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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…
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 …
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…
Set tables in memory
Roger the command to make a table resident was introduced in v7.30 and removed in 7.31 because it turned out to be a VERY BAD IDEA. It caused more performance problems than it solved so the command was made no-op in 7.31/9.30 and later and finally dropped altogether in 11.50.…
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…
Re: 12.10.FC9 1809 Error
i'm just connecting on shared memory (onipcshm in sqlhosts) regards…
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.…
Can I bring informix up/down from another computer
Also: RESIDENT -1 ? Could be contributing to 'memory issues', and shouldn't be required on AIX.…
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…
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…
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…
backups
A (maybe minor) point on memory growth/allocations ... the initial LOCKS structure is allocated in the RESIDENT portion of the engine. Any new structures are allocated in the VIRTUAL portion, thus the new segment allocations. Thanks - Mark Scranton The Mark Scranton Group mark@m…
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)…
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…
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…
Root db space fills up
The logical and physical logs reside in there own db space.…
RSS not working
-bash-4.2$ onstat - IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.FC9 -- On-Line --…
Informix upgrade
Can we upgrade informix from Dynamic Server Version 11.70 to 12.1 workgroup edition directly?…
Buffer Size and Use
Thank you for educating me, Art. I will have to read up on the RESIDENT parm. So, if buffer cache exceeds the size of all tables combined, wouldn't using RESIDENT guarantee that all tables, once having been read in, would stay (because the resident memory stays)? DG…
Informix on VM
I was wondering if anyone has ever created or seen a document that describes best practices for running Informix 11.x (specifically 11.7) on a virtual machine. I'm wondering if there are any "must-dos" or "don't-dos" such as raw vs cooked files with direct i/o, resident vs. non-r…
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.…
DB_locale or local naming convention
Hi, I already mention the informix version. IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.TC1IE…
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,…
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…
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 …
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…
Memory resident database
Does anybody have a production database that is 100% in RAM? I am considering putting a 1 Tb Informix 11.5 (or 11.7) database in AIX RAM. I know that backup and logging will probably have to go to disk and I will have to restore every time the machine goes down. But with compr…
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.…
Query to list temporary tables
Does anyone here have an sql query for me, for selecting temporary tables, their owner, and the dbspace they reside in ? Dirk ________________________________ NOTE: This e-mail message is subject to the MTN Group disclaimer see http://www.mtn.co.za/SUPPORT/LEGAL/Pages/EmailDisc…
Setting up HDR- First Time -11.70 Innovator-C
Hi, I am setting up HDR for the first time. onstat - on primary shows IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.UC2IE -- On-Line (Prim) -- Up 0:11:5s onstat - on secondry shows IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.UC2IE -- Fast Recovery (Sec) -- Up 00s onstat -m on sec…
ISAM error 197: Partition recently appended to
Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC5 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (i586) I have done a level 0 backup directed to /dev/null and tried again. still it is throwing the same error.…
in which dbspace a table reside?
Hi All, I would like to know the information in which dbspace a certain table resides in the database. I have done "dhschema -d dbname -t tablename -ss". Is there any way to do it via sql statement from catalog tables? i've tried also oncheck -pT dbname:tablename but can't find…
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…
Tool to estimate the size of an index
Sorry, I forgot to provide the version of the installation: IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.FC4 Operative System: AIX Version 6.1…
onunload dbspace handling
Does onunload/onload handle variations in dbspaces? That is: 1) If I onunload a database which resides in 2 dbspaces, can I onload it into another instance with differently named dbspaces? If so, what is the command line syntax? 2) Can I onload a database which resided in 2 d…
Is it possible to call web services from stored pr
I need to call Java based web services from stored procedure. The stored procedure resides in IDS v 11. Is it possible. Can anyone please suggest a way to achieve this?…
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 .......…
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…
Post-Upgrade HPL issue
We figured out the problem here - weird also. We had the RESIDENT setting in our onconfig to 0 for some reason - it was 1 forever on v10 - anyways we set RESIDENT to 1 and no more pload segv's. I tested it with RESIDENT set to -1 and 0 and got segv's sporadically - just an FYI. A…
RESIDENT=-1 on a Virtual Server
Hey all, I am running Informix 11.5 on Virtual Servers using Linux Redhat 4.5. I remember hearing at the Informix conference that the RESIDENT value should not be set on Virtual servers. Does anyone have confirmation with that? I.e, on a virtual server you should always set RESI…
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…
Help on multiple residency on linux_64
Hello, friends. I´m having some troubles here on linux_64 (CentOS), running IDS 11.50.FC6W1, in order to automate startup and shutdown scripts, for two instances installed on the same cpu. I just can´t re-adjust the environment variables on a shell script, it´s not overwriting t…
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…
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…
Resident Memory larger then expected
Hi all, in onconfig I set BUFFERPOOL size=2K,buffers=20000,lrus=8,lru_min_dirty=20.000000,lru_max_dirty=30.000000 . In the message log I see: Memory sizes:resident:570368 KB In earlier versions of IDS the formular was BUFFERS x 2 = Size in KB. I had expected memory size resid…
Tables in a dbspace : how to find
Hi, How can I find the list of tables that are residing in a particular dbspace so that if the dbspace becomes full I can identify and choose only those tables that can be purged (ie, not any application critical config/master table). Informix V7.31 ud8/ Sun 5.7 Thanks in adva…
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??????…
Extents Monitoring
Based on the oncheck info that you sent it is clear that you are not running out of extents for either the table fragment or the index fragment. How much space is available in the dbspace where the table and index resides?…
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…
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…
dbspace utilisation in Informix 5x
Hi We are using Informix Online 5.11. We need to purge data on a regular basis. How to find in which dbspace/s a table resides because here I donot find sysmaster db here and tracking dbspace utilisation by table is not possible. Can anyone help ? dp…
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…
Informix RESIDENT and Solaris 8 and 10 swap usage
> From: david@smooth1.co.uk > Subject: Re: Informix RESIDENT and Solaris 8 and 10 swap usage > Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:11:14 -0700 > To: informix-list@iiug.org > > On 26 June, 20:55, Koya <chav...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I have the follwoing question about RES…
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…
-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…
Database import from Infomix 5.0 to IDS 11.0
Is it possible to import the database residing in a raw partition to a cooked file system?…
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…
Onconfig Parameter RESIDENT
Hello, IDS 11.10.FC2W4 on Solaris 10, 16 Gb Ram. I have set the onconfig parameter to RESIDENT -1 and SHMTOTAL 0. knowing that shared-memory residency will be enforced for the resident as well as virtual portion and will improve the performance. onstat -g seg shows IBM Informi…
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!…
Caching Data to Buffers
Hello, IDS 11.10.FC2W1 Yet again some simple but imp Qs 1)Could any one pls explain me IN SHORT what Update statistics actually does. i am reading/studying and running upate statiscs for some time now but even today it is not very clear to me :( 2)Also pls let me know if it i…
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…
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!…
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…
HDR - Adding chunks
You need to add chunk only on primary. But make sure that the chunk path exists on machine where secondary reside. For better performance you should also grow the file on secondary to required size before adding chunk on primary.…
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…
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…
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: 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…
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…
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. …
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…
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…
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'…
Re: Resident Segments marked as virtual
Art S. Kagel wrote: > > Per the Administrator's Reference (paraphrase) since the largest single > shared memory segment is 4GB if you request > 4GB of BUFFERS the remainder > is allocated in VIRTUAL segments. If you want those segments to also be > marked as memory resident you …
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…
Resident Segments marked as virtual
Hello everybody. I have IDS 7.31 FD6 running on AIX 5.3. For memory configuration I have the following parameters in the onconfig file: BUFFERS 2100000 (aprox. 8.4 GB) SHMVIRTSIZE 767000 SHMTOTAL 0 Now see the onstat -g seg output: Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.31.FD6XH …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
Which IDS version? Under 10 a lock is larger. - Save a copy of your ONCONFIG file somewhere - Login as informix - point to the instance - Use onmonitor -> Parameters -> Shared Memory - Change the size of the parameters and see how the resident shared memory size changes in the …
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/…
AW: BUFFERS on Solaris-Box
> The size of the resident portion seems to be 1220 MB. I would be glad if you > could explain this behaviour. this includes the memory it takes to store LOCKS configured etc. > system the SHMVIRTSIZE is 491520 and SHMADD is 98304 i would up it so you have one or 2 segs for SH…
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: Redbook Residencies
On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 18:05 -0800, mark.scranton@gmail.com wrote: > Dave - > > We have done a number of books for Informix, and out of curiousity I > checked with my Redbook Leader Chuck Ballard (I worked on one 2 years > ago) to see if there were any that weren't posted and he o…
Re: Redbook Residencies
david@smooth1.co.uk escribi�: > Upcoming Redbooks that you can be nominated for are here > > http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/residents.nsf/ResIndex?OpenView&Start=1 > No residencies for IDS ? ... DB2 neither. > > http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/pages/redbooks > I've…
Redbook Residencies
Question for the IBM'ers: I don't see any Redbook Residencies listed for Informix, which leads me to believe that there aren't many Redbooks coming down the line. Am I wrong? DT -- Dave Thacker, Senior Systems Administrator Omni Hotels Reservation Center V: 402.952.6535 F: 40…
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.…
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 …
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…
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…
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: IDS 10 Express Edition
Note 10.00.xC3 = Enterprise Version 10.00.xC3E = Express Edition http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ids9help/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.relnotes.doc/uc3E/idse_win_release_notes_10.0.html Then click on "IBM Informix Dynamic Server Express Edition" in the right pane:…
setup Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC1E1 to linux error
I setup Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC1E1 to linux execcute oninit -ivy is failed the online.log is write /// 16:31:32 Dynamically allocated new virtual shared memory segment (size 8192KB) 16:31:32 Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC1E1 Software Serial Number AA…
Re: RESIDENT and BUFFERPOOL
Thank you, Jonathan. I guess I was not clear on system vs IDS page size. I knew that the page size for IDS on our Sun boxes was 2K. I didn't know what to make of the mention of 4 MB page size. Why, I thought, would I want to make a buffer pool with page size anything other th…
Re: RESIDENT and BUFFERPOOL
David E. Grove wrote: >>On Solaris the 4MB page size is used for any segment made resident, no >>matter how many there are. > > Since page size is now settable in IDS 10, does the above have any > implication on specifying a BUFFERPOOL page size? I'm no sure whether you understa…
Re: RESIDENT and BUFFERPOOL
David E. Grove wrote: >>On Solaris the 4MB page size is used for any segment made resident, no >>matter how many there are. > > Since page size is now settable in IDS 10, does the above have any > implication on specifying a BUFFERPOOL page size? I'm no sure whether you understa…
Re: RESIDENT and BUFFERPOOL
I don't think so. I would choose a bigger BUFFERPOOL page size for tables with rows larger that 2k, on any platform and with any os page size. But this is of course a new area to Informix database folks. Michael David E. Grove wrote: >>On Solaris the 4MB page size is used for a…
RESIDENT and BUFFERPOOL
> > On Solaris the 4MB page size is used for any segment made resident, no > matter how many there are. Since page size is now settable in IDS 10, does the above have any implication on specifying a BUFFERPOOL page size? DG…
RESIDENT and BUFFERPOOL
> > On Solaris the 4MB page size is used for any segment made resident, no > matter how many there are. Since page size is now settable in IDS 10, does the above have any implication on specifying a BUFFERPOOL page size? DG…
Re: Do I need to be RESIDENT
What platform are you on? Making memory resident that is not paged out anyway may not make sense. But on Solaris the "RESIDENT -1" setting has a second effect: It creates shared memory with a page size of 4 MB instead of 8k pages (using the SHM_SHARE_MMU flag of shmat()). This s…
Do I need to be RESIDENT
We currently have RESIDENT set to -1, if I increase BUFFERS above 2M I get the message 07:55:17 Informix Dynamic Server Stopped. 07:56:49 mt_shm_init: can't create resident segment When I change RESIDENT to 0, I can increase the buffers to whatever I want. I know why I'm gett…
Do I need to be RESIDENT
We currently have RESIDENT set to -1, if I increase BUFFERS above 2M I get the message 07:55:17 Informix Dynamic Server Stopped. 07:56:49 mt_shm_init: can't create resident segment When I change RESIDENT to 0, I can increase the buffers to whatever I want. I know why I'm gett…
Informix Dynamic Server information Centre
Great new utility just posted under IDS 10 on the docs site has uses for other products and versions than just IDS 10 so take a look even if you are not using 10 yet!! http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ids9help/index.jsp…
Cannot find message file. Check INFORMIXDIR and DBLANG.
im trying to run the oninit -i in the command prompt when the message appear... we installed... IBM Informix Dynamic Server 9.40 IBM INFORMIX-4GL Rapid Development System Version 7.32.UC2 IBM INFORMIX-4GL Version 7.32.UC2 set up sqlhosts, services, onconfig, path... but when tr…
RE: Informix UC7.41 - slow
Geezer- I don't get why you cleared out your stats, but one thing I noticed is this: > RESIDENT 0 # Forced residency flag (Yes = 1, No = 0) If your engine is being swapped out of memory, it will dump the performance of the engine and all of the application…
RE: Memory resident tables
Gustavo Tobares said: > > > Hi all, > > S.O: Solaris 8 > ENGINE: IDS 7.31.UD8 > > In the last days I put some tables memory resident and monitored > with onstat -b and I believe with have enough buffers to put some others > tables, my question is: > > Can I put memory residen…
RE: Memory resident tables
This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C4E77E.F198B930 Content-Type: text/plain Hi all, S.O: Solaris 8 ENGINE: IDS 7.31.UD8 In the last days I put some …
Memory resident tables
This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C4E467.C99EF9E0 Content-Type: text/plain Hi all, S.O: Solaris 8 ENGINE: IDS 7.31.UD8 In the last days I put some …
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…
ontape -s to disk
How can I test that an ontape backup has been successfully completed ? Can I run a verify or a listing from the tape ? ... dependant on what version you have check out archecker. for ontape stuff something like archecker -tdvs make sure you configure ac_config which resides…
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'?…
Virtual Memory Question for IDS 7.31 on Windows
Hi all, I have a question regarding the virtual memory portion of informix shared memory. What is the comparison between the size of the resident memory compared to the size of the virtual memory? i.e, if the resident portion is 700MB, what should the virtual portion be? This f…
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…
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…
Re: RESIDENT -1
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:59:53 -0400, malcolm wrote: RESIDENT == 0 -- No memory segments marked as resident in the OS RESIDENT == 1 -- The 'RESIDENT' segment is marked as resident in the OS RESIDENT == -1 -- The 'RESIDENT' and initial 'VIRTUAL' segments are marked as resident in…
Re: RESIDENT -1
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RE: RESIDENT -1
All memory segments are resident -----Original Message----- From: malcolm [mailto:malcolm.weallans@btopenworld.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 7:00 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: RESIDENT -1 IDS 9.30 on Linux SLES 8 ISA always sets RESIDENT to -1 for us on this platf…
RESIDENT -1
IDS 9.30 on Linux SLES 8 ISA always sets RESIDENT to -1 for us on this platform. What does this mean? I've checked the archives and can find conflicting explanations of what RESIDENT -1 means. regards Malcolm…
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…
oninit processes are huge
Fernando, Thanks for that. I find it very bizarre that Informix spawns more than one oninit process and that each one seems to have a different amount in resident memory.....…
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 …
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?…
CREATE TABLE in volatile memory ?
Hi, Does informix support tables (non-temporary) which reside in volatile memory ? As far as i know, DB2 supports it. If Informix can't do this, does anyone know how to create a blobspace in memory on HP-UX ? I know Linux can do this using the tmpfs. Thanks, Corne'…
Shared memory segment IDS 9.4
Hi, I defined 1200000 BUFFERS in $ONCONFIG file for IDS 9.4/AIX 5.3. I used a formula from Performance Guide and counted that the buffers should take in resdident portion of shared memory about 1200000 * 4 kB + 1200000 * 254 ~ 5 GB. I started IDS and found ( onstat -g seg ) t…
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.…
Logical Log Backup Informix 9.4 linux
If you mirror logdbs (on which log is residing) in different disk, you should be fine, If disk with primary logdbs fails server will continue with mirrored space. Regards, Mahesh Dashora Development Manager - Backup Restore, High Availability and Utilities IBM Informix Developme…
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…
Where is that index?
Dear all, I am running Informix 7.31 UDF4 on solaris 8. Given an index name, is there a way of finding out which dbspace it is physically residing in? //Pete…
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,…
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…
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: 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…
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 …
TRUNCATE TABLE command in 9.3?
I am aware that Informix Dynamic Server previously has not included the TRUNCATE TABLE command. Does anyone know if 9.3 or 9.4 include this command?…
Linux fgl_getenv
Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.30.UC3 on Linux. Do I have to do something before I can use the fgl_getenv call in a stored procedure? When I try I get 674: Routine (fgl_getenv) can not be resolved.…
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: 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…
Semaphores
Hi, Can you please clarify my below doubts?. 1. What is Semaphore in Informix and what's the use of this? 2. How many Semaphores can be reside in an Informix - server? Thanks in Advance. Regards, Ravi Shankar N.…
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: 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…
Distribute Database Help
We are thinking of consolidate a distributed Informix database currently residing on multiple servers into one single database. Can some body please suggest me the best approach for this or any books I can go through. Thank in Advance.…
distribute Data base ?
Hi Can some body please suggest me the best approach for consolidate a distributed Informix database currently residing on multiple servers into one single database ? All Data bases are on SUN Systems. - Thank you…
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
The quickest way to fix this is to reboot your machine. :-) In the year of Our Lord Sun, 21 Jan 2001 20:38:29 -0500, "MAD" <mad@snip.net> spake, saying: >EMERGENCY: I have a down system. I am trying to to a cold restore using >command "ontape -r". The command keeps failing afte…
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…
Residency and KAIO
Hi everybody, up to now we have been using resident 0 on 7.31FC7.But we recently added 1 Gbyte of Memory (total 3 GB).Should I turn resident 1 , and does Informix recomment using residency when using KAIO? Another question is that every time I stop and startr the database the # …
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…
ALARMPROGRAM and Linux IDS 7.30.U
informix did not have write permissions on the directory where my alarm program resided. Strange because you don't need directory write permissions to execute a program in that directory. I opened it up and now it works Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/…
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…
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…
Retrieving product name
Hi all, Is their a system table somewhere on an informix server that stores the product name. For example 'Select owner from systables where tabname = � VERSION� will return the version of the server. I would like to be able to tell if a server is a Universal server or a Dynamic …
IDS 7.3x on Win2000?
Does Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.3x runs on Windows 2000 (Professional)? Thanks for your help. Guy Dillen…
Multiple Residency
I have 14 instances of Online but i can only online 7 simultaneously. What should i do to take all 14 instances online simultaneously?…
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…
table/index memory_residency
Thanks, working apps to do that now, but a quick question, aside from onstat -P how do I determine if table/index has been set resident? I checked sysmaster and no sign there brett > > the sql command set table n memory_resident, does that > > make the indexes resident aswell? …
Informix 7.31 and Windows2000
Somebody has installed it on Windows 2000 ? The Instance Manager can't initialize shared memory.. Thanks in advance. -=SIMO=-…
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: SHMTOTAL
Hi, The SHMTOTAL sets the limit on the amount of virtual memory IDS will get from the OS. The value of SHMTOTAL should be SHMTOTAL >= (size of resident) + (initial virtual segment size) Increase your SHMTOTAL or decrease the sizes of your resident and/or virtual shared memory…
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…
Fatal error in shared memory creation
When I type oninit, it said: Fatal error in shared memory creation Why ? Thanks…
table location
How do you find out which dbspace a table resides in? For example, I have a database that resides in db0, but I have database tables x, y, and z that are in db1, db2, and db3, but I don't know which is in which. These tables are not fragmented so an entire table resides in a db…
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…
Multiple Residency & Shared Memory
Hi, I want to initiate a second instance of Informix OnLine server 7.23.UC1 on Solaris 2.6. My question is "Do I need to set a different shared memory base address or can both instances use the same shared memory segments?" How would I calculate the shared memory base address f…
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…
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…
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…
Bad Chunk
Hi, When I am trying to initialize the shared memmory using oninit -s. I get the following message in the online.log: shmget: [EEXIST][17]: key 526a4801: shared memory already exists 00:11:21 mt_shm_init: can't create resident segment 00:11:38 shmget: [EEXIST][17]: key 526a…
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…
table memory resident
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0019_01BF511F.B6DBD700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi list Help wanted , what is the syntax for making table memory resident. I've worked on 7.x = t…
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: 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 …
Re: Baan on Informix 7.23 UC6
From: "Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.net> > >See my comments below: > >Tony Cullen wrote: > > > > Hope someone can help here. We migrated from running BAAN IVc0 on tbase >to > > running it on > > Informix version 7.23 UC6 over the weekend. Our porting set is >6.1c.04.01 > > and …
informix dynamic server on linux help
Hi all, I am an informix newbie, and i have problems running it on redhat linux 6.0. The installation went just fine, but now when i start dbaccess and try to create a new database i get this error message: 25584: Network driver can not access server program /opt/informix/lib/sq…
Informix Dynamic Server on IBM SSA
Can any one share their experiences, recommendations, pit-falls, comments about creating an IDS db engineOLTP environment on an IBM SSA Raid system? We have 2 SSA adapters and have 4 loops with 4 drives each. The IBM techs for the Smoothstart services will be coming next Tuesday…
Multiple residency and oninit -i
I'm trying to inizialize two db istance on a Tandem(Unix), I have two onconfig file and I have changed ONCONFIG and INFORMIXSERVER variable to mach my new db. When I type $oninit -i I receive : This action will initialize INFORMIX-OnLine; any existing INFORMIX-OnLine databases …
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
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installing Informix dynamic server
hi all, can anybody give me an URL where to find a good description of how to setup and install an Informix Dynamic Server with using RedHat Linux ??? I've searched a whole day but founf nothing useful.. :( thx ind advance joerg…
anything like resident procedures?
Hi, suppose you have an SPL procedure 'A' in DB 'one'. Then you can execute this procedure from DB 'two' by using execute procedure one:A(); This seems to work most of the time (i.e. it does what it should do). However, every now and then we get a -999 (Not implemented yet…
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…
Size of shared Memory
Even when you initialize your shared memory with least number of BUFFERS,LOCKS etc the shared memory size goes to 20MB (provided FORCED RESIDENCY IS ENABLED(1).Why is the value so high ,because when you addup the RESIDENT PORTION components it does'nt add up to 20 MB. Thanks S…
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…
Memory resident tables
I'm resending this in case there are any other takers ... Art, any ideas? Hello iFolks, I have a question about the new functionality offered in the newer versions of IDS, where tables can reside in memory. If you have really good cache rates can an engine still benefit from th…
Resident Memory
Hello iFolks, I have a question about the new functionality offered in the newer versions of IDS, where tables can reside in memory. If you have really good cache rates can an engine still benefit from this feature? I suspect checkpoints would perform better, as in not necessary…
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…
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.…
Port?
Where does the confugation information on which port an informix se database (linux) listens reside? mfg Roman…
Re: Determining version dynamically
Hi, If you have Informix Dynamic Server then use the following sql-statement ' select DBINFO('version', 'full') from systables where tabid = 1' result from the sql is : Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.30.UC5 Take a look in Informix Guide to SQL: Syntax for more about DBINFO…
KAIO: out of OS resources error
Hi~ My informix dynamic server write "KAIO: out of OS resources error .." in online.log. This error log is written during ontape task. How can I solve this problem? platfom : SunOs 5.5.1 Informix Dynamic Server 7.24 uc6 Thanks.…
64bit IDS for Solaris 7/SPARC ?
Is there a 64bit Informix Dynamic Server 7.3x for Solaris 7/SPARC available? tia, joerg…
Posting from the Informix-list
what is the last version of Informix Dynamic Server for HP-UX 10.20, where can i find more Information about this.…
Latest versions for various Informix products ???
Which are the latest versions for Informix Dynamic Server Informix Dynamic Server, Workgroup Edition Informix 4GL Informix SQL on Solaris 7/SPARC ? Where can I find such informations on Informix's website ? tia, joerg…
Memory resident tables
Hi Group, Can anybody provide any info. about memory resident tables? I would like to put out some data from one/more table for faster processing. Thanks in advance, Rana…
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…
Urgent, tables in dbspaces
Please could any one give me a query (from catalog system or DB sysmasters) to find tables resident in each dbspace. think you. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com…
Memory Resident Tables
We load some of our tables memory resident using the "set table <tabname> memory_resident" command. What I would like to know is, how can I test to see if my command (in a program) really worked and the table is now in memory. I tried "onstat -P" and also "onstat -B". The first …
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…
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: 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…
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.…
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…
IDS 7.30.UC7 on HP-UX 10.20 ignores RESIDENT settings
Hi InforMixers, i detected the following 'feature' with IDS 730.UC7 on HP-UX 10.20 (all recommended patches installed): With KAIO All shm-segment are in fact resident. We have a test-machine with 128MB memory. IDS-SHM (resident + first virtual) is approx. 80MB. IDS is unable to …
Dbspaces and indexes
Hello, Is it possible to determine what dbspace an index resides in? I know generally the index resides in the same dbspace as the table, but there are exceptions. There dont seem to be any utilities to tell you where the index resides. I am sure there is a query from the SMI …
Re: RESIDENT and PDQ
> > Also, as we all know, memory is cheap now. We would like to max out our > > Sun UltraEnterprise 3000 to 6G and cache up the entire database as > > resident, while still allowing substantial amount virtual memory. But > > it seems as though Informix is quite limited, permitt…
Re: RESIDENT and PDQ
> > Art S. Kagel wrote in message <36F6C3A9.5B3C@bloomberg.net>... > > >BTW 7.30 added other values for RESIDENT to lock the > >Virtual segments as well. > > > >Art S. Kagel > > > Does this suggest that it is possible to cache up and make resident light > scan reads? > > We have …
RE: RESIDENT and PDQ
It means that the OS should not swap the SHM segments out if the machine get short of memory. But since SVR4 you very rarely swap I think it now prevents the page daemon using the pages allocated to the SHM. AFAIK depending on the OS, the SHM might still be paged out even when …
RESIDENT and PDQ
Can anyone explain what resident = 1 means and what the advantage of setting it is ? More performance ??? What effect does the PDQ-Parameters have ? GREETINGS OLAF…
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…
KAIO and Informix and HP-UX 11.0
Ivars Strazdins wrote: > > Hi, > Though I'm not subscribed to list maybe somebody is willing to help. Please > reply via mail. > > The problem(s): > > 1) I'd like to enable KAIO just for testing to see, is it faster or not. > System is K370 running HP-UX 11.0 and Informix 7.30 U…
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…
Re: Kernel Asynchronous IO on HP-UX
> > In version 7.30 for best KAIO performance set RESIDENT flag > > in the onconfig to -1. > In this case, does the resident portion of shared memory still > remain resident? Actually, I think with KAIO, all shared memory segments are locked whether you like it …
Re: Kernel Asynchronous IO on HP-UX
David Andrieu wrote: > > Hi John, > > a few month ago, you wrote the following advice: > > >Tune Tips for HP KAIO > >RESIDENCY > > In version 7.30 for best KAIO performance set RESIDENT flag > > in the onconfig to -1. > > In this case, does the resident porti…
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…
Resident Memory
Hy, We just installed ODS 7.23 (UC6) on our UNIX SVR4 1.4 machine. We created a database and filled in the onconfig-file (/usr/informix/etc/onconfig). The we specified a parameter RESIDENT = 1. Now, when we initialise the database, or when we bring it online (oninit), we get th…
Load a whole table into shared memory
Matthias Meyerhöfer wrote: > > Hi all!! > > Does anyone know which informix-online-version is nessecary to load a whole > table into shared memory and which command is nessecary to load it?? You need version 7.30+. The table is not actually read entirely into memory it is simpl…
Informix on Linux
Does anybody know how much a copy of Informix Dynamic Server would run me for use on Linux?? Thanks in advance -steve…
Upgrade Dynamic Server 7.13 - 7.24
I need to upgrade Informix Dynamic Server version 7.13 to version 7.24. Can anyone advise of any problems they may have had whilst doing this?…
Re: Monitoring table/index residency in IDS 7.3
kleahy <kleahy@worldvision.org> wrote: > > In IDS 7.3 the 'set residency' stmt permits making selected tables or indexes > memeory resident. On pg 2-577 of the SQL Guide it mentions being able to > monitor which tables/indexes are resident and refers to the Admin guide for > det…
Informix error.
Does anyone know what this error is about: shmat: [EINVAL][22]: shared memory base address illegal Thanks, Fred Lee…
Monitoring table/index residency in IDS 7.3
In IDS 7.3 the 'set residency' stmt permits making selected tables or indexes memeory resident. On pg 2-577 of the SQL Guide it mentions being able to monitor which tables/indexes are resident and refers to the Admin guide for details. Anybody know where it's mentioned in the Adm…
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.…
Re: memory resident tables
In article <36707D9B.5116F322@hotmail.com>, June Tong <june_t@hotmail.com> wrote: > awallner@eb.com wrote: > > > In article <913020553snz@kontron.demon.co.uk>, > > andy@kontron.demon.co.uk wrote: > > > In article <74c6st$ukq$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> awallner@eb.com writes: > > …
Re: memory resident tables
June Tong wrote: > > awallner@eb.com wrote: > > > In article <913020553snz@kontron.demon.co.uk>, > > andy@kontron.demon.co.uk wrote: > > > In article <74c6st$ukq$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> awallner@eb.com writes: [SNIP] > database product" requested it. I was hard-pressed to come …
Netscape Enterprise Connection for Informix Dynamic Server
Hi: Does anyone know the procedure for setting up a Netscape Enterprise Server to connect to an Informix Dynamic server on a remote machine? Michael…
Re: memory resident tables
awallner@eb.com wrote: > In article <913020553snz@kontron.demon.co.uk>, > andy@kontron.demon.co.uk wrote: > > In article <74c6st$ukq$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> awallner@eb.com writes: > > > > > I am trying to use the not well documented command: > > > set table <tablename> memory_…
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 $INFORMIXDIR/bin and �INFORMIXDIR/esql help wo…
Re: memory resident tables
In article <913020553snz@kontron.demon.co.uk>, andy@kontron.demon.co.uk wrote: > In article <74c6st$ukq$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> awallner@eb.com writes: > > > I am trying to use the not well documented command: > > set table <tablename> memory_resident; > > to force tables to sta…
Re: memory resident tables
andy lennard wrote: > > In article <74c6st$ukq$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> awallner@eb.com writes: > > > I am trying to use the not well documented command: > > set table <tablename> memory_resident; > > to force tables to stay in main memory. > > The command executes ok, but I don't …
Re: memory resident tables
In article <74c6st$ukq$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> awallner@eb.com writes: > I am trying to use the not well documented command: > set table <tablename> memory_resident; > to force tables to stay in main memory. > The command executes ok, but I don't see the expected performance > im…
memory resident tables
I am trying to use the not well documented command: set table <tablename> memory_resident; to force tables to stay in main memory. The command executes ok, but I don't see the expected performance improvement. Has anyone successfully used this and obtained significantly better re…
Index on Informix Online 7.22 ?
I have installed a new Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.22UC3 on our server (HP-UX 10.20). I find it is much much slower than the Informix 7.12 Online DS server if I do not create index for a same program. Why and what is the difference between the two version of Dynamic serv…
Re: esqlvers statement.....results are different on 2 DB servers ???
Tim Jones wrote: > > I've installed Informix 7.30UC3 with the ClientSDK 2.01 software on 2 > servers. Let's call them Server A and B. > > Both A and B had a prior ESQL/C versions. > > After the install, logged in as informix userid on A and ran "esqlvers" > and got this : > I…
esqlvers statement.....results are different on 2 DB servers ???
I've installed Informix 7.30UC3 with the ClientSDK 2.01 software on 2 servers. Let's call them Server A and B. Both A and B had a prior ESQL/C versions. After the install, logged in as informix userid on A and ran "esqlvers" and got this : INFORMIX-ESQL Version 7.22.UC1 …
Informix Dynamic Server Personal Edition
What development apps are known to work with IDS-PE for 95? Infrmx wants to sell me licenses for Dynamic 4gl, esql-c, ddvb for 150usd. Do these work and are there others? 150 sounds ok but the catch is is that the Open-Line Support is outrageous for this (3K usd for unlim. suppor…
Will informix 7.24.uc5 compatiable with solaris 7?
Hi there, I was wondering if Informix Dynamic Server 7.24.uc.5 will be compatiable with solaris 7 when it comes out? Thanks advance, Pat Militzer pmilitzer@ultracom.com…
Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.2.2
When I try to iniailize the shared memory I get an error "oninit: Critical error initializing shared memory" I checked the log and it says the base memory address is 0x80080000 and should be 0x80400000 when I change it it reverses. this is on a SCO open server 5. nay ideas.…
Informix Dynamic Server on Linux NOW!
Check out the Informix WEB Site. There is an announcement that IDS 7.3 is shipping on Linux TODAY! http://www.informix.com/ Art S. Kagel…
Problem installing to NT4.0 server
I'm trying to install Informix dynamic server workgroup edition to Primary domain Nt 4.0 Server. I have created Informix-Admin group and Informix account and grant it all Administrators rights and also Domain administrator rights. The server setup runs ok, but when setup is tryi…
Determining what database your connected to in a SP
I have a stored procedure that is distributed accross many databases (development, testing, certification, training and production). The development and testing db reside on the same box in two different instances. The certification and training database reside on the same box on…
Deployment Licenses of Informix Dynamic Server
I need a free Deployment Licenses of Informix Dynamic Server!…
Re: Informix Dynamic Server blocks
In article <3609EB18.2AB1B1CD@bull.net>, Helmut Leininger <Helmut.Leininger@bull.net> writes >Hi, > >Sporadically, the Informix server seems to block (every try to connect >or onstat times out and no reaction on onmode -ky). In the MSGPATH I >find the following message: > >09:03:…
Informix Dynamic Server blocks
Hi, Sporadically, the Informix server seems to block (every try to connect or onstat times out and no reaction on onmode -ky). In the MSGPATH I find the following message: 09:03:42 mt.c, line 8362, thread 2139, proc id 17096, mt_notifyvp timed out. Informix server is 7.22.UC2…
Informix Dynamic Server blocks
Hi, Sporadically, the Informix server seems to block (every try to connect or onstat times out and no reaction on onmode -ky). In the MSGPATH I find the following message: 09:03:42 mt.c, line 8362, thread 2139, proc id 17096, mt_notifyvp timed out. Informix server is 7.22.UC2…
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…
Re: Problem with Multiple Residency
dday@rheem.com wrote: > > If you set the user id of the ifmx2 to the same as informix > it will solve your problem. We are running the same type setup > on HP-UX. > Dave > > In article <sFp24LAEV4z1EwQp@smooth1.demon.co.uk>, > David Williams <djw@smooth1.demon.co.uk> wrote: > >…
Multiple residency - 7.2.3 and 9.1.4
Hi all, Is it possible to have both ODS 723 and IDS/UDO 914 running on the same machine, sharing data and resources. I personally feel that it is not possible because they are two completely different architectures right now but I need for the gurus on the group to tell me that…
Multiple residency of 7.2.3 and 9.1.4
Hi all, I wanted to find out if it is possible to have ODS 7.2.3 and IDS/UDO 9.1.4 running on the same machines sharing data and resources - I personally feel that it is not posssible because they are two completely different architectures right now, but I need feedback from the…
Re: Problem with Multiple Residency
Have you tried to move ifmx2 before informix in your /etc/passwd file. May be it wouldn't work any longer. Anyway such "solutions" are a bit strange as there is no need to do them at all and it mostly helps to create confusion. As user informix is so special it seems to me a bet…
Re: Problem with Multiple Residency
If you set the user id of the ifmx2 to the same as informix it will solve your problem. We are running the same type setup on HP-UX. Dave In article <sFp24LAEV4z1EwQp@smooth1.demon.co.uk>, David Williams <djw@smooth1.demon.co.uk> wrote: > In article <35C851D6.7675CD0E@informat…
Re: Problem with Multiple Residency
In article <35C851D6.7675CD0E@informatik.uni-augsburg.de>, Matthias Wagner <wagner@informatik.uni-augsburg.de> writes >I am setting up IUS for multiple residency (2 IUS server on one AIX >machine). Therefore I have set up a second user beside the standard >user informix > > user:…
Re: Problem with Multiple Residency
>I am setting up IUS for multiple residency (2 IUS server on one AIX >machine). Therefore I have set up a second user beside the standard >user informix I don't understand. Why do you have to have multiple users? It's the INFORMIXSERVER, INFORMIXDIR, and ONCONFIG environment v…
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…
Problem with Multiple Residency
I am setting up IUS for multiple residency (2 IUS server on one AIX machine). Therefore I have set up a second user beside the standard user informix user: ifmx2 group: informix with an appropriate environment (ONCONFIG, SERVERNUM, SERVERNAME etc.). This worked out fine, i.e.…
Re: OnLine Dynamic Server 7.2 Vs INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3
Ben Jazi wrote: > > What are the major differences between INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server > 7.2 and INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3? Is it ORDBMS vs RDMBS? > > Thanks, > Ben I don't know the differences in detail but you could check the following pages, where IDS 7.3 is described …
OnLine Dynamic Server 7.2 Vs INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3
What are the major differences between INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server 7.2 and INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3? Is it ORDBMS vs RDMBS? Thanks, Ben…
Informix computer Base classes
Has any body used the Informix computer base training classes. I am wondering if any of the computer based training classes: "Informix Dynamic Server System Administration" or the "Managing and Optimizing Informix Dynamic Server Databases" is good. Thank You…
Re: Informix Online Dynamic Server 7 on Linux
Piet le Roux wrote: > > If anyone has succeeded to run Informix ODS 7 (SCO) on Linux help would > be appreciated. > I have installed iBCS and the shared libraries and the binaries work, > except that the engine cannot initialize shared memory: Error message > semctl: errno 22…
Informix Online Dynamic Server 7 on Linux
If anyone has succeeded to run Informix ODS 7 (SCO) on Linux help would be appreciated. I have installed iBCS and the shared libraries and the binaries work, except that the engine cannot initialize shared memory: Error message semctl: errno 22 create_vp: cannot allocat m…
Problems with Informix Dynamic Server for NT
Hi Has anyone tried downloading and running the dynamic server product for NT? I have it installed, but get the following error when I boot the system: AdmAgent.exe - Applicatioin error The instruction at "0x10087c69 referenced memory at "0x00000000". The memory could not be r…
RE: 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…
shared memory
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------F12A58D21005157C74BAD832 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hello; how do i go about initalizing shared memory for informix 7.2 on a sun? --------------F12A58D21005157C74BAD8…
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: +…
STUDENT RESIDENCE IN MADRID
Hello, this is a student residence located at the center of Madrid. Buses, undergrounds, stores, fun, etc. Stay with us if you come to our city! ARTI RESIDENCE Shared room (per person) B+B Per night......................................2.800 pesetas per night Single room B+B Pe…
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…
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, …
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: Upgrading Informix from Online engine to Dynamic Server
Seth Grimes wrote: > > Jane Vohden wrote: > > > > I have been talking with Informix about upgrading our site from the > > 5.xx Online engine to 7.2x Dynamic Server. They said there was no cost > > I don't think that anyone has pointed out the mistaken terminology > h…
What's the difference between ODS 7.22 and 7.23?
What's the difference between Informix Online Dynamic Server version 7.22 and version 7.23? Thanks in advance. Bill Westphal Rodney District Council mis@rodney.govt.nz…
ODBC unix and dynamic SQL
Hi, Can someone give me some help on using informix odbc drivers (unix) with dynamic SQL on Informix-online dynamic server (7.22 unix) when I use "SQLprepare" I receive the message "too many or too few host variables given" but I think all is Ok R. Gueye…
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: 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: 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…
Finding the dbspace a db resides in
Anyone got a quick and dirty way to find out what dbspace a particular database resides in? I know the info is available from tbcheck -pe but I've got over 700 databases in my instance and it's kind of a pain doing it that way. Thanks in advance. BTW - I'm running 5.07 -- ~~~…
Java and Informix Dynamic Server 7.x
Hi friends! I am trying to do server-side java cgi programming to connect to I-ODS 7.x. Do you know how I can do that? I heard it is possible to use the jdbc-odbc bridge( intersolve or openlink's), but the performance is too slow, because of jdbc to odbc and odbc to jdbc convert…
Re: HELP !!!!!
In reply to Igor Andjelkovic's email about HELP !!!!!, on 1 May 97 Hi Igor, > I have a two error messages before my 4GL starts up > Actually , it is only one. > tbmode: forced-resident shared memory error > tbmode: shmctl: errno = 1. > > Please if anybody can help me out, k…
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: error -956 "client not trusted" in NT
You can also connect the db server via network. Note that hosts.equiv resides in %windir%\\system32\\drivers\\etc on NT. For more information see my response in the tread "dbaccess "trusted user" or not..." Uwe…
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 …
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: shmdt: errno = 22
Double check the shared memory parameters Informix suggests for 7.12 for your kernel. Good Luck, Arun…
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…
Multiple Residency / Multiple Processors
I have three 7.2 database running on a 4 processor RS/6000. One is small, one medium and one very large. I would like to get better performance from the large one. I'm afraid to setup the large database as if there were 4 processors available to it. Should I setup as if there…
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…
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…
Can not create resident segment
Hello alls, I have posted this problem since last week and get no response. But the problem still occur. My server can't create resident segment after a long period of working. When I look into online.log file. It says "shmget:[EEXIST] shared memory already exists …
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: Surely - the *dumbest* Informix question
Yes, you need to buy the 4GL runtimes from Informix. The SE databases are essential flat files that reside in a directory, This directory must be in your DBPATH environment variable. Hope this helps. Terry Hillick CSCS, Inc. (407)365-6118…
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: 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…
Re: Q: Does ESQL/C require a local engine?
> I would like to install ESQL/C on a system without a local engine. > However, OnLine 7.10 will reside on the network. Can I do this? Should be no problem...…
Q: Does ESQL/C require a local engine?
I would like to install ESQL/C on a system without a local engine. However, OnLine 7.10 will reside on the network. Can I do this? Thanks. Edwin Babadaglian edwinb@panix.com…
Re: shared memory resident??
Tracy Nedd writes: |> Albert, |> You must read the $INFORMIXDIR/release/ONLINE_5.X notes to see if |> the hardware you are on supports forced residency. If it does, |> then all one must do is to set the $INFORMIXDIR/etc/tbconfig |> parameter of RESIDENT to 1. Then bring…
Re: shared memory resident??
Albert, You must read the $INFORMIXDIR/release/ONLINE_5.X notes to see if the hardware you are on supports forced residency. If it does, then all one must do is to set the $INFORMIXDIR/etc/tbconfig parameter of RESIDENT to 1. Then bring ONLINE to offline and back to o…
shared memory resident??
Hi all, Anabody knows, wheter it is possible to indicate informix 5.1 on a CGI-Indy to have the shared memory resident in the ram, so it won't be swapped? Pls an answer, so I can defend Informix for a new project. ---------------------------------------------------------------…
Re: *Problem with Multiple Residency**
We didn't have NFS mounted stuff. We just wanted to ESQL/C application from SUN SPARC to access the database server on DEC machine. I looked thru my release notes but didn't find any linking documentation on libiasf but only on libisam.a for Native Language Support in the case …
Re: *Problem with Multiple Residency**
I hope you meant that you had a good ip address in the /etc/hosts file and a port in the /etc/services file, not the other way around as you stated. Also, did you change the server number in the config file? That's what really sets instances apart.…
Re: *Problem with Multiple Residency**
On Thu, 2 Nov 1995, Sanjay Kumar wrote: > We had a similar problem on SPARC-5 while installinng ESQL/C 7.1 > > Our programs used to get an error 25573 - Network driver can't accept > connection to the port. > > After lot of research, I found that the linker was unable to locate …
Re: *Problem with Multiple Residency**
We had a similar problem on SPARC-5 while installinng ESQL/C 7.1 Our programs used to get an error 25573 - Network driver can't accept connection to the port. After lot of research, I found that the linker was unable to locate the libnsl.so ; so I copied the libnsl.so to libnsl…
*Problem with Multiple Residency**
Can any body help with second instance problem: I'm trying to create a second instance of Informix 7.1 on our Solaris Sparc-20 in the lab. I've done all the dirty work of creating a new CONFIG file, adding entry in the $INFORMIXDIR/etc/sqlhosts, amking sure they match with /et…
How do I get last archive 0 date??
Hello, When you go into tbmonitor->status->Archive you get list and the date of the last archive zero. I want to get that info from an .ec program Does anyone know what database:table this info resides in??? Thanks Randy Paries rtparies@ingr.com…
Re: INFORMIX-Online Dynamic Server intallation
copy the standard onconfig file and make as few changes as possible to the different parameters. after you are sure you can bring informix online, should you begin to make changes to the onconfig parameters. Use ONMONITOR to make the changes. It will protect you from many mista…
INFORMIX-Online Dynamic Server intallation
I'm about to install INFORMIX-Online Dynamic Server V.7.1 on a SPARC 1000. Has anyone installed this database on a sparc before? If yes...do you have any suggestions or could you give me any advice on certain aspects of the installation you felt might be important to take notice?…
Re: 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…
sql syntax
I am having trouble with the following sql statement: create table reside (reside char(35), address text , htype decimal(6) ) I guessed type might have been a reserved word and so changed it to htype. Might address be a reserved word? Where in the manuals do I find a list of re…
which dbspace a database is in?
Does anyone know how to tell which dbspace a database resides in? Thanks in advance. -- Rick Hamel Database Administrator x2345 rickh@marcam.com…
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…
A question about tbload
Do you know if tbload utility preserves the dbspace in which a table resides? Thanks. -- Maximo Maldonado Boyso Voice: (52-83) 58-2000 ext 4111 ITESM Campus Monterrey Fax: (52-83) 69-2004 Information Services Department Internet: mmaldona@m…