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Not enough room in ROOT DBspace
Reduce the size of your PHYSFILE. You probably moved it to another dbspace after setting up the first server. Start it smaller, then create the plog dbspace and move it there and resize. j. On 1/4/17 4:09 PM, STEVEN AB wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to setup a new server with the …
script to check status of dbspaces & chunks
Hi All, I need to write a shell script to check the status of all dbspaces & all chunks of an instance & send an email if any of dbspaces/chunks got corrupted/dropped/inconsistent etc Can any body help me in this regards? Regards…
Update to utils2_ak
Folks: I just uploaded another update to my utils2_ak package: myschema: Added a new option, --enable-boost, to include SQL API function calls to enable PFSC Boosted Caching of free space in variable length tables when this feature is enabled in the source database for a table. T…
oncheck warning,What impact will it have on the future?
Thanks for you time. The IDS version is 11.50FC9W3, so the parameter MAX_FILL_DATA_PAGES doesn't exist. lu chuan…
is there a rowsize function in SQL similar to rowid?
What's worth noting here is that, from SQL's perspective, i.e. your DML or queries being processed, a row is always 'rowsize' long. Only on storage level, that is in data (and remainder) pages, it might be shorter, but SQL doesn't really have visibility into this. This also is w…
What triggers a blocking checkpoint?
Jacob: OK, so v12.10.XX does not have the PFSC, so you should disable MAX_FILL_DATA_PAGE and see if that relieves the issue. Art ------------------------------ Art S. Kagel, President and Principal Consultant ASK Database Management Corp. www.askdbmgt.com ------------------------…
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 ------------------------------…
alter table modify lvarchar column length report -136 ' no more extents' error
Chuan: As Marcus pointed out, MAX_FILL_DATA_PAGES will pack the data more tightly when your 4K LVARCHAR column only contains a much shorter string. However, prior to v14.10 having MAX_FILL_DATA_PAGES set during production processing in a system with many deletes or updates to a v…
Informix vNext slides from IIUG/Scott/Karen/Shripad
Hi, Interesting IIUG talk from Scott/Karen/Shripad abhout vNext New Features https://www.iiug.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Informix-VNext-New-Features.pdf "Performance better or equal than prior release: 14.10.xC1 Investigating new compiler impacts, better scaling on Linux, imp…
Table reaching npused limit
Marcus: Note that if you enable MAX_FILL_DATA_PAGES, you also must set: PFSC 1 PFSC_BOOST 1 PFSC enables a cache of pages within variable length tables that have space for more data to avoid having to search every page in the table that the bitmap pages note are not completely fu…
Index creation strategy when autolocate is set
Hi, AUTOLOCATE is a bit unusual in that even when set to 1 it still creates a round-robin table, just with a single fragment. You can see this because the table itself has no part number and there will be an entry in sysfragments of fragtype 'T', which a non-partitioned tables do…
Temp dbspace usage
Glad we could help :-) https://www.oninitgroup.com/faq-items/dbspaces-how-to-list-temp-dbspace-contents ------------------------------ Doug Lawry Oninit Consulting ------------------------------…
database list under dbspace
Amit: select name, dbinfo( 'dbspace', partnum ) as dbspace from sysdatabases where dbinfo( 'dbspace', partnum ) = 'datadbs_1'; name art dbspace datadbs_1 name forums dbspace datadbs_1 name nologging dbspace datadbs_1 name logged dbspace datadbs_1 name pinn…
Is there a size of row function for rows with varchars?
Jacob: Ok, yes, unless MAX_FILL_DATA_PAGES is set no additional rows can be placed on a page that already has data on it unless the max sized rows would fit. But with MAX_FILL_DATA_PAGES set new rows can go on a page as long as 10% of the page will be free after placing the new r…
What is the maximum number of pages for an index in Informix 11.70?
As the author of that blog post I had been told on more than one occasion by IBMers that storage improvements were done in 11.70 and an increase in the index page limit was one of the benefits. The way it was described it was not just a documentation update, although the change t…
Table partition, ONLINE detach/attach issues.
Hi Fernando, Thanks for your comments, that's really helped now. Thank you! Few comments: 1. I agree and I think this documentation wasn't clear and there is a huge lack of information there. That induce me to misunderstood how this works. 2. Ok, I've followed your instruction an…
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…
how to change the default location of rootdbs
I have installed innovator-c 11.7 with default settings. when I do onstat -d /usr1/Informix/ol_informix1170/dbspaces/rootdbs /usr1/Informix/ol_informix1170/dbspaces/plogdbs /usr1/Informix/ol_informix1170/dbspaces/llogdbs /usr1/Informix/ol_informix1170/dbspaces/datadbs /usr1/Infor…
Fix oncheck -pT WARNING messages?
Hi, probably your problem relates to defect: IT00781 EVEN WITH THE FIXES FOR IC98053 AND IC98529 THE ONCHECK -CD CAN REPORT WARNING: DATA PAGE APPEARS TO BE MORE OR LESS FULL This was fixed in 11.70.xC8W1 and I think it was also a bug in early 12.10 releases. I would expect th…
Don't Understand Table's Space Requirement
IDS 12.10.FC3 Solaris 10 1/13 Consider a table with 11 columns. 10 of the columns are various "usual" datatypes, and those 10 columns take 39 bytes. The eleventh column is type LVARCHAR(10000). The table contains 300,000 rows. In 99.9% of the rows (299,700), the LVARCHAR column…
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…
storagepool free space recovery
Hello everyone, I dropped a storagepool dbspace using 'onspaces -d' instead of the function 'drop dbspace to storagepool'. How do I return the free space to the storagepool? Is there a function to list the contents of the storagepool? Thanks, Benoît…
Maximum amount number of pages reached
=0A=0AI would do a few things,=0A=0A1. Set the onconfig MAX_FILL_DATA_PAGE= S because you have varchars=0Athis will spend more time finding free spac= e. You can run an oncheck=0A-pT dbs:table to see how much free space is n= ow used.=0A=0A2. Because this is pages you can double …
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.…
Informix 12.1 Blocking Checkpoints
If I would look at the onstat results, I can see that my block time is 0.0 for almost all checkpoints. Does this mean that my logs are sufficient ? However, in my logs, I'm seeing mention that physical log might not be enough to accomodate current workload. I noticed that the l…
Which dbspace does a database occupy
IDS 11.50.FC5 Solaris 10 I have several dbspaces and databases. How can I tell which dbspace a particular database is in? Thank you. Larry sorensen…
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…
HDR Implementaion
OK, then you are good to go. Art Art S. Kagel, President and Principal Consultant ASK Database Management www.askdbmgt.com Blog: http://informix-myview.blogspot.com/ Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that my own opinions are my own opinions and do not reflect on the IIUG, nor a…
onload questions
IDS 11.50.FC5 Solaris 10 I sent this in a couple of days ago, but I never saw it posted. --- I created an onunload copy of a database on a server. The original database is housed in two difference dbspaces, a 2k and an 8k. Questions Does the unload contain any dbspace infor…
onload - onunload
IDS 11.50.FC5 Solaris 10 I created an onunload copy of a database on a server. The original database is housed in two difference dbspaces, a 2k and an 8k. Questions Does the unload contain any dbspace information? How does it know to send the tables to the different dbspaces?…
dbspace soft links to storage
Hi all, Regarding using soft links for dbspaces, I understood how I do it for a dbspace, make a soft link in $INFORMIXDIR/storage/chunks to the dbspace on the storage and then add the dbspace using the soft link as the path. But do I do it for the rootdbs ? since it is created at…
SQL 212/ISAM 131 Errors in dbimport
Some thoughts: 1 - Make sure that FILLFACTOR is set to 90% or higher (during the dbimport I would set it to 99 or 100% since these primary keys start with a sequentially increasing value). 2 - Make sure that MAX_FILL_DATA_PAGES is set at least during the dbimport. 3 - Verify tha…
Blobs vs Smart blobs
Hey All, We currently have document storage using the blob data types. This is a legacy architecture used prior to the introduction of smart blobs. The size of the current storage for these blobs is about 10TB. The blobs themselves have traditionally averaged around 80k per blo…
use of dbspaces?
David: A couple of points: 1. Cache hit percentages don't tell you the percentage of your data in memory, but how efficient that data is once it gets into memory. If you read 1000 pages into memory and reread one of those pages 200,000 times during which time you have read a…
11.50.FC9W3:Long checkpoint due to 2 sessions in c
Hi, I haven't got an answer to this one but I would look at what I/O activity is going on during your 8-12 hour period in which you're waiting for the thread to come out of critical section. Do you see waiting for buffers? In which case "onstat -X" might help, otherwise "onstat…
Re: Database slow - drop and recreate indexes
For extents, query sysmaster.sysextents counting the number of extents per table, order by the count, and look for tables with many extents. Also tables with more than a few extents but you know that multiple extents must be accessed in order to fulfill a typical query. You can …
LVARCHAR(n) type
Frank: Directly no. Both will be stored as the size of their actual content plus two bytes (for the length counter). However, there are issues of waste that will be greater with the LVARCXHAR(1000) than with the LVARCHAR(500). There is an ONCONFIG parameter, MAX_FILL_DATA_PAGES,…
Migrating IDS 10.5 on AIX to IDS 12.2 on Linux X86
Daniel: - I agree, avoid journaled filesystems, especially the ones on Linux. - Make decisions about page sizes. Your default on AIX was 4K but on Linux it is 2K so whether you use default pages on the new server or 4K pages may affect performance and may limit table size gro…
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)…
Chunks Down Help
Hi restore the dbspace from your last archive, if you don't have an archive you must call the support, they have tools to quickly bring up dbspaces.…
Re: Identify the sessions which using all tempspac
Done! Meanwhile: http://www.oninitgroup.com/listing-temp-dbspace-contents Regards, Doug Lawry…
Performance issue after migrate to IDS from Online
Questions: 1. After the database was recreated and loaded did you run the recommended suite of Update Statistics commands as described in the Performance Guide manual (or as implemented by my dostats utility) or are you depending on Auto Update Statistics (AUS)? 2. So, you m…
12.10 From 11.50 Using 40% More Space
Art, Unfortunately none of the settings changes (MAX_FILL_DATA_PAGES=1, FILL_FACTOR=90) made a difference. Result was the same exact storage usage. I'm going to pursue using the -D dbimport option as Wolfgang has suggested. I will report those results tomorrow. Thank you, Greg…
dbspaces corrupted
We have Version 11.70FC4 sitting on a Red Hat 5.9 server that is, in turn virtualised. All dbspaces are on cooked file systems. We had a process that blocked the server using "onmode c block" followed by a level 0 backup using "ontape s L 0". At some point during the backup,…
Root db space fills up
The instantiated view is approximately 160 MB and the dbspace added is 2GB. It seems that the database doesn't even try to use the new dbspace. I've looked at what is in the different dbspaces during execution of the select query against the view and the temp table appears in the…
RSS not working
-bash-4.2$ onstat - IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.FC9 -- On-Line --…
consolidating dbspaces
HP UX B.11.31 U 9000/800 IDS 11.70.FC7GE Good Day, I want to consolidate a number of 2gb chunks into a single chunk. Can anyone advise me on how to do that ? Thanks…
Problem dropping dbspace
A little more information, in case it is helpful. The cause of the corruption is that the raw devices were accidentally allocated to a second instance while still allocated to this instance. Both instances have flagged these devices as offline. The original plan was to drop thes…
Truncated table still occupied many pages
Greeting, Folks. Today my client asked me to truncate a couple of tables on a heap of servers. In one case it was quite bad - 59 million rows. No problem, i used the command: truncate table <whatever> drop storage; Using my fragments.sh script (or just examining columns (ti_np…
onload question
When using the onload -d dbspace option, when the original database was unloaded from two dbspaces, does the -d option overwrite both the original dbspaces and write them both to the specified dbspace? If so, is there a way to say, if the database came from dbspace 1, write it t…
RE: onload question
Solaris 10 - Sparc IDS 11.50.FC5 When using the onload -d dbspace option, when the original database was unloaded from two dbspaces, does the -d option overwrite both the original dbspaces and write them both to the specified dbspace? If so, is there a way to say, if the databa…
Informix upgrade
Can we upgrade informix from Dynamic Server Version 11.70 to 12.1 workgroup edition directly?…
Chunk Size
It's a balancing act. The more chunks you spread your data across the more IO threads will be used to flush dirty pages at checkpoint time (one thread per chunk up to CLEANERS). On the other hand, more chunks means more management overhead for your SAs, for you, and even for the …
Question about Backup
In order to answer that question, you should understand the implications: - The engine activity does not affect the "result" of the backup. A restore of the backup (without logs) will always provide the state of the database when the backup started (naturally all non closed trans…
tunables and settings for IDS 11.5 on a ZFS file
ZFS filesystems are a bad choice for database. Here's an excerpt from my presentation on storage at the IIUG Conference in 2012: ZFS Sun developed for Solaris and released as open source Uses copy-on-write transaction model rewrites are made to a different physical locati…
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.…
IDS 12.10 - dbimport very slow
Hi Markus, Is your import logged ? Regards, Henri MOUKOURI Le 25 juin 2013 à 10:45, "MARKUS BRINKBäUMER" <markus.brinkbaeumer@gmail.com> a écrit : > Hello, > > we have a new server (Windows 2012, 8 GB RAM, 4 x 600 GB SAS 15k HDD). On the > server we have installed an IBM Inf…
Onbar Block Size
The blocksize upon which the informix server send/receives the data to/from the storage manager is defined by the onconfig BAR_XFER_BUF_SIZE. This is not the size the servers reads/writes data, but rather the buffer size the interacts with the storage manager. # BAR_XFER_BUF_SIZ…
Performance Tuning Discussion
Ok it seems you have a big hardware, what´s your Informix version? What´s your box architecture? For performance tips, there is a good article in Andrew Ford´s blog, that should clarify your thoughts.... http://www.informix-dba.com/p/informix-innovator-c-tuning-basics.html This…
DB_locale or local naming convention
Hi, I already mention the informix version. IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.TC1IE…
Page size
First, there was never a limit on the size of a dbspace except the maximum number of chunks in a server instance and the maximum chunk size. For 11.70 that is up to 327675 chunks of up to 4TB each or about 128PB. Tables whose rows are currently wider than the pagesize of the dbs…
11.70.FC6 linux load from seems afwully slow.
Actually, Jason, #1 & #2 have to be done only for the first row added to an existing page. Only #2 has to be done for the first row written to an unused page (but the bitmap page for it has to be updated in memory). #3 only has to be performed once per page also unless your dat…
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,…
Close to 16.7 million pages and sweating ...
Neil: Let me explain a little more about what "pages used" really means. This can be explain a little better by saying it is the "largest page ever used". When you delete index or data rows the "pages used" will not be reduced, because the "highest" page ever used is still a t…
Page size x Row Size
Keep in mind that VARCHAR and LVARCHAR are variable length, so the actual row sizes are likely to be much smaller than the defined column length and if you have MAX_FILL_DATA_PAGES set to 1 in your ONCONFIG file then rows will continue to be added to a page as long as the actual …
Config Help
Your biggest performance problem is that you are running your server on a VM. IO performance under VMWare is VERY VERY POOR and, as I've said several times already this month, databases live and die on IO performance. Art Art S. Kagel Advanced DataTools (www.advancedatatools.co…
What are best onconfig parameters for a DSS app
Frank.... first question: Is your database installation being made for a production system???? Alexandre Marini IBM Informix Certified Professional v10 / v11.50 / v11.70 IBM Information Management Informix Technical Professional IBM Infosphere DataStage Technical Professional …
RE: No more pages in a tablespace
An alternative solution to partitioning or moving to a larger page size is to make the table smaller! Your oncheck says "TBLspace contains VARCHARS", so it's very possible that setting MAX_FILL_DATA_PAGES 1 and rebuilding the table with ALTER FRAGMENT could make a big difference.…
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…
Calculate Extent Size
Just a little correction that can have an impact if rows are big: > rows_per_page = INT( (pagesize - 28) / (rowsize + 4)) An empty page has a 24 byte header + a timestamp of 4 bytes , that makes it 28 bytes. So the usable space in a page in your case is 4096-28=4068 bytes. If y…
Question on dbschema rowsize
If your table is fixed length, then yes only one row will fit on each 2K page. If the row is variable length, and you are running in Informix version 10.00 or earlier, or 11.xx with MAX_FILL_DATA_PAGES set to 0 (or unset) then the same is true because the engine will only place a…
DBSpace Full?
We are trying to insert data into a table and get the following error WARNING: DBspace dldata1 is full Seems pretty straight forward... except the space is not full. Only the last chunk added is full. (see onstat -d below) informix@psdb03sat:~> onstat -d | grep 19 8e33ee80 …
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 …
onbar dbspace restore with fragmentation
Five minutes after my data warehouse project's weekly ETL script for its logged database completed, an assert failure occurred and the informixserver halted at a checkpoint. When I forced it to continue, the instance remained online but an entire dbspace with constituent chunks …
dbpaces
hi, i want to copy using sql a table from 1 dbspace to another dbspace . Is this operation possible with ids 11.50? exemple: insert into dbpace1.database1.table1 from select * from dbspace2.database2.table2 thank's for your help…
Drop DBSpace
Hi experts, I want wo drop a dbspace, which we have been using for some byte columns as blob store. Now, we added a smartblob space and copied all the values to a blob column. The whole table was copied and access to the new table works good. Old table was dropped now. We want t…
Onbar's Handling of "Empty" Chunks
On Aug 26, 11:12 am, red_valsen <red_val...@yahoo.com> wrote: > How does onbar handle "empty" chunk files during backup and > (especially) restore? Is it intelligent enough to determine that a > chunk contains no data at all and can be handled differently (perhaps > more efficie…
Determine Dbspace Pagesize
What query can I run vs. sysmaster or system catalog tables to determine the pagesize for a given dbspace?…
Re: datatype for string
OK, explanation: You have a base row that's just under 1010 bytes, if the LVARCHAR contains more than a couple of bytes then only one row will fit on a 2K page (or 3 on a 4K page) even with MAX_FILL_DATA_PAGES set and you will be wasting close to 1000 bytes per page or close to …
Re: datatype for string
On 09/08/2011 17:09, Art Kagel wrote: > It helps, but that assumes that the LVARCHAR even allows more than one > row to sit on a page without waste! I'm missing something.... > On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Obnoxio The Clown > <obnoxio@serendipita.com <mailto:obnoxio@serendi…
Re: datatype for string
It helps, but that assumes that the LVARCHAR even allows more than one row to sit on a page without waste! Art Art S. Kagel Advanced DataTools (www.advancedatatools.com) Blog: http://informix-myview.blogspot.com/ Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that my own opinions are my own …
Re: datatype for string
On 09/08/2011 16:58, Art Kagel wrote: > Personally I prefer using a sub-table of smallish CHAR columns to a > large mostly empty LVARCHAR. That is most efficient in space and > processing. The only time I would use a large LVARCHAR is when the vast > majority of rows will have …
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…
Dbspace restore
Several large tables located in a single dbspace of a database were inadvertently truncated. I attempted an onbar restore of the dbspace but received the following error message in onbar log: "Storage space <dbspacename> is not down so it will not be restored." But I've restore…
Dbspace restore
A user accidentally truncated tables all located in a single dbspace of a database, but I'm unable to restore the individual dbspace as a warm onbar restore -- onbar log grouses "Storage space <dbspace> is not down so it will not be restored." However, I've been able to …
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.…
Washington Area Informix User Group Meeting This Week
Washington Area Informix User Group MeetingFridayMarch 11, 2011 9:00am - 12:00 noon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- At the recent IBM Information on Demand Conference, IBM announced the latest in a continuing series of update…
Informix User Group Meeting and Hands-on-Lab
Washington Area Informix User Group events! We have a limited number of seats in the Hands on Lab so please be sure and register. We are pleased to announce that Carlton Doe, IBM Informix Technical Specialist and author of "Administering Informix Dynamic Server: Building the Fo…
Physical Log Size
How did you "increase" the size? You can only do that song onparams. You cannot do that just by changing the Onconfig file Art On Jan 25, 2011 12:10 PM, "KENT GRUNDEN" <k.grunden@hoogwegtus.com> wrote: > IDS 11.50.FC4WE Windows Server 2008 64bit > > I keep getting the message wh…
Informix User Group Meeting and Hands-on-Lab
Washington Area Informix User Group upcoming events! - http://www.waiug.org/ We are pleased to announce that Carlton Doe, IBM Informix Technical Specialist and author of "Administering Informix Dynamic Server: Building the Foundation", will be presenting at our next user group …
dbspace planning
Hello, I have only 4-300GB SAS 10K RPM drives that are mirrored across 2 channels. I'm using RAW devices. Any suggestions as to optimal dbspace layout in this IDS 11.7UC1GE instance on RHEL5.5 32-bit for OLTP? I'm planning layout below: disk 1. rootdbspace, phys log, logical …
Performance advantage: fragment across dbspaces vs. in single space
Is there any advantage to fragmenting across multiple dbspaces instead of simply fragmenting in the same space? Aside from performance, are there any other reasons to fragment across dbspaces? Using IDS 11.50.FC4 on HPUX 11.23.…
User Group Meeting and Informix Hands-on-Lab
Washington Area Informix User Group upcoming events! - http://www.waiug.org/ At the last Informix Tech Day a number of you expressed interest in learning about the new ease of administration features in Informix 11.70 and the Flexible Grid for Enterprise Replication. We are ple…
New System Config and DS8800
NO RAID5!!!!! NO RAID5!!!!! NO RAID5!!!!! NO RAID5!!!!! NO RAID5!!!!! NO RAID5!!!!! NO RAID5!!!!! NO RAID5!!!!! NO RAID5!!!!! NO RAID5!!!!! NO RAID5!!!!! NO RAID5!!!!! NO RAID5!!!!! NO RAID5!!!!! NO RAID5!!!!! NO RAID5!!!!! NO RAID5!!!!! NO RAID5!…
Informix User Group Meeting and Free Informix 11.7 Hands on Lab
Folks, We had a very successful user group Tech Day in November. You may download the presentations from our Tech Day at our website http://www.waiug.org Our next event will be in March 2010. At the last Tech Day a number of you expressed interest in learning about the new eas…
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…
onunload dbspace handling
Does onunload/onload handle variations in dbspaces? That is: 1) If I onunload a database which resides in 2 dbspaces, can I onload it into another instance with differently named dbspaces? If so, what is the command line syntax? 2) Can I onload a database which resided in 2 d…
Number of dbspaces
Hi, I have a database of 250 GB of user data. How many dbspaces is suitable for optimal performance: - For OLTP transactions ? - For queries ? - For backup using onbar ? Currently, I have 30 dbspaces configured. Is there any strategy or tip that I can use? Please, provide any i…
Config
BRIAN FOSTER wrote: > I am doing an intial tune for a new instance of 11.5 64bit. All of our > previous instances have been 32bit so I am unsure about my current shared > > memory config... do I have too many buffers? I am also wondering whether I can > safely add 1 or more CPU V…
Concurrent Database Maintenance?
> - When new rows are inserted after this big DELETE, they will fill in the > holes in the existing pages, which mainly contain older transaction data, > rather than be inserted into new pages containing only newer transaction > data. > - Now when you run a daily t…
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…
Raw Devices
Currently we are using our database on IDS 11.50.FC6 and our dbspaces are on UFS file system.Can we transfer our existing dbspaces on raw disk and how we do it , Also how much down time is expected.…
Extent and DBSpace
Hi, I have a database space issue due to the 2Gb limit on a DBSpace. How do you force the next extent of a table to be on another DBSpace. Thanks Andrus…
Dbspace recovery
Hi, I have started testing revovery of a singe dbspace or all. The senario is that the server that the IDS was running on is completely gone and we have to restore a backup from the backupsystem (we use Veritas NetBackup) to a new server/host running the same IDS version (for ti…
[Fwd: Informix Event in NYC - Please join us]
Folks, This should be an interesting event for the Informix user community, I would encourage you to attend. Regards - Lester -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Informix Event in NYC - Please join us Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:43:29 -0700 From: Mark Martin <martmark…
Performance degradation over a period
Hi, what do you mean by some period: seconds, minutes, hours, days, months ? Many indexes on the tables ? New tables/indexes, when the application starts ? Regards, Andreas > ------------------------------------------- SPAR Österreichische Warenhandels-AG Hauptzentrale A - 5…
Random Server Slowdown "Redone"
There are some usual things you could do for now: 1) calc your database ratios, I think there are several NETTYPE, BUFFERS and even BTSCANNER options that could be optimized, you could download Mr. Art script to automatically know these important numbers!!! It´s on the download …
Freeing up extents in a chunk
Check out 11.5 storage optimization. You can do repacks (move all the rows to the front of the partition) and shrinks (lop off the unused pages and give them back to the dbspace) online without doing compression. On Dec 3, 1:31 pm, "steven_nospam at Yahoo! Canada" <steven_nos...…
IDS 11 Compression question
You wrote: We do large scale loads and unloads of tables - i.e. unload Table A on Instance A and load all the data into Table B on Instance B. When peforming an unload from a compressed table the data is in compressed format right? So a subsequent load using that data would need…
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…
Move a table to particular DB space
Hi All, How we can a move a particular table from one dbspace to another dbspace? Please help. Thx…
IDS- How to find sbspace storage utilization
For an sbspace chunk, the syschunks fields are interpreted as follows: - msize is the size of the meta data area, - nfree is the number of free metadata pages, - udsize is the size of the remaining data area, and - udfree is the free data pages available. Art Art S. Kagel O…
Curiosu about a message in bar_act.log
What does this message mean in bar_act.log? "n percent of [dbspace name] has been backed up."…
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…
Storage Managers for onbar
Hello Rob, The following link provides information on the available list of SMV's and their compatibility information with IDS. http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/informix/ids/interop/smv/ The web page also has instructions for navigation that will lead you to the support mat…
Insert into an indexed table is really SLOW!
MIKE DUNHAM-WILKIE wrote: > I am running into performance problems inserting into an indexed table, using > Informix 11.50. The following timings for loading into > compressed/uncompressed, indexed/non-indexed tables using dbload/HPL-Deluxe > more illustrate the problem. The numb…
Need a Way to create sysutils & sysadmin DB
Hi, Using IDS 11.5 , 1)Have any way to migrate sysutils & sysadmin DB to different DBSPACE? 2)Or create in different dbspace? rgds schillache…
WARNING: Next backup of DBspace rootdbs must be le
Hi, thanks for answering, yeah we add chunks to dbspaces, but we had not added chunks to rootdbs y physical y logical logs dbspaces. For example today and May 26 i added chunks to normal dbspaces and we didnt get the WARNINIG NEXT backup message. What other reason it could cause …
Re: Upgrade to 10 Failed
chang the link name of root dbspace file, it can't be same as rootdbs.…
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 …
fragments.sh - A new Utility on IIUG Repository
Hi Family, It's been a while since I made a contribution to the community but I recently had the motivation to do this. Some years ago, I wrote partitions.sh, a shell/AWK script that displays some vital stats about every TBLspace in the server (or can be more selective), includ…
how to save the removed chunks by mistake
Someone want to drop a dbspace and remove the chunk file by mistake. Server can not restart owing to the down chunk. Can not drop dbspace or chunk by 'onspaces' or 'onmonitor'. Any way to solve this problem ?…
Esoteric Disk Issues
What's wrong with ZFS for databases is that it was designed for filesystems. From the OpenSolaris ZFS pages ( http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/whatis/): ZFS presents a pooled storage model that completely eliminates the concept of volumes and the associated problems …
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…
Anyone had IBM storage to mirror informix data experience?
<joeclhua@gmail.com> wrote in message news:b02b22c6-7a7e-4bc1-b6f7-fa827070b9d6@s1g2000prg.googlegroups.com... > In order to set up a DR system ,I intend to use IBM DS storage system > to copy data to another storage system. > there are functions like FlashCopy,VolumeCopy in IBM …
Purge data and reclaim storage
You can also create your new tables and use dbaccess like this, if you don't want to dig through the 500 page HPL manual: INSERT INTO new_table SELECT * FROM old_table Either way you do it, creating the new table as raw with no indexes will make your load (or insert if you use …
OnBar to HP Data Protector - XBSA API error codes?
Afternoon all IDS 9.30HC5, HP-UX 11i, Data Protector 5.1 We're getting errors on a backup of a test system lately, nothing's changed at all recently but the weekly backup is failing with code 0x03, which translates (Thanks hugely to Maury Tiller's wonderful Informix On-Bar infor…
Dbspace creation
Hi, I have 3 hard disk partitions hda5, hda6, hda7. I would like to create dbspace in each of this file system partitions. hda5 - dbspace1 hda6 - dbspace2 hda7 - dbspace3 We wish the dbspaces to have the size equivalent to the partition size. I have created the dbspace1 usin…
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…
insert performance on fragmented table
I added another dbspace and the insert time was cut in half. Thank you Paul Sullivan…
Migration to a new storage
We will use a new storage for dbspaces. How I can migrate data from old storage to new the new storage. Can I use ‘dd’ for it? I will move dbspaces by ‘dd’ and re-link my dbspaces on new storage.…
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…
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…
Is there a downside to creating large chunks?
I am running a Baan ERP system on Informix 11.50/HPUX that has 5800 tables. I want to spread these across 8 dbspaces. Is there a disadvantage or advantage to creating 1 chunk per dbspace initially? Thanks, Andy…
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.…
what is using tmp dbspace ?
Is there a way to tell what session is using the tmp dbspaces ? Thanks, floyd…
Re: help with slow archive please
Thanks. That's exactly what I was looking for !! A little late for today, since the backup actually aborted, but we can do tomorrow. :-)) ----- Original Message ----- Subject: Re: help with slow archive please Date: Wed, May 21, 2008 10:41 From: "Tilman Model-Bosch" <tilleul17…
Re: help with slow archive please
Floyd Wellershaus wrote: > we have had some network issues. > The sars don't look different or excessive. > We are doing a full archive every night, and the database hasn't grown > much since last week, so that's not it. > > I am trying to be able to intrpret the onstat -g stq so…
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…
Time series?
I think both Oracle and DB2 have time series, however I don't hear much about them. IMHO, the time series data type seems pretty straight forward. You'd have your data type that on your row data would point to a linked list of blob pages where the individual time series element…
Rename Dbspaces
Hi All: I can rename logs dbspaces online ??? Thanks _________________________________________________________________ Regístrate en el nuevo Windows Live Messenger beta. [1]¡Haz click aquí! References 1. http://g.msn.com/8HMAESAR/2734??PS=47575…
Fragment by partition
Version: Informix 10 I have couple of questions regarding fragment by partition in same dbspace: 1. Is there any limitation as to how many partition a dbspace can have. 2. Is partition name unique to dbspace or unique to index/table. Logically it should be unique to dbspace as …
HDR or storage remote mirroring, which is better?
Another consideration: The database can span across many storage processors in a single SAN storage system, or even across multiple storage systems on SAN... In that case, it is unclear, how SAN-level mirroring can guarantee, that storage blocks are mirrored in exactly the same …
Restoring Specific dbspaces
IDS9.40.FC4 HPUX11.0 Hello all a few questions for you regarding restoring specific dbspaces. The customer we support has added a test company (within baan) into a specific dbscpace, if this testdata becomes corrupt would it be feasible to restore this dbspace only? When restor…
IIUG TV
Great job on the video work!! I look forward to seeing more! -t- -- -- Informix Dynamic Server Database Engine -- http://www.informix.com --…
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: 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…
Dbspace script
Hi, Is there a script or utility that can review your current layout of dbspaces and then create a script of "onspaces" commands to duplicate the environment?…
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
I tried using oncheck -pe <dbspace name> and got the following message WARNING: Cannot access configuration file $INFORMIXDIR/etc/$ONCONFIG. V…
Listing all the tables in using a dbspace in Informix
Is there a way to list all the tables which use a specific dbspace as well as their sizes in Informix. regards V…
Total length of columns in constraint is too long
Ankur, Sorry about the previous email response. Here is what I meant to send. I am not sure what documentation you refer to, but the IBM Informix Guide to SQL: Syntax for 9.x found at the link listed below clearly states the limitations of multiple column constraints( pag…
Dropping DBSpace
Hi All, I want to Drop a DBSpace and it has 2 chunks. When I tried to drop DBSpace, the error message "DBspace is not empty" I tried to drop secondary chunk first and cannot drop primary chunk first, still its same message "Chunk not empty" Is there is any way to drop the DBSp…
Dropping DBSpace
Hi All, I want to Drop a DBSpace and it has 2 chunks. When I tried to drop DBSpace, the error message "DBspace is not empty" I tried to drop secondary chunk first and cannot drop primary chunk first, still its same message "Chunk not empty" Is there is any way to drop the DBSp…
Determine which tables and indexes are in which dbspaces
I am trying to run a SQL against system tables that will show me which tables are in each dbspace and then correlate their indexes to see if the indexes are in the same dbspace. I know have some indexes in dbspaces that have tables in other dbspaces and want a query that will sh…
temp dbspace
Hi, On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 Art S. Kagel wrote: > DBSPACETEMP temp_dbs # Default temp dbspaces > Most sequential scans result in a sort to satisfy an ORDER BY or GROUP BY clause so if you have three or more temp > dbspaces >> listed above (or if you set the PSORT_NPROCS=12 (or …
File System Backup....
is your filesystem on the same devices as your informix dbspaces? what does the sar i/o activity report?…
Dbspace Down
Hi, I have IDS 9.3-TC1 on Win 2000 SP4. When I run the command onstat -d two dbspaces are marked as down. Is there a way to bring them up? 2e351680 8 0x5 8 2 ND informix primenic01 Thanks, Vasilis…
To recover dbspaces
Hello� they can help me with sintaxys of the command ONSPACES to recover dbspaces. I execute it this way: $onspaces -s dbspace_name -p /dev/informix/chunk01 -o 0 -O Warning: Bringing chunk back online. Do you really want to continue? (y/n)y Verifying physical disk space, pleas…
behaviour of ontape
Hi, Thanks for the replies, I'm not there yet though. I failed to mention, that I will be doing online backups. Doesn't matter much though. > http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/idshelp/v10/topic/com.ibm.bar.doc/barmst279.htm From the info center page: "For online back…
License Extension
Help.. I need a license extension for the IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.FC3R1TL which I downloaded to do a evaluation. How can I get the license extened..my project is in the final stages .. Dhaya Commercial bank…
Re: Re 2: Onbar problem
Hi Martin, the IDS 10 guide is more clear, indeed. I bounced the db several times but in sysconfig table the value was always /dev/null; when I builded the db LTAPEDEV was /dev/null, and probably a value is needed to change it and placing spaces is not accepted. Many thanks for …
Re: attached index
Floyd Wellershaus wrote: > We have a query that runs kind of slow, which is exacerbated by the fact > that it has to run millions of times. > It's searching on partial firstname and lastname. > It is using a composite index but I notice that this index as created > with a storage…
Re: attached index
Floyd Wellershaus wrote: > We have a query that runs kind of slow, which is exacerbated by the fact > that it has to run millions of times. > It's searching on partial firstname and lastname. > It is using a composite index but I notice that this index as created > with a storage…
mirroring dbspaces
Hi all, anyone having experience with mirroring ? I inherited an informix config from a former collegue, and it looks very strange and insecure to me. In short : system running Solaris 8, 2 disks. All slices EXCEPT slice 6 (used for Informix raw-devices), are mirrored with Sol…
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…
Can't drop down dbspace
I've been restoring a development database from very old backups (long story). Due to errors doing a full DB restore, I restored the critical dbspaces and 1 user dbspace. Logical restore of the next dbspace fails in the same logical log, probably due to a corrupted index. So that…
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…
Quick Ontape -r rootdbs question
Hi, If you attempt to use the ontape -r with redirection of the chunk names parameters for a specific database, is there any effect on rootdbs for the other databases? In other words if we have a 2 server set up described below and restore one dbspace, will ontape also restore th…
TEMP DBSPACE
Hi we have two quries like below create temp table tmp_table_no ( sl_no serial, lang_a char(2), lang_no char(14), rec_cnt integer) with no log second one is insert into tmp_table_no (lang_a, lang_no , rec_cnt) ", select distinct language_a, lang_no, count (lang_no) from ti_lang…
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/…
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: Informix Dynamic Server 9.30 - Shared Memory
First off you shouldn't be getting shared memory access errors. That sounds more like a bug that technical support should address. I wouldn't be surprised if your getting can't allocate additional shared memory segment messages. Informix 32-bit on AIX is a bitch. The problem …
Informix Dynamic Server 9.30 - Shared Memory
Can someone please tell me how much Shared Memory (gigabytes?) Informix Dynamic Server 9.30 (32-bit version) for AIX 5L can use before asserting with a Shared Memory access error? Can you provide documentation that I can pass on also? We are looking at providing one of cust…
create a DB on Linux
Hi! I have installed Informix dynamic server on Linux. Now I want to create a data base. What should I do? Thanks…
RAID 5 hardware and different dbspace ?
Is there a interest to separate tables on different dbspaces if disks are managed by a RAID 5 hardware…
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!…
Re: Informix manuals - imported restore
On Thursday 29 December 2005 00:55, david@smooth1.co.uk wrote: > Thanks for that. > > I was looking at > > http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/idshelp/v10/topic/com.ibm.bar.d >oc/barmst156.htm > > "To perform the imported restore... > > Storage-manager configuration files, i…
Re: Old INFORMIXSERVER name from onstat -g env
> > 'onstat -g env' still reports the old name for INFORMIXSERVER. As a matter > of curiosity, I'm wondering where "onstat" gets the value it reports? > Someone emailed me and suggested that the data probably came from the reserved pages. It's got to be nonvolatile storage, so…
Increased extent size, but still hit max extents
The table is in a DBSPACE of related tables. Other "schemas" are in their own dbspaces, and each dbspace has its own group of chunks. Can I infer from your question that if Informix can't find a 20M contigous area, it will just choose the next larger? Which would imply that I ne…
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.…
Temporary dbspace
Many of my current systems have just one temporary dbspace. Is there any mileage to be gained by adding a second temporary dbspace on a multi-processor system but with only 2 disks which are mirrors of each other? Some reports and queries are not performing as well as they did …
Free space...Clustered Data
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? If clustering helps, will Informix allow us to specify the % of freespace on a…
Relocate Informix database from Raw slices to filesystem
Thats sounds promising. So effectively add a mirrored chunk to each dbspace using onspaces and then drop the original chunk. Can you do this for the rootdbs dbspace too...? Matt…
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…
Database and no dbspace
Help. The dbspace is drop but now the database can't be drop. How do I drop/remove the database. I have created the dbspace but no luck. error: 311: Cannot open system catalog (systables). 135: ISAM error: TBLspace does not exist…
Re: Question about VARCHAR Vs. CHAR fields
Art S. Kagel wrote: > DA Morgan wrote: > >> Ian wrote: >> >>> jdokos wrote: >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> <SNIP> >> >> >> Is it true that in Informix VARCHAR takes more space than CHAR? In >> Oracle the waste of space and CPU comes with working with CHAR and >> it has been almost complete…
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:…
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…
how to find a dbspace for a table
Can someone show me how to find which dbspace a table is on in database? I used below SQL but dbspace shows as 0 select trunc(partnum/16777216) dbspace, sum(nrows*rowsize) bytes, tabname from systables where tabtype = 'T' group by 1,tabname order by 1; Thanks for your help. T…
Informix Dynamic Server information Centre
Great new utility just posted under IDS 10 on the docs site has uses for other products and versions than just IDS 10 so take a look even if you are not using 10 yet!! http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ids9help/index.jsp…
Cannot find message file. Check INFORMIXDIR and DBLANG.
im trying to run the oninit -i in the command prompt when the message appear... we installed... IBM Informix Dynamic Server 9.40 IBM INFORMIX-4GL Rapid Development System Version 7.32.UC2 IBM INFORMIX-4GL Version 7.32.UC2 set up sqlhosts, services, onconfig, path... but when tr…
Restoring a dbspace and what of the transactions.
Traveller2003 wrote: > Hi All , > > Informix 9.4UC4 > Solaris 8 > Onbar > Tivoli Storage Manager > > If I do a Full System Backup the night before and all the subsequent > logical logs are then sent to the storage manager. I find the next day > that one of the DB spaces is down a…
identifying objects in a dbspace
Hi, I've dropped an index of a fragmented table from a dbspace, but to my surprise the dbspace still has used pages. I would have thought the dbspace would be empty. When rebuilding the index, the used pages do not seem to be reused. Then when I try to drop the dbspace I rece…
Slow writing data into BLOB through JDBC
> Is the BLOB column stored in a regular dbspace or in a blobspace? Any > BLOB data stored in a regular dbspace will go through the buffers . . > . > JWC The BLOB is in dbspace. I will create a blobspace and make a test again. Thank you for your help. Georgi Cholakov…
Inconsistent Dbspaces
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0013_01C4AB83.56BABA80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Guys Can anyone tell me what procedure u take when you have Inconsistent Dbspaces ?? What could cause …
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'?…
IDS V7.30 and Windows 2000
Can Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.30.TC6 be run on a Windows 2000 host system? TIA Erwin…
dbspace down
I have stopped the database with onmode -k and now it refuse to come up saying that it will need restore of dbspaces. What is the best way to restore the database and make the engine online. Any inupt is highly appreciated, thanks Mukund sending to informix-list…
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: 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…
Logical logs from rootdbs to own logspace
I want to set-up a logspace dbspace - easy enough. But how do I tell informix to use this logspace dbspace instead of rootdbs?…
Problems in Informix Server on AIX
Vaidyanathan, 1) mail the onconfigs for both servers. 2) What do you mean by "we mount the storage device" - do you mount a file system? Is the volume group containing the disks defined and online on the secondary? Do an "lsvg -p <vgname>" on both machines, are the same disks th…
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.…
RE: Performance advice
On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 03:00:06 -0400, Willem Roos wrote: > I've been led to believe that all logged temp table activity goes to rootdbs > and all unlogged activity goes to temp dbspaces. Yes, no? <SNIP> If there are no 'normal' dbspaces listed in DBSPACETEMP then logged temp tabl…
long checkpoints with blob inserts
One of our machines has a table with tablespace blobs. It is usually OK, apart from a particular workflow application which does a lot (50Mb) of blob inserts or deletes within a big transaction. The whole dbserver can be blocked for up to 10 minutes, waiting for this blob transac…
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…
SMI Table
How to use smi tables to create a list showing all dbspaces and databases in each dbspaces? Thanks.…
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,…
dbspace destroyed
Hi! On one machine dbspace was destroyed by unwary sysadmin who repartiioned disk with informix chunks on it (raw devices). Now, informix can be started (it complains about missing chunks though). What is the procedure for removing staled information for chunks? I should remov…
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…
Dropping a dbspace
I have a bad dbspace I wanted to drop (and recreated). But I have some problem. Here is the output form onstat -d: 5010c7d8 1 0x20001 1 1 N informix dbroot_test3 5020dcb0 2 0x20005 2 1 ND informix dbdata 5020de00 3 …
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…
What is in my dbspace
Try oncheck -pe. This will report the contents of all dbspaces/chunks.…
Where can I get the client API?
Hi, does anyone knows where to get the client API for Informix Dynamic Server 7.x? Perhaps we want to access the server via api directly. Kind regards, Joachim Engel.…
Informix optimizer
Hi, Does anyone know if the Informix Dynamic Server (7.31 or 9.4) database optimizer uses star schema optimizer techniques? Thank you, Tony…
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.…
IDS 7.3* - Long long long checkpoint !
I've noticed very long checkpoints in the online.log file. What does IDS do in a checkpoint that can take so long ? Environnement: IDS running on NT 2000 or Linux (even SCO !) with at least 128MB RAM, monoproc. IDS is usually the only big apps running on the box. "Small" databas…
big dbspace
Hello, I need a very big dbspace (at least 15Gb) for my database (IDS 9.4) but the limit for a single dbspace is about 2Gb. How can I increase this limit? thank you…
break one dbspace in to two dbspace
Hi all I have one dbspace where I have all data and indexes I wanted to created one more dbspace one dbspace has the data in it one dbspace has the indexes in it how do that ? regard sending to informix-list…
Re: Multiple Temp dbspaces
You might want to check your DBSPACETEMP entry - it looks from your post like there's white space between the dbspace names - Informix will stop parsing at spaces, tabs etc. and will only pick up the first dbspace listed. HTH -- Phil@oninit.com…
Re: dbspace ?
Where do we all begin? A dbspace is an area where databases, tables, etc can be stored. It is not just one file, it is more likely to be a number of files or more likely devices. When a database is created it will have a base dbspace where all tables will be created unless othe…
dbspace ?
Hi, Sorry, I am a little bit new in Informix. We need to modify the structure of a table, and the system allways answer that the disk is not big enough. They say it's because the dbspace is too small. Questions : - is the Dbspace a file or just allocation ? - is there ONE dbsp…
Is there a 2gb dbspace limit NT 4.0, IDS 7.3?
Is there a 2gb dbspace limit on Windows NT 4.0, IDS 7.3?…
Rename a dbspace
Hi, Does someone know an easy mean which permit me to rename a dbspace contening just a separated index ? Thanks in advance. Best Regards Fred…
Problems with onbar
I have IDS 7.3 uc2 on SCO 5.05 and use onbar for backups. I am getting the error below in the root mail .. Informix Storage Manager Savegroup: (alert) ISMData completed, 1 client(s) (sage Failed) Start time: Mon Aug 04 09:26:16 2003 End time: Mon Aug 04 09:26:23 2003 --…
RE: 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…
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…
Reg: Max size allowed in creation of dbspace
Hi , I need to create a dbspace of abt 5-6 GB. on using onspaces to create the dbspace i am limited in size to about 2.09 GB is there a way to create a dbspaces of about 6 GB or is there a size restriction ? Thanks for any help Sudhir sending to informix-list…
Where are the logical logs?
Hi there, Is there any way to know which dbspace are the logical logs in? Thx.…
why I can't see the output of "onstat -g wts"
test:/informix>onstat -g wst Informix Dynamic Server 2000 Version 9.21.FC7 -- On-Line -- Up 5 days 13:23:03 -- 11132960 Kbytes Wait statistics not enabled How to enable the wait statistics???…
informix SDK 2.81 ifxoledbc OLEDB and ADO
When Updating or deleting a non existing row in a table, the informix oledb provider produces an "UnSpecified error". Environment: Informix Dynamic Server 7.31 Informix SDK 2.81 ADO 2.6 Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance…
HDR questions
According to the white paper below, IDS supports HDR for smart large objects starting in 9.4 (see the info starting on page 38): http://www-3.ibm.com/software/data/informix/pubs/whitepapers/ids94.pdf regards, -jean Jean T. Anderson Extender & DataBlade Development, IBM Data M…
Restore problem
Somebody can help me, I have the next problem: SAPComponent: R/3 Release 46B Kernel 46D parche 534 DB System Base de datos Informix DB release Informix 7.31.FD1 DBSL version 46D.00 SISTEMA OPERATIVO Sistema Operativo UNIX V4.0F Modelo True 64 Compaq RESPALDO Utlileria de respald…
Restore problem!!
Does anyone can help me with this error. APLICACION: SAPComponent: R/3 Release 46B Kernel 46D parche 534 DB System Base de datos Informix DB release Informix 7.31.FD1 DBSL version 46D.00 SISTEMA OPERATIVO Sistema Operativo UNIX V4.0F Modelo True 64 Compaq RESPALDO Utlileria de r…
Dbspaces access
Hi All, Does anyone know how to obtain a report of a dbspaces more accesed, read / write, by sap or informix I really need this information, thanks in advance!! Luis Arturo López Caballero Proyecto ASARE - Modulo Base Mexico D.F. Tel. 01(55)52294400 Ext. 85705…
Rows per page
Karen As much of the record as will fit on a page will go on the first free page along with a pointer to the remainder. The rest of the record will occupy part of a 'remainder page' pointed to by the first part. The remainder page will only hold remainders and each new record wi…
delete down dbspace
Hi, I have a down dbspace, I am not able to do anything with it, there is no needed data inside, how I am able to delete this dbspace. (the dbspace has one chunk). Thanks Sven…
RE: TEXT where?
Hi, There is a very good description in the Admin guide of the IDS. BLOB types like TEXT and BYTE can be stored either in page of DBSpace and page of BLOB space. The structure of the pages are different. - In case of BLOB space the page size is can be defined by onspaces, but …
RE: identify free space
The sysmaster database might provide limited information: select nptotal, npused, npdata ,nrows from systabnames tab, sysptnhdr hdr where tab.partnum = hdr.partnum and tab.dbsname = '<database name>' and tab.tabname = '<table name>' The value 'npused' will correspond to the…
question on how to list tables in a DBSPACE?
Hi, Does anyone have some type of scripts that list All DBSPACE for an Informixserver, and all tables in each DBSPACE + how much bytes they take? Thanks!…
Fragmented dbspaces
Yup, dbspaces *not* fragmented tables. Our system holds about 75Gb on a mixture of 4.3Gb & 9Gb disks, raw chunks, HP-UX 10.20, IDS7.31. When it was built we ran some predictions re. growth and so on based on the figures given to us by the business analysis group, upon which we ba…
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…
Root DBspace confusion
Hi all, A bit of confusion upon reading the Administrator's Guide prior to installing IDS 9.2. (After reading the following I went back to the 7.3 manual and found the same passage) In Chapter 14 (Data Storage): If you plan to move the physical and logical logs, the init…
RE: Char and Varchar
The row will only be moved to another page if there is no room on the current page for the expanded row. Otherwise the existing rows on the page are shifted to make room. Physically IB the engine removes the expanded row, compresses the remaining rows upwards to recover space b…
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…
Dropping a dbspace
Hello All, Can somebody please help me with this. When I try to drop a dbspace, it says can not drop it. db space not empy. How do I find out what is there in the dbspace. Please help. Regards Aboo…
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 …
IDS 7.3x on Win2000?
Does Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.3x runs on Windows 2000 (Professional)? Thanks for your help. Guy Dillen…
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Re: dbload question
In article <8pouc5$86v$1@news.xmission.com>, Mark D. Stock <mdstock@myda s.freeserve.co.uk> writes > >"Surfer!" wrote: >> >> Using Informix Online 7.30.UC3. >> >> Doing a dbexport/dbimport to create a new instance on the same machine >> on new disks which will then become live. >…
dbspace is down ...
When I try to drop the dbspace, it reports following ... $ onspaces -d rootdbstest WARNING: Dropping a DBspace/BLOBspace. Do you really want to continue? (y/n)y WARNING! The dbspace you wish to drop has been disabled. There may be database catalog entries for tables or indices…
dbspace is down ...
Sorry for MIME format ... I have no alternative ... BUT PLEASE HELP ME ... IX: OWS 7.2, OS: SCO UNIX During my initial years as IX DBA, I tried to create two instances of informix ows 7.2. For this I created a dbspace using COMMAND CENTER from my windows station. then I put thi…
dbspace is down ...
Sorry for MIME format ... I have no alternative ... BUT PLEASE HELP ME ... IX: OWS 7.2, OS: SCO UNIX During my initial years as IX DBA, I tried to create two instances of informix ows 7.2. For this I created a dbspace using COMMAND CENTER from my windows station. then I put thi…
DBspaces and IECC
I have installed IECC on an NT4 machine with a 36 gig hard drive. I have created a dbspace on the D drive that is currently 7Gig. The D drive has 24 gig of free space, but Informix is not seeing it. When I try to add space to the dbspace it tells me that there is no free space…
Optimizing dbspace
Hello, I have a quite large table that acquires about 3 million rows a month. Every two weeks we purge the data by unloading it to a backup and deleting the "old" information. We do run 'update statistics' every time when deletes are performed. But it looks like it does not opt…
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…
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…
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…
Creating Dbspace
I am trying to create a new dbspace with a size of ~2Gig. When I specify the path to the cooked file to use it tries to verify the disk free space and always fails at around 1 gig. I know that I have plenty of free space on the disk so I can't figure out what the problem is. I…
Altering DBSPACE
Hello group, We have created all of our tables in dbspace "st_ux01_001". Now the "dbadmin" want to move all of our tables to dbspace "st_ux01_002". In Informix dokus we didn't find any command to alter a dbspace. The only way we know to alter the dbspace is, to export all data…
DBSPACE by table
There is a table in sysmaster who contains dbspace for every table. Thanks in advance. -- Francisco Gaspar SISTEL (Servicios Inform�ticos de Software y Telecomunicaciones, S.L.) Avda. Los Jarales, 4 03010 Alicante Tel: 96 593 00 80 Fax: 96 593 01 53…
Dbspace in CDROM
Hello, Can I create a dbspace for readonly in a CDROM? If it is possible, how can I do it? Regards. Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.…
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…
DBSpace is disabled
Hello. I've a big problem: one DBSpace is disabled (chunk marked as Inconsistent), Informix ODS is off-line and I dont have an archive. I think exists an utility, that brings that inconsistent chunk On-Line. May be some body can give me it . Operating system is AIX 4.2.1.0, Infor…
Index Dbspace
As I determine through tables of sysmaster dbspace that it has assigned an index? Thank * Sent from AltaVista http://www.altavista.com Where you can also find related Web Pages, Images, Audios, Videos, News, and Shopping. Smart is Beautiful…
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…
DBs in a dbspace
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------DB252259E0E5E1E7CD818FAA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all, Good moring. Please help me in finding the dbs in a dbspace. What is the easiest way. Regards Aboo ---------…
HELP! Informix Dynamic Server 7.3
I'm trying to install a new IDS on Linux (RedHat 6.1) on a cooked file. Everything looks right, but upon oninit, I receive the following: oninit: Cannot open chunk '/u1/naf_chunk'. errno = 2 oninit: Fatal error in shared memory initialization Log reflects: 09:11:07 Informi…
UDR Support in Informix Dynamic Server.
Can someone tell me what exact version of Informix Dynamic Server that first supported C User Defined Routines. I've tried searching for this on their website with no joy. (their advanced search doesnt work at all !) Rgds, Peter. Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before y…
OFFICE Connect V.1
Informix Office Connect, Version 1.0, is compatible with the following Informix servers: Informix Dynamic Server, Version 7.3 or later Informix Dynamic Server with Universal Data Option, Version 9.14 Informix Dynamic Server 2000, Version 9.2 or later e Informix-SE 7.23 n�o func…
TEMP dbspaces
Hi I have peculiar problem with temp dbspaces on IDS 7.22 UC1 and HP-UX 10.2. We defined tempdbs1,tempdbs2 as TEMPDBSPACES and 50000 pages for each dbspace. This system was configured two years back and using for development. This IDS server never be shutdown until necessary. …
List tables per dbspace
I am trying to generate a list of the Informix tables per each dbspace. My sysfragments table only contains the indexes. I have dbspaces that are filling up and am trying determine which tables could possibly be moved to another dbspace (while still being aware of application c…
DBSPACES and RAID
Hi Has anyone had any experience of setting up DBSPACES on a RAID 5 machine (in particular - running linux) I'm trying to make sure that there won't be any problems when I do the final port off the (un-RAIDed) HP machine to a RAIDed linux box - so would appreciate any advice in …
System catalogue
Hello! Can anybody explain me how I can create trigger on "informix".systables? (The server I deal with is Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.3.) Max…
IUS 9.14.TC6 blob storage solution need
Does enybody have solution about BLOB storage? Blobs size in my database are between 0.1K and 5K and used for ASCII text storage. Whereas minimum page size in _sbspace_ is 1 informix-page (i.e. 2K). onspaces -c -S sbs1 -g 1 -p E:\\IFMXDATA\\ol_skynet\\sbs1.000 -o 0 -s 500000 I…
Re: Dbspaces
You don't like betty then:-)) "Art S. Kagel" wrote: > > > # Database/Table/Index Owner DBSpace Created Logging NLS > === ====================== ======== ================== ========== ========== === > 1 flintstones kagel dbspace4 …
Dbspaces
Hello, Can I find that which dbspace containing the database and tables. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com…
detecting fragmented dbspace...
Sunil Bhaskarla wrote: > > Hi, > Which tool will provide me with detail information about fragmented dbspace? oncheck -pe Reports all extents by dbspace and what table each belongs to. Art S. Kagel…
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…
informix dynamic server on linux help
Hi all, I am an informix newbie, and i have problems running it on redhat linux 6.0. The installation went just fine, but now when i start dbaccess and try to create a new database i get this error message: 25584: Network driver can not access server program /opt/informix/lib/sq…
Informix Dynamic Server on IBM SSA
Can any one share their experiences, recommendations, pit-falls, comments about creating an IDS db engineOLTP environment on an IBM SSA Raid system? We have 2 SSA adapters and have 4 loops with 4 drives each. The IBM techs for the Smoothstart services will be coming next Tuesday…
DBSPACE / DBSIZE
I am forced to inherit and maintain and Informix database for now. I studied the Informix book(s) over the weekend and have yet to find what I need. I hope to be a master some day as well, but for now I need immediate help with these questions: How do I determine the c…
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…
dbspace not empty
Hi Thanks for all the suggestions about the database reorg - when I finally managed to export all the data I ran an oncheck -pe and 5 of my chunks had data in them and they weren't related to any of my databases - see attached oncheck -pe. Any idea how to clear them out as I ca…
Re: move dbspace/chunks on NT
Jay Walters wrote: > Is there any way other than backup/restore to move a chunk on NT to > another disk. Can I move the root dbspace this way? > > TIA, Sure. Save data from the dbspace containing your chunk (dbexport, unload, onunload). Remove all data from the dbspace. Drop …
Re: installing Informix dynamic server
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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…
DBSPACE Problem.
Hi , I am running informix 730 uc8 server. One of the DBSPACE status (dbase5) showing disabled. Server in Quiscent mode. I am unable shutdown or bring up to Multiuser mode. Actual size of chunk used for dbase5 is 2044 Mb but its not showing the correct size. Pl find the online…
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…
Ontape -r failed
I am trying to do a restore of a level 0 backup. It is failing with an error "Physical restore failed - [db_sort ] Invalid DBspace list. I am getting this error eventhough the dbspaces and ids on the backup tape matches exactly to the dbspace list in onmonitor. Any ide…
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…
which tables are in a specific dbspace?
Hello! How can I get, which tables are in a specific dbspace? thanks Gabor…
dbspaces on NT
Hello, somewhere I read :-)) that IX DBSPACE is limited to 2GB and NTFS to 4GB. I have 10GB HDD for Informix only (IDSWE 7.30) and PII server. Exists better solution than 5x 2GB NTFS? Thanks Leos…
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…
altering DBSpaces
I will be adding some chunks to a BLOB space this evening. In the past I had been told by Informix to run an oncheck command after changing DBSpaces but I cannot recall what flags for oncheck. Can anyone help me out?…
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.…
IDS buffer reuse query
Ive been looking at trying to analyse our IDS buffer effectiveness, in terms of page reuse by object. The query: select a.dbsname , a.tabname , round(sum(c.reusecnt) / count(*),2) as avg_reuse , count(*) as num_buffs from systabnames a , sysptnext b , sysbufhdr c where c.pagenu…
# of chunks for a dbspace !
Hi Users, In an Informix IDS 7.3 / SAP 4.5B environment what is the maximum number of chunks that can be assigned to a growing dbspace. Thanks in advance Pramod ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com…
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…
dbspace sizes
I am configuring a 7.3 IDS engine on a SUN box. I configured a 4 GB volume on 1 disk. I created a dbspace on the volume with the first chunk at offset 0 and a size of 2 GB (approximately). I try to add a second chunk, with an offset of 2GB and a size of 2GB but Informix won't …
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…
size of dbspace
Hi, I have a IDS 7.30 on solaris. I will transfer a import a datadase from NT environment. Which size shall I create for the dbspace for my database ? Thanks…
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.…
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…
dbspace and the table
How can I identify in which dbaspaces the table is located?…
DBSPACE
Author : T.Jalaludeen E-mail : jala@hpsgm99.sgp.hp.com Hai, I created a database in INFOMRIX 7.23 - HP UX. I created tables also. But later I found thatthe transaction logging has not been turned ON for this database, so droped the database and created using "CREATE DATABASE <d…
Re: DBSPACE
"T.Jalaludeen" wrote: > > Author : T.Jalaludeen > E-mail : jala@hpsgm99.sgp.hp.com > > Hai, > I created a database in INFOMRIX 7.23 - HP UX. > I created tables also. But later I found thatthe > transaction logging has not been turned ON for this database, > so droped the databas…
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…
DBSPACE size
It is possible to create a rootdbspace during instalation larger than 30 Mb ?…
Onbar Restore Error - Can't Restore Reserved Pages
Has anyone experienced a problem with onbar restore - can't restore reserved pages. Here is what the onbar log says: 1999-04-23 12:02:15 93032 45160 /elite/informix/bin/onbar_d -r dbs1 1999-04-23 12:02:19 93032 45160 Successfully connected to Storage Manager. 1999-04-23 12:02…
OnBar Parameter BAR_NB_XPORT_COUNT
Just a few hints about BAR_NB_XPORT_COUNT & BAR_NB_XPORT_SIZE. 1. The number of buffer allocated for sending data for a single onbar process to/from the storage manager. If you have 4 onbar process, you will have 4 * BAR_NB_XPORT_COUNT buffer allo…
Rename Dbspaces
Does anyone know of a safe way to rename a dbspace? I can't drop and recreate the dbspace, because it's the "home" for a database, and the database is too large for dbexport/dbimport.…
Dbspaces and indexes
Hello, Is it possible to determine what dbspace an index resides in? I know generally the index resides in the same dbspace as the table, but there are exceptions. There dont seem to be any utilities to tell you where the index resides. I am sure there is a query from the SMI …
Empty dbspaces.
When I clear a dbspaces, solely in use for tables from tables with "alter fragment ...." then I see with onstat -d that the dbspace isn't completely empty however looking in the sysfragments tables for the datbases I found the dbspace isn't in used. Also oncheck -pt shows me that…
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…
Rename a dbspace
v7.24 UC6 on HP-UX 10.20: Does anyone know if this is simple? The reason I want to do so is that I need to move a large database from one server to another, with onunload/onload. There is a (glaring) bug in onload whereby you must load the database into a dbspace with the same…
tables in dbspace
Folks, Might someone suggest a way to derive a list of all tables that exist in each dbspace? Thank you for any comments. David Grove Dept. Health & Social Svcs. State of Alaska…
IDS v7.24 UC6 onload
I had a strange situation using onload. I wanted to copy database A from Server 1 to Server 2. I used onunload to unload the database (on Server 1 it resided in dbspace X). When I tried to onload it into Server 2, specifically into dbspace Y, the load failed with a "no such db…
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?…
Create DBSpace...
Hi folks, We're trying to automatize our database installation throughout hundreds of sites and it is straightforward to use onspaces command to create desired dbspaces. In an NT 4.0 (SP3) box with Informix 7.23 TC1, a 500 MB of dbspace can be created in as long as 20 *MINUTES*.…
dbspace full
Hi friends , Now we face a problem , a dbspace is full but we do not want to add disk space for this dbspace , there are 4 databases located in this dbspace , I know delete rows in the tables will not release the spaces , we must drop some tables or do the tbcheck/dbexport/dbimp…
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…
dbspace error
hi all: I accidentaly delete the chunk filr for a dbspace, now I droped the database, when I try to remove the dbspace, it gives me a internal error. How would I delete a dbspace while it's chunk file is gone? thanks yan…
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: Informix 7.3 backup utility for SCO
I've found that onbar isn't much faster than ontape unless you're backing up to multiple tapes at the same time (i.e., striping across tapes). If you have a good, fast tape drive with hardware compression (supported by the OS), you won't buy much performance by switching to onba…
Re: Max. page size in AppPage Builder
Pedro Antonio de Alarcon wrote: > I got the following error message while I was trying to save an > app page (I'm using the app page builder, an Informix's application > which allows to create easily web interfaces for an Informix DB): > > Exception from Informix: XIX000:-9642:A …
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…
Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.2.2
When I try to iniailize the shared memory I get an error "oninit: Critical error initializing shared memory" I checked the log and it says the base memory address is 0x80080000 and should be 0x80400000 when I change it it reverses. this is on a SCO open server 5. nay ideas.…
Re: 2 gb file limit
Chuck Renaud wrote: > I think I gotta line up with Art on this one. I haven't seen a version > of IDS (on a 2K page size platform) that supports chunk sizes of > over 2GB. 7.30 on HP-UX 11 definitely doesn't. I've heard of plans > to move that direction and claims that it alr…
Informix Dynamic Server on Linux NOW!
Check out the Informix WEB Site. There is an announcement that IDS 7.3 is shipping on Linux TODAY! http://www.informix.com/ Art S. Kagel…
Problem installing to NT4.0 server
I'm trying to install Informix dynamic server workgroup edition to Primary domain Nt 4.0 Server. I have created Informix-Admin group and Informix account and grant it all Administrators rights and also Domain administrator rights. The server setup runs ok, but when setup is tryi…
Re: 2 gb file limit
> "Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.net> writes: > > I am not aware of ANY Informix release that supports chunk sizes > > greater than 2GB. > > Check out the information on 64-bit versions of IDS on the web page. I think I gotta line up with Art on this one. I haven't seen a vers…
Tables in dbspaces
Is there a way to list all of the tables that are in a dbspace? Thanks in advance. Steve…
unloading a dbspace
I am using Informix Universal Server 9.14UC2 on Solaris 2.5.1. I have a database which has tables spread across 9 dbspaces and two of them are smart blob spaces. What I would like to do is to unload each dbspace, copy the file to another instance of online to restore into a dbsp…
Deployment Licenses of Informix Dynamic Server
I need a free Deployment Licenses of Informix Dynamic Server!…
Re: Informix Dynamic Server blocks
In article <3609EB18.2AB1B1CD@bull.net>, Helmut Leininger <Helmut.Leininger@bull.net> writes >Hi, > >Sporadically, the Informix server seems to block (every try to connect >or onstat times out and no reaction on onmode -ky). In the MSGPATH I >find the following message: > >09:03:…
Informix Dynamic Server blocks
Hi, Sporadically, the Informix server seems to block (every try to connect or onstat times out and no reaction on onmode -ky). In the MSGPATH I find the following message: 09:03:42 mt.c, line 8362, thread 2139, proc id 17096, mt_notifyvp timed out. Informix server is 7.22.UC2…
Informix Dynamic Server blocks
Hi, Sporadically, the Informix server seems to block (every try to connect or onstat times out and no reaction on onmode -ky). In the MSGPATH I find the following message: 09:03:42 mt.c, line 8362, thread 2139, proc id 17096, mt_notifyvp timed out. Informix server is 7.22.UC2…
Re: DBSCHEMA doesn't show the DBSPACE????
roger.bruening@metrokc.gov wrote: > > When running DBSCHEMA, the only table that shows the dbspace that it was > placed on is one where a fragmentation scheme is in place. As I recall, the -ss option will show the dbspace name for all tables other than those that reside in the "…
Re: Infromix & Data Warehousing Solutions
Doug Johnson wrote: > > Tim, > > Thanks for the info but we're not on the same page. I'm not talking about > the Informix query optimizer (access plan shown by 'explain plan'). There's > tons of info on www.informix.com on that optimizer. I'm talking about the > new MetaCube Ware…
Re: Infromix & Data Warehousing Solutions
Tim, Thanks for the info but we're not on the same page. I'm not talking about the Informix query optimizer (access plan shown by 'explain plan'). There's tons of info on www.informix.com on that optimizer. I'm talking about the new MetaCube Warehouse Optimizer. My understanding…
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: Removing a chunk
BlackStar escribi�: > Is there anyway I can remove a chunk from a DBSPACE without deleting > the DBSPACE? Can I do it online? > > Thanx > Standard Disclaimer You should use "onspaces -d <dbspace> -p <chunk-pathname> -o <offset>". And remember that the chunk must be empt…
Removing a chunk
Is there anyway I can remove a chunk from a DBSPACE without deleting the DBSPACE? Can I do it online? Thanx Standard Disclaimer…
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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DBSPACE - DATABASE
in which "systables" can i read the relation between dbspace to databases????…
Dbspace Question.
Hi, I'm sure of the 6 dbspaces assigned to a perticular database. Also I'm sure that no other tables from any other databases are residing there. When I drop that database and look at the chunks, I get the following output. 99d04108 35 20 0 1000000 998796 PO…
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…
dbspace question
Currently my dbspace is spread over 5 different chunks on several small and slow hard-disks. After replacing these disks with a larger and faster one, is it a good idea to merge the small chunks into one large chunk ? If yes, is there an easy way to do that ? Detlef Liem…
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: Q: Level0 & Level1 bkup
sanjeev sagar wrote: > > Informix server : XPS 8.21.uc1 > Backup Mgr : Onbar > Storage Manager : Alexandria > Databse size : 30gb[test size] > > I was taking Level0 & Level1 bakup which took almost > same time which seem to me no sense b'coz it lost the > meaning of Incre…
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…
Sizing dbspaces
Does anyone have any recommendation or guidelines we can use in determining a base sizing strategy for rootdbs and physicaldbs. I am most conerned about physicaldbs. I used the formula in the Admin guide to determine a size for physicaldbs but I am not sure if the result was in…
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…
corrupt dbspace
I am running Informix ODS 7.22 on AIX V 4.1. I accidentally removed a file from AIX that Informix ODS had listed as a chunk in a dbspace (that I was about to remove anyway). I don't back the system up since it is our test system. All I want to do is remove the dbspace and all…
Create Index Problem.....
Hi, I've created one databse in a perticular dbspace with one table. If I create an index on that table using 'in dbspace' clause, sysextents table in sysmaster database reports it But if I create the same index without 'in dbspace' clause, it doesn't report it. Why ? ? Abhay …
dbspaces question ....
Hi, Environment : OSD 7.23uc4 HP-UX 10.20 We have all 2Gb disk chunks ( told by Unix Admin to me ). I tried to run onspaces command for the size more than this and I found that I can allocate 2.048Gb Also existing allocation of disk space leaves gaps of few Mb in be…
Re: Database DBSpace
mbaumgartner@cardhealth.com wrote: > > I have a database created in a non-root dbspace. I would like to relocate the > database, not any tables, to another dbspace without unloading/exporting the > database. Is it possible to relocate a database to another dbspace? > > Mark Bau…
Dbspace Question ----
Hi, If there are 2 informix servers on one machine and I create a dbspace for the first server which overlaps one of the dbspaces for the second, what will happen ? Does it gives error or I'll loose the data ? Thanks in advance. Abhay Mannur.…
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.…
Database DBSpace
I have a database created in a non-root dbspace. I would like to relocate the database, not any tables, to another dbspace without unloading/exporting the database. Is it possible to relocate a database to another dbspace? Mark Baumgartner Cardinal Health…
mirroring
What dbspaces should I mirror? Of course rootdbs is a give. thanks…
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…
Re: bufwait tunning
Mr Cheuk Kong Lo wrote: > I'm getting quite some large bufwaits. Am I right to set a larger > RA_PAGES value to cut it down? Currently I have RA_PAGES set to 10 > and RA_THRESHOLD 8. > No, I don't think that will help. A bufwait occurs when a user is waiting for a buffer to be…
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…
onstat -d,onstat -D
Can anyone tell me the difference between a dbspaces address with a flag of 1 and a dbspaces address with a flag of 1001...... Tony Reynolds, NEC Group, Birmingham , UK 8-)) tr-2959@necgroup.co.uk tonyreynolds2@compuserve.com…
invalid dbspace
I have been receiving this message for awhile..it hasn't seemed to affect normal functionality...but, I still would love to know what this message means: Warning: Invalid dbspace 'tmpdbs1' listed in DBSPACETEMP. lrwxr-xr-x 1 informix informix 19 Oct 16 1996 tmpdbs -> /d…
Re: Details about the internal use of VARCHAR in 7.X servers
The padding at the end of the row was verified during the class. We were using version 7.20. Again, if your not sure of the answers to my questions please don't guess. stefan wrote in message <344919E4.67E314E3@weideneder.de>... >Kate_Tomchik@HomeDepot.COM wrote: >> >> I have…
Re: Details about the internal use of VARCHAR in 7.X servers
stefan wrote in message <344919E4.67E314E3@weideneder.de>... >Kate_Tomchik@HomeDepot.COM wrote: >> >> I have a question about how Informix uses VARCHARs >> internally. >> Also, quantitatively how much better is the performance of >> update/insert queiries if the VARCHARs are at…
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: blobspaces
Mike Segel wrote: > > Sujit Pal wrote: > > > > Chao/Art > > > > Here is my $ 0.02. > > > Also, as both Art and I have stated, BLOBs of 1-2 pages (which are > not = > > exactly large :-)) would perform better if stored in tablespaces > since = > > they can take advantage of the bu…
Limitations of the ODBC driver from Informix
Hi! Can anyone tell me how one can retrieve abstract data type objects via ODBC? The Informix-CLI page shows that one can define storage areas and data formats for the results of requests when using ODBC. Can it also handle user defined data types? What limitations does the ODB…
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…
Where is dbspace?
On a raw disk(instance product) I created a database test. On other instance(training) on the same raw disk and fisical area other database with thehe same name was created. I deleted the second database and dbspace but on the first instance I can't access, drop the database tes…
root dbspace
I have a test machine running Online 7.1. On performing a VERY large query I received an error message saying that there was no free disk space to write sorted rows into a temporary table. On examining the space available in the rootdbs 32252 pages remained out of 575000. I sh…
Dropping a dbspace.
We are trying to drop a bad chunk. The chunk is a cooked file and is the only chunk in that dbspace. When I try to drop the chunk I get the following message. % onspaces -d ch_dbspace1 WARNING: Dropping a DBspace/BLOBspace. Do you really want to continue? (y/n)y WARNING! The…
Removing a DBSpace
I'm having some trouble removing a DBSpace from an old Online 5.0x server. I created a temporary space to test some things, finished the testing, and deleted the database I had created, but it complains that the space isn't empty. Here is the "tbcheck -pe" output: Chunk: 4 …
dbspace
Hi Before I was hired, another non-DBA SA wrote a script: create database coris that went to rootdbs automatically, I believe It showed as Database Name Owner In Dpspace When Created Log Status coris informix rootdbs 01/24/96 B but It should be Database Name Owner I…
dbspace
Hi Before I was hired, another non-DBA SA wrote a script: create database coris that went to rootdbs automatically, I believe It showed as Database Name Owner In Dpspace When Created Log Status coris informix rootdbs 01/24/96 B but It should be Database Name Owner I…
Drop db chunk
At one time, I accidentally add a chunk to a wrong dbspace. Is there a way to remove this wrongly added chunk so that the chunk may be allocated to the right dbspace? Edmund To an Informix novice Chinese University of HK…
AW: What happens when ?
Hi, One possible solution is to dump the correct dbspaces with dd on tape. After restoring the correct archive, it might be possible to overwrite the restored dbspaces by dumping the dbspaces back.(This works with Infomix 5, maybe with 7) Robert…
Fraged Tables/Onunload 7.13uc1
If a table is fraged across multiple dbspaces, and the indexes are created in a different dbspaces of its own, will onload work successfully if the table was droped and then reloaded? I know I can specify the dbspaces in which I want to load the table on the command line, but wh…
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 v7.x Problem on Digital Unix: 2GB Limit
I think that you can solve the problem by creating a dbspace composed by 2 or more chunks of 2 Gb. Then, when you create the database you must specify this special dbspace. The load of the information will work fine! Bye Paulo Nunes (p.nunes@mail.telepac.pt)…
Re: Time series database misinformation from Achmal B Chaudhrii
Colin James III (cjames3@ix.netcom.com) belched: : Illustra is an Informix "company", but Achmal is way off the mark with : the DataBlade stuff and time series. No he wasn't. : DataBlade modules are meant to be simpler defined-functions functions : for data types concocted by…
Re: Time series database misinformation from Achmal B Chaudhrii
In <Pine.SOL.3.91.960419130254.24047A-100000@swindon> Akmal B Chaudhri <ad533@city.ac.uk> writes: > >One good source is the Illustra web site. They have developed Data-Blades >specifically to handle this type of data. > >See: > > http://www.illustra.com/ > ma…
Temporary dbspace
I have created a temporary dbspace. It is referenced by the onconfig file parameter DBSPACETEMP. It was made larger recently because our reports explicitly create temp table using the "WITH NO LOG" option and the temp tables created by 2 specific reports can get pretty big. It i…
Storage Computer at Orlando DW: Paul Gill photo
For those of you going to next week's Data Warehousing conference and exhibit in Orlando, Storage Computer senior executive Paul Gill will be at the StorComp booth. You can see his picture on the company's WWW site, http://www.storage.com/, by going to the New Vars section on th…
RE: Sizing existing indexes - How to do?
Cosmo - I think you missed the original poster's question, which I believe is: Is there any way to specify extent sizes for the indices of a table, separate from the data/table? Answer No. This has been a feature request of mine, for over a year and half. This becomes even mor…
Re: Online 5.1, How to remove a chunk
Hi, You have to drop the dbspace in order to free up the chunk and the dbspace has to be empty when you drop it. Thanks Ryan…
Re: Online 5.1, How to remove a chunk
You can't remove a chunk in version 5.x. This is possible in version 7.x. If the chunk is in a non-rootdbs dbspace, you could remove all data from the dbspace, then drop the dbspace to reclaim chunks.…
Call for Paper for practitioner-oriented handbook
**************1996 Handbook of Data Management*************** Call for Papers****************************** Data management is the process of understanding the current and future data needs of an enterprise and making data optimally available to support business operations. It…
Re: Sizing of char,varchar and text fields
In article alex@alexpc.films.com, "Alexander J. Oss" <alex.oss@films.com> writes: > > Whoops, looks like you're right <sheepish g>. P. 2-130 of the > Online 5.0 manual: "Blobs can share dbspace blob pages if more than > one blob can fit on a single page, or if more than one trai…
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: 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…
Find names of all databases in a DBSPACE
Is there a way to get a list of all of the databases in a dbspace? My dbspace is very dynamic and I need a way to get this list. Using Informix Online 5.x on Sun Sparc SunOS 4.1.3c David Clough…
dbspace Q
i am looking for any pgms that might help monitor "space hogs". it would be nice to be able to get a listing of databases found under a specific DBSPACE along with its owner and size. i thought i saw a news thread along this topic a few months ago. thanks, jim ________…
Re: Mirroring
Ti Lian Hwang writes: |We have a new HP9000 machine with 2 fast SCSI disks and 2 slower |disks. | |We are using informix mirroring on them. | |Is there advantages or disadvantages if the mirror copies are both |in the in the slow disks, or a mix of slow and fast disks ? | |I mea…
Mirroring
We have a new HP9000 machine with 2 fast SCSI disks and 2 slower disks. We are using informix mirroring on them. Is there advantages or disadvantages if the mirror copies are both in the in the slow disks, or a mix of slow and fast disks ? I mean Disk A (slow) Disk B …
remote dbspace
Is anybody define a dbspace on a remote machine...!!! with online 5.0. Thanks...…
dbspace lost
Platform: Everex 486 running Interactive 3.2 and Informix Online 4.00.UE1. Recently, we took a power hit that caused some damage to our file system. Specifically, the device file Informix writes to was lost. Should I reinstall Online or can I just re-create the device file? Al…
Prevent users from creating databases?
Is there any way to prevent users from creating databases? Or at least to prevent them from creating databases in the system dbspace? Or even a way to change the default place for databases from system dbspace to another dbspace? Thanks in advance. -- Rick Hamel Database Admi…
tables in dbspace (Online 5.x)
Is there a simple way to find which tables are in a dbspace? (Or, what dbspace a table is in?) -Brian ------ brena@hcia.com…
DBspace Question
I'm looking for a way in a sql statement to have on-line return me based on a given table name the dbspace name that the table is located in. The following sql statment returns the dbspace number the table is located in but what I need is the actual dbspace name. select h…
dbspace for database
Yes I know I have antique software, and yes I am sure you've answered this before...but I need to know now, and cannot find it in Walt's excellent archives... On a UNisys 5000 platform, running Turbo with 2.10.03G SQL... 2 databases were created. tbmonitor shows rootdbs, and 2 o…
Re: Calculating Extents
Naomi Walker writes: > >Can someone please tell me a reliable way to calculate extents >on tables with TEXT BLOBS? I've tried using the formula in the >book, but that doesnt work well. In our case, this BLOB is in >the tblspace, not in a blobspace. Does it make a difference? …
Default dbspace?
This has probably already been discussed to death, so please reply by e-mail. Is there a way with OnLine v4.0 or v4.1 to make the default dbspace something other than the root dbspace? Thanks. -- +--------------------+-------------------------------------------------------+ |…
Cooked dbspace...
A client of of ours was playing with OnLine, and created a chunk on the cooked file system. When he was done, he decided "Okay, I'm through." and did an "rm mychunk" from. Note that he didn't bother to drop the dbspace inside of OnLine. So now he has a dbspace that OnLine thinks …
Dropping a dbspace
Hello, I am currently using the Informix Turbo engine. I tried to drop a dbspace the other day and couldn't do. Does anybody have info on how to do this? Thanks ! Brian MacWilliams USAMC - SIMA LEAD CHAMBERSBURG PA…