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Not enough room in ROOT DBspace
Hi Jack, thanks for your response. I already created physical and logical log dbspaces, moved the physical log to that dbspaces and created the rest of the logical logs in the other dbspace. But I was wondering why the first dbspaces is the ROOTNAME Thanks…
Offline Secondary
Continuous log restore has to start with a full restore of a level 0 archive (and possibly level1 & /or level 2 archives if you don't have logical logs going back far enough). You cannot initiate continuous log restore using an export/import. If you wanted to read the CLR seconda…
Error in COMMIT WORK when trying to add a chunk
@Jacob, I may be misremembering, or maybe things have changed in recent versions of Informix, but in general, it is better to have several smaller logical logs than a few (or a single) large ones. This is because the LTXHWM and LTXEHWM percentages are based not on the percentage…
Informix restore strategy
Vilius: So, here are your options: You can periodically use dbexport (or my dbexport replacement utility myexport which does not require locks) to take snapshots of your databases. Not great, but many use this method, especially for databases that do not have high transaction rat…
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 ------------------------------…
What prevents a RSS to roll forward as fast as its primary?
Are you running version 14? If so 3x CPU VPs and round up to the nearest prime number is no longer a good guide. The replication stack has had quite a rewrite and this parameter now controls the number of wreplay threads. These can be monitored with onstat -g laq You can now get …
Logical Logs - Flags and backups
Hi Mark, The "B" in the 3rd position means that the logical log has been backed up, which is good! The log backup will be triggered by the script referenced in your onconfig file with the parameter ALARMPROGRAM. It is called each time a logical log is filled or logical log is sw…
restore through STDIO
Hello. Unless you are trying to create an RSS node on your cluster, I don't see any benefits in using zip/unzip. 1-huge cpu consumption in a serialized method. 2-your network link should be already a high speed to accomodate your primary load for HDR replication. 3-if you are dea…
Potentially Serious HDR Bug 14.10.FC7W1
I'm still running into this issue -- it's been at least five times now -- and this time, the primary does show the secondary as being disconnected. Behavior is the same as before; HDR disconnects from primary; primary tries to run a checkpoint, waits for HDR to acknowledge, but s…
Logical Logs/Physical logs
IDS 12.10.FC12 Solaris 10 1/13 If you had to choose having a separate dbspace for logical logs or physical logs, but not both, which would you choose? I'm uncertain which is likely to generate more I/O. Thank you. Regards, DG ------------------------------ David Grove -----------…
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…
Spaces and Spindles: Thought Experiment
For extra credit, consider having two dbspaces for logical logs (odd and even). DG…
Number of logical logs growing ?
This is what I've found in logs at the time of crontab ontape -a jobs ( no one was connected to the db, neither no jobs were usign it ): 17:20:01 Logical Log 47416 - Backup Started 17:20:01 Logical Log 47416 - Backup Completed 17:20:01 Logical Log 47417 - Backup Started 17:20:01…
Reading logical logs of informix
Is it possible to find what was being written in database at a certain point of time by reading logical-logs?…
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…
CLOB cloumn data not reflecting in HDR seconday
Hi, Is the CLOB in a logged sbspace and is logging enabled for that column? https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSGU8G_11.50.0/com.ibm.admin.doc/ ids_admin_0707.htm Regards, David. > On 19 April 2018 at 10:37 MUKESH TANUKU <mukeshbt1328@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Im t…
set up a secondary server tutorial info?
First of all: ignore the usual Windows bashing - I'd see no reason to believe Informix would be slower or faster than with a different OS on same HW, provided proper handling. How nicely Informix integrates into Windows is a separate question, but shouldn't affect performance. H…
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.…
RSS does not apply logs
hello, I have the following situation. I would be very pleased if somebody could put a light into this. Thanks a lot, JUAN Primary: amc1_rss RSS server: amc4_rss RSS DeLAY_APPLY 5M Why does RSS secondary not apply logs up to 116024, having long past the 5 minutes delay config…
Rovoke insert permission but still can insert
I am doing it at the command line in the server directly in the directory C:\\\\Program Files\\\\IBM\\\\IBM Informix Dynamic Server\\\\11.50\\\\bin…
Informix HDR
You are mixing HDR a bit with logging mode. With logging mode set to UNBUFFERED the commit is not allowed to complete until the log containing the commit is flushed to disk. With BUFFERED logging, the transaction is allowed to commit without the commit log being flushed to disk.…
HDR- Distance and Latency
HDR over a WAN is usually not workable. It depends on how fast the connection to the DR site is and what the network latency is. Yes, delays in applying log buffers sent to the HDR secondary can affect the performance of the primary as far as clients committing transactions are c…
Re: New RFE
No need to create a logged copy. Just put the pages of the table into the log, just as we do with index page logging. The only down side is that the table would have to be locked during that time and the conversion to standard would be considerably longer. Sent from Yahoo Mail f…
Re: New RFE
Madison: I submit option #4: 4) On converting the table to standard, begin a logged copy of the table to a new table replicating the copy, then reapply any log records recorded by changes to the original table, finally rename the tables and drop the original version. Done this…
Re: New RFE
I had played around with doing this for ER as well so that we could include it with the GRID automatic replication. It might actually be in the product if you are connected to the grid when you convert the table from RAW to STANDARD. Now for the technical issue. The copy of the…
Implementing HDR on Windows 2012 R2 Servers
Hello Friends, Need A Help on Immediate basis. We are implementing HDR(High Availability Data Replication) on Windows 2012 R2 Server. Steps done: 1) Two new Windows 2012 R2 Servers. IDS 12.10FC8 installed and created the instance manually using Server Instance Manager. Serve…
HDR Implementaion
I have already done with that commands. so that the primary server is in (prim) and secondary is in (sec) Primary server o/p: [root@cgslhdr9 storage]# onstat -g dri IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 12.10.FC8AEE -- On-Line (Prim) -- Up 02:56:43 -- 180852 Kbytes Data Replica…
HDR primary state off
For setting up an HDR or RSS secondary server, you'd start with a=20 'physical restore', as opposed to 'a restore' which would be a combined=20 physical and logical restore. Doing so you'd already land in the state that would allow 'onmode -d=20 secondary', and all of those onin…
LOGBUFF Setting
Since you are running unbuffered logging, in all probability you are not performing IO on a full log buffer. That means that a larger log buffer size does not impact either the risk or IO performance. The only impact would be memory. You can see this by running onstat -l. Chances…
IDS not writing to online.log
Hi Art, tried that already. When I add a logical log I will see the corresponding entry in online.log and a checkpoint, and nothing happens after that. And I can't switch the logical logs because onmode -l is not working…
sds transactions
Original post: I don't understand sds secondary isolation in transactions I'm making some test and I'm a bit confused, perhaps something is not well set: <steps removed> If you commit transactions in sds secondary you see all ok, it just when transactions are created in primar…
Long transaction problem
When IDS will used up all the logical log? i.e. the log file below the current logical log file has open transaction also . thanks for your time.…
Need assistance on spreading logical logs
IDS 11.70 I need advice on how to setup a spread of logical logs over at least two disks. the idea behind this is to enable one logical log to be backed up and another being used which may improve performance.…
Compress Repack Slow Performance
Dear All, Have an instance of Informix 11.7.FC4 that runs on AIX PowerHA Cluster, IBM POWER machines, with 64 logical cores, 160GB or RAM memory and FC storage. Have a total of 600GB of chunks, containing few big tables within 1 DB (100GB (100mil records), 70GB, 50GB) fragmented…
dbimport and long transaction
Hi, there are several ways to prevent a long transaction when dbimporting a database: 1) In case you have no HDR: import unlogged and the convert to logging using ontape -s -t /dev/null -B/U <dbname> (remember to take a real backup afterwards) 2) In case you have HDR: import unlo…
Mutex logs on logical log flip
IDS 11.50 on Solaris We've only just started noticing this odd occurrence. I t only just have started happening or it may have been happening for ages but there's more focus upon it now. Our customer's monitoring was detecting occasional periods of slow queries, perhaps persist…
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)…
Root db space fills up
The logical and physical logs reside in there own db space.…
RSS not working
Have you tried changing: LTAPEDEV /llog/drcallog to LTAPEDEV /dev/null to see if the logical log backup is causing the message?…
HDR secondary : new rows not seen on secondary
Buffered logging WILL make a difference! Iif the logical log buffer is not flushed yet then the updates are not written to the logical log and so cannot be forwarded to the secondary yet! When you switch logs, the current log buffer is flushed automatically causing it to be forwa…
Informix upgrade
Can we upgrade informix from Dynamic Server Version 11.70 to 12.1 workgroup edition directly?…
DYNAMIC_LOGS=2 Functionality?
Hi, Silly question ... do you backup your logical logs? If you do want to backup your logs, then consider using ALARMPROGRAM to backup logical logs when complete (using onbar or ontape) - that way you should not encounter full logical logs because they are not being backed up. …
Logical log backup
Folks, IDS11.50FC8 , Linux We have a couple of boxes , all are setup to do automatic logical backup. Once the current log is full, it triggers the alarm procedure to start a backup. It works great. But, The interesting thing is, some servers do not always backup a full logical…
Using Informix ODBC with connection manager
Hello. As soon as you implement your CM, it will be a "network gateway" for your production cluster (and maybe redirect your connections to any cluster node, according to your CM defined policy). So, your ODBC connection will be changed from your database, to your CM hostname/p…
DR: Needed to send a ping message but failed. 1
Original post: Hi All, I am running IDS 11.70 FC7 on AIX server. I am running primary, HDR (async) and RSS server, I have noticed an increase in the frequency of following messages: DR: Needed to send a ping message but failed. 1 I have checked the network connectivity betwe…
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.…
database replication setup help
Art, You say "If the RSS or HDR secondary is writable, the writes are still happening on the primary" and then later "If the WAN goes down you could continue to process transactions locally". I'm confused by this - if all writes are happening on the primary, then how could I con…
DB_locale or local naming convention
Hi, I already mention the informix version. IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.TC1IE…
Add more logical logs in IDS 9.4
Hi All, I'll be performing adding logical logs into our existing DB. My question are the following: 1. Do the DB needs to be in quiescent state? i believe, there's no need at all. Once i have added the new dbspaces to be used by the logical logs, i will drop the existing ones …
Re: HDR Reconstruction (with ER :-))
Keith, this is exactly the scenario described. As long as the logs on the remaining server have wrapped (ie the newest log on the down/recovered server is still online on the surviving server, then you can make this recovered server the secondary by running the onmode -s primary…
Re: HDR Reconstruction (with ER :-))
Alexandre Thanks for this, but it doesn't cover the situation where the primary fails so secondary becomes primary, 'time passes' with transactions applied and THEN the original primary becomes available and needs to be brought in sync with the current primary before both can be…
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,…
SQL/Optimizer Question
Just eyeballing the schema provided I am guessing you will get 16 rows per 2KB data page. assumed row size of 120 bytes. WHERE i_case_relation_cd = 3 is currently evaluated to return 98,108 rows while we do not have the statistics on the table, the cluster value would indicate h…
Any resolution steps for this failed llogdbs that
IDS: IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.FC9W1X7 OS: Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.10 Generic January 2005 I'm having the Systems Admin to review the disk now. 14:13:25 Assert Warning: I/O error, Primary Chunk '/ifmx/ciboodle/chunks/llogdbs_4' -- Offline 14:13:25 IBM Info…
HDR for Enterprise DR solution?
Art, Thank you. The secondary hardware is identical to the primary. I recall reading that in the past HDR had issues both with the secondary crashing and with causing the primary to slow when the secondary gets out of sync. I believe there was thought to the effect that, "Proces…
HDR and ER Running Together
Thanks Madison, So am I correct in thinking that while HDR is stopped for any reason ER will also pause, regardless of whether HDR is in synchronous or asynchronous mode ? I'm trying to get my head around the implications of this. We use the target(s) of the ER as part of our …
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…
non-log and logical log buffer
Hi, If a database is non-log, do update/insert/ go into the logical log buffer? thanks for your time.…
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 …
HDR question once again
Jack: You are missing a lot. A bit of recent history then. Informix from version 7.10 through 7.31 and 9.10 through version 10.00, supported two overall replication types: 1. HDR or High availability Data Replication - This supported one read/write primary server and one read-…
Informix Clustered Indexes
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 07:53, Tom Lehr <tomcaml@gmail.com> wrote: > Have been doing some reading about clustered indexing and wondering > what experiences other folks have had with them? > We currently do not use them in our high transaction OLTP world and am > a bit wary due t…
Restore + Logical log - caution
The last weeks I discovery a behave of the engine what is something new for me. I believe others will be surprised too... IFX 11.50 FC9 When you restore an archive with logical logs , maybe you needed the files/tapes of logical logs backuped before the Archive Level 0. The rea…
CLR vs Long Transactions...
Immediately backing up your log doesn't automatically make it available for re-use. A long transaction is a function of how many logical logs a transaction spans (stays open) with respect to the amount of logical logs you have defined. In your situation every time you do a log sw…
Long transaction
Hi, when long transaction being rollback, could others execute SQL select that don't write logical log? thanks.…
RSS with DELAY_APPLY is dog slow!
On Nov 10, 2:52 pm, Nick <milesnmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone have experience with RSS and the DELAY_APPLY feature? > > I am running tests, with the end goal to find the best HDR or RSS > setup that will minimize the performance impact on my primary db > server…
Issues after upgrade
Hi, I have error messages after the upgrade from 7.31 to 11.5 In 7.31, the output of oncheck -pe was: ... LOGICAL LOG Pages - Log 52 456063 8000 LOGICAL LOG Pages - Log 53 464063 8000 LOGICAL LOG Pages - Log 54 …
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…
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.…
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…
Art's Fear the Panther....
In response to Art's comment about me not wanting to do HDR with dissimilar systems. That's not quite true. I wish that we could. Unfortunately there are too many places in the server where data is stored in native rather than network independent format. Some of those places suc…
Mach11 questions
On Sep 8, 12:44 am, fv_it <f.ver...@strhold.it> wrote: > I think you should deeper navigate in the documentation (Information > Center): for example, take a look at the following page....http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/idshelp/v115/topic/com.ibm.a... > There you can find…
Import restore issue
Hi, I was able to restore the database from inftest1 (prim) to inftest2 (sec) by ontape utility. But I still have problem with the "onmode -d secondary inftest1.newpiper.net" from inftest2 server. Please check out the output from below and advice. Thanks From inftest1 "onmode -…
SDS and SAN Storage
On Aug 12, 8:21 pm, rpa <ruediger.pa...@t-online.de> wrote: > Hi all > > what is possible and what is the best way to create chunks on a SAN- > Storage (NetApp) for SDS. > We are planning for IDS 11.50 database installations with SDS feature. > > OS will be LINUX (SLES or UBUN…
Can't access sysindexes remotely
Hi, We are using IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.FC6 using Platform: SunOS 5.10 Generic_125100-09 sun4v sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-T200 Thanks…
RE: dbexport on RSS client
Hi everybody!!!! I tried to do a dbexport with the following: dbexport basedato -o /path I followed the path Paul sent, but I got the following in the RSS node: ""The operation cannot be performed on this RS secondary server because no temporary dbspace exists. Set the DBSPACE…
Display contents of Logical Log
Is there a way to display the contents of the logical logs if the LTAPEDEV parameter is set to backup the logical logs to a directory? (LTAPEDEV /informix11/inflog) I had a look at the onlog command and in that the -d switch accepts the tape drive path. Appreciate your response…
FW: Assert failure when restarting replication.
One of my team members is receiving the following. Any thoughts: Informix: IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.FC3 O/S: SunOS srapdsa20 5.8 Generic_117350-27 sun4u sparc SUNW,Netra-T12 Scenario: I do an onmode -d standard on both servers to stop replicaton, I shut down t…
AIX 5.3 IDS 11.50 FC5 - Performance Advisory
Have any of you experienced this? In reviewing the online.log, I discovered that AFTER a system reboot, and ONLY AFTER a system reboot, the first time the "Auto Update Statistics Refresh" begins, the following performance advisory is recorded. The Backup occurs nightly, the AUS …
RE: Found a possible bug in IDS 11.x... and a nasty one at that... has anyone suffered this?
> From: domusonline@gmail.com > Subject: Re: Found a possible bug in IDS 11.x... and a nasty one at that... has anyone suffered this? > Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 23:14:12 +0000 > To: informix-list@iiug.org > > Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > > I have to agree that the issue is interesting…
Long Transaction Despite DYNAMIC_LOGS = 2
Clifton, my inputs are as followings: The transaction by the user "ifxcmgt" spanned 2.2 GB (LTXHWM=70%) out of 3.1 GB total logical log dbspace (~33000 KBx100 or 3.1 GB); therefore, it was defined as a long transaction and was rolled back. Transaction rollback and other process…
Re: Upgrade from 9.4 to 11.10
One thing I noticed is you have lots of little logs - 85 12M logs for a total of 1Gig. IDS 11 prefers larger log files so that it does not fill and switch too quickly (which might occur during the batch processes). It will give you a warning in the alert log when/if that happen…
Re: HDR Replication Requirements
I'm not sure what you're thinking when you say "recovery". Technically, the secondary server is permanently in recover mode. But we can dig this further... After you restore (physical restore) the server will ask for the logs generated after the backup on the primary. After apply…
grant select,insert update,delete on tabs on HDR
FYI, you should always post your version and platform information. If the database is logged then the grants will be applied on the secondary as well. No problem. Art Art S. Kagel Oninit (www.oninit.com) IIUG Board of Directors (art@iiug.org) Disclaimer: Please keep in mind t…
Informix Dynamic Server Software Downloads
It appears IBM has cleverly hidden the IDS downloads again on the Passport Advantage Website, at least from my prying eyes. I can find the Solid DB and the DB2 links just fine. Does anyone out there in IIUG-land with a Passport Advantage account know where IBM has stashed the dow…
ANYONE KNOW IDS USERS OR CONSULTING FIRMS IN NYC
I am looking for work in the New York City metro area. Can anyone refer me to an end-user or a consulting firm?.. below is my resume: Frank J. Rotolo, frank.pr@msn.com _______________________________________________________________________________ Summary: Over twenty six years…
how to free up logical logs
Hi All, I've encountered problem on logical logs once again... I'm using onbar on backing up the logical logs and dbspaces. Unfortunately, the netbackup failed and causing the "logical logs" full. Q: what is the correct solution, without losing the logical logs? Is there any wa…
ontape -c
I use 'ontape -c ' to backup the logical log, if the 'ontape -c' process was terminated abnormally, for example, the machine crash or it was killed by others, do anybody know if I could restore those logical log sucessful?…
Logical logs backup
Hi Martin, Thanks for your response! Correct me if my clarification is wrong! At one point of time, the status of the logical logs is Logical log 4 to 7 -> U_B__ Logical log 8 -> U_C_L Logical log 9-13 -> U_B__ All the logical logs are 100% full When i did a level 0 backup, th…
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…
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 Primary and Secondary on different Versions
It's a voodoo solution that you're using. Sometimes it might work, but= sometimes it might not. It all depends on 1) wheither a new log record= type is introduced and/or 2) whither we have to change the way log reco= rds are applied on the secondary. It is guarenteed that new l…
Re: 11.50.xC4 Compression with workgroup edition?
An easy way to distinguish between IBM (DB2 and IDS) compression and Oracle compression is to look at e.g. an employee table with, say names and addresses and other junk (like salaries ;-) Block compressions wins, as Mark points out, in fast changing data. Global compression wins…
Reducing logical log space
I'm looking for reassurance, really ... IDS 10.0FC8 on HP-UX 11.31. HDR running. My customer is running out of disk space on its production system, and cannot provide any more at all for Informix for a couple of weeks (don't ask!). As the application dbspaces will likely not l…
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 …
Block some DDL commands at HDR Secondary Instance
Hi In HDR, the secondary server does not actually execute the drop database or drop table. When the primary executes those DDLs, those transactions are logged, and when the primary flushes the log buffers to disk, a copy of that log buffer is shipped to the secondary and the sec…
Extracting logical logs from a level1 archive ?
Is it possible to extract the logical logs from a level1 archive to use for rolling forward ?…
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…
Re: Building Indexs on Primary Server
On Feb 4, 10:36 am, e...@herber-consulting.de wrote: > On Feb 4, 6:30 pm, Mo <mohitanch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Informix 11: > > > We have HDR servers, I am seeing that creating an index on table of > > 100M rows takes more than 16hrs. Could it be because of HDR secondary > > …
Building Indexs on Primary Server
On Feb 4, 6:30 pm, Mo <mohitanch...@gmail.com> wrote: > Informix 11: > > We have HDR servers, I am seeing that creating an index on table of > 100M rows takes more than 16hrs. Could it be because of HDR secondary > server trying to build the index at the same time? We have PDQ > …
Location of physical and logical logs
This may seem like a bit of stupid question but how do I find out in which dbspace the logs are on a system I didn't set up? Thanks -- Regards Scott Newton | R&D Solution Specialist | Integral Technology Group Ltd 95 Ascot Ave, Greenlane | PO Box 302313, North Harbour, North Sh…
Re: DRTIMEOUT
emaus wrote: > Hi all: > Between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m. on the ultumos 4 days, the archivo.log records > the same type of event, doing some chunks that are put down mode. > > 06:36:47 Rollforward of log record failed. iserrno = 101 > 06:36:47 Log Record: log = 33258, pos = 0x18cc048…
Re: Logical Log files MISSING
Bigger logical log files?…
Re: Smoke and mirrors...
On Oct 12, 2:20 pm, InDeep <ind...@indeep.com> wrote: > Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > > To your point. Yes IDS will perform much better that either Oracle or > > DB2 in a VM environment. > > Let's not make sweeping statements without facts. I have been happy with IDS > so far on VM…
Re: Smoke and mirrors...
Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > To your point. Yes IDS will perform much better that either Oracle or > DB2 in a VM environment. Let's not make sweeping statements without facts. I have been happy with IDS so far on VMware Fusion on my Macbook Pro, but I have not had a history of ex…
Logical Log files MISSING
Hello Ive checked the online.log file for one of the missing log 20084 23:12:22 Logical Log 20083 Complete, timestamp: 0x8e06d245. 23:12:22 Logical Log 20084 Complete, timestamp: 0x8e06d245. 23:12:22 Logical Log 20083 - Backup Started 23:12:23 Logical Log 20083 - Backup Comple…
use stored proc that return multiple columns in a query
forgot to include version info: IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.UC6W5 -- On-Line -- Up 207 days 22:14:39 -- 1441100 Kbytes…
installing informix dynamic server in linux
hi, I'm new to informix... I tried to install informix dynamic server(iif. 11.50.UC2E.Linux-RHEL4.tar) in my linux machine. I'm getting an error like this... One or more prerequisite system libraries are not installed on your computer. Install libpam.so.0, libncurses.so.5…
Informix Dynamic Server v 11.50 Developer's Edition
Does everyone know that the Informix Dynamic Server Developer's Edition v11.50 that you can download from the IIUG Web site (www.iiug.org) is NOT timebombed, is completely and fully functional (including HDR, MACH11, ER etc.). Do you know that the only limitations on this versio…
Informix Dynamic Server v 11.50 Developer's Edition
Does everyone know that the Informix Dynamic Server Developer's Edition v11.50 that you can download from the IIUG Web site (www.iiug.org) is NOT timebombed, is completely and fully functional (including HDR, MACH11, ER etc.). Do you know that the only limitations on this versio…
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…
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.…
Understanding the Logical Log Usage
Am using version 10.00.UC7X1 and have a few *basic* questions on the usage of the logical log file. The database has a logging mode of unbuffered logging with a page size is 2048 bytes (as returned by onstat -b). I have 3 log files with each file being 5000 KB in size. I have a …
Managing IDS in IBM HACMP environment
> -----Original Message----- > From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of > ROBERT ROMERO > Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 1:59 PM > To: ids@iiug.org > Subject: Re: Managing IDS in IBM HACMP environment [12053] > > Appreciate the comments. > > We are plan…
HDR: Checkpoint Record not Found in Logical Log
I am trying to re-enable HDR on a pair of machines that I have used it successfully on in the past. Neither the configuration nor the hardware has changed on either box. After a clean restore using `ontape -p`, I restart the secondary server and place it in recovery mode with `o…
Re: Optimizer Issues with 10.00.xC8
Another point of confusion that has me summoning the UPDATE STATISTICS gods. As a reminder, my test table ("foo") looks consists of five columns, col1-col5. Col1, Col2, and Col3 are integers, while Col4 and Col5 are character fields. I have a unique index on (Col1, Col3) and a…
Re: Restoring a logical log
ian.miell@gmail.com wrote: > We have some scripts which parse the output of onlog -n/-l and > produces user-friendly output. > > We've been given a log file from backup which has the header: > > [xxxxxxl@xxxxxxx] 43$ hd llog.631510 | less > 00000000 ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 0…
Restoring a logical log
We have some scripts which parse the output of onlog -n/-l and produces user-friendly output. We've been given a log file from backup which has the header: [xxxxxxl@xxxxxxx] 43$ hd llog.631510 | less 00000000 ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 0a 00 09 00 9d 07 5f |..............._| …
Re: How can fetch cause long transaction
> I have one more question: > > When DYNAMIC_LOG is set 2, does it starts to add more logical logs > dynamically when next logical log in the sequence has open > transaction. Does this become active only during roll back and next > logical log has an open transaction or could it …
High Extent Tables.
Quick question: 1. If I create a clustered index and drop it on a table with high extents, will that reorganize it and reduce the extents or 2. Do I have to unload the data, drop the table, re-create the table, and re-load the data or 3. Should I rename the original table to a…
Logical Log
Version IDS 10 When DYNAMIC_LOG is 2 and logical logs gets full Informix starts to write to rootdbs and Informix uses LOGSIZE from what was used initially for disk space initialization. And it appears like even if the LOGSIZE is changed using onparams or in onconfig file, Inform…
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…
Never ending Checkpoint
IDS 9.40.FC4W2 SunOS 5.8 Last Saturday we had a "never ending checkpoint". There are no loggings about the event except the lines in online.log: 11:41:01 Fuzzy Checkpoint Completed: duration was 2 seconds, 2789 buffers not flushed, timestamp: 0x60364810. 11:41:01 Checkpoint …
How HDR resync after network connection resumes
With "RETAIN_TYPE" is set to 1, HDR would be reestablished from secondary server when old primary is up once again. When the logical log backup has been performed on secondary server, how the oustanding logical log could be retrieved for resync to old primary server? 1) Do I ne…
HDR failure handling on network disconnection
Is the process of logical log rolling forward by "ontape" or "onbar" are automatic?…
Difference between Physical and Logical Logs?
It seems the work done by logical log is more than physical log. What is the point of having physical log? As logical log already including post and pre image of database chanages.…
Logical Logs
Hi All Gurus, I'm new to this forum and IDS. Please advise me how to remove/delete the logical logs No.1 till No.3 from onstat -l, i assume flag D indicates DELETE ( pls corret me if wrong) And would it possible to readjust LOGSIZE to smaller value say "16384" from any availabl…
Informix Engine not starting
Can you please try to increase Physical & Logical log file sizes in Onconfig.bnm Thanks Tara…
Process taking most of Logcal Log
Version: IDS 10 Is there a way to tell which process on the box is filling up the logs. I was thinking if there is a way to tell which process / thread is writing the logical logs or filling up the logical logs…
OFF_RECVRY_THREADS and ON_RECVRY_THREADS
Does these parameters help in logical log recovery. I was wondering if increasing ON_RECVRY_THREADS help in HDR on secondary server.…
HDR Secondary mode Log transfer handling
Hi, 1) yes. 2) yes. This is the purpose of Informix HDR (High availability Data Replication). As long as the network connection is working, the IDS Primary and Secondary servers will stay connected and exchange information continuously. Any changes on the Primary server will be…
IDS Primary down
Hi all.... In it completes week, my IDS Primary has down in 4 opportunities having shown the following message of error: 03:10:47 Maximum server connections 567 03:11:21 Assert Failed: Exception Caught. Type: MT_EX_OS, Context: mem 03:11:21 IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10…
IIUG TV
Great job on the video work!! I look forward to seeing more! -t- -- -- Informix Dynamic Server Database Engine -- http://www.informix.com --…
DDL with HDR
As long as the changes don't cause the log file to wrap. ;-) Seriously though -- the time that it takes to convert the HDR secondary= to an RSS node and vice versa is just about the same time that it takes t= o bring down and back up the HDR secondary. And that approch would hav…
Logical Logs in Enterprise Replication
Hi All, I am using Enterprise Replication on IDS10 UC5. I have 33 Logical Logs for IDS, each of 5000 pages i.e. 20,000KB. Test >onstat -l IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.UC5 -- On-Line -- Up 09:00:11 -- 81408 Kbytes Physical Logging Buffer bufu…
Re: admin tools like PC client
Mike, What version of Informix are you using? Informix SE? Informix OnLine? Informix Dynamic Server? Most Informix versions these days come with a product call I-Connect that needs to be installed on the PC and rovides the Informix ODBC drivers.…
Error when initializing
06:36:20 IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version [b]10.00.UC6TL[\\b] I believe this is likelt ot be a new ish instance to a newish user of the software…
HDR Transaction
Hi, you do it on primary server only (as already noted). You cannot do it on secondary server. And if you do it on primary server (as is recommended), then there is no need at all to do it on secondary server. So there is no problem. [ In fact HDR is implemented by sending logi…
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: Splitting logical logs
news.arcor.de wrote: > IDS 9.4 WE, Sola�ris 9 > > Hi everybody, > > we use to back up our logical logs using "ontape -c", for example in a file > named "trans.log". > As a consequence, when restoring a Level-0 backup using ontape -r, we can > only restore *all* logical logs con…
Splitting logical logs
IDS 9.4 WE, Sola�ris 9 Hi everybody, we use to back up our logical logs using "ontape -c", for example in a file named "trans.log". As a consequence, when restoring a Level-0 backup using ontape -r, we can only restore *all* logical logs contained in the trans.log or *no* logic…
Re: Senior Oracle DBA now Learning Informix by Request
Tambi Dude wrote: > "DA Morgan" <damorgan@psoug.org> wrote in message > news:1166401364.229016@bubbleator.drizzle.com... >> Tambi Dude wrote: >>> "DA Morgan" <damorgan@psoug.org> wrote in message >>> news:1166388023.574809@bubbleator.drizzle.com... >>>> How one defines quality is…
Logical log backups
Hi I am having a dreadful time with a autochanger tape device for which my logical logs and archives are backed up to. Problem being the device frequently stops working and unless it is fixed before the logical logs run out, I get downtime. I am using the networker software to …
HP-UX PA-RISC/Itanium
HP claims that HP-UX maintains high degree of compatibility between PA-RISC and Itanium based system. Here is the quote from document they published on their website (http://h21007.www2.hp.com/dspp/tech/tech_TechDocumentDetailPage_IDX/1,1701,9928 ,00.html): "One of the design go…
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: 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…
not write Log
Can I control the writing Logical LOG? I mean I have a large job and it will use up all my Logoical logs, so I would like to avoid writing log temporarilly for this job. Thanks, Quman…
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/…
logical log size
Hello, The logical logs on my system are configured as 30 32MB logs. The system has been growing rapidly and currently cuts 2-3 logs every 5 minutes. Backup is to a spectralogic tape unit, which is fairly slow to spin up. In order to not run out of logs due to backup issues, I w…
Not using the 100% logical log page size alloacted to informix
No, i meant the logical log page file that i have appended in my query.…
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!…
return code 164 during logical log backup
Hi all, I have following kind of problem with logical logs backup: When the current logical log is comming full, it does'nt make logical log backup and in online log of informix following message appear: -------------------------------------------------- 16:13:14 Logical Log 524…
Re: IDS 10 - documentation questions
Oops! I mean IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.TC3ET Althought the release notes (idse_win_release_notes_10.0.html) start with:- "Release Notes for IBM Informix Dynamic Server Express Edition for Windows Platforms 10.00.TC3E, 1 July 2005 " so it is TC3E or TCE3T? and …
Re: Sql to concatenate multiple rows to a single row / column
Thank you SaltTan - it works beautifully. BTW, we have IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.FC6.…
Free space...Clustered Data
Urich Ann wrote: > Do many companies use clustering indexes...via table data ordered by a > key (clustered)? > > Is there a performance boost in Informix when the data is clustered -- > and then retrieved via cluster sequence? The performance benefit is marginal - and debatable.…
Re: IDS 10 erratic run times
"Neil Truby" <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote in message news:3pliprFb403pU1@individual.net... > IDS 10.0FC3 on Solaris 2.9 > >>> This is a brand new server which we are preparing to migrate a v9 system >>> to. > Over the past few weeks I have run multiple dbimports from more-or-le…
Dynamic Logical Logs
I need to get a clarification on the Dynamic Logical LOgs in IDS 9.4. We having few sites running in IDS 9.4 FC6 on IBM pSeries AIX 5.3 Below are the parameter values which have been set :- # Logical Log Configurationd LOGFILES 6 # Number of logical log files LOGSIZE 2000 # Lo…
ROWID functionality
rowid is not unique for fragmented tables. but then maybe the logical log record will include the fragment id for fragmented tables?…
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:…
Re: Update Statistics
The order I run update statistics is 1) MEDIUM DISTRIBUTIONS ONLY, 2) HIGH for first column in an index, 3) LOW for all other columns in an index, 4) UPDATE STATISTICS FOR PROCEDURE <procname> Is this still the recommended order? Regards Colin >From: "Andrew Ford" <andrewfor…
Re: Update Statistics
Yeah. I've got all of that. But is it true that running update statistics high (or medium) without the 'distributions only' clause does the work of low (building statistics) plus some extra stuff (building distributions). I've been putting a lot of work and thought into optimi…
RE: Update Statistics
Update statistics low doesn't build distributions, the way high does. It compiles information about the structure of the indices (depth, leaf nodes, clustered-ness, second-highest and second-lowest values, etc), and places them in systables, sysindexes (or sysindices, in IDS 9.4.…
Re: XPS
"Mark Townsend" <markbtownsend@comcast.net> wrote > Oracle was using three pricing metrics in those days - unlimited user > pricing based on the MHz of the CPUs, named users and concurrent user. > > In 2000 the unlimited user pricing for Oracle Standard Edititon was $15 > per MH…
setup Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC1E1 to linux error
I setup Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC1E1 to linux execcute oninit -ivy is failed the online.log is write /// 16:31:32 Dynamically allocated new virtual shared memory segment (size 8192KB) 16:31:32 Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC1E1 Software Serial Number AA…
RE: Logical Logs's
begnadigen Sie mich, Ich verstehe nicht -----Original Message----- From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Bono Vox Sent: 04 May 2005 11:02 PM To: ids@iiug.org Cc: iiug-esp@iiug.org; informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Logical Logs's Co…
Logical Logs's
Consulta: Cuando ejecuto el comando: $onstat -m y tengo la siguiente salida: 15:50:55 Logical Log 27225 Complete. 15:51:32 Logical Log 27222 - Backup Completed 15:51:32 Logical Log 27223 - Backup Started 15:51:36 Logical Log 27223 - Backup Completed 15:52:00 Logical Log 27225 - …
Logical Logs's
Consulta: Cuando ejecuto el comando: $onstat -m y tengo la siguiente salida: 15:50:55 Logical Log 27225 Complete. 15:51:32 Logical Log 27222 - Backup Completed 15:51:32 Logical Log 27223 - Backup Started 15:51:36 Logical Log 27223 - Backup Completed 15:52:00 Logical Log…
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…
Re: serial and sequential scan
superboer7@planet.nl (superboer) wrote in message news:<bb790a36.0502160532.2c2ac371@posting.google.com>... > where is OPTCOMPIND set to???? if 2 then set it to 0 > > or > > export OPTCOMPIND=0 > > start dbaccess with your problem qry. > > Superboer. > > > > "Bill Dare" <dareb@je…
Re: serial and sequential scan
hajek@nspuh.cz wrote: UPDATE STATISTICS MEDIUM FOR TABLE... Is insufficient. Unlike HIGH and LOW, MEDIUM does NOT update the systables, syscolumns, and sysindexes records. It is the information in the latter that IDS uses to determine the cost of using a particular index. I …
RE: Logical Logs not full
Brice, What you have described is not quite accurate; The logical log is not backed up the instant the transaction is committed when in unbuffered mode, it is written directly to the logical log as opposed to being stored in the current logical log buffer. Buffered logging us…
RE: Logical Logs not full
Muthana, The logical logs are fine, I wouldn't be dropping and recreating them, there is only one reason I can think of as to why a logical log would not reach 100% and that is onmode -l (force next logical log) this may be for any number of reasons, but typically it would be a…
Logical Logs not full
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HDR issues
All, I had a peculiar problem with HDR last night. We had a software = upgrade, which made some changes to the db schema (columns added, indexes created). In order to = facilitate this,=20 I shut down the secondary server until the everything was complete. = When I started up th…
Help !! - Logical Logs are full
IDS 9.21 UC4 LINUX RH 7.1 There was a long transaction aborted, an the IDS stuck in an eternal CKPT. The online.log said : "09:51:44 Waiting for Next Logical Log File to be Freed 09:51:44 Process exited with return code 127: /bin/sh /bin/sh -c /home/informix /etc/log_full.sh 3 …
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'?…
Ontape/logical logs
Hi, no, you are not. You can let the running "ontape -r" command apply as many logs as you want (or have), but once it has finished there is no way to start applying logs again. The reason for this is, at the point where you tell the "ontape -r" command that you have no more log…
IDS V7.30 and Windows 2000
Can Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.30.TC6 be run on a Windows 2000 host system? TIA Erwin…
Re: HDR unusable with 9.40
Hi Alexey, this is another silly problem that I found in 9.40.UC2 and reproduces in 9.30.FC5. I opened a tech support case with UK IBM, and after more than 10 days waiting,( I sent them a test case ), they answered that they reproduced the problem under 9.30.UC2 but the didn't r…
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…
ontape -c stop archiving logical log on 9.21UC7
Dear All, I'm using 9.21UC7 on AIX4.3.3ML11, normally "ontape -c" archives logical log when the log is full(the logical log status changes from U---- to U-B---), but sometimes, it stops archiving logical log, even if you use "control+c" to stop it and restart it, it still cann't …
Re: Informix Dynamic Server and DB Tuning
I am experiencing similar problems with users migrating from Standard Engine to IDS 9.30. It appears that some applications are more susceptible than others. What application(s) are you running? We also have experience of adding more BUFFERS, LOCKS, etc and not improving the sit…
RE: Informix Dynamic Server and DB Tuning
Muthana Increase BUFFERS in onconfig file. UPDATE STATISTICS for each table (as a minimum) rerun the query and see what improvements you get. If you still have problems post the results of:- onstat -p onstat -m onstat -R and sqexplain.out of any particularly slow query or updat…
Informix Dynamic Server and DB Tuning
Dear Sir, The question how can make DB Tuning for Informix Dynamic Server version 9:30 to get the query faster. I used IDS 9:30 and it's not quick enough like our old Standard Engine. which Parameter can i change to make that or what shall i do? Regards Muthana AL-Temimi…
Can IDS accessing Informix SE Tables.
Hello, Now we are using Informix SE. We are planning to go Infomix Dynamic Server 9.x. Before migrating our current applications to IDS 9.x., first we have to develop a new application in IDS 9.x, in that we need to use some of the tables from informx SE. Could you please answer…
HDR with Synchronous replication
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:01:50 -0400, rkusenet wrote: > I have few questions about replication: > > (a) if we use sychronous replication (DRINTERVAL set to zero) what happens Ahh, so that's what you meant (separate communication) by synchronous. Not really synchronous, just asyn…
Re: Views question?
Comments in-line. rkusenet wrote: > "Mark Townsend" <markbtownsend@comcast.net> wrote > >>Hey - I'm the bug, fat buzztard. Anyhow, still no winner. I believe both >>of these do have Alter Table Drop Column. So who could it be ? Lets >>think about this for awhile. Are we all thi…
RE: Logical logs - how to tell if full?
Notbeen on anysystem admin courses whatsoever - and unlikely to.. Is it safe to back up the logical logs at anytime?…
onbar error message
Hello! I have an Informix backup configured as an onbar + Legato Networker combination with IDS 9.40 UC3 on Solaris 9 machine. We take dbspace backups every night and continously backup logical logs using log_full.sh script. All works well except one thing: if logical logs start …
logical log record failed
Hello all, IDS 9.21 UC4 Solaris 8 We have two systems replicating through HDR. the secondary server which is receiving the logs from the primary server suddenly starting giving this error message " rollforward of log record failed" then it gives the logical log number and the p…
onbar backup logical logs
Hi All, I am using onbar to backup my informix 7.31 databases with Legato networker. I dont want to backup my logical logs. Before using onbar, with ontape, I backed up my logical logs to /dev/null. How can I do that with onbar and Legato networker. Thanks for any help ______…
Q: continous restore at remote instance?
Davorin Kremenjas wrote: > Hello. > I searched old posts for a possible solution to the problem I have but > without success. > The summary is this: is there a possibility to continously restore > transactions commited on one Informix instance to another? > I know about HDR and …
Dose anybody have the dbtop script in the Troubleshooting informix course?
Dears, I study the Troubleshooting ibm informix dynamic server course. At the module 4 exercise need the dbtop script. Dose anybody has this dbtop script and post for me? Thanks. Philip Yeh.…
Work group edition - Unlimited edition??
Taken from IBM web site:- =========================================================================== The following Informix Dynamic Server Workgroup Unlimited editions have been added to the IBM Data Management Gold Transaction Processing Bundle for SMB Unlimited: IBM Informix…
Re: An interesting meeting with IBM
"Andy Kent" <andykent.bristol1095@virgin.net> wrote in message news:ac5fb36.0404080205.28a8b515@posting.google.com... > Data, > > Yes, I've worked with Oracle. > > Not sure why you ask. > I needed to get answers first before proceeding. Most of the time when people say they will…
AIX logical logging question
My sysadmin wants to know if I can send the logical logs to a rewriteable DVD drive? Seems like new AIX boxes are coming equipped with these devices instead of 8mm tape drives. Anybody doing this currently? -- Phillip…
Physical and logical log placement
It's often recommended that the physical and logical logs be moved from rootdbs. Apart from performance, is there some reason I've missed why they should be kept separate? And does it make any difference if the whole instance is going in a RAID 1+0 array? Andy Kent…
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,…
logical logs in 9.40.FC3
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_01C3FA52.A6808A50 Content-Type: text/plain I just went into production this weekend on release 9.40.FC3, AIX 5.2. On my…
onbar script for logical logs
Anyone have a script to perform continuous logging using onbar to filesystems? I would like to write to a separate file on disk daily. Thanks for any help in advance.…
Re: Transaction support in informix dynamic server(IDS)
chaithra wrote: > i wanted to know, if in IDS we can get to know the status of a > transaction at any given time. or once any transaction commits or > rollsback we should be able to know the status. > is it possible through c++ interface provided by the IDS. I'm not quite s…
Transaction support in informix dynamic server(IDS)
hi all, i wanted to know, if in IDS we can get to know the status of a transaction at any given time. or once any transaction commits or rollsback we should be able to know the status. is it possible through c++ interface provided by the IDS. thanx in advace chaithra…
Calculate Logical Log Required
I have read DB Adm reference and some other Informix manuals and cannot find how to calculate the required logical log need for following cases. Can anyone tell me? Just some example :- 1. Say I need to load 1,000,000 rows with record size 100 bytes to DB. How many logical l…
Write Logical Logs To Disk
Hi, Greetings, The situation: I am trying to write the logical logs on the first instance to the disk instead of the tape so that I may transfer these to the second instance and use recovery to bring it upto date. I am trying this to implement production backup at the database…
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…
REgarding the Error in Logical Logs
Hi, We are running Informix 9.3 on Sun OS 5.8 . I cannot get my database engine up because of following error : 12:36:39 Results: Log record (OLDRSAM:HDELETE) in log 95507, offset 0xdf352c was not rolled back 12:36:39 Action: Use 'onlog' to view the transaction and repair manua…
Backing up Logs on secondary
We use HDR over a WAN. I will be backing up the databases and transaction logs from the secondary servers on to a disk array. Are there any issues with backing up databases or logs on the secondary while the primary is still up ? Could a situation arise as follows : a. I use ont…
Where can I get the client API?
Hi, does anyone knows where to get the client API for Informix Dynamic Server 7.x? Perhaps we want to access the server via api directly. Kind regards, Joachim Engel.…
Re: Anyone seen this behaviour before ?
TBP <TheBIgPotatoe@Nospam.Nothere.Co.Uk> wrote in message news:<brn87n$vi0$1@sp15en20.hursley.ibm.com>... > mad_villan wrote: > > I have a HDR pair which were working fine up until lately. The primary > > runs in a veritas clustered environment - secondary is standalone. > > Conf…
Anyone seen this behaviour before ?
I have a HDR pair which were working fine up until lately. The primary runs in a veritas clustered environment - secondary is standalone. Configuration is fine. However, when i recently failed over to the second node in the cluster the instance came up cleanly BUT there was a con…
Logical log backup on XPS
Hi All, We have XPS 8.40 installed on HP UX 11i. Ther server was initialised and we were trying to load data into a table . Now the server is in Blocked state and the online.log file mentions that we need to take logical log back. Pls let us know the process for taking logical …
Informix optimizer
Hi, Does anyone know if the Informix Dynamic Server (7.31 or 9.4) database optimizer uses star schema optimizer techniques? Thank you, Tony…
TRUNCATE TABLE command in 9.3?
I am aware that Informix Dynamic Server previously has not included the TRUNCATE TABLE command. Does anyone know if 9.3 or 9.4 include this command?…
Linux fgl_getenv
Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.30.UC3 on Linux. Do I have to do something before I can use the fgl_getenv call in a stored procedure? When I try I get 674: Routine (fgl_getenv) can not be resolved.…
rebuilding database through DR fails
hi there if i try to rebuild a database from scratch (dbexport schema+unload data) on the primary the secondary crashes. versions are equal and chunk setup at both sides is identical. is there a limit to how much data can be replicated in a burst? any help appreciated regards h…
HDR
hi, We are trying to setup HDR (using IDS 7.31UD3X5a) on NCR UNIX. The two enviroments are configured identically. HDR starts successfully (We also created databases and table and everything works fine), when we try to simulate a failure on the primary (onmode -ky), then the sec…
oncheck -me Feature Request
OK, I've collected the comments of the discussion on oncheck -me, and my own correspondence with contact, and these are the results of my investigations: 1- oncheck -me was never intended for general release 2- it was not completed internally and is not completely safe, meaning…
Re: information integrator & informix
Tom, DPROP creates insert/delete/update triggers on the replicated table to populate what are called CCD tables. There is a CCD table for each base table. The CCD table contains the row, and when it was last updated. There is a seperate program which periodically scans the CCD…
Restore certain Logical Logs
Hi guys, restoring a Level-0-archive using ontape -r and after that restoring logical logs using ontape -l works without any problem. Now, I have to restore a database-state, given after certain logical log. Is it possible, to restore a Level-0-archive (which includes the log…
RE: Checkpoint Duration - HDR - Sync/Async
Hi, Francisco, During 'normal' idle secondary operation, the real discrepancy between primary and secondary is very small - just few seconds in the case of unbuffered logging. Note, that secondary doesn't apply changes immediately: it keeps log records in the 'log receive' buff…
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…
Applying Logical Logs for a restore ?
I'm an informix newbie. So my question is very basic. After I have backed up the logical logs how is the process of reapplying them to the database to get it current done ? The logs have been backed up using ontape -a Thanks, Jack…
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…
Logical log buffer
Version: IDS 7.30 UC7 Question: We have 3 logical log buffers, 32K each. And databases use buffered logical log (>/dev/null), altogether 8 logical logs. One day users complained they can't do anything and when we ran onstat -u, we found out something like this: ..... e940e864 G…
Re: Logical Logs Size
What about the following : onstat -l (LOGBUFF will be shown here) What log mode on the database (Buffered, Unbuffered, None) Version of IDS O/S running on Are temp tables in use?? Do you have temp dbspaces?? Do you use into temp with no log?? Some of the online log that shows lo…
RE: Logical Logs Size
Fred 30 Gb seems rather large for total log space (in fact almost 19 Gb seems large). What is the size of your database? How quickly are you using the logs? What are your Long transaction limits set to? How often do you hit this long transaction? Can you (should you) split these…
Logical Logs Size
Hi, Well, in order to avoid amongother things several Long transactions aborded, I have decided to increase to size of the logical logs. This is what the actual configuration is : Total Logs Size : 18957068 KB Logs Number : 375 35 Logs of 15000 KB 340 Logs of 50000 KB …
Re: restore logical log
Andrey Mischenko wrote: > How to restore logical > log if a parameter LTAPEDEV there was /dev/null on a moment of shaping of a > log If you are asking how to restore logical logs when you have thrown them away using /dev/null, then the answer is; you can't, because they don't ex…
Re: restore logical log
Hello Andrey, If you had been backing up the logical logs to the bit bucket, I'm afraid there's no way you can restore the logs.... The only way is to go to a full Level 0 backup. Thanx much, Rajib Sarkar Advisory Support Engineer (RAS) IBM Data Management Solutions Ph: 602-217-…
restore logical log
How to restore logical log if a parameter LTAPEDEV there was /dev/null on a moment of shaping of a log…
Where are the logical logs?
Hi there, Is there any way to know which dbspace are the logical logs in? Thx.…
why I can't see the output of "onstat -g wts"
test:/informix>onstat -g wst Informix Dynamic Server 2000 Version 9.21.FC7 -- On-Line -- Up 5 days 13:23:03 -- 11132960 Kbytes Wait statistics not enabled How to enable the wait statistics???…
informix SDK 2.81 ifxoledbc OLEDB and ADO
When Updating or deleting a non existing row in a table, the informix oledb provider produces an "UnSpecified error". Environment: Informix Dynamic Server 7.31 Informix SDK 2.81 ADO 2.6 Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance…
ISA slow with logical logs
Hai, When requesting the logical log information via ISA this tool is very slow. Does anybody know a solution? Bickel…
force engine to use indexes
Because your update statistics indicate that the data is highly unordered and will result in multiple hits for the same data page. Because of that, it is mathematically faster to do a sequential scan of the data pages and sort them than it is to hit the same data pages multiple …
Re: Logical-log backup
----- Original Message ----- From: Woi Yew Fong <yfwoi@tpl.com.sg> To: <informix-list@iiug.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 9:40 AM Subject: Logical-log backup > > Hi there, > > I am confused with the automatic logical-log backup (with ontape -a) and > > continues logical-l…
Logical-log backup
> Hi there, > I am confused with the automatic logical-log backup (with ontape -a) and > continues logical-log file backup (with ontape -c). Can somebody clarify > the doubt for me. > > 1. Does automatic logical-log backup mean an operator need to execute the > command ontape -a…
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.…
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…
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…
Drop the last transaction from logical log
Does any body know how to drop the last transaction from logical log before startup the database instance?…
Avoiding rebuilding of indexes
<Jinu.Joseph@citicorp.com> > We operate on a database of size 22 GB. For operational efficiency and > speed it was suggested that the indexes be dropped and recreated on a > weekly basis. Now the problem is that this takes 7 hours, and we dont > have that much time. So there are …
Retrieving product name
Hi all, Is their a system table somewhere on an informix server that stores the product name. For example 'Select owner from systables where tabname = � VERSION� will return the version of the server. I would like to be able to tell if a server is a Universal server or a Dynamic …
Logical Log Files are Full
Is there any way to flush out the contents of the LOgical Log Files through a script or command without manually setting it ? Thanks, Gavin…
IDS 7.3x on Win2000?
Does Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.3x runs on Windows 2000 (Professional)? Thanks for your help. Guy Dillen…
logical logs
Hi all, How to find out which session causing the logical logs to fill up. Regards Aboo…
Re: NUMCPUVPS
mmmmm In addtion to what the others said.... Are you running KAIO? If you are do the following echo "_ncols/D"|adb -k /stand/vmunix /dev/kmem If this going up at all be worried, if it's going up real fast be very worried. It measures the number of collisions ie the number o…
Re: How to search for a string in a TEXT field
Hi, :-( SELECT name, REPLACE(text,"ZNOTREADY","found") AS your_output FROM tablewithtextfield; Blobs are not allowed in this expression. I use Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.31.UC2A…
IDS 9.20 in a Clustered Environment
Hi All, Has anybody implemented or used IDS 9.20 in a clustered environment? I would particularly like information regarding its uses as a High-Availability and Scalability Solution. Any information will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, DOn…
ODBC connectivity with EDS
Hello Admins, I having a problem connecting to my EDS environement running in a clustered environment. I have SDK (2.40 TC1) in my windows NT workstations and when I do Ilogin demo and try to connect to the EDs database I get -952 error. I have a IDS 7.31 enviroment in the sa…
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…
Re: HDR & Logical Logs and Network failure
En Pankaj va escriure el dia 5 Jul 2000, a les 15:45: > Hi All , > > Need some help. Solaris 5.6 & IDS 7.30.UC6 & HDR . Need it quickly as I only > found out about the network going down about 2 minutes ago and never got to > test this scenario out. > > Does anyone know what ha…
Re: Logical logs?
Logical logs reside on disks. Logical log buffers reside in memory. If you want to increase the size and number of Logical logs then just add more disk space. Don "Josep M. Marti" wrote: > > Hi all, > I have a problem with the logical log. I need to add more logical logs > be…
Logical logs?
Hi all, I have a problem with the logical log. I need to add more logical logs becouse I can't run any proces, but the logical logs need memory space or disk space? If I put a lot of logical logs I needed add memory or disk? thanks all, -- ------------------------------------…
Questions about sysprofile in sysmaster?
In Informix << Adminstrator reference>> book, It tells me that the table sysprofile in sysmaster contains columns such as llgrecs,llgpagewrites,llgwrites and it wrote: llgrecs: Logical-log records llgpagewrites: Logical-log writes llgwrites: Logical-log page writes 1.What doe…
Logical logs
Hi All, I have a informix database of 7.30 where in the logical log is getting full very frequently. > What might be the reason. I think the "size" / "physize" of each log is > very less. I am giving below the output of "onstat -l". Is there any > parameters in onconfig tha…
RE:
From: SAMPATH <sampath@gulfins.com.kw> > Its not RAID. Its a cluster software as series of disks will be >in a box accessed by differenct Unix servers. Thanks. I believe the technical term is "disk farm" :-) OK, as long as it's not RAID 5, you're over hurdle no 1. Now for hur…
Re:
From: SAMPATH <sampath@gulfins.com.kw> > > We're having IDS 7.3 running on Alpha 4100. All DBspaces are raw >partitions and mirrored. We are planning to move the disks out of >machine and put them as a disk array with clustering software from >Compaq. 5 disks + 1 emergency disk. …
RE:
Hi, Its not RAID. Its a cluster software as series of disks will be in a box accessed by differenct Unix servers. Thanks. Sam > -----Original Message----- > From: Obnoxio The Clown [SMTP:obnoxio@hotmail.com] > Sent: 01 June, 2000 11:44 � > To: sampath@gulfins.com.kw; informix…
Posting from the Informix-list
Hi, We're having IDS 7.3 running on Alpha 4100. All DBspaces are raw partitions and mirrored. We are planning to move the disks out of machine and put them as a disk array with clustering software from Compaq. 5 disks + 1 emergency disk. Has anyone tried this before? If one of t…
Informix cost???
Someone can said how much does Informix cost? I need to know: -Informix costs -cost for client Thanks very much. I need the last version of dynamic server for Unix. Ciao, Berna…
Logical logs
In our system, I am noticing Long Transactions being caused sometimes. We have 80 log files, each of size 2048. LTXHWM & LTXEHWM are 50 & 60. I don't want to increase them. I am planning to increase the no. of log files to 120 or to 160. Are there any pros and cons of having more…
Replication
Hello everybody. I would like to know if it is possible to replicate an Informix database between a UNIX-based 7.32UC2 Informix Dynamic Server and an linux-based IDS2000 without problems. Thanks in advance. jhernandez@geuropa.com…
Re: Top Databases Used
Well it depends on all what you will be doing with your database. OLTP "based stuff" Informix, no doubt, fastest in the market at oltp with little or no headaches. Warehousing data of 1 terabyte or more, Teradata, period. Easy to manage, DBA's dream. "Stuff's not running fast…
Re: informix, linux and beowulf
Informix does NOT use that kind of clustering as is present in Beowulf. The Informix clustered product, XPS or IDS 8.xx, uses multiple co-servers in two distinct ways. 1) It can spread a database, indeed even a single table, across multiple coservers on the same or on different…
dynamic server with Informix distant database
We have this problem : - write of a html page (this pages will contain many many fields). - Receiving of the page data on a http server based on a M1 machine. - Using of 4gl/informix programs based on the M2 machine with the pages data - 4GL programs will set up a � result � tabl…
HELP! Informix Dynamic Server 7.3
I'm trying to install a new IDS on Linux (RedHat 6.1) on a cooked file. Everything looks right, but upon oninit, I receive the following: oninit: Cannot open chunk '/u1/naf_chunk'. errno = 2 oninit: Fatal error in shared memory initialization Log reflects: 09:11:07 Informi…
UDR Support in Informix Dynamic Server.
Can someone tell me what exact version of Informix Dynamic Server that first supported C User Defined Routines. I've tried searching for this on their website with no joy. (their advanced search doesnt work at all !) Rgds, Peter. Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before y…
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…
question
Try backing up the logical logs with ontape. 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…
Borland Delphi and Informix
Hello everybody, we have huge performance problems on our 2-node Sun-Cluster with Informix: Environment: Sun E4500, 6 CPU's, 1GB Memory (primary host for database) Sun E3500, 4 CPU's, 1GB Memory (secondary host for takeover) 4 A5000-Diskarrays with 14 9,2GB disks each connec…
Compatability between Informix products
Hi, I need some version compatability information for the following products. Hardware Platform: Hewlett Packard OS Platform: HP-UX version 10.20 Informix s/w: Informix Universal Server 9.20 Informix Dynamic Server 7.31 Informix Gateway to DRDA vers…
RE: Replication and HDR
OK, here's my .02... I am currently responsible for four HDR-pairs of servers -- three production pairs and one development pair. All servers are HP boxes, but I'm sure that most of this will apply to AIX, too. For each production server-pair, one server is in Sacramento, CA, …
informix dynamic server on linux help
Hi all, I am an informix newbie, and i have problems running it on redhat linux 6.0. The installation went just fine, but now when i start dbaccess and try to create a new database i get this error message: 25584: Network driver can not access server program /opt/informix/lib/sq…
IDS on NT feasability
This is an OLTP or DSS system? For a 50GB system, personally, I'd opt for some kind of UNIX. NT just chugs its heart out and as was mentioned, is more expensive the bigger it gets. Of course, you could pilot the system on both NT and a UNIX of some kind. IBM has good NT, in …
Informix Dynamic Server on IBM SSA
Can any one share their experiences, recommendations, pit-falls, comments about creating an IDS db engineOLTP environment on an IBM SSA Raid system? We have 2 SSA adapters and have 4 loops with 4 drives each. The IBM techs for the Smoothstart services will be coming next Tuesday…
Please help me!
Hello! 1, Can somebody give me information, what is the new features for Version 7.24 of Informix Dynamic Server according to Version 7.20 of Informix Dynamic Server? 2, Are Version 7.20 of Informix Dynamic Server and 7.20 INFORMIX-ESQL/C 2000 Year Compatible? 3, W…
Re: installing Informix dynamic server
From: "Joerg_Mauz@abs.org" <Joerg_Mauz@abs.org> > Is there something wrong the the gateway, Hotmail or are there just loads of idiots posting today. (Apart from me, that is! :-) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hot…
installing Informix dynamic server
hi all, can anybody give me an URL where to find a good description of how to setup and install an Informix Dynamic Server with using RedHat Linux ??? I've searched a whole day but founf nothing useful.. :( thx ind advance joerg…
ontape -c
When using 'ontape -c', for continuos backup of logical logs, what is the proper way to terminate the command? Is it simply a CTRL-C?…
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…
HELP!!!
im looking at every logical log at 100% and naturally a blocked checkpoint. whats the best, and next best thing to do in a case like this!!!…
A question about Indexing.
Vijith Gunawardhana wrote: > > Hi > > In my work environment we are using Informix Dynamic Server AD and XP > Options 8.2. > Seems that nobody else has taken a crack at this, so I'll have a go (and try to leave my prejudices at the door :-)). > > Here they don't use indexes at …
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…
logicallogs
Hi there In the IECC database list my databases have the status LOGGING MODE - no. But the logical logs (onstat -l) are in use. Why ??? Thanks…
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.…
Logical logs
Hi Everyone , I am new to the administrative side of Informix Dynamic OL Server and would be gratefull if someone is able to give me a clear answer pertaining to increasing the size of my logical log file. I have tried adjusting the parameters in my confiuration files that did…
64bit IDS for Solaris 7/SPARC ?
Is there a 64bit Informix Dynamic Server 7.3x for Solaris 7/SPARC available? tia, joerg…
Posting from the Informix-list
what is the last version of Informix Dynamic Server for HP-UX 10.20, where can i find more Information about this.…
Latest versions for various Informix products ???
Which are the latest versions for Informix Dynamic Server Informix Dynamic Server, Workgroup Edition Informix 4GL Informix SQL on Solaris 7/SPARC ? Where can I find such informations on Informix's website ? tia, joerg…
Log Files Full
Error message: Logical Log Files are Full -- Backup is Needed Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance, Joao…
cdr command line utility in informix 7.24
Hi, Is there a cdr command line utility in informix dynamic server 7.24? I tried to locate it, but the executable is nowhere to find. Thanks, Lu…
Problem Installing Informix Dynamic Server
I downloaded a Try&Buy version of Informix Dynamic Server V7.30 for NT. I installed it on an NT Server. The install seemed to go ok, but after a short time of investigating IECC, I got a blue screen. After this when I started the Command Center, a task seemed to start, but it w…
Problems starting IDS 7.30.TC7 on Windows NT SP4.
When i try to start informix dynamic Server, the following message appears "Only informix user can start informix dynamic server" this message appears when i logged on with the informix's user. When i try to start the service on the control panel , error 2140 appears.…
Out of buffer?
Hi, I got the following error message from an Informix IDS 7.30: <<Informix Dynamic Server>>> WARNING! Buffer pool size may cause Dynamic Server to get into a locked state. Recommended minimum buffer pool size is 4 times maximum concurrent user thre…
RE: -710 Error in Multithreaded Informix 7.24 UCX5 on HP-UX 10.20
We also had this problem and figured out that when we did a HPL it changed the constraints and indexes, loaded the data and then changed the constraints and indexes back to what they were defined originally. -----Original Message----- From: Art S. Kagel [SMTP:kagel@bloomberg.n…
-710 Error in Multithreaded Informix 7.24 UCX5 on HP-UX 10.20
Jim Maus wrote: > > My multi-threaded Informix esql process received a -710 (table-name has been > dropped, altered, or renamed) error. The process was using a prepared > statement to fetch using a cursor. The source table was not dropped, > altered, or renamed. I cant reproduce…
Linux VS NT4.0
Hi, Is it true that Informix Dynamic Server workgroup edition 7.30 is ported for Linux, and if it is so does anyone can tell me what to chose between Linux and NT4.0 for running Informix Dynamic Server workgroup edition 7.30. Also I'd like to know for which version of Linux, Inf…
Starting Informix Dynamic Server !
Hi Gurus, Just wondering is there any difference in starting the informix engine as root user versus as Informix user. ? The reason why I ask this question is , the IDS 7.23 UC6 on HP-UX 10.2 crashes due to a bug (declared as bug by Informix Technical support)when we start in…
Informix Dynamic Server Archive/Restore
Hello All: We have a large scale Informix DB resident on an HP 9000, K460, with AutoRaid Disk Subsystem (218gb). And we are running IDS 7.30. Currently, we are using the Informix ontape archive/restore utility to archive the DB and to perform continuous logical logging. We u…
Any one know this?
Hi folks: Is there a script that can check informix on-line dynamic server is up and running or not? If not it will e-mail a note to D.B.A. groups Thanks in advance Garry…
Logical Log
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0084_01BE5CC0.3EFB85E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear User, I have been trying to get a large file loaded on a database with = transaction loggin…
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: 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 …
Roll Forward Logical Log
Hi, Just wondering if I create my temp table 'with no log' option in my stored procedure. Do I have a problem rolling forward my logical log as the temp table will not be logged ?? Thanks JH…
Logical Logs
Hello, just two simple questions: What is a logical log ? Are the logical logs stored on tape automatically with the "ontape -s" command? Best regards Andre…
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…
Logical Logs
Hello List, I have ten logcal log under IDS 7.30 and when I take backup through ontape -a and when I see the status of logical logs using onstat -l the percentage used does not change however I get a backup flage B additional. But Is it not that the %used should become Zero ? …
logical logs
Hi, The L.Logs on my system after a L.log backup normally shows a status of "U_B_ _ _ _" They are backed up as soon as they are full thro' the ALARMPROGRAM. 1) However suddenly some of the logs show a status of "F _ _ _ _ _ _".Though this might mean the same as "U_B____" , Any id…
Re: OnLine Dynamic Server 7.2 Vs INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3
On Tue, 28 Jul 1998 14:40:44 -0500, Ben Jazi <bjazi@fallschurch.esys.com> wrote: >What are the major differences between INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server >7.2 and INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3? Is it ORDBMS vs RDMBS? No, IDS 9.x is the ORDBMS. This autumn the 7.3 and 9.x code lin…
Re: OnLine Dynamic Server 7.2 Vs INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3
Ben Jazi wrote: > > What are the major differences between INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server > 7.2 and INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3? Is it ORDBMS vs RDMBS? > > Thanks, > Ben I don't know the differences in detail but you could check the following pages, where IDS 7.3 is described …
OnLine Dynamic Server 7.2 Vs INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3
What are the major differences between INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server 7.2 and INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3? Is it ORDBMS vs RDMBS? Thanks, Ben…
Informix computer Base classes
Has any body used the Informix computer base training classes. I am wondering if any of the computer based training classes: "Informix Dynamic Server System Administration" or the "Managing and Optimizing Informix Dynamic Server Databases" is good. Thank You…
Re: Informix Online Dynamic Server 7 on Linux
Piet le Roux wrote: > > If anyone has succeeded to run Informix ODS 7 (SCO) on Linux help would > be appreciated. > I have installed iBCS and the shared libraries and the binaries work, > except that the engine cannot initialize shared memory: Error message > semctl: errno 22…
Informix Online Dynamic Server 7 on Linux
If anyone has succeeded to run Informix ODS 7 (SCO) on Linux help would be appreciated. I have installed iBCS and the shared libraries and the binaries work, except that the engine cannot initialize shared memory: Error message semctl: errno 22 create_vp: cannot allocat m…
Problems with Informix Dynamic Server for NT
Hi Has anyone tried downloading and running the dynamic server product for NT? I have it installed, but get the following error when I boot the system: AdmAgent.exe - Applicatioin error The instruction at "0x10087c69 referenced memory at "0x00000000". The memory could not be r…
RE: What are the differences between Informix Dynamic Server
It is confusing! =20 Here's what I know: Prior to renaming: 7.2x =3D ODS 8.0 =3D XPS 9.1 =3D IUS After renaming: 7.2x =3D IDS 8.0 =3D IDS/AD/XP 9.1 =3D IDS/UDO=20 After the 7.3 release: 7.3 =3D IDS 9.1 =3D IDS/UDO After the 8.2 release: 8.0 =3D…
RE: What are the differences between Informix Dynamic Server and
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Re: Index for Informix Dynamic Server
William Lai wrote: > > Hello, > > We alreay upgrade our database server from SE5.X to IDS 7.3. After we > convert all the old data to the new server, we have some problems on the > index search. For example, a table: > > table : ith ( ithitno, ithname ), total 1,500,000 records…
Re: Index for Informix Dynamic Server
William Lai <rwie@netvigator.com> offerred: +We alreay upgrade our database server from SE5.X to IDS 7.3. After we +convert all the old data to the new server, we have some problems on the +index search. For example, a table: + +table : ith ( ithitno, ithname ), total 1,500,000…
Index for Informix Dynamic Server
Hello, We alreay upgrade our database server from SE5.X to IDS 7.3. After we convert all the old data to the new server, we have some problems on the index search. For example, a table: table : ith ( ithitno, ithname ), total 1,500,000 records index : ith_1 on ithitno, ithn…
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: +…
Logical Logs
Hello, When I do a restore using ontape and then rollforward the L.logs . When finished with the Logical logs, the message into the logfile is "Logical Log nnnn Complete" where nnnn is The first log with which the rollforward started and not the last log which was rolled forward.…
Re: How to reduce SE .dat & .idx file sizes?
We're also running SE-Databases and there is only one way to downsize the dat and idx file sizes: unload, drop, load or an dbexport/dbimport. My solution for this problem is to do a weekly dbexport/dbimport in cron. If greater/more lecks in your dat / idx files, this will slow d…
Informix Dynamic Server & Text columns
Hi everybody, Can you help me ? I've created a table with the following structure : column type -------- ---- code smallint obs text How can I insert into this table with Java program ? I'm using Informix Java AP…
Intermittent Problem - error 529 Cannot attach to transaction
We have a HP-UX box (Ver 10.20) running Informix Online Dynamic Server Ver 7.13 and a NT Server (NT4.0) running Informix Online Dynamic Server Ver 7.23. We are trying to access some of the database tables resided in the HP-UX box from the NT Server via synonyms. But we faced inte…
How to size the logical log ?
Hello Guys, Does anybody know how to calculate the size of the logical logs ? What does the logical log size based upon ? What are the factors ? I want to backup the logical logs very often to avoid disaster. How does informix backup logical logs ? …
My weird problems
Thanks to all who replied. The Logical Log problem was with memory parameters in the onconfig file. DBSPACETEMP problem still exists however Regards Lee Robertson…
Re: What is the best way to backup logical logs ?
Timothy_Lam@crow.bmc.com wrote: > > Hello, > > What is the best way to backup logical logs to remote machine? > Should I kick it off when the logical log becomes full ? > Does anyone has any examples ? > > > What is the recommend size of logical logs ? Ho…
What is the best way to backup logical logs ?
Hello, What is the best way to backup logical logs to remote machine? Should I kick it off when the logical log becomes full ? Does anyone has any examples ? What is the recommend size of logical logs ? How do you calculate ? Rdgs Timothy…
How can I read the header tape of the archive created by ontape?
I have Informix Dynamic Server 7.23.UC1. I would like know the tape header structure created by ontape.…
Re: Informix Directions
Has anyone out there been working with Informix since the late '80s? Remember how they simply dumped VMS support back then? Seth "Tim Schaefer" <tschaefe@mindspring.com> writes: >Yeah, um, but I heard that the SCO porting of Informix is over. There = >will be >no more SC…
Re: Informix Directions
Yeah, um, but I heard that the SCO porting of Informix is over. There = will be no more SCO ports, and Informix is dumping the small end. What does this do to the market, and in particular, my career path? It = goes in the dumper to stay with Informix. Apparently this is prob…
Re: Applying logical logs
Neil Truby wrote: > > I have a production server in site A, and a contingency server at site > B some miles away. Each night I copy an archive of the production > server to site B and restore it. > > Using onarchive/ondatartr, the database server at site B is in "Fast > Recovery…
Re: Upgrading Informix from Online engine to Dynamic Server
Seth Grimes wrote: > > Jane Vohden wrote: > > > > I have been talking with Informix about upgrading our site from the > > 5.xx Online engine to 7.2x Dynamic Server. They said there was no cost > > I don't think that anyone has pointed out the mistaken terminology > h…
What's the difference between ODS 7.22 and 7.23?
What's the difference between Informix Online Dynamic Server version 7.22 and version 7.23? Thanks in advance. Bill Westphal Rodney District Council mis@rodney.govt.nz…
Re: De-fragmenting tables. Some questions
An even easier way is to use the "ALTER FRAGMENT ... INIT ... " to rebuild the taregt table wherever you want. For a big table I'd do it at odd hours with logging off so you don't get bit by a long transaction. Greg Thomas J. Girsch wrote: > > Expanding on Art's expansion on …
Re: De-fragmenting tables. Some questions
Expanding on Art's expansion on David's suggestion: A quick-and-dirty way I used to use to defragment tables was to do an ALTER TABLE NEXT SIZE to set the next extent size sufficiently high, and then do ALTER INDEX <pick-an-index> TO CLUSTER. Be warned, though, that this method…
ODBC unix and dynamic SQL
Hi, Can someone give me some help on using informix odbc drivers (unix) with dynamic SQL on Informix-online dynamic server (7.22 unix) when I use "SQLprepare" I receive the message "too many or too few host variables given" but I think all is Ok R. Gueye…
Logical Logs
Hi users, The env i am using is Informix OWS 7.20. The database i am using dosen't have logs. So in my esql/c programs if i user BEGIN WORK it gives me an error. Can anybody tell how to create log for existing database or if i export the database how to import it into …
Logical Logs
Hi users, The env i am using is Informix OWS 7.20. The database i am using dosen't have logs. So in my esql/c programs if i user BEGIN WORK it gives me an error. Can anybody tell how to create log for existing database or if i export the database how to import it into …
Logical Logs
Hi users, The env i am using is Informix OWS 7.20. The database i am using dosen't have logs. So in my esql/c programs if i user BEGIN WORK it gives me an error. Can anybody tell how to create log for existing database or if i export the database how to import it into …
logical logs
Hi I am running Online 7.23 on HP 10.20 Why was logical log backed up every 2-3 minutes? Is there any hint not to make that backup too fast? Here is the info... 11:07:08 Logical Log 608 Complete. 11:07:09 Process exited with return code 133: /bin/sh /bin/sh -c /usr/informix/…
Re: Informix vs. Sybase vs. Oracle vs. (gasp) MS SQL Server
Chris Curvey wrote: > > > If you have row level locking, the first select stmt will lock one row. > > As the primary key is 4 bytes you can potentially put 4-500 keys on any > > page (if you have 2K pages). In a page lock system (like Sybase and > > MSSQL) the probability of a us…
Re: Question on Update Statistics
[This followup was posted to comp.databases.informix and a copy was sent to the cited author.] In article <19971107041400.XAA11881@ladder01.news.aol.com>, kponn@aol.com says... > Hi > > If I want to run update statistics on busy tables, can I do the following: > > 1. select tabn…
Re: Using mirroring to effect data replication
>>Mirror the log dbspace of the primary server on a disk at physically adjacent >>and connected to the contingency server. In the event of disastrous loss of the >>primary site, the database server can be recovered at the contingency site >>(using an ftd'd archive). Before this…
Re: Using mirroring to effect data replication
On 23 Sep 1997 03:15:56 -0700, Neil_Truby wrote: >My site has a critical system running on OnLine 5.07. Each night a level 0 >archive is taken and archived to a contingency server in a remote location. >Furthermore, every two hours a level 1 is taken and ftp'd to the contingenc…
Re: [Q] How do I force usage of index
Daniel Williams <#danny@uk.ibm.com> wrote in article <341014AA.41C6@uk.ibm.com>... > > Is there any way I can force usage of the indexes to see if it makes any > > difference (presuming that the the query optimizer has decided not to > > use them for some reason) ? > > Have you r…
Next Extent Calc.
Hi, I have INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server Version 7.14.UD2. Does anyone know of a script or program to calculate the next extent size ? Thanks in advance Manuel…
Re: script or spl for update statistics
In article <5ujprh$mcu@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, zeljan@laus.hr says... > Hi, > > in Informix Guide To SQL Syntax there is recommendation for updating > statistics: > 1) run update statistics with distributions only > 2) run update statistics high for columns with indexes > 3) run…
RE: Logical Logs on OWS 7.20 UC2
Hi Ramp! Even in a non-transactional environment, the Logical Logs will be used. The administrative tasks performed by the Informix threads will be using the logical log space, even if you don't any database with LOG. When you set the /dev/null, Informix automatically will set …
Logical Logs on OWS 7.20 UC2
What i don=B4t know is what happen when the logical logs get full in a no= t transactional evironment and with then devicel for logical logs set to /dev/null . I will get a dead lock or the logs get empty when On-Line need more space. -- = Un saludo civil http://www.svalero.es/…
Re: Informix and Clustering
Nils Myklebust wrote: > > Informix and NCR have some special cooperative solutions to this used > successfully by several customers. There was even a setion on this at > the reasent user conference that your local Informix office may be > able to get information on for you. SUN, …
Java and Informix Dynamic Server 7.x
Hi friends! I am trying to do server-side java cgi programming to connect to I-ODS 7.x. Do you know how I can do that? I heard it is possible to use the jdbc-odbc bridge( intersolve or openlink's), but the performance is too slow, because of jdbc to odbc and odbc to jdbc convert…
Re: Help: Reducing Extents -Reply
Just a comment about Gregs posting. I have also used fragment to rewrite a non-fragmented table in place. I have found afterwards a high likelihood of receiving 243/172 errors on such tables. This seems to be reduced if they are [de]fragmented into a different dbspace that they…
Re: Help: Reducing Extents
Chad, after increasing the NEXTSIZE in systables (don't worry too much about the first extent, it'll tend to be coalesced pretty well unless you have a lot of fragmented tables in the same dbspace). two methods not mentioned are: 1. use onunload/onload - it's waaaay faster tha…
Re: Informix vs. Sybase vs. Oracle vs. (gasp) MS SQL Server
In article <862264236.20961@dejanews.com>, Brenda Muller <muller.brenda@primestar.tci.com> writes: > > >plans like clustered SMP systems with fiber between the boxes, > > >or some NUMA-like MPP systems with "memory" connectivity > > >between boxes (I still don't see how that woul…
Foreign keys and indexes
We use a mixture of foreign keys and application managed referential integrity, depending on our application. I prefer application managed RI on our larger databases because it is more efficient. We have some very large tables with highly duplicate values on the child columns t…
Re: Why long transaction cannot rollback?????
I am not sure whether this applies to your version of Informix; however, I was told in a performance and tuning class that the system will examine the logical logs after passing the high water mark and examine the processes active in the current logical log. If one has five logic…
Re: Logical Logs full, can not be freed!!! Need Help, Urgent!!!
Thanks for your suggestion. However, we had already set the logical log backup device to /dev/null. In this case, what causes logical log full? Sincerely yours, Xiaohui Shen…
Re: ***Bitmapped Indexing API Beta - Now Available***
Patrick Gainer <gainer@64k.com> wrote: >Deon du Plessis wrote: >> 3) THE ROUTINES OVERCOME THE PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH HIGH CARDINALITY >> >> DATA. This is basically acheived by breaking the data into sections. >> If there is no data in a particular section, a BM for that secti…
logical logging
Hi I have a question to ask. I am on HP 9.0 O/X with online 5.12 When I changed to /dev/null on the primary drive from /dev/ifmx/1m and then turned off the B logging, then I ran the sql script after long transaction aborted. Once the script was done, I turned the logging back …
Re: cluster index
I agree with Billy et al regarding the process for updating. I thought I might add that we use clustered indexes as a means of database maintenance. Every so often we will suspend use of the database, run appropriate clustered index creates, and then remove the indexes on compl…
Re: Indexes and Stored Commands/Procedures
On 12 Sep 1996 01:49:06 GMT, sammers@pop03.ca.us.ibm.net (crunch) wrote: > >General question on indexes. > > IMHO tables (with indexes) that have high volumes of insert and >delete operations need to be re-index periodically, else 'bad' things >will happen. Please comment. Hi, W…
Re: Data Replication
Hi, It looks like I made the assumption that you are using 'auto' switchover. If you are using Manual you need to turn the secondary to standard manually. Sometimes, for unknown reasons, it fails. You restore the secondary and repeat the above steps it works fine. ( I could not…
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…
Re: Informix, Sybase, Oracle or MS SQL server
> : Sybase: > : Liked dealing with them but it seems that they have some serious > : problems--no row-level locking, no two-phase commit. I like their > There's another thread in here kicking around row level vs page level locking. > It pops up periodically. I have not found …
PRESS: EDS' dbINTELLECT TECHNOLOGIES & INFORMIX FORM STRATEGIC
EDS' dbINTELLECT TECHNOLOGIES AND INFORMIX SOFTWARE FORM STRATEGIC=20 RELATIONSHIP MENLO PARK, Calif. (April 8, 1996) -- Informix Software, Inc.,=20 (NASDAQ: IFMX) the leading provider of parallel processing database=20 technology, today announced that EDS dbINTELLECT(SM) (dbI)…
Re: Large table extents
Cheryl Kendricks wrote: > > Yes to question 1. Yet, if you have an index and set up query correctly > to use index it will use it. But once a table becomes highly fragmentted > either due to delete or insertions it is a good idea to unload and reload > the table. Or if you have …
Re: Large table extents
On Wed, 13 Mar 1996, Cheryl Kendricks wrote: } Yes to question 1. Yet, if you have an index and set up query correctly } to use index it will use it. But once a table becomes highly fragmentted } either due to delete or insertions it is a good idea to unload and reload } the ta…
Re: Large table extents
Yes to question 1. Yet, if you have an index and set up query correctly to use index it will use it. But once a table becomes highly fragmentted either due to delete or insertions it is a good idea to unload and reload the table. Or if you have enough space within the dbspace ju…
Re: Clustered indexes - again
} >So given these responses I am confused. Does leaving an index } >clustered effect future inserts/updates etc? } } >Robert Clark } } } > } >-------------------------------------------------------------- } >e-mail: robert@clark.netkonect.co.uk } >snail: 12 Balvernie Grove, Wan…
Re: Clustered indexes - again
On Wed, 13 Mar 1996, tolly brumbelow wrote: } robert@clark.netkonect.co.uk (Robert Clark) wrote: } } >OK, } } >I have now had a few responses to my original Q about clustered } >indexes - thanks to all of you. } } >Dan Madvig (d-madvig@bethel.edu) said: } >> If you leave it chus…
Re: Clustered indexes - again
robert@clark.netkonect.co.uk (Robert Clark) wrote: >OK, >I have now had a few responses to my original Q about clustered >indexes - thanks to all of you. >Dan Madvig (d-madvig@bethel.edu) said: >> If you leave it chustered, then every time the index changes >> the engine has t…
Re: ** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - RECORD-BREAKING TPC-C RECORD!! **
performance is the least reason to choose oracle over sypbase, ingres, informix. even if sybase and oracle were the same, oracle is superior in so many ways that it defies description. consider the mass of client tools, media tools, internet tools, and the presence of "row level…
Re: ** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - RECORD-BREAKING TPC-C RECORD!! **
Sorry...I can't resist... To paraphrase a certain executive: "We're faster, cheaper, better. Cool. Think about it. Then buy SYBASE." >For an apples to apples comparison consider the following: > > DBMS Platform CPUs TPC-Cs Cost/Transaction > ----…
Re: ** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - RECORD-BREAKING TPC-C RECORD!! **
For an apples to apples comparison consider the following: DBMS Platform CPUs TPC-Cs Cost/Transaction ------- ----------- ------- ----------- ---------------- Sybase HP T500 12 5,600+ $390 Oracle HP T500 12 5,369 $535 …
** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - RECORD-BREAKING TPC-C RECORD!! **
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ via First! -- Today, Oracle Corp. announced a record-breaking TPC-C open systems benchmark, 9414 tpmC, surpassing the existing performance record, also held by the Oracle7 database. Oracle7's new record is more than two times faster …
Re: Care and feeding of OnLine
Okay, I was hoping that by being vague, I would get a wider range of responses. I see now, though, that I was too vague. I'll try again to get the ball rolling. What my client-oriented customer is looking for is some simple steps they can perform to keep their OnLine da…
Re: VLDB - for real?
What is a VLDB? Used to be 10GB, now it's 100GB, soon it will be 1TB. And the Intel 8086 used to be an adequate processor for most end-user computing. It's all relative. There's probably a corallary to Moore's Law in regard to database size. About the same time that Informix ann…
Re: INFORMIX-Online Dynamic Server intallation
copy the standard onconfig file and make as few changes as possible to the different parameters. after you are sure you can bring informix online, should you begin to make changes to the onconfig parameters. Use ONMONITOR to make the changes. It will protect you from many mista…
INFORMIX-Online Dynamic Server intallation
I'm about to install INFORMIX-Online Dynamic Server V.7.1 on a SPARC 1000. Has anyone installed this database on a sparc before? If yes...do you have any suggestions or could you give me any advice on certain aspects of the installation you felt might be important to take notice?…
Re: Clustered Indices
In article jql@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com, tcummins@ix.netcom.com (Tim Cummins) writes: >In <3p6toh$ojl@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu> phr@fmsc.com.au (Peter Harris) >writes: >> >>I have RTFM but I am still a tad mystified, when do you use clustered >>indices and when do you avoid them? what…
Re: Long transaction
I was being silly - I was thinking it was the percentage of the last log file not a %age of the whole logical log space. -- Tony McCartan Tony Mc (UK)…
Re: adjacent row delete bug
} From: kwa@mtatm.mt.att.com (K.ANDERSON(MT5756)XXXX) } [...] } We are now seeing the problem with NON-adjacent rows. I am assuming we } are banging up against another bug. } } Does anyone know a another like bug ?? } Maybe it's not a bug. Are you using the default page lock mo…
Data deletion in Informix
In Message-Id: <3d3v5v$lkc@raffles.technet.sg> sgs@technet.sg (Alan Chen) writes: > If I have done a mass deletion on tables, when I do a tbstat -d , I don't see > the space being free up. Is it the space was free logically but not > physically ?? The space is still allocated f…
Physical Log and Logical Log
Hi Folks, I found some case at my friend's site. His Physical Log and Logical Log setting is : Physical Log size = 2000 Kbytes Logical Log size = 10000 Kbytes No. of Logical Log = 10 When he run daily 4GL-application with 70-80 users simultano…
Re: What affects performance?
In article <CqsC5J.H96@rosebud.strinc.com> amw@rosebud.strinc.com (Allen M. White) writes: >In article <2sk35o$80v@goshen.connected.com>, >Kurt Schmidt <slores@goshen.connected.com> wrote: >>In article <Cqq0no.9x9@boi.hp.com>, Jack Parker <jparker@boi.hp.com> wrote: >>> >>>But mo…
Re: What affects performance?
In article <2sk35o$80v@goshen.connected.com>, Kurt Schmidt <slores@goshen.connected.com> wrote: >In article <Cqq0no.9x9@boi.hp.com>, Jack Parker <jparker@boi.hp.com> wrote: >> >>But more seriously, Paul and the other posters made some very valid points. >>What the original reques…
Logical Logs
>Sender: news@srgenprp.sr.hp.com (News Administrator) > > We are running ONLINE 5.02 UC1 on a HP9000 series 867 under HPUX 9.04. > Our tbconfig said LOGFILES 6 >>>>stuff deleted > LOGSIZE 500 > My question is: Is there an optimum balance between LOGFIL…
Re: What does sysindexes.clust contain?
graeme@pyra.co.uk (Graeme Sargent) writes: : Who can tell me what the numbers in the sysindexes.clust column mean? : : I realise that low numbers mean clustered and high numbers mean : unclustered, but what does (eg) 4000 mean? 4000 whats? Is 4000 : acceptably low or unacceptab…
What does sysindexes.clust contain?
Who can tell me what the numbers in the sysindexes.clust column mean? I realise that low numbers mean clustered and high numbers mean unclustered, but what does (eg) 4000 mean? 4000 whats? Is 4000 acceptably low or unacceptably high? If one wishes to write a utility which tro…
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I am running informix-online 4.00.UH2 on a Pyramid MIS-12/05 (OSx 5.1a). Part of the output from 'tbstat -l' is listed below: address number flags uniqid begin size used %used e0068944 1 U---C-L 5 100d64 250 66 26.40 e0068960 …