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HDR : Primary et secondary OS Comptability ?
Hello, I red here (http://www.informix-dba.com/2010/08/informix-hdr-will-save-your-butt.html) that for HDR, primary and secondary servers can be on différents Opérating Systems, is there a compatibility matrix ? For my case i have a primary on AIX ans maybe a future one on Linux…
Technological Differences between HDR & RSS
We want to use HDR, as we can then switch HDR to Primary. Is there any technological difference between HDR & RSS, that might impact Transaction Processing on Primary Instance. Thanks.…
No Trust/No HDR?
Is it necessary to use either a hosts.equiv or .rhosts file to maintain a "trust" between two hosts which are members of an HDR pair? Is there any _secure_ method to establish and maintain the trust which the informixserver recognizes aside from using a dated technique that has …
DRDA redirection to HDR primary
Hi Gerd. Thanks, but the purpose of this thread is to get automated HDR fail-over redirection working without Connection Manager. ------------------------------ Doug Lawry Oninit Consulting ------------------------------…
Changing DBSPACETEMP run-time
Hi, IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.FC5XE Please, is there a way to change DBSPACETEMP for a session inside 4GL? ------------------------------ Sincerely, Dennis ------------------------------…
Drop table with no-logging mode
Hello Nasiha, you are aware that no-logging tables are not transferred to the secondary server, so HDR does not work for no-logging tables? Regards the hanging HDR server you should open a case. Regards, Henri ------------------------------ Henri Cujass leolo IT, CTO Germany IBM …
Replication of Informix
Gerd I don't believe that matters. If you wanted to keep your HDR traffic separate from your user traffic, an option would be to create the HDR connection with an INFORMIXSERVER setting defined as part of DBSERVERALIASES and operating through a different port. Koonjul, Is port 16…
Blocking Checkpoint?
Ifmx 12.10.FC14 Solaris 10 1/13 What does it mean when a checkpoint shows "# Waits" = 1, but "Block Time", "Ckpt Time", "Wait Time", "Long Time" are all zero? Critical Sections Physical Log Logical Log Clock …
HDR
Hello all, I'm doing the HDR setup on my personal laptop with IDS 11.50(OLD ONE) for learning purpose. I created two server on VMWARE and did FIREWALL off and both server can ping to each other. I'm facing problem when I go to create 2ndary Server. I've attached the doc for the s…
ontape error
idsdb00105650 ( IT32529 ) : With extended Checkpoint/Log reserved pages and encryption at rest with rootdbs encrypted, server may fail to come online…
Block during checkpoint
You are only using around 5000 pages of physical log space between checkpoints so you definitely do not need more log space. The problem is probably the number of dirty pages at checkpoint time. What type of checkpoints are being reported by onstat -g ckp?…
Promoting RSS nodes
1. Promote ifxdb03 to HDR secondary. onmode -d secondary ifxdb01 2) Promote ifxdb03 from HDR secondary to primary onmode -d make primary ifxdb03 3) Promote ifxdb04 from RSS to HDR secondary onmode -d secondary ifxdb03 ------------------------------ Nagaraju Inturi --------------…
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…
Checkpoint statistics
Hello all, I am posting the checkpoint statistics output below onstat -g ckp IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 12.10.FC6 -- On-Line -- Up 2 days 07:38:02 -- 5318400 Kbytes AUTO_CKPTS=On RTO_SERVER_RESTART=60 seconds Estimated recovery time 23 seconds Critical Sections Phys…
ONCHECK & checkpoints
IDS 12 AIX 7 Can this command cause large checkpoints ? oncheck -cDI eppix:"informix".my_table my_table = 455 million rows…
Transactions blocked in output of online log
This means that 1 transaction has been blocked by the checkpoint (which is acceptable). Important data is how long the transaction has been blocked: if you see more than a few seconds, you probably have performance issues with your checkpoints and must address them. Once is accep…
How to tell if logs are caught up in HDR
"onstat -g dri" on both , hdr and primary to check if they are sync'ed Also, you can see in the logs messages like "DR: Secondary server needs failure recovery" "Start Logical Recovery - Start Log ..." When you'll see "DR: HDR secondary server operational" then primary and HDR ar…
RSS Encryption Performance Hit?
Since RSS is a special case of HDR, does ENCRYPT_HDR also have to be set? DG…
listener-thread@soc_be.c:3073: err = -25582:
Adding Version details Informix Version : IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 12.10.FC6 O/S Version : Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.9 Thanks & Regards, Karthik Rajan…
Checkpoints statistics
Hello Users, We are using IDS 12.10 FC8 DB server, Application is developed in Java and app server is JBOSS Our application is taking long time to save the data into database trhough application. Find the online log details below: 09:23:22 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 …
reading committed data on hdr
We are using informix IDS 12.1 with an HDR in near_sync mode. Some applications read data from hdr. We found that uncommitted data is also read n hdr that some times rollaback and information delivered at that instance does not recoincile. One solution might be keep the hdr in fu…
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.…
Re: HDR Question
Back in business. Did a reboot and it must have freed up the port. Now back to trying to get HDR going.…
Informix 12.1 Blocking Checkpoints
Hi Unfortunately I dont have access to the system now and the time might have already loses for me to take the command. What usually causes blocking time in checkpoints ? Is it possible that my physics log or Logica log is still missing ? I just want to avoid blocking transact…
HDR Configuration
Hi Friends, After a lot of study and IIUG members help, we are ready to implement HDR in production environment. But I need your help to get move forward to successfully implement HDR without any issues. Which is the best approach to get high performance and without any data lo…
HDR scenarios
Dear Informix Guru's I have successfully implemented High availability HDR in Windows environment with auto switch-over using Connection manager with the IIUG members help. Especially Mr. ART Now pulling my hair with some sort of scenarios, which i mentioned below, because of f…
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
Hi, I'm currently running Informix HDR (IDS 12.10FC8 on Windows server 2012 R2) in Async Mode. I just have a few questions: In Async Mode, the log is flushed to disk without waiting for a confirmation from the Secondary. What happens if a transaction is committed on the Primar…
Switching HDR to RSS replication
This is a follow up to my earlier post on IIUG (July 19, 2017): HDR-Distance and Latency Our HDR distance is changing from 40 miles (NEAR) to 1200 miles (FAR) after 2 months. After testing with a set of simple update/delete statements on triggerred and non-triggerred tables I co…
New Channel of Informix Server (Tech)
Hi guys There is a new channel of Informix Server in Spanish , enjoy It -Install , Backup , Restore , HDR and more. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVGD_IAhd0VGntXiSh_E6ew Best regards Luis devecua.com…
Rebuid sysmaster database and effects in a HDR/RSS
Hello I need rebuild sysmaster database in our production instance. I think running the "$INFORMIXDIR/etc/buildsmi" script will not cause problems with our HDR/RSS instances, but I'm not sure. Anyone know if there is any kind of incompatibility (rebuilding sysmaster) with an H…
Re: RE: HDR replication setup on Windows
Hi, Did you got the information on HDR implementation on Windows. If, could you help me on this. I have stuck at this point since last three weeks.…
HDR Implementation
Hi All While HDR implementation on Unix My scenario: 1. Two different servers with identical hardware and software. 2. Installed IDS on both servers. 3. Created Instances manually with all onconfig, sqlhost, environment variables set. 4. set all HDR related parameters in oncon…
HDR implementation on Windows server 2012 R2
Hi Every one. Hope all are doing well. I need a assistance in implementing HDR in Windows environment. My OS is : Windows server 2012 R2. Can anyone plz provide the key parameters to implement HDR in windows environment. I had implemented in Linux environment. its successfully…
HDR Implementaion
Hello All, Need a Fast response. Thank you Advance. On implementing HDR I have strucked at one point. My Environment: Primary Server Name : primary Secondary Server Name : hdr_secondary I had configured all the paramenters in oncongif, sqlhost, services, hosts, host.equiv. I…
overzealous checkpoints
This is on IDS 12.10.TC2 on Windows Server 2008 R2. This server does checkpoints every 3 to 15 SECONDS. For example: 13:24:20 Maximum server connections 185 13:24:20 Checkpoint Statistics - Avg. Txn Block Time 0.000, # Txns blocked 1, Plog used 0, Llog used 2 13:24:23 Checkpoin…
Configuring HDR
We have a primary and secondary setup in PROD that I am trying to mimic in dev with version 11.5 I watched Lesters webinar, and he mentions the use of an rhost file. On other searches, I see some people use hosts.equiv file When I look for both of these in our PROD environment,…
HDR Solution
Hi, Currently we have used informix IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.FC8GE workgroup edition running on hpux. Our production load already full utilize during peak hour. To reduce load on production server, we plan to separated process to another server, means OLTP proce…
IDS not writing to online.log
yes, I can't see logical logs and checkpoints in online.log. What should I look for in onstat -g ath and stk ?…
DBSERVERNAME in an HDR Environment
Hi, In an HDR Environment, the DBSERVERNAME of the primary server must be the same of the secondary or they must be differents ? Thanks in advance.…
HDR - export on secondary
On an existing HDR (11.70) I'd like running an export on the secondary node while the primary server still needs to continue running. On secondary node: onmode -d standard perform the export onmode -d secondary (HDR should start re-syncing) Any suggestions or recommendation…
Long checkpoint problem
Hi, Ok, if I dedicate to large tables their own dbspace, would this bring more performance and good checkpoints time?…
Data loading quesiton
I will figure out the loading time with standard table without HDR on this thursday or friday. My Ids VERSION is 12.10FC6. currently DRINTERVAL is 0,HDR is near_sync; and I will do the testing according your suggestion, convert it to RSS before loading ,and conver it back to HDR …
12.10.FC6 Mac port released
IBM Informix 12.10.FC6 release for Mac OS is officially available! John F. Miller III STSM, Lead Architect miller3@us.ibm.com 503-747-1366 IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS)…
Long checkpoint
Hi iiug team, May i ask your help on how can i trap or any utilities available to trap what is causing the long checkpoint in my production db. It is running IDS 11.7FCx in AIX 7. This doesn't happened before just started last month and it's not consistently showing. Here are t…
tuning HDR
Hi, A customer use HDR in IDS 10.They use async mode and DRINTERVAL is 30. database is unbuffered. a batch job run below two sql. 1, insert into A select * from B where condition; 2,delete from b where condition; they found those SQL become 10 times slow after using HDR. How to t…
HDR
Hi Scenario: 1. Primary failed 2. Secondary changed to Primary. 3. Primary initial Recovery (Step 1). 4. Can Sincronice from Secondary to Primary initial ? Comments Please. -- Saludos Cordiales Rubén Dután Gerente APLEXT CIA. LTDA. Soluciones AX-ERP & TIC www.aplext.com.ec …
Checkpoint blocked by a previous checkpoint
Hi folks. I have a situation that I suspect but can't get IBM to confirm or deny. Thus, I'm requesting a peer review that my logic is correct and a likely explanation of a blocked checkpoint. Solaris 10 IDS 11.50.FC3X5 This is what I think happened: My client's production box…
SQLHOSTS for HDR
What are the benefits to defining groups in sqlhosts for an HDR pair? I have had some issues with multiple instances (each with an HDR secondary on a separate server) where I left the group definitions out and came across some unexpected behavior when dealing with failover. After…
RSS not working
-bash-4.2$ onstat - IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.FC9 -- On-Line --…
Setup HDR
Informix = IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.FC7GE Unix = HP-UX rafdr B.11.31 I am trying to set up HDR between two servers. After I successfully ran the command "onmode -d primary serverA" , I ran the command "onmode -d secondary serverB" I then get the following messag…
Connection Manager - Sessions Terminate Abnormally
let me rephrase, I have 3 instances - ifx1, ifx2, ifx3 and then each of these has a designated HDR secondary. sorry for the confusion…
Error HDR
Hello There I have the following error in secondary server 16:50:58 Start Logical Recovery - Start Log 9539, End Log ? 16:50:58 Starting Log Position - 9539 0x47832e4 16:51:03 Started processing open transactions on secondary during startup 16:51:03 Finished processing open trans…
HDR
Dear folks For HDR I need de same version of OS & IDS -- Saludos Cordiales Rubén Dután Gerente APLEXT CIA. LTDA. Soluciones AX-ERP & TIC www.aplext.com.ec -- Este mensaje ha sido analizado por MailScanner en busca de virus y otros contenidos peligrosos, y se considera que est…
Slowest restore Ever via onbar need help
I'm also not sure if the "checkpoint req" message is causing the blocking...can i execute 'onmode -c' to force checkpoint?…
Swapping HDR
Hello, IDS 11.70.FC7W3X3 AIX 6.1 I thought this should have been simple and maybe it still is... I want to swap modes in HDR. In other words, I want my secondary to become my primary and my primary to become my secondary. I have DRAUTO set to 0 and I do NOT want to have to res…
Álter Add fragment on HDR environment
Hello: I tried to alter fragmentation on a hdr environment with no succes due long transaction. Shall I change this database to non logging and try to alter? Shall I unset hdr, do the alter and set hdr environment? Regards…
Upgrading IDS version on PRI need rebuilt HDR/RSS?
Hi All, I have a question related to informix upgrade. If I am running Primary, HDR & RSS, then when i upgrade the primary informix version (from IDS 11.70 FC4 to FC7), then HDR & RSS remain intact or not? And does it requires the rebuilding of HDR & RSS again using level-0 back…
Informix upgrade
Can we upgrade informix from Dynamic Server Version 11.70 to 12.1 workgroup edition directly?…
BlobSpace replication
Hello, I read somewhere that blobspace in not replicated with HDR, is it true ? and if so what informix technology to use to do so ? Thank you :)…
can we have to hdr servers ?
In fact i will use it for backuping the production. Is the rss read. Only. Likr hdr ?…
HDR question
IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.FC8W2 Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 I have a server that is running in standard mode with 1 RSS attached. I can I do the following without bring the engine(s) down On standard onmode -d primary <rss name> on RSS onmode -d secondary <prim…
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.…
HPL unload on secondary HDR
We have a backup script that does HPL unloads on certain tables throughout the day. When I run the scripts on an HDR secondary however, it hangs for a bit, then times out with error "Cannot open database 'sysmaster@servershm' - SQL error -25588, ISAM error 2". The strange part is…
redundant connection manager configuration using H
correct. since PRIMARY always has zero latency, so most time Connection Manager will route client application to the PRIMARY. if you want use secondaries and low the connections to the PRIMARY, you can define cm_sla1 as SLA cm_sla1 DBSERVERS=(RSS,HDR),PRIMARY if all RSS and HDR…
checkpoint was stalled
OS : redhat ids : 9.40uc1 We run this system for 10 years without any problem. But It got worse recently. It had occured several time and show messages like this : $ onstat - Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC1 -- On-Line (CKPT REQ) Blocked:CKPT All the clients can no…
Auditing HDR server
good evening, can we audit an hdr server ? which is, by definition, on read only mode :) thanks in advance…
DB_locale or local naming convention
Hi, I already mention the informix version. IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.TC1IE…
Some strategy to resize logical-logs in HDR
Thanks a lot, I am even more impressed about Informix HDR features now. Regards, Keith!…
Question on Checkpoint Tuning How To for IBM Infor
Hello Informix gurus, I got 2 questions relating to checkpoint. 1. I've heard long checkpoint is acceptable in a data warehouse environment, but as far as I'm concerned, it's not so ok, it's been affecting the performance. In this environment, we have load jobs going on, then rep…
Error -556 on @ reference
In IDS_A have a stored procedure do_some that has a insert into a local table. In IDS_B have a stored procedure do_some that does: call base@IDS_A:do_some(); Calling this sp works ok. In IDS_C i try to run: call base@IDS_B:do_some(); Fails with error -556 Cannot create, drop,…
Upgrading HDR to 11.70
Hello All, IDS 11.50.FC8W2 on Hp-Ux 11.23 I have gone through a post for upgrading to 11.70, just want some one to help me with sequence of steps. 1) Make the HDR standalone 2) Upgrade the Primary to 11.70 3) Level 0 backup on primary 4) Upgrade the HDR to 11.70 5) Restore the…
HDR in Windows
I need do an HDR in two instance in windows. How I do it. Thanks Wanderlei…
HDR and ER Running Together
Lets try again, this may be easier to read !! Set up is as follows: IDS 9.4 on AIX 5.3 --> ER over LAN --> IDS 10 on Solaris 2.8 | |-> IDS 11 on Solaris 2.10 V Sync HDR over WAN | V IDS 9.4 on AIX 5.3 Note ER is Primary to Secondary (one way). With this setup I am seeing line…
HDR and ER Running Together
Set up is as follows: IDS 9.4 on AIX 5.3 ----------> ER over LAN -----------> IDS 10 on Solaris 2.8 | |------> IDS 11 on Solaris 2.10 V Sync HDR over WAN | V IDS 9.4 on AIX 5.3 Note ER is Primary to Secondary (one way). With this setup I am seeing lines in the error log o…
Query Performance on HDR instance
Recently we have faced a scenario, a query was running quite fast on primary instance but performing poorly on HDR instance. The execution plan on both instances were different as well. After running "update stats" on tables involved in query, the execution plan on HDR become sam…
HDR Setup
I "was" in the middle of setting up HDR between a pair of AIX 5.3 servers running IDS 9.4.FC6 (upgrade planned), but have just noticed in the Admin Ref that the servers should be quiescent when issuing the onmpde -d primary/secondary 'server name' commands. This requirement isn't…
IDS 7.31 UD5 data(base) recovery
Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.31.UD5 I understood that IDS 7.31 entered End Of Support in September 2009 ( 2 and a half years ago) I hope this is not a business critical system…
enterprise replication time to replicate data
IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.FC6 Question for enterpise experts Does anyone know a command that will give me time that it takes to replicate data to a node? for example i update on server a and it replicates to server b . How long did it take? cdr view profile gives …
HDR not working
Newbie to Informix Cannot get HDR to work. Can anyone help? Thanks Derrick Muller Secondary stays in Fast Recovery mode. Here are configurations for both primary (runix) and secondary (backix) Running SLE 11, IDS 11.70 PRIMARY hostname:dm_runix Instance: ol_dm_runix service: …
Archive backup terminated prematurely
Thanks, Mark. One of the ontape backup failures occurred on Wed Dec 28 22:19:15 PST 2011. I don't think I see anything odd in the logs around the time of failure that wasn't there for a previous successful backup: onconfig.prod ============= MSGPATH /bml/logs/informix/prod.log #…
Speed discrepancy between prod and a lab
I've been over-looking the HDR Remote Secondary that prod has, so I should add that we have one. I don't think it can account for a 25% speed difference. The other production environment has the same type of HDR, and we don't see the speed discrepancy with it.…
Problems with long checkpoints
Hello, We're stuck without a dba after some massive layoffs. I know a little, but I'm no dba. IDS 11.50.FC6 on RHEL 5.3 We have a development instance that is suddenly going into long checkpoints (43 minutes, 61 minutes, 90 minutes!). We've rebooted the server and restarted …
HDR & RSS
Hi, I am trying to find out which is the best way to have an Standby IDS server a long distance away. I have IDS 11.10 on windows with actual database data 250GB. On Live IDS server we use onbar and TSM for whole system backup. Our database is in logging mode but we don;t need t…
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…
Could I execute ontape,onbar oronunload on HDR SEC
Hi, I want to reduce the workload in the primary server. Could I execute ontape,onbar or onunload on HDR Secondary server? thanks for your time.…
Could I execute ontape/onbar/onunload on HDR SEC
Hi, I want to reduce the workload in HDR primary server? Could I execute ontape,onbar or onunload on HDR Secondary server? thanks for your time.…
HDR setup- Network driver system error
Just to be clear. You cannot use a shared memory connection in HDR, etc as DBSERVERNAME. You may use it in DBSERVERALIASES. My HDR is operational. I have identified the problem ( with tips from Madison) and posted below.…
blobs and HDR
Is it still true in 11.5 and/or 11.7 that you can't have HDR of a blob space? Is there a way to work around that? Thanks! Kate Tomchik [ kate@iiug.org ] www.iiug.org International Informix Users Group Board of Directors A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any inv…
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.…
DB Restore From HDR Files
Hi, We are using IDS 11.50 FC6 & 11.50 FC7 on solaris sparc. We have tested the following Case 1: We've shutdown HDR and taken its dbspace files (OS files) and re-stored (using oninit -v -S) it to another machine/instance, and it was successful. Case 2: While the HDR was opera…
same ports in Primary , HDR and RSS
hi, I have a plan to use same ports at Primary, HDR and RSS servers. Is there any implication or availability or performance overhead. Kindly share the findings. anees…
Problem with HDR
I have upgraded my database from 11.5.FC6 to 11.5.FC7 but facing some issues with HDR. Its observed that when HDR is lagging behind the primary there are number of sessions goes into " G waiting on write of the logical log buffer" and primary goes slow and lot of load on primary …
how to do a full restore at HDR primary server
ids 9.40 , HDR Primary & secondary at normal status. Can I do a full restore 'ontape -r' at primary server. Is that will affect HDR functioning after ? Or I should restart the HDR setup steps ?…
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…
HDR licenses
Hello, Does HDR (standby server) require a separate Informix license? Can anyone point me to a documentation that deals with that issue? Thanks…
Buffers not flushed
Is a high number on the buffers not flushed something to be concerned about? Fuzzy Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds, 36941 buffers not flushed.…
HDR Information
I'm getting ready to start working on setting up HDR and have gone searching google for information about doing so. There seems to be a wealth of it out there, but I'm wondering if there is one in particular that would be classified as " the best ". Jonathon Wyza CX & CBORD Syst…
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…
Performance issue with ZFS
We have set as per your recommendation but still we are facing checkpoint took time . Can you help me further?…
how to force aborting long transaction
As I rememebered , there used to be a tbzero or else can make a checkpoint flag , is there a tool like that in iiug ? or it is for ibm internal only ~~…
hdr and statistics
Ever since I started HDR on a second server, the statistics have been different. After a db restart, sometimes onstat shows statistics on the primary server and the secondary shows as zeroed out, sometimes the opposite. Then it stays that way to another restart. Can't figure out …
HDR failing
Hi All, I got this message from the primary that the replication failed... Please see below 19:54:42 listener-thread: err = -25582: oserr = 9: errstr = : Network connection is broken. System error = 9. 19:56:21 DR: ping timeout 19:56:21 DR: Receive error 19:56:21 ASF Echo-Threa…
AIX 5.3 IDS 11.50 FC5 - Performance Advisory
CKPTINTVL specifies the frequency, expressed in seconds, at which the database server checks to determine whether a checkpoint is needed. When a full checkpoint occurs, all pages in the shared-memory buffer pool are written to disk. When a fuzzy checkpoint occurs, nonfuzzy pages …
HDR Error
I keep getting an error when I attempt to turn on HDR on my secondary server with "onmode -d secondary <primaryserver>." The informixserver message log reads: 16:26:23 DR: Reservation of the last logical log for log backup turned off 16:26:23 DR: new type = secondary, primary…
HDR Problem
Hi All, I've take the whole day configuring the HDR but it didn't work. I have the same machine and OS configuration. This is the procedure i've done so far: on Primary server, i have this configuration Primary sqlhosts #Primary ipc_ross1 onipcshm ross1 ipcshm ol_ross1 onsoc…
HDR not working
Hi all, It's my first time to configure a replicated machines. I'm using the same machine specification (all hardware), same IDS 11.5, same all up to the configuration. I also performed a backup using ontape -s -L 0 and ontape -r in secondary. on primary server, i performed on…
IDS V11.50FC5: AUS error.
yes, in a HDR system..…
ontape -s -L 0 too slowly(online.log)
continue:Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.31.UD1 -- On-Line -- Up 3 days 15:46:06 -- 1080928 Kbytes Message Log File: /home/informix/online.log 21:24:31 Checkpoint loguniq 95638, logpos 0xc6e018 21:29:39 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 7 seconds. 21:29:39 Checkpoint loguniq…
Informix Dynamic Server Software Downloads
It appears IBM has cleverly hidden the IDS downloads again on the Passport Advantage Website, at least from my prying eyes. I can find the Solid DB and the DB2 links just fine. Does anyone out there in IIUG-land with a Passport Advantage account know where IBM has stashed the dow…
Question on HDR
Hi All, Just a question on HDR of Informix.. The scenario is the DB primary server went down. The secondary server is up and running. The replication is fine before the primary shuts down. Here are the questions: 1. Is the Secondary server will function right away as the Prim…
HDR
Hi Would anyone tell me on a HDR pair in IDS 7.31, if I bring down the primary server (say for 2 hours appx for maintenance ) and make the secondary server as STANDARD, after primary server comes up, do I need to restore logical logs from secondary server? I want to bring the …
RSS problem
Hi! IDS 11.50FC4 Sun Solaris I have Primary, Secondary HDR and RSS servers. When I run: 1. Stop HDR (onmode -d standard) 2. After 50 or more logical log files completed I start HDR - onmode - d primary ... 3. While logical files send to Secondary HDR, new logical log files compl…
Automatic Checkpoints
Aix 6 IDS v11.50.FC5 Has anyone run into a situation where with the automatic checkpoints turned on ... the engine gets into a situation where it's constantly check pointing and nothing else can get done? I have had this happen several times ... haven't been able to cause it my…
Blocked checkpoint ...
IDS 11.50.fc4 Aix 6 I had a situation today where an underlying symbolic link was missing ... Engine came up .. put the warning in the online.log ... Eventually the system became Hung ... waiting on a checkpoint ... ONSPACEDOWN was set to 2 in the onconfig ... Here is the questi…
HDR
I'm getting ready to turn on HDR between our production site and our D/R site located 7 miles away. We are running Jenzabar CX on Informix 10 and HPUX 11i v2. Our 2 servers are connected via a 20 MB pipe. I've gone through the documentation but I have some questions below. We hav…
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…
I/O writes
Hi Art, These stats are of a primary node in HDR cluster with 1 secondary and 2 RSS nodes. Does HDR also has non-blocking checkpoints?…
HDR
Hello, I'm getting ready to set up Informix HDR between our primary server and our secondary server at our D/R site. We are running Informix 10.00.HC5 on HPUX. Both servers are HP 9000 systems (rp7410). I've been getting some ideas from another University who has implemented HDR…
HDR recovery in asynchronous mode
So can someone tell what is "dr.lostfound" for? Is there something related to "dr.lostfound" w.r.t. HDR recovery…
nonblocking checkpoints
how do nonblocking checkpoint use the physical log? when do they fire? how does fast recovery work concerning nonblocing checkpoint?…
SQLTRACE on HDR Secondary
Is there a trick to get SQLTRACE to work on the HDR Secondary. We use our secondary for some read only applications and would like to be able to analyze the queries with SQLTRACE. This is for HDR, but also wonder if SQLTRACE works for RSS and SDS Read Only Secondaries? IDS 11.…
Checkpoint duration
Hi I have a checkpoint issue. Most time the checkpoints last between 0 and 3 seconds. Some times I have sequences of 3 or 4 checkpoint when they last much longer, for example 27 seconds. Thats nearly half a minute and is recognized by the users. >From online.log: 1924 08:55…
Informix Dynamic Server Scheduler question
Hi! I'm working on a project at my faculty. It's a java desktop application with an informix database. I have a problem using informix dynamic server scheduler. I have a particular table in my database. This table contains records that are inserted by the desktop aplication I'm …
Informix page cleaners (w/ a SAN)
James, are you experiencing any issues, long checkpoints maybe? You have 90ish chunks and 128 CLEANERS. During checkpoint each cleaner gets assigned to one chunk (in the order of chunk creation) so you're on the safe side there, the extra cleaners should just idle. Regards Dav…
Monitor HDR
Informix 11: We run HDR and I see waits on logbf0, logbf1. I think it's something to do with log shipping to secondary node. Is there a way to look at to make sure that log shipping is not the issue why I see some of the high response times on the user sessions. How can I monito…
Checkpoint Duration
I have an IDS, 7.31.FD3 as a database server for Java GUI client application. There were many times that the database checkpoint duration was very long while concurrent users were not as many as usual (there were some working days that the users work load was low). As checked in …
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…
Tables of type raw
Is there a way to create a table with type raw on HDR primary? I get the following: 19844: Tables of type raw are not allowed in a logged database on an HDR primary server.…
Building Indexs on Primary Server
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 priority set to 100 and PSORT_NPROCS set to 4…
Checkpoint durations
IDS 10.0FC8W2 on HP-UX 11.31 I'm tuning IDS on quite a large system (18 cpus, 65g memory, Tier One SAN). I have BUFFERS set to 10,000,000 (ie 20g), and lru_max_dirty to 0.5%.(ie 50,000 pages or 100m). lru_min_dirty is effectively zero. At times I'm seeingcheckpoints of 5 to 8…
Re: Fuzzy checkpoints, then Regular Checkpoints??
On Oct 27, 3:21 pm, "Mark Scranton (Xtivia Inc.)" <mark.scran...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Oct 25, 2:09 pm, nate...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > >Informix10.FC7: > > > 09:27:19 Maximum server connections 0 > > 09:32:22 FuzzyCheckpointCompleted: durationwas 0 seconds, 29 > > buffers n…
Re: Fuzzy checkpoints, then Regular Checkpoints??
Hi Nate, There are some things that require a "regular" checkpoint, and when those conditions are met, a "regular" checkpoint will still be issued. You should expect most of your checkpoints to be fuzzy though. -Mark Jamison ________________________________ From: "natebsi@gmai…
Fuzzy checkpoints, then Regular Checkpoints??
Informix 10.FC7: 09:27:19 Maximum server connections 0 09:32:22 Fuzzy Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds, 29 buffers not fl ushed. 09:32:22 Checkpoint loguniq 51, logpos 0x5b52f8, timestamp: 0x2c783a49 09:32:22 Maximum server connections 0 09:37:25 Fuzzy Checkpo…
HDR systems
Informix 11 Is there a way to determine which system is currently up among HDR secondary or primary?…
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…
Long checkpoints
Hello there, I've been reading about long checkpoints issue for a while but haven't found solution for our case. We're using IDS 9.40.FC6 on Solaris 9 for OLTP. It is Sun Fire V1280 with 8 UltraSPARC-III+ 1.2 GHz and 16 Gb of RAM on board. The database is not large (compressed …
What means "nonblocked checkpoint" ?!
Thanks all.... In my test case , I use "onmode -c" to trigger checkpoint , and I was told this would always force a blocking checkpoint , it is my fault that ignore this behavior ...…
Informix Dynamic Server v 11.50 Developer's Edition
Does everyone know that the Informix Dynamic Server Developer's Edition v11.50 that you can download from the IIUG Web site (www.iiug.org) is NOT timebombed, is completely and fully functional (including HDR, MACH11, ER etc.). Do you know that the only limitations on this versio…
Informix Dynamic Server v 11.50 Developer's Edition
Does everyone know that the Informix Dynamic Server Developer's Edition v11.50 that you can download from the IIUG Web site (www.iiug.org) is NOT timebombed, is completely and fully functional (including HDR, MACH11, ER etc.). Do you know that the only limitations on this versio…
Re: active-active DB
Mohit Anchlia said: > As far as I remember from presentation it's something like HDR, only that > the other node is not read only. It could be used to update data. ER can do everything HDR can do (and more) but in update-anywhere mode. This is old technology. With Redirected Wr…
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…
RE: HDR on IDS WE
Has anyone added HDR to a WE instance. I was wondering on what the process is once licenses have been purchased. Is there HDR software that you download to install on top of a WE installation or what? Once it is installed, does it operate just like EE when setting up HDR? Larry…
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.…
stalled checkpoint
Aix 5.3 ids 9.40fc9 All of a sudden I'm getting stalled checkpoints .. any pointers as to what to look at ... I must be missing something ...…
Info Required about Check Points
<If automatic checkpoints are enabled then CHKPTINTVL is ignored completely. That is not correct. Automatic checkpoint only causes your checkpoints to (potentially) occur more frequently then CKPTINTVL in an attempt to ensure that you perform the new 11.x interval checkpoint, an…
Informix Continuous Availalbility Feature Demo
This marketing video of IDS HDR, SDS, RSS and Updatable Secondary Nodes came in on my Google alerts this morning. http://www.cocktail-server.com/informix-caf/ Andrew…
Execute HPL
Hi all ... is possible execute HPL in Informix HDR ??? Thanks _________________________________________________________________ Descargá ya gratis y viví la experiencia Windows Live. http://www.descubrewindowslive.com/latam/index.html…
HDR Performance
I want to know - How to measure/estimate the Network Bandwidth for a HDR pair over a WAN ? - What will happen to the performance of the Primary server if Network slows down ? - If Primary fails during high trasaction processing will the Secondary be in Sync - Are there too…
Informix HDR and ER
Dear All, I am in the process of setting up Informix HDR on IDS 11. I need your inputs and assistance. Can you please give me the steps to configure HDR. Also would like to know whether the main requirement for HDR is two servers with identical configuration or can we setup HDR …
replication HDR
Hi, Last night I recycled informix engine 10.00 FC7 (which is also primary in hdr pair) and brought back up in half a minute. It sent replication failure immediately on secondary server online message. but when I brought primary back online, it gave this message in online: DR: F…
One temp space fills and 4gl fails
Everett -- This is the primary server in an HDR pair, could that have something to do with it not filling the temp table round-robin?…
backup replicated database
Hi, Can somebody tell me if replicated (read-only) database on HDR can be backed up ontape? or is it only primary can be backed up? Thanks, Sunita…
HDR questions
Couple of questions on HDR for the wise. We are at the testing stage of an ODBC-based application and want to test failover. HDR was working fine until I shut down both the instances and set DRAUTO to 1 on both sides; now the primary and secondary just say they can't find one a…
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…
HDR failure handling on network disconnection
As I know that HDR is working by HDR buffer for transferring primary data to secondary data. But what if the failure of network connection occurrs intermittently and the primary physical log was backed up to tape for freeing its space, how the informix data server handles it? Wil…
Fuzzy vs Full Checkpoints v10.00.UC6
I suggest to disable fuzzy checkpoints - set NOFUZZYCKPT environment variable before you start IDS. and do sensitive checkpoint tuning. In my opinion fuzzy checkpoints provide too little performance benefit (any ?) at the price of too many bugs (crash recovery not working). In …
Tuning Checkpoints
I need some help getting checkpoints durations lowered. We are running informix 9.4. I have been working with Informix Tech support and it has gotten some better but it is not as good as it should be. We have been adjusting BUFFERS, LRUS, CLEANERS, LRU_MAX_DIRTY, and LRU_MIN_DIRT…
HDR to more than one secondary
Client wants to do HDR to two backup servers. Can this be done? They're going to be on 10, possibly moving to 11 Q3-ish 2008. Thanks Andy…
long checkpoints
hi, i have some problem with the long running checkpoints in IDS 7.31.UD8 on HP/UX. every day a batch utility making hig volume of insert and updates. and this batch works about 5-10 minutes(checkpoint times included). during this batch load one or two (long) checkpoints occur. (…
HDR quirk?
IDS 10.00.UC4 RedHat AS 3 U 8 Re-org a table under HDR with the following quirky result: tab_b created like tab_a with new extent sizing tab_b loaded from tab_a without indices create one index on tab_b applications accessing HDR secondary stopped applications accessing HDR pri…
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 recommendations
Could somebody tell me their experiences about HDR. I am reading about HDR to see where we can improve. We ran our tests and the performance was less than .5 of what we generally get. Do things like log file size make difference ? Would increasing memory help ? We have huge blobs…
Re: Performance problem immediately fixed by disabling HDR
"Fernando Nunes" <spam@domus.online.pt> wrote in message news:f9atdb$7ev$2@aioe.org... > Neil Truby wrote: >> IDS 10.0FC5 on AIX 5.3 >> >> We have a highly sporadic performance problem. Sporedically - hasn;t >> happened for a couple of months but has started today - our database…
Performance problem immediately fixed by disabling HDR
Neil Truby wrote: > IDS 10.0FC5 on AIX 5.3 > > We have a highly sporadic performance problem. Sporedically - hasn;t > happened for a couple of months but has started today - our database server > starts exhibiting 2 sec checkpoints (otherwise they are almost always 0s) > and the…
HDR or storage remote mirroring, which is better?
I like to make a Diaster Recovery system, and just wondering which system I should choose:Informix HDR or storage remote mirroring . storage company told me that remote mirrroring can copy primary server's modifying block to the secondary server immediately. The functions that r…
Re: long checkpoints on informix
Darin wrote: > Also, shameless plug for v11. In Version 11, fuzzy checkpoints have > been removed completely, and the checkpoints are what is referred to > as non-blocking checkpoints. IE, there is no blocking during the > flushing of the buffers in version 11. Of course, the…
IIUG TV
Great job on the video work!! I look forward to seeing more! -t- -- -- Informix Dynamic Server Database Engine -- http://www.informix.com --…
Types of dbspaces
Hi all: In INFORMIX+HDR that types of dbspaces support ???? Thanks _________________________________________________________________ MSN Amor: busca tu ½ naranja http://latam.msn.com/amor/…
DDL with HDR
We have an Informix 10 system with an HDR mirror, and we are having trouble with DDL statements getting "non-exclusive access" errors. We have a piece of software that is used by many organisations, and each organisation has a seperate database on the server. When we have a new …
How to remove checkpoint
How to remove checkpoint 'Quiescent (CKPT REQ)' during database startup after crash cause I've been waiting for more than 100 minutes, but the database still blocked 'checkpoint state'…
Re: admin tools like PC client
Mike, What version of Informix are you using? Informix SE? Informix OnLine? Informix Dynamic Server? Most Informix versions these days come with a product call I-Connect that needs to be installed on the PC and rovides the Informix ODBC drivers.…
Checkpoint times
Hi, we encounter enhanced checkpoint times on a production instance. I have tried to modify some parameters which results in less checkpoints, but still long (at least for our system). Actual config is Sun 280R, 4GB Ram, 2 Processors, Solaris 9 (Sparc), IDS 10.00FC6. Checkpoint …
Error when initializing
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…
IDS down while log back. is it a bug?
The 'onstat -l' showing it's a HDR secondary server. Wondering, are you trying to log backup on secondary server? When you use HDR, you must back up logical-log and storage spaces only on the primary database server. -Sanjit Chakraborty…
HDR Transaction
Hi Guys, I got a enviroment with HDR in two AIX maxhines. What is the rule for backup logs in secondary server? I try to start a logical log backup and, the only situation it was finished with sucess, the secondary server was turned to standard mode. What is the problem if I don…
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…
Difference in checkpoint durations on HDR Primary and Secondary.
Hiya guys! I've just come across something I didn't think was possible: IDS 10.00.FC5 on Linux RedHat. Primary: ... 14:26:53 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds. 14:26:53 Checkpoint loguniq 8922, logpos 0x2066018, timestamp: 0x93d695b1 14:26:53 Maximum server co…
changing HDR dbserver names
IDS 10.00.UC5 on RHEL3 2.4.21 kernel Is it possible to change the dbserver names used for HDR without reinitializing HDR? For example, a while ago I initialized HDR like so: physical restore of serverB from backup of serverA onmode -d primary serverB onmode -d secondary server…
HDR Question
>From IBM Informix Tech Notes, why would you want to do this? Problem This article describes how to disable parallel clearing of the physical and logical logs on the secondary of a HDR pair during its logical recovery. Solution Q. How do you disable par…
Re: LRU_MAX_DIRTY / LRU_MIN_DIRTY Both equal to 1
> Remember that a checkpoint is activated by time , or when the > LRU_MAX_DIRTY is achieved. > The 9.4x version have decimal values for these parameters. > > Regards. Ferronato Ferronato AFAIR, LRU_MAX_DIRTY is set to reduce the amount of data to be written during checkpoin…
Re: behaviour of ontape
Aleksander wrote: [...] > And more: > "(The time the backup started could reflect the last checkpoint before > the backup started.)" > > I don't get this one, what does this mean? It means that if your system had a checkpoint at 20:00, but nothing has changed since then when you…
License Extension
Help.. I need a license extension for the IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.FC3R1TL which I downloaded to do a evaluation. How can I get the license extened..my project is in the final stages .. Dhaya Commercial bank…
Re: 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…
HDR questions
> What about backing up without marking the database as backed up? Isn't > that a new feature of informix 10? ontape -F in think. > > Would this allow a backup to be done on the secondary, because it isn't > updating the system tables? > > > > Yes you can run ontape on the secon…
HDR and Indexes
Most of the folks using HDR know about the create index issue. Can I have honest reaction on this issue? Thx…
Re: Need info on blobspace blobs
We use blobspace blobs. Recently we have decided to implement HDR for that server. Now we are looking for a way to replicate our BYTE columns. It will be very useful for us if HDR can support blobspace blobs. Madison Pruet wrote: > I need an idea of the number of customers who a…
checkpoint problem
I am runnind IDS 7.31 on HPUX 11 and my check points a taking too long. What do I need to change. 12:03:10 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 21 seconds. 12:09:48 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 34 seconds. 12:16:27 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 36 seconds. 12:23:0…
Reducing checkpoints
Hi,i have a database with 80gigabytes of data with 360users and up to 400 when at peak.I use IDS 7.31 running on HP-UX 11.0 and 8 Gig of memory.The checkpoints get to as high as 58sec at peak periods .Users often run out of connections into informix.How can i reduce these checkpo…
Initialising Informix
I am trying to initialize informix on a new server and I am getting this error. The server is HP UX 11.11 and Informix IDS 7.31 What could be the problem / This action will initialize Informix Dynamic Server; any existing Informix Dynamic Server databases will NOT be accessible …
Informix Connection From WIN CE.NET Emulator?
How do I connect to informix dynamic server from WIN CE.NET Emulator? Is there a WIN CE informix driver?…
Re: Table Editor for Multiplatforms
Enhancements in Version 4.3 ..... also supports the Informix Dynamic Server 9.x. http://www.ibm.com/software/data/db2imstools/db2tools/db2te/…
HDR on win2k
Hi All, Is anyone out there successfully running Informix 9.4 HDR on win2k (with tape backup or with out tape backup systems). I am getting an error "unable to change server type" after I type "onmode -d secondary pri_server_name". Thanks, Bes…
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: Defrag large fragmented table in 7.32
Coming in v.Next. I seem to remember seeming something about online upgrades whilst HDR is in use for v.Next but I can't find the slide again on IBM's website...…
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 …
RE: HDR Sync/Async mode
We've run HDR in sync mode across a dedicated link, didn't notice any performance issues.…
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…
HDR Sync/Async mode
Could I do a quick survey to see how many folks are using HDR Sync mode and how many are using HDR Async - and why? Thanks M.P.…
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…
Fied wtlist gt 0 _ onstat -k
Hi Masters: What is the query to get wtlist > 0 onstat -k IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.31.UD7W4 -- On-Line -- Up 2 days Locks address wtlist owner lklist type tblsnum rowid key#/bsiz 80e20b70 0 cd6a6f08 0 S 100002 204 0 820b9958 d62b1a38 d62b4cd8 80e2d280 HDR+X b0001…
Re: flagship sunk
Funny I have been able to download IDS 10 for Solaris, Windows and Linux am I just smarter than everyone else? www.informix.com Support and downloads In the middle trials and betas Oh look Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) V10.0 easy!…
Re: IDS 10 - documentation questions
Oops! I mean IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.TC3ET Althought the release notes (idse_win_release_notes_10.0.html) start with:- "Release Notes for IBM Informix Dynamic Server Express Edition for Windows Platforms 10.00.TC3E, 1 July 2005 " so it is TC3E or TCE3T? and …
Re: Sql to concatenate multiple rows to a single row / column
Thank you SaltTan - it works beautifully. BTW, we have IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.FC6.…
Re: IDS 10 disk configuration
At checkpoint time chunks are assigned round robin to page cleaners for cleaning. ONE CHUNK WILL ONE GET ONE PAGE CLEANERS FLUSHING IT'S WRITES AT CHECKPOINT TIME. We had a 60Gb chunk and someone was loading lots of data into it. 5 minute checkpoint interval and checkpoints up…
New IDS Forum on IBM Developerworks website
This forum provides a place for Informix Dynamic Server developers and users to share their questions, thoughts, and ideas with others. http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/dw_forum.jsp?forum=548&cat=19…
HDR problems
Hello , Iam doing a HDR for 2 informix servers on HP-UX :- Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.31.FD6 -- On-Line -- Up 33 days 07:46:25 - - 661824 Kbytes But when I was doing a ontape -p on secondary server , it showed or asked me "do you want to restore a level-1 backup ?" ...I …
Re: IDS 10 Express Edition
Note 10.00.xC3 = Enterprise Version 10.00.xC3E = Express Edition http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ids9help/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.relnotes.doc/uc3E/idse_win_release_notes_10.0.html Then click on "IBM Informix Dynamic Server Express Edition" in the right pane:…
setup Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC1E1 to linux error
I setup Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC1E1 to linux execcute oninit -ivy is failed the online.log is write /// 16:31:32 Dynamically allocated new virtual shared memory segment (size 8192KB) 16:31:32 Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC1E1 Software Serial Number AA…
checkpoint
Hi there, I try to run a sql query statement in background, but seems the thread dead or gone without any error. I know the query will return some data, but when I check, there is no data been generated. I check the online log, and find out that there is a checkpoint when I run …
Replication question...
I'd definitely agree with that. I think Smart LOBs are replicated in HDR when they are logged, but they are so slow we can't use them with logging on! Regards, Donny superboer wrote: > > enable HDR for (s) blobs in sbpaces and blobspaces. >…
Re: Need help!! Sql to Informix Migration
And what about the checkpoint, LRU_MAX_DIRTY and LRU_MIN_DIRTY…
Re: Need help!! Sql to Informix Migration
And what about the checkpoint, LRU_MAX_DIRTY and LRU_MIN_DIRTY…
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: Restoring a level-1 backup at a later date?
To all those who suggested we use HDR for this; there was a small bell ringing at the back of my mind and eventually I worked out why. You CANNOT USE HDR TO REPLICATE BLOBSPACES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (At least in IDS9.30 anyway). Why oh why oh why the hell not? Malc (seething 'cos we'd…
Question on Checkpoints
After a checkpoint, how many "buffers not flushed" is considered acceptable? Let's say the typical check point (every 15 minutes) looks like this: 10:30:40 Maximum server connections 296 10:45:40 Fuzzy Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds, 179 buffers not flushed,…
long checkpoints in 9.40.fc4
We have converted to the following: hpux-11i (64 bit) 4 proc 8 gig ram IDS 9.40.FC4 HP SAN Cooked files This same system ran on a 7.31 database on Solaris (intel)(2 procs) just fine 0-3 second checkpoints. Anybody have any ideas on what I can check/do to fix this. Stephen Scott…
Checkpoint altos
This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C4D98B.DA5D84E0 Content-Type: text/plain DATOS ===== IDS: Informix 7.31 FD8 Sistema Operativo: HP-UX 11.11 ( 64 bits…
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…
HDR feedback
Just a little bit of feedback (for those interested). A while back I posted a reply to an HDR mail, saying that we have loads of problems with HDR, and I was about to give up on using HDR. We kept loosing the link between the 2, and I kept rebuilding the secondary server. W…
chunk capacity
we are using BM Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC2X3 on Linux Kernel 2.4.21 the command 'onstat -d' shows ... Expanded chunk capacity mode: disabled how can I change this mode to 'enabled'?…
long checkpoints
Hi all, the performance on one of our Customer's production databases has decreased dramatically in the last couple of weeks. Checkpoints seem to be taking over a minute to complete. Running IDS 9.21 UC6 (which I know is no longer supported but unfortunately as it is out there i…
HDR Logging
Hi, I need to configure HDR on two IBM AIX servers running IDS 9.40 I cannot use Transaction Logging. Will HDR work without having Bufferd/Unbufferd logging enabled? Thanks Trevor…
HDR question
Hi all, Is there anyone know which SMI table keep track of the Last DR CKPT info? sysdri tables from sysmaster database doesn't contains the info. I need to know what is the current log id that being replicated to the secondary server. Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.31.UC2 …
HDR Interval
Hi, I'm wanting to implement HDR between two IBM AIX servers running Informix 9.4 UC3. I have 53 (2mb) logical logs. I've been asked to have a replication period of 1 hour DRINTERVAL of 3600. We do an ontape -c on the primary server. Would there be a problem if all the logical …
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: MULTISET gives -626 on secondary
This is a limitation on using extensibility on HDR secondary. I think workaround mentioned in release notes will work (provided you wait for DRTIMEOUT after running the query on primary).…
Re: Error Initialize Informix Dynamic Server
Art S. Kagel wrote: > On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 05:05:41 -0400, madiego wrote: >>I install Informix Dynamic Server and when I initialize 'oninit -iv' : >> >>This action will initialize Informix Dynamic Server; any existing Informix >>Dynamic Server databases will NOT be accessible - Do…
Error Initialize Informix Dynamic Server
Hello, I install Informix Dynamic Server and when I initialize 'oninit -iv' : This action will initialize Informix Dynamic Server; any existing Informix Dynamic Server databases will NOT be accessible - Do you wish to continue (y/n)? y Checking group membership to determine ser…
Re: Informix Dynamic Server and DB Tuning
I am experiencing similar problems with users migrating from Standard Engine to IDS 9.30. It appears that some applications are more susceptible than others. What application(s) are you running? We also have experience of adding more BUFFERS, LOCKS, etc and not improving the sit…
RE: Informix Dynamic Server and DB Tuning
Muthana Increase BUFFERS in onconfig file. UPDATE STATISTICS for each table (as a minimum) rerun the query and see what improvements you get. If you still have problems post the results of:- onstat -p onstat -m onstat -R and sqexplain.out of any particularly slow query or updat…
Informix Dynamic Server and DB Tuning
Dear Sir, The question how can make DB Tuning for Informix Dynamic Server version 9:30 to get the query faster. I used IDS 9:30 and it's not quick enough like our old Standard Engine. which Parameter can i change to make that or what shall i do? Regards Muthana AL-Temimi…
Can IDS accessing Informix SE Tables.
Hello, Now we are using Informix SE. We are planning to go Infomix Dynamic Server 9.x. Before migrating our current applications to IDS 9.x., first we have to develop a new application in IDS 9.x, in that we need to use some of the tables from informx SE. Could you please answer…
HDR using encryption with CSM ??
HDR is using full duplex protocol. The CSM is using half duplex. That means that HDR can not be using encryption. "rvb" <rvbon@gmx.de> wrote in message news:6e9a0040.0407060058.a949384@posting.google.com... > Madison, > > I isolated HDR communication with option s=6 as follows…
Hanging checkpoint
Recently we had an issue where a checkpoint was hanging and preventing users from logging on and running any type of query on the machine. I had to shutdown the Informix server and start it back up again to get it to a useable state. Does anyone have any ideas on how to prevent s…
HDR on Windows 2000
Has anyone tried HDR on Windows 2000. Is it even available. Version can be either 9.3 or 9.4. Thanks. Ravi…
Long checkpoints
Hi, all. Environment: IDS 9.21, HP UX 11, OLTP application. Informix stores data on raw devices on disk array. Unfortunatley, this array is used by other applications also. Guess, this is reason, why sometimes checkpoint time jumps to 20 seconds, which is not acceptable. Below…
HDR Question
Officially, you need identical engines and operating systems to use HDR. However, during an upgrade, we tested and used HDR between identical 7.31 versions with the primary on solaris 8 and the secondary on solaris 7. Has anyone tried using HDR between 9.40 versions, one on sola…
Extremly long checkpoints: How to find the reason and solve the problem (7.31 FD3)
Hello, we have some serious problems with extremly long checkpoints. Interactive users can�t really work. 09:01:15 Logical Log 28452 Complete 09:01:16 Logical Log 28452 - Backup Started 09:01:36 Logical Log 28452 - Backup Completed 09:30:28 Checkpoint Completed: duration…
Dose anybody have the dbtop script in the Troubleshooting informix course?
Dears, I study the Troubleshooting ibm informix dynamic server course. At the module 4 exercise need the dbtop script. Dose anybody has this dbtop script and post for me? Thanks. Philip Yeh.…
Work group edition - Unlimited edition??
Taken from IBM web site:- =========================================================================== The following Informix Dynamic Server Workgroup Unlimited editions have been added to the IBM Data Management Gold Transaction Processing Bundle for SMB Unlimited: IBM Informix…
Re: [Informix Dynamic Server (IDS):] Digest 2671
For a course in the US, check out: http://www-306.ibm.com/services/learning/ites.wss?pageType=course_description&co urseCode=L1760&country=us&language=en (IBM course L1760). There is probably a similar course offered in Europe somewhere. Hope this helps. Kevin Doiron Toronto,…
Re: Whatcha' wanta have?????
How much is Madison paying you? LOL Rob Vorbroker --- Ben Thompson <ben@nomonitorsoftspamthanks.com> wrote: > Art S. Kagel wrote: > > > - Support for multiple HDR replicants. > > This would be a boon for us as it would remove the > need for ER. The > ability to use HDR+ER togethe…
Re: Whatcha' wanta have?????
Art S. Kagel wrote: > - Support for multiple HDR replicants. This would be a boon for us as it would remove the need for ER. The ability to use HDR+ER together is useful but an all-HDR solution would be a nirvana. HDR is just so much easier to use and set up. Ben.…
Re: Transaction support in informix dynamic server(IDS)
chaithra wrote: > i wanted to know, if in IDS we can get to know the status of a > transaction at any given time. or once any transaction commits or > rollsback we should be able to know the status. > is it possible through c++ interface provided by the IDS. I'm not quite s…
Transaction support in informix dynamic server(IDS)
hi all, i wanted to know, if in IDS we can get to know the status of a transaction at any given time. or once any transaction commits or rollsback we should be able to know the status. is it possible through c++ interface provided by the IDS. thanx in advace chaithra…
missing checkpoints
Hello Gurus, Does anybody know why a 9.21 ids engine would not do a checkpoint for at least 30 minutes. all previous checkpoint took 0 seconds and all subsequent checkpoints also took 0 seconds. The application process died or rather the application connection to the database d…
configure computer for using informix
what shell I do to make my computer work with informix. I have installed winXP on my computer, informix 4 i informix dynamic server? THANKS…
All of a sudden long checkpoint started
Can someone give any pointers what to look for and where to look for long checkpoint duration? Actually we have two production servers and past week all of a sudden there is an increase in checkpoint duration on both the servers simultaneously. Not sure what is going on and wha…
All of a sudden long checkpoints started
Can someone give any pointers what to look for and where to look for long checkpoint duration? Actually we have two production servers and past week all of a sudden there is an increase in checkpoint duration on both the servers simultaneously. Not sure what is going on and wha…
Where can I get the client API?
Hi, does anyone knows where to get the client API for Informix Dynamic Server 7.x? Perhaps we want to access the server via api directly. Kind regards, Joachim Engel.…
Informix optimizer
Hi, Does anyone know if the Informix Dynamic Server (7.31 or 9.4) database optimizer uses star schema optimizer techniques? Thank you, Tony…
about HDR
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_05EF_01C3BD8A.4C96BEB0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi there. Is there a way for me to get the HDR kit? Maybe a url to = download? Best regards, Mar…
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?…
script to predict checkpoint
Hi, I have a script in perl which can accurately predict when the next checkpoint is due (upto 5 seconds off) and issue onmode -B just before the checkpoint is due. This way, when Informix enters critical stage of checkpoint, it will find lot less dirty buffers and block the ser…
Linux fgl_getenv
Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.30.UC3 on Linux. Do I have to do something before I can use the fgl_getenv call in a stored procedure? When I try I get 674: Routine (fgl_getenv) can not be resolved.…
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…
HDR & backups
Informix 9.30 Solaris 8 We are planning to do the following: Have a primary server, and then use HDR to replicate this server onto a secondary server. Question: Can I do my backups by only running them on the secondary server? I haven't done this before, and 1 question popp…
HDR & backups
Informix 9.30 Solaris 8 We are planning to do the following: Have a primary server, and then use HDR to replicate this server onto a secondary server. Question: Can I do my backups by only running them on the secondary server? I haven't done this before, and 1 question popp…
Fuzzy Checkpoint
Does anyone know what the environment variable is and what it should be set to in order to stop fuzzy checkpoints and keep the normal full checkpoint? I heard the variable was NOFUZZYCKPT but am not sure what to set it to. Joel Reece…
Re: Clarification on ONBAR restore.....
You could try using HDR - once the level 0 has been restored to the new server (physical restore only) initiate HDR. All logged activity will be replicated to the new server. Once you are happy with the new server, switch it to standard mode, point the users at it, and then you c…
Restarting HDR
I know i've asked everything there was to this but here's some more. My server is set up for 20 logical log files. Assume the uniq ids are also from 1 to 20. I backed up my instance yesterday night and it has logical logs 14 and 15. I will restore it on the secondary today nigh…
hdr hang
Hello, ids 9.30uc1 on unixware 7.x. hdr seems to be hang when checkpoint increase on my secondary server (>200). I increase drtimeout on primary to the maximum checkpoint value. It doesn't solve the problem. hdr need to be stop an restart frequently. Any possible tuning and moni…
HDR sites
Hi, Did anyone affected by the blackout have the secondary outside of the blackout area?…
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…
HDR , logs
Hi all, (linux, 940UC2) cause of batchjob problems I have to disable HDR during job. The batch job needs ~45 logs with 10 MB, what is the better way, increas size of logs to 20MB or increase logs to 100, I have 50 logs! Thanks Sven…
HDR
Hi, I have an async HDR running under 940UC2 and linux! Wenn I am running a batchjob, a lot of tables are created and some indicies and so on, there is always a DR: Send error created, and some indicies are not transfered to secondary, and because of that some locks not disapear,…
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…
hdr installation
Hi all, I have to identical Severs on Linux and INF940UC2! both have two NIC 1x global LAN, 1x HDR LAN(direct LINK) with user informix I am able to connect from each of them to the other with no password. after HDR restore an the secondary the HDR won't establish. What is wr…
fuzzy checkpoint
I want to use the fully checkpoint instead fuzzy checkpoint when a checkpoint occur, How can I do? thanks -- Posted via http://dbforums.com…
why I can't see the output of "onstat -g wts"
test:/informix>onstat -g wst Informix Dynamic Server 2000 Version 9.21.FC7 -- On-Line -- Up 5 days 13:23:03 -- 11132960 Kbytes Wait statistics not enabled How to enable the wait statistics???…
RE: is hdr on?
Not to worry, Alex. The "Last DR Ckpt" discrepancy is a "cosmetic" bug in some versions. Can't remember the bug number, but it is fixed in later versions. What you see in the message logs confirms that HDR is still running. The "server operational" messages are the keys. HTH…
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…
Re: is hdr on?
Thanks for reply. This is a message log fragment. As if hdr on? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- server1: 12:12:50 Informix Dynamic Server Initialized -- Shared Memory Initialized. 12:12:50 DR: Logs already cleared 12:12:50 DR: Try…
is hdr on?
Hi ! I have 2 Informix servers (7.31UC7) with HDR - server1 and server2. Is HDR on? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- server1: [informix@server1]$onstat -g dri Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.31.UC7 -- On-Line (Prim) -- Up 23 day…
checkpoints
Hi, i am working with IDS9.30UC2 on solaris 8. I have to optimize checkpoints duration. What is the writing sequence during a checkpoint ? Does Informix write on disks sorted by chunk number or sorted by dbspace and chunk number ? i have to know that because i would like to p…
long checkpoints
hello all, we have recently experienced checkpoints that are lasting 20-30 seconds that were previously 5-8 seconds. I am looking at the CONFIG file to see if something could be improved. We are on HP-UNIX box (11.00)(2 proc box) with Informix 9.21 HC-5. BUFFERS 250000 …
HDR questions
We're running IDS versions 9.21.UC5 and 9.30.UC3, both on Sun Solaris = 2.8 We currently use "smart-blob" dbspaces (sbspace) for xml data storage. = Does HDR support sbspaces? Terrence Mullins Sr Database Administrator WagerWorks.com…
secondary server
hi, i'm using HDR with Aix5.1 and IFX 7.31 i want to make Level 0 backups on the secondary server. can i do it ???…
Informix Disaster Recovery Strategy
All, Thanks for the input. It looks like HDR is the way to go. We have a fairly flexible recovery period and most of the data is entered data enry staff. Now I just need to figure out how to implement HDR.…
Re: no checkpoint
Franklin Tang wrote: > Dear All, > I just want to know if I set the CKPTINTVL to 36000 which an hour, of > coz I have around 512 LRU to flush my buffer. Then what will be drawback for > my system. As has been pointed out, 36000 seconds is 10 hours. Why do you want to do thi…
Re: no checkpoint
rkusenet wrote: > "Franklin Tang" <franklin@macauslot.com> wrote in message news:badmbv$eqo1@ctmsun0.macau.ctm.net... > >>Dear All, >> I just want to know if I set the CKPTINTVL to 36000 which an hour, of > > > 36000 is ten hours, not 1 hr. > > >>LRUS 512 …
no checkpoint
Dear All, I just want to know if I set the CKPTINTVL to 36000 which an hour, of coz I have around 512 LRU to flush my buffer. Then what will be drawback for my system. Here is my onconfig SERVERNUM 0 # Unique id corresponding to a Dynamic Server i stance …
Performance & checkpoint
Hi All, My database has grown 3 times and the performance is degrading. During the business hours my checkpoint duration is between 1-8 seconds. About two months ago my checkpoint mostly is between 0-1 seconds. I included my onconfig file for you to review. If you have any sugges…
Re: checkpoint
rkusenet wrote: > "Franklin Tang" <franklin@macauslot.com> wrote : > >>Dear all, >> what is the impact to increase the CKPTINTVL value. Any side-effect??? >>If my system crash, do I lose more data because the buffer doesnt get fushed >>by the checkpoint action??? I know the LR…
Re: checkpoint
rkusenet wrote: > "Franklin Tang" <franklin@macauslot.com> wrote : > >>Dear all, >> what is the impact to increase the CKPTINTVL value. Any side-effect??? >>If my system crash, do I lose more data because the buffer doesnt get fushed >>by the checkpoint action??? I know the LR…
checkpoint
Dear all, what is the impact to increase the CKPTINTVL value. Any side-effect??? If my system crash, do I lose more data because the buffer doesnt get fushed by the checkpoint action??? I know the LRUs will fush when it reachs the LRU_MAX_DIRTY. Anyone can give me more clear …
Checkpoint duration too long at times
Environment: Informix Dynamic Server 7.31 UD2 R1 HP-UX 11.0 As you can see below 10:44:50 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds. 10:59:59 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds. 11:15:08 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds. 11:30:17 Checkpoint Completed:…
Checkpoint duration too long sometimes--no fixed pattern
Environment: Informix Dynamic Server 7.31 UD2 R1 HP-UX 11.0 As you can see below 10:44:50 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds. 10:59:59 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds. 11:15:08 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds. 11:30:17 Checkpoint Completed:…
hdr not working
Hi, We have a HDR setup here. We rebooted the secondary server and then we could no longer make the HDR work. The error message in the primary server is: 19:18:36 DR: Failure recovery error (2) 19:18:37 DR: Turned off on primary server 19:18:38 Checkpoint Completed: duration was…
What requires an IDS Linux?
Hello What requires an Informix Dynamic Server Linux a desktop and/or a network version of Linux? Thanks in advance Jacqueline Romero Miranda…
RE: What does it mean "Fuzzy Checkpoint"?
From: "Parker, Jack" <JParker@engage.com> > >This is the checkpoint standard that was promulgated by the GOP. It's how >you do checkpoints associated with fuzzy math. Yes, but do we have to live with repeated recounts of flushed buffers? _______________________________________…
What does it mean "Fuzzy Checkpoint"?
DH wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm moving from IDS 7.30 to IDS2000 and still learning with it. There is > some new term as "Fuzzy Checkpoint" in online.log that I don't see in IDS > 7.30 for example: > > 17:00:14 Fuzzy Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds, 77 buffers > not f…
Informix v Oracle
Hi Is there a function in Informix Dynamic Server 2000 that is like Oracles CREATE SEQUENCE that uses NEXTVAL/CURVAL and %ROWCOUNT, ect? Thanks for all contributions Jordan jbruce@asaglobalserv.com…
Stalled Checkpoint
Hi~ I have installed IDS 7.31.TC6 on Win NT 4.0 SP 5. This is my first time working with Informix on NT. I have used Informix on UNIX in the past. I successfully installed and initialized Informix. I am trying to force a checkpoint using 'onmode -c', but I get the following …
during a checkpoint
I seem to read somewhere that queries are not blocked during a checkpoint. Is this correct ? If not, what operations are not blocked ? Thanks, Thanh Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.…
fuzzy checkpoint
What does "fuzzy checkpoint" means from online.log file ? always is "fuzzy" ? I have recently upgraded from 7.30 to 9.21 and it seems it records more info now Regards, Manel Falcó…
Checkpoint Blockage
Greetings, I am searching for suggestions on the best approach to find the resource(s) that are preventing a checkpoint from completing. Occasionally, our 7.31.FC7 instance will be blocked indefinitely during a checkpoint request. The most recent incident did have a thread /ses…
Retrieving product name
Hi all, Is their a system table somewhere on an informix server that stores the product name. For example 'Select owner from systables where tabname = � VERSION� will return the version of the server. I would like to be able to tell if a server is a Universal server or a Dynamic …
IDS 7.3x on Win2000?
Does Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.3x runs on Windows 2000 (Professional)? Thanks for your help. Guy Dillen…
HDR incremental backups?
Why should only level 0 backups be used with HDR databases and not incremental? Thanks Sue…
Checkpoints
I have seen recommendations that setting LRU's 128 can, among other changes, help to reduce long checkpoints of 10, 15, 20 or more seconds. For the most part this recommendation seem to be for 7.3x versions of Informix. Is there a problem with using the same setting for 7.24 ver…
RE: Checkpoint
sorry for that...I have asked the mail server administrator to do something for me. Hopefully, this mail that you guys receive is in text format only. Sorry for any inconvenience caused. BTW, thanks for all the input from you guys. Regards, Jason -----Original Message----- Fro…
RE: Checkpoint
From: "Watson, Paul" <Paul.Watson@aggregate.com> > > > Jason , > > > > This is only a text group. PLEASE , PLEASE do not send > > MIME/HTML versions > > across. > > > > 3 reasons why I say this. > > > > 1. Because you duplicate the message > > 2. A number of people have already a…
RE: Checkpoint
Nah. I think I disagree with the last point. -----Original Message----- From: Obnoxio The Clown [mailto:obnoxio@hotmail.com] Sent: 29 August 2000 14:17 To: Paul.Watson@aggregate.com; informix-list@iiug.org Subject: RE: Checkpoint From: "Watson, Paul" <Paul.Watson@aggregate.com>…
RE: Checkpoint
> > Jason , > > > This is only a text group. PLEASE , PLEASE do not send > MIME/HTML versions > across. > > 3 reasons why I say this. > > 1. Because you duplicate the message > 2. A number of people have already asked you to stop posting > mail in MIME/HTML > format. > 3. The mos…
Re: Checkpoint
From: JasonYLPang@pg.SLR.com > >Why the checkpoint take longer time to complete? Is it something not right >at onconfig file??? Your ONCONFIG looks fine as far as checkpoints are concerned, I suspect the server was just very busy for some reason. You might want to set RESIDENT …
RE: Checkpoint
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0047_01C011DA.D9F92360 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CheckpointJason The checkpoint duration is probably a result of the application. The checkpoint must wait u…
Checkpoint
This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C01166.DFA6EBAE Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi all, Why the checkpoint take longer time to comple…
long checkpoint
This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_000_01C007B8.97F708A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I have just recently migrated from IDS 7.31.FC4XE to I…
Long interval without Checkpoint
My checkpoint is triggered each 300 seconds so how is possible this interval ? 18:42:00 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds. 19:12:00 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds. because there weren't any dirty pages ? (IDS 7.30) Thanks, Manel Falcó…
Re: How to search for a string in a TEXT field
Hi, :-( SELECT name, REPLACE(text,"ZNOTREADY","found") AS your_output FROM tablewithtextfield; Blobs are not allowed in this expression. I use Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.31.UC2A…
RE: Long Checkpoints, balancing network traffic across multiple Aliases
Let me answer my own question by saying that I beleive I am experiencing a problem with a session being stuck in a critical section causing a checkpoint to wait. Andrew -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Ford [SMTP:aford@simpletel.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 9:51…
RE: Long Checkpoints, balancing network traffic across multiple Aliases
Another problem that we are having is that every 12 hours or so we see a really long checkpoint. At first it was 25 seconds then 36 seconds, now we have a 41 second checkpoint. It's very strange, every thing seems to be humming along nicely, then BAM - a virtual slap in the fac…
Checkpoint/LRU question
Hi, Does a checkpoint block the users sessions ? As well when buffers are flushed via MAX LRU ? Does A LRU-flush trigger an ordinary checkpoint or is it different ? and is it written on the online.log ? It seems that not ... I'm not sure ... Thanks in advance, Manel Falcó…
Create user in Informix Dynamic Server
Hello all I`m new in INS. Could you help me? I have Database server with one user Informix. How to create another user to Database?…
Informix ODS on Win 2000?
Does Informix Dynamic Server V7.31.TC5 for Intel Pentium Windows NT 4 also run on Windows 2000? Thanks for any help. Guy Dillen ITP…
Checkpoint duration
This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01BFDD2B.77C69B20 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I am having an issue with checkpoints taking an extrem…
Split AIX mirror to bring up HDR replacation
Has anyone split an AIX mirrored VG, to bring up HDR replication. If so what are the steps. -- Kevin H. Hunt khhunt@triplecrownsvc.com…
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…
Replication and PeopleSoft
Art, It might be worth asking this on the Peoplemix mailing list. > Anyone have any experiences with using HDR or ER with PeopleSoft?…
Long checkpoints
Hi, I would welcome suggestions on how to lower the checkpoint durations at one of our sites. Relevant ONCONFIG parameters are given below. All chunks are cooked files. At checkpoint time, there are on the average about 500 dirty buffers to flush. Thanks. Alanoly Andrews. ===…
HDR
Having problems initiating HDR. Platform specifics: IBM RS6000 h70 AIX 4.3.3.0 IDS 2000 9.20.UC3 Archive and Restore accomplished using onbar and the Informix Storage Manager. Problem occurs when trying to restore the archive created from the primary server on the secondary serv…
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…
Fuzzy checkpoints.
I have concerns about whether or not 9.2 is as robust in bad situations as 7.x was. My concerns center around the fact that fuzzy operations(updates, inserts, and deletes) are not physically logged To me, this means if I unplug my machine in the middle of a write to disk initia…
dynamic server with Informix distant database
We have this problem : - write of a html page (this pages will contain many many fields). - Receiving of the page data on a http server based on a M1 machine. - Using of 4gl/informix programs based on the M2 machine with the pages data - 4GL programs will set up a � result � tabl…
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…
checkpoint spikes
Now that long checkpoints topic is in discussion I would like to get some help too. We are also getting into a similar problem with long checkpoints (over 13 secs sometimes). Long checkpoints in our case only happen once in a while. Our LRU_MAX and LRU_MIN are at 2 and 1. Our che…
Re: Long Checkpoints
mars1972@my-deja.com wrote: > What is your checkpoint interval? Also, what is the real interval > between checkpoints? You could be hitting the checkpoint interval or > getting the physical log to 75% before the LRUs are getting to 40%. How > many cleaners and physical disks …
Long Checkpoints
Hi, i have a problem with long checkpoint runs on an informix 7.30 UC 10 running on linux. (Machine is a PIII 500 with 512 MB Memory). Sometimes checkpoints takes 15 to 25 seconds. During this times i have approximately 2000 to 2300 dirty LRU queues. an onstat -FR (with only 2…
IDS replication Solaris->Linux
Madison Pruet <mpruet@informix.com> wrote in message news:38B1A9B9.9183BF5D@informix.com... > ER can be used between solaris and Linux, HDR will not work. What's "ER"? Sorry to be a thicko, but I've only heard of CDR and HDR - and I know that I can't use CDR because of the seri…
System catalogue
Sounds like HDR to me. * Sent from RemarQ http://www.remarq.com The Internet's Discussion Network * The fastest and easiest way to search and participate in Usenet - Free!…
When are checkpoints initiated
I know there are a number of things that can cause a checkpoint to be initiated. The one I'm concerned about is when a checkpoint is initiated because your <blank> is 75% full/dirty. Is <blank> buffers, logs (logical or physical), or log buffers. Any help would be appreciated!…
Compatability between Informix products
Hi, I need some version compatability information for the following products. Hardware Platform: Hewlett Packard OS Platform: HP-UX version 10.20 Informix s/w: Informix Universal Server 9.20 Informix Dynamic Server 7.31 Informix Gateway to DRDA vers…
temporary
The secondary in a HDR setup will let you create implicit temp tables. -- Kevin H. Hunt khhunt@hunts.com…
informix dynamic server on linux help
Hi all, I am an informix newbie, and i have problems running it on redhat linux 6.0. The installation went just fine, but now when i start dbaccess and try to create a new database i get this error message: 25584: Network driver can not access server program /opt/informix/lib/sq…
Informix Dynamic Server on IBM SSA
Can any one share their experiences, recommendations, pit-falls, comments about creating an IDS db engineOLTP environment on an IBM SSA Raid system? We have 2 SSA adapters and have 4 loops with 4 drives each. The IBM techs for the Smoothstart services will be coming next Tuesday…
Long checkpoints
Greetings all..... I watch this group every day and sometimes offer my help. Now it is my turn. I have a system that is generally a lightly loaded system but runs a batch load a couple times a day. During these loads, checkpoints get horrendous averaging 60 seconds to flush abo…
Please help me!
Hello! 1, Can somebody give me information, what is the new features for Version 7.24 of Informix Dynamic Server according to Version 7.20 of Informix Dynamic Server? 2, Are Version 7.20 of Informix Dynamic Server and 7.20 INFORMIX-ESQL/C 2000 Year Compatible? 3, W…
Re: installing Informix dynamic server
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installing Informix dynamic server
hi all, can anybody give me an URL where to find a good description of how to setup and install an Informix Dynamic Server with using RedHat Linux ??? I've searched a whole day but founf nothing useful.. :( thx ind advance joerg…
Help! Cant start database service
Hello All I had my informix dynamic server (7.3) running fine till a few days back. Now the dynamic server service and the informix messenger service won't start automatically and if I try to start the server, it does start but I'm unable to connect to it. If I try to start the…
No respons from server process
else and is stop record in file online.log last record 20.15:58 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds now 18:43 next day Azat…
Informix Online Dynamic Server DBA Book
Hello Could anyone recommend a good Informix Online Dynamic Server book. I did a search in Amazon.com but I could not decide on which one to choose. Thanks in advance. Ajay…
pricing for informix info?
Hello, Was wondering what other people out there paid for informix dynamic server 7.3... Basically, i wanted to know if they had a web server licensing schem like microsoft. or ibm's db2 (per cpu license). and would the licenses be transferable if I decided to move from le…
Re: Determining version dynamically
Hi, If you have Informix Dynamic Server then use the following sql-statement ' select DBINFO('version', 'full') from systables where tabid = 1' result from the sql is : Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.30.UC5 Take a look in Informix Guide to SQL: Syntax for more about DBINFO…
KAIO: out of OS resources error
Hi~ My informix dynamic server write "KAIO: out of OS resources error .." in online.log. This error log is written during ontape task. How can I solve this problem? platfom : SunOs 5.5.1 Informix Dynamic Server 7.24 uc6 Thanks.…
64bit IDS for Solaris 7/SPARC ?
Is there a 64bit Informix Dynamic Server 7.3x for Solaris 7/SPARC available? tia, joerg…
Posting from the Informix-list
what is the last version of Informix Dynamic Server for HP-UX 10.20, where can i find more Information about this.…
Checkpoint duration
Is there a table which can be queried to get the last checkpoint duration?…
Latest versions for various Informix products ???
Which are the latest versions for Informix Dynamic Server Informix Dynamic Server, Workgroup Edition Informix 4GL Informix SQL on Solaris 7/SPARC ? Where can I find such informations on Informix's website ? tia, joerg…
cdr command line utility in informix 7.24
Hi, Is there a cdr command line utility in informix dynamic server 7.24? I tried to locate it, but the executable is nowhere to find. Thanks, Lu…
Problems with Informix on NT - Please Help
You had a disk error on the 6th at 17:07:38 which may or may not have been corrected and your ONCONFIG file has ONDBSPACEDOWN=2 which means pause all operations and wait for the chunk to be repaired and marked back online. Does onstat -d show any chunks and/or dbspaces with a 'D…
Problem Installing Informix Dynamic Server
I downloaded a Try&Buy version of Informix Dynamic Server V7.30 for NT. I installed it on an NT Server. The install seemed to go ok, but after a short time of investigating IECC, I got a blue screen. After this when I started the Command Center, a task seemed to start, but it w…
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.…
IDS 7.30 Linux ed. - Unpleasant surprise
Hi! I planned to use IDS 7.30 Linux ed. with HDR. But after unsuccessful try to install it I discovered in release notes that replications in IDS 7.30 Linux ed. are not supported at all. (oh, yes for $99 can I expect HDR!?) Any idea when (and if at all) will be replications sup…
HDR and enterprise replication
Does anyone know the difference between HDR and enterprise replication? It seems they both exist in version 7.3, but only HDR is available in 9.14. Thanks in advance, david.tamburin@protegrity.com…
Out of buffer?
Hi, I got the following error message from an Informix IDS 7.30: <<Informix Dynamic Server>>> WARNING! Buffer pool size may cause Dynamic Server to get into a locked state. Recommended minimum buffer pool size is 4 times maximum concurrent user thre…
Problems with oncheck in IDS 7.23
Hello everybody I�m running IDS 7.23 UC6, under AIX 4.2.1 We decided to do a complete oncheck of the database during the night. There is no other process running at the same time. We noticed that the checkpoint interval became extremely high during the oncheck activity, and we …
Linux VS NT4.0
Hi, Is it true that Informix Dynamic Server workgroup edition 7.30 is ported for Linux, and if it is so does anyone can tell me what to chose between Linux and NT4.0 for running Informix Dynamic Server workgroup edition 7.30. Also I'd like to know for which version of Linux, Inf…
Checkpoints - a mystery
Sorry if I have already posted this once already...we are having problems with our news server... HP-UX 10.20 running IDS 7.24.UC5 We have been having isolated problems with checkpoints - see below. During the lengthy checkpoints, obviously no users can perform any update routi…
checkpoint duration too long
plogdbs: 79.8M llogdbs:600M datadbs:1000M my ONCONFIG file: PHYBUFF 128 LOGBUFF 64 CPKINTERVAL 300 onstat -m ...checkpoint duration was 8 [7-10] seconds How can I reduce the checkpoint duration?Thanks!…
Starting Informix Dynamic Server !
Hi Gurus, Just wondering is there any difference in starting the informix engine as root user versus as Informix user. ? The reason why I ask this question is , the IDS 7.23 UC6 on HP-UX 10.2 crashes due to a bug (declared as bug by Informix Technical support)when we start in…
Informix Dynamic Server Archive/Restore
Hello All: We have a large scale Informix DB resident on an HP 9000, K460, with AutoRaid Disk Subsystem (218gb). And we are running IDS 7.30. Currently, we are using the Informix ontape archive/restore utility to archive the DB and to perform continuous logical logging. We u…
Any one know this?
Hi folks: Is there a script that can check informix on-line dynamic server is up and running or not? If not it will e-mail a note to D.B.A. groups Thanks in advance Garry…
Re: Checkpoint take so long
Taking on board what Kevyn has already said, it looks like there was some sort of data load happening during the long checkpoints. I also noticed that your logs aren't being archived. Whats the story ?? What are your current settings for LRU_MAX/MIN_DIRTY & CHKPTINTVL and how bi…
converting Informix Online 5.1 esql/c to Dynamic Server esql/c?
Hi converting Informix Online 5.1 esql/c to Dynamic Server esql/c? What is the easiest way to do this? Is there a parser that could do this? edward…
RAID Technolgy
We are using Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.2. We are going in for a new DEC UNIX Server with RAID Technolgy. It incorporates mirroring at the hardware level. So is it not necessary to do mirroring using Informix?. Can anybody give suggestions regarding mirroring and other feat…
Informix on Linux
Does anybody know how much a copy of Informix Dynamic Server would run me for use on Linux?? Thanks in advance -steve…
Upgrade Dynamic Server 7.13 - 7.24
I need to upgrade Informix Dynamic Server version 7.13 to version 7.24. Can anyone advise of any problems they may have had whilst doing this?…
Informix Dynamic Server 7.31?
Is any information available regarding the release of IDS 7.31 for Unix? We have Sun E3000 and E4000 machines and are experiencing problems with both 7.30.UC3 and 7.30.UC5 and are curious about 7.31. Thanks. Carleen Avant Naval Safety Center Internet < cavant@safecen.navy.mil …
STRING FUNCTIONS
Are there functions for manipulating varchar type, like upper() or lower() in Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.2? Thanks in advance.…
Netscape Enterprise Connection for Informix Dynamic Server
Hi: Does anyone know the procedure for setting up a Netscape Enterprise Server to connect to an Informix Dynamic server on a remote machine? Michael…
oninit: shared library problem
I'm having problems when initialising the DB using oninit. Config: INFORMIX Dynamic Server Ver 7.23, on a UNISYS-UNIX SVR4. When Initializing, I get the error ...dynamic linker: oninit: symbol not found: gettimeofday The LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set to $INFORMIXDIR/bin and �INFORMIXDIR…
Initi DB
I'm having problems when initialising the DB. Config: INFORMIX Dynamic Server Ver 7.23, on a UNISYS-UNIX SVR4. When Initializing, I get the error ...dynamic linker: oninit: symbol not found: gettimeofday The LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set to $INFORMIXDIR/bin and �INFORMIXDIR/esql help wo…
Index on Informix Online 7.22 ?
I have installed a new Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.22UC3 on our server (HP-UX 10.20). I find it is much much slower than the Informix 7.12 Online DS server if I do not create index for a same program. Why and what is the difference between the two version of Dynamic serv…
Re: 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 …
Decreasing Checkpoint Lengths.
What parameters have the greatest effect on checkpoint lengths? Currenly I have my checkpoint interval at 30 seconds, and a peak times checkpoints are still taking over 10 seconds. We're running multiple configurations on Workgroup Server. Some on WIN NT, Some on SCO, and some…
Checkpoints not in online.log
We're using IUS 9.14.UC2 on SunOS box. I can use onmonitor to force a checkpoint. It comes back and tells me that the checkpoint completed. However, when I look in the online.log file, it doesn't show up. It looks like the system hasn't done any checkpoints for hours. Our CKPTIN…
Informix Dynamic Server Personal Edition
What development apps are known to work with IDS-PE for 95? Infrmx wants to sell me licenses for Dynamic 4gl, esql-c, ddvb for 150usd. Do these work and are there others? 150 sounds ok but the catch is is that the Open-Line Support is outrageous for this (3K usd for unlim. suppor…
Will informix 7.24.uc5 compatiable with solaris 7?
Hi there, I was wondering if Informix Dynamic Server 7.24.uc.5 will be compatiable with solaris 7 when it comes out? Thanks advance, Pat Militzer pmilitzer@ultracom.com…
Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.2.2
When I try to iniailize the shared memory I get an error "oninit: Critical error initializing shared memory" I checked the log and it says the base memory address is 0x80080000 and should be 0x80400000 when I change it it reverses. this is on a SCO open server 5. nay ideas.…
Informix Dynamic Server on Linux NOW!
Check out the Informix WEB Site. There is an announcement that IDS 7.3 is shipping on Linux TODAY! http://www.informix.com/ Art S. Kagel…
Problem installing to NT4.0 server
I'm trying to install Informix dynamic server workgroup edition to Primary domain Nt 4.0 Server. I have created Informix-Admin group and Informix account and grant it all Administrators rights and also Domain administrator rights. The server setup runs ok, but when setup is tryi…
Deployment Licenses of Informix Dynamic Server
I need a free Deployment Licenses of Informix Dynamic Server!…
Re: Informix Dynamic Server blocks
In article <3609EB18.2AB1B1CD@bull.net>, Helmut Leininger <Helmut.Leininger@bull.net> writes >Hi, > >Sporadically, the Informix server seems to block (every try to connect >or onstat times out and no reaction on onmode -ky). In the MSGPATH I >find the following message: > >09:03:…
Informix Dynamic Server blocks
Hi, Sporadically, the Informix server seems to block (every try to connect or onstat times out and no reaction on onmode -ky). In the MSGPATH I find the following message: 09:03:42 mt.c, line 8362, thread 2139, proc id 17096, mt_notifyvp timed out. Informix server is 7.22.UC2…
Informix Dynamic Server blocks
Hi, Sporadically, the Informix server seems to block (every try to connect or onstat times out and no reaction on onmode -ky). In the MSGPATH I find the following message: 09:03:42 mt.c, line 8362, thread 2139, proc id 17096, mt_notifyvp timed out. Informix server is 7.22.UC2…
Re: Tunning question
You can start by decreasing the LRU MIN/MAX to arround 3-6. This will increase the number of writes that occure between checkpoints, but will make the bufferpool "cleaner" when the checkpoint actually occurs. Madison Pruet…
Database Recovery?
In reading about Online Dynamic Server, it states that the database will rollforward to the last checkpoint when the server is brought to online from offline if the server crashes. If I do a restore from the day before will it read the logs and bring it up to the last checkpoint…
Re: 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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checkpoint duration
I have a serious problem with checkpoint duration which cause my posting process to almost double in duration because of the amount of time wasted on checkpoints. Here is a a sample of the duration take directly from the online log file. 05:32:00 Checkpoint Completed: duration…
HDR
Hi I am trying to establish HDR between to of my 7.23UC7 Informix servers. I can connect the primary to the secondary vice versa, but my secondary server is sleeping forever on recovery. Following are the outputs from the 2 servers: Primary: 10:28:03 DR: new type = primary, se…
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: +…
checkpoint interval
Dear All, I'm running INF 7.23UC1 with total database is 76 GB. We are happy with our configuration, but since Last Monday, our online perfomance going down and also interval of checkpoin sometime took so long, about 50-170 second. We have checked no big transaction, no long tra…
Informix Dynamic Server & Text columns
Hi everybody, Can you help me ? I've created a table with the following structure : column type -------- ---- code smallint obs text How can I insert into this table with Java program ? I'm using Informix Java AP…
Intermittent Problem - error 529 Cannot attach to transaction
We have a HP-UX box (Ver 10.20) running Informix Online Dynamic Server Ver 7.13 and a NT Server (NT4.0) running Informix Online Dynamic Server Ver 7.23. We are trying to access some of the database tables resided in the HP-UX box from the NT Server via synonyms. But we faced inte…
Re: PAGE CLEANERS
Also, At the log file I don�t get any error message, only the regulat checkpoint ones.…
waiting for checkpoint
<HTML> Sometimes informix is waiting for a checkpoint, thus also the users of the application. <BR>What is the reason for this ?? <BR>I asume it is something in the application but how to indentify this and can I set a trigger <BR>that performs the checkpoint when this even…
How can I read the header tape of the archive created by ontape?
I have Informix Dynamic Server 7.23.UC1. I would like know the tape header structure created by ontape.…
Re: Extended checkpoint times (Blocked Checkpoint)
Hi-All, Since I got a few E-mail asking which patch we applied I thought I will post to the answer to C.D.I instead. The patch we applied is "PHKL_10634". -- Have a nice day Felix K. Mathews mailto:fmathews@systems.dhl.com…
Re: Extended checkpoint times (Blocked Checkpoint)
Felix Mathews IBS CONTRACTOR wrote: > Eric_Melillo@agsea.com wrote: > > > We've had Blocked checkpoints on 7.13 -- but it has always been a known bug > > -- we get two "C"urrent logical logs, a big no-no. It is a dial-in > > offense. We're moving to 7.23 as quickly as possible…
Slow checkpoints
Hi, I run a query on Informix On-Line 7.23UC2 and I go from 1 sec. checkpoints to 30 sec. checkpoints. Any explanations? The table is partitioned and it is very large (46 million rows) Any explanations? Can I avoid this situation? select count(*) total,count(*)*.75 percent from…
Re: Upgrading Informix from Online engine to Dynamic Server
Seth Grimes wrote: > > Jane Vohden wrote: > > > > I have been talking with Informix about upgrading our site from the > > 5.xx Online engine to 7.2x Dynamic Server. They said there was no cost > > I don't think that anyone has pointed out the mistaken terminology > h…
Re: Extended checkpoint times
I had a problem in November of checkpoints blowing out to 10 minutes or so = during the evening like your manifestation. I was advised from tech support that checkpoints can blow out two ways. 1. When checkpoint is requested, Online freezes all sessions for users not = in a cri…
Re: Extended checkpoint times
check your lru parameters, I have mine set at 2 and 1. anonymous wrote in message <34C53870.964739C4@somwhere.com>... >Hi, > >We are trying to investigate a series of overly long checkpoints on one >of our informix databases, here is >a snippet of the online.log file detailing th…
Extended checkpoint times
Hi, We are trying to investigate a series of overly long checkpoints on one of our informix databases, here is a snippet of the online.log file detailing the events: 21:16:55 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 76 seconds. 21:22:04 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 6 second…
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…
HDR
Recently we encountered a similar problem. Our primary DB was running on an HP K9000 (120Mhz) and secondary DB on an HP K9000 (180Mhz). After many OS upgrades (recommended by Informix support), the problem was still not resolved. We then moved the primary DB to an HP K9000 (180…
HDR
I have a question about HDR on the Informix online workgroup server for Unix v. 7.12 (irix). We have completed the preliminary tasks -- Both machines are O2s running Irix 6.3, We replicated chunks and dataspaces identically on the second machine, assigned a temp dbspace on both …
ODBC unix and dynamic SQL
Hi, Can someone give me some help on using informix odbc drivers (unix) with dynamic SQL on Informix-online dynamic server (7.22 unix) when I use "SQLprepare" I receive the message "too many or too few host variables given" but I think all is Ok R. Gueye…
Re: Freeing Logical Log with Status U
What's LOGFILES set to in your onconfig file? Try forcing a checkpoint? Jon.…
Checkpoint blocked ?
Hi, I had the same problem with ODS 7.14.UD6.on AIX 4.2.1. It has happened = twice this week. Everybody just hang and i could not even do a onmode -y properly. There= was a message saying no respond from the server. And when i did an oninit, the system= just hang on Logical Re…
Checkpoint blocked ?
On AIX 4.2 with OWS 7.20.UC2, I had a deadlock situation twice in a short time : nobody could work, and an onstat gave the message : checkpoint required, blocked. I had to stop Informix (onmode -k) and restart (oninit). I guess that some user threads where blocking the checkpoin…
Next Extent Calc.
Hi, I have INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server Version 7.14.UD2. Does anyone know of a script or program to calculate the next extent size ? Thanks in advance Manuel…
Re: Informix halts for no obvious reason ?!
Milen Metodiev wrote: > > Hi, folks. > > This is the umpteenth time this happens, so I wonder > if anyone can help. Even a few hints will be more than > welcome. > > When the system is busy enough ( 20-30 users of Informix ) > and people start issuing "heavy" queries, Informix fa…
Re: Mirroring
Jay Aymond wrote: > > "Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.com> wrote: > > >Jay Aymond wrote: > >to wait for page flushes during checkpoints. I run my busiest servers > >with > >LRU_MAX_DIRTY=3 and LRU_MIN_DIRTY=0 90% LRU Writes, these puppies fly! > > > >Art S. Kagel > > Thanks for …
Checkpoint problem.
Hello, guys! Our Informix server has stoped three times for a month. tbstat shows that all user processes (except two) are waiting for process "ckpt" which seems to be a checkpoint process. I noticed that in the Informix log file there were missing checkpoints for about 30 minut…
Java and Informix Dynamic Server 7.x
Hi friends! I am trying to do server-side java cgi programming to connect to I-ODS 7.x. Do you know how I can do that? I heard it is possible to use the jdbc-odbc bridge( intersolve or openlink's), but the performance is too slow, because of jdbc to odbc and odbc to jdbc convert…
Checkpoints in online 7.13
Hello , Does anybody know where in sysmaster database I can find informations about checkpoints, particularly in which log file the last checkpoint is ? Thanks, Jean-Francois.…
Re: Too-frequent checkpoints; which parameters to check?
Actually, if performance is important this is what you want. The alternative is to have them less often but for longer periods of time. Since users are completely blocked during the checkpoint, they would not have no response for 5 or 10 seconds (for example) which can seem lik…
Re: Too-frequent checkpoints; which parameters to check?
In article <331FF103.7F5C@lava.net>, Bob Cunningham <bob@lava.net> writes >I've got a situation with On-Line 7.22 (SPARC, Solaris 2.5.1) where >we get flurries of checkpoints at short intervals, during >some update periods that look like: > >23:35:07 Checkpoint Completed: durat…
Re: Too-frequent checkpoints; which parameters to check?
Bob Cunningham wrote: > > I've got a situation with On-Line 7.22 (SPARC, Solaris 2.5.1) where > we get flurries of checkpoints at short intervals, during > some update periods that look like: > > 23:35:07 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 2 seconds. > 23:35:14 Checkpoint Comp…
Too-frequent checkpoints; which parameters to check?
I've got a situation with On-Line 7.22 (SPARC, Solaris 2.5.1) where we get flurries of checkpoints at short intervals, during some update periods that look like: 23:35:07 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 2 seconds. 23:35:14 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 1 seconds. 23:…
Re: numerous checkpoints
The two most common reasons for checkpoints are 1) the checkpoint interval has been reached and 2) the physical log is over 75% full. If the checkpoints appear to be closer than the checkpoint interval, I would guess that your physical log file is too small. Madison Pruet…
numerous checkpoints
Hi, I don't understand reason why checkpoints occur so frequent. From my point of view, there are not any event that initiate a checkpoint (events described in INFORMIX-Online Dynamic Server Administrator's Guide Version 7.1 12-52). Could someone tell me another event, that is no…
Re: Informix 7.1.2.UC1: LRUS in /usr/informix/etc/onconfig
>By the way, what is your checkpoint interval? >Are the checkpoints occurring after this intervall or do they occure >earlier, initiated by a 75% dirty Physical-Log-Buffer? The checkpoint interval is set to 300 seconds. The checkpoint always seems to occur at the interval and n…
Informix Certified Professional Program Update
Informix offers two certification paths. Each path requires the successful completion of two exams. Each exam is US $250 and is between 60-90 minutes long. * Database Specialist for INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server 7.x 111 - Database Fundamentals Exam 112 - Managin…
Re: INFORMIX-Online Dynamic Server intallation
copy the standard onconfig file and make as few changes as possible to the different parameters. after you are sure you can bring informix online, should you begin to make changes to the onconfig parameters. Use ONMONITOR to make the changes. It will protect you from many mista…
INFORMIX-Online Dynamic Server intallation
I'm about to install INFORMIX-Online Dynamic Server V.7.1 on a SPARC 1000. Has anyone installed this database on a sparc before? If yes...do you have any suggestions or could you give me any advice on certain aspects of the installation you felt might be important to take notice?…
Checkpoint Required
Hey Online wizards What causes the check point required message on a "tbstat -"? I know one cause is when achive tapes needs to be changed(many thanks to Joe Lumbley's book), but what other things can cause the check point required message? A "tbmode -c" should force a checkpo…
HELP message log
I need some help to understand the meaning of the messages that appear in the file of Message Log. This is a copy of my Message Log. Thanks in advanced. ############################################################################## Sat Apr 22 08:03:30 1995 08:03:30 INFORMIX-…
Checkpoints problems
Hi A friend of mine is running informix online 5.01 ud3 in aix 3.2.5. The workstations are running inet 5.01 and q+e odbc library. At some time (generally during heavy load), users begin to complanit that they can't connect to the database server. But logged users still works…
On-Line 5.0 Weird Crash
The other evening we had a database crash on us, it said that a dbspace disappeared. Upon further evaluation, we noticed nothing wrong and restarted the engine and everything was fine. The following listings "online.log" and "tbstat -a" are listings for a on-line crash on …
Checkpoint Recovery
Does Infomix provide me with the ability to specify a particular transaction or checkpoint to be used in rollback or recovery processing. My questions stem s from a user scenario, where the user has requested a series of database processes accidentally. I would like to be able …
engine performance (fwd)
Ellen suggested I send this out for a grin. Basically we had experienced some problems on one of our many engines and found this in the logfile. I sent this to Ellen to let her know a) what was going on b) it was the only logical explanation for what was occuring. } One day (7…
Need Info on tbtape/tbstat
I need to write a program to automatically know what level of archive needs to be done. I am trying to read the ${INFORMIXDIR}/turbo.log to see the messages indicating when the last archive completed. The turbo.log and the tbmonitor status/archive does not really match. Is the…
HDR and Blobs
IDS 9.4 on HP-UX 11.11 We have been trying to get HDR running, and we have blobs located in blob pages. The following pages from the Admin Guide make it clear that blobs in blob pages will not be replicated. It does not seem to say that you can't use HDR, simply that the blobs…