IFMX) the leading provider of parallel processing database=20 technology, today announced that EDS dbINTELLECT(SM) (dbI)…
Re: Large table extents
Cheryl Kendricks wrote: > > Yes to question 1. Yet, if you have an index and set up query correctly > to use index it will use it. But once a table becomes highly fragmentted > either due to delete or insertions it is a good idea to unload and reload > the table. Or if you have …
Re: Large table extents
On Wed, 13 Mar 1996, Cheryl Kendricks wrote: } Yes to question 1. Yet, if you have an index and set up query correctly } to use index it will use it. But once a table becomes highly fragmentted } either due to delete or insertions it is a good idea to unload and reload } the ta…
Re: Large table extents
Yes to question 1. Yet, if you have an index and set up query correctly to use index it will use it. But once a table becomes highly fragmentted either due to delete or insertions it is a good idea to unload and reload the table. Or if you have enough space within the dbspace ju…
Re: Clustered indexes - again
} >So given these responses I am confused. Does leaving an index } >clustered effect future inserts/updates etc? } } >Robert Clark } } } > } >-------------------------------------------------------------- } >e-mail: robert@clark.netkonect.co.uk } >snail: 12 Balvernie Grove, Wan…
Re: Clustered indexes - again
On Wed, 13 Mar 1996, tolly brumbelow wrote: } robert@clark.netkonect.co.uk (Robert Clark) wrote: } } >OK, } } >I have now had a few responses to my original Q about clustered } >indexes - thanks to all of you. } } >Dan Madvig (d-madvig@bethel.edu) said: } >> If you leave it chus…
Re: Clustered indexes - again
robert@clark.netkonect.co.uk (Robert Clark) wrote: >OK, >I have now had a few responses to my original Q about clustered >indexes - thanks to all of you. >Dan Madvig (d-madvig@bethel.edu) said: >> If you leave it chustered, then every time the index changes >> the engine has t…
Re: ** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - RECORD-BREAKING TPC-C RECORD!! **
performance is the least reason to choose oracle over sypbase, ingres, informix. even if sybase and oracle were the same, oracle is superior in so many ways that it defies description. consider the mass of client tools, media tools, internet tools, and the presence of "row level…
Re: ** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - RECORD-BREAKING TPC-C RECORD!! **
Sorry...I can't resist... To paraphrase a certain executive: "We're faster, cheaper, better. Cool. Think about it. Then buy SYBASE." >For an apples to apples comparison consider the following: > > DBMS Platform CPUs TPC-Cs Cost/Transaction > ----…
Re: ** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - RECORD-BREAKING TPC-C RECORD!! **
For an apples to apples comparison consider the following: DBMS Platform CPUs TPC-Cs Cost/Transaction ------- ----------- ------- ----------- ---------------- Sybase HP T500 12 5,600+ $390 Oracle HP T500 12 5,369 $535 …
** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - RECORD-BREAKING TPC-C RECORD!! **
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ via First! -- Today, Oracle Corp. announced a record-breaking TPC-C open systems benchmark, 9414 tpmC, surpassing the existing performance record, also held by the Oracle7 database. Oracle7's new record is more than two times faster …
Re: Care and feeding of OnLine
Okay, I was hoping that by being vague, I would get a wider range of responses. I see now, though, that I was too vague. I'll try again to get the ball rolling. What my client-oriented customer is looking for is some simple steps they can perform to keep their OnLine da…
Re: VLDB - for real?
What is a VLDB? Used to be 10GB, now it's 100GB, soon it will be 1TB. And the Intel 8086 used to be an adequate processor for most end-user computing. It's all relative. There's probably a corallary to Moore's Law in regard to database size. About the same time that Informix ann…
Re: INFORMIX-Online Dynamic Server intallation
copy the standard onconfig file and make as few changes as possible to the different parameters. after you are sure you can bring informix online, should you begin to make changes to the onconfig parameters. Use ONMONITOR to make the changes. It will protect you from many mista…
INFORMIX-Online Dynamic Server intallation
I'm about to install INFORMIX-Online Dynamic Server V.7.1 on a SPARC 1000. Has anyone installed this database on a sparc before? If yes...do you have any suggestions or could you give me any advice on certain aspects of the installation you felt might be important to take notice?…
Re: Clustered Indices
In article jql@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com, tcummins@ix.netcom.com (Tim Cummins) writes: >In <3p6toh$ojl@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu> phr@fmsc.com.au (Peter Harris) >writes: >> >>I have RTFM but I am still a tad mystified, when do you use clustered >>indices and when do you avoid them? what…
Re: adjacent row delete bug
} From: kwa@mtatm.mt.att.com (K.ANDERSON(MT5756)XXXX) } [...] } We are now seeing the problem with NON-adjacent rows. I am assuming we } are banging up against another bug. } } Does anyone know a another like bug ?? } Maybe it's not a bug. Are you using the default page lock mo…
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…
Data deletion in Informix
In Message-Id: <3d3v5v$lkc@raffles.technet.sg> sgs@technet.sg (Alan Chen) writes: > If I have done a mass deletion on tables, when I do a tbstat -d , I don't see > the space being free up. Is it the space was free logically but not > physically ?? The space is still allocated f…
Re: What affects performance?
In article <CqsC5J.H96@rosebud.strinc.com> amw@rosebud.strinc.com (Allen M. White) writes: >In article <2sk35o$80v@goshen.connected.com>, >Kurt Schmidt <slores@goshen.connected.com> wrote: >>In article <Cqq0no.9x9@boi.hp.com>, Jack Parker <jparker@boi.hp.com> wrote: >>> >>>But mo…
Re: What affects performance?
In article <2sk35o$80v@goshen.connected.com>, Kurt Schmidt <slores@goshen.connected.com> wrote: >In article <Cqq0no.9x9@boi.hp.com>, Jack Parker <jparker@boi.hp.com> wrote: >> >>But more seriously, Paul and the other posters made some very valid points. >>What the original reques…
Re: What does sysindexes.clust contain?
graeme@pyra.co.uk (Graeme Sargent) writes: : Who can tell me what the numbers in the sysindexes.clust column mean? : : I realise that low numbers mean clustered and high numbers mean : unclustered, but what does (eg) 4000 mean? 4000 whats? Is 4000 : acceptably low or unacceptab…
What does sysindexes.clust contain?
Who can tell me what the numbers in the sysindexes.clust column mean? I realise that low numbers mean clustered and high numbers mean unclustered, but what does (eg) 4000 mean? 4000 whats? Is 4000 acceptably low or unacceptably high? If one wishes to write a utility which tro…
HDR and Blobs
IDS 9.4 on HP-UX 11.11 We have been trying to get HDR running, and we have blobs located in blob pages. The following pages from the Admin Guide make it clear that blobs in blob pages will not be replicated. It does not seem to say that you can't use HDR, simply that the blobs…