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Upgrade 11.50 to 12.10
Many Thanks Andreas for your suggestion. I am quite lucky at this site as I am using NetApp snapshot functionality. This provides Instant Backup before the upgrade and Instant Recovery in the event of a failure during the upgrade process. regs Mark…
Informix: oncheck -pr in Fast Recovery mode
Actually, folks, I was wrong about the HA situation. It had been refreshing from an archive, which also displays "Fast Recovery" mode. Hence my error. The recovery failed, leaving the server in that fake Fast Recovery state. I have opened a ticket with HCVL over the grossly m…
What triggers a blocking checkpoint?
Hats off (but not the kipa :-) to Art, and both Andreas's. The overwhelming proportion of checkpoints last under 1/2 second, hough some go over 5 seconds. Nobody complains about those. But this morning had a 2-1/2 minute blockage. OUCH! First Art: I indeed set up that 15-minute …
Resync RSS server
Hello, Yes I tried to restart. Andreas, effectively it expects logs from tape 14:39:25 RSS: Start failure recovery from tape ... I'll try a log recovery Thanks ------------------------------ Samuel To ------------------------------…
12.10.FC15W1AWE Blocked in LONGTX
Hello everyone. How is it possible that 12.10.FC15W1AWE gets Blocked on LONGTX? DYNAMIC_LOGS is set to 2 but the engine was not adding any new logs (although there was more than enough space in ROOTDBS.) onmode -ky was impossible (it just hung) so rebooting the server was the on…
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 ------------------------------…
Is it possible to import the copy made with ontape from one database to another PC?
I have tried starting the server with the -i switch but it has no effect. Sometimes it cuts off in the initialization phase, and other times in the Fast Recovery phase, but it always ends up warning that the shared memory could not be initialized. ------------------------------ G…
Replication of Informix
Hi Kirit, I am only simulating replication between Primary and Secondary. The primary is online state and secondary fast recovery, The primary is not able to connect to the secondary and vice versa. This is the discussion here to sort the issue. Now, i am surprised when you said …
Blocking Checkpoint?
Ifmx 12.10.FC14 Solaris 10 1/13 What does it mean when a checkpoint shows "# Waits" = 1, but "Block Time", "Ckpt Time", "Wait Time", "Long Time" are all zero? Critical Sections Physical Log Logical Log Clock …
Things That Should Never Happen
Had a "fun" one today. We have a four-node cluster that features a primary, an HDR secondary (NEAR_SYNC mode), a regular RSS secondary and an RSS secondary with DELAY_APPLY=12H. The cluster is running a patched version, with three of the four nodes running 12.10.FC14XO but the pr…
ontape error
idsdb00105650 ( IT32529 ) : With extended Checkpoint/Log reserved pages and encryption at rest with rootdbs encrypted, server may fail to come online…
Block during checkpoint
You are only using around 5000 pages of physical log space between checkpoints so you definitely do not need more log space. The problem is probably the number of dirty pages at checkpoint time. What type of checkpoints are being reported by onstat -g ckp?…
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…
Informix 7.30 failed to start
I am maintaining a legacy system using informix 7.3. The system has crash recently. At the start of oninit, the logs file shows that there is an error after logical recovery process. Also from oncheck -cR there are invalid entries in the logical log. Is there anyway to skip logi…
Checkpoint statistics
Hello all, I am posting the checkpoint statistics output below onstat -g ckp IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 12.10.FC6 -- On-Line -- Up 2 days 07:38:02 -- 5318400 Kbytes AUTO_CKPTS=On RTO_SERVER_RESTART=60 seconds Estimated recovery time 23 seconds Critical Sections Phys…
ONCHECK & checkpoints
IDS 12 AIX 7 Can this command cause large checkpoints ? oncheck -cDI eppix:"informix".my_table my_table = 455 million rows…
Transactions blocked in output of online log
This means that 1 transaction has been blocked by the checkpoint (which is acceptable). Important data is how long the transaction has been blocked: if you see more than a few seconds, you probably have performance issues with your checkpoints and must address them. Once is accep…
Updatable Secondary (RSS)
P.S. If, after observing the log message that all transactions have been completed, I immediately down the server, edit the ONCONFIG to "UPDATABALE_SECONDARY 1", and then restart the RSS, it comes up the same. Perpetual Fast Recovery, and no "Finished with transactions" message.…
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…
Checkpoints statistics
Hello Users, We are using IDS 12.10 FC8 DB server, Application is developed in Java and app server is JBOSS Our application is taking long time to save the data into database trhough application. Find the online log details below: 09:23:22 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 …
Informix and speculative execution
Hi all, I have seen speculative execution patches for Firefox and SQL Server. Are there speculative execution patches for Informix in progress? There is no IBM Flash for Informix Dynamic Server and speculaative execution! Regards, David.…
Informix 12.1 Blocking Checkpoints
Hi Unfortunately I dont have access to the system now and the time might have already loses for me to take the command. What usually causes blocking time in checkpoints ? Is it possible that my physics log or Logica log is still missing ? I just want to avoid blocking transact…
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…
Secondary stuck in Fast Recovery
Ok guys, I need your help again ugh. So I have this dev setup Ive been working on. Sounded simple. I have two Version 11.5F9DE instances running with a primary and secondary set with HDR replication running. I wanted to try a FULL and DIFFERENTIAL backup and restore on the pri…
HDR Implementaion
But the issue is not solved still my secondary server is in Fast Recovery mode. I had run onmode -m. but still no use. I had used ontape -p to restore in secondary. Could you help me to move forward.…
Question on PHYSFILE size and buffers ...
My current buffers are totaled for 53000 while according to the guideline found inside the onconfig file, my PHYSFILE is sized good for roughly up to 272000 total buffers? (299000/1.1), am I reading this correctly?Thanks in advance for any inputs.Kern -- #########################…
overzealous checkpoints
Right. I have a client that will get bursts of IPL checkpoints close together caused by a job that alters several tables to RAW mode, loads data, then alters it back to STANDARD mode. Art On May 8, 2017 13:08, "JACQUES RENAUT" <jrenaut@us.ibm.com> wrote: > Original Post: > > T…
Physical Log Sizing
A physical log too large does not hirt. It will only be disk space reserved for the instance. However, if you plan to use RTO_SERVER_RESTART, you will need more physical log space . In this case a much larger physical space is more than welcome. Even in that case, if you are ric…
how to monitor alter columns on a large table
Ok, I have stopped the operation, by onclean, and when I restart the instance , It's now on recovery, should the recovery take as long as the operation does?…
LOGBUFF Setting
Hi, We are running Informix 11.70.FC7W2 on Solaris 11. We have been getting the following message in the online.log. 01/24/17 15:24:55 Checkpoint log record may not fit into the logical log buffer. Recommended minimum value for LOGBUFF is 130. We currently have LOGBUFF set to …
IDS not writing to online.log
yes, I can't see logical logs and checkpoints in online.log. What should I look for in onstat -g ath and stk ?…
LOGBUFF size
Hi, We set , LOGBUFF 256 Occasionally, I still see this sometimes, 58087a28 Y--P--- 4082303 saapmgr - 551cf760 0 1 0 0 580882e8 G-BPX-- 3671545 saapmgr - 526d0898 0 2 29 48411 58088ba8 Y--P--- 2478091 saapmgr - 55a96230 0 1 116 14986 So, a session is waiting for the log buff…
Long checkpoint problem
Hi, Ok, if I dedicate to large tables their own dbspace, would this bring more performance and good checkpoints time?…
Fast recovery slow
Hi, My environment is Informix 11.70 FC8W1 on HP-UX 11.31. I shutdown a server with onmode -ky. There was a "heavy" transaction in progress. After running oninit -v, and after an hour, I see that the instance is still in "fast recovery". With onstat -u, I see that there is a thr…
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)…
Long checkpoint
Hi iiug team, May i ask your help on how can i trap or any utilities available to trap what is causing the long checkpoint in my production db. It is running IDS 11.7FCx in AIX 7. This doesn't happened before just started last month and it's not consistently showing. Here are t…
oninit taking ages
Folks, this is a VMWare ESX 5. (I'll have to check) Box has 32 Gb configured I have a 2K bufferfool of 8 Gb and initial shmvirtsize of 6 Gbb (I know, it's huge but some applications pull hard on shmvirt). There was effectively some transactions are shudown, but only 4 pages Phy…
Informix Fail to Online
Hi, Our informix instance crash after server restart.refer below error message. 10:08:49 IBM Informix Dynamic Server Started. 10:08:51 Segment locked: addr=c00000000fb1a000, size=643399680 Thu Apr 16 10:08:52 2015 10:08:52 Event alarms enabled. ALARMPROG = '/usr/informix/etc/…
Checkpoint blocked by a previous checkpoint
Hi folks. I have a situation that I suspect but can't get IBM to confirm or deny. Thus, I'm requesting a peer review that my logic is correct and a likely explanation of a blocked checkpoint. Solaris 10 IDS 11.50.FC3X5 This is what I think happened: My client's production box…
RSS not working
-bash-4.2$ onstat - IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.FC9 -- On-Line --…
index rebuilds happen when server boots
There no indexes being built that I know of. The only think I did was set RTO_SERVER_RESTART 240 in the onconfig . Maybe he buffers did not flush in time? -----Original Message----- From: John Miller iii Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2014 7:09 PM To: ids@iiug.org Subject: Re: Re: …
Fast recovery problem
Hi, We did have database which was in nonloggin mode and checkpoint did hang. We shutted down the informix and started it up. When we started the informix, it did perform Fast Recovery. Last checkpoint was 14.8.2014(DMY) 03:00 and this happended 15.8.2014 17:49. So all that day …
fast recovery
Aix 6.1 IDS 11.70.fc3 Had a transaction reach the long transaction HWM after running for about 5 hours...I know .. error in the sql statement to switch the table to raw before doing this mass delete .. anyways ... attempted to onmode -z sessionid .. that resulted in the engine g…
Slowest restore Ever via onbar need help
I'm also not sure if the "checkpoint req" message is causing the blocking...can i execute 'onmode -c' to force checkpoint?…
Fast Recovery (CKPT REQ)
Hi there, There was a electricity failure in my data center and my informix database server was also down. After restarting the DB server, we are facing following errors in the online.log file and below is the output of (onstat -) command: #onstat - IBM Informix Dynamic Server V…
Checkpoints slowing down the insert on Primary
Hello. Are you sure your "onstat -g ckp" output was generated after activating the RTO policy? Your ouput header says it is turned off: AUTO_CKPTS=On RTO_SERVER_RESTART=Off What is the size/ammount of your logical-log files? That must be causing your engine to run a checkpoint s…
Informix upgrade
Can we upgrade informix from Dynamic Server Version 11.70 to 12.1 workgroup edition directly?…
CHKPTINTVL inconsistent
11.70.FC4 AIX RTO_SERVER_RESTART 0 AUTO_CKPTS 1 CKPTINTVL 300 I have noticed that on a production HDR instance the checkpoint interval is not staying true around the 300 seconds interval. It seems to switch back and forth from 300s to 900s then to 600s, with the only noticeable…
Database in (LONGTX) need identify case user
Hi All, i have informix 11.70.FC6X5 some time database hang with LONGTX can i track the case user at this point and is there any way to avoid this issue also in this point if i restart the engine it's taking long time to come online (it's in fast recovery status long time). Tha…
Performance Impact after storage migration
Hello All, IDS 11.50.FC8W2 on HP-UX B.11.31 U ia64 Recently we have upgraded our storage and the hp boxes and since then we see intermittent performance issues. onstat -g ckp AUTO_CKPTS=On RTO_SERVER_RESTART=180 seconds Estimated recovery time 1304 seconds We observed that th…
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.…
Fast Recovery (CKPT REQ) state
Hi Art, Well, it seems it's not working in this version, or maybe it's not supposed to work in Fast-Recovery mode, and the message is misleading (saying it should be in Quiescent or Off-line). Thanks for all your help. Best regards, Florencia…
LRU *less* aggressive??
Hi , ifx 11.50FC9X6 , AIX 6.1 *My questions* : 1) The engine auto tunning, is smarter to make LRU less aggressive? (making dirty LRU higher). 2) Is possible make the auto tunning "more aggressive" ?? (please, read bellow to understand the context of my question) This last week…
checkpoint was stalled
OS : redhat ids : 9.40uc1 We run this system for 10 years without any problem. But It got worse recently. It had occured several time and show messages like this : $ onstat - Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC1 -- On-Line (CKPT REQ) Blocked:CKPT All the clients can no…
why did you organize the line ?
Hello, this site seems appropriate http://www.facebook.com/pages/AW4SiS/376032499112053; why did you organize the art recovery? ciao…
DB_locale or local naming convention
Hi, I already mention the informix version. IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.TC1IE…
Physical log size
IDS 11.50.fc6 HP-UX 11.31 PA-RISC For one of my instances, the online log file includes the following messages at startup: 19:38:04 Performance Advisory: The physical log size is smaller than the recommended size for a server configured with RTO_SERVER_RESTART. 19:38:04 Results…
Question on Checkpoint Tuning How To for IBM Infor
Hello Informix gurus, I got 2 questions relating to checkpoint. 1. I've heard long checkpoint is acceptable in a data warehouse environment, but as far as I'm concerned, it's not so ok, it's been affecting the performance. In this environment, we have load jobs going on, then rep…
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,…
RTO_SERVER_RESTART configuration parameter
hello all we currently have this parameter disabled. I am looking for feedback on experiences using this parameter versus how we are doing it, which is to use the CKPTINTVL configuration parameter. thanks tom…
reduce size of root dbspace
Wow... IDS is fully fault tolerant apart from serious and rare bugs. A crash will not corrupt anything and the fast recovery assures that things get to good shape on startup. And you have mirroring... On Jul 18, 2012 4:07 PM, "FRANK J. COMPUTER" <frank_in_pr@hotmail.com> wrote: …
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…
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 …
Archive backup terminated prematurely
Thanks, Mark. One of the ontape backup failures occurred on Wed Dec 28 22:19:15 PST 2011. I don't think I see anything odd in the logs around the time of failure that wasn't there for a previous successful backup: onconfig.prod ============= MSGPATH /bml/logs/informix/prod.log #…
Informix 10.00.TC5 CKPT REQ Logica Log Full
What option do you mean? An oprion to set in ONCONFIG or an option of ONPARAMS? Because in my situation I can't use Informix commands I can only act on ONCONFIG file that runs before the FAST RECOVERY MODE. Thanks…
Disaster Recovery testing and HDR
The production Informix instance and the disaster recovery (DR) instance are a HDR pair. The DR is a read-only secondary. We have a significant disaster test coming up shortly and I would like to break the HDR link and bring the DR instance up as a stand-alone read-write server. …
Problems with long checkpoints
Hello, We're stuck without a dba after some massive layoffs. I know a little, but I'm no dba. IDS 11.50.FC6 on RHEL 5.3 We have a development instance that is suddenly going into long checkpoints (43 minutes, 61 minutes, 90 minutes!). We've rebooted the server and restarted …
Checkpoint: Txn Block Time
Hello, All the big time checkpoints are triggered by RTO onstat -g ckp: AUTO_CKPTS=Off RTO_SERVER_RESTART=90 seconds Estimated recovery time 51 seconds 148721 04:56:24 RTO 175208:0x19798018 54.6 53.5 0.0 63 46116716757.8 148725 07:13:43 RTO 175214:0x745f018 42.4 46.0 0.0 41 46…
AUTO_CKPTS=Off when started and no checkpoints at all during a day???
On Aug 16, 12:45 pm, Superboer <superbo...@t-online.de> wrote: > Hello All, > > something i do not understand: > > AUTO_CKPTS are switched to on in $ONCONFIG according to the manual > AUTO_CKPTS will decide > then when to checkpoint. AUTO_CKPTS are switched off when the engine > …
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…
Re: AIO and Buffer Waits
Hi Alberto, if calculating the LRU queues as you suggested the value would be 2400 LRUS not 240. Are you sure that would be correct? The values AUTO_CKPTS 1 RTO_SERVER_RESTART 600 are set. I cannot increase the physical log because I have 2 GB chunks as biggest. And y…
Instance constantly checkpointing...
Hi Everyone. I've got a server instance that is effectively constantly check pointing, (as in once every couple of seconds) Onstat -g ckp tells me "AUTO_CKPTS=On RTO_SERVER_RESTART=Off", and it also tells me that the trigger for all these checkpoints is Plog. Onstat -l shows th…
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.…
PIT Recovery
Hi, We are using IDS 11.50 FC6 & FC7 on Solaris Sparc. How can we make sure that we perform PIT Recovery in Informix? What are the different backup technologies available that supports PIT ? Thanks.…
Quick Recovery
HI, How can we ensure quick recovery using Level-0 (or using snapshot backup) for any Instance. Also, how the performance of HDR/RSS improved if we have a huge transaction volume at Primary Instance ? Means, Is there any way to keep RSS / HDR behind Primary Instance (say for 10…
vmware informix backup
I would always choose the Informix backup. That way you can assure data integrity as well as provide PIT recovery.…
onbar recovery in IDS v10
I have a client's database from a several months old backup that I am trying to restore. For some reason the onbar/ism bootstrap was not written to the backup savesets when the backup was run. The backup is always a level 0 backup and I have all the ixbar.#, oncfg.*, and onconfig…
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…
Fast Recovery
I have a case that I need the help of friends to solve An instance (very badly configured) received a transaction that was to last a LONG TRANSACTION, when I did a rollback to 7828 LOG 7815, but not complete, and is an instance in the status of Fast Recovery (CKPT REQ) and not c…
onstat -g ckp - conv/rev ???
Hi people, What's the trigger Conv/Rev mean? This occur into a production environment... AUTO_CKPTS=On RTO_SERVER_RESTART=1800 seconds Estimated recovery time 57 seconds Critical Sections Physical Log Logical Log Clock Total Flush Block # Ckpt Wait Long # Dirty Dskflu Total A…
onstat -g ckp - conv/rev ???
Hi people, What's the trigger Conv/Rev mean? This occur into a production environment... AUTO_CKPTS=On RTO_SERVER_RESTART=1800 seconds Estimated recovery time 57 seconds Critical Sections …
Buffers not flushed
Is a high number on the buffers not flushed something to be concerned about? Fuzzy Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds, 36941 buffers not flushed.…
Config
Just glancing, but your BTR looks a little high. Some config suggestions below. Art Art S. Kagel Advanced DataTools (www.advancedatatools.com) IIUG Board of Directors (art@iiug.org) Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that my own opinions are my own opinions and do not reflect on …
Checkpoint Tuning in 11.5
----- Original Message ----- From: "DAN MUELLER" <dan.mueller@trnswrks.com> To: <ids@iiug.org> Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 3:21 PM Subject: Checkpoint Tuning in 11.5 [20940] >I have had my nose stuck in the books and a bunch of onstats trying to >figure > out if it is better t…
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…
onipcshm conn failing 25592
Hi there, IDS11.50FC7, SLES10.3 when I'm logged in to the linux shell (the same is with SS) with environment set to use devdub01 ids instance I'm trying to connect to devdub00 (another IDS instance on the same machine) getting 25592 error. Here are the checks: # echo $INFORMIXSE…
Performance issue with ZFS
We have set as per your recommendation but still we are facing checkpoint took time . Can you help me further?…
how to force aborting long transaction
As I rememebered , there used to be a tbzero or else can make a checkpoint flag , is there a tool like that in iiug ? or it is for ibm internal only ~~…
non-blocking checkpiont, physical log & fast recov
Dear collegues, I have one question related with non-blocking checkpiont. As far as I know when a checkpoint occurs, IDS blocks all transactions while flushing all dirty pages in the bufferpool to disk. When it finishes writes a checkpoint record to the current logical log and …
RE: New Informix packaging and, presumably, pricing
Again, Interesting. Its an open door for companies like Home Depot to use this on their store servers to support their local inventory control and POS activities. (Stops the uptake of MySQL in to these customers.) If this is true, it shows that IBM's IM execs recognize the fact…
Re: New Informix packaging and, presumably, pricing
It sure is. "Need a free database? Download Informix now. Free to develop, free to deploy" Cool! The IBM License Information documents for Innovator-C and Ultimate-C have this language: 1) IBM Base License This Program has been provided to Licensee at no charge. This Lice…
Ontape restore : Fast recovery hangs
Hi, I've launched an 'ontape -r -rename -f <file>' to restore an instance version 940 from a tape. But since 2 hours the instance is in Fast Recovery mode as 'onstat -' shows below : informix@pcoi01:pcoipcoi_tcp:/bases/informix/pcoipcoi/var/bdump> onstat - IBM Informix Dynamic…
Logical Recovery During restore
I am encountering a confusing issue at the moment regarding a restore of IDS10. After running a physical restore, the logical restore is still asking for logs prior to the level0 backup time. Below are the details from the physical restore: Please mount tape 1 on /database/arc…
AIX 5.3 IDS 11.50 FC5 - Performance Advisory
CKPTINTVL specifies the frequency, expressed in seconds, at which the database server checks to determine whether a checkpoint is needed. When a full checkpoint occurs, all pages in the shared-memory buffer pool are written to disk. When a fuzzy checkpoint occurs, nonfuzzy pages …
Re: Dbspace recovery
Hi Art/Fernando, I have now tried som recovery attempts both warm restore of one dbspace and a could one with all dbspaces inc. rootdbs. I also have tried the rename option, but it have failed every time. Do you see what I'm doeing wrong?: WARM RESTORE: -----------------------…
Re: Dbspace recovery
Oh, to your question about the sizes and number of dbspaces and chunks: Each chunk path must exist. Although you can use ontape's chunk rename feature to restore to different chunks even with different offsets there must be a one-to-one relationship between the original chunks …
Dbspace recovery
Hi, I have started testing revovery of a singe dbspace or all. The senario is that the server that the IDS was running on is completely gone and we have to restore a backup from the backupsystem (we use Veritas NetBackup) to a new server/host running the same IDS version (for ti…
Non-Blocking Checkpoints Appear to be Blocking
Sorry to top post but I still haven't found a good way to post to the forum from work. From the onstat -g ckp output, all the RTO checkpoints are flagged as interval flushing (nonblocking for the flush) due to the lack of the "*". There are several blocking checkpoints, the "Use…
Smart Blob Bottleneck?
IDS 11.50.UC5 Linux I currently have two smartblob spaces each consisting of 5 100-GB chunks to which I am taking data currently in a blob space and pushing it into the smart blob space -- we want to establish HDR Replication on the instance in the future. I have established 21…
RE: Long Checkpoints IDS 11.50
onstat -g ckp doesn't report any blocking: IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.FC5W4 -- On-Line -- Up 5 days 01:06:34 -- 8329216 Kbytes AUTO_CKPTS=On RTO_SERVER_RESTART=600 seconds Estimated recovery time 568 seconds …
Waiting for Next Logical Log File to be Freed
Hello my informix instance version 9.21 is actually in fast recovery and tell me "Waiting for Next Logical Log File to be Freed", i make backup off the logical logs, i try to add new logical log, i try to move a 9.30 version but i need to close the transaction that is open, does …
$ONCONFIG Parameter: RTO_SERVER_RESTART
IDS 11.50.FC5 AIX 5.3 While reviewing the $ONCONFIG parameters available on this instance, I came across this new parameter: ## Recovery Time Objective Server Restart RTO_SERVER_RESTART 0 # Number of Seconds, Overrides Checkpoint Interval ## Shared Memory Space Parameter CKPTI…
ontape -s -L 0 too slowly(online.log)
continue:Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.31.UD1 -- On-Line -- Up 3 days 15:46:06 -- 1080928 Kbytes Message Log File: /home/informix/online.log 21:24:31 Checkpoint loguniq 95638, logpos 0xc6e018 21:29:39 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 7 seconds. 21:29:39 Checkpoint loguniq…
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…
What is the difference oninit and onmode
Hi, I did try last night at home.. onmode -s, will put the engine into quiesent mode (from online)... oninit -s, will put the engine into quiesent mode (from offline). Thanks all for the input. oninit -j -- will put the engine in single user mode, ONly DBSA or informix can acce…
Backup and Recovery Using Onbar
Hi All, I'm new on using "onbar" backup utility. I was able to create a backup though Netbackup, but my problem now is how can i restore it in a different instance?... Pease see example below Source (which i did "onbar -b -L 0") INFORMIXSERVER=ids1 ONCONFIG=onconfig.ids1 TARG…
SDS - Processes hang durning Checkpoint on Primary
I have a client who is running into issues on SDS instance during checkpoints on primary. They are using non-blocking checkpoints. Some of the processes hang until 8:12:26. The checkpoint on the Primary started at 8:09:05 and finished at 8:15:19. >From looking at "onstat -g ckp…
oninit -r
We tried "oninit -m"... IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.UC5 -- On-Line (CKPT REQ) -- Up 00:03:33 -- 488472 Kbytes Blocked:CKPT Some information: - before this problem, the system was in a cdr replication state and we would disable this executing an "oninit -D", wh…
Automatic Checkpoints
Aix 6 IDS v11.50.FC5 Has anyone run into a situation where with the automatic checkpoints turned on ... the engine gets into a situation where it's constantly check pointing and nothing else can get done? I have had this happen several times ... haven't been able to cause it my…
Blocked checkpoint ...
IDS 11.50.fc4 Aix 6 I had a situation today where an underlying symbolic link was missing ... Engine came up .. put the warning in the online.log ... Eventually the system became Hung ... waiting on a checkpoint ... ONSPACEDOWN was set to 2 in the onconfig ... Here is the questi…
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…
Logical Log Files are Full -- Backup is Needed
Hi, Informix IDS complains that the logical logs are full. I am not able to shutdown or use the database. Here is my onstat -m. Any help to bring the system out of the "full recovery mode" is appreciated! ================================= informix@berlin:~$ onstat -m IBM Infor…
Re: External backup
<tilleul17@web.de> wrote in message news:mailman.198.1248949897.4791.informix-list@iiug.org... > I guess you mix two things up - fast recovery and a restore with a logical > restore (replay of logs) > > If you just want to be able to get IDS online to the point in time when > yo…
External backup
Neil Truby wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: Madison Pruet [mailto:mpruet1@verizon.net] > Sent: 27 July 2009 19:38 > To: Neil Truby > Subject: Re: External backup > > Neil Truby wrote: >> IDS 10.0 for example, any O/S. >> >> I've never understood why we have to an onmod…
I/O writes
Hi Art, Conitued to previous email, there are strange checkpoint triggers against "onstst -g ckp" ------------------------------------------------------- $ onstat -g ckp IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.FC3W1 -- On-Line (Prim) (CKPT INP) -- Up 02:48:27 -- 1183744 Kbyte…
HDR recovery in asynchronous mode
Hi, If primary server crashes in an HDR pair (asynchronous mode say DRINTERVAL=5), How can we prevent the data loss if storage of primary server is accessible for read/write mode but IDS instance is unable to start. Can we apply the primary logs by some manual method or some othe…
HDR (crash recovery)
Hi, We conducted a test to see the business impact if primary server crashes in an HDR. We inserted 200 independant inserts in a table. And killed the informix instance session (got from "onstat -g glo" command). Here are our findings: After crash of primary server the table on s…
nonblocking checkpoints
how do nonblocking checkpoint use the physical log? when do they fire? how does fast recovery work concerning nonblocing checkpoint?…
Several rollbacks on logical-logs
Bingo!!!! I´ve found the table, now I´m gonna review the analyst code to find out why are there lots of rollbacks!!! Thanks David!!!! And thanks Cesar too!!!! Alexandre Marini Analista de Tecnologia da Informação - DBA msn: alexandre_marini@hotmail.com SEFAZ-MS / UIMP / Sist…
Checkpoint duration
Hi I have a checkpoint issue. Most time the checkpoints last between 0 and 3 seconds. Some times I have sequences of 3 or 4 checkpoint when they last much longer, for example 27 seconds. Thats nearly half a minute and is recognized by the users. >From online.log: 1924 08:55…
JFS2 on AIX on IDS
Mark Scranton (Xtivia Inc.) wrote: > Does anyone have opinions - good, bad, or ugly - on using JFS2 on AIX > for IDS? Any comments would be appreciated! > > Thanks - > Mark > Xtivia Inc. > www.markscranton.com > System crashes (someone pulls plug out of wall). JFS does "Recovery…
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 …
Informix page cleaners (w/ a SAN)
James, are you experiencing any issues, long checkpoints maybe? You have 90ish chunks and 128 CLEANERS. During checkpoint each cleaner gets assigned to one chunk (in the order of chunk creation) so you're on the safe side there, the extra cleaners should just idle. Regards Dav…
Checkpoint Duration
I have an IDS, 7.31.FD3 as a database server for Java GUI client application. There were many times that the database checkpoint duration was very long while concurrent users were not as many as usual (there were some working days that the users work load was low). As checked in …
11.5 crashes after upgrade, data lost
Hi, We've just upgraded our production db from 9.4 32-bit to 11.5 64-bit. (Same machine, but Red-Hat upgraded as well.) After a morning of stability, ifx crashed at about 3:15 in the afternoon. The dbas brought the db back up, we restarted our app, and immediately noticed strang…
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…
Recovery Point with Informix IDS
Hi to ALL First of all I would like to inform you that we are running on Informix9.4 FC6 and at the end of this year we are planning to move to Informix 10 (latest version). A few day ago BULL company present to as the Recovery Point of EMC What I would like to know, because i…
Checkpoint durations
IDS 10.0FC8W2 on HP-UX 11.31 I'm tuning IDS on quite a large system (18 cpus, 65g memory, Tier One SAN). I have BUFFERS set to 10,000,000 (ie 20g), and lru_max_dirty to 0.5%.(ie 50,000 pages or 100m). lru_min_dirty is effectively zero. At times I'm seeingcheckpoints of 5 to 8…
Re: Fuzzy checkpoints, then Regular Checkpoints??
On Oct 27, 3:21 pm, "Mark Scranton (Xtivia Inc.)" <mark.scran...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Oct 25, 2:09 pm, nate...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > >Informix10.FC7: > > > 09:27:19 Maximum server connections 0 > > 09:32:22 FuzzyCheckpointCompleted: durationwas 0 seconds, 29 > > buffers n…
Re: Fuzzy checkpoints, then Regular Checkpoints??
Hi Nate, There are some things that require a "regular" checkpoint, and when those conditions are met, a "regular" checkpoint will still be issued. You should expect most of your checkpoints to be fuzzy though. -Mark Jamison ________________________________ From: "natebsi@gmai…
Fuzzy checkpoints, then Regular Checkpoints??
Informix 10.FC7: 09:27:19 Maximum server connections 0 09:32:22 Fuzzy Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds, 29 buffers not fl ushed. 09:32:22 Checkpoint loguniq 51, logpos 0x5b52f8, timestamp: 0x2c783a49 09:32:22 Maximum server connections 0 09:37:25 Fuzzy Checkpo…
slow views on IDS 11.50FC1
Hi, changing from 10.00FC4 to 11.50FC1 causes a "select * from view_XXX" to run more than 2 hours. On 10.00FC4 this select took not more than 10 minutes.An unload directly from the tables with the same select statement doesn't take more than 10 minutes on 11.50FC1 The reason to u…
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…
Enterprise Replication db recovery
Hi. I have a database that uses Enterprise Replication (at least it appears to be ER as opposed to High Availability Replication) based upon the use of "cdr" commmands and CDR* onconfig parms. It is a simple setup though. It is ONEWAY with only a subset of tables being replicated…
ARCHECKER Table level Recovery
A little frustrated with this utility - What is your experience? Can you help me? (Sorry for the story...) My experience: 1) if target table exists, simply appends. ;-( documentation implies it has to be a virgin table... and hence implying appending won't append... (?) but it …
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…
Long checkpoints
Hello there, I've been reading about long checkpoints issue for a while but haven't found solution for our case. We're using IDS 9.40.FC6 on Solaris 9 for OLTP. It is Sun Fire V1280 with 8 UltraSPARC-III+ 1.2 GHz and 16 Gb of RAM on board. The database is not large (compressed …
What means "nonblocked checkpoint" ?!
Thanks all.... In my test case , I use "onmode -c" to trigger checkpoint , and I was told this would always force a blocking checkpoint , it is my fault that ignore this behavior ...…
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…
Blocked:CKPT
Hello IDS 11.10.FC2W3 on solaris 10 I was hoping not to see Blocked:CKPT with IDS 11.10.FC2 but.... Doing a import activity using HPL and for last 3 hrs seeing this Blocked:CKPT VPCLASS cpu,num=4,max=4,noage ( i guess toooo less for a hectic import) Here is the stack IBM Inf…
Changing the Logging Mode
Thank you ! i think its better for me to do the activity with database in logging mode. -rw-rw---- 1 informix informix 12288000000 Jun 26 16:50 logdbs i have 586 total logical logs each of 20M. now if my single transaction fill this 586 logs ( which i backup with logful.sh) usi…
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.…
Cheetah2 connection manager and failover arbitrator
Andrew Ford wrote: > > > > This excerpt from the hdrmksec.sh script is what had me concerned > > echo " Note : -PHY is an undocumented option only used in this" > echo " HDR failover script" > > I have no problems using oninit -PHY, we use the hdrmk*.sh scripts all of th…
stalled checkpoint
Aix 5.3 ids 9.40fc9 All of a sudden I'm getting stalled checkpoints .. any pointers as to what to look at ... I must be missing something ...…
RTO_SERVER_RESTART
Hello, IDS 11.10 FC2W1 What exactly is to be set against RTO_SERVER_RESTART ?? is it the TIME with in which we want the server to complete the fast recovery once we restart the IDS. IF YES i read that it ignores the CKPTINTVL parameter so does it means that if we have set the R…
Info Required about Check Points
Did you read Scott Ashley's article on the subject? Do you have automatic checkpoints enabled? see: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/library/techarticle/dm-0703lashley/ Where it states: When IDS is configured with the RTO_SERVER_RESTART configuration parameter turned on, …
Re: Create Index Mysteriously Slow at the End - IDS 11.10.UC2W2 -RedHatEL5
Hello Andrew, hmmm sound like there are issues with checkpointing.... i suggest to file a case @ibm/informix; this may bite all of us someday... anyway you could try and generate your own stuff: create procedure generatechkpt() define dirty decimal (4,3); while (1=1) …
Re: Create Index Mysteriously Slow at the End - IDS 11.10.UC2W2 -RedHatEL5
Hello Andrew, what happens when you try onmode -B (used to be undoced for flushing the buffer cache the checkpoint way without actually doing a checkpoint....) Superboer. On 15 mei, 11:18, "Andrew Ford" <af...@networkip.net> wrote: > I think I've found a work around to my inde…
Re: Create Index Mysteriously Slow at the End - IDS 11.10.UC2W2 -RedHatEL5
I think you are on to something there with the LRU's. Possibly your LRU values need to be fractionalized so that you don't have too many to flush come checkpoint time. ----- Original Message ----- Subject: Re: Create Index Mysteriously Slow at the End - IDS 11.10.UC2W2 -RedHatEL…
Create Index Mysteriously Slow at the End - IDS 11.10.UC2W2 - Red Hat EL5
I'm running into some very strange high checkpoints and really poor performance towards the end of an index build. Can anyone shed some light on what could be going on? Things start off really great. Scan threads, xchng threads and psortproc threads hum along just fine writing…
Re: Can Disk mirroring/db snapshots replace the usage of taking database backups?
"Madison Pruet" <mpruet1@verizon.net> wrote in message news:47FE20AE.2050404@verizon.net... > If writes to the chunks were not blocked, then while the external copy was > being made, then there would not be a consistent image of the disks. The > first part of the copy could belo…
Re: Can Disk mirroring/db snapshots replace the usage of taking database backups?
Neil Truby wrote: > "Superboer" <superboer7@t-online.de> wrote in message > news:fffc5c22-82a8-4f19-ab32-f090f4c66179@u36g2000prf.googlegroups.com... > >>> Rightm, but all these snapshot-based technologies use "consistency group" >>> functionality so what you describe above doesn…
Re: Can Disk mirroring/db snapshots replace the usage of taking database backups?
> That's fine and dandy, but be clear that what you are saying is functionally > identical to saying that IDS Fast recovery cannot be relied upon either. oh yes it is since writing is controled by the engine. when fast recovery crashes due to corruption then this is a bug peri…
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…
Fuzzy vs Full Checkpoints v10.00.UC6
I suggest to disable fuzzy checkpoints - set NOFUZZYCKPT environment variable before you start IDS. and do sensitive checkpoint tuning. In my opinion fuzzy checkpoints provide too little performance benefit (any ?) at the price of too many bugs (crash recovery not working). In …
Tuning Checkpoints
I need some help getting checkpoints durations lowered. We are running informix 9.4. I have been working with Informix Tech support and it has gotten some better but it is not as good as it should be. We have been adjusting BUFFERS, LRUS, CLEANERS, LRU_MAX_DIRTY, and LRU_MIN_DIRT…
long checkpoints
hi, i have some problem with the long running checkpoints in IDS 7.31.UD8 on HP/UX. every day a batch utility making hig volume of insert and updates. and this batch works about 5-10 minutes(checkpoint times included). during this batch load one or two (long) checkpoints occur. (…
Re: IDS 9.4 Stuck at Fast Recovery
On 10/11/2007, Marco Greco <marco@4glworks.com> wrote: > Keith Simmons wrote: > > On 10/11/2007, Marco Greco <marco@4glworks.com> wrote: > >> Keith Simmons wrote: > >>> Anyone > >>> > >>> I havea test instance (not being archived that regularly) that > >>> suffered some disk corr…
Re: IDS 9.4 Stuck at Fast Recovery
Keith Simmons wrote: > On 10/11/2007, Marco Greco <marco@4glworks.com> wrote: >> Keith Simmons wrote: >>> Anyone >>> >>> I havea test instance (not being archived that regularly) that >>> suffered some disk corruption (crossed chunks with another instance >>> !!). It has bee runn…
Re: IDS 9.4 Stuck at Fast Recovery
On 10/11/2007, Marco Greco <marco@4glworks.com> wrote: > Keith Simmons wrote: > > Anyone > > > > I havea test instance (not being archived that regularly) that > > suffered some disk corruption (crossed chunks with another instance > > !!). It has bee running OK and Ihave been so…
Re: IDS 9.4 Stuck at Fast Recovery
Keith Simmons wrote: > Anyone > > I havea test instance (not being archived that regularly) that > suffered some disk corruption (crossed chunks with another instance > !!). It has bee running OK and Ihave been sorting issues with indexes > as they appear (the crossed chunks were…
IDS 9.4 Stuck at Fast Recovery
Anyone I havea test instance (not being archived that regularly) that suffered some disk corruption (crossed chunks with another instance !!). It has bee running OK and Ihave been sorting issues with indexes as they appear (the crossed chunks were on a dbspace containing mainly …
Unable to open input file 'c'
Informix 7.x SCO Unix When I do oninit, I get the following messages: Unable to open input file 'c' Unable to open input file 's' Informix go into fast recovery and then crash. Any advice? Regards David Reed…
OFF_RECVRY_THREADS and ON_RECVRY_THREADS
Does these parameters help in logical log recovery. I was wondering if increasing ON_RECVRY_THREADS help in HDR on secondary server.…
Re: Performance problem immediately fixed by disabling HDR
"Fernando Nunes" <spam@domus.online.pt> wrote in message news:f9atdb$7ev$2@aioe.org... > Neil Truby wrote: >> IDS 10.0FC5 on AIX 5.3 >> >> We have a highly sporadic performance problem. Sporedically - hasn;t >> happened for a couple of months but has started today - our database…
Performance problem immediately fixed by disabling HDR
Neil Truby wrote: > IDS 10.0FC5 on AIX 5.3 > > We have a highly sporadic performance problem. Sporedically - hasn;t > happened for a couple of months but has started today - our database server > starts exhibiting 2 sec checkpoints (otherwise they are almost always 0s) > and the…
Re: long checkpoints on informix
Darin wrote: > Also, shameless plug for v11. In Version 11, fuzzy checkpoints have > been removed completely, and the checkpoints are what is referred to > as non-blocking checkpoints. IE, there is no blocking during the > flushing of the buffers in version 11. Of course, the…
IIUG TV
Great job on the video work!! I look forward to seeing more! -t- -- -- Informix Dynamic Server Database Engine -- http://www.informix.com --…
DR failover server
Hello all: This is my first posting. We are running IDS 9.40.HC3 on HP-UX B.11.11 with a small EMC RAID array and I am working on a disaster recovery document. We currently have 2 servers (dev and prod) and will be moving the dev server to a disaster recovery site which has a T3 …
Fatal error in ADM VP at mt.c:13135
IDS 10.0.UC6 AIX 5.2 Any idea as to what would cause an ADM VP termination? All activity stopped on the server. Thanks in advance for any replies. 00:06:02 Maximum server connections 129 00:08:05 Logical Log 2645 Complete, timestamp: 0xb37b9d2e. 00:11:02 Fuzzy Checkpoint Co…
How to remove checkpoint
How to remove checkpoint 'Quiescent (CKPT REQ)' during database startup after crash cause I've been waiting for more than 100 minutes, but the database still blocked 'checkpoint state'…
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.…
Checkpoint times
Hi, we encounter enhanced checkpoint times on a production instance. I have tried to modify some parameters which results in less checkpoints, but still long (at least for our system). Actual config is Sun 280R, 4GB Ram, 2 Processors, Solaris 9 (Sparc), IDS 10.00FC6. Checkpoint …
Error when initializing
On IDS 10.00 when I trying to startup it remains eternally. In another screen (onstat -) appears IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.UC6TL -- Fast Recovery (CKPT REQ) -- Up 03:37:18 -- 685576 Kbytes Blocked:CKPT. That I must do?…
problems with Informix dynamic server 9.4 @ WIndows 2003
I have problems with connecting the server. I use correct user/password to connect to the server, but the server do not known the server. I'm sure the user exist and is one of the user in Informix_Admin group. I have installed Informix dynamic server 9.4 in a windows xp system in…
Re: Anybody seen a very fast wild cat out there?
Question - Since this 11 Beta includes the onconfig parameter VP_MEMORY_CACHE_KB I would expect it to based off 10.00.xC6 source however onconfig parameter SINGLE_USER_MODE_WITH_DBSA is not listed in the documentation for this beta. Will this be added to the product? - How d…
Informix OnBar Restore
Hello all, after an Infomix level 0 restore with onbar �r �p the db is at Fast Recovery state ... do I have to restore the logical logs before I bring it online? My aim is to just check that the level 0 backup is recoverable not to bring the db at its latest condition. Or in …
Difference in checkpoint durations on HDR Primary and Secondary.
Hiya guys! I've just come across something I didn't think was possible: IDS 10.00.FC5 on Linux RedHat. Primary: ... 14:26:53 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds. 14:26:53 Checkpoint loguniq 8922, logpos 0x2066018, timestamp: 0x93d695b1 14:26:53 Maximum server co…
NEED EXACT STATEMENTS for DB2 ONLINE BACUP.
I checked the udb Db , logretain =RECOVERY and USEREXIT=no , i need to do online backup , please help…
HP Continuous Access XP and Informix
Anyone using HP's Continuous Access product on their XP as their High Available/Disaster Recovery solution? Good? Bad? Don't care? ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sponsored Link Compare mortgage rates for today. Get up to…
Re: LRU_MAX_DIRTY / LRU_MIN_DIRTY Both equal to 1
> Remember that a checkpoint is activated by time , or when the > LRU_MAX_DIRTY is achieved. > The 9.4x version have decimal values for these parameters. > > Regards. Ferronato Ferronato AFAIR, LRU_MAX_DIRTY is set to reduce the amount of data to be written during checkpoin…
Re: Can I bypass fast recovery?
Just out of curiosity, could you post the af file?…
Can I bypass fast recovery?
Call your support provider As the tools support have by pass fast recovery you may end up with corruption and inconsistency in you database as the recovery process will not have completed fully and any uncompleted transactions will neither rollforward nor rollback. So after an…
Re: behaviour of ontape
Aleksander wrote: [...] > And more: > "(The time the backup started could reflect the last checkpoint before > the backup started.)" > > I don't get this one, what does this mean? It means that if your system had a checkpoint at 20:00, but nothing has changed since then when 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…
Re: SNAP & SAN
"Model-Bosch, Tilman" <tilman.model-bosch@sap.com> wrote in message news:mailman.266.1155586222.20706.informix-list@iiug.org... Neil Truby wrote: > Gesendet: 14 August 2006 21:28 > An: informix-list@iiug.org > Betreff: Re: SNAP & SAN > > "Martin Fuerderer" wrote: > > After restor…
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…
Checking database partition index... FAILED
GemaVi wrote: > Hello, > > after a cold recovery of Informix 9.40 UC2 the status remained in > Fast-Recovery. Last line of the online.log during recovery was: > > 11:50:28 Maximum server connections 0 > 11:50:35 No logical log restore will be performed. > 11:50:35 Preparing Ph…
Re: FAST Recovery problem
Anand Iyer wrote: > hi > > I am having IDS 940UC2 . It has reached into a fast recovery > mode.Also it is taking long time in the recovery mode > > IS there any way that i could bring up my INFORMIX instance ONLINE mode > bypassing this fast recovery mode. or SKIP checking this…
Re: FAST Recovery problem
Art S. Kagel wrote: > Anand Iyer wrote: >> hi >> >> I am having IDS 940UC2 . It has reached into a fast recovery >> mode.Also it is taking long time in the recovery mode >> >> IS there any way that i could bring up my INFORMIX instance ONLINE mode >> bypassing this fast recover…
FAST Recovery problem
hi I am having IDS 940UC2 . It has reached into a fast recovery mode.Also it is taking long time in the recovery mode IS there any way that i could bring up my INFORMIX instance ONLINE mode bypassing this fast recovery mode. or SKIP checking this logical log & what is the pro…
Point in Time Recovery Failed
Hi Folks, I Got a problem with restore point in time. I´m using IDS 9.40 FC5 for AIX 5.2 ML 8. I performed a level 0 archive 3 times. I´m using onbar and my Storage Manager is Tivoli (TSM) with TDP 5.2.1 and API 5.1.5 . The problem is that I can´t restore my archive to 30 minute…
checkpoint problem
I am runnind IDS 7.31 on HPUX 11 and my check points a taking too long. What do I need to change. 12:03:10 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 21 seconds. 12:09:48 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 34 seconds. 12:16:27 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 36 seconds. 12:23:0…
Reducing checkpoints
Hi,i have a database with 80gigabytes of data with 360users and up to 400 when at peak.I use IDS 7.31 running on HP-UX 11.0 and 8 Gig of memory.The checkpoints get to as high as 58sec at peak periods .Users often run out of connections into informix.How can i reduce these checkpo…
Initialising Informix
I am trying to initialize informix on a new server and I am getting this error. The server is HP UX 11.11 and Informix IDS 7.31 What could be the problem / This action will initialize Informix Dynamic Server; any existing Informix Dynamic Server databases will NOT be accessible …
Informix Connection From WIN CE.NET Emulator?
How do I connect to informix dynamic server from WIN CE.NET Emulator? Is there a WIN CE informix driver?…
Re: Table Editor for Multiplatforms
Enhancements in Version 4.3 ..... also supports the Informix Dynamic Server 9.x. http://www.ibm.com/software/data/db2imstools/db2tools/db2te/…
Fragmentation Elimination Problem
I am on version IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.FC4.…
Re: Informix Dynamic Server 9.30 - Shared Memory
Ronald Schwingel wrote: > Can someone please tell me how much Shared Memory (gigabytes?) > Informix Dynamic Server 9.30 (32-bit version) for AIX 5L can use > before asserting with a Shared Memory access error? Can you provide > documentation that I can pass on also? It looked to…
RE: Informix Dynamic Server 9.30 - Shared Memory
First off you shouldn't be getting shared memory access errors. That sounds more like a bug that technical support should address. I wouldn't be surprised if your getting can't allocate additional shared memory segment messages. Informix 32-bit on AIX is a bitch. The problem …
Informix Dynamic Server 9.30 - Shared Memory
Can someone please tell me how much Shared Memory (gigabytes?) Informix Dynamic Server 9.30 (32-bit version) for AIX 5L can use before asserting with a Shared Memory access error? Can you provide documentation that I can pass on also? We are looking at providing one of cust…
create a DB on Linux
Hi! I have installed Informix dynamic server on Linux. Now I want to create a data base. What should I do? Thanks…
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!…
Need Help with recovery of 7.31
I'm trying to recover a DB from last February 15 and roll forward to February 19 (power outage). I have all the log files from 15th to the 19th but I'm having problems finding the very first log. Here are the relevant sections of the online1.log: 21:20:29 Checkpoint Completed: …
PC3000 ISA and PCI
David wrote: > PC3000 ISA and PCI data recovery tools price drop already as data > recovery and hard disk repairing, all enginner and techinician must > have this skills facing future chanllenge. > Use a spell checker.…
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.…
Fast Recovery locked up
Hi people. Running IDS9.4 FC4 on AIX5.2 10GB memory server used as apps and dbs server. After a bounce of the engine last week the instance got stuck in Fast Recovery. Trying to bring it down didn't work (not onmode -uy nor onmode -ky). Only the instance is using logging, and lo…
Re: IDS 10 disk configuration
At checkpoint time chunks are assigned round robin to page cleaners for cleaning. ONE CHUNK WILL ONE GET ONE PAGE CLEANERS FLUSHING IT'S WRITES AT CHECKPOINT TIME. We had a 60Gb chunk and someone was loading lots of data into it. 5 minute checkpoint interval and checkpoints up…
New IDS Forum on IBM Developerworks website
This forum provides a place for Informix Dynamic Server developers and users to share their questions, thoughts, and ideas with others. http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/dw_forum.jsp?forum=548&cat=19…
Re: 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:…
Fast Recovery (CKPT REQ)?
Hi, I have a database that is in Fats Recovery (CKPT REQ),,,,, ,,,, Blocked:CKPT and it will not come up! Have tried onmode -c unblock without any success,,,, How can I get around this Checkpoint state and get the database in Online state? Thankful for any help on this topic…
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…
checkpoint
Hi there, I try to run a sql query statement in background, but seems the thread dead or gone without any error. I know the query will return some data, but when I check, there is no data been generated. I check the online log, and find out that there is a checkpoint when I run …
RE: Transaction Rollback
so what do you do if the server is still in logical recovery (ie not online) and rolling back transactions? As I said before, try onstat - x…
Re: Need help!! Sql to Informix Migration
And what about the checkpoint, LRU_MAX_DIRTY and LRU_MIN_DIRTY…
Re: Need help!! Sql to Informix Migration
And what about the checkpoint, LRU_MAX_DIRTY and LRU_MIN_DIRTY…
Re: PANIC: Attempting to bring system down
looking at their log file that happened before logical recovery completed! looks like they had another problem before they got this one otherwise they wouldn't have had to perform logical recovery…
PANIC: Attempting to bring system down
looking at their log file that happened before logical recovery completed! looks like they had another problem before they got this one otherwise they wouldn't have had to perform logical recovery…
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…
ontape restore taking time
Hi, I am working on HP_UX 11i and IDS 9.30. When i am restoring the data using ontape the server is in Fast recovery for long time. Its hanging at Cleaning the physical logs for a long time. I am attaching the message from log here. 11:40:38 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0…
Question on Checkpoints
After a checkpoint, how many "buffers not flushed" is considered acceptable? Let's say the typical check point (every 15 minutes) looks like this: 10:30:40 Maximum server connections 296 10:45:40 Fuzzy Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds, 179 buffers not flushed,…
RE: Stuck in Fast Recovery
This wasn't in reference to whether linux or unix matter... Of course they do... The issue was a response was posted in unix verbage/solution but the question was for a windows situation... Dat's all... -----Original Message----- From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:own…
RE: Stuck in Fast Recovery
Dirk Moolman said: > Oops, sorry - so used to speaking to other Unix users :-o It's OK, no-one else matters. :o) > -----Original Message----- > From: Sebastian, Norma J. [mailto:NormaJean.Sebastian@tellabs.com] > > Dude, > Melvin said he's on windows.... Can you 'sar' and 'vm…
RE: Stuck in Fast Recovery
Oops, sorry - so used to speaking to other Unix users :-o Apologies -----Original Message----- From: Sebastian, Norma J. [mailto:NormaJean.Sebastian@tellabs.com] Sent: 19 January 2005 04:59 PM To: Dirk Moolman; informix-list@iiug.org Subject: RE: Stuck in Fast Recovery Dude,…
RE: Stuck in Fast Recovery
Dude, Melvin said he's on windows.... Can you 'sar' and 'vmstat' on windows? Maybe check the services and see if something is stopped. NJ -----Original Message----- From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Dirk Moolman Sent: Wednesday…
RE: Stuck in Fast Recovery
-----Original Message----- From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] On Behalf Of TBP Melvin Perez wrote: > Hi, > > Currently, I have an IDS instance in Fast Recovery mode for more than > 19 hours! > > I have tried to perform a backup of the logica…
Stuck in Fast Recovery
Hi, Currently, I have an IDS instance in Fast Recovery mode for more than 19 hours! I have tried to perform a backup of the logical logs, but it's not allowed in this mode. I read previous posting from Art Kagel, saying this can be fixed by asking Informix tech support to dial…
Data Recovery SOURCE CODE ( SOURCE CODES of Professional Data Recovery Software )
Hi, I am a Data Recovery Specialist and Professional Data Recovery Software Developer in New Delhi. I've placed the Complete SOURCE CODE of One of my Data Recovery Software for Sale (for Educational Purpose) on the following link of my website: http://www.datadoctor.biz/3.htm …
long checkpoints in 9.40.fc4
We have converted to the following: hpux-11i (64 bit) 4 proc 8 gig ram IDS 9.40.FC4 HP SAN Cooked files This same system ran on a 7.31 database on Solaris (intel)(2 procs) just fine 0-3 second checkpoints. Anybody have any ideas on what I can check/do to fix this. Stephen Scott…
Checkpoint altos
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_01C4D98B.DA5D84E0 Content-Type: text/plain DATOS ===== IDS: Informix 7.31 FD8 Sistema Operativo: HP-UX 11.11 ( 64 bits…
Onbar - failures with pit recovery
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0001_01C4D814.B7A8E020 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We have implemented onbar on IBM AIX 5.2 64 bit with IDS 9.40.fc3. When we do a point-in-time recovery it stic…
Re: (Another) ontape to recover from a FIFO pipe
--If all were well with my system, it would soon finish the Fast --Recovery and enter quiescent mode. However, I have observed two bad --tendencies on this system when recovering using OmniBack (our usual --backup software): -- - Sometimes it get stuck in state "Fast Recovery (C…
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'?…
long checkpoints
Hi all, the performance on one of our Customer's production databases has decreased dramatically in the last couple of weeks. Checkpoints seem to be taking over a minute to complete. Running IDS 9.21 UC6 (which I know is no longer supported but unfortunately as it is out there i…
IDS V7.30 and Windows 2000
Can Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.30.TC6 be run on a Windows 2000 host system? TIA Erwin…
non-Informix Replication software
Does anyone on this list use Veritas or SUN replication software for failover / disaster recovery purposes ? Dirk Moolman Database and Unix Administrator MXGROUP "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." -Kierkegaard …
Re: Error Initialize Informix Dynamic Server
Art S. Kagel wrote: > On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 05:05:41 -0400, madiego wrote: >>I install Informix Dynamic Server and when I initialize 'oninit -iv' : >> >>This action will initialize Informix Dynamic Server; any existing Informix >>Dynamic Server databases will NOT be accessible - Do…
Error Initialize Informix Dynamic Server
Hello, I install Informix Dynamic Server and when I initialize 'oninit -iv' : This action will initialize Informix Dynamic Server; any existing Informix Dynamic Server databases will NOT be accessible - Do you wish to continue (y/n)? y Checking group membership to determine ser…
Re: Informix Dynamic Server and DB Tuning
I am experiencing similar problems with users migrating from Standard Engine to IDS 9.30. It appears that some applications are more susceptible than others. What application(s) are you running? We also have experience of adding more BUFFERS, LOCKS, etc and not improving the sit…
RE: Informix Dynamic Server and DB Tuning
Muthana Increase BUFFERS in onconfig file. UPDATE STATISTICS for each table (as a minimum) rerun the query and see what improvements you get. If you still have problems post the results of:- onstat -p onstat -m onstat -R and sqexplain.out of any particularly slow query or updat…
Informix Dynamic Server and DB Tuning
Dear Sir, The question how can make DB Tuning for Informix Dynamic Server version 9:30 to get the query faster. I used IDS 9:30 and it's not quick enough like our old Standard Engine. which Parameter can i change to make that or what shall i do? Regards Muthana AL-Temimi…
Can IDS accessing Informix SE Tables.
Hello, Now we are using Informix SE. We are planning to go Infomix Dynamic Server 9.x. Before migrating our current applications to IDS 9.x., first we have to develop a new application in IDS 9.x, in that we need to use some of the tables from informx SE. Could you please answer…
Hanging checkpoint
Recently we had an issue where a checkpoint was hanging and preventing users from logging on and running any type of query on the machine. I had to shutdown the Informix server and start it back up again to get it to a useable state. Does anyone have any ideas on how to prevent s…
Long checkpoints
Hi, all. Environment: IDS 9.21, HP UX 11, OLTP application. Informix stores data on raw devices on disk array. Unfortunatley, this array is used by other applications also. Guess, this is reason, why sometimes checkpoint time jumps to 20 seconds, which is not acceptable. Below…
Extremly long checkpoints: How to find the reason and solve the problem (7.31 FD3)
Hello, we have some serious problems with extremly long checkpoints. Interactive users can�t really work. 09:01:15 Logical Log 28452 Complete 09:01:16 Logical Log 28452 - Backup Started 09:01:36 Logical Log 28452 - Backup Completed 09:30:28 Checkpoint Completed: duration…
Dose anybody have the dbtop script in the Troubleshooting informix course?
Dears, I study the Troubleshooting ibm informix dynamic server course. At the module 4 exercise need the dbtop script. Dose anybody has this dbtop script and post for me? Thanks. Philip Yeh.…
Work group edition - Unlimited edition??
Taken from IBM web site:- =========================================================================== The following Informix Dynamic Server Workgroup Unlimited editions have been added to the IBM Data Management Gold Transaction Processing Bundle for SMB Unlimited: IBM Informix…
table/database/dbspace recovery
One of my customers has an 84Gbyte instance which contains a lare number of databases. They run this 24 by 7. For administrative reasons they require to access a copy of the database from about 2 months ago, but they can't revert the whole system. They do have a parallel machin…
Re: [Informix Dynamic Server (IDS):] Digest 2671
For a course in the US, check out: http://www-306.ibm.com/services/learning/ites.wss?pageType=course_description&co urseCode=L1760&country=us&language=en (IBM course L1760). There is probably a similar course offered in Europe somewhere. Hope this helps. Kevin Doiron Toronto,…
Re: Whatcha' wanta have?????
> They don't have anything to compare to the 'simplicity' of onbar > or ontape. > Hmmm - I think you may have been reading the wrong parts of the doc - please make sure to check out the RMAN (Recovery Manager) documentation. While you can use standard OS utilities to do a ba…
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…
missing checkpoints
Hello Gurus, Does anybody know why a 9.21 ids engine would not do a checkpoint for at least 30 minutes. all previous checkpoint took 0 seconds and all subsequent checkpoints also took 0 seconds. The application process died or rather the application connection to the database d…
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…
All of a sudden long checkpoint started
Can someone give any pointers what to look for and where to look for long checkpoint duration? Actually we have two production servers and past week all of a sudden there is an increase in checkpoint duration on both the servers simultaneously. Not sure what is going on and wha…
All of a sudden long checkpoints started
Can someone give any pointers what to look for and where to look for long checkpoint duration? Actually we have two production servers and past week all of a sudden there is an increase in checkpoint duration on both the servers simultaneously. Not sure what is going on and wha…
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…
HDR Logical Recovery Problems
Hi! We are running HDR in a testenvironment with IDS 9.30FC3X3 on HP Tru64 5.1B. We got errors from HDR: teszi06 ( primary ): 04:17:30 DR: ping timeout 04:17:30 DR: Receive error 04:17:30 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 66 seconds. 04:17:30 Checkpoint loguniq 4890, logpos 0…
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?…
IDS restore stuck in fast recovery during restore
Hi I am busy with a physical restore on all the dbspaces of a SAP system runnug on IDS7.31.FD1 on solaris8 and I am running into a problem where the engine gets stuck for hours waiting for checkpoint while in fast recovery. The output of running the onstat - command is : Inform…
script to predict checkpoint
Hi, I have a script in perl which can accurately predict when the next checkpoint is due (upto 5 seconds off) and issue onmode -B just before the checkpoint is due. This way, when Informix enters critical stage of checkpoint, it will find lot less dirty buffers and block the ser…
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.…
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…
Informix 9.40 crash.
Hi all, today the informix instance crashed. The machine configuration is the following: Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.FC1 Compaq Tru64 UNIX V5.1B (Rev. 2650) And this is a part of online.log... 16:59:33 DR: Reservation of the last logical log for log backup turned on…
Trying to recover Secondary using ontape -l
I have an HDR setup (IDS 7.31 on SCO UNIX). As an experiment, I shutdown the Secondary for the weekend. I have logical log backups every hour on the Primary using a disk file. On the first workday, I restarted the Secondary and it went into Fast Recovery(Sec) mode. The messag…
Logical Logging error for 'OLDRSAM:HDELETE' in 'logread'
Hi, I have a problem with fast recovery logical restore. I was running delete sentences, to many, and I aborted program. For this reason, the server changed your mode: online to fast recovery. The problem is: I don`t change to online mode. I study different options and I can't r…
Is there recovery from this?
I upgraded Informix IDS from 7.24.UC7 to 7.31.UD6 over the weekend, and = everything was fine with our production instance, but I couldn't get our = Test instance back. It seems like someone (me) forgot to shut down that instance before = upgrading....I got errors complaining ab…
Re: Physical restore that doesn't require a logical restore
Hi, if you try to move data from a host to another, you MUST perform a backup with -w option, this option is for whole backups. The Restore must also be performed with the option -w. You can try perform a Restore with the option time-of-point. Regards Glenn c-eriks@algonet.se (…
Re: Physical restore that doesn't require a logical restore
I did that but then this happened (from the message log): 15:58:54 Physical Restore of felisia_db01 Completed. 15:58:54 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds. 15:58:54 Checkpoint loguniq 5720, logpos 0x18 16:10:39 No logical log restore will be performed. 16:10:39 …
Fuzzy Checkpoint
Does anyone know what the environment variable is and what it should be set to in order to stop fuzzy checkpoints and keep the normal full checkpoint? I heard the variable was NOFUZZYCKPT but am not sure what to set it to. Joel Reece…
disaster recovery using ontape
Hi, We are putting in a machine to function as both our test and off-site disaster recovery box. I will need to configure the new machine to be able to come up after a restore of the database. I recall a thread but could not find in the archives, when using ontape to restore, t…
Informix Data Replication drop after reboot
I encounter a problem during reboot the Primary server which turn off the data replication process as below: Informix Dynamic Server Initialized -- Shared Memory Initialized. DR: Trying to connect to secondary server ... DR: Receive error DR: Type exchange failed Physical Re…
hdr hang
Hello, ids 9.30uc1 on unixware 7.x. hdr seems to be hang when checkpoint increase on my secondary server (>200). I increase drtimeout on primary to the maximum checkpoint value. It doesn't solve the problem. hdr need to be stop an restart frequently. Any possible tuning and moni…
Recovery Mode
How do I go back into online mode from recovery mode?... My 9.3 database is in recovery mode after a database restore from tape...…
Clarification regarding backup & recovery.....
Hello all , I would like to clarify regarding the ONBAR restore mechanism for a scenario which i explained below. I performed a cold restore with the most recent (level0+level1+logs). Now, the database is back to online mode. 1) Is it ok if i just continue with incremental…
logical log recovery problem
Hi All, I'm getting the following error when trying to start up a database: 09:57:10 Results: Log record (OLDRSAM:HINSERT) in log 988, offset 0x3ab0098 was not rolled back 09:57:10 Action: Use 'onlog' to view the transaction and repair manually. 09:57:10 stack trace for pid 228…
RE: Dynamic Server versus Universal Server ??
Originally, Version 7.x was called 'Informix Dynamic Server', Version 9.0x was called 'Universal server' Starting with 9.1, Universal server became 'Dynamic server with Universal data option'. With 9.2, new names 'Internet Foundation 2000 ' and 'Dynamic server 2000' ware given…
Re: Fast recovery question
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 11:54:44 -0400, samir BADAOUI wrote: The fast recovery will start alllll over again. Until the engine is fully recovered nothing is written to the logical logs that would indicate partial progress. Art S. Kagel > Hi all, > After a kill process who was delet…
Fast recovery question
Hi all, After a kill process who was deleting 3 millions of records. when my informix instance goes up, she went on fast recovery. After 6 hours of fast recovery, my sys admin stoped the engine (I wasn't there this night). my question is : When the engine goes up, did the fast re…
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…
Recovery from filesbackup
Hi How do i recover (setup) my informix database when i only have the database files from a filebackup ? I need to set it up on a new server. /Thanks…
Re: Disaster recovery [1405]
Better: Use the ALARMPROGRAM for logical log backup then as soon as that log archive is completed ship the file to the backup and apply it (ie keep ontape -r running constantly waiting for the next logical log file and then just reply 'Y' once the new file shows up. (You can us…
Disaster recovery
Hi, We plan to implement a simple recovery mechanism. We have primary and secondary( has same instance ) machine. Both with same versions of IDS. We plan to enable logical log backups on primary machine to a file and then enable rsync for this log backup file to remote file ( …
fuzzy checkpoint
I want to use the fully checkpoint instead fuzzy checkpoint when a checkpoint occur, How can I do? thanks -- Posted via http://dbforums.com…
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…
checkpoints
Hi, i am working with IDS9.30UC2 on solaris 8. I have to optimize checkpoints duration. What is the writing sequence during a checkpoint ? Does Informix write on disks sorted by chunk number or sorted by dbspace and chunk number ? i have to know that because i would like to p…
long checkpoints
hello all, we have recently experienced checkpoints that are lasting 20-30 seconds that were previously 5-8 seconds. I am looking at the CONFIG file to see if something could be improved. We are on HP-UNIX box (11.00)(2 proc box) with Informix 9.21 HC-5. BUFFERS 250000 …
Informix Disaster Recovery Strategy
HI, I have a 7.3.1UD4 Informix system running a "timesheet" application. We are in the process of setting up a Disaster Recovery site for our systems and I have been tasked with coming up with a solution for the Informix system. Does anyone have any suggestions as to the best …
Re: no checkpoint
Franklin Tang wrote: > Dear All, > I just want to know if I set the CKPTINTVL to 36000 which an hour, of > coz I have around 512 LRU to flush my buffer. Then what will be drawback for > my system. As has been pointed out, 36000 seconds is 10 hours. Why do you want to do thi…
Re: no checkpoint
rkusenet wrote: > "Franklin Tang" <franklin@macauslot.com> wrote in message news:badmbv$eqo1@ctmsun0.macau.ctm.net... > >>Dear All, >> I just want to know if I set the CKPTINTVL to 36000 which an hour, of > > > 36000 is ten hours, not 1 hr. > > >>LRUS 512 …
no checkpoint
Dear All, I just want to know if I set the CKPTINTVL to 36000 which an hour, of coz I have around 512 LRU to flush my buffer. Then what will be drawback for my system. Here is my onconfig SERVERNUM 0 # Unique id corresponding to a Dynamic Server i stance …
Performance & checkpoint
Hi All, My database has grown 3 times and the performance is degrading. During the business hours my checkpoint duration is between 1-8 seconds. About two months ago my checkpoint mostly is between 0-1 seconds. I included my onconfig file for you to review. If you have any sugges…
Re: checkpoint
rkusenet wrote: > "Franklin Tang" <franklin@macauslot.com> wrote : > >>Dear all, >> what is the impact to increase the CKPTINTVL value. Any side-effect??? >>If my system crash, do I lose more data because the buffer doesnt get fushed >>by the checkpoint action??? I know the LR…
Re: checkpoint
rkusenet wrote: > "Franklin Tang" <franklin@macauslot.com> wrote : > >>Dear all, >> what is the impact to increase the CKPTINTVL value. Any side-effect??? >>If my system crash, do I lose more data because the buffer doesnt get fushed >>by the checkpoint action??? I know the LR…
checkpoint
Dear all, what is the impact to increase the CKPTINTVL value. Any side-effect??? If my system crash, do I lose more data because the buffer doesnt get fushed by the checkpoint action??? I know the LRUs will fush when it reachs the LRU_MAX_DIRTY. Anyone can give me more clear …
Checkpoint duration too long at times
Environment: Informix Dynamic Server 7.31 UD2 R1 HP-UX 11.0 As you can see below 10:44:50 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds. 10:59:59 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds. 11:15:08 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds. 11:30:17 Checkpoint Completed:…
Checkpoint duration too long sometimes--no fixed pattern
Environment: Informix Dynamic Server 7.31 UD2 R1 HP-UX 11.0 As you can see below 10:44:50 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds. 10:59:59 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds. 11:15:08 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds. 11:30:17 Checkpoint Completed:…
Maximum server connections 0
Get following message in the online.log.All client can't connect to IDS. I found the "Maximum server connections 0" in the log file.So I thing the problem is related about the message. I search the problem in the internet,but I can't get solution. Give me a hand. Thank in advance…
Re: Fast Recovery (CKPT REQ) mode
I resend this because I got a couple of rejections from the mail-server ... Please excuse in case you get this twice. -- Hi, you can try to find out in online.log (message log), where exactly the server is. Keep in mind, that this step (mainly) involves rolling back open trans…
Fast Recovery (CKPT REQ) mode
Hi, We are restoring the backup of prd system to drs system, restoration part is successful. but drs database is not coming in quiescent Mode , it is in Fast Recovery (CKPT REQ) mode, i tried to do force checkoint (onmode -c). Any suggestion on this problem would be appreciated…
RE: Fast recovery
We recently had a tbzero (truncate logical logs) done on our system. I had a down dbspace and the engine wouldn't come up, no matter what we did. The only way out was for Tech Support to do the tbzero. They did warn me that we might have problems afterwards, but so far so good…
Fast recovery
Pursuant to my question earlier regarding the dropping of an index; the engine was brought down shortly after the first index drop completed, after a few minutes of the second. It's probable that these two are in the same transaction so I expect they'll both get backed out. Th…
Enterprise Replication log
Enterprise Replication does not have a seperate set of logs. It snoops from the normal logical log file buffers. It only snoops from the log files themselve during recovery or if for some reason it falls behind.…
fast recovery question
Hi all, in my message log I have found the following lines : 18:10:05 Logical Recovery Complete. 3 Commited, 2 Rolled Back, 1 Open, 0 Bad Locks Please tel me to what des the Open value during logical recovery refer ? thanks for any help __________________________________…
Database is on line ,but has warnings
WARNING: Network Down **--Recovery------- Press CTRL-W for Help. ------ Why? thank you Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.…
Fast Recovery Mode after ontape cold restore
I am testing a couple of recovery scenarios. After a cold restore using ontape where one disc has been replaced (non RAID) the instance comes up in Fast Recovery Mode and seems to hang there. What actually occurs in Fast Recovery Mode, there are no logical logs? How long should…
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…
RE: What does it mean "Fuzzy Checkpoint"?
From: "Parker, Jack" <JParker@engage.com> > >This is the checkpoint standard that was promulgated by the GOP. It's how >you do checkpoints associated with fuzzy math. Yes, but do we have to live with repeated recounts of flushed buffers? _______________________________________…
What does it mean "Fuzzy Checkpoint"?
DH wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm moving from IDS 7.30 to IDS2000 and still learning with it. There is > some new term as "Fuzzy Checkpoint" in online.log that I don't see in IDS > 7.30 for example: > > 17:00:14 Fuzzy Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds, 77 buffers > not f…
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…
Stalled Checkpoint
Hi~ I have installed IDS 7.31.TC6 on Win NT 4.0 SP 5. This is my first time working with Informix on NT. I have used Informix on UNIX in the past. I successfully installed and initialized Informix. I am trying to force a checkpoint using 'onmode -c', but I get the following …
tlipoll.c error
I've got Online 7.12 running on a SCO OpenServer 5.0.4 and loaded about 2GB of data into the database. I wanted to configure the I-Connect utillity. When I add an entry for the DBSERVERALIASES in the onconfig file, Informix do not start up. In the log file the following error a…
during a checkpoint
I seem to read somewhere that queries are not blocked during a checkpoint. Is this correct ? If not, what operations are not blocked ? Thanks, Thanh Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.…
fuzzy checkpoint
What does "fuzzy checkpoint" means from online.log file ? always is "fuzzy" ? I have recently upgraded from 7.30 to 9.21 and it seems it records more info now Regards, Manel Falcó…
Checkpoint Blockage
Greetings, I am searching for suggestions on the best approach to find the resource(s) that are preventing a checkpoint from completing. Occasionally, our 7.31.FC7 instance will be blocked indefinitely during a checkpoint request. The most recent incident did have a thread /ses…
Retrieving product name
Hi all, Is their a system table somewhere on an informix server that stores the product name. For example 'Select owner from systables where tabname = � VERSION� will return the version of the server. I would like to be able to tell if a server is a Universal server or a Dynamic …
IDS 7.3x on Win2000?
Does Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.3x runs on Windows 2000 (Professional)? Thanks for your help. Guy Dillen…
Point-in-time recovery of database/dbspace
gorgos@my-deja.com wrote: > > Hello again, > I've just come across an article in technotes that mentions point-in- > time recovery of a database/dbspace. It doesn't go into any depth so > I'm asking if this is possible, and if so how. I'm sure it can be > achieved using a 2 ins…
OnBar/OnTape
Onbar and Ontape are two different animals when it comes to logical logs. Remember that onbar is Storage manager based and the recover file it creates (ixbar.x) assumes that all the recovery media is in one location - the storage manager. With ontape, you could "mix and match" a…
Checkpoints
I have seen recommendations that setting LRU's 128 can, among other changes, help to reduce long checkpoints of 10, 15, 20 or more seconds. For the most part this recommendation seem to be for 7.3x versions of Informix. Is there a problem with using the same setting for 7.24 ver…
RE: Checkpoint
sorry for that...I have asked the mail server administrator to do something for me. Hopefully, this mail that you guys receive is in text format only. Sorry for any inconvenience caused. BTW, thanks for all the input from you guys. Regards, Jason -----Original Message----- Fro…
RE: Checkpoint
From: "Watson, Paul" <Paul.Watson@aggregate.com> > > > Jason , > > > > This is only a text group. PLEASE , PLEASE do not send > > MIME/HTML versions > > across. > > > > 3 reasons why I say this. > > > > 1. Because you duplicate the message > > 2. A number of people have already a…
RE: Checkpoint
Nah. I think I disagree with the last point. -----Original Message----- From: Obnoxio The Clown [mailto:obnoxio@hotmail.com] Sent: 29 August 2000 14:17 To: Paul.Watson@aggregate.com; informix-list@iiug.org Subject: RE: Checkpoint From: "Watson, Paul" <Paul.Watson@aggregate.com>…
RE: Checkpoint
> > Jason , > > > This is only a text group. PLEASE , PLEASE do not send > MIME/HTML versions > across. > > 3 reasons why I say this. > > 1. Because you duplicate the message > 2. A number of people have already asked you to stop posting > mail in MIME/HTML > format. > 3. The mos…
Re: Checkpoint
From: JasonYLPang@pg.SLR.com > >Why the checkpoint take longer time to complete? Is it something not right >at onconfig file??? Your ONCONFIG looks fine as far as checkpoints are concerned, I suspect the server was just very busy for some reason. You might want to set RESIDENT …
RE: Checkpoint
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0047_01C011DA.D9F92360 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CheckpointJason The checkpoint duration is probably a result of the application. The checkpoint must wait u…
Checkpoint
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_01C01166.DFA6EBAE Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi all, Why the checkpoint take longer time to comple…
long checkpoint
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_000_01C007B8.97F708A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I have just recently migrated from IDS 7.31.FC4XE to I…
Long interval without Checkpoint
My checkpoint is triggered each 300 seconds so how is possible this interval ? 18:42:00 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds. 19:12:00 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds. because there weren't any dirty pages ? (IDS 7.30) Thanks, Manel Falcó…
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…
RE: Long Checkpoints, balancing network traffic across multiple Aliases
Let me answer my own question by saying that I beleive I am experiencing a problem with a session being stuck in a critical section causing a checkpoint to wait. Andrew -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Ford [SMTP:aford@simpletel.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 9:51…
RE: Long Checkpoints, balancing network traffic across multiple Aliases
Another problem that we are having is that every 12 hours or so we see a really long checkpoint. At first it was 25 seconds then 36 seconds, now we have a 41 second checkpoint. It's very strange, every thing seems to be humming along nicely, then BAM - a virtual slap in the fac…
Re: Backup and Restore
From: mdelerme@my-deja.com > >Does Informix support recovery of up to the last transaction? I was Yes, up to the last committed transaction. Fast Recovery. >told Oracle did, ???, wanted to know if that was true and if so, does >informix. Thanks in advance for the info. Pleasur…
Backup and Restore
Hi all, Does Informix support recovery of up to the last transaction? I was told Oracle did, ???, wanted to know if that was true and if so, does informix. Thanks in advance for the info. Marco Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.…
Re: FW: Re: Database Crash...Help
From: Srinivas Sreekumar <SRINIVAS_SK@inf.com> > > > Thanks for all your replies. > > > > I could restore the database. I did a full database restore. Then the > > database went to recovery mode. It was in recovery mode for long time. >Now > > to make it online what should I do. …
FW: Re: Database Crash...Help
> Thanks for all your replies. > > I could restore the database. I did a full database restore. Then the > database went to recovery mode. It was in recovery mode for long time. Now > to make it online what should I do. Will it change to online mode > automatically. > > Pls advic…
Checkpoint/LRU question
Hi, Does a checkpoint block the users sessions ? As well when buffers are flushed via MAX LRU ? Does A LRU-flush trigger an ordinary checkpoint or is it different ? and is it written on the online.log ? It seems that not ... I'm not sure ... Thanks in advance, Manel Falcó…
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…
Checkpoint duration
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_01BFDD2B.77C69B20 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I am having an issue with checkpoints taking an extrem…
Logical log full !
Our OL Database has its logical log full with a very long transaction not ended, ond it seems impossible to make a recovery of the database. Now when the database is restarted, it's launched in recovery mode and it stay in this state and there is nothing to do. Can you help us ?…
Problems with logs
Here is a log: 11:18:29 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds. 11:19:06 Logical Log 140 Complete. 11:19:10 Logical Logging error in 'rollback' 11:19:10 Assert Failed: Dynamic Server must abort 11:19:10 Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.30.TC7 after oninit: 11:32:0…
Problems with shared memory
On my machine I've observed a strange thing. After initialization IDS create virtual segment (500MB!!) For now I don't now why!!! after "onmode -F" everyting is ok Here is a log... 16:26:22 Informix Dynamic Server Initialized -- Shared Memory Initialized. 16:26:22 Physical R…
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…
Long checkpoints
Hi, I would welcome suggestions on how to lower the checkpoint durations at one of our sites. Relevant ONCONFIG parameters are given below. All chunks are cooked files. At checkpoint time, there are on the average about 500 dirty buffers to flush. Thanks. Alanoly Andrews. ===…
RE: HELP AGAIN ...
In article <8fg29u$2aa$1@news.xmission.com>, shahid.mehmood@aku.edu writes > >No, it is not synonym or view! it is definitely a table, here is the schema >of the table ... Try onstat - Is the server On-line and not in Fast Recovery? onstat -g ath are there any sqle…
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: Fuzzy checkpoints.
<SNIP> >To William's statement that he does not trust Fuzzy Checkpoint and so has >to restore an archive and roll forward the logical logs, I submit that that >will result in the exact same level of data loss as fast recovery OR MORE, >but never less. Since you do not trust the …
RE: Fuzzy checkpoints.
William Rice wrote: > > Comments further in > >===== Original Message From kagel@bloomberg.net ===== > >Remember that the Physical Log records are not STRICTLY needed for recovery. > >They are mostly a paranoid holdover. The physical log slapdown that starts > >Fast Recovery mak…
Fuzzy checkpoints.
I have concerns about whether or not 9.2 is as robust in bad situations as 7.x was. My concerns center around the fact that fuzzy operations(updates, inserts, and deletes) are not physically logged To me, this means if I unplug my machine in the middle of a write to disk initia…
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…
Informix Password Recovery
If you know of any security weaknesses which would allow the recovery of administrator passwords more rapidly than a brute-force attack or are aware of any cracking programs for Informix I would appreciate hearing from you with information. Also, if you would be interested in a …
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…
Re: RAID v Mirror
From: watawinona@aol.com (Watawinona) > >Cooked files is a good compromise amoung ease of administrating, >performance >and recovery capabilities. With all due respect, bollocks. In what way are they easier to administer, better in performance and more useful in recovery capabil…
checkpoint spikes
Now that long checkpoints topic is in discussion I would like to get some help too. We are also getting into a similar problem with long checkpoints (over 13 secs sometimes). Long checkpoints in our case only happen once in a while. Our LRU_MAX and LRU_MIN are at 2 and 1. Our che…
Re: Long Checkpoints
mars1972@my-deja.com wrote: > What is your checkpoint interval? Also, what is the real interval > between checkpoints? You could be hitting the checkpoint interval or > getting the physical log to 75% before the LRUs are getting to 40%. How > many cleaners and physical disks …
Long Checkpoints
Hi, i have a problem with long checkpoint runs on an informix 7.30 UC 10 running on linux. (Machine is a PIII 500 with 512 MB Memory). Sometimes checkpoints takes 15 to 25 seconds. During this times i have approximately 2000 to 2300 dirty LRU queues. an onstat -FR (with only 2…
RAID v Mirror
Cooked files is a good compromise amoung ease of administrating, performance and recovery capabilities. Nona…
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…
When are checkpoints initiated
I know there are a number of things that can cause a checkpoint to be initiated. The one I'm concerned about is when a checkpoint is initiated because your <blank> is 75% full/dirty. Is <blank> buffers, logs (logical or physical), or log buffers. Any help would be appreciated!…
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…
Data Recovery
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RE: Stuck in FAST RECOVERY
The emailing of Tech Alerts is available. I get them (the link) emailed to me. Sorry I cannot remember where I registered, but it was through Tech Support ... and you DO need to be registered. If you need more info, email me directly and I will find out how I got it. Murray Wo…
Re: Stuck in FAST RECOVERY
If you are seeing any activity wait it out, otherwise stopping and restarting the engine sometimes sorts it. "Gregory P. Schin" wrote: > > Hi, > > I have IDS 7.31.UC2A installed on Solaris and it has been running fine > for over 1 month. I deleted some data then dropped a few …
Stuck in FAST RECOVERY
Hi, I have IDS 7.31.UC2A installed on Solaris and it has been running fine for over 1 month. I deleted some data then dropped a few primary keys on some tables and then added unique indexes. Then there was a power hit and the system rebooted. The system came back up but IDS …
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…
Long checkpoints
Greetings all..... I watch this group every day and sometimes offer my help. Now it is my turn. I have a system that is generally a lightly loaded system but runs a batch load a couple times a day. During these loads, checkpoints get horrendous averaging 60 seconds to flush abo…
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…
database recovery
Hi, I had made a major mistake in history - removed a chunk file accidentally. The bad thing is that I don't even have a backup (DONT!) Now, oninit just complains that it couldn't find the primary chunk file, and never starts up the database. HELP! What can I do? I don't mi…
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…
Informix - I NEED SOME HELP
I am trying to get some information about Informix, conserning how its concurrency is functioning, and how they are dealing with recovery ... Can anyone help on this problem - I need an answer PRETTY soon.. Thanx Carlsberg…
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…
No respons from server process
else and is stop record in file online.log last record 20.15:58 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds now 18:43 next day Azat…
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…
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…
recovery
I have an instance that was somewhat hosed up while testing backup/restore through ontape. It is currently offline. When I try to bring it back to quiesent mode through onmonitor it cancels out while recovering saying 'oninit: Fatal error in shared memory initialization' and it…
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.…
backup and recovery
Hi, following situation: We have a full-database dump. Now I just need the information of one table. Is it possible to import into a newly created db having the same user that did the dump just that single table? Antje -- --------------------------------------------------------…
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.…
Checkpoint duration
Is there a table which can be queried to get the last checkpoint duration?…
Latest versions for various Informix products ???
Which are the latest versions for Informix Dynamic Server Informix Dynamic Server, Workgroup Edition Informix 4GL Informix SQL on Solaris 7/SPARC ? Where can I find such informations on Informix's website ? tia, joerg…
cdr command line utility in informix 7.24
Hi, Is there a cdr command line utility in informix dynamic server 7.24? I tried to locate it, but the executable is nowhere to find. Thanks, Lu…
Problems with Informix on NT - Please Help
You had a disk error on the 6th at 17:07:38 which may or may not have been corrected and your ONCONFIG file has ONDBSPACEDOWN=2 which means pause all operations and wait for the chunk to be repaired and marked back online. Does onstat -d show any chunks and/or dbspaces with a 'D…
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…
Initalisation error
> Can anyone help please? > The informix/templog file (chunk) has been deleted by mistake. A level > 0 restore was done but we cannot now bring informix online. > > INFORMIX-OnLine Version 7.13.UC7 > > The following messages appear from onmonitor:- > > oninit: Fatal error in shar…
Initalisation error
Can anyone help please? The informix/templog file (chunk) has been deleted by mistake. A level 0 restore was done but we cannot now bring informix online. INFORMIX-OnLine Version 7.13.UC7 The following messages appear from onmonitor:- oninit: Fatal error in shared memory initi…
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.…
Time flies
In article <7ih39n$f3f$1@taliesin.netcom.net.uk>, "Neil Truby" <ntruby@netcomuk.co.uk> wrote: > I'm intending to update the time on two production servers (K460 HP-UX > 10.20). One's 5 minutes fast and one's 5 minutes slow. > > Does anyone know of any problems this might cause…
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…
Problems with oncheck in IDS 7.23
Hello everybody I�m running IDS 7.23 UC6, under AIX 4.2.1 We decided to do a complete oncheck of the database during the night. There is no other process running at the same time. We noticed that the checkpoint interval became extremely high during the oncheck activity, and we …
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…
Checkpoints - a mystery
Sorry if I have already posted this once already...we are having problems with our news server... HP-UX 10.20 running IDS 7.24.UC5 We have been having isolated problems with checkpoints - see below. During the lengthy checkpoints, obviously no users can perform any update routi…
is it recovery functions liks oracle's commit command in informix?
is it recovery functions liks oracle's commit sql command in informix? if it is, what command? same? ----------------------------- e-mail : soph@doit.ajou.ac.kr…
checkpoint duration too long
plogdbs: 79.8M llogdbs:600M datadbs:1000M my ONCONFIG file: PHYBUFF 128 LOGBUFF 64 CPKINTERVAL 300 onstat -m ...checkpoint duration was 8 [7-10] seconds How can I reduce the checkpoint duration?Thanks!…
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…
Re: Checkpoint take so long
Taking on board what Kevyn has already said, it looks like there was some sort of data load happening during the long checkpoints. I also noticed that your logs aren't being archived. Whats the story ?? What are your current settings for LRU_MAX/MIN_DIRTY & CHKPTINTVL and how bi…
converting Informix Online 5.1 esql/c to Dynamic Server esql/c?
Hi converting Informix Online 5.1 esql/c to Dynamic Server esql/c? What is the easiest way to do this? Is there a parser that could do this? edward…
RAID Technolgy
We are using Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.2. We are going in for a new DEC UNIX Server with RAID Technolgy. It incorporates mirroring at the hardware level. So is it not necessary to do mirroring using Informix?. Can anybody give suggestions regarding mirroring and other feat…
Informix on Linux
Does anybody know how much a copy of Informix Dynamic Server would run me for use on Linux?? Thanks in advance -steve…
Upgrade Dynamic Server 7.13 - 7.24
I need to upgrade Informix Dynamic Server version 7.13 to version 7.24. Can anyone advise of any problems they may have had whilst doing this?…
Informix Dynamic Server 7.31?
Is any information available regarding the release of IDS 7.31 for Unix? We have Sun E3000 and E4000 machines and are experiencing problems with both 7.30.UC3 and 7.30.UC5 and are curious about 7.31. Thanks. Carleen Avant Naval Safety Center Internet < cavant@safecen.navy.mil …
STRING FUNCTIONS
Are there functions for manipulating varchar type, like upper() or lower() in Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.2? Thanks in advance.…
Netscape Enterprise Connection for Informix Dynamic Server
Hi: Does anyone know the procedure for setting up a Netscape Enterprise Server to connect to an Informix Dynamic server on a remote machine? Michael…
oninit: shared library problem
I'm having problems when initialising the DB using oninit. Config: INFORMIX Dynamic Server Ver 7.23, on a UNISYS-UNIX SVR4. When Initializing, I get the error ...dynamic linker: oninit: symbol not found: gettimeofday The LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set to $INFORMIXDIR/bin and �INFORMIXDIR…
Initi DB
I'm having problems when initialising the DB. Config: INFORMIX Dynamic Server Ver 7.23, on a UNISYS-UNIX SVR4. When Initializing, I get the error ...dynamic linker: oninit: symbol not found: gettimeofday The LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set to $INFORMIXDIR/bin and �INFORMIXDIR/esql help wo…
Index on Informix Online 7.22 ?
I have installed a new Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.22UC3 on our server (HP-UX 10.20). I find it is much much slower than the Informix 7.12 Online DS server if I do not create index for a same program. Why and what is the difference between the two version of Dynamic serv…
Re: tbinit without logical recovery ??
Michal Hajek wrote: > > June Tong wrote: > > Art S. Kagel wrote: [SNIP previous discussion] > PS: I even found (somewhere on net) that 7.x has -p switch for tbtape > which causes not doing logical recovery during recovery .. it is true ? The -p (Physical Restore) switch to ontap…
Re: tbinit without logical recovery ??
Art S. Kagel wrote: > The ONLY way: Call Informix Tech support and they can log in and > truncate the logical logfiles so that the engine thinks the log ends > at the beginning of log file with the last checkpoint. Then you can > bring the engine up. You do need to go through…
Re: tbinit without logical recovery ??
Michal Hajek wrote: > > We fall into problems with logical logs. I know it is a dirty > action, but is it possible to initialize online with only > physical recovery and without logical recovery ? > > I believe I see potential problems after doing that, but in our > case it would…
Re: tbinit without logical recovery ??
Michal Hajek wrote: > > We fall into problems with logical logs. I know it is a dirty > action, but is it possible to initialize online with only > physical recovery and without logical recovery ? > Are you in the situation where a transaction back-out has itself run out of log s…
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 …
Cannot Rollforward from Checkpoint
Hi, Could anyone give any advice on how to fix this problem with an online database (7.23 IDS). When I try to bring the database back online, I get the following log entries, and the engine remains down. HELP !! 14:38:14 INFORMIX-OnLine Initialized -- Shared Memory Initialize…
Cannot Rollforward from Checkpoint
Hi, Could anyone give any advice on how to fix this problem with an online database (7.23 IDS). When I try to bring the database back online, I get the following log entries, and the engine remains down. HELP !! 14:38:14 INFORMIX-OnLine Initialized -- Shared Memory Initialize…
Decreasing Checkpoint Lengths.
What parameters have the greatest effect on checkpoint lengths? Currenly I have my checkpoint interval at 30 seconds, and a peak times checkpoints are still taking over 10 seconds. We're running multiple configurations on Workgroup Server. Some on WIN NT, Some on SCO, and some…
Checkpoints not in online.log
We're using IUS 9.14.UC2 on SunOS box. I can use onmonitor to force a checkpoint. It comes back and tells me that the checkpoint completed. However, when I look in the online.log file, it doesn't show up. It looks like the system hasn't done any checkpoints for hours. Our CKPTIN…
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…
Deployment Licenses of Informix Dynamic Server
I need a free Deployment Licenses of Informix Dynamic Server!…
Re: Informix Dynamic Server blocks
In article <3609EB18.2AB1B1CD@bull.net>, Helmut Leininger <Helmut.Leininger@bull.net> writes >Hi, > >Sporadically, the Informix server seems to block (every try to connect >or onstat times out and no reaction on onmode -ky). In the MSGPATH I >find the following message: > >09:03:…
Informix Dynamic Server blocks
Hi, Sporadically, the Informix server seems to block (every try to connect or onstat times out and no reaction on onmode -ky). In the MSGPATH I find the following message: 09:03:42 mt.c, line 8362, thread 2139, proc id 17096, mt_notifyvp timed out. Informix server is 7.22.UC2…
Informix Dynamic Server blocks
Hi, Sporadically, the Informix server seems to block (every try to connect or onstat times out and no reaction on onmode -ky). In the MSGPATH I find the following message: 09:03:42 mt.c, line 8362, thread 2139, proc id 17096, mt_notifyvp timed out. Informix server is 7.22.UC2…
Re: Tunning question
You can start by decreasing the LRU MIN/MAX to arround 3-6. This will increase the number of writes that occure between checkpoints, but will make the bufferpool "cleaner" when the checkpoint actually occurs. Madison Pruet…
Database Recovery?
In reading about Online Dynamic Server, it states that the database will rollforward to the last checkpoint when the server is brought to online from offline if the server crashes. If I do a restore from the day before will it read the logs and bring it up to the last checkpoint…
Re: Stuck in Fast Recovery?
Stephen Walmsley wrote: > > Many thanks for the hints June and Paul. > > Eventually, after 7.5 million reads with no write activity I gave up. I > did try a shutdown followed by a restart as Paul suggested, but the engine > just continued the same pattern of activity. I have no i…
Re: INSERT cursors
Art S. Kagel wrote: > > Jonathan Leffler wrote: > > > > On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Carlson@WHSmith wrote: [SNIP] > BTW the latest dbcopy > has incomplete recovery code and I am working on full recover code for > it now. The full recovery version of dbcopy.ec was put online Friday. …
Re: Stuck in Fast Recovery?
On Mon, 24 Aug 1998 11:05:55 -0700, June Tong <june_t@hotmail.com> wrote: >Stephen Walmsley wrote: >> (Btw, the answer to the question "What are you running 4.10.UD2 on a >> business critical system for?" is "Waiting for Online to to be released >> on Linux"!!!!) > >Don't know t…
Re: Stuck in Fast Recovery?
Many thanks for the hints June and Paul. Eventually, after 7.5 million reads with no write activity I gave up. I did try a shutdown followed by a restart as Paul suggested, but the engine just continued the same pattern of activity. I have no idea whether it would finally have g…
Re: Stuck in Fast Recovery?
In article <Pine.OSF.3.95.980824103652.29082A-100000@sable.ox.ac.uk>, newc0571@sable.ox.ac.uk (Stephen Walmsley) wrote: > > Online 4.10.UD2 > SCO 3.2.4.2 > > At 17:49 on Saturday I started the build of a huge index. At around > 10:40 > on Sunday, around 17 hours later, the box s…
Re: Stuck in Fast Recovery?
Stephen Walmsley wrote: > Online promptly went into Fast (sic) Recovery and has been in every since. > The logs show that physical recovery completed successfully. What is in your online.log ? You don't mention how long your tbstat -u / -l / -whatever have been at those states…
Stuck in Fast Recovery?
Online 4.10.UD2 SCO 3.2.4.2 At 17:49 on Saturday I started the build of a huge index. At around 10:40 on Sunday, around 17 hours later, the box suffered a loss of power. It's essentially a read-only database; there were no other transactions in progress at the time. Online prom…
Re: OnLine Dynamic Server 7.2 Vs INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3
On Tue, 28 Jul 1998 14:40:44 -0500, Ben Jazi <bjazi@fallschurch.esys.com> wrote: >What are the major differences between INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server >7.2 and INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3? Is it ORDBMS vs RDMBS? No, IDS 9.x is the ORDBMS. This autumn the 7.3 and 9.x code lin…
Re: OnLine Dynamic Server 7.2 Vs INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3
Ben Jazi wrote: > > What are the major differences between INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server > 7.2 and INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3? Is it ORDBMS vs RDMBS? > > Thanks, > Ben I don't know the differences in detail but you could check the following pages, where IDS 7.3 is described …
Ontape as fallback for OnBar Test...
Hey gang - some compadres of mine need to test OnBar recovery. I'm thinking an easy, safe way to do it would be to take an ontape level 0 as well just beforehand, so if the OnBar recovery craters, the ontape archive can bail them out. Anybody see any flaws in my suggestion to …
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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checkpoint duration
I have a serious problem with checkpoint duration which cause my posting process to almost double in duration because of the amount of time wasted on checkpoints. Here is a a sample of the duration take directly from the online log file. 05:32:00 Checkpoint Completed: duration…
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: HELP !!! Recovery mode
Hi ...you need to let the recovery mode get done then it should come up, if on make use on onmonitor util and change the mode...ps why did system flip out?... PiT wrote: > How I can change Recovery Mode to Quiescent mode or > free Logocal logs in this mode ??? > > Best regards …
HELP !!! Recovery mode
How I can change Recovery Mode to Quiescent mode or free Logocal logs in this mode ??? Best regards PiT pit@writeme.com…
Informix Dynamic Server 7.3
Hello, Since I'm planning a Data Warehouse, I would to do it with the new version of Dynamic Server. Impressions, stability and on which platform? Regards. Fernando _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Fernando Collalti Phone: +…
Re: Is it really necessary to mirror the physical log?
Art S. Kagel wrote: -- SNIP (Original question) -- > Truth be told the result of Logical Recovery without Physical Recovery > is the same if all logical log records are available. This is > mathematically provable. HOWEVER, having said this, the engine WILL > NOT come up if it …
Re: Is it really necessary to mirror the physical log?
Art S. Kagel wrote: -- SNIP (Original question) -- > Truth be told the result of Logical Recovery without Physical Recovery > is the same if all logical log records are available. This is > mathematically provable. HOWEVER, having said this, the engine WILL > NOT come up if it …
Re: Is it really necessary to mirror the physical log?
Jacob Salomon wrote: [SNIP] > Q: If I choose not too mirror the dbspace containing the physical log > and that DBspace gets corrupted, is recovery still possible without > going back to archive tapes? Would fast recovery still work, albeit > with the possible loss of some recent…
Re: Is it really necessary to mirror the physical log?
>I am about ot start configuring a new site. I am setting up for many >dbspaces but mirroring is basically a luxury here. I have made it my >policy to *always* mirror the root dbspace and that dbspace containing >the logical logs, because if either of those goes south, there go…
checkpoint interval
Dear All, I'm running INF 7.23UC1 with total database is 76 GB. We are happy with our configuration, but since Last Monday, our online perfomance going down and also interval of checkpoin sometime took so long, about 50-170 second. We have checked no big transaction, no long tra…
Informix Dynamic Server & Text columns
Hi everybody, Can you help me ? I've created a table with the following structure : column type -------- ---- code smallint obs text How can I insert into this table with Java program ? I'm using Informix Java AP…
Intermittent Problem - error 529 Cannot attach to transaction
We have a HP-UX box (Ver 10.20) running Informix Online Dynamic Server Ver 7.13 and a NT Server (NT4.0) running Informix Online Dynamic Server Ver 7.23. We are trying to access some of the database tables resided in the HP-UX box from the NT Server via synonyms. But we faced inte…
Re: PAGE CLEANERS
Also, At the log file I don�t get any error message, only the regulat checkpoint ones.…
Re: Onarchive
I've heard OnArchive is complex, but reliable. Just testing OnBar now and it looks good, but also has complexities and limitations. Informix backup / recovery is perhaps their weakest area of support. ...Terry.…
waiting for checkpoint
<HTML> Sometimes informix is waiting for a checkpoint, thus also the users of the application. <BR>What is the reason for this ?? <BR>I asume it is something in the application but how to indentify this and can I set a trigger <BR>that performs the checkpoint when this even…
911 HELP
Hi there, Does anyone know what to do when the database hangs because of the following error: ----------------- INFORMIX-OnLine Version 7.23.UC1 -- Fast Recovery (Prim) (CKPT REQ) -- Up 00:37:00 -- 782096 Kbytes Blocked:CKPT ============ Or how to reach Informix 24x7 support …
How can I read the header tape of the archive created by ontape?
I have Informix Dynamic Server 7.23.UC1. I would like know the tape header structure created by ontape.…
Re: Extended checkpoint times (Blocked Checkpoint)
Hi-All, Since I got a few E-mail asking which patch we applied I thought I will post to the answer to C.D.I instead. The patch we applied is "PHKL_10634". -- Have a nice day Felix K. Mathews mailto:fmathews@systems.dhl.com…
Re: Extended checkpoint times (Blocked Checkpoint)
Felix Mathews IBS CONTRACTOR wrote: > Eric_Melillo@agsea.com wrote: > > > We've had Blocked checkpoints on 7.13 -- but it has always been a known bug > > -- we get two "C"urrent logical logs, a big no-no. It is a dial-in > > offense. We're moving to 7.23 as quickly as possible…
Ontape recovery ?
Hopefully, I can present this in a cohereny manner. This is the situation. We backup our 7.14 database using ontape. We have a problem where some data got blown away several weeks ago, and it was just now discovered. I have an ontape Level 0 from three weeks ago. Obviously, …
Slow checkpoints
Hi, I run a query on Informix On-Line 7.23UC2 and I go from 1 sec. checkpoints to 30 sec. checkpoints. Any explanations? The table is partitioned and it is very large (46 million rows) Any explanations? Can I avoid this situation? select count(*) total,count(*)*.75 percent from…
Re: Upgrading Informix from Online engine to Dynamic Server
Seth Grimes wrote: > > Jane Vohden wrote: > > > > I have been talking with Informix about upgrading our site from the > > 5.xx Online engine to 7.2x Dynamic Server. They said there was no cost > > I don't think that anyone has pointed out the mistaken terminology > h…
Re: Extended checkpoint times
I had a problem in November of checkpoints blowing out to 10 minutes or so = during the evening like your manifestation. I was advised from tech support that checkpoints can blow out two ways. 1. When checkpoint is requested, Online freezes all sessions for users not = in a cri…
Re: Extended checkpoint times
check your lru parameters, I have mine set at 2 and 1. anonymous wrote in message <34C53870.964739C4@somwhere.com>... >Hi, > >We are trying to investigate a series of overly long checkpoints on one >of our informix databases, here is >a snippet of the online.log file detailing th…
Extended checkpoint times
Hi, We are trying to investigate a series of overly long checkpoints on one of our informix databases, here is a snippet of the online.log file detailing the events: 21:16:55 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 76 seconds. 21:22:04 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 6 second…
Replication setup problem
Hi, secondary server hangs in Recovery Mode! We have ODS 7.22 UC2 on both machines, and SCO 5.0 All Things are identical and we start with 1. an archive Levele 0 on machine A (the primary server). 2. on machine A: Log.Log Backup 3. on machine A: onmode -d primary machine_b 4. …
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: Freeing Logical Log with Status U
What's LOGFILES set to in your onconfig file? Try forcing a checkpoint? Jon.…
Checkpoint blocked ?
Hi, I had the same problem with ODS 7.14.UD6.on AIX 4.2.1. It has happened = twice this week. Everybody just hang and i could not even do a onmode -y properly. There= was a message saying no respond from the server. And when i did an oninit, the system= just hang on Logical Re…
Checkpoint blocked ?
On AIX 4.2 with OWS 7.20.UC2, I had a deadlock situation twice in a short time : nobody could work, and an onstat gave the message : checkpoint required, blocked. I had to stop Informix (onmode -k) and restart (oninit). I guess that some user threads where blocking the checkpoin…
Next Extent Calc.
Hi, I have INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server Version 7.14.UD2. Does anyone know of a script or program to calculate the next extent size ? Thanks in advance Manuel…
Re: Informix halts for no obvious reason ?!
Milen Metodiev wrote: > > Hi, folks. > > This is the umpteenth time this happens, so I wonder > if anyone can help. Even a few hints will be more than > welcome. > > When the system is busy enough ( 20-30 users of Informix ) > and people start issuing "heavy" queries, Informix fa…
Re: Mirroring
Jay Aymond wrote: > > "Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.com> wrote: > > >Jay Aymond wrote: > >to wait for page flushes during checkpoints. I run my busiest servers > >with > >LRU_MAX_DIRTY=3 and LRU_MIN_DIRTY=0 90% LRU Writes, these puppies fly! > > > >Art S. Kagel > > Thanks for …
onbar restore trouble
I've very anonying problem with restoring Informix database. Following is the Informix log, bar_act.log and daemon.log (/nsr/logs Legato Networker). What I did is to have a daily full backup: one on 7/18 and two on 7/19. I was having no problem at 7/19 to restore the 7/19 or 7/1…
Checkpoint problem.
Hello, guys! Our Informix server has stoped three times for a month. tbstat shows that all user processes (except two) are waiting for process "ckpt" which seems to be a checkpoint process. I noticed that in the Informix log file there were missing checkpoints for about 30 minut…
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: Fast Recovery Forever !!
"SH Lim" <sweehock@hotmail.com> wrote in article <5oo5ek$kdo@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>... > Guys and Gals, > Could you help me out here. I need some good solid explanation that > can convice management (non-techies) with high expectations about > Informix. > The Online Ser…
Re: Fast Recovery Forever !!
SH Lim wrote: > > Guys and Gals, > Could you help me out here. I need some good solid explanation that > can convice management (non-techies) with high expectations about > Informix. > The Online Server 7.13 configured with care and which has been > runnning for weeks su…
Fast Recovery Forever !!
Guys and Gals, Could you help me out here. I need some good solid explanation that can convice management (non-techies) with high expectations about Informix. The Online Server 7.13 configured with care and which has been runnning for weeks suddenly went into Fast-Recove…
Permenant Recovery
I am runing Informix Online 7.13 and today the system came to a stand still as the logical logs passed the declared High Water Mark and the logs completely filled. I made the mistake of shutting the system down, but what I believe I should have done was back up the logs to relie…
Re: How fast is fast recovery on V5
Subject: How fast is fast recovery on V5 From: John Clutterbuck <jclutterbuck@sbs.siemens.co.uk> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 23:38:52 +0100 Message-ID: <334EBD7C.75ED@sbs.siemens.co.uk> >Hi > >We have been waiting 7 hours for a recovery to complete from what looks >like 3.75 log file…
Re: How fast is fast recovery on V5
John just be glad it recovers at all I had a V5.2 port (Control Data EP/IX) that didn't recover at alle from the logical logs. It just came up with an illegal pointer (cannot find transaction ....) from the logical log I am on 7.12 now and are going to perform logical log recov…
How fast is fast recovery on V5
Hi We have been waiting 7 hours for a recovery to complete from what looks like 3.75 log files on Informix V5.3 with 2k page size. There had been some substantial deletes etc. just before it went down. Is this to be expected - shall we cut our losses and go back to a recent le…
Checkpoints in online 7.13
Hello , Does anybody know where in sysmaster database I can find informations about checkpoints, particularly in which log file the last checkpoint is ? Thanks, Jean-Francois.…
Re: Too-frequent checkpoints; which parameters to check?
Actually, if performance is important this is what you want. The alternative is to have them less often but for longer periods of time. Since users are completely blocked during the checkpoint, they would not have no response for 5 or 10 seconds (for example) which can seem lik…
Re: Too-frequent checkpoints; which parameters to check?
In article <331FF103.7F5C@lava.net>, Bob Cunningham <bob@lava.net> writes >I've got a situation with On-Line 7.22 (SPARC, Solaris 2.5.1) where >we get flurries of checkpoints at short intervals, during >some update periods that look like: > >23:35:07 Checkpoint Completed: durat…
Re: Too-frequent checkpoints; which parameters to check?
Bob Cunningham wrote: > > I've got a situation with On-Line 7.22 (SPARC, Solaris 2.5.1) where > we get flurries of checkpoints at short intervals, during > some update periods that look like: > > 23:35:07 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 2 seconds. > 23:35:14 Checkpoint Comp…
Too-frequent checkpoints; which parameters to check?
I've got a situation with On-Line 7.22 (SPARC, Solaris 2.5.1) where we get flurries of checkpoints at short intervals, during some update periods that look like: 23:35:07 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 2 seconds. 23:35:14 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 1 seconds. 23:…
Recovery Strategies
My site has a business requirement: "In the event of server failure, the database must be recovered within two hours to its state at the point of failure", and an assumption "Our disk hardware is so reliable that it is guaranteed to be 100% available" Suspending disbelief of the…
Re: Online 7.13 UC1 on HP-UX 10.10 -Reply
When you start up the catlgr, make certain it is the same userid (root or informix). You will get some strange errors if the userid is root and you try to perform some onarchive functions as informix (or as a userid of the supergroup). I am currently compiling my notes for onar…
Re: numerous checkpoints
The two most common reasons for checkpoints are 1) the checkpoint interval has been reached and 2) the physical log is over 75% full. If the checkpoints appear to be closer than the checkpoint interval, I would guess that your physical log file is too small. Madison Pruet…
numerous checkpoints
Hi, I don't understand reason why checkpoints occur so frequent. From my point of view, there are not any event that initiate a checkpoint (events described in INFORMIX-Online Dynamic Server Administrator's Guide Version 7.1 12-52). Could someone tell me another event, that is no…
Log files to disk
Has anyone tried backing up transaction log files to disk, and being able to retrieve them later for recovery. Would appreciate any experiences, good or bad. Kerry Thompson…
Re: Informix Online Table Recovery: How? -Reply
This little maneuver is called "point-in-time" recovery -- a MAJOR function that should be a part of ANY relational database that allows multiple users. Unfortunately, Informix does not have a "true" point-in-time recovery. You may apply the last backup and all logs except the …
Re: Informix Online Table Recovery: How? -Reply
If Point-in-Time recovery is so important to you guys, upgrade to 7.20 now ! Informix has always taken a more conservative approach. With this new freedom comes also greater responsibility for the DBA. Check it out. Hoon-Hong Singapore…
Recovery using LOG file
Hi, Is there any other tools, Informix or other vendors, besides dblog to read log file and recover data? I need to automate some recovery process and any info is appreciated. Thanks, Siamak…
Re: Informix 7.1.2.UC1: LRUS in /usr/informix/etc/onconfig
>By the way, what is your checkpoint interval? >Are the checkpoints occurring after this intervall or do they occure >earlier, initiated by a 75% dirty Physical-Log-Buffer? The checkpoint interval is set to 300 seconds. The checkpoint always seems to occur at the interval and n…
Re: mt_shm_remove: WARNING: "After running oninit"
In article <31CF7F9D.67BB@avid.com>, Chris <chris_swecker@avid.com> writes > >I forced a check point with onmode -c, but no luck the server remained >in the Fast Recover state. >(I tried forcing a check point numerous times) > > >I brought the server down again; onmode -ky >and p…
mt_shm_remove: WARNING: "After running oninit"
We're running Online 7.13.UC1 on HPUX. After backing up the log files to clear them, I realized that the log files had not been freed due to a long transaction. According to the documentation, a full restore would correct the problem. The restore did free all the log files, bu…
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: Database Replication - Does it work?
ken, > I've tried to point LTAPEDEV to a real file and periodically backup logical > logs 'ontape -a' on the secondary server when it has changed to standard, but > when I try to restore the primary it hangs in fast recovery and the > secondary panics - again requiring careful m…
backup/recovery
I am newly hired DBA and have looked at the informix manuals. That does not give me enough information. For only a directory like /mnt4/casemng/ I need to back up THAT directory - not whole database. Is it correct that I just type "tptape -s /mnt4/casemng/" ?? OK now I just wan…
PANIC: Attempting to bring system down
I write from Spain and I have next error working with Informix Online 7.11UC1. In online.log say: DR: DRAUTO is 0 (off) informix-online Initialized -- Shared memory initialized. Physical Recovery Started. Physical Recovery Complete: 1120 Pages Restored Logical Recovery Started. …
PANIC: Attempting to bring system down
I write from Spain and I have next error working with Informix Online 7.11UC1. In online.log say: DR: DRAUTO is 0 (off) informix-online Initialized -- Shared memory initialized. Physical Recovery Started. Physical Recovery Complete: 1120 Pages Restored Logical Recovery Started. …
PANIC: Attempting to bring system down
I write from Spain and I have next error working with Informix Online 7.11UC1. In online.log say: DR: DRAUTO is 0 (off) informix-online Initialized -- Shared memory initialized. Physical Recovery Started. Physical Recovery Complete: 1120 Pages Restored Logical Recovery Started. …
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?…
Checkpoint Required
Hey Online wizards What causes the check point required message on a "tbstat -"? I know one cause is when achive tapes needs to be changed(many thanks to Joe Lumbley's book), but what other things can cause the check point required message? A "tbmode -c" should force a checkpo…
HELP message log
I need some help to understand the meaning of the messages that appear in the file of Message Log. This is a copy of my Message Log. Thanks in advanced. ############################################################################## Sat Apr 22 08:03:30 1995 08:03:30 INFORMIX-…
Checkpoints problems
Hi A friend of mine is running informix online 5.01 ud3 in aix 3.2.5. The workstations are running inet 5.01 and q+e odbc library. At some time (generally during heavy load), users begin to complanit that they can't connect to the database server. But logged users still works…
Re: mirrored chunks
When the offline chunks are corrected (ie, hardware fixed), and you initiate a recovery for a 'down' mirrored chunk, a daemon process begins copying the contents of the primary chunk (the one that is still ON-LINE), to the chunk being recovered. ONLINE brings the chunk on-line i…
On-Line 5.0 Weird Crash
The other evening we had a database crash on us, it said that a dbspace disappeared. Upon further evaluation, we noticed nothing wrong and restarted the engine and everything was fine. The following listings "online.log" and "tbstat -a" are listings for a on-line crash on …
Re: Why this Long Transaction
Stuart Litel writes: |> I strongly suggest if a "revovery" takes more than short period of time you |> could be encountering this famous bug. This depends a lot on your configuration. Fast recovery must rerun all the transactions that took place since the time of the last check…
Checkpoint Recovery
Does Infomix provide me with the ability to specify a particular transaction or checkpoint to be used in rollback or recovery processing. My questions stem s from a user scenario, where the user has requested a series of database processes accidentally. I would like to be able …
engine performance (fwd)
Ellen suggested I send this out for a grin. Basically we had experienced some problems on one of our many engines and found this in the logfile. I sent this to Ellen to let her know a) what was going on b) it was the only logical explanation for what was occuring. } One day (7…
Re: Un-attended Large Archives (fwd)
Graeme Sargent writes: |> Dave Kosenko wrote: |> >You imply that, by design, the system is intentionally locked during media |> >changes and this is incorrect. In fact, this problem can generally be |> |> I think you're being a bit pedantic here, Dave. The lockup effect may |> …
Re: Recovery
In article <1inm5vINN3gm@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> unifi!goofy.unifi.com!bharat@uunet.UU.NET (Bharat Shah) writes: >Welcome to the world of STUCK FAST RECOVERY ... >I have faced this problem on more than one occassion and I have been asked to >wait for version 5.0 where HIGHT_WATER…
Re: Recovery
Welcome to the world of STUCK FAST RECOVERY ... This is a known "bug" of Informix where if logical logs are about to be fully consumed, the rollback begins. If just then the client is killed, OnLine is rendered into an inconsistant state. The recovery.... will never stop. Infor…
Recovery
I'm running Informix-Online 5.00.UC3 with Informix 4-4GL 4.10.UE2 on a HP 9000 s750 computer. A process with some 4000 locks had hung trying to update the database. I killed the process (which was a very bad move). Going into tbmonitor, I tried to set the DB online again. …
Need Info on tbtape/tbstat
I need to write a program to automatically know what level of archive needs to be done. I am trying to read the ${INFORMIXDIR}/turbo.log to see the messages indicating when the last archive completed. The turbo.log and the tbmonitor status/archive does not really match. Is the…
Re: C-ISAM Corrupted Indexes (fwd)
Previously, I wrote: > > Generally, it's important to note that Informix-SE provides only a logical > log, whereas Online provides both logical and physical logs. As you point > out, the only sure way to recover from a crash with SE is to RECOVER > and ROLL FORWARD whereas Onlin…