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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 …
No primary keys
> What does Informix do if there are no primary key or foriegn key > attributes defined in the database schema ? Will Informix try to build a > primary key Index based on as many fields as it thinks it needs for record > uniqueness ? Is this process expensive in terms of comp…
oncheck warning,What impact will it have on the future?
Ok, I make sense. Althrough I can't see that parameter in ONCONFIG, but it really exists with default value. ------------------------------ chuan lu ------------------------------…
Large memory segment vs smaller ones
No ONCONFIG changes are required. ------------------------------ Doug Lawry Oninit Consulting ------------------------------…
Changing DBSPACETEMP run-time
Hi, IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.FC5XE Please, is there a way to change DBSPACETEMP for a session inside 4GL? ------------------------------ Sincerely, Dennis ------------------------------…
Question of dostats
Yes. Many dostats rune used two connections egging you cannot do over a shared memory connection. There is an option to use a shared memory connection but then you can only process one database per run. Art ------------------------------ Art S. Kagel, President and Principal Con…
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…
restore through STDIO
HI, ifxclone can change the onconfig on the target instance E.g. it will turn off DIRECT_IO and can also change bufferpool entries! Regards, David. ------------------------------ David Williams ------------------------------…
Problems with temporary dbspaces
Hello, Change the DBSPACETEMP entry in onconfig file , separated them with semi colon (;), instead of comma (,). Rebounce ids, and see whether the error disappear. Hope it works -Fauziah-…
Shared Memory
Hello, Today I checked the Informix shared memory by onstat -g seg on Informix 14.10FC6X3 informix [rs-om-ifx-201] on_nebula21 $ onstat -g seg IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 14.10.FC6X3 -- On-Line -- Up 16:43:49 -- 10327040 Kbytes 2021-09-03 15:36:42 Segment Summary: id …
ontape does not finish the backup: tape full
TAPESIZE in the onconfig set to zero? Backups to disk running into a tape full and asking for a second tape should not happen. Hal Maner M Systems International, Inc.…
oncheck -cDI >>> inconsistency warning
Yes, it is safe to allow oncheck to correct any problems that it finds correctable. The only exception is corrupted index rebuilds and only because oncheck uses a single threaded sort to rebuild the damaged index so it is slow and will lock the table. Better to drop and rebuild i…
ADO - activex data object
What do I require, to connect "ado activex data object" to Informix ? AIX 7.2 IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 12.10.FC9W1 Regards Dirk…
Phys Log Size Inconsistency?
Disregard. I confused the ONCONFIG parm with the actual phys log. Forgot to actually run onparams! My total bad. DG…
RSS: Different # CPUs?
Those were my thought exactly. But, was uncertain whether RSS required identical settings in ONCONFIG as the primary. Thank you. DG…
SHARED MEMORY ALLOCATION
Note that DS_NONPDQ_QUERY_MEM is limited to 25% of DS_TOTAL_MEMORY. Neither DS_TOTAL_MEMORY nor DS_NONPDQ_QUERY_MEM are carved permanently out of SHMVIRTSIZE but are allocated from there as needed and released. I can alleviate Benjamin's fears. The total of DS_NONPDQ_QUERY_MEM u…
listener-thread@soc_be.c:3073: err = -25582:
Adding Version details Informix Version : IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 12.10.FC6 O/S Version : Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.9 Thanks & Regards, Karthik Rajan…
onmode bug discovered (-wf)
Don't believe in a bug here. When starting the server he knows about the onconfig-file from the environment variable ONCONFIG. If you change this variable when the server is running it will not know the new value. Assuming that variable is only read once during the startup of th…
Re: 12.10.FC9 1809 Error
i'm just connecting on shared memory (onipcshm in sqlhosts) regards…
Could not do a physical-order read to fetch next r
Hello Alexandre Thanks for your prompt response. Have you searched for any exclusive locks running on that mentioned table, before starting your java program? -- I didnt find any locks running. Pretty sure this is a highly accessed table on your OLTP, -- Yes, exactly. 117 colum…
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.…
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…
Issues With Restore
I tried it well 10 times now, but it is now saying: Warning: Fatal error in shared memory creation…
ROOTDBS file
I did not find the AUTOLOCATE parameter in onconfig file as well as onconfig.std file also. Im using IDS 12.10 FC8 version…
Update Statistics
what kind of things could I check in the onconfig file. They are working on getting me IBM technical support help, but that will be a few hours away.…
Putting one, out of several, databases in an insta
Since version10 (I believe), Informix allows building index without locking the table (ONLINE) but you can't build a new index on the same key, so you still have to drop that existing index then rebuild it online. For that reason, that index will NOT be available until the index …
sqlhosts file
For the sqlhosts file, if you have two servers (primary and secondary for HDR), will the sqlhosts file have 3 entries? Primary One for shared memory with name of primary and two for tcp(one for each server)? Secondary Same thing(3 entries) except for shared memory, it will have…
log_full.sh getting Aborted by client.
Looks like the location got turn to read-only - have no idea how or why this happened. informix cars: onpsm -D list Informix Primary Storage Manager Device List Type Prio Block/Size (MB) Pool Name Device Name FILE HIGHEST --/-- DBSPOOL /opt/informix/backups/infx/spaces FILE R…
ids 11.50 shared memory for Workgroup Edition
Solaris 10 11.50.FC5 For the Workgroup Edition, is the maximum memory allowed shared between instances on the same server; or does each instance on the same server have access to the maximum allowable shared memory? Larry…
IDS 12.10 - Query Slow
Hi, I means value on onconfig 12.10 same or better than value onconfig IDS 11.10. i don't copy onconfig file and put on IDS 12.10. I already rebuild of your statistics is highly. We don't have performance issue for overall our system, only a few program, especially program runn…
Script to see who's (session) using temp space
Keith.... we can try a workaround.... Not sure if 9.40 will accept this syntax. and I apologize for this strange SQL, but I'd need CHARINDEX() to make it simpler, but 9.40 doesn't have it.... Can you try replacing the line: sysscblst.sid = po_sid AND with this: sysscblst.sid …
Creating index ONLINE
The index build ONLINE doesn't require an exclusive lock as without the ONLINE keyworl But whenit needs to change the structure definition, it must have exclusive access for an instant. If you have a process constantly trying to access the table there's margin for the error you'r…
ON-Bar database server is dismissing the logical
Thanks Art and Martin. IDS bounce worked as onconfig was changed for LTAPEDEV earlier. Thanks, ~ Pravin Bankar…
DBSPACETEMP Parameter
Hi, The DBSPACETEMP Parameter in onconfig file create automatically the temporally dbspaces ? Or They must be created with onspaces utility. Thanks in advance.…
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)…
new features about dynamic parameter added in 12.1
Attention, this is not documented. For Informix 12.10, another way you can get the list is to use the cf_flags column on syscfgtab to determine which onconfig parameters are dynamic: SELECT cf_name FROM sysmaster:syscfgtab WHERE bitand(cf_flags,'0x1') = 0 --removes Unsupported p…
after upgrading to 12.1 log back script not workin
Thanks to Petr he got it working it seems my onpsm command when I setup the LOGPOOL must have been wrong or something as the pool was READ-ONLY (no idea why I didn't see that). Did a onpsm -D update /opt/informix/backups/infx/logs -g LOGPOOL -p HIGHEST and poof it started workin…
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…
shared memory issue
Hi I am frequently getting below error, I know I am using workgroup Edition hence there is a limit, Using shared memory... however transaction are so less hence dont expect this error very frequently Warning: The IBM IDS Growth Edition license restriction limits the total share…
COMMIT WORK, LRU's and Checkpoints.
I wonder if someone could explain what happens when a commit work occurs in terms of the buffer cache? The SQL Manual for COMMIT WORK has the following sentence: "The database server takes the required steps to make sure that all modifications that the transaction makes are comp…
Panic analysis
Folks, IDS 12.10 FC4, Linux 6. The following log is the only info we have about the crash ( no other info dumped ) You can see it was struggling to add lot memories segments before Panic .... The Panic was a also VERY curious one with some unexpected process terminated ... Wha…
create indexes before or after inserting rows?
Ben: Great set of questions and I have lots of answers. Here goes, last questions first: - Does my proposed .... What role does updating the statistics play? - You don't say what version you are running which is always a good idea since sometimes answers have to be version sp…
IDS 12.10 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Server
Hi, The logfile after install, see below. Thanks. Guy 19:28:20 Parameter's user-configured value was adjusted. (DS_MAX_SCANS) 19:28:20 Parameter's user-configured value was adjusted. (ONLIDX_MAXMEM) 19:28:20 Parameter's user-configured value was adjusted. (MAX_PDQPRIORITY) 19:…
BTS fails after ontape Restore
Hi Mark, Backup is done by 'ontape -s -L 0' Restore was done with 'ontape -r' No extra special parameters. And as I was typing this email, I was collecting the appropriate BTS-related lines from the 4 onconfig's in play (we use a special 'backup' onconfig for ontape). Lo and b…
Root db space fills up
as metioned above, maybe you need set TEMPTAB_NOLOG in you onconfig file…
Error Message in online.log file
Hi André. What setting do you have for ALRM_ALL_EVENTS in the $ONCONFIG file? I have found "alarmprogram.sh" can loop if set to 1. Regards, Doug Lawry…
RSS not working
Fee disk space on the chunk partition ok on the RSS server? Can you post your onconfig?…
Setup HDR
Sounds like the onconfig has the same STACKSIZE but what both servers read in at initialization is different. Bounce both servers and see if it's fixed.…
Desempenho
Ignore it. This warning comes out even if a very short term update load lasting only seconds passed an internal threshold that calculates how much physical log space you would use if that rate of transactions continued through an entire checkpoint interval. Just monitor onstat -l…
Physical Log size 2000 is too small
Hi, the onconfig we are using is from a inf version 9.7 wherein no PLOG_OVERFLOW_PATH located in it. I tried adding it to the onconfig and put a location but the inf instance when restarted still always fails. As for the onmode command we are always using onmode -ky maybe it's b…
VERY slow BTS index build
>> I had a look back at 11.50.xC6 and in that veraion BTS did not support a >> list of sbpaces in SBSPACETEMP. This was a fix applied to 11.50.xC7. >> In 11.50.xC7 and beyond, it will support a comma or colon separated list >> of sbspaces. 11.50.xC7 also has online log warnings w…
ERROR doing ontape
Thanks for your response! So, is it possible to create a new dbspace then set it in $ONCONFIG and restart the instance? best regards…
virtual segment question
Did you try to increase the number of locks in the LOCKS parameter in Onconfig? Lloyd…
ontape error message
Increase the value of TAPESIZE parameter in onconfig and try the backup. Lloyd…
Onconfig name
Hi, I am developing a JDBC application, and need to read from within SQL the onconfig environment variable. From with IDS 11.70, I can extract the need information using the query: select trim(env_value) env_value from informix.sysenv where env_name = 'ONCONFIG'; The code nee…
Informix upgrade
Can we upgrade informix from Dynamic Server Version 11.70 to 12.1 workgroup edition directly?…
Problmes using ontape with an IBM TS2900 changer
The TAPEDEV section in the onconfig is as follow: TAPEDEV /dev/IBMTape0 TAPEBLK 512 TAPESIZE 0 We have played with the TAPEBLK from 512 to 4096 to no avail.…
Re: storage pool configuration.
Hi Art, Thanks for the fast answer... Your explanation just confirm my suspicious... Way the storage pool work is very discouraging for me... The missing limit of expandable chunk is something what I don't understand how this feature could be "born" without it... We don't want…
when use IfxDataReader.GetIfxDateTime to NULL valu
Hello, The version of Informix products in my environment is: Database server: AIX IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.FC5 IBM Informix CSDK Version 2.90 IBM-ESQL Version 2.90.FC4 Client: PC Windows IBM Informix-ESQL 3.70.TC5DE.…
How to set up temporary space per session
True, but I have noticed that you need register previously the temporary dbspace in onconfig file, I thought there was some way to make the settings "on the fly", by session. Roger…
recover SQLHOSTS file
Do the onconfig files also have that info?…
Auto Update Stats
Hi, I have one more query. I have the below entries in onconfig file for AUS AUTO_STAT_MODE 1 STATCHANGE 10 USTLOW_SAMPLE 0 Now all my tasks(mon_table_profile,Evaluator and Refresh) running fine at scheduled time. Now when I remove the above entries in onconfig file, still al…
IDS 12.10 - dbimport very slow
Hi Markus, Is your import logged ? Regards, Henri MOUKOURI Le 25 juin 2013 à 10:45, "MARKUS BRINKBäUMER" <markus.brinkbaeumer@gmail.com> a écrit : > Hello, > > we have a new server (Windows 2012, 8 GB RAM, 4 x 600 GB SAS 15k HDD). On the > server we have installed an IBM Inf…
Performance Tuning Discussion
Ok it seems you have a big hardware, what´s your Informix version? What´s your box architecture? For performance tips, there is a good article in Andrew Ford´s blog, that should clarify your thoughts.... http://www.informix-dba.com/p/informix-innovator-c-tuning-basics.html This…
DB_locale or local naming convention
Hi, I already mention the informix version. IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.TC1IE…
Page size
Where do you set the page size when configuring Informix? I don't see it in the ONCONFIG anywhere.…
Re: manually edit onconfig?
You should never install the new version over the current one. If something goes wrong in the upgrade you'll have much more work to recover. Regards On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 6:38 PM, June Nebab LKINY <jnebab@gmail.com> wrote: > Planning an upgrade to 11.7UC6GE from 11.7UC5GE. I…
RE: manually edit onconfig?
I would give a try to the new onconfig_diff utility, it seems to help you identify and correct some of them.... Check it out! https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/idsteam/entry/how_to_use_the_onconfig_comparison_tool_onconfig_diff3?lang=en Regards. Alexand…
Re: manually edit onconfig?
I'm a big fan of copying the current settings into the new ONCONFIG file. It gives you a good chance to see the new parameters, like those you mentioned - all of which were available in 11.70.xC5 BTW, so someone used an older ONCONFIG instead of editing the new one last time. By…
Re: manually edit onconfig?
Figure out what each of the new ones do, whether you want to use them or not, then add them to your old onconfig. Ideally on a test environment. j. On Dec 17, 2012, at 1:38 PM, June Nebab LKINY wrote: > Planning an upgrade to 11.7UC6GE from 11.7UC5GE. Installing new version o…
manually edit onconfig?
Planning an upgrade to 11.7UC6GE from 11.7UC5GE. Installing new version on same $INFORMIXDIR and on same server. I noticed new onconfig params (ie: AUTO_READAHEAD, NUMFDSERVERS, etc) that are in the UC6GE onconfig.std that are not in my $ONCONFIG. What is the proper way to dea…
Error -556 on @ reference
In IDS_A have a stored procedure do_some that has a insert into a local table. In IDS_B have a stored procedure do_some that does: call base@IDS_A:do_some(); Calling this sp works ok. In IDS_C i try to run: call base@IDS_B:do_some(); Fails with error -556 Cannot create, drop,…
Error # 40002
Also set AUTO_REPREPARE 1 in your $ONCONFIG file. Regards, Doug Lawry…
shared memory
This concerns IDS 11.70.TC5IE on Windows Server 2008 . This article http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/idshelp/v117/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm .perf.doc%2Fids_prf_750.htm defines buffer_value = (BUFFERS * pagesize) + (BUFFERS * 254) + 250000and goes on to say: âIf you hav…
Re: help with informix on windows oncheck -pr erro
ok sounds like silly question but how do i find out what ONCONFIG variable is on windows ? which is likely to be correct set ONCONFIG=oncfg_apecert.0 ::set ONCONFIG=ONCONFIG.apecert…
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…
242: Could not open database table
My suggestion is to set the onconfig variable LOG_INDEX_BUILDS to 1. There are two ways indexes get shipped to the secondary, the default me= thod (when LOG_INDEX_BUILDS is set to 0) is asynchronous to the application = and the index remains locked while it is being shipped. Bes…
doubt about parameters (PDQ)
Sorry people, I meant the MAX_PDQPRIORITY 100 onconfig parameter.…
What are best onconfig parameters for a DSS app
Frank.... first question: Is your database installation being made for a production system???? Alexandre Marini IBM Informix Certified Professional v10 / v11.50 / v11.70 IBM Information Management Informix Technical Professional IBM Infosphere DataStage Technical Professional …
Memory down and shared memory not initialized
I compiled utils2_ak. When executing printFreeB I got a message the library libifsql.so could not be found. So I put the lines below in /etc/ld.so.conf and exectued ldconfig. /opt/informix/lib /opt/informix/lib/c++ /opt/informix/lib/cli /opt/informix/lib/csm /opt/informix/lib/dm…
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…
Linux: oninit returns "shared memory base address illegal", fails to start
Art, I've been getting that error message "Insufficient free huge pages in /proc/meminfo for shared memory segment. Requested: 204800000 bytes. Available: 0 bytes. The default memory page size will be used." since I first installed and configured. The engine…
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 …
NOFUZZYCKPT: onconfig parameter or environment variable?
Is NOFUZZYCKPT an onconfig parameter or an environment variable? Is there any definitive documentation? Still running IDS 10 on Linux.…
Testing the 'free' versions - moving from Dev edition to Innovator-C
Art, thanks - I've gone for the separate INFORMIXDIR install (just had to change $INFORMIXDIR, $PATH and some paths in $ONCONFIG) and it's come up just fine.…
Re: Restore + Logical log - caution
I don't write the engine. I don't even work for IBM. But, when you start an archive, what is in the DB at the start of an archive. I have no doubt that some pages have a timestamp prior to the start of the archive ( so they need to be included in the archive ) but also have rows…
Spatial Data
hello reading thru the manual states that the ONCONFIG parameters for SBSPACENAME and SYSSBSPACENAME must be set for the default sbspace. We are running an HDR pair and have the parameters set on the Primary Server - does it also need to be set on the Secondary Instance ? thank…
Shared memory connection to HDR Secondary
Folks, IDS11.50 FC8, Redhat Linux It is not allowed to have a shared memory connection to a HDR Secondary( with dbacess..), is it? Thanks, Frank --001517588cfa01cb4304b178d099…
Help! Broken server destroys customer demo...
On 03/08/2011 12:26, NEIL HAUGHTON wrote: > Here's some more information, the output of an oninit -v command: > > Checking group membership to determine server run mode...succeeded > Reading configuration file > 'C:\\\\PROGRA~1\\\\IBM\\\\Informix\\\\11.70/etc/ONCONFIG.ol_matdemo'…
Re: Upgrade to 11.70 from 11.50 results in low Read Ahead Utilization
Hi, In 11.70.xC3, the new AUTO_READAHEAD ONCONFIG parameter was introduced. This parameter reflects a new read-ahead algorithm in the database server. Basically, in mode 1 setting, auto read-ahead will turn off read-aheads for a scan if it detects that the pages are already ca…
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…
What is virtual about Informix "virtual segment of shared memory"?
In the IDS memory architecture, why is the "virtual" portion of shared memory called "virtual?" It seems to reside in that portion of physical memory that the O/S designates to share between multiple processes, but never seems to have anything to do with swapping/paging to disk.…
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…
Error re-Starting SDS Secondary server
Logs are on a shared device. The secondary server started fine the first time. There is alot of activity on the primary server, Im thinking maybe I will wait until it slows down a bit and try it again. When I had this problem with my test servers, even the primary server had the …
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.…
10 Years of Innovation at IBM
Yes, I can do that. But imagine dropping a index in a table with 5 bi rows that support a Foreign key to a table with 2 bi rows. Using a supposed "rebuild index online feature", it would recreate a index reading directly the existent index create the new index using other disk sp…
ontape -p/r with changed ROOTPATH
Jack Parker Wrote: ================================================================================ Not sure if you noted that you also need to change your $ONCONFIG = ROOTPATH to point to what is on the backup image. j. ==========================================================…
question about Query with joined view
Have you tried "IFX_FOLDVIEW 1" in your environment or $ONCONFIG file? Regards, Doug Lawry…
Re: SCHAPI: [22938]
Hello. If you check the $INFORMIXDIR/etc/sysadmin/*.sql files (run to build sysadmin database on your engine), you´ll see that some indexes are created using online mode. You may just remove the ONLINE word from the statements, and rebuild your sysadmin database, as follows... (…
SCHAPI: [Auto Update Statistics Evaluation 18-6]
Hi All I am currently busy with an upgrade from informix 10.00 FC8 to informix 11.5 Growth Edition. However when we look at the logs for previous test machines that we have upgraded. The following errors always come up: ####### 01:00:01 SCHAPI: [Auto Update Statistics Evaluati…
Table Locked After Index Build
The OPs problem, as Madison pointed out, is that he does not have LOG_INDEX_BUILDS set so his HDR secondary is building the index manually after the primary's index build is complete. This DOES hold a lock on the primary's table until it completes. Setting LOG_INDEX_BUILDS will r…
operating system limit was reached
On Feb 4, 4:02 am, "Habichtsberg, Reinhard" <RHabichtsb...@arz- emmendingen.de> wrote: > Hi all, > > IDS 11.50.FC7W3 > > I found this in the message log (sorry, it's a bit long): > > 17:36:56 IBM Informix Dynamic Server Started. > 17:36:56 Requested shared memory segment size r…
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…
Instance Crashed !!
What must be the ratio of Resident Memory & Shared Memory that we can allocate initially ? What is the impact of # of Buffers & its size to the size of Resident Memory. Thanks.…
Shared memory segments
Don't have an answer for you off hand, but I did fix your subject line so it doesn't look like spam. --EEM -----Original Message----- From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:informix-list-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of qingchuntrade Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 7:54 PM…
Re: Re: finding inplace alters
On Dec 26, 11:32 am, Davorin Kremenjas <davorin.kremen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Dec 23, 10:01 am, Superboer <superbo...@t-online.de> wrote: > > > Hello Davorin, > > to be honest i havenot looked at it closely; however: > > i would (found this in the past once in this newsgroup…
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…
sqlerr:-243 and isam err:-111 in esql/c
This "may" be a good place for USELASTCOMMITTED set to all in the onconfig.…
CDR Grouper FanOut thread is aborting
Folks, Build Version: 11.10.UC2 Build OS: AIX 5.3 The ER does not work properly due to a "out of virtual shared memory " problem in one site. Is there any EASY DRUG to treat "CDR Grouper FanOut thread is aborting." ? (instead of recreating whole the ER) Thanks, Frank .......…
Primary Slowness when RSS is active
You need to set LOG_STAGGING_DIR parameter in onconfig of the rss…
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?
On Sep 2, 1:18 pm, Art Kagel <art.ka...@gmail.com> wrote: > > That said, while > you have to drop an index (or at least disable it and re-enable it) to > rebuild it, this operation does NOT require that the server be offline nor > does it necessarily lock out access to the tabl…
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…
Shared memory problem
IDS 9.40 UC4 on Linux (yes, I know ...) 1. Initialising the instance with a shared memory connection it just hangs at: 01:09:26 Maximum server connections 0 01:09:26 Dataskip is now OFF for all dbspaces 01:09:26 On-Line Mode 01:09:26 Building 'sysmaster' database ... Never…
XPS still around?
Back in the 90's XPS touted near linear scalability. Now fast forward to 2010 and what we see is NoSQL in terms of the DW space. Putting the cost of the underlying database software aside, I wonder if anyone (HINT IBM!) has tried to do a benchmark of XPS using 8 core 1U boxes w…
Online Index Build and HDR
> Any suggestions on setting the LOG_INDEX_BUILDS ONCONFIG parameter in an HDR > environment and online index builds or the ONLIDX_MAXMEM ONCONFIG parameter? If I remember correctly from few months ago on our test system (in HDR) we had to set LOG_INDEX_BUILDS to enabled to have…
Alarm for New virtual shared memory segment
Hello, I was wondering if there is any way for Informix to alert us if it "Dynamically allocated new virtual shared memory segment". I tried getting the ALARMPROGRAM to alert, though it seems that this action does not trigger the ALARMPROGRAM. Any ideas? 16:17:26 Requested s…
951: Incorrect password or user informix is not kn
Hi, I forgot to mention that, on this instance i can connect with an unix user other than 'informix'. Doesn't this alleviates the assumption of 'a lack of shared memory or a problem with shared memory' ? Regards…
Re: RE: new onconfig parameters added onconfig fil
Typically, I make a copy of the onconfig.std, naming it something like cheetah_online. Then I open up both the old and new onconfig, side by side, and copy from old to new. Obviously, the new onconfig has new params that were not addressed in the old onconfig and may have elimina…
Re: RE: new onconfig parameters added onconfig fil
Isn't that what I said? "If you simply just bring up the instance using your old onconfig, I believe that you will get whatever the default is for the new parameters, even though you do not mention them in your old ONCONFIG." -----Original Message----- From: ids-bounces@iiug.or…
new onconfig parameters added onconfig file 11.5
hello folks Can any one tell me at what stage the new onconfig parameters are added to the onconfig file when upgrading from 11.10 to 11.5. I have converted two instances from 11.10 to 11.50 One onconfig file has the new parameters at the end of the file the other doesnt have any…
RE: Long Checkpoints with HDR and 11.5.
Ernie Knox wrote: We are receiving extreme slowness and long checkpoints on our 11.50.FC3 and now 11.50.FC5 versions on AIX 6.1, while running HDR. Everything comes back to life when we cut HDR, but began again once we upgraded to FC5. Has anyone else had this issue and what wa…
Re: performance improvements for dbimport?
Thanks for all your valuable input. I changed some parameters now: 21:09:27 Onconfig parameter BUFFERPOOL modified from size=2K,buffers=262144,lrus=8,lru_min_dirty=5.0,lru_max_dirty=10.0 to size=2K,buffers=524288,lrus=8,lru_min_dirty=10.0,lru_max_dirty=50.0. 21:09:27 Onconfig p…
BACKUP_FILTER in onconfig
Hello, when I using BACKUP_FILTER in $ONCONFIG, parameter for "The tape block size, in KB, for backing up logical logs" is NOT LTAPEBLK, but it is TAPEBLK. Everything work fine (LTAPEBKL for logical log) when I turn off BACKUP_FILTER ... This is happening with ontape, with BAC…
shared memory parameters
Having trouble with share memory parameters. I am trying to locate each piece of the memory size number reported by "onstat -". So far I have been able to correlate changes in onconfig with changes in that onstat number. However, I haven't been able to get it all and can't seem t…
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…
2 shared memory segments
Informix 10.00.HC5 HP-UX 11i v2 Recently, I've started getting message like the following when I restart the server Could not create single shared memory segment with resident and non-resident partitions. Proceeding to create 2 shared memory segments instead. Sometimes, the se…
garbage text in SHMNOACCESS parameter
On Jan 21, 8:15 am, Ian Michael Gumby <im_gu...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Just a guess. What's the hex value for that string? > grep ^SHMNOACCESS onconfig SHMNOACCESS �����������" ������� grep ^SHMNOACCESS onconfig |cut -c17- �����������" ������� grep ^SHMNOACCESS onconfig…
Random Server Slowdown "Redone"
There are some usual things you could do for now: 1) calc your database ratios, I think there are several NETTYPE, BUFFERS and even BTSCANNER options that could be optimized, you could download Mr. Art script to automatically know these important numbers!!! It´s on the download …
shared memory not initialized for INFORMIXSERVER
When I try to start Informix Dynamix Server the following massage appears: shared memory not initialized for INFORMIXSERVER Any idea???…
shered memory not initialized for INFORMIXSERVER
When I am trying to start informix server the following massage apears: shared memory not initialized for INFORMIXSERVER Any idea??????…
ontape -s -L 0 too slowly(onconfig)
continue,below is onconfig:(system has two cpu,4GB ram) # Root Dbspace Configuration ROOTNAME rootdbs # Root dbspace name ROOTPATH /dbspace/rootdbs # Path for device containing root dbspace ROOTOFFSET 10 # Offset of root dbspace into device (Kbytes) ROOTSIZE 2000000 # Size of ro…
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…
shared memory not initializing
Hi All, Can anybody help me. My shared memory not initializing and IDS was working fine before restore and restored was failed in the middle. I have executed oncheck -pr and getting below error. ONCONFIG config file error on element PHYSFILE. Value in reserved page: 30000 Val…
DYNAMIC_LOGS in ONCONFIG
Good afternoon, We occasionally have a programmer than needs a large amount of log space to move a very large table. Instead of fiddling with the HTXHWM and LTXEHWM in the ONCONFIG file, has anyone successfully setup DYNAMIC_LOGS with IDS 10.00 on HPUX? Where would the dynamic …
Unsufficient buffer size for error message
Hi Please check your online.log and check also your onconfig file. thanks.…
shared memory not initialized for INFORMIXSERVER
________________________________ From: Tang, Wally, CTR, DMA-Riv/IT Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 9:28 AM To: 'ids@iiug.org' Subject: shared memory not initialized for INFORMIXSERVER Hi, On our development server (IDS 7.31.UD6 on HPUX B.11.11), when we executed dbaccess dbn…
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…
Informix virtual shared memory
We are running Informix 9.40.FC4 on HPUX-11i. For the past few weeks, we are experiencing this problem. The informix server keeps continuosuly allocating memory and never releases it back and allocates many virtual shared memory segments and finally runs out of shared memory and …
IDS instance memory
Hi, We are running 4 IDS (11.5 FC4) instances on a sun sparc machine with 8 GB physical memory. We can see the shared memory through "onstat -" command which is around 1 G. This machine is purely acting as databases server and no other application is runnig on it (like web applic…
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…
Connection Pooling with the .NET Provider on IIS
MC, Your complaint is that a connection pool does what a connection pool is supposed to do. Essentially you're telling the waitress that you want a stack of pancakes and a coffee, and when she brings your order, you complain that its a stack of pancakes and a coffee. ;-) In str…
Re: Index fragmentation
About "create index...online" Copied from Article on IDS Support site : http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=630&context=SSGU8G&context=SSZ2HS&context=SSP6X2&context=SSVHPS&context=SSHPYE&q1=create+index+online&uid=swg21219742&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en " Explanation of…
Index fragmentation
Neil Truby schrieb: > IDS 10.0FC9 on Solaris 10 > > I have a site where an index has hot the 16g limit for a tablespace. > It seems from the fine manual that you cannot fragment an index across > dbspaces round-robin (I suppose this is meaningless), only by > expression. But I do…
Adding BLOB Chunks to DBSpaces
Why do you think that the physical log dbspace needs more space? Are you looking at onstat -d? Was there some message in the message log (onstat -m) that has given you concern? First, the physical log is fixed size. It is initialized when the engine is brought online during norm…
Informix 7.31 (Alpha Unix TRUE64) hangs in "Alloca
Hi List. I need to recover and OLD backup made in Informix 7.31 for Alpha. I get an old server and install Informix 7.31. Bu it cant get it running. When I try to initialize the server it hangs "Allocating and attaching to shared memory...". I think it could be some Operative Sys…
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 …
IDS 9.40 End of Support Imminent
I have seen a number of posts on CDI recently related to IDS 9.40 As per the announcement on September 7th 2007, effective on the dates listed below, IBM will withdraw support from the following product releases licensed under the IBM International Program License Agreement: 9…
oninit fails reporting problem with DBSPACETEMP
But in my ONCONFIG file, i have mentioned the tape device as STDIO…
Re: Building Indexs on Primary Server
On Feb 5, 10:19 pm, Mo <mohitanch...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 5, 12:15 pm, e...@herber-consulting.de wrote: > > > > > On Feb 5, 7:20 pm, Mo <mohitanch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Feb 4, 10:36 am, e...@herber-consulting.de wrote: > > > > > On Feb 4, 6:30 pm, Mo <mohitanch...…
Re: Building Indexs on Primary Server
On Feb 5, 7:20 pm, Mo <mohitanch...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 4, 10:36 am, e...@herber-consulting.de wrote: > > > > > On Feb 4, 6:30 pm, Mo <mohitanch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Informix 11: > > > > We have HDR servers, I am seeing that creating an index on table of > > > 100M…
Building Indexs on Primary Server
On Feb 4, 6:30 pm, Mo <mohitanch...@gmail.com> wrote: > Informix 11: > > We have HDR servers, I am seeing that creating an index on table of > 100M rows takes more than 16hrs. Could it be because of HDR secondary > server trying to build the index at the same time? We have PDQ > …
-25588 error after CPU & fiber channel failure
John, See if the app can connect if it uses the network connection (carsitcp) instead of the shared memory connection. Mike…
Changing TAPEDEV from script
sed -e 's/^TAPEDEV/TAPEDEV NEW-TAPEDEV/g' onconfig > onconfig.other export ONCONFIG=onconfig.other after finishing just set the ONCONFIG to your default and delete onconfig.other Sebastian…
Question about sysindexes.clust
Have you looked at the read ahead parameters and utilizaiton? Are you using KAIO or not? How much of your buffer pool is occupied by the pages of this table and its indexes? At this point this feels like it might be that the buffer pages are being thrashed when the data is not pr…
Re: Best Use of Free Memory
On 24 Oct, 21:01, "Kevin Cherkauer" <invalid_addr...@nowhere.com> wrote: > BUFFERS is generally a good place place to use extra memory, subject to a > couple caveats: > > 1. If the working set already fits in the current buffer pool, adding still > more buffers will not produce a…
Best Use of Free Memory
BUFFERS is generally a good place place to use extra memory, subject to a couple caveats: 1. If the working set already fits in the current buffer pool, adding still more buffers will not produce any noticeable performance increase. Check "onstat -g buf" output for your %cached.…
use stored proc that return multiple columns in a query
forgot to include version info: IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.UC6W5 -- On-Line -- Up 207 days 22:14:39 -- 1441100 Kbytes…
installing informix dynamic server in linux
hi, I'm new to informix... I tried to install informix dynamic server(iif. 11.50.UC2E.Linux-RHEL4.tar) in my linux machine. I'm getting an error like this... One or more prerequisite system libraries are not installed on your computer. Install libpam.so.0, libncurses.so.5…
Informix .Net Provider Connection Pool Issue
Defect (idsdb00164302 ) has been logged to investigate this problem further. For more information/update on this defect please contact your IBM Informix Tech Support. -Shesh "CHRISTOPHER VOVERIS" <christopher.j.voveris@ssa.gov> Sent by: ids-bounces@iiug.org 12/08/2008 19:07 Ple…
Re: Wanna try SolidDB for IDS?
"Ian Michael Gumby" <im_gumby@hotmail.com> wrote: > When you talk about an in-memory database, you are creating a db that > has fairly fast response time. But the risk is that if there is a > power failure, there is going to be data loss. Your statement is misleading, and your …
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…
virtual portion memory size
I believe that parameter can be tweaked in '/etc/system' and is called 'shmmax' >From /usr/include/sys/shm.h: /* * Shared Memory information structure */ struct shminfo { int shmmax, /* max shared memory segment size */ shmmin, /* min shared memory segment size */ shmmni, /*…
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.…
The max size of BUFFERS in IDS9.40FC7 at Solaris?
That is means the maxsize of share memory segment is limited to 4GB... OK,Thanks all!…
pinning tables in cache?
DON POPE wrote: > Hello, > > In IDS 10, is there a way to pin (or at least pre-load) an object in the > buffer cache? > No. A command to do that was tried in 7.30/9.21 and it was a dismal failure. The impact on server performance overall was so bad that it outweighed any benefit…
Re: onconfig recommendations
mosserp@wellsfargo.com wrote: >> mosserp@wellsfargo.com wrote: >> >>>>> RESIDENT 0 # Forced residency flag >>>>> >>>>> >>>> (Yes = 1, No = >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Don't know HP model numbers, but it this is a PA-RISC machine, you >>>> almost have to …
RE: onconfig recommendations
> mosserp@wellsfargo.com wrote: > >>> RESIDENT 0 # Forced residency flag > >>> > >> (Yes = 1, No = > >> > >>> > >>> > >> Don't know HP model numbers, but it this is a PA-RISC machine, you > >> almost have to set RESIDENT to -1 to prevent poor performance > >>…
Re: onconfig recommendations
mosserp@wellsfargo.com wrote: >>> RESIDENT 0 # Forced residency flag >>> >> (Yes = 1, No = >> >>> >>> >> Don't know HP model numbers, but it this is a PA-RISC machine, you >> almost have to set RESIDENT to -1 to prevent poor performance >> due to the >> archi…
RE: onconfig recommendations
> > RESIDENT 0 # Forced residency flag > (Yes = 1, No = > > > Don't know HP model numbers, but it this is a PA-RISC machine, you > almost have to set RESIDENT to -1 to prevent poor performance > due to the > architectures restrictions of only four active shar…
What is IPA abbreviation ?
Hi all IBM INFORMIX DYNAMIC SERVER 10.00 PRODUCT RELEASE bug_number 168928 description WITH NON-DEFAULT PAGE SIZE AND ACTIVE IPA'S, TABLE LEVEL RESTORES FAIL product_code ONUTILS component_code ARCHECKR What is IPA ? Thanks…
Re: onconfig recommendations
On Jan 2, 11:09 pm, "Kennedy, Randy" <RKenn...@scottsdaleaz.gov> wrote: > Would like to receive some feedback on our onconfig setup for current > platform. This is the 3rd physical server that the database has moved > to and just want to ensure we are using the best settings for…
[Fwd: Re: onconfig recommendations]
Kennedy, Randy wrote: > Would like to receive some feedback on our onconfig setup for current > platform. This is the 3rd physical server that the database has moved > to and just want to ensure we are using the best settings for given > platform. > > Current Server: HP rp5405 …
Re: onconfig recommendations
On Jan 2, 11:09 pm, "Kennedy, Randy" <RKenn...@scottsdaleaz.gov> wrote: > Would like to receive some feedback on our onconfig setup for current > platform. This is the 3rd physical server that the database has moved > to and just want to ensure we are using the best settings for…
onconfig recommendations
Would like to receive some feedback on our onconfig setup for current platform. This is the 3rd physical server that the database has moved to and just want to ensure we are using the best settings for given platform. Current Server: HP rp5405 4-Way (650 MHz) with 8GB RAM. 1 …
Newbie question-please don't shoot me
I have a newbie question. Please pardon my lack of knowledge with this. I have a Unix server (HP) that houses 2 9.4 Informix database servers (IE: there are 2 separate onconfig files that have unique INFORMIXSERVER parm values). The informix engine stopped (I think because the un…
Informix onconfig file configuration
Hello, We recently moved from a quad proc (hyper threaded to 8), 8GB RAM to a 2 socket dual core, 16GB RAM server. In order to maximize the cores and RAM what entries need to be modified, if any? Thanks, Jared…
Update from Digital 7.31.FD1to ....
Baan IV run not on the same machine and connect to the informix server with an 1GB crossoverethernetcable. so we use not Shared Memory to access the database!…
Replication performance problem related with DRINTERVAL
On Nov 8, 8:58 am, Yasar Akman <akman.ya...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > we are moving our application from tru64 to aix. Our application is an > real time application and performance is very important. We are doing > some tests on informix on the new platforms. But replication s…
Vendor JAVA Apps eating up Shared Memory.
We have a couple of Vendor JAVA applications that are eating up shared memory every time they execute there SQL calls. They have their owe pseudo session pooling, but each session increases in shared memory and doesn't reuse pre-allocated memory and gets out of hand. They pointe…
shared memory limitations
Hi folks does someone know what are the maximum shared memory size that can be used both in IDS9 and IDS10 Thanks…
shared memory already exists
I am using IDS 9.40, I get message informix log below, after I shutdown and take offline the database: 14:38:05 IBM Informix Dynamic Server Started. 14:38:05 shmget: [EEXIST][17]: key 52564801: shared memory already exists 14:38:05 mt_shm_init: can't create resident segment Cou…
BAR_MAX_BACKUP and BAR_WORKER_MAX
What's the difference between BAR_MAX_BACKUP and BAR_WORKER_MAX. Both seem to be doing parallel/concurrent log backup. Which one should be specified in onconfig ?…
Re: shared memory not initialized
Tom I may have missed this in the variety of posts ! but do i understand this is a new installation and has never run? If so have you actually initialised the engine (oninit -i) at any time? Keith On 13/08/07, Ogiwara Tsutomu <tsutomu_ogiwara@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi Tom. > > …
Re: shared memory not initialized
Thanks Andreas, The system is resolving the host name fine. uname -n reports informix. when i ping informix, i get a reply from the correct IP, 192.168.26.66 Still no luck Tom On Aug 9, 4:55 am, Andreas Breitfeld <abrei...@de.ibm.com> wrote: > Maybe my hint regarding the 'set…
RE: shared memory not initialized
You didn't need to run oninit -v the second time, the first time (oninit -ivy) was enough. The second time around it tries to pop memory back in the same place as the last one. Check if the first one is still running: onstat - It probably is. If not, then you may have corrup…
RE: shared memory not initialized
The holy trinity is ONCONFIG, sqlhosts and /etc/services. Your entries look ok at this point - sounds like your rootdbs either does not exist or has wrong ownership/permissions (previous note). You also need environment variables: INFORMIXSERVER=informixserver (in your case) ON…
shared memory not initialized
I have just installed Informix 10 on a CentOS 4.5 system. When I run oninit -v to start the dbserver, I get the following, and then it dumps me back to bash: [root@informix informix]# oninit -v Your evaluation license will expire on 2007-10-30 00:00:00 Checking group membershi…
Re: System or internal errorDSRA0010E: SQL State = IX000, Error Code = -79716
On 6 Ago, 00:08, Fernando Nunes <s...@domus.online.pt> wrote: > pedro wrote: > > Hi, > > > We have a web application deployed on a websphere 6 application server > > that's used to make some queries over an informix database. When > > executing a specific operation the apps execu…
IIUG TV
Great job on the video work!! I look forward to seeing more! -t- -- -- Informix Dynamic Server Database Engine -- http://www.informix.com --…
Re: Digital UNIX V4.0F + 7.31.FD1 Performance
Thank you, today on evening we make this changes in $ONCONFIG, restart the machine and hope it works! Greetings from Austria…
Re: 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…
onconfig problem
when i try to initialize server using oninit following message appears on screen "ONCONFIG can only specify a simple filename whith no path components" plz do replay me how to solve this one…
how to fix the error "hpkaioaddseg: ASYNC_ADDSEG.
OK, it happen as Andreas Kutsche says. - enough memory/swapspace/shared memory available, enough segments available the IDS allocates a lots of segments,so the error act.…
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: Bizarre sysmaster/IDS 10 problem
I have opened a PMR with technical support. In further testing, I discovered that there's a linear relationship between the amount of memory allocated and the number of objects (tables and indices) on your server. For every object you have, it will allocate nearly _23KB_ of mem…
Create/Drop Index ONLINE
Stuart We have not done DROP but have done CREATE INDEX ONLINE. If any program has a prepared SQL on that table it will fail at the next attempt to read data - Table has been dropped, altered or created. Which version of IDS 10 are you using. We have created indexes on 10.00.FC…
RE: Listing all the tables in using a dbspace in Informix
> Make sure $INFORMIXDIR and $ONCONFIG are set and that you have > permissions with your login ID to access them. There is also system > tables that can give you this information. System tables which can list out all the tables in a particular dbspace ?…
Re: onconfig
Hello, apart from editing ONCONFIG directly, some parameters are dynamically changeable: Usage: onparams ... -m <param> <value> ... -m - Modify the value of one of the following configuration parameters: AFFAIL, AFCRASH, AFW…
RE: onconfig
I don't run onbar, but I suspect you're right. LTAPEDEV, etc. would also probably be in this group as well. Either way, restore the old onconfig and you're OK. It may be a good idea to check the permissions on the file before you're done, though... --EEM -----Original Me…
Re: onconfig
I think the onbar config parameters can be changed on the fly as well. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Everett Mills" <eemills@nationalbeef.com> To: <informix-list@iiug.org> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 11:45 AM Subject: RE: onconfig > Stan- > TAPEDEV, TAPEBLK and TAPESI…
RE: onconfig
Stan- TAPEDEV, TAPEBLK and TAPESIZE can be modified on the fly through onconfig. Restore your old onconfig and you should be fine. --EEM -----Original Message----- From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:informix-list-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Stan Sent: Friday, …
onconfig
Hello. What will happen when during work (online state) IDS unfortunately someone modify onconfig. Which paramaters takes effect immediately (without restrart IDS). Thanks in advance Stan…
shared memory already exists
HI, guys, AIX5.3 , IDS UC5 If we see the following problem, the only way is to turn off/on the power? informix@otto $ oninit oninit: Fatal error in shared memory creation informix@otto $ informix@otto $ onstat -m *** WARNING: IBM Informix Dynamic Server is no longer running. …
Re: How can I get throughput of informix such as how many query/update operations per second?
Hi, start a single process and test your application for about ten minutes. Ensure that you have started your database server with "WSTATS 1" in your configuration file ( $ONCONFIG ). Before starting your application run "onstat -z". After starting your application identify th…
shared memory
In our IDS 7.31 server, onstat -g seg displays seven 'V's (Memory Segments). SHMVIRTSIZE 100000 SHMADD 100000 SHMTOTAL 0 At present 6th "V" is in use and one is free. Each memory segment is quickly getting exhausted. Why its getting utilised very quickly im running update stat…
Onbar Pools and File System with ISM
1. What is really a disk pool and what is the device that I want to write my archive. It can be a bit confusing Andre, but I'll have a go for you if you can bear with me. Onbar talks to an xbsa compliant storage manager; ISM is such a storage manager with a limit of 4 connected…
Re: ISQL install problem
Hi Clive, I do have an unlimited shared memory connection, but am not sure of any others - is there a way that I can check this? Thanks Andy…
Informix produces error -1263 after system time is changed
Also I forgot to mention that the onconfig USEOSTIME is set to 1 (gets time from the host)…
shared memory and tempdb spaces
I'm pretty new to Informix and AIX and have a bit of a problem. The Informix log is showing the error "out of shared memory segments". From the other posts I've figured that we've hit the 2GB SHM limit and are probably going to move to the 64bit platform, but in the meantime I'…
suggestion reqd Perf tuning
this my onconfig file. I am using Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.31.UD6W4, HP-UX 11.11 , no of cpus- 2, REPORT SERVER (used for creating report purposes). Memory 1387036K(1260472k) real, 1847708K (1682688k), virtual 4262876k free pages, Just want see some imporovement in cpu p…
Re: infdump
couldn't we at least ask him for a tiny snippet of his online.log - maybe there's more wisdom in such file than you might imagine. Tip: set MSGPATH (in onconfig) to ... ... and don't forget to restart the engine ;-)…
Re: Another (probably dumb) question - IDS SQL results cache
Don't forget that your buffer cache pool would have been populated as well as any result cache. It could be that the performance boost is not so much from using result cache, but from the fact that the buffer was pre-loaded from the prior query. M.P. malc_p@btinternet.com wrot…
HELP : All logical logs are FULL
Hi All Thanks for your response. I solved the "All logical logs are FULL" . I did the following : ShutdownServer : onmode -ky Change Onconfig : LTAPEDEV in the onconfig to /DEV/NULL Restart Server : oninit After RECOVERY : onmode -ky Change Onconfig : LTAPEDEV change…
Re: Performance tuning suggestions needed
On 1 Oct 2006 20:10:51 -0700, calyanram@hotmail.com wrote: >this my onconfig file. > ...onconfig file snipped... Please give us a bit more information. Hardware specs (number of CPUs, memory, OS. etc.) would be good . . . JWC…
SHMADD and EXTSHMADD
Hi, What is the difference between SHMADD and EXTSHMADD? We know the meaning of the SHMADD onconfig parameter. Thanks, Khaled Bentebal ConsultiX Email: khaled.bentebal@consult-ix.fr…
Performance tuning suggestions needed
this my onconfig file. ROOTNAME prd2_sg_rootdbs # Root dbspace name ROOTPATH /dev/infdevprd2/prd2_sg_rootdbs.1 # Path for device containing root dbspace ROOTOFFSET 0 # Offset of root dbspace into device (Kbytes) …
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…
-1803 Connection does not exist.
Hi group, IHAC that is getting the following error message in their application server logs periodically from two different application servers on two different machines: -1803 Connection does not exist. The application servers work but this is causing some problems w…
Backup Very Slow
have Informix IDS 7.3 on an Rp4440 server with UNIX 11.0 I am using DLT Tape drives and 80gig tapes to do my back up on a 98gig database. My problem is that a level 0 backup takes 24hrs to finish. Using ontape . I need to reduce the time.My database has 405 users at peak and an…
Shared Memory
HI,I hava a problem. /home/informix/etc>onstat - Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.30.UC4 -- On-Line -- Up 103 days 05:37:36 -- 269068 Kbytes How does it is calculate for "269068 Kbytes" ? tks…
DBSPACETEMP
Hello All, Just a quick question for you to ponder. Is it possible to include random dbscpaces in the DBSPACETEMP parameter with the onconfig file to prevent space problems in the temp dbspace when creating indexes etc. on very large tables?…
RE: Contiguous shared memory segment allocation failed at 0xd0000000
SHMBASE is different in your config from standard - why? How much shared memory is allocated to this instance (onstat -g seg) ? How many locks do you need for this process (16:10:23 dynamically allocated 100000 locks) ? OR you could lock the table. You need to configure LOCK…
Contiguous shared memory segment allocation failed at 0xd0000000
I was doing a mass update, delete ( big transaction) and found the info in online log, 16:10:21 Maximum server connections 21 16:10:23 Requested shared memory segment size rounded from 8604KB to 8608KB 16:10:23 Contiguous shared memory segment allocation failed at 0xd0000000.…
Contiguous shared memory segment allocation failed
I was doing a mass update, delete ( big transaction) and found the info in online log, 16:10:21 Maximum server connections 21 16:10:23 Requested shared memory segment size rounded from 8604KB to 8608KB 16:10:23 Contiguous shared memory segment allocation failed at 0xd0000000. Al…
shared memory not initialized for INFORMIXSERVER
Greetings all- I'm looking for a nudge in the right direction for an issue I'm having. I'm running IDS 7.31.UD3 on W2k Server SP4. localhost name is cognos INFORMIXSERVER=data_archive I am working at the console of just the server. (not connecting via network) I am getting an …
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…
RE: online log on build HDR and after
The other workaround is: 0) SET LOCK MODE TO WAIT; <- To let the session wait until index transfer finishes 1) Create table A 2) Create index on table A 3) Lock table A 4) Unlock table A 5) insert data into table A -Alexey -----Original Mes…
coppereye anyone ? .... and onchecks
We are running into the time crunch issue. We have huge tables that need index rebuilds, and can't find the time easily to do them. I understand Coppereye can build indexes very rapidly, and can build them online without locking the table. I remember seeing a chat with labs abou…
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…
onstat shared memory error
I am running INFORMIX IDS9.40 on Slackware 10.1 and everything works fine except that informix cannot run onstat due to the shared memory: permission denied error. The database chunks reside on a smart array disk system, so I did a raw /dev/raw/raw1 /dev/cciss/c0d0p3 so I woul…
Re: ONCONFIG and AIX
Hi, I would enable KAIO, too. Apart from KAIO the B-Tree Scanner usually benefits from some configuration: >From my experience increasing threshold (default: 500) reduces I/O significantly, enabling range scans (rangesize=500), too. BTSCANNER num=1,prio=low,threshold=50…
Update statistics and shared memory
We are not exactly sure what our problem is, but any help would be greatly appreciated. We are running IDS 7.31.UD3-1 on AIX 4.3.3. We have been experiencing a problem for a number of years, but it had not been one that has caused us any major problems untill recently. Here is t…
RE: ONCONFIG and AIX
> -----Original Message----- > From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:informix-list- > bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of tomcaml@yahoo.com > Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 12:57 PM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: ONCONFIG and AIX > > Hello All, > > I am looking for feed…
ONCONFIG and AIX
Hello All, I am looking for feedback, comments, etc. We are currently on IDS 10.FC4 on HP-UX 11 - migrating to IDS 10.FC5 on AIX on an LPAR partition on the i595 I have gotten this message in the log while performing some loads/alter tables/indexes, etc in development phase.…
Informix 5.10
henryg wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone tell me whether Informix 5.10 will benefit (or be able to use) > multiple CPU's. > I can't seem to find a Multiprocessor parameter for tbconfig. Informix OnLine (OL 4.xx, & 5.xx) is single threaded. The only parallel processing it is capable o…
Parametro TXTIMEOUT
Hola, quisiera saber si alguno de ustedes me puede informar que quiere decir el parametro del onconfig TXTIMEOUT 0x12c, a cuantos segundos se refiere. Gracias de antemano. Salu2...…
checkpoint problem
I am runnind IDS 7.31 on HPUX 11 and my check points a taking too long. What do I need to change. 12:03:10 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 21 seconds. 12:09:48 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 34 seconds. 12:16:27 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 36 seconds. 12:23:0…
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: shared memory segment size
The resident portion of shared memory depends on # of BUFFERS + # of LOCKS + LOGBUFF + PHYSBUFF + some SHM headers for more details - http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/idshelp/v10/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.admin.doc/admin276.htm Regards, Nilesh Friday, May 05, 2006 10:31…
shared memory segment size
Why has my shared memory segment this size? This is the output from onstat -g seg Segment Summary: id key addr size ovhd class blkused blkfree 36 1384138753 a000000 1613758464 266640 R 393773 211 37 1384138754 6a…
Re: Table Editor for Multiplatforms
Enhancements in Version 4.3 ..... also supports the Informix Dynamic Server 9.x. http://www.ibm.com/software/data/db2imstools/db2tools/db2te/…
Can't INSERT blob into specific blob space using JDBC
I tried an example with 3.00.JC3 and it works fine without having a default SBSPACENAME in the onconfig file. VG.…
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…
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!…
Shared Memory challenge on AIX 5.1
One of my sites has 1 Gbyte of RAM. I have configured them to use 512Mbytes of Virtual Shared Memory and about 256 Mbytes of Resident Share Memory. RESIDENT is set to 0. During normal processing everything is OK with those settings. Occasionally the size of the virtual shared m…
Re: Validating the 'SBSPACENAME' sblobspace
"Is a command-line call significantly different from file system access?" Well for SQL yes. In sysmaster.sysconfig there is a cf_effective column. This is the value in use by the database server NOW, this does not have to match the ONCONFIG value. You can change the onconfig …
FW: Informix versus Oracle Spatial
Dirk Moolman wrote: > I am not an Oracle supporter, but because of this, it is very important > for me to check these facts for accuracy. How bad will it be if we > accuse Oracle of something, and find that it is not true. > > The pdf document mentions the following on page 8, r…
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.…
v 9 stopping
search for a dir called informix (assume you installed it there) in there you should have a subdir called etc in there you should find a file called onconfig.<informixserver> search for MSGPATH which has the name of your logfile Superboer.…
Re: IDS 7.30 do not start - NT
Your server only has 512M of memory. Check you onconfig parms and reduce the number of buffers, SHMVIRTSIZE, locks etc to reduce the amount of share memory requested, then start your server. Good luck, Brian >Hello, > >i have a problem with the informix database. It is on WIN …
Shared Memory not Initialized for INFORMIXSERVER on Informix IDS 7.31
For more informatio in my Log file appears: 09:23:21 (3) failure, system out of semaphores 09:23:21 Dynamically allocated new message shared memory segment (size 352KB) 09:23:21 Requested shared memory segment size rounded from 344KB to 352KB 09:23:21 Requested shared memory seg…
unable to attach to shared memory
Hi All, Tech Specs: IDS 7.31.FD7 O/S - Solaris 5.8 Generic_117350-26 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire oncheck and onmonitor are giving errors: shmat: [22]: operating system error Unable to attach to shared memory. onstat -g seg gives Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.31.FD7 …
Re: Slow inserts
Colin Dawson wrote: <SNIP> > If Informix ever had an online index rebuild ability as 'Orrible' has this > is an area where it would be extremely useful Informix, specifically IDS 10.00 does indeed have online index builds! <Original issue SNIPPED> Art S. Kagel…
Shared Memory Permission Denied
Hi, when i execute onstat with informix user send this message: onstat: = Shared memory: permission denied. or when i go into onmonitor and sel. an option send the message: Unable to attach to shared memory. Permission denied Informix IDS 7.31.UD3 Unix, Solaris 5.6 thanks in a…
Redirected restore failure
>From the backup and restore manual renaming chunks duing a restore..key considerations... "During a cold restore, ontape performs the following validations to rename chunks: 3. If renaming the primary root or mirror root chunk, it updates the ONCONFIG file parameters ROOTPATH…
Update Statistics & dbspace not clearing
Let me get this straight... Your programmer says that the table(s) and indexes are growing without limit because the space from deleted rows is not reused for new data within the tables? And he says that if he changes the app to run update statistics periodically it will release …
hyperthreading and onconfig parameters
We are upgrading our database servers to HP ProLiant DL380 G4 two-way systems. This platform supports enabling or disabling "hyperthreading". (See, for example, http://sysadminforum.com/t36970.html.) With hyperthreading enabled, the OS (Solaris 9, x86) sees 2 logical processors …
New IDS Forum on IBM Developerworks website
This forum provides a place for Informix Dynamic Server developers and users to share their questions, thoughts, and ideas with others. http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/dw_forum.jsp?forum=548&cat=19…
RE: recording ONCONFIG changes
Tripwire or AIDE would do the trick too. -----Original Message----- From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Leffler Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 2:16 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: recording ONCONFIG changes mw…
Re: recording ONCONFIG changes
mweallans@panacea.co.uk wrote: > Scanning the old messages I came across a "suspicion" from Neil Truby > that IDS 9.2 was't recording all changes to ONCONFIG in the message > log. > I've recently spent many days trying to find why a problem had recurred > and eventually I discove…
recording ONCONFIG changes
Scanning the old messages I came across a "suspicion" from Neil Truby that IDS 9.2 was't recording all changes to ONCONFIG in the message log. I've recently spent many days trying to find why a problem had recurred and eventually I discovered that it was because a previous change…
Re: ONCONFIG - comments
Juan Pablo wrote: My comments below: > Hi: > Let me begin by saying thanks to all of the frequent posters to this group. > I wanted to offer my config for comments. > thanks > ============================================================ > Hola: > Muchas gracias por el tiem…
Latch waits
I'm seeing quite a highish level of latch waits (lchwaits) - whats the best way to reduce this? Increase the shared memory?…
Re: ONCONFIG - comments
"Juan Pablo" <in4mixperu@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:1120173312.07d6de6c2486de67e3cad47cd40e6341@teranews... > > Hi: > Let me begin by saying thanks to all of the frequent posters to this > group. > I wanted to offer my config for comments. > thanks > ====================…
Re: ONCONFIG - comments
Juan Pablo said: > > Hi: > Let me begin by saying thanks to all of the frequent posters to this > group. > I wanted to offer my config for comments. > thanks > ============================================================ > Hola: > Muchas gracias por el tiempo y su ayuda. Est…
Re: ONCONFIG - comments
Juan Pablo said: > > Hi: > Let me begin by saying thanks to all of the frequent posters to this > group. > I wanted to offer my config for comments. > thanks > ============================================================ > Hola: > Muchas gracias por el tiempo y su ayuda. Estoy de…
ONCONFIG - comments
Hi: Let me begin by saying thanks to all of the frequent posters to this group. I wanted to offer my config for comments. thanks ============================================================ Hola: Muchas gracias por el tiempo y su ayuda. Estoy dejando mi archivo ONCONFIG para pode…
ONCONFIG - comments
Hi: Let me begin by saying thanks to all of the frequent posters to this group. I wanted to offer my config for comments. thanks ============================================================ Hola: Muchas gracias por el tiempo y su ayuda. Estoy dejando mi archivo ONCONFIG para…
Re: IDS 10 Express Edition
Note 10.00.xC3 = Enterprise Version 10.00.xC3E = Express Edition http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ids9help/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.relnotes.doc/uc3E/idse_win_release_notes_10.0.html Then click on "IBM Informix Dynamic Server Express Edition" in the right pane:…
Re: IDS Next Version - features wanted.
Table and index online reorg/rebuild. (I know IDS 10 will allow for new index build online.) Relocate a table or index ONLINE with alter fragment on [table|index] ONLINE. Truncate table. Table level / column level masks for onaudit that works in combination with the user masks…
Invitation!!!
With all this money you are going to earn me, I'm going to buy you a spell checker as you clearly can't afford one. Also, a dictionary, but this won't be used to check spelling, I shall pound it up your arse, as a reminder not to post tosh postings. Thankyou. Hogge wrote: > He…
setup Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC1E1 to linux error
I setup Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC1E1 to linux execcute oninit -ivy is failed the online.log is write /// 16:31:32 Dynamically allocated new virtual shared memory segment (size 8192KB) 16:31:32 Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC1E1 Software Serial Number AA…
ONCONFIG comments
Hi: Let me begin by saying thanks to all of the frequent posters to this group. I wanted to offer my config for comments. thanks ============================================================ Hola: Muchas gracias por el tiempo y su ayuda. Estoy dejando mi archivo ONCONFIG para pod…
ONCONFIG comments
Hi: Let me begin by saying thanks to all of the frequent posters to this group. I wanted to offer my config for comments. thanks ============================================================ Hola: Muchas gracias por el tiempo y su ayuda. Estoy dejando mi archivo ONCONFIG par…
RE: New installation
Yes I agree with Brian, you put something in the onconfig that required 161MB but you have defined the root dbs size 60MB that is not enought to cover all the requests. Check the PHYSFILE, LOGFILES LOGSIZE in the ONCONFIG file. If you need more help give us the full ONCONFIG. b…
Help with ONCONFIG needed
Having a problem with a client connection to an informix database. The server has two databases, db1 and db2. Each database has a separate ONCONFIG file which lists the different db names in them. ONCONFIG_db1 includes db1,but not db2 in the DBSERVERNAME/DBSERVERALIAS …
Informix Dynamic Server information Centre
Great new utility just posted under IDS 10 on the docs site has uses for other products and versions than just IDS 10 so take a look even if you are not using 10 yet!! http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ids9help/index.jsp…
The onconfig FILLFACTOR
My day for asking questions ... but that is how one gains knowledge :) The lead DBA for the company for which I am now working for as a consultant wants to establish an initial FILLFACTOR of 100 for those indices that represent a serial column. Since none of the tables having a…
Cannot find message file. Check INFORMIXDIR and DBLANG.
im trying to run the oninit -i in the command prompt when the message appear... we installed... IBM Informix Dynamic Server 9.40 IBM INFORMIX-4GL Rapid Development System Version 7.32.UC2 IBM INFORMIX-4GL Version 7.32.UC2 set up sqlhosts, services, onconfig, path... but when tr…
Informix UC7.41 - slow
Hi, My Informix installation seems to be running quite slowly. It's running on a Sun Blade 1000 with 2 x 750Mhz processors and 2Gb RAM. Here is the onconfig file - anything obviously wrong or tuneable? ************************************************************************** …
Re: shared memory weirdness
Ian Spare wrote: >We're running a very old version of HPUX and Informix, the system will >shortly be retired so we're limping along for a short time. > >We're running out of shared memory though and it's killing the database, >to an extent it's something we're going to have live…
shared memory weirdness
We're running a very old version of HPUX and Informix, the system will shortly be retired so we're limping along for a short time. We're running out of shared memory though and it's killing the database, to an extent it's something we're going to have live with but something puz…
Re: Performance Issues
I think you could benefit from lowering your checkpoint interval, but to be sure, how long do they take right now? During the checkpoint all transaction processing is suspended, maybe that is what your users perceive as low performance? -- Juan de Villeros On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 09…
Re: replication between 9.2 and 9.4--help me!!
mpruet@comcast.net (mpruet) wrote in message news:<40676184.0410121229.52ed3d6c@posting.google.com>... > Do you have a case number? If so - what is it? > > > What is the OS of the central root server? > > What was the bug that tech support said was the cause of the problem? > We…
Re: long-awaited 9.40uc5 is there
Here is a list of some important bugs (the entire list is too big to publish here) bug_number 166033 description VERY LARGE INDEX BUILDS ON THE PRIMARY CAUSE EXTREMELY LONG CHECKPOINTS ON THE SECONDARY. SQL WHICH USES LOGGING ON THE PRIMARY ALSO AFFECTED product_code …
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…
Re: Error Initialize Informix Dynamic Server
Art S. Kagel wrote: > On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 05:05:41 -0400, madiego wrote: >>I install Informix Dynamic Server and when I initialize 'oninit -iv' : >> >>This action will initialize Informix Dynamic Server; any existing Informix >>Dynamic Server databases will NOT be accessible - Do…
Error Initialize Informix Dynamic Server
Hello, I install Informix Dynamic Server and when I initialize 'oninit -iv' : This action will initialize Informix Dynamic Server; any existing Informix Dynamic Server databases will NOT be accessible - Do you wish to continue (y/n)? y Checking group membership to determine ser…
RE: parametros ONCONFIG
Los parametros del ONCONFIG que tienes que setear para inicializar tu instancia como MINIMO son: ROOTPATH Path completo del chunk creado para almacenar el root Dbspace ROOTSIZE Tama�o del chunk en Kbytes (Ejemplo: 2048000 # 2Gb) DBSERVERNAME Nombre l�gico del server.(Eje…
parametros ONCONFIG
Me podrian ayudar con los parametros del ONCONFIG. No las tengo muy clara cada parametro, por lo que la misma me trae problemas para el momento que quiero OPTIMIZAR el servidor de bases de datos. Si alguien me puede ayudar a conocer mejor cada uno de estos parametros .... les agr…
-211 file not open
During a very long process in SQL (almost 36 hours ...) inserting rows (about 150000) in two database tables Informix returns this error: -211 Cannot read system catalog (systables) ISAM error -101: file is not open. and then any new access on database (with this process) fails…
DB Tuning...
With the light of query tuning, lately, I've decided to submit my server's config for some review ... to see if someone would be willing to help me tune it a bit. Without further ado -- here it is. It's a dual AMD Athlon XP 2400 (I believe) running Linux Software RAID w/ Mirror…
Fatal error in shared memory
Trying to set-up Informix 7.31 UC4 on Solaris 2.6 everytime I try and start informix I get oninit: Fatal error in shared memory initialization I have set SHMBASE to 0x1000000 and also tried 0x1000000 as suggested in the documentation - both fail. The system has 512Mb of RAM and…
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…
cannot initialize rootdbs
Have you updated /etc/system "NOOR ANSARI...." wrote: > > ***************************** > informix 7.3 UD1 > running on Solaris 8 with 70 Mhz CPU and > 168 MB RAM > ****************************** > > Problem : Fatal error in shared memory creation > error 156 > command : > $ oni…
onconfig for analisis
Hi, I post the onconfig file for its analisis: Operating System: SuSE 9.0 RAM: 1024 Mb Informix version: 9.40 UC2 All chunks are raw devices. Thanks. #************************************************************************** # # INFORMIX SOFTWARE, INC. # # Title: onconfig…
oninit processes are huge
onstat -g Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.31.UC4 -- On-Line -- Up 5 days 05:41:50 -- 501440 Kbytes Segment Summary: id key addr size ovhd class blkused blkfree 1701 1381386241 2000000 464322560 7956 R 56673 7 406 1381386243…
onload consuming shared memory
Hi all, we're just about to start a full database restore to recover from a failed onload session. I just want to try and determine what might have gone wrong to see if how we can do it better next time. We want to onload a table with blob data of about 300000 rows and 11GB of …
RE: thank you IBM
Madison, I have suspicion, that this particular fragment of the UDB documentation came from DB2 for z/OS (mainframe) documentation. DB2 on mainfraims support shared-disk (like Oracle Parallel Server) architecture. With shred-disk approach, it is necessary to synchronize modifie…
ONCONFIG for 9.40 offered for comment
9.40 FC3W2 on HP-UX 11.11 The server has 6 cpus and 6G of RAM. 3 other, small, IDS 9.40 instances run on the server, and one small 7.31. kaio is enabled. Just put 9.40 live, and it's running about 5-10% more slowly on some key processes. This reflects what happened in testing. …
Re: OnConfig parameters tuning
Laverio wrote: > Hi guys, I'm trying to speed up an IDS 9.30 on a Sun 7.5 system w/ > 2Gb ram and 4 processors that seems very slow on a large sequential > write (I suppose that the problem resides in the dbspaces on > filesystem...). Any suggestion? The following is my standard…
RE: thank you IBM
Madison, Thank You very much for the clarification. My understanding was that 'choosing the page as a victim' is the same as 'choosing the page for modification', and that 'page is forced to disk' means that the page MUST be flushed before the further modification Even if the …
RE: thank you IBM
See below... "Alexey Sonkin" <alexeis@grandvirtual.com> wrote in message news:caj34l$lpd$1@news.xmission.com... > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Madison Pruet [mailto:mpruet@comcast.net] > > > > What is described by the 'victim' in the Admin Guide is the same as a…
Re: OnConfig parameters tuning
"Laverio" <laverioNO@z-1000.net> wrote in message news:cac7sg$e8v$1@newsreader.mailgate.org... > Hi guys, I'm trying to speed up an IDS 9.30 on a Sun 7.5 system w/ 2Gb ram > and 4 processors that seems very slow on a large sequential write (I suppose > that the problem resides in…
Re: OnConfig parameters tuning
Laverio wrote: > Hi guys, I'm trying to speed up an IDS 9.30 on a Sun 7.5 system w/ 2Gb ram > and 4 processors that seems very slow on a large sequential write (I suppose > that the problem resides in the dbspaces on filesystem...). Any suggestion? > > My onconfig it's set as fol…
OnConfig parameters tuning
Hi guys, I'm trying to speed up an IDS 9.30 on a Sun 7.5 system w/ 2Gb ram and 4 processors that seems very slow on a large sequential write (I suppose that the problem resides in the dbspaces on filesystem...). Any suggestion? My onconfig it's set as follow: # System Configura…
shared memory not initiaized for INFORMIXSERVER
I'm removing the indexes and recreating them in my informix database and all the onstat commands were working fine. Now all of a sudden I am seeing this error when performing any onstat commands: shared memory no initialized for INFORMIXSERVER 'informixservername' Why is this?…
Unable to initiliaze informix instance
Hi, Sorry I am sending the mail again because I found that the attachment reached to you will not be in proper format. I have installed informix 7.31 on MP-RAS 3.02 (NCR S 1600 machine, with 2GB RAM) . But I am not initialize my informix instance using "oninit -i" command if i …
Howto for Onconfig
Hi everyone, This is probably a question which has been asked often. But I could not find proper documentation on how to calculate and set correct parameters for Onconfig. I understand this is a complex question. But are there any articles on this ? Maybe they covered the topic …
Dose anybody have the dbtop script in the Troubleshooting informix course?
Dears, I study the Troubleshooting ibm informix dynamic server course. At the module 4 exercise need the dbtop script. Dose anybody has this dbtop script and post for me? Thanks. Philip Yeh.…
Re: Incremental Archive performance issue......
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 23:13:29 GMT, Richard Kofler <richard.kofler@chello.at> wrote: >Neil Truby wrote: >> >> "Five Cats" wrote: >> > Neil Truby writes: >> > >"Five Cats" wrote: >> > >> Alexey Sonkin writes: >> > >> > >> > > >> > >> >For L1 archive, the backup speed is mostly l…
Work group edition - Unlimited edition??
Taken from IBM web site:- =========================================================================== The following Informix Dynamic Server Workgroup Unlimited editions have been added to the IBM Data Management Gold Transaction Processing Bundle for SMB Unlimited: IBM Informix…
Re: [Informix Dynamic Server (IDS):] Digest 2671
For a course in the US, check out: http://www-306.ibm.com/services/learning/ites.wss?pageType=course_description&co urseCode=L1760&country=us&language=en (IBM course L1760). There is probably a similar course offered in Europe somewhere. Hope this helps. Kevin Doiron Toronto,…
Re: Intermittent Performance Problem - What does oninit do?
Here's the info you requested Art. If you need more, please let me know. Thanks for the help. Joel onconfig file #************************************************************************** # # INFORMIX SOFTWARE, INC. # # Title: onconfig.std # D…
Shared memory and SELECT-Performance
Hi all, IDS 9.4 UC3 / RH 9 I have a performance-question: The quality of our application depends strongly on the execution-time of one single SQL-Select-Statement. Of course, the parameters in it's Where-Clause are different from time to time and from user to user, but we can u…
Requests...
The following is the list of requests that I've received. I tried to categorize them by broad functionality. Feel free to respond .... 1) Table management a. Truncate Table b. Defered allocation of initial extent c. Alter owner d. Extend check…
SHARED MEMORY LIMIT
Is posible to use with informix of 32 bits more than 2GB of shared memory in a Linux Machine? The base address in onconfig is: SHMBASE 0x41000000 Thanks in advance,…
RE: Whatcha' wanta have?????
See below > From: Art S. Kagel [mailto:kagel@erols.com] > > Keep moving us towards a no-down-time server as much as possible. Such > as (some mentioned by others): > > - Online index build - without locking the table - A dirty read is > used to build the index then logical log r…
RE: Whatcha' wanta have?????
See below > From: Art S. Kagel [mailto:kagel@erols.com] > > Keep moving us towards a no-down-time server as much as possible. Such > as (some mentioned by others): > > - Online index build - without locking the table - A dirty read is > used to build the index then logical log r…
RE: Whatcha' wanta have?????
See below > From: Art S. Kagel [mailto:kagel@erols.com] > > Keep moving us towards a no-down-time server as much as possible. > Such as (some mentioned by others): > > - Online index build - without locking the table - A dirty read is > used to build the index then logical log r…
Re: Whatcha' wanta have?????
Keep moving us towards a no-down-time server as much as possible. Such as (some mentioned by others): - Online index build - without locking the table - A dirty read is used to build the index then logical log records are replayed to clean up keys that were added, rolled back, o…
Re: Transaction support in informix dynamic server(IDS)
chaithra wrote: > i wanted to know, if in IDS we can get to know the status of a > transaction at any given time. or once any transaction commits or > rollsback we should be able to know the status. > is it possible through c++ interface provided by the IDS. I'm not quite s…
Transaction support in informix dynamic server(IDS)
hi all, i wanted to know, if in IDS we can get to know the status of a transaction at any given time. or once any transaction commits or rollsback we should be able to know the status. is it possible through c++ interface provided by the IDS. thanx in advace chaithra…
configure computer for using informix
what shell I do to make my computer work with informix. I have installed winXP on my computer, informix 4 i informix dynamic server? THANKS…
Shared memory problem
Platform : Win2000 / IDS 9.30.TC3 I get the following error when increasing the buffers. shmat [ENOMEM] [12]: out of available data space, check system MAXMEM shmdt: errno 22 mt_shm_init : can't create virtual segment. The server has 2 Gig of physical memory of which approx. 9…
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…
Perfomance Tuning
I have IDS 7.31 running on HP-UX 11.0 and 4 Gig of memory. I have a 40 Gig database with on average 260 users and at peak about 315 users. I want to tune my database , as it has shown signs of slowing down recently. Checkpoints are taking on average 10 seconds,under normal proce…
Shared memory problem???
Environment: RH Linux 7.1 Kernel 2.4.10-ac11 Informix IDS 9.21.UC4 Dual x86 Processor 1.5 GB Memory 8 temp dbspaces, 256MB each 100 full time users during the day My Informix shared memory parameters are as follows: LOCKS 2000 # Maximum number of locks BUFFERS 180000 # Maximum …
Changing database local / dbexport tapesize
Hi, Did you change TAPESIZE on your onconfig file? That could be the restriction! REGARDS…
TRUNCATE TABLE command in 9.3?
I am aware that Informix Dynamic Server previously has not included the TRUNCATE TABLE command. Does anyone know if 9.3 or 9.4 include this command?…
Java and JDBC vs 4gl
> Using standalone Java client will always be slower. What you can do is use application server like JBoss (or IBM WebSphere or > BEA WebLogic or Jakarta Tomcat or ...) to establish database connection pool. This way, you'll always have connection ready to > use. Then write stand…
Linux fgl_getenv
Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.30.UC3 on Linux. Do I have to do something before I can use the fgl_getenv call in a stored procedure? When I try I get 674: Routine (fgl_getenv) can not be resolved.…
Re: Shared memory. Error.
Hi. Make sure your permission of onstat and oninit like this. % ls -l $INFORMIXDIR/bin/onstat -rwxr-sr-x 1 informix informix % ls -l $INFORMIXDIR/bin/oninit -rwsr-sr-- 1 root informix I think oninit has wrong permisson. Regards. -- Tsutomu Ogiwara from Tokyo Japan. I…
RE: Shared memory. Error.
It looks like You are on Linux You can try to verify whether 'raw10' points to the correct block device: 'raw -q dev/raw/raw10' ------------------------------------------ Alexey Sonkin Senior Database Administrator > -----Original Message----- > From: inf [mailto:inf@terr.es]…
Re: Shared memory. Error.
Hi, Paul As you can see, the file /dev/raw/raw10 has the correct permissions: 0 crw-rw---- 1 informix informix 162, 10 ago 31 2002 raw10 but the error appears... Any suggestion ? "inf" <inf@terr.es> escribi� en el mensaje news:bor348$fgf$1@nsnmpen2-gest.nuria.telefonica…
Re: max number of connections
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:42:00 -0500, Micha wrote: <SNIP>> We use both ontlitcp for remote connections and onipcshm for local > connections. NETTYPE is not defined in onconfig. How can nettype limit the > number of shared memory connections? AFAICT, the remote connections actually…
RE: Shared memory. Error.
You only can tell, that a link to a file has correct permissions, not a file itself Please, make 'ls -l /dev/raw/raw10' ------------------------------------------ Alexey Sonkin Senior Database Administrator > -----Original Message----- > From: inf [mailto:inf@terr.es] > Sent: …
Shared memory. Error.
Hi, - When starting informix the following error appears: 12:52:14 Informix Dynamic Server 2000 Initialized -- Shared Memory Initialized. 12:52:14 Physical Recovery Started. 12:52:14 The chunk '/home/informix/dbs/tempdbs' must have owner-ID "informix" a nd group-ID "root". 1…
Re: onconfig and sqlhosts
Hi Thomas. Administrator's Guide for Informix Dynamic Server, Version 7.3 http://www-3.ibm.com/software/data/informix/pubs/library/ids_73.html HTH. -- Tsutomu Ogiwara from Tokyo Japan. ICQ#:168106592 >From: Thomas Ronayne <trona@ameritech.net> >Reply-To: Thomas Ronayne <trona…
onconfig and sqlhosts
I've managed to blow away my installed Informix system and cannot for the life of me find the notes I had about onconfig and sqlhosts. It's version 7.30.UC5 running on Slackware 9.0 -- can someone point me at the right document in Answers for the appropriate settings? Thanks.…
Re: Problems with Shared Memory
U r limited to 50 connections in all ... if you are using SHM connections ... are the users spawning more than one connection to the engine when they run the program ... I would suggest increasing the number of connections to say 100 to see if it works or not ... onstat -g ses a…
RE: Problems with Shared Memory
Yes, -25588. $ finderr -25588 -25588 The appl process cannot connect to the database server server-name. But it's not true because some users are connected to. No ISAM-Error associated. TIA. -----Mensaje original----- De: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-li…
RE: Problems with Shared Memory
4 -----Mensaje original----- De: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org]En nombre de Obnoxio The Clown Enviado el: viernes 12 de septiembre de 2003 14:46 Para: informix-list@iiug.org Asunto: Re: Problems with Shared Memory Diego Morales wrote: > > >…
Problems with Shared Memory
I have problems with Shared Memory. Only 5 or 6 users can login at the same time at database using shared memory INFORMIXSERVER. All run ok changing them to tcp... but they are running a 4gl app and I want them throw INFORMIXSERVER shm. I check the sqlhosts and NETTYPE and I t…
Re: Onconfig file parameters
Sometimes even the ontape parameters (TAPEDEV, LTAPEDEV, TAPESIZE, etc.) are not dynamic. What you can do is change a parameter in the onconfig file and then dump out the reserve page that holds the onconfig parameters with: oncheck -pP 1 1 Hope this suggestion helps. Brice Av…
not initializing shared memory
mt_shm_remove: WARNING: may not have removed all/correct segments what do you do about that?…
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…
Shared memory: permission denied.
Hi all, Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.FC1 I receice the error Shared memory: permission denied when I run onstat - and this is the output of ipcs Message Queues: T ID KEY MODE OWNER GROUP q 0 0x4190051c --rw------- root system Sh…
RE: HPL Unloading error [1467]
Here's my onconfig file SHMVIRTSIZE 147456 SHMADD 8192 SHMTOTAL 0…
Re: Shared Memory Problems, Informix IDS 7.31 install on SCO UnixWare 7.1.1
Thanks for all of your help. I lowered the amount of initialy reqquested shared memory and things seem to be working fine. Thanks, John M…
virtual shared memory segment
hello, this is our output from onstat -g seg : Segment Summary: id key addr size ovhd class blkused blkfree 7680 1381386241 80000000 592850944 245712 R* 144714 25 (shared) 1381386241 a3563000 201334784 6760 V 49154 0 46597 13…
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…
onconfig file
The system administrator at my current site thought he would be very clever and he linked the onconfig files to different directories using ln -s. We have now discovered that these links are being lost when we use onmonitor and replaced by a local file, but not when we use vi. I…
SuSE SLES 8: raw devices broken after kernel update?
Hi, I got a similar intialization problem with IDS 9.40.UC1 on SCO linux 4.0 (based on United Linux 1.0, so very near to SuSE linux 8). With a default initialization (no raw devices, default low values for buffers, lock, shmvirtsize...), the oninit -iv command stops at informix…
Re. Shared Memory Parameters
Hi Everyone, Which file needs to be changed on AIX 5.1(9.3 UC3) for memory parameters, is it "/etc/system" but it does not exist on unix box. SHMTOTAL is set to 0 in ONCONFIG, but the total memeory does not exceed 2GB although we have 4GB of ram, could not find any info. Any id…
EMERGENCY: Logs attached
EMERGENCY: I have a down system. I am trying to to a cold restore using command "ontape -r". The command keeps failing after prompting to back up the logs. The only error message which appears on the screen is : "oninit: Fatal error in shared memory creation". Additional error me…
linux kernel 2.4 + informix
HI ? I must setting Linux and IIF200 on DELL PowerEdge 6400 server . that server has 6Gbyes main memory, 120Gbyes hard disk. first i have install Redhat 6.2 official. and i have upgraded kernel 2.4 from kernel 2.2.16 . ( because for awaring 6Gbyes main memory at Linux) l…
Shared Memory
Hi all, I need help on how to identify what process and users trying to allocate more shared memory segments (onstat -g seg) ? and how to releases this memory segment (virtual portion) ? TQ…
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…
SHMAT error
Oncheck allocates a shared memory segment for sorting memory. If your kernel's shared memory parameters are too small you can get that error. Art S. Kagel "Sinha, Niraj" wrote: > > Folks, > I get following error while running oncheck comand. > I knwo that it is UNIXsystem erro…
IDS 7.31.Txx Windows NT Alaramprogram
i have change the path in the onconfig-file and restart the server but the alarmprogram will not be start if a event (logs) a generated! thomas…
Informix v Oracle
Hi Is there a function in Informix Dynamic Server 2000 that is like Oracles CREATE SEQUENCE that uses NEXTVAL/CURVAL and %ROWCOUNT, ect? Thanks for all contributions Jordan jbruce@asaglobalserv.com…
Checkpoint Blockage
Greetings, I am searching for suggestions on the best approach to find the resource(s) that are preventing a checkpoint from completing. Occasionally, our 7.31.FC7 instance will be blocked indefinitely during a checkpoint request. The most recent incident did have a thread /ses…
Retrieving product name
Hi all, Is their a system table somewhere on an informix server that stores the product name. For example 'Select owner from systables where tabname = � VERSION� will return the version of the server. I would like to be able to tell if a server is a Universal server or a Dynamic …
Re: ONCONFIG History
put it under source code control? SCCS and RCS are free tools and dont take too much resources. HTH Sujit testNews <mtabunda@amellar.com> on 10/04/2000 09:05:30 PM Please respond to testNews <mtabunda@amellar.com> To: informix-list@iiug.org cc: Subject: ONCONFIG History I…
RE: ONCONFIG History
Look at your online message log onstat -c |grep MSG -----Original Message----- From: testNews [mailto:mtabunda@amellar.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 9:06 PM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: ONCONFIG History Is there a way to know/track the changes made to ONCONFIG …
RE: ONCONFIG History
Changes are recorded in the message log at startup. Wayne E. Martin Informix Database Administrator Kmart Corp. -----Original Message----- From: testNews [mailto:mtabunda@amellar.com] Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 12:06 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: ONCONFIG History…
ONCONFIG History
Is there a way to know/track the changes made to ONCONFIG files?…
Problem locking table
Replication maybe causing this. I know when building indexes. If we try to build several indexes in a row, the second one will fail. We have to set lock mode to wait. The lock is freed after the index is replicated. This would probably happen on a create table as well. Can…
IDS 7.3x on Win2000?
Does Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.3x runs on Windows 2000 (Professional)? Thanks for your help. Guy Dillen…
Re:server configuration
I've a database with about 1 mln data. New data are loaded once a year (during summer). Every load is about 600 000 new data. Very often are made reports on about 600 000 records. Sometimes we must update with for example new column with defaults. These updates take a long time. …
TBLSPACE_STATS
Hi, what is the meaning of TBLSPACE_STATS variable in onconfig file? thank in advance.…
pooled connections and prepared statements
stormchaser wrote: > Thanks for your informative reply. I am disappointed that user > statement re-use is required, since the database should be smart enough > to do that for me. Do you know if preparing *each time* might result in > better cache performance? In other words, doe…
Re: informix dba routines
From: Tom Wolfe <Tom.Wolfe@fugen.com> > >First, check to ensure that UPDATE STATISTICS is run as often as is >possible. This is your first great performance improver. (Look in the "As often as possible"? "As often as you have a large change in table content", surely? >Performan…
Query Optimization: Wrong execution plan?
Xavi Tarafa Mercader wrote: > Any suggestion about how to improve the query performance? Set OPTCOMPIND parameter ( in onconfig file ) to 0. > Xavi. Leonid.…
Re: How to search for a string in a TEXT field
Hi, :-( SELECT name, REPLACE(text,"ZNOTREADY","found") AS your_output FROM tablewithtextfield; Blobs are not allowed in this expression. I use Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.31.UC2A…
Informix 7.31 and Windows2000
Somebody has installed it on Windows 2000 ? The Instance Manager can't initialize shared memory.. Thanks in advance. -=SIMO=-…
WSTATS and Performance
Hi, does anybody know the performance degradation by setting WSTATS 1 in the onconfig file? Is this 1%, 5% or 10% ??? TIA Ruediger Papke…
SCO IPC
OK - I've RTFMed, but still in need of help. I am running SCO Unix 5.0.{245}, with Informix IDS.2000 Dynamic Server. Trying to initialize shared memory does not appear to work. The system utility "ipcs" does not report any shared memory being allocated, and the oninit -i seems…
Re: Initializing rhead structure...FAILED
From: "price" <price@rs520.ddsc.com.tw> > >when I initial my informix server >I get a error Initializing rhead structure...FAILED >what ' s wrong??? >Thank for your help!! This really is just a guess, but try dropping your SERVERNUM to 127 or below. Failing that, my next gues…
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…
Posting from the Informix-list
Hello, I have a problem with queries using all of the temp dbspace. We just moved to IDS 7.31 FC4 from IDS 7.30 UC3. The same queries run fine under the previous version of Dynamic Server but now a single query uses all the temp dbspace and then abends with -229. Ihave 2GB as…
RE: Informix spawning threads every 5 seconds
Are you running the IECC Server Agent? I observed similar activity when I started it on our AIX platform. If so, you may want to install and run Informix's Server Administrator (ISA) product instead. Rick Bernstein -----Original Message----- From: David Williams To: informix-li…
Informix spawning threads every 5 seconds
In article <8id17o$8o$1@oak.fernuni-hagen.de>, Johnson <johnson@kudzu.fernuni-hagen.de> writes >We have Informix 7.23 UC3 running under AIX 4.2.1. Aio has been activated. >Using vmstat, I have observed that the number of runnable kernel threads jumps >from 0-1 to 19-21 every 5 se…
Re: Slowness
From: Boscia <rwboscia@worldnet.att.net> > >Well I wasn't sure who to answer to I've answered all your questions below. >Hope this is not way too long and boring Thanks for all the help and >future help. So anyhow, here goes.... Great job. :-) >In answer to obnoxio@hotmail.c…
Version 7.31.UC5 memory question
Howdy, I am installing my 7.31.UC5 upgrade and have a question about the memory. I see a message about rounding the memory up, which is find with me, but does anyone know which onconfig parameter this is using? OS: SCO 5.0.4 on 4/way Intel box online.log: (partial) 10:27:58 R…
Re: Slowness
Well I wasn't sure who to answer to I've answered all your questions below. Hope this is not way too long and boring Thanks for all the help and future help. So anyhow, here goes.... In answer to obnoxio@hotmail.com's questions.... ******* OUTPUT from onstat -c *************…
Fatal error in shared memory creation
When I type oninit, it said: Fatal error in shared memory creation Why ? Thanks…
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…
RE: Informix Dynamic Server V7.3 on SCO Open Server V5.04 installation problem
Hi Murray, Furthermore, I have may some parameters change in the kernel for the semaphore setting and upgrade the system memory to 64M Ram, but still the same error. Attached is the IDS configuration file and the message error files: -------------------------------------------…
Shared Memory segment (5 of them)
Hi gurus, Recently, I noticed 5 extra shared memory segments created in my Informix 7.30 UC7. What could have caused this and how to remove/prevent these segments from created again? AFAIK, more shared memory segments means less efficient shared memory usage. Am I right? Thank …
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…
Connection goes down -1803
Hi everyone, Host: Aix 4.3.2 (bi-processor, 500MB Ram,...) DbServer: IDS 7.31 UC4 (on raw devices) Sqlhosts: onsoctcp Onconfig: see bottom Our program (ESQL/C) continuosly runs to monitor machinery activity. It connects & runs fine, but after a cou…
Re: Need for Speed...
Hi Gurus, First of all thanks for the response. > > Here are the stats.... > > >------------------------------------------------------------- >ROWS SIZE >TABLE1 - 629649 >TABLE2 - 487323 >TABLE3 - 631455 > >------------------------------------------------------------- >onst…
Re: Need for Speed...
Hi Gurus, First of all thanks for the response. Here are the stats.... ------------------------------------------------------------- ROWS SIZE TABLE1 - 629649 TABLE2 - 487323 TABLE3 - 631455 ------------------------------------------------------------- onstat -c Inform…
Re: oninit -v
From: "Stefansson" <bs@rhi.hi.is> > >oninit -v >returns an error: >Allocating and attaching to shared memory...FAILED >onint: Fatal error in shared memory creation > >What can be causing this and what could be able to solve this problem ? It could be something holding on to shar…
oninit -v
oninit -v returns an error: Allocating and attaching to shared memory...FAILED onint: Fatal error in shared memory creation What can be causing this and what could be able to solve this problem ? Thanks. B. Stefansson…
Problems with RedHat Linux 6.0 and IDS 7.30
Hi, I'm novice in Linux and after installing the IDS 7.30 on a RedHat 6.0 machine when the IDS try to create the shared memory i got a list with messgaes like this: dupfd: fd 1025 max 1024 finally i got the message: error on shared memory creation. Where I can find information …
dynamic server with Informix distant database
We have this problem : - write of a html page (this pages will contain many many fields). - Receiving of the page data on a http server based on a M1 machine. - Using of 4gl/informix programs based on the M2 machine with the pages data - 4GL programs will set up a � result � tabl…
HELP! Informix Dynamic Server 7.3
I'm trying to install a new IDS on Linux (RedHat 6.1) on a cooked file. Everything looks right, but upon oninit, I receive the following: oninit: Cannot open chunk '/u1/naf_chunk'. errno = 2 oninit: Fatal error in shared memory initialization Log reflects: 09:11:07 Informi…
UDR Support in Informix Dynamic Server.
Can someone tell me what exact version of Informix Dynamic Server that first supported C User Defined Routines. I've tried searching for this on their website with no joy. (their advanced search doesnt work at all !) Rgds, Peter. Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before y…
Re: Memory problems? Please help.
>>What is the connection type? shm or soc ? >> >What are these? See NETTYPE in your onconfig file. HTH Michael…
OFFICE Connect V.1
Informix Office Connect, Version 1.0, is compatible with the following Informix servers: Informix Dynamic Server, Version 7.3 or later Informix Dynamic Server with Universal Data Option, Version 9.14 Informix Dynamic Server 2000, Version 9.2 or later e Informix-SE 7.23 n�o func…
Sorting Errors
I recently re loaded the databases on one of my servers (SCO, IDS 7.30 UC2). Users are now getting the following error: Unable to write sort rows Informix error -567 The temp dbsapces and rootdbs have not been touched in any form, nor has the $ONCONFIG file. $ONCONFIG: …
Will not initialize new instance.
IDS 7.30.UC2X2 Dell Poweredge 4200 w/ 196meg SCO Openserver 3.2.5.0.5 When initializing a new instance oninit -iv stops at: Initializing rhead structure... onstat - from another session show: *** WARNING: Informix Dynamic Server is no longer running. *** *** WARNING: Informix …
System catalogue
Hello! Can anybody explain me how I can create trigger on "informix".systables? (The server I deal with is Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.3.) Max…
Compatability between Informix products
Hi, I need some version compatability information for the following products. Hardware Platform: Hewlett Packard OS Platform: HP-UX version 10.20 Informix s/w: Informix Universal Server 9.20 Informix Dynamic Server 7.31 Informix Gateway to DRDA vers…
IDS 7.30 CPU Usage
Back in November we upgraded both our OS and Informix engine. From AIX 3.2.5 to AIX 4.3.2 and SE 5.03 UC1 to IDS 7.30 UC5. We are still using the same system (RISC 6000 59H 768 meg. memory) and programs (4gl programs recompiled with I4GL 7.20 UD6). We were told to expect a hug…
network down error
We have a new installation of 7.24.UC5X7 on an IBM S80 and when we get around 100 users connected new users cannot connect to the database. Onmonitor gives the error "Network Down". When you check shared memory with onstat it says that shared memory is not initialized but when yo…
RE: Index build speedup -- part2
In article <83duli$ke0$1@news.xmission.com>, "Scott Huppert" <shupp@cfer.com> wrote: > > I had to rebuild a large index on a 36M row table last night. I set the > PSORT_NPROCS to 10 (2 * NUM_CPUVPS) and PDQPRIORITY to 10. The index build > ran for an hour and a half, then it …
use of ISM and ONBar
This article should guide you in setting up ISM with onbar. In order to get IECC to work, you might need to install and start the serveragent on the Unixware box. --Anil Tech Info Article Title: INFORMIX STORAGE MANAGER (ISM) 7.3 INSTALL/CONFIGURATION The following is an e…
RE: accessing shared memory
Hi John, You need to change permissions to shared mode (s) for necessary executables in $INFORMIXDIR/bin directory. thanks Ravi Yarlagadda Informix Certified Professional -----Original Message----- From: John Horton [mailto:john.horton@cognito.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, December 14…
accessing shared memory
Hi How do I set up a user so that they can access shared memory (ie. they can use the onstat - command) . Currently only root can access shared memory (not even informix can access shared memory or use the onstat - command) I have tried stting up the group so that informix is a …
shared memory problems
Hi I am having some difficulty getting some programs to work on a linux box (they are being ported from an HP9000) The problem I am (currently) having is that one of the processes requires shared memory to be allocated. The program requests two loads of shared memory , the first …
Buffer Waits Ratio
Friends, Informix Version: 7.30 FC7 OS: HPUX 11.0 Hardware: HP9000 Series 800 V2500 Disk Array: EMC 3700 Application: OLTP (strictly database server) Misc. 16 CPU, 8GB mem, 2 instances I've been making use of the bufwait ratio formula [ratio = (bufwaits / (pagreads + bufwrits))…
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…
Buffer Partitioning
In article <3834552B.2BB0A08F@bloomberg.net>, Art S. Kagel <kagel@bloomberg.net> writes >Hi Erik, > You know what would solve this 'wide index' problem and ALL of the >similar problems which are going to crop up in the near future? My >original suggestion, to you in fact, …
Informix Dynamic Server on IBM SSA
Can any one share their experiences, recommendations, pit-falls, comments about creating an IDS db engineOLTP environment on an IBM SSA Raid system? We have 2 SSA adapters and have 4 loops with 4 drives each. The IBM techs for the Smoothstart services will be coming next Tuesday…
Re: Dumb question
Sorry all, I think I found the answer to my own dumb question in the documentation (last place I would have thought to look). "The database server uses the ONCONFIG file during initialization" >Is it safe to edit my onconfig file when the database is live ? > >Or should I stop…
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…
shared memory
Beim Start mit oninit erscheint folgende Fehlermeldung 21:00:20 shmget: [EEXIST][17]: key 52564801: shared memory already exists 21:00:20 mt_shm_init: can't create resident segment Was fehlt noch bei der Einstellung ? Wer kann mir helfen…
Re: installing Informix dynamic server
From: "Joerg_Mauz@abs.org" <Joerg_Mauz@abs.org> > Is there something wrong the the gateway, Hotmail or are there just loads of idiots posting today. (Apart from me, that is! :-) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hot…
installing Informix dynamic server
hi all, can anybody give me an URL where to find a good description of how to setup and install an Informix Dynamic Server with using RedHat Linux ??? I've searched a whole day but founf nothing useful.. :( thx ind advance joerg…
Help! Cant start database service
Hello All I had my informix dynamic server (7.3) running fine till a few days back. Now the dynamic server service and the informix messenger service won't start automatically and if I try to start the server, it does start but I'm unable to connect to it. If I try to start the…
Assert Failed
Dino Gomez <gomezd@ms.com> wrote in message news:37F53231.345EABDE@ms.com... > We've been on "Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.30.UC7" since june. > One of our > production servers just got an "Assert Failed" error. We are currently > working with our Thech Rep.but they are too…
Re: Single CPU Performance Problems?
Could you please supply some info about the disk config of this machine. The internal drive on the Ultra5 is not the 'most performant' in the world! Where is the data coming from that you are trying to load into the database? For an 'opinion' on general Sun performance issues, tr…
Re: Single CPU Performance Problems?
Thank you all for the responses. We have made some changes to the onconfig and had an improvement to around 18 rows a second. But - after about 1 hour it just seems to hang. I will post below the new onconfig, the onstat output when it is running good and then the onconfig out…
Single CPU Performance Problems?
Hi, I need some help tuning a single processor Sun Microsystems Ultra 5 system with 256 meg of memory running IDS 7.3 and Solaris 7. We have an application written in Java that frequently loads large amounts of data into the database. We can not seem to get reliably good perf…
Lock Table Overflow - onconfig
We get an error in the Informix log-file. Lock table overflow. What do we have to change in the onconfig-file ? Kind Regards, Franky Thiel franky.thiel@Infohos.be…
Re: Informix use of CPU's question
Art - I think you nailed it! I will admit, I never understood that the NETTYPE setting would translate into CPU distribution in that manner. I've included the entire onconfig file (below) but the NETTYPE parameters were: NETTYPE soctcp,3,80,CPU # Configure poll thread(…
Setting up shared memory connection
Did you add the DBSERVERALIASES line in the onconfig file? -- James Edmiston Quest Information Systems, Inc. www.questisinc.com…
RE: Fatal error in shared memory creation
Check the release notes for SHMBASE parameter value. Try to start Informix with SHMBASE value 0 -----Original Message----- From: Jerome BARRET [SMTP:jejgphy@hotmail.com] Sent: 06 ������, 1999 06:43 � To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Fatal error in shared memory creation…
Fatal error in shared memory creation
When I want to startup for the first time, in the oninit program, this message appears : "Fatal error in shared memory creation". In the part shared memory parameter, the parameter are the default parameters. Thank you for your help…
Informix Online Dynamic Server DBA Book
Hello Could anyone recommend a good Informix Online Dynamic Server book. I did a search in Amazon.com but I could not decide on which one to choose. Thanks in advance. Ajay…
Re: ontape in HP-UX
You need verify the sintax of onconfig file for this entries: TAPEDEV /dev/rmt/0m # Tape device path TAPEBLK 512 # Tape block size (Kbytes) TAPESIZE 7800000 # Maximum amount of data to put on tape (Kbytes) (This is my onconfig fil…
pricing for informix info?
Hello, Was wondering what other people out there paid for informix dynamic server 7.3... Basically, i wanted to know if they had a web server licensing schem like microsoft. or ibm's db2 (per cpu license). and would the licenses be transferable if I decided to move from le…
RedHat 6.0 and IDS 7.30UC7
I installed IDS on a dual processor Pentium Pro system running RedHat 6.0 with the 2.2.5-22smp kernel. I was able to "oninit -i" and the database initialized and came on-line. However, I am unable to do anything with it. If I log in as user "informix" and do a "isql - -" and i…
Dynamically allocated new shared memory segment ???!!!
Dear ALL : Our system appear the following messages in seconds : 09:11:02 dynamically allocated new shared memory segment (size 8388608) 09:11:30 dynamically allocated new shared memory segment (size 8388608) 09:11:50 dynamically allocated new shared memory segment (size 8…
Shared memory limits in 64-bit environment
Is there any practical shared memory limits in HP/UX 11 (N-serie) with 64-bit Informix ?. -Jukka…
Loading into Shared Memory...
Hi, Can i explicitly ask Informix to load a table into Shared-Memory? And then later on sync the copy of table on disk \\ with the one in shared memory? Any suggetions welcome Thanks Anand Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Share what you know. Learn what you don't.…
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.…
listener-thread: err
Hello again theese are the information requested in connection with this problem, if anybody can help it will be greately appreciated. here is the relevant part of our services file: ionline 1529/tcp # Online Dynamic Server for OB DW ionline_obi_prod 1533/tcp …
64bit IDS for Solaris 7/SPARC ?
Is there a 64bit Informix Dynamic Server 7.3x for Solaris 7/SPARC available? tia, joerg…
Posting from the Informix-list
what is the last version of Informix Dynamic Server for HP-UX 10.20, where can i find more Information about this.…
Latest versions for various Informix products ???
Which are the latest versions for Informix Dynamic Server Informix Dynamic Server, Workgroup Edition Informix 4GL Informix SQL on Solaris 7/SPARC ? Where can I find such informations on Informix's website ? tia, joerg…
cdr command line utility in informix 7.24
Hi, Is there a cdr command line utility in informix dynamic server 7.24? I tried to locate it, but the executable is nowhere to find. Thanks, Lu…
Problem Installing Informix Dynamic Server
I downloaded a Try&Buy version of Informix Dynamic Server V7.30 for NT. I installed it on an NT Server. The install seemed to go ok, but after a short time of investigating IECC, I got a blue screen. After this when I started the Command Center, a task seemed to start, but it w…
Re: ISM on Informix 7.3UC8
Benny, ism installation is pretty straightforward and extremely simple if you go by the article attached below....I suggest you remove the following two directories /nsr and $INFORMIXDIR/ism and start from scratch with an ism_startup -init...;-)...if you yet have problems post th…
SCO: shared memory problem...
Hello, I am having a problem that, hopefully, one of you have had before, or have heard about before. There box is a PII system with 128MB RAM running SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 with the latest patches. The error oninit -v gives: oninit: Fatal error in shared memory creation The er…
error while creating online instance
While creating a new online instance using "oninit -ivy", this is the following error message that we get. Creating infos file "/usr/informix/etc/.infos.kil_serv3" ... succeeded Writing to infos file ... succeeded oninit: Fatal error in shared memory creation We have created in…
Usage of INFORMIXSHMBASE
It replaces, or supplants, the SHMBASE ONCONFIG file parameter's value. It is the preferred attached address for shared memory if you are using a shared memory connection. Art S. Kagel Wu wrote: > > What's the usage of this environment variable -> INFORMIXSHMBASE ? > > thanx…
Problems starting IDS 7.30.TC7 on Windows NT SP4.
When i try to start informix dynamic Server, the following message appears "Only informix user can start informix dynamic server" this message appears when i logged on with the informix's user. When i try to start the service on the control panel , error 2140 appears.…
Re: Informix 7.3 UC5 on RH Linux 5.2
Additional INFO: Please see attached "sqlhosts" and ONCONFIG files...…
Re: running out of Unix Shared memory segments
You may want to check how many shared memory segments are allocated to Informix and other programs; use the unix command "ipcs". If you normally have many Informix segments you could change the onconfig file parameters for SHMADD and the initial shared memory parameter to increa…
Informix 7.31
David McNight wrote: > > I am running 7.30 UC5 on a NCR MP-RAS 3.02 system. What does 7.31 > provide that 7.30 does not have? Does 7.31 support 4GL 7.20? Thanks > for any input :-)) IDS R7.31 feature enhancements include: o Non-logging tables. o Rename index command. o RETAI…
Re: Out of buffer?
On Wed, 26 May 1999, Mark D. Stock wrote: > Xavier wrote: > > > > On Wed, 26 May 1999, Mark D. Stock wrote: > > > > > Xavier wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I got the following error message from an Informix IDS 7.30: > > > > > > > > <<Informix Dynamic Server>…
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…
Shared Memory on Linux
How do I configure Redhat Linux to get rid of the Shared Memory Error when I try to start Informix (IDS 7.3)? Thanks. Aris…
how to caculate resident shared memory size?
hi,all could you tell me how to caculate resident shared memory size? thank you.…
Re: Space for constraints.
Slight correction to the earlier answer - the formula listed is for attached indexes. If you put the indexes in their own dbspace, they are detached, and the formula changes to (sum of column sizes + 13) * rows * 1.25. The extra four bytes store the partition number of the tabl…
Re: onconfig parameters
> onstat -c shows you the contents of the ONCONFIG file, but then so does vi > $INFORMIXDIR/etc/$ONCONFIG. Perhaps I did not understand the question? Does onstat -c reflect changes made by onmode commands? I should try that and see...that, to me, would be the compelling reason …
Re: onconfig parameters
Thomas onstat -c shows you the contents of the ONCONFIG file, but then so does vi $INFORMIXDIR/etc/$ONCONFIG. Perhaps I did not understand the question? HTH Sujit "Thomas G. Smith" <tsmith@wdn.com> on 04/28/99 12:19:10 PM Please respond to "Thomas G. Smith" <tsmith@wdn.com> …
onconfig parameters
Is there a command to force the engine to show me what all the onconfig parameters (and other perhaps unknown parameters) have been set to?…
Linux VS NT4.0
Hi, Is it true that Informix Dynamic Server workgroup edition 7.30 is ported for Linux, and if it is so does anyone can tell me what to chose between Linux and NT4.0 for running Informix Dynamic Server workgroup edition 7.30. Also I'd like to know for which version of Linux, Inf…
RE: 7.31 is it the answer?
Nicole Guffey wrote: > > Anyone know when 7.31 for NT will be out, if it's not already? Also, > does anyone have the quick and dirty on what has been fixed/improved in > 7.31, or at least point me in a direction (other than informix sales) > where I can get GOOD technical info o…
Re: Create index very slow
>I'm running a create index statement and its been busy for the last 7 >hours. The table's got 55 million rows (spread across 3 locations by >expression). rtpm/top/... shows my one CPU (of six) at 100% >continuously, while the others are idle. I've got affinity and all that >jazz…
RE: PDQ
In article <7d5mro$55c$1@news.xmission.com>, "Yerli, Gursoy" <gursoy.yerli@tmssc.brooks.af.mil> wrote: > > Albert, > > PDQ has nothing to do with index creation. You can not optimize these > kind of tasks with PDQ resources. Performance degration during index > creation is a co…
Starting Informix Dynamic Server !
Hi Gurus, Just wondering is there any difference in starting the informix engine as root user versus as Informix user. ? The reason why I ask this question is , the IDS 7.23 UC6 on HP-UX 10.2 crashes due to a bug (declared as bug by Informix Technical support)when we start in…
Informix Dynamic Server Archive/Restore
Hello All: We have a large scale Informix DB resident on an HP 9000, K460, with AutoRaid Disk Subsystem (218gb). And we are running IDS 7.30. Currently, we are using the Informix ontape archive/restore utility to archive the DB and to perform continuous logical logging. We u…
Any one know this?
Hi folks: Is there a script that can check informix on-line dynamic server is up and running or not? If not it will e-mail a note to D.B.A. groups Thanks in advance Garry…
onconfig tuning
Hi all! I have posted to the web my collection of notes on onconfig parameters. It is not yet complete but pretty far along. http://home.earthlink.net/~mildness/bamph/informix.htm It has helped me over the years to have this list in my PDA. If you think it useful feel free…
Shared Memory
I have a question about the shared memory segments Informix adds dynamically in version 7.x. I use onmode -F to free the unused shared memory but this seems to only ever free up one segment regardless of how much is unused. Has anybody used this to free more than one segme…
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…
Informix 5.08.UC1
Dino Gomez wrote: > > We are currently mapping a database server upgrade to Informix OnLine > Server Version 7.3 from Informix OnLine Server Version 5.08.UC1. The > following is what I think we should do: > > 1. Upgrade to Informix 5.10 > 2. Upgrade to Informix 7.23 > 3 .Upgrade…
Upgrade Dynamic Server 7.13 - 7.24
I need to upgrade Informix Dynamic Server version 7.13 to version 7.24. Can anyone advise of any problems they may have had whilst doing this?…
Regarding calling an INFORMIX procedure from a UNIX shell script
I use dbaccess for this purpose. Syntax is "dbaccess <database> <text file with sql commands>. Just be sure your informix environment variables are set properly (INFORMIXSERVER, ONCONFIG).…
Informix error.
Does anyone know what this error is about: shmat: [EINVAL][22]: shared memory base address illegal Thanks, Fred Lee…
Informix Dynamic Server 7.31?
Is any information available regarding the release of IDS 7.31 for Unix? We have Sun E3000 and E4000 machines and are experiencing problems with both 7.30.UC3 and 7.30.UC5 and are curious about 7.31. Thanks. Carleen Avant Naval Safety Center Internet < cavant@safecen.navy.mil …
STRING FUNCTIONS
Are there functions for manipulating varchar type, like upper() or lower() in Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.2? Thanks in advance.…
Netscape Enterprise Connection for Informix Dynamic Server
Hi: Does anyone know the procedure for setting up a Netscape Enterprise Server to connect to an Informix Dynamic server on a remote machine? Michael…
oninit: shared library problem
I'm having problems when initialising the DB using oninit. Config: INFORMIX Dynamic Server Ver 7.23, on a UNISYS-UNIX SVR4. When Initializing, I get the error ...dynamic linker: oninit: symbol not found: gettimeofday The LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set to $INFORMIXDIR/bin and �INFORMIXDIR…
Initi DB
I'm having problems when initialising the DB. Config: INFORMIX Dynamic Server Ver 7.23, on a UNISYS-UNIX SVR4. When Initializing, I get the error ...dynamic linker: oninit: symbol not found: gettimeofday The LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set to $INFORMIXDIR/bin and �INFORMIXDIR/esql help wo…
Index on Informix Online 7.22 ?
I have installed a new Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.22UC3 on our server (HP-UX 10.20). I find it is much much slower than the Informix 7.12 Online DS server if I do not create index for a same program. Why and what is the difference between the two version of Dynamic serv…
Re: esqlvers statement.....results are different on 2 DB servers ???
Tim Jones wrote: > > I've installed Informix 7.30UC3 with the ClientSDK 2.01 software on 2 > servers. Let's call them Server A and B. > > Both A and B had a prior ESQL/C versions. > > After the install, logged in as informix userid on A and ran "esqlvers" > and got this : > I…
esqlvers statement.....results are different on 2 DB servers ???
I've installed Informix 7.30UC3 with the ClientSDK 2.01 software on 2 servers. Let's call them Server A and B. Both A and B had a prior ESQL/C versions. After the install, logged in as informix userid on A and ran "esqlvers" and got this : INFORMIX-ESQL Version 7.22.UC1 …
Re: Bitmap Index in Informix ?
I believe you meant to say XPO "8.21" vs "8.31". Art S. Kagel wrote in message <3647416A.5CBF@bloomberg.net>... >N Daniel Bonesana wrote: >> >> Are there bitmap index in Informix or any thing that performs like it ? >> >> We are bilding a data warehouse with Online 7.23 > >XPO …
Re: Bitmap Index in Informix ?
N Daniel Bonesana wrote: > > Are there bitmap index in Informix or any thing that performs like it ? > > We are bilding a data warehouse with Online 7.23 XPO (Extended Parallel Option) has bitmap indexes and several other goodies that make building DW apps a breeze including ca…
Re: Indexing speed
OK, here is my definitive answer to the fastest possible index builds: PSORT_NPROCS=40 #Yeah I know the manual says >10 is noop, try it PSORT_MAXALLOC=10240 #Undocumented but it makes a big difference PSORT_DBTEMP=/a:/b:/c #Set to AT LEAST 3 FILESYSTEMS w/about same fr…
Re: Indexing speed
What are you temp spaces like? I have found that more smaller temp spaces vs fewer larger ones improve index build performance. However, there is a tradeoff There are some Informix operations that can only use a single temp dbspace.(Unfortunately, I can't recall what they are …
Re: Indexing speed
A couple of suggestions. For one, try playing with different values for PSORT_NPROCS. A value of 2 or 3 usually works pretty well for us. Another, create the indexes in dbspaces other than the one containing the table, preferably on a separate physical disk. That should help…
Informix Dynamic Server Personal Edition
What development apps are known to work with IDS-PE for 95? Infrmx wants to sell me licenses for Dynamic 4gl, esql-c, ddvb for 150usd. Do these work and are there others? 150 sounds ok but the catch is is that the Open-Line Support is outrageous for this (3K usd for unlim. suppor…
Will informix 7.24.uc5 compatiable with solaris 7?
Hi there, I was wondering if Informix Dynamic Server 7.24.uc.5 will be compatiable with solaris 7 when it comes out? Thanks advance, Pat Militzer pmilitzer@ultracom.com…
Re: IECC Server Discovery Failed 2nd
Hi Dale, sorry for not reading your article correctly: Are both agents running admagent and osagent ? If so, when you run stopsa, do both stop? If not, kill them and run startsa again. Is your onconfig still up to date? The agents seem to take all information from onconfig ra…
Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.2.2
When I try to iniailize the shared memory I get an error "oninit: Critical error initializing shared memory" I checked the log and it says the base memory address is 0x80080000 and should be 0x80400000 when I change it it reverses. this is on a SCO open server 5. nay ideas.…
Re: Best database for web backend on Linux?
--------------03D05580B92998E958D76A5D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jurij, Thanks for the explanation. Let's see if I can put this in perspective. We have two users, both trying to access the same table and the same rows. User #1 ge…
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: Best database for web backend on Linux?
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_1792_01BDFC67.5B5FFBD0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Interesting. I've done lots of Sybase work, and found I could tune = Oracle to be faster than Sy…
Re: Best database for web backend on Linux?
--------------4415FB970461B0EE646B0FE7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Good question Thor. It is important to read those benchmarks very carefully. When Sybase and Oracle came to my job site to do a bake off, we noticed they were utiliz…
Updating databases
What must be done,eg onconfig, to get the fastest result on updating a database alter tables, inserts etc.…
Re: Planning an Informix Database disk layout
Wilson, David G wrote: > > Hi everyone.... > > Can anyone advise me if there have been any articles written, and ae > available on the web, about a disk layout strategy? We are in the > process for planning the disk layout of a 150Gb system with 300+ tables. > > 1. Do we put the …
Deployment Licenses of Informix Dynamic Server
I need a free Deployment Licenses of Informix Dynamic Server!…
Re: Informix Dynamic Server blocks
In article <3609EB18.2AB1B1CD@bull.net>, Helmut Leininger <Helmut.Leininger@bull.net> writes >Hi, > >Sporadically, the Informix server seems to block (every try to connect >or onstat times out and no reaction on onmode -ky). In the MSGPATH I >find the following message: > >09:03:…
ONCONFIG on UNIX
What kind of use if the parameter "SYSALARMPROGRAM" for. And which input parameters are used. Thanks for mailing to baumschlager@pfeiffer.co.at…
Informix Dynamic Server blocks
Hi, Sporadically, the Informix server seems to block (every try to connect or onstat times out and no reaction on onmode -ky). In the MSGPATH I find the following message: 09:03:42 mt.c, line 8362, thread 2139, proc id 17096, mt_notifyvp timed out. Informix server is 7.22.UC2…
Informix Dynamic Server blocks
Hi, Sporadically, the Informix server seems to block (every try to connect or onstat times out and no reaction on onmode -ky). In the MSGPATH I find the following message: 09:03:42 mt.c, line 8362, thread 2139, proc id 17096, mt_notifyvp timed out. Informix server is 7.22.UC2…
Shared Memory ??
--------------F10AFCC198D69640B04B5FAB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello! I just installed the Informix OnLine Workgroup Server 7.20 in Sun Sparc 5 with solaris 2.5.1, but when I try to run some utilities (e.g. onspaces, oninit) it…
sizes in onconfig
OWS 7.2 on SCO UNIX: Does anybody know why all sizes of dbspaces or logs, etc. are just half as big as they are in the onconfig file. If I check the size of a dbspace, for example, its file size is 2 GByte, but oncheck -pe says it's 1 GByte. Thanks in advance, Pascal…
Re: OnLine Dynamic Server 7.2 Vs INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3
On Tue, 28 Jul 1998 14:40:44 -0500, Ben Jazi <bjazi@fallschurch.esys.com> wrote: >What are the major differences between INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server >7.2 and INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3? Is it ORDBMS vs RDMBS? No, IDS 9.x is the ORDBMS. This autumn the 7.3 and 9.x code lin…
Re: OnLine Dynamic Server 7.2 Vs INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3
Ben Jazi wrote: > > What are the major differences between INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server > 7.2 and INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3? Is it ORDBMS vs RDMBS? > > Thanks, > Ben I don't know the differences in detail but you could check the following pages, where IDS 7.3 is described …
Re: no logging database - long transaction aborted
On Thu, 30 Jul 1998 16:05:31 -0400, Family Jurkovic <jurkovic@ican.net> wrote: >lblau@my-dejanews.com wrote: > >> I am trying to build an index on a very large table (> 1,000,000 records). >> The database is in "no logging" mode and the table is locked in exclusive >> mode. I am…
Re: no logging database - long transaction aborted
lblau@my-dejanews.com wrote: > I am trying to build an index on a very large table (> 1,000,000 records). > The database is in "no logging" mode and the table is locked in exclusive > mode. I am getting an error: 458: Long transaction aborted. > > Does anyone know what else coul…
OnLine Dynamic Server 7.2 Vs INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3
What are the major differences between INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server 7.2 and INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3? Is it ORDBMS vs RDMBS? Thanks, Ben…
Informix computer Base classes
Has any body used the Informix computer base training classes. I am wondering if any of the computer based training classes: "Informix Dynamic Server System Administration" or the "Managing and Optimizing Informix Dynamic Server Databases" is good. Thank You…
Re: Informix Online Dynamic Server 7 on Linux
Piet le Roux wrote: > > If anyone has succeeded to run Informix ODS 7 (SCO) on Linux help would > be appreciated. > I have installed iBCS and the shared libraries and the binaries work, > except that the engine cannot initialize shared memory: Error message > semctl: errno 22…
Informix Online Dynamic Server 7 on Linux
If anyone has succeeded to run Informix ODS 7 (SCO) on Linux help would be appreciated. I have installed iBCS and the shared libraries and the binaries work, except that the engine cannot initialize shared memory: Error message semctl: errno 22 create_vp: cannot allocat m…
Problems with Informix Dynamic Server for NT
Hi Has anyone tried downloading and running the dynamic server product for NT? I have it installed, but get the following error when I boot the system: AdmAgent.exe - Applicatioin error The instruction at "0x10087c69 referenced memory at "0x00000000". The memory could not be r…
Re: Doubt regarding L.Log size
Sadagopan, Sathish wrote: > > Hi, > LOGSIZE in the onconfig is shown as 1000 Kb, whereas size in onstat -l shows > > a figure of 5000 , Page size is 2K. > How can that be ? It looks like someone used onparams to add logfiles with sizes different from that stored in the onconfig.…
Doubt regarding L.Log size
Hi, LOGSIZE in the onconfig is shown as 1000 Kb, whereas size in onstat -l shows a figure of 5000 , Page size is 2K. How can that be ? TIA Sathish…
RE: What are the differences between Informix Dynamic Server
It is confusing! =20 Here's what I know: Prior to renaming: 7.2x =3D ODS 8.0 =3D XPS 9.1 =3D IUS After renaming: 7.2x =3D IDS 8.0 =3D IDS/AD/XP 9.1 =3D IDS/UDO=20 After the 7.3 release: 7.3 =3D IDS 9.1 =3D IDS/UDO After the 8.2 release: 8.0 =3D…
RE: What are the differences between Informix Dynamic Server and
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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…
Re: dbservername/dbserveraliases/nettype
"Scott Kolaya" <skolay1@nycap.rr.com> offerred: +>BTW be careful to not use the same port for shared memory and tcp in +>the sqlhosts on the server > +>Art S. Kagel +We've been using the same port for shared memory and tcp for a year now in +production. Yes, shared memory connec…
Re: Informix backup and temporary space
Helmut Leininger <Helmut.Leininger@bull.net> offerred: +I've had the same problem at a customer site. I found out, that about 200 MB +of free space was needed during the backup (it's freed afterwards). +I do not know, why taking a backup needs so much space and I did not find a +…
Re: Slow index builds
Also sprach newc0571@sable.ox.ac.uk (Stephen Walmsley) : :1.31 million of the 6.69 million values in bar1 are unique :2.48 " " " " " " bar2 " " If the key values are distributed evenly (i.e you have ~5 rows for every key in bar1, ~3 for bar2) then …
shared memory
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Re: Slow index builds
Also sprach Stephen Walmsley <newc0571@sable.ox.ac.uk> : :Something strange happens when I try to build two indices on table foo :using Online 4.10.UD2 on SCO 3.2.4.2. The first, on column bar1 of type :CHAR(8) takes around 15 minutes. The second, on column bar2 of type :CHAR(10)…
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: deleting 300,000 records with 50000 locks
You have multiple locks per insert because (probably) you have indexes on the table. Every insert (or update or delete) must lock the row in the table and the appropriate entries in each index, until commit time. Alternatives include: 1. Disable logging on the database, load…
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…
Re: Informix 7.22 Online under AIX 4.1 ERRORS !!!!!
>> shmat: [EINVAL][22]:shared memory base adress illegal >> using 0xd0000000, needs 0xffffffff >> >From onconfig : >SHMBASE 0x30000000 c Shared memory base address PMFJI, but isn't this the important one? The machine specific release notes detail the correct share…
Re: DB 7.21 (HP-UX 10.20) hangs while backup
if RESIDENT is set to 1 the shared memory used by informix will not be swapped to disk by UNIX if UNIX needs more memory. It's generally not a good idea to set to 1 if you're having problems or you're limited on memory. Scott Kolaya…
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…
Re: 10 GB from 5.02 to 7.20 in "real time" ??
Michal Hajek wrote: > > Hi, > > we use OnLine 5.02 on HP-UX 10.20 (K260) and planning upgrade > to 7.xx (DSA, which version ?). > Our database has now 10 GB (and will have cca 12 GB next year, > when we will do the upgrade). > We are a hospital, so we really can not stop work for…
My weird problems
Thanks to all who replied. The Logical Log problem was with memory parameters in the onconfig file. DBSPACETEMP problem still exists however Regards Lee Robertson…
online workgroup server 7.22 on NT Server CLI probs
I'm running online workgroup server 7.22 on NT server 4 with service pack 3. I cant however get ilogin to work. I get the 406 error. Do I need to do anthing with shared memory before this will work? How does shared memory work with NT? email to ag@roninsrv.demon.co.uk Thanks, …
Onconfig Question
I sent this a few weeks ago and didn't get any responses. I am rephrasing the heading and trying again. We are not currently having any performance problems, but I am interested in hearing some opinions from the experts out here. One of our systems is as follows: Sun SPARCcen…
How can I read the header tape of the archive created by ontape?
I have Informix Dynamic Server 7.23.UC1. I would like know the tape header structure created by ontape.…
-123 ISAM error : no shared memory ... TOP URGENT !!!!!
How to solve Shared Memory can't attach error in AIX 3.X ... Error Message was appeared after run dbaccess ... -529 Cannot attach to shared memory -123 ISAM error : no shared memory. Please send me a solution : brianip@magician.com.hk…
can't attach shared memory , TOP URGENT !!!
How to solve Shared Memory can't attach error in AIX 3.X ... Error Message was appeared after run dbaccess ... -529 Cannot attach to shared memory -123 ISAM error : no shared memory.…
Re: ODS and Star-Query
Christoph Kuenzle schrieb: > > We are planning to build a data warehouse with Informix Online Dynamic > Server 7.24 using extended parallel option and advanced decision > support > option. > > Three Questions: > 1. Does Informix ODS 7.2x support star queries? There is a white …
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…
Re: HPL and index creation times
In article <6a5803$qk0@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, Martyn Hodgson <martyn.hodgson@eaglestar.co.uk> writes >Hi, > >I=92ve been doing some test loads using the HPL into a fragmented and an = >unfragmented table. Basically, the test platform is as follows: HP K410 = >dual cpu machine, …
Re: ANY IDEA ON USING INDEX FOR ORDER BY
Hello Gokhan I am reading between the lines a bit, because the information you have = posted is a bit sketchy, so bear with me if I am wrong. Are you saying that this table has an indexes as follows. scenario 1. Index1 Duplicates allowed (fileid) Index2 (fileid,refno) Are you…
What's the difference between ODS 7.22 and 7.23?
What's the difference between Informix Online Dynamic Server version 7.22 and version 7.23? Thanks in advance. Bill Westphal Rodney District Council mis@rodney.govt.nz…
ODBC unix and dynamic SQL
Hi, Can someone give me some help on using informix odbc drivers (unix) with dynamic SQL on Informix-online dynamic server (7.22 unix) when I use "SQLprepare" I receive the message "too many or too few host variables given" but I think all is Ok R. Gueye…
Re: onstat -g ses
dalink@west.com wrote: > > I have been building an index on an integer field for the 36 hrs on a > table with 63 million row which is fragmented round robin on 28 > fragments. The index is fragmented by expression on 28 dbspaces by > expression mod(acct_num,28) = 0.... > > I am t…
Re: memory
Thuc Nguyen wrote: > > Hi > > I am running Online 7.23 on HP 10.20 > > We want to find out why we allocate alot of memory per user and never > release it. > > Is that memory leak? Actually you are probably not allocating any memory "per user". If your default connection, or the…
Re: Freeing Logical Log with Status U
What's LOGFILES set to in your onconfig file? Try forcing a checkpoint? Jon.…
Re: Informix Online 5.0 and Solaris 2.5
>"Shared memory not initailzed" does (necessarily) imply a problem with >the UNIX server's shared memory; This first line should have read ".... does not (necessarily imply a problem ...." Also, I've checked my release files and your shared memory settings seem fine. Neil Trub…
Re: Informix 5 to 7
Byron Washington wrote: > > Hi, > > I need to convert my Informix 5 system to Informix 7. I was told > I need to use Informix's relay module to accomplish this & there is > a very big performance hit when this conversion is done. Does anyone > have any expertise in this area? …
Re: detached index vs attached index
At 08:25 PM 9/10/97 -0400, you wrote: } }Hi! } }Is there any easy way to detach indexes in OnLine 5.x and upwards? The ability to build detached indeces arrived with table partitioning, in 7.x. I do not believe you can in 5.x, since index pages are stored with data pages, and me…
Re: memory
In article <5v76b7$pg0@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, Thuc Nguyen <thucn@email.utcourts.gov> writes >I looked at the log file of Online 7.23 running on HP 10.20 > >What does "dynamically allocated new shared memory segment" mean? >and how can I resolve that problem? > > >14:57:23 Chec…
memory
I looked at the log file of Online 7.23 running on HP 10.20 What does "dynamically allocated new shared memory segment" mean? and how can I resolve that problem? 14:57:23 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 2 seconds. 14:57:43 dynamically allocated new shared memory segment …
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: Performance problems
Doron Rippel wrote: > > Hi, > > We have the same database system on multiple machines at hundreds of > customer sites. It is based on Online 5.01. > > At several sites, a severe performance problem has developed. At some > sites, this slowed down SELECTs. At some - UPDATEs involv…
Performance problems
Hi, We have the same database system on multiple machines at hundreds of customer sites. It is based on Online 5.01. At several sites, a severe performance problem has developed. At some sites, this slowed down SELECTs. At some - UPDATEs involving a specific trigger became very…
Re: INDEXING large tables?
Joe - are you seeing your single temp dbspace fill about to the 2GB point (out of 20) and then the index build barf right after ( I forget the onstat command offhand)? That would be pretty convincing. If it is true that the engine can't handle multi chunk temp spaces but can ha…
Re: Error 179 - any ideas??
Neil Truby wrote: > > I set up a test instance on a server, with a copy of our production > database, for testing. I kept BUFFERS very small - 500 I think. The > server application failed with 179 errors (no more sort space). This > suggests a problem with DBSPACETEMP. It's c…
Java and Informix Dynamic Server 7.x
Hi friends! I am trying to do server-side java cgi programming to connect to I-ODS 7.x. Do you know how I can do that? I heard it is possible to use the jdbc-odbc bridge( intersolve or openlink's), but the performance is too slow, because of jdbc to odbc and odbc to jdbc convert…
Re: Resizing Logical Logs
Also, there is a MAXLOGS parameter in the onconfig file that should be increased. Madison Pruet…
Re: Shared Memory allocation error
<SNIP> > I am having a problem with online ver 7.10.UD1 running on AIX 4.1.4.0. > When I run a query on a view that joins many tables online begins > allocating additional shared memory until it hits an illegal address. <SNIP> > SHMVIRTSIZE 8000 # initial virtual…
Shared Memory allocation error
All: I am having a problem with online ver 7.10.UD1 running on AIX 4.1.4.0. When I run a query on a view that joins many tables online begins allocating additional shared memory until it hits an illegal address. At this time the query hangs but the engine stays up. If anyone c…
Re: Are BLOBs logged?
Bill Lubanovic wrote: > > I have a naive and simple question: are the full contents of BLOBs > logged? I've heard contradictory assertions on this, and I want to find > out why our transaction logs are filling up so fast. Bill, I have read the answers by Jay A. and Bill E. and…
Re: On-Line 7 Performance
In article <331606A3.1EAB@iap.net.au>, Andrew Mercer <amercer@iap.net.au> wrote: >We too are having performance problems similar to other postings in this >newsgroup. I suppose it is the nature of newsgroups that only problems >are posted, but are there any sites that are happ…
Shared memory
My director told me that Digital dialed into our Unix box (AT&T running Informix 5.05) and saw that every sqlturbo is getting 5000 pages of memory. Does anyone know if this set in the tbconfig file? I can't find any information about this. If I can reduce this, it may benefit …
Re: Primary Key Constraint Question
Bappy wrote: > >Sub: Primary key constraint > >I need a little clarification on the subject of 'Primary Key >Constraint'. I have never worked with this before. > >SYSTEM INFO: > Unix, Informix Online Server 7.1 and 7.2 > > In ORACLE, as I was told, when you build a …
Primary Key Constraint Question
Sub: Primary key constraint I need a little clarification on the subject of 'Primary Key Constraint'. I have never worked with this before. SYSTEM INFO: Unix, Informix Online Server 7.1 and 7.2 In ORACLE, as I was told, when you build a "Primary Key constaint",…
Re: Physical Log Boundedness...
In article <E54x54.24r@nonexistent.com>, Jacob Salomon <jake@apparel.net> writes >Greg wrote: >> >>To clarify: by bounded, I mean being limited by the ability to write to >>the disk fast enough to not block the CPU waiting for the I/O to >>complete. >> >>> >>>Anybody got some goo…
Re: Physical Log Boundedness...
Greg wrote: > >To clarify: by bounded, I mean being limited by the ability to write to >the disk fast enough to not block the CPU waiting for the I/O to >complete. > >> >>Anybody got some good tricks to relieve Physical log boundedness when >>doing massive Insert/Update/Deletes??…
Shared Virtual Memory Question/Engine Shutdown
Our project site recently received a binary executable from a sister site which updated approximately 5000 stored procedures. The executable brought down the engine due to shared memory limitations. When looking at the data (onconfig, memory on machine, etc. as stated below), t…
Re: ONCONFIG
Kerry Davids wrote: > > Jacob Salomon <jake@apparel.net> wrote: > > >Patrick, > > >onconfig.std is meant as a template to copy from. If I had my druthers, > >I would have it shipped with 666 permissions so that even user Informix > >could not (or at least is less likly to) inadv…
Re: ONCONFIG
>From: satriguy@aol.com (SaTriGuy) >Date: 21 Jan 1997 06:01:04 GMT >X-Informix-List-Id: <news.32813> > >If I had my way, I'd remove it from the system all together so that it >would not be possible to 'accidentally' use the wrong onconfig. ;) >Madison Pruet I think the 'it' refe…
Re: ONCONFIG
If I had my way, I'd remove it from the system all together so that it would not be possible to 'accidentally' use the wrong onconfig. ;) Madison Pruet…
Re: ONCONFIG
Jacob Salomon <jake@apparel.net> wrote: >Patrick, >onconfig.std is meant as a template to copy from. If I had my druthers, >I would have it shipped with 666 permissions so that even user nformix >could not (or at least is less likly to) inadvertently modify it. >(Actually, in …
RE: ONCONFIG
Hi Patrick! OK. please check with env command to see the ONCONFIG environment variable, this sould containg the file being use at this moment, and please, make a copy before you make any changes, Regards :) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Mario…
RE: ONCONFIG
You have to check your env variables. One of them is ONCONFIG which will be set to either of the files. Munaf g086mnf@bomplant3.appl.ge.com ---------- From: informix-list-owner[SMTP:informix-list-owner@rmy.emory.edu] Sent: Friday, January 17, 1997 4:04 PM To: informix-list S…
Re: bulk load
Vic Goldberg wrote: > > Duc Nguyen wrote: > > > > We have Informix Online Dynamic Server V7.13.UC2 running > > on Solaris. Can I do a bulk load (a direct load in > > Oracle7) of an ascii file into Informix? It seems > With 7.13 you're somewhat in a bind. The fastest loads on 7.…
Re: ONCONFIG
In <32DF327E.1DBB@mediacity.com.sg>, Patrick Stacey wrote: }I see 2 onconfig files in my etc directory (sol 2.5.1 platform). } }one has .ifmx and the other .std } }which do I edit in order to change the system configuration? }Specifically I want to configure informix for a multip…
Re: ONCONFIG
Patrick, Type the command "onstat -c | more". This option prints a copy of the current configuration to the screen, but more importantly, the second line gives the path and filename of the current configuation in use. Tracy > > I see 2 onconfig files in my etc directory (sol …
Re: shmdt: errno = 22
Double check the shared memory parameters Informix suggests for 7.12 for your kernel. Good Luck, Arun…
Re: ONCONFIG
If you have to ask this you shouldn't attempt to modify the file. This is RTFM, very much so. You'll depend on knowing so much before tuning OnLine in this way that if you have missed this in the manuals, you may also have missed a lot of other info. Sorry for this. I don't mean …
Re: ONCONFIG
Patrick Stacey wrote: > > I see 2 onconfig files in my etc directory (sol 2.5.1 platform). > > one has .ifmx and the other .std Patrick, onconfig.std is meant as a template to copy from. If I had my druthers, I would have it shipped with 666 permissions so that even user nform…
ONCONFIG
I see 2 onconfig files in my etc directory (sol 2.5.1 platform). one has .ifmx and the other .std which do I edit in order to change the system configuration? Specifically I want to configure informix for a multiprocessor machine (4 CPUs actually). many thanks, /pks -- [ Pat…
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Hardware for terrabyte db
My company markets a data warehouse for the retail industry, and we're proposing one system that will go to .7 to .8 TB in storage. We're looking for ideas regarding the hardware. This system builds aggregate & summary tables at load-time, so we're not looking at doing a lot of…
Re: Oracle vs Informix comparison
Actually what really happens in Oracle replication is: 1. Application updates one table. 2. Trigger fires to record the fact that some replication will need to be done. 3. Application commits and end user happily continues work. At some point in time after the application commi…
Re: HELP I'm in crisis
You need to avoid dynamic shared memory segments on HP at all costs. If your SHMVERTSIZE is 60000, I would suspect that would be enough. However, if your application is leaving a lot of open statements (i.e. not issueing a FREE on a prepared statement or CURSOR) then each user t…
Re: Help I'm in crisis
Hi Tony, Check you $ONCONFIG file if the PDQPIORITY > 0, modify it to be 0, that means disable PDQ in $ONCONFIG. Please set PDQPIORITY as user environment variable for large report/ bach job only. Otherwise, every single session takes a lot of memory. Regards Eric Lam Taipei/Tai…
Re: onconfig
Hi Sue, >Hi there. I am an Oracle/Sybase dba. I've just been put on a project >which uses Informix Workgroup Server V7.12 on Windows NT. I have no >training or manuals in either Informix or NT, so this question may >appear to come from a simpleton. Stop right there. Go and fin…
Re: onconfig
> From: Sue Alsbury <salsbury@mdshealth.com> > Date: Friday, October 18, 1996 4:11 PM > > Hi there. I am an Oracle/Sybase dba. I've just been put on a project > which uses Informix Workgroup Server V7.12 on Windows NT. I have no > training or manuals in either Informix or NT, so …
Re: onconfig
In article <3267E47A.54DA@mdshealth.com>, Sue Alsbury <salsbury@mdshealth.com> writes >Hi there. I am an Oracle/Sybase dba. I've just been put on a project >which uses Informix Workgroup Server V7.12 on Windows NT. I have no >training or manuals in either Informix or NT, so this …
onconfig
Hi there. I am an Oracle/Sybase dba. I've just been put on a project which uses Informix Workgroup Server V7.12 on Windows NT. I have no training or manuals in either Informix or NT, so this question may appear to come from a simpleton. I issue a select * from tablename. The tab…
Shared memory
I guess i missed some previous discussion about shared memory problems. I'll appreciatesome info about the followinfg error message: "Cannot attach shared memmory" from the Rapid Developement System, Informix 4GL V4.10 under AIX. Ramiro Rela.…
Re: initializing shared memory
} From: Gene Terry Sanford <tsanford@csti-md.com> } Subject: initializing shared memory } } We are runnning informix 4.1 on SCO OpenSever 5.02. } When we run tbinit to initialize shared memory we get } the following error: } } tbinit: shmat[EINVAL][22]: shared memory base addres…
initializing shared memory
We are runnning informix 4.1 on SCO OpenSever 5.02. When we run tbinit to initialize shared memory we get the following error: tbinit: shmat[EINVAL][22]: shared memory base address illegal using 0x80480000, needs 0x80000000 tbinit: fatal error in shared memory creation. Our…
Re: Shared Memory Not released
>Brian Li <cphdcbl@ted.cs.depaul.edu> wrote in article ><511nel$aft@shrike.depaul.edu>... >> >> Dear Informix experts, >> >> We are currently have Informix Dynamic Online running on our HP T500 >machine >> and recently have shared memory problem which is only known to be solved …
>1 Virtual Shared Memory Segment slow down
I've been told by Informix that having >1 virtual shared memory segment slows down your Informix Online Database server. Informix normally has 3 share memory segments 1 Fixed size 'Resident' shared memory segment for disk cache etc. 1 Fixed size 'Message' shared…
Re: HELP ! - DBTEMP - ONLINE 7.12
> Anyone got ideas on how this variable is used in Online 7. We have a big > table (c 4million rows) and when we try to add indexes we are running out > of space in rootdbs. It should be possible to set DBTEMP to make the > sorting and temporary building take place on a UNIX vo…
Re: HELP ! - DBTEMP - ONLINE 7.12
Thunt27 wrote: > > Anyone got ideas on how this variable is used in Online 7. We have a big > table (c 4million rows) and when we try to add indexes we are running out > of space in rootdbs. It should be possible to set DBTEMP to make the > sorting and temporary building take p…
HELP ! - DBTEMP - ONLINE 7.12
Anyone got ideas on how this variable is used in Online 7. We have a big table (c 4million rows) and when we try to add indexes we are running out of space in rootdbs. It should be possible to set DBTEMP to make the sorting and temporary building take place on a UNIX volume tha…
SHARED MEMORY
Hi All When doing kernel performance tuning for a Informix 5.0 system with 512MB memory and 50GB disk, should the the shared memory be included into the kernel parameter tuning or excluded. Watching the memory use with 'cpqmon' it appears that these calculations should be done …
SHARED MEMORY
Hi All When doing kernel performance tuning for a Informix 5.0 system with 512MB memory and 50GB disk, should the the shared memory be included into the kernel parameter tuning or excluded. Watching the memory use with 'cpqmon' it appears that these calculations should be done …
Re: SHARED MEMORY
At 12:36 PM 6/19/96 -0700, Paul Middleton wrote: >When doing kernel performance tuning for a Informix 5.0 system with 512MB >memory and 50GB disk, should the the shared memory be included into the >kernel parameter tuning or excluded. > >Watching the memory use with 'cpqmon' it a…
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: How To: multi threads, Fragmentation in Online 7.1.
Hello, PSORT_NPROCS is only used for building indexes. In either your $ONCONFIG file, or your environment or before you sql statement do you set PDQPRIORITY? For a query to be parallelized PDQPRIORTY must be set to something greater then 0. The higher the PDQPRIORTY the mo…
Re: Cannot create indexes
brford@xmission.com (Russ Ford) wrote: >We are having problems creating indexes on several tables. We can get an >exclusive lock on the table and there does not appear to be any other >programs accessing the table but we receive error 242 > 242: Could not open database table (ud…
Re: Loading tables in Shared Memory
peeyush wrote: > > Hi, > > I need to know how to load some of the frequently used tables (like master > reference tables which are accessed very frequently) into SHARED MEMORY. By > loading them into shared memory, they permanently reside there until they > are unloaded, and the …
Re: Index "Fillfactors"
Billy's right. I've been using dbimport (OnLine 7.10.UC1) quite a bit lately and it definitely creates the indexes AFTER the data has been loaded into the table. --Craig bw000001@pixie.co.za ("Billy Wheeler") wrote: >Dave Kosenko <davek@informix.com> wrote: >} Greg Moye wr…
Re: Loading tables in Shared Memory
peeyush (peeyush@toj.com) wrote: : Hi, : I need to know how to load some of the frequently used tables (like master : reference tables which are accessed very frequently) into SHARED MEMORY. By : loading them into shared memory, they permanently reside there until they : are unl…
Cannot create indexes
We are having problems creating indexes on several tables. We can get an exclusive lock on the table and there does not appear to be any other programs accessing the table but we receive error 242 242: Could not open database table (udba00.it_daily_mvmt). 106: ISAM error: no…
RE: 141: ISAM error: TBLspace table overflow
---------- From: Clem Akins[SMTP:cwakins@leia.alloys.rmc.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 1996 12:26 PM To: johnson_doug@emc.com; informix-list@rmy.emory.edu Subject: Re: 141: ISAM error: TBLspace table overflow > I'm trying to create a detached index with Informix Online 7.1…
Re: 141: ISAM error: TBLspace table overflow
> I'm trying to create a detached index with Informix Online 7.10.UC1 on a > three-processor SPARC 1000 with SOLARIS 2.4 using: > > create unique index index01 on table01 (col01, col02) in dbspace01; [...] > $INFORMIXDIR/etc/$ONCONFIG(TBLSPACES) = 2000 but this shouldn't matt…
Re: Informix Online Performance
> I'm trying to get a quick overview of the performance improvement of > Online over SE. Eventually, I'd like to do some serious benchmarking, > and if anyone has some good ideas about how to go about it I'd be > very interested, but for now I'm just looking for some very > appro…
7.10 problems
Good day, We seem to be going through lots of problems with our implementation of the OnLine Engine. We're running 7.10.UD3 on an HP-9000/I70 (2 processors) with 10.01 HP/UX. The database was created using DBNLS = 2. We are running with 33 DB Spaces and 320 MB of RAM. There a…
Re: DBIMPORT and indexes
> Sally Woolrich <Sally@excelsis.demon.co.uk> writes: > In article <3v1r5d$6lk@tattoo.sccsi.com> > goldberg@landata.com "Steve Goldberg" writes: > > > Question: > > When doing a dbimport after a dbexport, and leaving the .sql as is, > > will the dbimport load al…
Re: INFORMIX-Online Dynamic Server intallation
copy the standard onconfig file and make as few changes as possible to the different parameters. after you are sure you can bring informix online, should you begin to make changes to the onconfig parameters. Use ONMONITOR to make the changes. It will protect you from many mista…
INFORMIX-Online Dynamic Server intallation
I'm about to install INFORMIX-Online Dynamic Server V.7.1 on a SPARC 1000. Has anyone installed this database on a sparc before? If yes...do you have any suggestions or could you give me any advice on certain aspects of the installation you felt might be important to take notice?…
710 Errors on 7.1 OnLine
Hi ya'll, Has anyone seen problems with OnLine 7.1 regarding error #710? Seems that there's a bug#36852 in which the systables get erroneously flagged as altered when in fact it did not happen. When you try try to apply a referential integrity constraint and it fails, it appea…
Re: Does Informix do Versioning Read-Only Transactions?
Tony Rothwell (Tony@santen.demon.co.uk) wrote: : In article: <3lb8n5$ecm@sword.eng.pyramid.com> graeme@pyramid.com (Graeme : Sargent) writes: : > : > Tony Rothwell (Tony@santen.demon.co.uk) wrote: [ stuff deleted ] : > : Discrete transactions have (virtually) no place in real-…
Process Priority with onilne 4.10
Does Online ver 4.10 have fixed priority support like ver 7.0 does with the NOAGE onconfig param. Thanks Chris…
Re: Does Informix do Versioning Read-Only Transactions?
In article: <3lb8n5$ecm@sword.eng.pyramid.com> graeme@pyramid.com (Graeme Sargent) writes: > > Tony Rothwell (Tony@santen.demon.co.uk) wrote: > : In article: <3l9l2j$7bm@sword.eng.pyramid.com> (Graeme Sargent) writes: > : > > : > In order to achieve Dirty Read type levels of per…
Re: Does Informix do Versioning Read-Only Transactions?
Tony Rothwell (Tony@santen.demon.co.uk) wrote: : In article: <3l9l2j$7bm@sword.eng.pyramid.com> graeme@pyramid.com (Graeme : Sargent) writes: : > : > The Server Concepts Manual also conveniently (but I suppose justifiably) : > omits to mention the impact of Discrete Transactions…
Re: OnLine 6.0 experiences
In <3b1tn7$bc@nanette.pdb.sni.de> Tom Hogarty <hogarty.pad@sni.de> writes: > I have to say that I am not happy with OnLine 6.0, one hates to > offend a respected partner ! I have to explain to my wife that this > weekend is out because the system has to put back to OnLine 5.x. > …
Re: OnLine shared memory question
>From: res@din.lois.perm.su (Igor G. Popov) >Subject: OnLine shared memory question >Date: Fri, 28 Oct 94 16:55:07 +0600 >X-Informix-List-Id: <news.9512> >When I attempt to increase BUFFERS value in tbconfig, >initializing fail and print message: >tbinit: shmat[EINV…
Re: Adding Indexes to New Columns
In article <2rgcnsINNqsp@jumbo.read.tasc.com>, bfmclaughlin@tasc.com (Brendan F. McLaughlin) writes: |> I am assuming that |> building an index on a 100,000 row table where the index column has the |> same value will result in a weird B-tree. I don't know if it works this way wi…
Adding Indexes to New Columns
Here is a question concerning Online 5.0 and indexing: I have a table that has about 100,000 rows. I would like to add a new column to this table and build an index on the new column. All existing rows would get some default value during the ALTER TABLE operation, but all new …
Re: INFORMIX SE AND INDEXING
->From: harry@boi.hp.com () ->Subject: INFORMIX SE AND INDEXING ->Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1994 17:11:36 GMT ->Reply-To: harry@boi.hp.com () ->Organization: Hewlett-Packard / Boise, Idaho -> -> With Informix SE, over the course of the last few months, we have ->been experiencing sub…
PRESS: Microsoft and Informix Sign Marketing Agreement To Offer Client/Server Package
Microsoft and Informix Sign Marketing Agreement To Offer Client/Server Package REDMOND, Wash. -- (November 2, 1993) -- Microsoft (R) Corporation and Informix Software Inc. today announced a worldwide sales and marketing agreement to expand client/server offerings for the Windows…
Re: Online and Shared memory
ywleung@ouray.denver.colorado.edu (YIU WAH LEUNG) writes: >I went into a theoretical discussion with my workmate on how Informix handles >shared memory that is defined by using tbmonitor/Parameter/Shared memory. >He said that the size of the shared memory that defined in Informi…
Re: Infinite Recovery Help Needed (Online 5.0)
>> This is a problem which we've experienced on out project several >> times. Informix technical support can abort your long transaction >> by logging into your system and running a utility called tbzero. >> >> As I said, we've had this done several times. Perhaps someone from …
Re: 6.0 INFORMATION (fwd)
} } In article <1tb27vINNqeg@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> you write: } >Are there RELEASE NOTES available yet for the common folk? } > } Mike: we spoke yesterday, and I am mailing you the "Info Sheet" } of which I spoke. Some highlights: } } Informix-OnLine 6.0 Dynamic Server Featur…
Re: Bad pagenum
} } >23:30:17 ptmap: bad pagenum = 75208 -- only 8628 pages } } In my experience, this is due to a corrupt index, which directed OnLine to } look on this page for the row it is searching for. You need to re-build the } index in question. Sorry, off-hand I don't recall how to d…
Re: out-of-control /tmp files (fwd)
> > Mark Trotter writes: > >I don't have a SMP machine. I will take a stab at guessing that most of the > >machines running Informix are not SMP machines. Using the file system for > >data storage seems to be a step backwards on my machine, especially for > >"larger sorts". I …
Physical and Logical Recovery (fwd)
According to Naomi Walker: > > The Informix log shows that OnLine was initialized, Physical recovery > started, and completed, restoring 648 pages. For six hours after > that, dots flew across the screen, over and over and over again. > It appeared to be reading, maybe somethin…
Re: SORTINDEX capability (Was: re: large DB Problems)
In article <9196@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> carsmax!carsmax!bryan@uceng.uc.edu (Bryan Klopfenstein) writes: >What is SORTINDEX capability, how do we know if our 4.10 version has it, Properly known as "Fast Index Build"... >how do we know if our 4.10 version has it, >is it document…
ISQL Performace Optimization
I have a rather general question about query optimization and performance benchmarking with Informix ISQL/4GL 4.1 running with the online engine. In Paul Mahler's book, INFORMIX 4GL, he briefly mentions an indexing scheme called multilevel indexing where one can use indexes on i…
Key-only selects (was Re: Help! my install etc)
In article <1992Apr10.141813.26235@cpqhou.compaq.com> thomasr@cpqhou.compaq.com (Thomas Rush) writes: > In article <1992Mar26.204539.7416@informix.com> cortesi@informix.com writes: > > > >Regarding your choice of query, "where description matches '*MEM*'" > >will always use a seq…