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Not enough room in ROOT DBspace
It looks like your physical log is taking up most of your space. I would imagine that this was moved and grown in your other instance. Dan -----Original Message----- From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of STEVEN AB Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 201…
How to configure alarmprogram.sh to trigger only on errors and replication failures?
Hello, The alarmprogram.sh is just a shell script. You need to look into it and tailor it to your needs. This script was meant to help you to have a basic example. You could enrich it the way you want by either adding things or adapting things to alter the way y…
oncheck warning,What impact will it have on the future?
Ok, I make sense. Althrough I can't see that parameter in ONCONFIG, but it really exists with default value. ------------------------------ chuan lu ------------------------------…
Extending chunk capacity
A couple more notes. If the server creates a chunk from a directory entry in the storage pool, as you know it will create a new cooked file in the directory and use it for the chunk. If its space is a regular dbspace we'll automatically mark that new chunk as extendable, so you s…
Large memory segment vs smaller ones
No ONCONFIG changes are required. ------------------------------ Doug Lawry Oninit Consulting ------------------------------…
Changing DBSPACETEMP run-time
Hi, IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.FC5XE Please, is there a way to change DBSPACETEMP for a session inside 4GL? ------------------------------ Sincerely, Dennis ------------------------------…
restore through STDIO
HI, ifxclone can change the onconfig on the target instance E.g. it will turn off DIRECT_IO and can also change bufferpool entries! Regards, David. ------------------------------ David Williams ------------------------------…
Problems with temporary dbspaces
Hello, Change the DBSPACETEMP entry in onconfig file , separated them with semi colon (;), instead of comma (,). Rebounce ids, and see whether the error disappear. Hope it works -Fauziah-…
ontape does not finish the backup: tape full
TAPESIZE in the onconfig set to zero? Backups to disk running into a tape full and asking for a second tape should not happen. Hal Maner M Systems International, Inc.…
ADO - activex data object
What do I require, to connect "ado activex data object" to Informix ? AIX 7.2 IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 12.10.FC9W1 Regards Dirk…
Phys Log Size Inconsistency?
Disregard. I confused the ONCONFIG parm with the actual phys log. Forgot to actually run onparams! My total bad. DG…
RSS: Different # CPUs?
Those were my thought exactly. But, was uncertain whether RSS required identical settings in ONCONFIG as the primary. Thank you. DG…
-951 trap
Folks, IDS 11.70 AIX 7.4 Is there any way/method etc. to trap for the following authentication error and send out an alert to security admins ? (other than greping the msg log ) 951: Incorrect password or user is not known on the database server. Preferably would like to have…
systemd centos7
Hi All, we configured systemd on CentOs7 to start and stop informix server 12.10.FC10. Im not sure of the type of the service so I tried oneshot, simple and forking. Informix starts in all cases. I see no difference. But we have an issue: If starting informix via systemd, the …
listener-thread@soc_be.c:3073: err = -25582:
Adding Version details Informix Version : IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 12.10.FC6 O/S Version : Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.9 Thanks & Regards, Karthik Rajan…
onmode bug discovered (-wf)
Don't believe in a bug here. When starting the server he knows about the onconfig-file from the environment variable ONCONFIG. If you change this variable when the server is running it will not know the new value. Assuming that variable is only read once during the startup of th…
Informix and speculative execution
Hi all, I have seen speculative execution patches for Firefox and SQL Server. Are there speculative execution patches for Informix in progress? There is no IBM Flash for Informix Dynamic Server and speculaative execution! Regards, David.…
Rovoke insert permission but still can insert
I am doing it at the command line in the server directly in the directory C:\\\\Program Files\\\\IBM\\\\IBM Informix Dynamic Server\\\\11.50\\\\bin…
ROOTDBS file
I did not find the AUTOLOCATE parameter in onconfig file as well as onconfig.std file also. Im using IDS 12.10 FC8 version…
Update Statistics
what kind of things could I check in the onconfig file. They are working on getting me IBM technical support help, but that will be a few hours away.…
IDS 12.10 - Query Slow
Hi, I means value on onconfig 12.10 same or better than value onconfig IDS 11.10. i don't copy onconfig file and put on IDS 12.10. I already rebuild of your statistics is highly. We don't have performance issue for overall our system, only a few program, especially program runn…
ON-Bar database server is dismissing the logical
Thanks Art and Martin. IDS bounce worked as onconfig was changed for LTAPEDEV earlier. Thanks, ~ Pravin Bankar…
DBSPACETEMP Parameter
Hi, The DBSPACETEMP Parameter in onconfig file create automatically the temporally dbspaces ? Or They must be created with onspaces utility. Thanks in advance.…
onmode -I 154,-1 143 -1
No. In order to dump shared memory that memory has to be quiescent, unchanging. So the engine blocks all processing during the dump. Art Art S. Kagel, President and Principal Consultant ASK Database Management www.askdbmgt.com Blog: http://informix-myview.blogspot.com/ Discla…
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)…
ALARMPROGRAM: Event Alarms Filtering?
Hello, IDS 11.70 I need to find out if there is a way to force ALARMPROGRAM not to trigger itself whenever certain types of events happen. For example, I am making dbexport backups of all dbs during night, and I need to temporarily stop ER. This event is with type WARNING and …
BTS fails after ontape Restore
Hi Mark, Backup is done by 'ontape -s -L 0' Restore was done with 'ontape -r' No extra special parameters. And as I was typing this email, I was collecting the appropriate BTS-related lines from the 4 onconfig's in play (we use a special 'backup' onconfig for ontape). Lo and b…
Root db space fills up
as metioned above, maybe you need set TEMPTAB_NOLOG in you onconfig file…
RFE request for session details during virtual shm
Thanks a lot, Jacques. From the manual page, SHMVIRT_ALLOCSEG it says that: alarm_level: Optional. An integer value from 1 to 5 that specifies the level of the event alarm to raise: 1 = Not noteworthy, 2 = Information, 3 = Attention (Default), 4 = Emergency, 5 = Fatal. The event…
Error Message in online.log file
Hi André. What setting do you have for ALRM_ALL_EVENTS in the $ONCONFIG file? I have found "alarmprogram.sh" can loop if set to 1. Regards, Doug Lawry…
RSS not working
Fee disk space on the chunk partition ok on the RSS server? Can you post your onconfig?…
Setup HDR
Sounds like the onconfig has the same STACKSIZE but what both servers read in at initialization is different. Bounce both servers and see if it's fixed.…
Physical Log size 2000 is too small
Hi, the onconfig we are using is from a inf version 9.7 wherein no PLOG_OVERFLOW_PATH located in it. I tried adding it to the onconfig and put a location but the inf instance when restarted still always fails. As for the onmode command we are always using onmode -ky maybe it's b…
ERROR doing ontape
Thanks for your response! So, is it possible to create a new dbspace then set it in $ONCONFIG and restart the instance? best regards…
virtual segment question
Did you try to increase the number of locks in the LOCKS parameter in Onconfig? Lloyd…
ontape error message
Increase the value of TAPESIZE parameter in onconfig and try the backup. Lloyd…
Onconfig name
Hi, I am developing a JDBC application, and need to read from within SQL the onconfig environment variable. From with IDS 11.70, I can extract the need information using the query: select trim(env_value) env_value from informix.sysenv where env_name = 'ONCONFIG'; The code nee…
Informix upgrade
Can we upgrade informix from Dynamic Server Version 11.70 to 12.1 workgroup edition directly?…
Problmes using ontape with an IBM TS2900 changer
The TAPEDEV section in the onconfig is as follow: TAPEDEV /dev/IBMTape0 TAPEBLK 512 TAPESIZE 0 We have played with the TAPEBLK from 512 to 4096 to no avail.…
Logical logs - push or pull?
Hi Bill, Since a "LOG FULL" is an internal engine event (among the many other events) and that the engine executes the alarm program of your choice (the name of the alarm program should be defined in the ALARMPROGRAM onconfig parameter, I prefer to keep this solution. Plus the …
when use IfxDataReader.GetIfxDateTime to NULL valu
Hello, The version of Informix products in my environment is: Database server: AIX IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.FC5 IBM Informix CSDK Version 2.90 IBM-ESQL Version 2.90.FC4 Client: PC Windows IBM Informix-ESQL 3.70.TC5DE.…
How to set up temporary space per session
True, but I have noticed that you need register previously the temporary dbspace in onconfig file, I thought there was some way to make the settings "on the fly", by session. Roger…
recover SQLHOSTS file
Do the onconfig files also have that info?…
Auto Update Stats
Hi, I have one more query. I have the below entries in onconfig file for AUS AUTO_STAT_MODE 1 STATCHANGE 10 USTLOW_SAMPLE 0 Now all my tasks(mon_table_profile,Evaluator and Refresh) running fine at scheduled time. Now when I remove the above entries in onconfig file, still al…
DB_locale or local naming convention
Hi, I already mention the informix version. IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.TC1IE…
Initializing shared memory
Here is what I get if I don't set the FULL_DISK_INIT to 1: Fri Jan 18 07:24:06 2013 07:24:06 Event alarms enabled. ALARMPROG = '/opt/informix/etc/no_log.sh' 07:24:06 Booting Language <c> from module <> 07:24:06 Loading Module <CNULL> 07:24:06 Booting Language <builtin> from mod…
Page size
Where do you set the page size when configuring Informix? I don't see it in the ONCONFIG anywhere.…
Re: manually edit onconfig?
You should never install the new version over the current one. If something goes wrong in the upgrade you'll have much more work to recover. Regards On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 6:38 PM, June Nebab LKINY <jnebab@gmail.com> wrote: > Planning an upgrade to 11.7UC6GE from 11.7UC5GE. I…
RE: manually edit onconfig?
I would give a try to the new onconfig_diff utility, it seems to help you identify and correct some of them.... Check it out! https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/idsteam/entry/how_to_use_the_onconfig_comparison_tool_onconfig_diff3?lang=en Regards. Alexand…
Re: manually edit onconfig?
I'm a big fan of copying the current settings into the new ONCONFIG file. It gives you a good chance to see the new parameters, like those you mentioned - all of which were available in 11.70.xC5 BTW, so someone used an older ONCONFIG instead of editing the new one last time. By…
Re: manually edit onconfig?
Figure out what each of the new ones do, whether you want to use them or not, then add them to your old onconfig. Ideally on a test environment. j. On Dec 17, 2012, at 1:38 PM, June Nebab LKINY wrote: > Planning an upgrade to 11.7UC6GE from 11.7UC5GE. Installing new version o…
manually edit onconfig?
Planning an upgrade to 11.7UC6GE from 11.7UC5GE. Installing new version on same $INFORMIXDIR and on same server. I noticed new onconfig params (ie: AUTO_READAHEAD, NUMFDSERVERS, etc) that are in the UC6GE onconfig.std that are not in my $ONCONFIG. What is the proper way to dea…
Error -556 on @ reference
In IDS_A have a stored procedure do_some that has a insert into a local table. In IDS_B have a stored procedure do_some that does: call base@IDS_A:do_some(); Calling this sp works ok. In IDS_C i try to run: call base@IDS_B:do_some(); Fails with error -556 Cannot create, drop,…
Interpreting event alarm messages
we are on 11.7.FC5 on AIX 6.1 seeing many instances of dynamic lock allocation - however, that is the only thing that gets written to the online log and the ph_alert table: "dynamically allocated 1000000 locks" however, the manual states that " if a thread attempts to acquire a …
Error # 40002
Also set AUTO_REPREPARE 1 in your $ONCONFIG file. Regards, Doug Lawry…
alarmprogram.sh when LTAPEDEV /dev/null
2 dr-xr-xr-x 92 bin bin 8192 Apr 6 2011 /opt 61926 drwxr-xr-x 38 informix informix 8192 Sep 13 2011 /opt/informix 61927 drwxrwxr-x 4 informix informix 8192 Aug 13 09:34 /opt/informix/etc 83027 -rwxr-xr-x 1 informix informix 19932 Aug 4 2010 /opt/informix/etc/alarmprogram.sh head…
Re: help with informix on windows oncheck -pr erro
ok sounds like silly question but how do i find out what ONCONFIG variable is on windows ? which is likely to be correct set ONCONFIG=oncfg_apecert.0 ::set ONCONFIG=ONCONFIG.apecert…
alrmprogram
On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 9:28:44 AM UTC-5, tom...@gmail.com wrote: > hello > > we recently upgraded from version 11.7.FC4 to 11.7.FC5 on AIX 6.1. > The scripts we use for the backups and alarms are the same (except for the new paths, of course) and we have ADMIN and PAGER set to…
doubt about parameters (PDQ)
Sorry people, I meant the MAX_PDQPRIORITY 100 onconfig parameter.…
What are best onconfig parameters for a DSS app
1. Informix 11.70.TC4DE, Windows Vista with Dual Core Processor, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD: 2. DSS app for querying a 200MB table, joining to a couple of fact tables. 3. Mainly aggregate and time series queries against a transaction history table. 4. Only one user will be submitting queri…
"IDS seems to have shutdown cleanly"
See below, inline: Art Art S. Kagel Advanced DataTools (www.advancedatatools.com) Blog: http://informix-myview.blogspot.com/ Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that my own opinions are my own opinions and do not reflect on my employer, Advanced DataTools, the IIUG, nor any other …
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…
on tape -c
ALmost, see below: Art Art S. Kagel Advanced DataTools (www.advancedatatools.com) Blog: http://informix-myview.blogspot.com/ Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that my own opinions are my own opinions and do not reflect on my employer, Advanced DataTools, the IIUG, nor any other …
enterprise replication time to replicate data
IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.FC6 Question for enterpise experts Does anyone know a command that will give me time that it takes to replicate data to a node? for example i update on server a and it replicates to server b . How long did it take? cdr view profile gives …
NOFUZZYCKPT: onconfig parameter or environment variable?
Is NOFUZZYCKPT an onconfig parameter or an environment variable? Is there any definitive documentation? Still running IDS 10 on Linux.…
Testing the 'free' versions - moving from Dev edition to Innovator-C
Art, thanks - I've gone for the separate INFORMIXDIR install (just had to change $INFORMIXDIR, $PATH and some paths in $ONCONFIG) and it's come up just fine.…
Spatial Data
hello reading thru the manual states that the ONCONFIG parameters for SBSPACENAME and SYSSBSPACENAME must be set for the default sbspace. We are running an HDR pair and have the parameters set on the Primary Server - does it also need to be set on the Secondary Instance ? thank…
event trigger/alarm
Hi, Folks, IDS11.50 FC8, Redhat Linux. I am going to narrow down which job peoridically caused IDS to add new memory segments. Basically, the plan is, whenever IDS is adding a new memory segment( as in the attached online log messge) , the event will trigger my script to take …
IDS Monitoring tolls
I'm administering a large number of IBM-DB instance under HP-UX, with version IDS 11.50, XPS, some DB2 databases. Today, I use HP-Open View (OVO) to monitoring. with this tool, I generate logs and alarm events via e-mail. My organization ask me if exist another monitoring tools…
Over 1,000 days of 24x7 database uptime!
On 29.07.2011 20:38 Lester Knutsen wrote: > From one of our customers, their Informix server hit 1,000 days today > .... congratulations;) > > IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.FC8 -- On-Line -- Up > 1000 days 00:31:45 -- They beat mine just bit ... IBM Informix D…
Setting up HDR- First Time -11.70 Innovator-C
Hi, I am setting up HDR for the first time. onstat - on primary shows IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.UC2IE -- On-Line (Prim) -- Up 0:11:5s onstat - on secondry shows IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.UC2IE -- Fast Recovery (Sec) -- Up 00s onstat -m on sec…
ISAM error 197: Partition recently appended to
Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC5 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (i586) I have done a level 0 backup directed to /dev/null and tried again. still it is throwing the same error.…
Enterprise Replication event alarm code question
IDS 11.50.UC5 RHEL 5 We have the alarm program picking up event 71 for ER node disconnected and alerting through to our support system to go find out where the node went (network fault etc). The question is what is the event code to say "connected again"? I can't find it in the …
ontape -p/r with changed ROOTPATH
Jack Parker Wrote: ================================================================================ Not sure if you noted that you also need to change your $ONCONFIG = ROOTPATH to point to what is on the backup image. j. ==========================================================…
question about Query with joined view
Have you tried "IFX_FOLDVIEW 1" in your environment or $ONCONFIG file? Regards, Doug Lawry…
Tool to estimate the size of an index
Sorry, I forgot to provide the version of the installation: IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.FC4 Operative System: AIX Version 6.1…
sqlerr:-243 and isam err:-111 in esql/c
This "may" be a good place for USELASTCOMMITTED set to all in the onconfig.…
Primary Slowness when RSS is active
You need to set LOG_STAGGING_DIR parameter in onconfig of the rss…
Can't access sysindexes remotely
Hi, We are using IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.FC6 using Platform: SunOS 5.10 Generic_125100-09 sun4v sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-T200 Thanks…
Re: RE: new onconfig parameters added onconfig fil
Typically, I make a copy of the onconfig.std, naming it something like cheetah_online. Then I open up both the old and new onconfig, side by side, and copy from old to new. Obviously, the new onconfig has new params that were not addressed in the old onconfig and may have elimina…
Re: RE: new onconfig parameters added onconfig fil
Isn't that what I said? "If you simply just bring up the instance using your old onconfig, I believe that you will get whatever the default is for the new parameters, even though you do not mention them in your old ONCONFIG." -----Original Message----- From: ids-bounces@iiug.or…
new onconfig parameters added onconfig file 11.5
hello folks Can any one tell me at what stage the new onconfig parameters are added to the onconfig file when upgrading from 11.10 to 11.5. I have converted two instances from 11.10 to 11.50 One onconfig file has the new parameters at the end of the file the other doesnt have any…
Re: performance improvements for dbimport?
Thanks for all your valuable input. I changed some parameters now: 21:09:27 Onconfig parameter BUFFERPOOL modified from size=2K,buffers=262144,lrus=8,lru_min_dirty=5.0,lru_max_dirty=10.0 to size=2K,buffers=524288,lrus=8,lru_min_dirty=10.0,lru_max_dirty=50.0. 21:09:27 Onconfig p…
BACKUP_FILTER in onconfig
Hello, when I using BACKUP_FILTER in $ONCONFIG, parameter for "The tape block size, in KB, for backing up logical logs" is NOT LTAPEBLK, but it is TAPEBLK. Everything work fine (LTAPEBKL for logical log) when I turn off BACKUP_FILTER ... This is happening with ontape, with BAC…
garbage text in SHMNOACCESS parameter
On Jan 21, 8:15 am, Ian Michael Gumby <im_gu...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Just a guess. What's the hex value for that string? > grep ^SHMNOACCESS onconfig SHMNOACCESS �����������" ������� grep ^SHMNOACCESS onconfig |cut -c17- �����������" ������� grep ^SHMNOACCESS onconfig…
alarmprogram.sh
Good Morning My Informix dbs are all IDS 10FC4 and my alarm program in configure with the following parameter: ALRM_ATTENTION=3 In order to identify an issue the Im having with some particular session that is causing a excess of additional shared memory segments I would like t…
Informix Dynamic Server Software Downloads
It appears IBM has cleverly hidden the IDS downloads again on the Passport Advantage Website, at least from my prying eyes. I can find the Solid DB and the DB2 links just fine. Does anyone out there in IIUG-land with a Passport Advantage account know where IBM has stashed the dow…
DYNAMIC_LOGS in ONCONFIG
Good afternoon, We occasionally have a programmer than needs a large amount of log space to move a very large table. Instead of fiddling with the HTXHWM and LTXEHWM in the ONCONFIG file, has anyone successfully setup DYNAMIC_LOGS with IDS 10.00 on HPUX? Where would the dynamic …
Unsufficient buffer size for error message
Hi Please check your online.log and check also your onconfig file. thanks.…
IDS 7.13 Monitoring tool
Is there any event ALARM program comes with informix 7.13 for monitoring Database server. What are the software/application that I can use to monitor our Database server health which is running on HP-UX 10.01. Please help me.…
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…
alarmprogram! how to trigger
How are you testing the ALARMPROGRAM? It always works for me and many of our clients. To test the logical log archive you have to force the engine to switch logical logs (onmode -l) at which point the ALARMPROGRAM will fire can be called with event code 23. To test the storage fu…
Informix Dynamic Server Scheduler question
Hi! I'm working on a project at my faculty. It's a java desktop application with an informix database. I have a problem using informix dynamic server scheduler. I have a particular table in my database. This table contains records that are inserted by the desktop aplication I'm …
IDS 9.40 End of Support Imminent
I have seen a number of posts on CDI recently related to IDS 9.40 As per the announcement on September 7th 2007, effective on the dates listed below, IBM will withdraw support from the following product releases licensed under the IBM International Program License Agreement: 9…
oninit fails reporting problem with DBSPACETEMP
But in my ONCONFIG file, i have mentioned the tape device as STDIO…
Changing TAPEDEV from script
sed -e 's/^TAPEDEV/TAPEDEV NEW-TAPEDEV/g' onconfig > onconfig.other export ONCONFIG=onconfig.other after finishing just set the ONCONFIG to your default and delete onconfig.other Sebastian…
Looking for comprehensive list of all IDS event class id and message parameters with associated severity
Does anybody know where I can obtain a comprehensive list of all of the IDS version 11.10 event class id and message parameters WITH the associated severity in regard to the alarm program? I have the separate lists, just need to know that what each individual CLASS ID has for a…
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…
Audit Logs
If you have your own ALARM script, try trapping *all* alarms, including the 'message' ('info'?) type and just dumping the text to a file in /tmp. There *might* be a 'message' type that shows switching audit logs. -- Bob -------------- Original message -------------- From: "Fern…
Informix Dynamic Server v 11.50 Developer's Edition
Does everyone know that the Informix Dynamic Server Developer's Edition v11.50 that you can download from the IIUG Web site (www.iiug.org) is NOT timebombed, is completely and fully functional (including HDR, MACH11, ER etc.). Do you know that the only limitations on this versio…
Informix Dynamic Server v 11.50 Developer's Edition
Does everyone know that the Informix Dynamic Server Developer's Edition v11.50 that you can download from the IIUG Web site (www.iiug.org) is NOT timebombed, is completely and fully functional (including HDR, MACH11, ER etc.). Do you know that the only limitations on this versio…
CONFIGURATION ONAUDIT-IBM Informix Dynamic Server
Hello, I need to configure onaudit and onshowaudit able to register for each of the consultations that are made to the database, either through dbaccess, ODBC or another application. I've been reviewing the IBM Informix Trusted Facility Guide, but I was not working. What param…
How to use Informix Dynamic Server
I have installed trial version of "Informix IDS Dynamic Server Developer Edition 11.5 for Windows 2003, XP, Vista, 32bit Version 1150TC1DE". But i am new to informix. Can anyone explain how to use IDS in detail.…
Re: onconfig recommendations
mosserp@wellsfargo.com wrote: >> mosserp@wellsfargo.com wrote: >> >>>>> RESIDENT 0 # Forced residency flag >>>>> >>>>> >>>> (Yes = 1, No = >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Don't know HP model numbers, but it this is a PA-RISC machine, you >>>> almost have to …
RE: onconfig recommendations
> mosserp@wellsfargo.com wrote: > >>> RESIDENT 0 # Forced residency flag > >>> > >> (Yes = 1, No = > >> > >>> > >>> > >> Don't know HP model numbers, but it this is a PA-RISC machine, you > >> almost have to set RESIDENT to -1 to prevent poor performance > >>…
Re: onconfig recommendations
mosserp@wellsfargo.com wrote: >>> RESIDENT 0 # Forced residency flag >>> >> (Yes = 1, No = >> >>> >>> >> Don't know HP model numbers, but it this is a PA-RISC machine, you >> almost have to set RESIDENT to -1 to prevent poor performance >> due to the >> archi…
RE: onconfig recommendations
> > RESIDENT 0 # Forced residency flag > (Yes = 1, No = > > > Don't know HP model numbers, but it this is a PA-RISC machine, you > almost have to set RESIDENT to -1 to prevent poor performance > due to the > architectures restrictions of only four active shar…
What is IPA abbreviation ?
Hi all IBM INFORMIX DYNAMIC SERVER 10.00 PRODUCT RELEASE bug_number 168928 description WITH NON-DEFAULT PAGE SIZE AND ACTIVE IPA'S, TABLE LEVEL RESTORES FAIL product_code ONUTILS component_code ARCHECKR What is IPA ? Thanks…
Re: onconfig recommendations
On Jan 2, 11:09 pm, "Kennedy, Randy" <RKenn...@scottsdaleaz.gov> wrote: > Would like to receive some feedback on our onconfig setup for current > platform. This is the 3rd physical server that the database has moved > to and just want to ensure we are using the best settings for…
[Fwd: Re: onconfig recommendations]
Kennedy, Randy wrote: > Would like to receive some feedback on our onconfig setup for current > platform. This is the 3rd physical server that the database has moved > to and just want to ensure we are using the best settings for given > platform. > > Current Server: HP rp5405 …
Re: onconfig recommendations
On Jan 2, 11:09 pm, "Kennedy, Randy" <RKenn...@scottsdaleaz.gov> wrote: > Would like to receive some feedback on our onconfig setup for current > platform. This is the 3rd physical server that the database has moved > to and just want to ensure we are using the best settings for…
onconfig recommendations
Would like to receive some feedback on our onconfig setup for current platform. This is the 3rd physical server that the database has moved to and just want to ensure we are using the best settings for given platform. Current Server: HP rp5405 4-Way (650 MHz) with 8GB RAM. 1 …
Newbie question-please don't shoot me
I have a newbie question. Please pardon my lack of knowledge with this. I have a Unix server (HP) that houses 2 9.4 Informix database servers (IE: there are 2 separate onconfig files that have unique INFORMIXSERVER parm values). The informix engine stopped (I think because the un…
Informix onconfig file configuration
Hello, We recently moved from a quad proc (hyper threaded to 8), 8GB RAM to a 2 socket dual core, 16GB RAM server. In order to maximize the cores and RAM what entries need to be modified, if any? Thanks, Jared…
BAR_MAX_BACKUP and BAR_WORKER_MAX
What's the difference between BAR_MAX_BACKUP and BAR_WORKER_MAX. Both seem to be doing parallel/concurrent log backup. Which one should be specified in onconfig ?…
Erroneous event alarm 7 "Initialization failure"
Just a gripe, really - a little while back our alerting system raised the above alarm (via ALARMPROGRAM) and initiated a callout, and all we found was "WARNING! Physical Log size 15000 is too small. Physical Log overflows may occur during peak activity. Recommended minimum Physic…
IIUG TV
Great job on the video work!! I look forward to seeing more! -t- -- -- Informix Dynamic Server Database Engine -- http://www.informix.com --…
Re: Digital UNIX V4.0F + 7.31.FD1 Performance
Thank you, today on evening we make this changes in $ONCONFIG, restart the machine and hope it works! Greetings from Austria…
Re: admin tools like PC client
Mike, What version of Informix are you using? Informix SE? Informix OnLine? Informix Dynamic Server? Most Informix versions these days come with a product call I-Connect that needs to be installed on the PC and rovides the Informix ODBC drivers.…
Error when initializing
06:36:20 IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version [b]10.00.UC6TL[\\b] I believe this is likelt ot be a new ish instance to a newish user of the software…
RE: error on initilization
Execute:User root:# ipcs -ma send tha exitThe freedom of Linux ... The power of InformixDate: Tue, 15 May 2007 16:30:29 -0400From: yunyaoqu@gmail.comTo: heathn@infobase.co.zwSubject: Re: FW: error on initilizationCC: informix-list@iiug.orgYou already have a instance running or th…
FW: error on initilization
_____ Hi this is after a restore ? Can anyone help ? Thanks Heath Zimbabwe Tue May 15 09:29:23 2007 09:29:23 Event alarms enabled. ALARMPROG = '/u/informix/etc/log_full.sh' 09:29:23 Booting Language <c> from module <> 09:29:23 Loading Module <CNULL> 09:2…
onconfig problem
when i try to initialize server using oninit following message appears on screen "ONCONFIG can only specify a simple filename whith no path components" plz do replay me how to solve this one…
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…
Informix Installation Crashed
When trying to install IDS 7.3 on SCO Openserver Release 5, I am getting following error continuously ... can any body help where should I do??? In fact the "Setup" hangs, when "Launching sysmaster database ...", and then it crashes. Early response will be highly appreciated. …
Informix Installation Crashed
When trying to install IDS 7.3 on SCO Openserver Release 5, I am getting following error continuously ... can any body help where should I do??? In fact the "Setup" hangs, when "Launching sysmaster database ...", and then it crashes. Early response will be highly appreciated. …
Error while access Tables using Crystal Reports
When access the Informix Database Tables using Crystal Reports we get the following error :- Query Engine Error : HY000[Informix][Informix ODBC Driver] [Informix]General exception error has occured in the optimizer. The error has suddenly come up in our Production Server. We di…
RE: Listing all the tables in using a dbspace in Informix
> Make sure $INFORMIXDIR and $ONCONFIG are set and that you have > permissions with your login ID to access them. There is also system > tables that can give you this information. System tables which can list out all the tables in a particular dbspace ?…
Re: onconfig
Hello, apart from editing ONCONFIG directly, some parameters are dynamically changeable: Usage: onparams ... -m <param> <value> ... -m - Modify the value of one of the following configuration parameters: AFFAIL, AFCRASH, AFW…
RE: onconfig
I don't run onbar, but I suspect you're right. LTAPEDEV, etc. would also probably be in this group as well. Either way, restore the old onconfig and you're OK. It may be a good idea to check the permissions on the file before you're done, though... --EEM -----Original Me…
Re: onconfig
I think the onbar config parameters can be changed on the fly as well. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Everett Mills" <eemills@nationalbeef.com> To: <informix-list@iiug.org> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 11:45 AM Subject: RE: onconfig > Stan- > TAPEDEV, TAPEBLK and TAPESI…
RE: onconfig
Stan- TAPEDEV, TAPEBLK and TAPESIZE can be modified on the fly through onconfig. Restore your old onconfig and you should be fine. --EEM -----Original Message----- From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:informix-list-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Stan Sent: Friday, …
onconfig
Hello. What will happen when during work (online state) IDS unfortunately someone modify onconfig. Which paramaters takes effect immediately (without restrart IDS). Thanks in advance Stan…
oninit startup failure
Hello all, I am getting mad with a problem on which I already spent 3 days, and it would be nice to give me a clue to solve it: I am trying to start IDS v10 on Windows XP Pro SP2, but the "Informix server - ol_xxx" service begins to start, then aborts after a short time. I rep…
Informix produces error -1263 after system time is changed
Also I forgot to mention that the onconfig USEOSTIME is set to 1 (gets time from the host)…
Re: suggestion reqd Perf tuning
is there any more suggestions? Please post your view. regards madhu darko wrote: > madh wrote: > > this my onconfig file. I am using Informix Dynamic Server Version > > 7.31.UD6W4, HP-UX 11.11 , > > no of cpus- 2, REPORT SERVER (used for creating report purposes). > > Memory 1…
Re: suggestion reqd Perf tuning
madh wrote: > this my onconfig file. I am using Informix Dynamic Server Version > 7.31.UD6W4, HP-UX 11.11 , > no of cpus- 2, REPORT SERVER (used for creating report purposes). > Memory 1387036K(1260472k) real, 1847708K (1682688k), virtual 4262876k > free pages, > Just want see so…
suggestion reqd Perf tuning
this my onconfig file. I am using Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.31.UD6W4, HP-UX 11.11 , no of cpus- 2, REPORT SERVER (used for creating report purposes). Memory 1387036K(1260472k) real, 1847708K (1682688k), virtual 4262876k free pages, Just want see some imporovement in cpu p…
Re: infdump
couldn't we at least ask him for a tiny snippet of his online.log - maybe there's more wisdom in such file than you might imagine. Tip: set MSGPATH (in onconfig) to ... ... and don't forget to restart the engine ;-)…
HELP : All logical logs are FULL
Hi All Thanks for your response. I solved the "All logical logs are FULL" . I did the following : ShutdownServer : onmode -ky Change Onconfig : LTAPEDEV in the onconfig to /DEV/NULL Restart Server : oninit After RECOVERY : onmode -ky Change Onconfig : LTAPEDEV change…
Re: Performance tuning suggestions needed
On 1 Oct 2006 20:10:51 -0700, calyanram@hotmail.com wrote: >this my onconfig file. > ...onconfig file snipped... Please give us a bit more information. Hardware specs (number of CPUs, memory, OS. etc.) would be good . . . JWC…
SHMADD and EXTSHMADD
Hi, What is the difference between SHMADD and EXTSHMADD? We know the meaning of the SHMADD onconfig parameter. Thanks, Khaled Bentebal ConsultiX Email: khaled.bentebal@consult-ix.fr…
Performance tuning suggestions needed
this my onconfig file. ROOTNAME prd2_sg_rootdbs # Root dbspace name ROOTPATH /dev/infdevprd2/prd2_sg_rootdbs.1 # Path for device containing root dbspace ROOTOFFSET 0 # Offset of root dbspace into device (Kbytes) …
License Extension
Help.. I need a license extension for the IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.FC3R1TL which I downloaded to do a evaluation. How can I get the license extened..my project is in the final stages .. Dhaya Commercial bank…
Informix
Hi, for restore you don't need to start or initialize the instance, i.e. you don't need to do "oninit -i". The only thing you need to do is to make sure that the devices or files exist where the chunks will be located . Of course there also needs to be enough space on the devic…
Re: Backup Very Slow
I suggest you to check the contention level of your database first. Your configuration shows that you put everything in rootdb DBspace. This is not a wise move, espeically you have a lot concurrent users online all the time. It's difficult to prevent users from accessing the sa…
Re: Backup Very Slow
Prior to moving to a data center (few months back) my backups were to Ultrium 3's. I could backup 330 gigs in 2 hrs (HP 11.11 IDS 9.40 ,7420). Before the move to Ultriums I was using DLT 320's with the backup taking 5+ hrs. Thanks "DORN B" <varadorn@…
Re: Backup Very Slow
Use onstat -V to discover exactly which version of 7.31 you are using. You may be hitting bug 101062 - Archiving very Old Pages. If so there is a simple fix, but the exact version needs to be identified first. Keith On 05/09/06, DORN B <varadorn@gmail.com> wrote: > Another way …
Backup Very Slow
PapaKiKi wrote: > have Informix IDS 7.3 on an Rp4440 server with UNIX 11.0 I am using > DLT Tape drives and 80gig tapes to do my back up on a 98gig database. > My problem is that a level 0 backup takes 24hrs to finish. Using > ontape . I need to reduce the time.My database has …
DBSPACETEMP
Hello All, Just a quick question for you to ponder. Is it possible to include random dbscpaces in the DBSPACETEMP parameter with the onconfig file to prevent space problems in the temp dbspace when creating indexes etc. on very large tables?…
Re: 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…
Re: ONCONFIG and AIX
Hi, I would enable KAIO, too. Apart from KAIO the B-Tree Scanner usually benefits from some configuration: >From my experience increasing threshold (default: 500) reduces I/O significantly, enabling range scans (rangesize=500), too. BTSCANNER num=1,prio=low,threshold=50…
RE: ONCONFIG and AIX
> -----Original Message----- > From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:informix-list- > bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of tomcaml@yahoo.com > Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 12:57 PM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: ONCONFIG and AIX > > Hello All, > > I am looking for feed…
ONCONFIG and AIX
Hello All, I am looking for feedback, comments, etc. We are currently on IDS 10.FC4 on HP-UX 11 - migrating to IDS 10.FC5 on AIX on an LPAR partition on the i595 I have gotten this message in the log while performing some loads/alter tables/indexes, etc in development phase.…
Re: Upgrading server - Do i need to change config ?
F. LACROIX je napisao: > "Neil Truby" <neil.truby@ardenta.com> a écrit dans le message de news: > 4i96mgF2jfl9U1@individual.net... > > "F. LACROIX" <soft @ datacolfrance.com> wrote in message > > news:44bf5959$0$891$ba4acef3@news.orange.fr... > >> Hello, > >> > >> I was running I…
Re: Upgrading server - Do i need to change config ?
Could try that if i can persuade my manager to upgrade the os. Many thanks "Jean Georges Perrin" <jgp@iiug.org> a �crit dans le message de news: mailman.35.1153412200.20706.informix-list@iiug.org... > > You may consider XP (not 2K3) instead of Win2K. I got better result with > …
Upgrading server - Do i need to change config ?
"Neil Truby" <neil.truby@ardenta.com> a �crit dans le message de news: 4i96mgF2jfl9U1@individual.net... > "F. LACROIX" <soft @ datacolfrance.com> wrote in message > news:44bf5959$0$891$ba4acef3@news.orange.fr... >> Hello, >> >> I was running IDS 7.31 on a quite old PIII 800 with …
Parametro TXTIMEOUT
Hola, quisiera saber si alguno de ustedes me puede informar que quiere decir el parametro del onconfig TXTIMEOUT 0x12c, a cuantos segundos se refiere. Gracias de antemano. Salu2...…
Informix KAIO Error
Hi people !! I have a problem with Informix 7.31 with HP-UX 11i, during the KAIO initialization. Following the online.log Tue Jul 4 08:57:38 2006 08:57:38 Event alarms enabled. ALARMPROG = '/sgbd/informix/etc/log_full.sh' 08:57:44 DR: DRAUTO is 0 (Off) 08:57:44 Informix D…
RE: HDR problem with Windows
Alexey Sonkin wrote: > Please, check the fillowing: > - Are you able to connect from 'informix' windows session > on Secondary machine to Primary database server without password? > With password? From Primary to Secondary? > - Did you create the hosts.equiv file under > C:\\win…
Re: Reducing checkpoints
hope NO RAID 5 NO RAID 5 NO RAID 5 for starters: CKPTINTVL 360 # Check point interval (in sec) i would set it much bigger so you get a checkpoint each half hour be aware that fast recovery may take longer in case of a crash. also i assume that > PHYSFILE …
RE: Reducing checkpoints
Have you got KAIO turned on? How many dbspaces/chunks/disks have you got? Are your chunks cooked or raw? onstat -d Keith -> -----Original Message----- -> From: PapaKiKi [mailto:agwanzura@okzim.co.zw] -> Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 9:13 PM -> To: informix-list@iiug.org -> Subjec…
Reducing checkpoints
Post the results of onstat -a onstat -g iov please. -- Neil Truby t:01932 724027 Director m:07798 811708 Ardenta Limited e:neil.truby@ardenta.com "PapaKiKi" <agwanzura@okzim.co.zw> wrote in message news:1150748005.559…
Lock Table Overflow
Get my package utils3_ak from the IIUG Software Repository and compile and install the eventalarm.c in ALARMPROGRAM instead of log_full.sh. It will handle multiply occurring events like the lock table overflow event by ignoring all by the first to arrive in a given configurable p…
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/…
Can't INSERT blob into specific blob space using JDBC
I tried an example with 3.00.JC3 and it works fine without having a default SBSPACENAME in the onconfig file. VG.…
Fragmentation Elimination Problem
I am on version IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.FC4.…
Re: Informix Dynamic Server 9.30 - Shared Memory
Ronald Schwingel wrote: > Can someone please tell me how much Shared Memory (gigabytes?) > Informix Dynamic Server 9.30 (32-bit version) for AIX 5L can use > before asserting with a Shared Memory access error? Can you provide > documentation that I can pass on also? It looked to…
RE: Informix Dynamic Server 9.30 - Shared Memory
First off you shouldn't be getting shared memory access errors. That sounds more like a bug that technical support should address. I wouldn't be surprised if your getting can't allocate additional shared memory segment messages. Informix 32-bit on AIX is a bitch. The problem …
Informix Dynamic Server 9.30 - Shared Memory
Can someone please tell me how much Shared Memory (gigabytes?) Informix Dynamic Server 9.30 (32-bit version) for AIX 5L can use before asserting with a Shared Memory access error? Can you provide documentation that I can pass on also? We are looking at providing one of cust…
create a DB on Linux
Hi! I have installed Informix dynamic server on Linux. Now I want to create a data base. What should I do? Thanks…
Re: flagship sunk
Funny I have been able to download IDS 10 for Solaris, Windows and Linux am I just smarter than everyone else? www.informix.com Support and downloads In the middle trials and betas Oh look Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) V10.0 easy!…
Performance tuning: troubling long checkpoints and other issues
OPTCOMPIND 2 # To hint the optimizer for oltp do not set it to 2 set it to 0 instead!!! Superboer. Jim Kenedy wrote: > Hello All, > Here's some quick history... Recently the number of users has > increased to over 500 sessions. All our users are now comp…
Re: Validating the 'SBSPACENAME' sblobspace
"Is a command-line call significantly different from file system access?" Well for SQL yes. In sysmaster.sysconfig there is a cf_effective column. This is the value in use by the database server NOW, this does not have to match the ONCONFIG value. You can change the onconfig …
Re: Performance issues on HP-UX
Mike Peters said: > > We are currently suffering performance problems with our Informix > server running on HP-UX. The server appears to be paging heavily with > sar -q showing %swpocc running at or close to 100. > > The server is an HP 9000/800 with 1Gb RAM, running: > IBM Infor…
Re: IDS 10 - documentation questions
Oops! I mean IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.TC3ET Althought the release notes (idse_win_release_notes_10.0.html) start with:- "Release Notes for IBM Informix Dynamic Server Express Edition for Windows Platforms 10.00.TC3E, 1 July 2005 " so it is TC3E or TCE3T? and …
Re: Sql to concatenate multiple rows to a single row / column
Thank you SaltTan - it works beautifully. BTW, we have IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.FC6.…
v 9 stopping
search for a dir called informix (assume you installed it there) in there you should have a subdir called etc in there you should find a file called onconfig.<informixserver> search for MSGPATH which has the name of your logfile Superboer.…
Shared Memory not Initialized for INFORMIXSERVER on Informix IDS 7.31
For more informatio in my Log file appears: 09:23:21 (3) failure, system out of semaphores 09:23:21 Dynamically allocated new message shared memory segment (size 352KB) 09:23:21 Requested shared memory segment size rounded from 344KB to 352KB 09:23:21 Requested shared memory seg…
Redirected restore failure
>From the backup and restore manual renaming chunks duing a restore..key considerations... "During a cold restore, ontape performs the following validations to rename chunks: 3. If renaming the primary root or mirror root chunk, it updates the ONCONFIG file parameters ROOTPATH…
hyperthreading and onconfig parameters
We are upgrading our database servers to HP ProLiant DL380 G4 two-way systems. This platform supports enabling or disabling "hyperthreading". (See, for example, http://sysadminforum.com/t36970.html.) With hyperthreading enabled, the OS (Solaris 9, x86) sees 2 logical processors …
New IDS Forum on IBM Developerworks website
This forum provides a place for Informix Dynamic Server developers and users to share their questions, thoughts, and ideas with others. http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/dw_forum.jsp?forum=548&cat=19…
RE: recording ONCONFIG changes
Tripwire or AIDE would do the trick too. -----Original Message----- From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Leffler Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 2:16 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: recording ONCONFIG changes mw…
Re: recording ONCONFIG changes
mweallans@panacea.co.uk wrote: > Scanning the old messages I came across a "suspicion" from Neil Truby > that IDS 9.2 was't recording all changes to ONCONFIG in the message > log. > I've recently spent many days trying to find why a problem had recurred > and eventually I discove…
recording ONCONFIG changes
Scanning the old messages I came across a "suspicion" from Neil Truby that IDS 9.2 was't recording all changes to ONCONFIG in the message log. I've recently spent many days trying to find why a problem had recurred and eventually I discovered that it was because a previous change…
Re: ONCONFIG - comments
Juan Pablo wrote: My comments below: > Hi: > Let me begin by saying thanks to all of the frequent posters to this group. > I wanted to offer my config for comments. > thanks > ============================================================ > Hola: > Muchas gracias por el tiem…
Re: ONCONFIG - comments
"Juan Pablo" <in4mixperu@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:1120173312.07d6de6c2486de67e3cad47cd40e6341@teranews... > > Hi: > Let me begin by saying thanks to all of the frequent posters to this > group. > I wanted to offer my config for comments. > thanks > ====================…
Re: ONCONFIG - comments
Juan Pablo said: > > Hi: > Let me begin by saying thanks to all of the frequent posters to this > group. > I wanted to offer my config for comments. > thanks > ============================================================ > Hola: > Muchas gracias por el tiempo y su ayuda. Est…
ONCONFIG - comments
Hi: Let me begin by saying thanks to all of the frequent posters to this group. I wanted to offer my config for comments. thanks ============================================================ Hola: Muchas gracias por el tiempo y su ayuda. Estoy dejando mi archivo ONCONFIG para pode…
ONCONFIG - comments
Hi: Let me begin by saying thanks to all of the frequent posters to this group. I wanted to offer my config for comments. thanks ============================================================ Hola: Muchas gracias por el tiempo y su ayuda. Estoy dejando mi archivo ONCONFIG para…
Re: IDS 10 Express Edition
Note 10.00.xC3 = Enterprise Version 10.00.xC3E = Express Edition http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ids9help/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.relnotes.doc/uc3E/idse_win_release_notes_10.0.html Then click on "IBM Informix Dynamic Server Express Edition" in the right pane:…
setup Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC1E1 to linux error
I setup Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC1E1 to linux execcute oninit -ivy is failed the online.log is write /// 16:31:32 Dynamically allocated new virtual shared memory segment (size 8192KB) 16:31:32 Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC1E1 Software Serial Number AA…
ONCONFIG comments
Hi: Let me begin by saying thanks to all of the frequent posters to this group. I wanted to offer my config for comments. thanks ============================================================ Hola: Muchas gracias por el tiempo y su ayuda. Estoy dejando mi archivo ONCONFIG para pod…
ONCONFIG comments
Can you post the output from onstat -g iov please. "Bono Vox" <in4mixperu@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:1115714331.fe81cde2ee8f8402d2a791d65e041327@teranews... > > Hi: > Let me begin by saying thanks to all of the frequent posters to this > group. > I wanted to offer my co…
RE: New installation
Yes I agree with Brian, you put something in the onconfig that required 161MB but you have defined the root dbs size 60MB that is not enought to cover all the requests. Check the PHYSFILE, LOGFILES LOGSIZE in the ONCONFIG file. If you need more help give us the full ONCONFIG. b…
Re: Server won't initialize
Hi, setting SHMBASE to 0 certainly will not help. This is valid on HP-UX, but not other platforms. Check the "Machine Specific Notes" in "$INFORMIXDIR/release/en_us/0333/" directory for the recommended setting of SHMBASE for your platform. A letter "L" or "l" (for long) added t…
Server won't initialize
What is SHMBASE set to? Try setting it to "0" "Steven Weiss" <sweiss@iafrica.com> wrote in message news:d4ae07$b0l$1@ctb-nnrp2.saix.net... > > Hi, > > We seem to have a problem getting the server to initialize. We get an > error > shmat: [ENOMEM][12]: out of available data spac…
Help with Informix !!! Really Important!!!
Hi all, I have an Informix Dinamic Server 9.24, installed in a Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition with a PIII 930MHZ and 512MB RAM The server have to Hd, one with 2.25Gb and another one with 8. I also have an apllication that runs against Informix Database. When we have in th…
Help with ONCONFIG needed
Having a problem with a client connection to an informix database. The server has two databases, db1 and db2. Each database has a separate ONCONFIG file which lists the different db names in them. ONCONFIG_db1 includes db1,but not db2 in the DBSERVERNAME/DBSERVERALIAS …
RE: Need help!! Sql to Informix Migration
As mentioned previously, you did not give us enough info to work with, but you can also play with SHMVIRTSIZE for more virtual memory, and the read ahead settings (RA_....) Depends on what is is you want to do. -----Original Message----- From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org …
Re: Re: Need help!! Sql to Informix Migration
Your onconfig shows that you are using the default informix configuration... if it is so then some work to do because the default instance the installer configures is just for testing purposes *** not for production *** You have to plan your deployment, ie: The amount of ram you…
RE: Need help!! Sql to Informix Migration
you may need to capture the query plan by adding the {+ explain } optimizer hints in the queries, and then analyze the plan for any changes to the queries or to make sure if an index is needed. -----Original Message----- From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-…
Fw: Need help!! Sql to Informix Migration
you may update your BUFFERS, how much memory do you have? you may send your machine configuration for tuning onconfig file. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Unholy" <dcalleja@gmail.com> To: <informix-list@iiug.org> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 11:10 AM Subject: Need help!! Sq…
Fw: Need help!! Sql to Informix Migration
you may update your BUFFERS, how much memory do you have? you may send your machine configuration for tuning onconfig file. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Unholy" <dcalleja@gmail.com> To: <informix-list@iiug.org> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 11:10 AM Subject: Need help!! Sq…
Re: Need help!! Sql to Informix Migration
Unholy said: > Hi, I have developed a program that runs under sql Server, and it runs > really fast...... The problem is that now, I have to change the DBMS to > Informix. > > I installed Informix under W2000, and also under W2003, and with it the > program is really slow, as muc…
Need help!! Sql to Informix Migration
Hi, I have developed a program that runs under sql Server, and it runs really fast...... The problem is that now, I have to change the DBMS to Informix. I installed Informix under W2000, and also under W2003, and with it the program is really slow, as much as 10 times slower tha…
Informix Dynamic Server information Centre
Great new utility just posted under IDS 10 on the docs site has uses for other products and versions than just IDS 10 so take a look even if you are not using 10 yet!! http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ids9help/index.jsp…
The onconfig FILLFACTOR
My day for asking questions ... but that is how one gains knowledge :) The lead DBA for the company for which I am now working for as a consultant wants to establish an initial FILLFACTOR of 100 for those indices that represent a serial column. Since none of the tables having a…
Cannot find message file. Check INFORMIXDIR and DBLANG.
im trying to run the oninit -i in the command prompt when the message appear... we installed... IBM Informix Dynamic Server 9.40 IBM INFORMIX-4GL Rapid Development System Version 7.32.UC2 IBM INFORMIX-4GL Version 7.32.UC2 set up sqlhosts, services, onconfig, path... but when tr…
Re: Informix UC7.41 - slow
Geezer From The Freezer wrote: OK, I see several problems off the bat, though this is not a fair run unless you really are ONLY doing unloads from this server. Anyway: - 23% of your queries include a sequential scan! You have some indexing or update statistics issues. - BR i…
RE: Informix UC7.41 - slow
What O/S What version of IDS Are you using raw or cooked disk How many users? What is your definition of slow? How do you know it is slow, what is the comparison? How much data? volatility of data? ? ? onstat -p onstat -m A buffer size of 8192 (on 2K pages gives only 16 Mb of me…
Re: Informix perfomance and CPU use.
Leopold Bloom said: > > First of all Marry Christmas, if you share this celebration. If > not, > hope you and your people are OK and happy. "Bah! Humbug!" is the traditional Christmas greeting here. :o) > I have been gathering information about this system. At t…
Scope change.
I have been gathering information about this system. At the end really strange things end up not being true. This is another time it happens. Though the people that were responsible of this before -and supposed to be knowledgeable in Informix- told me the system I posted…
Re: Informix performance and CPU use.
Leopold Bloom said: > Hello, > > We are having some problems with an Informix database and, as I�m > pretty new to this environment, would appreciate any help. > > We have an Informix instance running on a 2 way Intel box with > Windows 2000. This system has 3 Gb memory. …
Informix performance and CPU use.
Hello, We are having some problems with an Informix database and, as I�m pretty new to this environment, would appreciate any help. We have an Informix instance running on a 2 way Intel box with Windows 2000. This system has 3 Gb memory. The main symthoms I can s…
RE: informix begginer on xp
Art, Is the rootsize big enough?.... Doing the basics... 51.2MB - 2 MB physlog = 49.2MB - 12MB logs = 37.2 MB. I think that's big enough in the olden days for a tiny engine on unix, but I know nothing of windows installs, and I think it was stated this is a 9.4 engine. Will i…
Re: informix begginer on xp
onconfig.ika ---------------------- #************************************************************************** # # INFORMIX SOFTWARE, INC. # # Title: onconfig.std # Description: Informix Dynamic Server Configuration Parameters # #******************************************…
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'?…
Re: Config for new live system
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 03:28:11 -0400, Neil Truby wrote: Hi Neil, All good advice, but reading it all to filter my own responses takes to much time, so here's my partially redundant, take: > I'm implementing a brand new system for a brand new Informix customer soon. > It's an on-…
RE: Config for new live system
Ditto on Keith's comments about the LRU config. If you are going to configure that many buffers I think you need a lot more LRUs to manage them and more CLEANERS to flush them. And the MIN and MAX dirty are way too high. You could be looking at some very long checkpoints and h…
RE: Config for new live system
Neil Comments embedded. I've not encountered Sol VM, but if I were configuring this with Veritas I would just present the disk as 6 x 36 mirrored pairs to give the opportunity of placing certain dbspaces on certain spindles. Keep rootdbs separate from loglog dbs separate from ph…
IDS V7.30 and Windows 2000
Can Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.30.TC6 be run on a Windows 2000 host system? TIA Erwin…
Re: Error Initialize Informix Dynamic Server
Art S. Kagel wrote: > On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 05:05:41 -0400, madiego wrote: >>I install Informix Dynamic Server and when I initialize 'oninit -iv' : >> >>This action will initialize Informix Dynamic Server; any existing Informix >>Dynamic Server databases will NOT be accessible - Do…
Error Initialize Informix Dynamic Server
Hello, I install Informix Dynamic Server and when I initialize 'oninit -iv' : This action will initialize Informix Dynamic Server; any existing Informix Dynamic Server databases will NOT be accessible - Do you wish to continue (y/n)? y Checking group membership to determine ser…
RE: parametros ONCONFIG
Los parametros del ONCONFIG que tienes que setear para inicializar tu instancia como MINIMO son: ROOTPATH Path completo del chunk creado para almacenar el root Dbspace ROOTSIZE Tama�o del chunk en Kbytes (Ejemplo: 2048000 # 2Gb) DBSERVERNAME Nombre l�gico del server.(Eje…
parametros ONCONFIG
Me podrian ayudar con los parametros del ONCONFIG. No las tengo muy clara cada parametro, por lo que la misma me trae problemas para el momento que quiero OPTIMIZAR el servidor de bases de datos. Si alguien me puede ayudar a conocer mejor cada uno de estos parametros .... les agr…
Re: IDS9.4/AIX5.2 performace degradation
Dalibor, A piece of tuning advice that has many times hit this list, is that you should have one CLEANER per LRU. So, having LRUS = 8 implies that you should have CLEANERS=8 also, to keep up with the overhead. Ben Thompson wrote: > Dalibor Krleza wrote: > > I may have missed i…
Re: IDS9.4/AIX5.2 performace degradation
Dalibor Krleza wrote: I may have missed it in your long post, but I didn't see anything about disc layouts or number of CPUs. Also I may have missed it as well but I couldn't see any output from "onstat -g iof" or "onstat -g iov". I have commented on your onconfig anyway. > OK …
Re: Comment on my config
Bjorn De Waele wrote: > > Hello, > > here is our newbie again :) > I've been reading a lot lately, I searched the internet and browsed the > newsgroups to gather all my info. > I would like to thank especially Art Kagel, Neil Truby, Jonathan Leffler and > in fact so many other pe…
Re: Comment on my config
Thanks Claus, Backup is no problem. I just want some comments on my onconfig. Anyone ? Thanks, Bjorn "Bjorn De Waele" <bjornREMTHIS@pandora.Be> wrote in message news:5uyIc.183341$sS.8769665@phobos.telenet-ops.be... > Hello, > > > here is our newbie again :) > I've been read…
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…
Comment on my config
Hello, here is our newbie again :) I've been reading a lot lately, I searched the internet and browsed the newsgroups to gather all my info. I would like to thank especially Art Kagel, Neil Truby, Jonathan Leffler and in fact so many other people here ! Cause you guys helped me…
cannot initialize root dbspace
$ 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 server run modesucceeded Reading configuration file '/informix/etc/on…
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…
onconfig for analisis
Hi, I post the onconfig file for its analisis: Operating System: SuSE 9.0 RAM: 1024 Mb Informix version: 9.40 UC2 All chunks are raw devices. Thanks. #************************************************************************** # # INFORMIX SOFTWARE, INC. # # Title: onconfig…
Re: Reg Informix Alarm events.....
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 10:09:56 -0400, Rajasekaran, Rajesh wrote: Check out my package utils3_ak contains my alarm program executable source eventalarm.c It is configured to handle most critical events out of the box and adding handling of lower priority events is trivial (support…
Reg Informix Alarm events.....
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_01C4592A.D26B7E18 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hello all, I have a requirement to track some of th…
ONCONFIG for 9.40 offered for comment
9.40 FC3W2 on HP-UX 11.11 The server has 6 cpus and 6G of RAM. 3 other, small, IDS 9.40 instances run on the server, and one small 7.31. kaio is enabled. Just put 9.40 live, and it's running about 5-10% more slowly on some key processes. This reflects what happened in testing. …
Re: OnConfig parameters tuning
Laverio wrote: > Hi guys, I'm trying to speed up an IDS 9.30 on a Sun 7.5 system w/ > 2Gb ram and 4 processors that seems very slow on a large sequential > write (I suppose that the problem resides in the dbspaces on > filesystem...). Any suggestion? The following is my standard…
Re: OnConfig parameters tuning
"Laverio" <laverioNO@z-1000.net> wrote in message news:cac7sg$e8v$1@newsreader.mailgate.org... > Hi guys, I'm trying to speed up an IDS 9.30 on a Sun 7.5 system w/ 2Gb ram > and 4 processors that seems very slow on a large sequential write (I suppose > that the problem resides in…
Re: OnConfig parameters tuning
Laverio wrote: > Hi guys, I'm trying to speed up an IDS 9.30 on a Sun 7.5 system w/ 2Gb ram > and 4 processors that seems very slow on a large sequential write (I suppose > that the problem resides in the dbspaces on filesystem...). Any suggestion? > > My onconfig it's set as fol…
OnConfig parameters tuning
Hi guys, I'm trying to speed up an IDS 9.30 on a Sun 7.5 system w/ 2Gb ram and 4 processors that seems very slow on a large sequential write (I suppose that the problem resides in the dbspaces on filesystem...). Any suggestion? My onconfig it's set as follow: # System Configura…
Howto for Onconfig
Hi everyone, This is probably a question which has been asked often. But I could not find proper documentation on how to calculate and set correct parameters for Onconfig. I understand this is a complex question. But are there any articles on this ? Maybe they covered the topic …
Dose anybody have the dbtop script in the Troubleshooting informix course?
Dears, I study the Troubleshooting ibm informix dynamic server course. At the module 4 exercise need the dbtop script. Dose anybody has this dbtop script and post for me? Thanks. Philip Yeh.…
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,…
Engine offline without log error
Hi, I will be appreciated if someone help me. IDS turn offline without write any event in message log, nor generated an af file after dump, nor any entry in event viewer. The alarmprogram script didn't execute and sysalarmprogram was comment in onconfig file. The only way to cont…
SHARED MEMORY LIMIT
Is posible to use with informix of 32 bits more than 2GB of shared memory in a Linux Machine? The base address in onconfig is: SHMBASE 0x41000000 Thanks in advance,…
RE: These crazy emails about IDS to DB2 conversion
Man, I hope IBM is following this thread ... -----Original Message----- From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Obnoxio The Clown Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 6:58 PM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: These crazy email…
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…
Re: These crazy emails about IDS to DB2 conversion
Malc P wrote: > Malcolm W more or less hit the nail on the head. If he did, then why are you asking questions about IBM's IDS strategy? :o) > My input to this is, I'm an Informix DBA and I'd rather not have to > learn how to DBA another vendor's offering. This statement may or…
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…
Re: ER performance
We would need to understand where the performance hit is occurring. That's going to take a bit of time and would probably be best done by using a bit of consulting. Is the degradation on the source or the target? If the apply is having problems, you might be able to split the r…
RES: ER performance
I'm considering it more than ever now. I was planning to do such thing to avoid the limitation of use HDR + ER. While I'm planning that, is there something I could do to at least improve performance a little? Thanks, Julio -----Mensagem original----- De: Madison Pruet [mailto:m…
RES: ER performance
There's been a huge amount of work done on ER since the 7.31 days. And a huge amount of the work has been focused on performance. 7.31 does not have nearly the parallelism with ER as 9.3+ and the queue spooling treatment has been significantly improved. Both of these changes w…
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…
Re: Perfomance Tuning
This may help read performance but it will do nothing do speed up checkpoints. In fact increasing the number of buffers could make for longer checkpoints because it is less likely that LRU_MAX_DIRTY will have kicked in between checkpoints, so there's likely to be more data left t…
Where can I get the client API?
Hi, does anyone knows where to get the client API for Informix Dynamic Server 7.x? Perhaps we want to access the server via api directly. Kind regards, Joachim Engel.…
Re: Perfomance Tuning
Guys thanks for your contributions. there are some points that have helped me like, A checkpoint cannot proceed while a user is in a critical session.Have been actin on this. Thanks guys. "Dirk Moolman" <DirkM@mxgroup.co.za> wrote in message news:<br7lpe$sc7$1@terabinaries.xmiss…
Informix Freeze or Down
Hi All, I need the group help on this issue (Informix support doesn't seems to help). OS is window2000 RAM 3GB 2 CPU Informix 7.31 TD3.1 For some reason informix cannot accept new connections or serve existing connections. No command except onstat -???? is working. The only way …
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…
Re: Perfomance Tuning
No I'd end up with a box that had quick and well balanced IO, sufficient memory etc. Then I'd moved on the engine setup and finally the SQL. Bottom line, you need to start somewhere. Where you start is based on personal experience and the situation. Andy Kent wrote: > > If yo…
RE: Perfomance Tuning
When you say your checkpoints "should be 6 seconds", does that mean they actually were 6 seconds at one time and increased to 10? If that is the case, you need to identify what is causing this increase in checkpoint duration. Do you have an I/O bottleneck? Check sar -d during …
Perfomance Tuning
Hi, You could increase the buffers number. A memory size of 4Gb allows you to do so. In our case, we have 700'000 buffers (2048b each), which means that we almost reached IDS limits of current version (IDS 7.30, soon migrating to 9.40). We also declared strategic tables and index…
Changing database local / dbexport tapesize
Hi, Did you change TAPESIZE on your onconfig file? That could be the restriction! REGARDS…
TRUNCATE TABLE command in 9.3?
I am aware that Informix Dynamic Server previously has not included the TRUNCATE TABLE command. Does anyone know if 9.3 or 9.4 include this command?…
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 Replication and event alarm log backup
Hi Folks, I got replication up and running finally. The process was as described in the manuals and everything looks good for now. The on bar alarm program ( /etc/log_full.sh ) which backs up the log files when they fill up is failing though. The message is: 07:46:47…
Re: onconfig and sqlhosts
Hi Thomas. Administrator's Guide for Informix Dynamic Server, Version 7.3 http://www-3.ibm.com/software/data/informix/pubs/library/ids_73.html HTH. -- Tsutomu Ogiwara from Tokyo Japan. ICQ#:168106592 >From: Thomas Ronayne <trona@ameritech.net> >Reply-To: Thomas Ronayne <trona…
onconfig and sqlhosts
I've managed to blow away my installed Informix system and cannot for the life of me find the notes I had about onconfig and sqlhosts. It's version 7.30.UC5 running on Slackware 9.0 -- can someone point me at the right document in Answers for the appropriate settings? Thanks.…
Re: Onconfig file parameters
Sometimes even the ontape parameters (TAPEDEV, LTAPEDEV, TAPESIZE, etc.) are not dynamic. What you can do is change a parameter in the onconfig file and then dump out the reserve page that holds the onconfig parameters with: oncheck -pP 1 1 Hope this suggestion helps. Brice Av…
RE: Dynamic Server versus Universal Server ??
Originally, Version 7.x was called 'Informix Dynamic Server', Version 9.0x was called 'Universal server' Starting with 9.1, Universal server became 'Dynamic server with Universal data option'. With 9.2, new names 'Internet Foundation 2000 ' and 'Dynamic server 2000' ware given…
Informix Dynamic Server 2000 startup problem
Hi, While starting up informix in multi user mode , we wait for the database to come up by checking the onstat - o/p . But if the system is loaded, even after onstat shows status as online , the connection is rejected by the database . The wait loop that we do is as follow…
Alarm program on IDS9.30UC1
abdoell@yahoo.com (abdoell) wrote: Hi abdoell, > Dear All, > I have a problem, I have installed alarm program on my IDS9.30UC1 > running on Solaris 8, but it never work ?, I have using script that > work fine on my IDS7.31, when installing on IDS9.30UC1 no response at > all ? …
RE: HPL Unloading error [1467]
Here's my onconfig file SHMVIRTSIZE 147456 SHMADD 8192 SHMTOTAL 0…
why I can't see the output of "onstat -g wts"
test:/informix>onstat -g wst Informix Dynamic Server 2000 Version 9.21.FC7 -- On-Line -- Up 5 days 13:23:03 -- 11132960 Kbytes Wait statistics not enabled How to enable the wait statistics???…
informix SDK 2.81 ifxoledbc OLEDB and ADO
When Updating or deleting a non existing row in a table, the informix oledb provider produces an "UnSpecified error". Environment: Informix Dynamic Server 7.31 Informix SDK 2.81 ADO 2.6 Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance…
onconfig file
The system administrator at my current site thought he would be very clever and he linked the onconfig files to different directories using ln -s. We have now discovered that these links are being lost when we use onmonitor and replaced by a local file, but not when we use vi. I…
Fw: alarmprogram.sh
Thanks Markand Brice, we'll work on it.. Regards ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark D. Stock" <mdstock@MydasSolutions.com> To: "Sadi G�rsoy" <sadi@login.com.tr> Cc: "IIUG" <informix-list@iiug.org> Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 1:06 PM Subject: Re: alarmprogram.sh Sadi G�r…
Re: alarmprogram.sh
Sadi G�rsoy wrote: > Hi all, > Our platform is: > IDS 9.40 FC1 > AIX 5.2 > > We want to modify alarmprogram.sh. We want the program to work like > ontape -c. That is, when one logical log becomes full, we want it to be > archived, not wait until all logs are full. The default al…
Fatal error asfcode = '25507'
Hi! I have a problem to initialize my informix 9.30 on linux(red hat 7.3 on intel) it is a freshly installed 9.30.UC2E3 with a demo licens. This message is all that i get when i start the ids: oninit: Fatal error in initializing ASF with 'ASF_INIT_DATA' flags; asfcode = '25507'.…
ALARMPROGRAM and Linux IDS 7.30.U
OK, I'll try to make this simpler. I named my alarm program "t.sh" Here is the source pwd > /tmp/t.err exit 0 Two simple lines of code to redirect the output of "pwd" to a file in /tmp. Each and every time an event pops, regardless of the severity, I should get a file c…
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…
Automated Backups using ALARMPROGRAM
Right after the instance does a timestamp in the online log you should see the statement: 06:10:04 Event alarms enabled. ALARMPROG = /home/informix/7.24/etc/log_full.s h' with your correct information. If you don't see that, after you verify in the $ONCONFIG file that it is set…
IDS 7.31.Txx Windows NT Alaramprogram
i have change the path in the onconfig-file and restart the server but the alarmprogram will not be start if a event (logs) a generated! thomas…
Informix v Oracle
Hi Is there a function in Informix Dynamic Server 2000 that is like Oracles CREATE SEQUENCE that uses NEXTVAL/CURVAL and %ROWCOUNT, ect? Thanks for all contributions Jordan jbruce@asaglobalserv.com…
Retrieving product name
Hi all, Is their a system table somewhere on an informix server that stores the product name. For example 'Select owner from systables where tabname = � VERSION� will return the version of the server. I would like to be able to tell if a server is a Universal server or a Dynamic …
Re: ONCONFIG History
put it under source code control? SCCS and RCS are free tools and dont take too much resources. HTH Sujit testNews <mtabunda@amellar.com> on 10/04/2000 09:05:30 PM Please respond to testNews <mtabunda@amellar.com> To: informix-list@iiug.org cc: Subject: ONCONFIG History I…
RE: ONCONFIG History
Look at your online message log onstat -c |grep MSG -----Original Message----- From: testNews [mailto:mtabunda@amellar.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 9:06 PM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: ONCONFIG History Is there a way to know/track the changes made to ONCONFIG …
RE: ONCONFIG History
Changes are recorded in the message log at startup. Wayne E. Martin Informix Database Administrator Kmart Corp. -----Original Message----- From: testNews [mailto:mtabunda@amellar.com] Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 12:06 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: ONCONFIG History…
ONCONFIG History
Is there a way to know/track the changes made to ONCONFIG files?…
IDS 7.3x on Win2000?
Does Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.3x runs on Windows 2000 (Professional)? Thanks for your help. Guy Dillen…
Informix/Baan/AIX Performance
"Anderson, Andy" wrote: > > We are experiencing performance issues since upgrading to AIX 4.3.3 from > 4.3.2. The Informix database configuration has not changed and all the > latest patches/fixes have been applied to the OS. We are running on a > AIX4.3.3 / Informix7.31.UC3X1 / …
TBLSPACE_STATS
Hi, what is the meaning of TBLSPACE_STATS variable in onconfig file? thank in advance.…
Re: Informix initializing in Linux.
From: "Marcos Alves" <marcosaoalves@ig.com.br> > >I'm try to install Informix IDS 7.3 in Linux Red Hat 6.2. The installation >was all OK. But, when I try initializing the database with oninit command, >I receive the message below: > >Event alarms enabled. ALARMPROG = '/usr/inform…
Query Optimization: Wrong execution plan?
Xavi Tarafa Mercader wrote: > Any suggestion about how to improve the query performance? Set OPTCOMPIND parameter ( in onconfig file ) to 0. > Xavi. Leonid.…
Re: How to search for a string in a TEXT field
Hi, :-( SELECT name, REPLACE(text,"ZNOTREADY","found") AS your_output FROM tablewithtextfield; Blobs are not allowed in this expression. I use Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.31.UC2A…
Error 139 in logical log backup (resubmitted with additional info)
ram wrote: Neil, you misunderstand Pierre's problem. He, like many, did not know what to do with the ALARMPROGRAM parameter in the ONCONFIG file and left the sample value of $INFORMIXDIR/bin/logs_full.sh which is an example alarm event handler script that only handles the log f…
WSTATS and Performance
Hi, does anybody know the performance degradation by setting WSTATS 1 in the onconfig file? Is this 1%, 5% or 10% ??? TIA Ruediger Papke…
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?…
Re: IDS Alert -> Mobile Phone Text Message
Mr Creosote Most mobile phone or pager companies have a website from which you can "email" pages to them. The one we use (Skytel) even has a mail-to-page interface, so if your pager number was 12345678, then you could email your pager at 12345678@skytel.com. We use this feature …
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…
Slow loading/lots of checkpoints
--0__=9fhMjIP1PzcpWdSrjxh8OujWDGTj4ooHXHNkoUrx4q0fwcT84gjZ1gb7 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi all, I am using IDS Workgroup 7.30 TC3 for Windows NT 4, SP3. I had unloaded about 5 million rows from a table on one server and am attempting to load it into an identic…
Slow loading/lots of checkpoints
--0__=GGYxm1203iqFnco9cIc2SoLfFPx3WcXdTnvM0aSSkAu75a2WGDUAUTXI Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi all, I am using IDS Workgroup 7.30 TC3 for Windows NT 4, SP3. I had unloaded about 5 million rows from a table on one server and am attempting to load it into an identic…
Informix cost???
Someone can said how much does Informix cost? I need to know: -Informix costs -cost for client Thanks very much. I need the last version of dynamic server for Unix. Ciao, Berna…
RE: Updated Informix Linux install/configuration FAQ?
Thanks, great help...the database is now up and running. However, I'm still stuck somewhere with regards to testing my driver. An ldd of my Informix driver shows: libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x40057000) libivmfront.so => /opt/alex/casp/odbc/lib/libivmfront.so (0x4…
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…
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…
Oninit problems with IDS 7.31 on Solaris
After a new install, I try to run "oninit -ivy", it gets quite a ways through, then bombs during the following phase: Initializing Dicitonary Cache and Stored Procedure Cache ... cannot find message file. Check INFORMIXDIR and DBLANG.FAILED My INFORMIXDIR is set correctly, as …
Unable to start engine sometimes...
Howdy, I get this message sometimes and Informix "support" has not been able to give me an answer as to why...just guesses. If I reboot the server, it works 99% of the time. After the engine starts, I see no problems at all! Has anyone ever seen this before? SCO 5.0.4 OWS 7.20…
Re: Memory problems? Please help.
>>What is the connection type? shm or soc ? >> >What are these? See NETTYPE in your onconfig file. HTH Michael…
Serious oninit -i problem?
oninit -i produced the following lines in the online.log on Solaris 2.7 The bit about the unusable chunk doesn't look healthy to me! BTW, rootdbs is a symbolic link to a raw meta device i.e. /dev/md/rdsk/d30 Any ideas? Advice greatly appreciated. 17:19:19 Event alarms enabled.…
OFFICE Connect V.1
Informix Office Connect, Version 1.0, is compatible with the following Informix servers: Informix Dynamic Server, Version 7.3 or later Informix Dynamic Server with Universal Data Option, Version 9.14 Informix Dynamic Server 2000, Version 9.2 or later e Informix-SE 7.23 n�o func…
RE: Informix 7.31 Event Codes
Event alarm codes are documented in the Administrator's Guide for Informix Dynamic Server (section 29 in IDS 7.3 manual). They are also shown in Appendix D of the Informix Administrator's Reference, September 1999. -----Original Message----- From: jaymond@communitycoffee.com [m…
Re: problem on initialization
Yes, I have the INFORMIXDIR environment variable. The system work very well before system crash. Chris McKay ���g��峹 ... >Do you have the INFORMIXDIR environment variable set when you run oninit ? > >Chris > >"W. J. Hsu" <wjhsu@pti.com.tw> wrote in message >news:88a6oa$h5f@netne…
Re: Shared memmory initialization
From: Manoj Narayanankutty <mnarayan@crosskeys.com> > > I am using Informix dynamic serrver version 7.31 on solaris 2.6. When I >am trying to reinitialize my shared memmory using oninit command, my >system gives an error >indicating fatal error in shared memory initialization. >…
System catalogue
Hello! Can anybody explain me how I can create trigger on "informix".systables? (The server I deal with is Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.3.) Max…
Shared memmory initialization
Hi, I am using Informix dynamic serrver version 7.31 on solaris 2.6. When I am trying to reinitialize my shared memmory using oninit command, my system gives an error indicating fatal error in shared memory initialization. The online.log gives the following message: 21:17:54 E…
Compatability between Informix products
Hi, I need some version compatability information for the following products. Hardware Platform: Hewlett Packard OS Platform: HP-UX version 10.20 Informix s/w: Informix Universal Server 9.20 Informix Dynamic Server 7.31 Informix Gateway to DRDA vers…
Re: checkpoints taking as much as 25 secs
Try modifying your LRU's to something like 63. Make your page cleaners equal to your LRU's value. I find I get considerable performance from my server set this way. As well, checkpoints on high end machines running hundreds of users using ~10GIG+ databases range from 1 -2 secs. …
Re: Logical log sizing
"Carlson@WHSmith" wrote: > > "Art S. Kagel" wrote: > > > > If you were not throwing your log files away one issue affecting the choice > > of log size would be the granularity at which you want to be able to archive > > the logs and the number of transactions you are willing to l…
onbar -l
Ron, I'm not sure who you are referring to as the "user". Anyway, this may be what you're after. Informix will generate an "Event Alarm 23" when a logical log fills up, if you have the ALARMPROC set to some shell script in your config. Informix will execute it for every EVENT AL…
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…
Re: Dumb question
Sorry all, I think I found the answer to my own dumb question in the documentation (last place I would have thought to look). "The database server uses the ONCONFIG file during initialization" >Is it safe to edit my onconfig file when the database is live ? > >Or should I stop…
error message - unable to open input file 's'
Hi, You are right Art, I need to give some details on what I actually wanted to say. When I say that "I get this message when my server crashes" - what I meant was that whenever I have a case wherein a server-crash/assertion-failure is reported, an af.<num> file is dumped to /…
Please help me!
Hello! 1, Can somebody give me information, what is the new features for Version 7.24 of Informix Dynamic Server according to Version 7.20 of Informix Dynamic Server? 2, Are Version 7.20 of Informix Dynamic Server and 7.20 INFORMIX-ESQL/C 2000 Year Compatible? 3, W…
Re: installing Informix dynamic server
From: "Joerg_Mauz@abs.org" <Joerg_Mauz@abs.org> > Is there something wrong the the gateway, Hotmail or are there just loads of idiots posting today. (Apart from me, that is! :-) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hot…
installing Informix dynamic server
hi all, can anybody give me an URL where to find a good description of how to setup and install an Informix Dynamic Server with using RedHat Linux ??? I've searched a whole day but founf nothing useful.. :( thx ind advance joerg…
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…
Lock Table Overflow - onconfig
We get an error in the Informix log-file. Lock table overflow. What do we have to change in the onconfig-file ? Kind Regards, Franky Thiel franky.thiel@Infohos.be…
Setting up shared memory connection
Did you add the DBSERVERALIASES line in the onconfig file? -- James Edmiston Quest Information Systems, Inc. www.questisinc.com…
Informix Online Dynamic Server DBA Book
Hello Could anyone recommend a good Informix Online Dynamic Server book. I did a search in Amazon.com but I could not decide on which one to choose. Thanks in advance. Ajay…
Re: ontape in HP-UX
You need verify the sintax of onconfig file for this entries: TAPEDEV /dev/rmt/0m # Tape device path TAPEBLK 512 # Tape block size (Kbytes) TAPESIZE 7800000 # Maximum amount of data to put on tape (Kbytes) (This is my onconfig fil…
pricing for informix info?
Hello, Was wondering what other people out there paid for informix dynamic server 7.3... Basically, i wanted to know if they had a web server licensing schem like microsoft. or ibm's db2 (per cpu license). and would the licenses be transferable if I decided to move from le…
Pb with initialization. System: SUN Solaris 2.6 Informix 7.31
Hello, I'm installing an Informix Dynamic Servr for the first time. I have a problem with initialization of Informix. When running 'oninit -iy' I have this message: "Cannot find message file. Check INFORMIXDIR and DBLANG" I have checked INFORMIXDIR, it's "/opt/informix" (good) …
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.…
How could I set up IDS 7.30 to send me an email/page me when it is shutting down?
Bryan Chung wrote: > > I guess it has something to do with the alarmprogram/sysalarmprogram > script. But I do not exactly how I could do it. Does anyone know if > there is sample script out that would ask the dynamic server send an > email or page someone when it is shutting d…
Latest versions for various Informix products ???
Which are the latest versions for Informix Dynamic Server Informix Dynamic Server, Workgroup Edition Informix 4GL Informix SQL on Solaris 7/SPARC ? Where can I find such informations on Informix's website ? tia, joerg…
cdr command line utility in informix 7.24
Hi, Is there a cdr command line utility in informix dynamic server 7.24? I tried to locate it, but the executable is nowhere to find. Thanks, Lu…
Problem Installing Informix Dynamic Server
I downloaded a Try&Buy version of Informix Dynamic Server V7.30 for NT. I installed it on an NT Server. The install seemed to go ok, but after a short time of investigating IECC, I got a blue screen. After this when I started the Command Center, a task seemed to start, but it w…
Problems starting IDS 7.30.TC7 on Windows NT SP4.
When i try to start informix dynamic Server, the following message appears "Only informix user can start informix dynamic server" this message appears when i logged on with the informix's user. When i try to start the service on the control panel , error 2140 appears.…
Re: Informix 7.3 UC5 on RH Linux 5.2
Additional INFO: Please see attached "sqlhosts" and ONCONFIG files...…
Out of buffer?
Hi, I got the following error message from an Informix IDS 7.30: <<Informix Dynamic Server>>> WARNING! Buffer pool size may cause Dynamic Server to get into a locked state. Recommended minimum buffer pool size is 4 times maximum concurrent user thre…
Re: onconfig parameters
> onstat -c shows you the contents of the ONCONFIG file, but then so does vi > $INFORMIXDIR/etc/$ONCONFIG. Perhaps I did not understand the question? Does onstat -c reflect changes made by onmode commands? I should try that and see...that, to me, would be the compelling reason …
Re: onconfig parameters
Thomas onstat -c shows you the contents of the ONCONFIG file, but then so does vi $INFORMIXDIR/etc/$ONCONFIG. Perhaps I did not understand the question? HTH Sujit "Thomas G. Smith" <tsmith@wdn.com> on 04/28/99 12:19:10 PM Please respond to "Thomas G. Smith" <tsmith@wdn.com> …
onconfig parameters
Is there a command to force the engine to show me what all the onconfig parameters (and other perhaps unknown parameters) have been set to?…
Linux VS NT4.0
Hi, Is it true that Informix Dynamic Server workgroup edition 7.30 is ported for Linux, and if it is so does anyone can tell me what to chose between Linux and NT4.0 for running Informix Dynamic Server workgroup edition 7.30. Also I'd like to know for which version of Linux, Inf…
Re: Re[2]: An alarm program from the online.log
> Yea, I'm thinking I could rsh to the other machines and check the > logs, or am I nuts? Don't ask me, you might regret it! :-) Why don't you write an event-handling script to e-mail/fax/page you and just install it on every box in the network? That *sort* of approach …
Re[2]: An alarm program from the online.log
Yea, I'm thinking I could rsh to the other machines and check the logs, or am I nuts? Thanks, Kevin ______________________________ Reply Separator ____________________________ _____ Subject: Re: An alarm program from the online.log Author: obnoxio@hotmail.co…
An alarm program from the online.log
Hi group! I am trying to write a script that will periodically check the online log for certain events, through egrep and awk, and eventually mail and page me. I checked the alarm program in /etc and would use it, but I need the program to look at several instances across the net…
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…
what does this mean..
Abel_Johnson@doh.state.fl.us wrote: > > I run informix 7.1 on digital unix 1000 server. suddenly today I get this. > looks like I was offline for about 1 hour when I brought it back on line, > AND NOBODY COMPLAINED!!! I have never seen this one. What do I need to do to > avoid/pr…
Any one know this?
Hi folks: Is there a script that can check informix on-line dynamic server is up and running or not? If not it will e-mail a note to D.B.A. groups Thanks in advance Garry…
onconfig tuning
Hi all! I have posted to the web my collection of notes on onconfig parameters. It is not yet complete but pretty far along. http://home.earthlink.net/~mildness/bamph/informix.htm It has helped me over the years to have this list in my PDA. If you think it useful feel free…
ALARMPROGRAM
Hi, my Informix is 7.22 UC1 on HP 10.20 I do not want to use /informix/etc/log_full.sh as an alarmprogram because I have 4 informix server running on the machine. For each I have a shell script that starts ontape -c to a file on disk. (extra file for each server) I want to deacti…
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?…
Regarding calling an INFORMIX procedure from a UNIX shell script
I use dbaccess for this purpose. Syntax is "dbaccess <database> <text file with sql commands>. Just be sure your informix environment variables are set properly (INFORMIXSERVER, ONCONFIG).…
Informix 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: Informix engine will not initialize
sda@arentfox.com wrote: > > I am running Online v7.22 on a HP 10.20 box. We lost a drive and I am > recovering the database. The ontape -r runs fine. > > 08:50:24 Event alarms enabled. ALARMPROG = '/dev/null' > 08:50:26 DR: DRAUTO is 0 (Off) > 08:50:26 INFORMIX-OnLine Initial…
Re: Informix engine will not initialize
sda@arentfox.com wrote: > > I am running Online v7.22 on a HP 10.20 box. We lost a drive and I am > recovering the database. The ontape -r runs fine. > > 08:50:24 Event alarms enabled. ALARMPROG = '/dev/null' > 08:50:26 DR: DRAUTO is 0 (Off) > 08:50:26 INFORMIX-OnLine Initial…
Informix engine will not initialize
I am running Online v7.22 on a HP 10.20 box. We lost a drive and I am recovering the database. The ontape -r runs fine. 08:50:24 Event alarms enabled. ALARMPROG = '/dev/null' 08:50:26 DR: DRAUTO is 0 (Off) 08:50:26 INFORMIX-OnLine Initialized -- Shared Memory Initialized. 08…
Re: esqlvers statement.....results are different on 2 DB servers ???
Tim Jones wrote: > > I've installed Informix 7.30UC3 with the ClientSDK 2.01 software on 2 > servers. Let's call them Server A and B. > > Both A and B had a prior ESQL/C versions. > > After the install, logged in as informix userid on A and ran "esqlvers" > and got this : > I…
esqlvers statement.....results are different on 2 DB servers ???
I've installed Informix 7.30UC3 with the ClientSDK 2.01 software on 2 servers. Let's call them Server A and B. Both A and B had a prior ESQL/C versions. After the install, logged in as informix userid on A and ran "esqlvers" and got this : INFORMIX-ESQL Version 7.22.UC1 …
Informix Dynamic Server Personal Edition
What development apps are known to work with IDS-PE for 95? Infrmx wants to sell me licenses for Dynamic 4gl, esql-c, ddvb for 150usd. Do these work and are there others? 150 sounds ok but the catch is is that the Open-Line Support is outrageous for this (3K usd for unlim. suppor…
Will informix 7.24.uc5 compatiable with solaris 7?
Hi there, I was wondering if Informix Dynamic Server 7.24.uc.5 will be compatiable with solaris 7 when it comes out? Thanks advance, Pat Militzer pmilitzer@ultracom.com…
Re: IECC Server Discovery Failed 2nd
Hi Dale, sorry for not reading your article correctly: Are both agents running admagent and osagent ? If so, when you run stopsa, do both stop? If not, kill them and run startsa again. Is your onconfig still up to date? The agents seem to take all information from onconfig ra…
Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.2.2
When I try to iniailize the shared memory I get an error "oninit: Critical error initializing shared memory" I checked the log and it says the base memory address is 0x80080000 and should be 0x80400000 when I change it it reverses. this is on a SCO open server 5. nay ideas.…
Informix Dynamic Server on Linux NOW!
Check out the Informix WEB Site. There is an announcement that IDS 7.3 is shipping on Linux TODAY! http://www.informix.com/ Art S. Kagel…
Problem installing to NT4.0 server
I'm trying to install Informix dynamic server workgroup edition to Primary domain Nt 4.0 Server. I have created Informix-Admin group and Informix account and grant it all Administrators rights and also Domain administrator rights. The server setup runs ok, but when setup is tryi…
Re: alarm handler bug on OWS 7.22?
Here is a part of the ONCONFIG file: # Diagnostics MSGPATH /informix/etc/online.log # System message log file path CONSOLE /dev/console # System console message path ALARMPROGRAM db_alarm_prog # Alarm program path The event handler db_alarm_prog is …
Updating databases
What must be done,eg onconfig, to get the fastest result on updating a database alter tables, inserts etc.…
event-alarm-error ?
I've got some problems with the event alarm feature of OWS 7.22. I have written an event handler and set the onconfig paramter correctly as I can see from online.log. Also, I can see from online.log that my event handler is sometimes (it depends on the event class) called by: /b…
Deployment Licenses of Informix Dynamic Server
I need a free Deployment Licenses of Informix Dynamic Server!…
Re: Informix Dynamic Server blocks
In article <3609EB18.2AB1B1CD@bull.net>, Helmut Leininger <Helmut.Leininger@bull.net> writes >Hi, > >Sporadically, the Informix server seems to block (every try to connect >or onstat times out and no reaction on onmode -ky). In the MSGPATH I >find the following message: > >09:03:…
ONCONFIG on UNIX
What kind of use if the parameter "SYSALARMPROGRAM" for. And which input parameters are used. Thanks for mailing to baumschlager@pfeiffer.co.at…
Informix Dynamic Server blocks
Hi, Sporadically, the Informix server seems to block (every try to connect or onstat times out and no reaction on onmode -ky). In the MSGPATH I find the following message: 09:03:42 mt.c, line 8362, thread 2139, proc id 17096, mt_notifyvp timed out. Informix server is 7.22.UC2…
Informix Dynamic Server blocks
Hi, Sporadically, the Informix server seems to block (every try to connect or onstat times out and no reaction on onmode -ky). In the MSGPATH I find the following message: 09:03:42 mt.c, line 8362, thread 2139, proc id 17096, mt_notifyvp timed out. Informix server is 7.22.UC2…
sizes in onconfig
OWS 7.2 on SCO UNIX: Does anybody know why all sizes of dbspaces or logs, etc. are just half as big as they are in the onconfig file. If I check the size of a dbspace, for example, its file size is 2 GByte, but oncheck -pe says it's 1 GByte. Thanks in advance, Pascal…
Re: OnLine Dynamic Server 7.2 Vs INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3
On Tue, 28 Jul 1998 14:40:44 -0500, Ben Jazi <bjazi@fallschurch.esys.com> wrote: >What are the major differences between INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server >7.2 and INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3? Is it ORDBMS vs RDMBS? No, IDS 9.x is the ORDBMS. This autumn the 7.3 and 9.x code lin…
Re: OnLine Dynamic Server 7.2 Vs INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3
Ben Jazi wrote: > > What are the major differences between INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server > 7.2 and INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3? Is it ORDBMS vs RDMBS? > > Thanks, > Ben I don't know the differences in detail but you could check the following pages, where IDS 7.3 is described …
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…
Re: Question: Continous Log
Mario, Continuos logical log backup needs a dedicated terminal. I usr 'automatic backup' of the logical logs instead. The log_full event alarm triggers the log_full.sh script in $INFORMIXDIR/etc. This script then can activate an onbar -l command. Hope this helps. Carl in Atla…
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…
Announcment of new utility package - utils3_ak
I have submitted my event alarm handler program and the simple script to backup logical logs to disk using ontape that were discussed last week. If you did not get that package directly from me and still want to give it a look it is now available in the IIUG Repository under: M…
Re: Doubt regarding L.Log size
Sadagopan, Sathish wrote: > > Hi, > LOGSIZE in the onconfig is shown as 1000 Kb, whereas size in onstat -l shows > > a figure of 5000 , Page size is 2K. > How can that be ? It looks like someone used onparams to add logfiles with sizes different from that stored in the onconfig.…
Doubt regarding L.Log size
Hi, LOGSIZE in the onconfig is shown as 1000 Kb, whereas size in onstat -l shows a figure of 5000 , Page size is 2K. How can that be ? TIA Sathish…
Re: ontape for logical log backup
z. heavener wrote: > > is there a way to implement the backup of logical logs from a script > using ontape? > If you have such script, and it can be scheduled with cron, I would like > to see it. I have either a script or an executable ("C") either of which can be installed as t…
RE: What are the differences between Informix Dynamic Server
It is confusing! =20 Here's what I know: Prior to renaming: 7.2x =3D ODS 8.0 =3D XPS 9.1 =3D IUS After renaming: 7.2x =3D IDS 8.0 =3D IDS/AD/XP 9.1 =3D IDS/UDO=20 After the 7.3 release: 7.3 =3D IDS 9.1 =3D IDS/UDO After the 8.2 release: 8.0 =3D…
RE: What are the differences between Informix Dynamic Server and
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Re: Trapping Informix Crashes ??'s
Glenn Travis wrote: > > You can set AFDEBUG=1, then start the instance. This will cause the [SNIP] > David Parent wrote: > > Wondering what tools DBAs are using to > trap Informix crashes (at any level, OS > or Informix). > > For instance, Informix crashes at…
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: +…
Problem with kaio
I am having a problem bringing up my database for the first time. I am on a HPUX 10.20 running Informix version 7.20.UC2. I have verified that the asynkdsk driver is loaded and linked into the kernal. I have created the /dev/async node according to the release notes and I contin…
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…
My weird problems
Thanks to all who replied. The Logical Log problem was with memory parameters in the onconfig file. DBSPACETEMP problem still exists however Regards Lee Robertson…
Re: HELP : S.E (7.x) nearly faster than OWS (7.x)
Bryan Tonnet wrote: > > In <a6tTyKAlmwD1Ew1R@smooth1.demon.co.uk> David Williams <djw@smooth1.demon.co.uk> writes: > > > I HATE AND LOATHE SE, I'VE LOST AR LEAST 5 NIGHT UP TO 1AM OF MY OWN > > ^^^ > > > TIME, UN…
Re: HELP : S.E (7.x) nearly faster than OWS (7.x)
In <a6tTyKAlmwD1Ew1R@smooth1.demon.co.uk> David Williams <djw@smooth1.demon.co.uk> writes: > I HATE AND LOATHE SE, I'VE LOST AR LEAST 5 NIGHT UP TO 1AM OF MY OWN > ^^^ > TIME, UNPAID JUST BECAUSE SE CAN't ROLLB…
Onconfig Question
I sent this a few weeks ago and didn't get any responses. I am rephrasing the heading and trying again. We are not currently having any performance problems, but I am interested in hearing some opinions from the experts out here. One of our systems is as follows: Sun SPARCcen…
How can I read the header tape of the archive created by ontape?
I have Informix Dynamic Server 7.23.UC1. I would like know the tape header structure created by ontape.…
Re: Question about ALARMPROGRAM
Sujit Pal wrote: > > Hello All > [cutting] > > So my question is: Has anyone done this sort of thing? Do you think = > (from your knowledge of Unix and event handling) that this is workable? = > If not do you have workarounds short of calling wrappers for each = > instance or wor…
Question about ALARMPROGRAM
Hello All The FM says that the script pointed by ALARMPROGRAM takes 4 arguments, = ie EVENT_SEVERITY, EVENT_CLASS, EVENT_CLASS_MSG and EVENT_FILE (aka See = Also). I have multiple databases residing on the same machine, so I need = the instance name as well to identify an alarm.…
Re: Upgrading Informix from Online engine to Dynamic Server
Seth Grimes wrote: > > Jane Vohden wrote: > > > > I have been talking with Informix about upgrading our site from the > > 5.xx Online engine to 7.2x Dynamic Server. They said there was no cost > > I don't think that anyone has pointed out the mistaken terminology > h…
What's the difference between ODS 7.22 and 7.23?
What's the difference between Informix Online Dynamic Server version 7.22 and version 7.23? Thanks in advance. Bill Westphal Rodney District Council mis@rodney.govt.nz…
Re: log_full.sh script exits with code 139
I just dealt with this -- In our distribution IUS 9.12UC3 on IRIX 6.4 there is a no_log.sh script in the etc directory, replace the ALARM_PROGRAM entry with the full path to no_log.sh and that should do it. We just made that change, and we have not had a problem in 2 hours! Da…
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…
Informix wg server 7.20.uc2 on SCO 5.02 halts with 25580
I'm installing informix online workgroup server 7.20.uc2 on SCO 5.02. As recommanded by Informix, I've modified kernel parameters and relinked the kernel. Installation have completed but when I launch oninit, the systems replies : oninit: Fatal error in initializing ASF with 'ASF…
Re: Freeing Logical Log with Status U
What's LOGFILES set to in your onconfig file? Try forcing a checkpoint? Jon.…
Re: Error in shared memory initialization
At 10:18 AM 10/15/97 -0400, you wrote: >I initialized my online 7.2 on Solaris 2.5.1. Then I tried to add >dbtempspace and logical logs. Now when I do oninit it gives me the error > >oninit: Fatal error in shared memory initialization >The online log says >10:16:26 Event alarms …
ODS hangs on startup
Since I've upgraded to ODS 7.2, I've had this nagging problem when I bring the engine down and then restart it. It hangs on the way to quiescent mode. The log indicates event alarms enabled, then three VP processes start, then nothing. I control-c out of the process, take th…
Shared Memory Initialization
I initialized my Online 7.2 on Solaris 2.5 successfully. Then I tried to add logical logs and temp space and now it does not initialize. Any ideas? oninit: Fatal error in shared memory initialization 10:16:26 Event alarms enabled. ALARMPROG = '/usr/informix/etc/alarm.sh' 10:1…
Error in shared memory initialization
I initialized my online 7.2 on Solaris 2.5.1. Then I tried to add dbtempspace and logical logs. Now when I do oninit it gives me the error oninit: Fatal error in shared memory initialization The online log says 10:16:26 Event alarms enabled. ALARMPROG = '/usr/informix/etc/alar…
Problems installing Informix DS on ScoOpen 5
I'm running a ScoOpen 3.2v5.0.2 and I have installed an Informix Online DS 7.22.UC3. The installation went ok, but when I run the command : oninit -iy I receive the error message : oninit: Fatal error in initializing ASF with 'ASF_INIT_DATA' flags; asfcode = '- 25580'. $ The lo…
OnLine 7.20 problem
We have Informix ODS 7.20 UC2 on machine: HP9000 K260, HP-UX 10.20. The onconfig was copied form onconfig.std to the new and names were changed. The ROOTPATH is a cooked file. I initialized online 7.2 oninit -i and database engine not started. I get the following in the log: 1…
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…
Online hangs during oninit after reboot.
Folks, Sorry I should have provided a few more details initially. Here is the squence of events: 03:00 1. We shut down the engine with onmode -ky (probably no users present) 2. The RS6000 box is rebooted. 3. We restart the engine with oninit It during step 3 that the onli…
Java and Informix Dynamic Server 7.x
Hi friends! I am trying to do server-side java cgi programming to connect to I-ODS 7.x. Do you know how I can do that? I heard it is possible to use the jdbc-odbc bridge( intersolve or openlink's), but the performance is too slow, because of jdbc to odbc and odbc to jdbc convert…
Re: Event Alarms
Felix Koshy Mathews wrote: > > In <33B7F989.2C97@arrowintl.com>, Chad Laity wrote: > >Does anyone out there have an event alarm that warns you via > >email when the logs are a certain %age full?? > > > >I tried to alter the script logevent.sh to accomplish this but > >it did not …
Re: Event Alarms
In <33B7F989.2C97@arrowintl.com>, Chad Laity wrote: >Does anyone out there have an event alarm that warns you via >email when the logs are a certain %age full?? > >I tried to alter the script logevent.sh to accomplish this but >it did not work. > Chad, You have to add the follo…
Event Alarms
Does anyone out there have an event alarm that warns you via email when the logs are a certain %age full?? I tried to alter the script logevent.sh to accomplish this but it did not work. Thanks, Chad Laity mailto:chad_laity@arrowintl.com…
Re: Resizing Logical Logs
Also, there is a MAXLOGS parameter in the onconfig file that should be increased. Madison Pruet…
Re: ONCONFIG
Kerry Davids wrote: > > Jacob Salomon <jake@apparel.net> wrote: > > >Patrick, > > >onconfig.std is meant as a template to copy from. If I had my druthers, > >I would have it shipped with 666 permissions so that even user Informix > >could not (or at least is less likly to) inadv…
Re: ONCONFIG
>From: satriguy@aol.com (SaTriGuy) >Date: 21 Jan 1997 06:01:04 GMT >X-Informix-List-Id: <news.32813> > >If I had my way, I'd remove it from the system all together so that it >would not be possible to 'accidentally' use the wrong onconfig. ;) >Madison Pruet I think the 'it' refe…
Re: ONCONFIG
If I had my way, I'd remove it from the system all together so that it would not be possible to 'accidentally' use the wrong onconfig. ;) Madison Pruet…
Re: ONCONFIG
Jacob Salomon <jake@apparel.net> wrote: >Patrick, >onconfig.std is meant as a template to copy from. If I had my druthers, >I would have it shipped with 666 permissions so that even user nformix >could not (or at least is less likly to) inadvertently modify it. >(Actually, in …
RE: ONCONFIG
Hi Patrick! OK. please check with env command to see the ONCONFIG environment variable, this sould containg the file being use at this moment, and please, make a copy before you make any changes, Regards :) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Mario…
RE: ONCONFIG
You have to check your env variables. One of them is ONCONFIG which will be set to either of the files. Munaf g086mnf@bomplant3.appl.ge.com ---------- From: informix-list-owner[SMTP:informix-list-owner@rmy.emory.edu] Sent: Friday, January 17, 1997 4:04 PM To: informix-list S…
Re: ONCONFIG
In <32DF327E.1DBB@mediacity.com.sg>, Patrick Stacey wrote: }I see 2 onconfig files in my etc directory (sol 2.5.1 platform). } }one has .ifmx and the other .std } }which do I edit in order to change the system configuration? }Specifically I want to configure informix for a multip…
Re: ONCONFIG
Patrick, Type the command "onstat -c | more". This option prints a copy of the current configuration to the screen, but more importantly, the second line gives the path and filename of the current configuation in use. Tracy > > I see 2 onconfig files in my etc directory (sol …
Re: ONCONFIG
If you have to ask this you shouldn't attempt to modify the file. This is RTFM, very much so. You'll depend on knowing so much before tuning OnLine in this way that if you have missed this in the manuals, you may also have missed a lot of other info. Sorry for this. I don't mean …
Re: ONCONFIG
Patrick Stacey wrote: > > I see 2 onconfig files in my etc directory (sol 2.5.1 platform). > > one has .ifmx and the other .std Patrick, onconfig.std is meant as a template to copy from. If I had my druthers, I would have it shipped with 666 permissions so that even user nform…
ONCONFIG
I see 2 onconfig files in my etc directory (sol 2.5.1 platform). one has .ifmx and the other .std which do I edit in order to change the system configuration? Specifically I want to configure informix for a multiprocessor machine (4 CPUs actually). many thanks, /pks -- [ Pat…
Re: Do alarms work in 7.20 ?
ctreptow@aol.com wrote: > > Hi. I am trying to write an alarm program for Informix, but it doesn't > appear to work. We are on HP-UX 10.01 running Informix Online version > 7.20. I have written the following script, but it doesn't ever appear to > get called by Informix. Acco…
Re: Help I'm in crisis
Hi Tony, Check you $ONCONFIG file if the PDQPIORITY > 0, modify it to be 0, that means disable PDQ in $ONCONFIG. Please set PDQPIORITY as user environment variable for large report/ bach job only. Otherwise, every single session takes a lot of memory. Regards Eric Lam Taipei/Tai…
Re: onconfig
Hi Sue, >Hi there. I am an Oracle/Sybase dba. I've just been put on a project >which uses Informix Workgroup Server V7.12 on Windows NT. I have no >training or manuals in either Informix or NT, so this question may >appear to come from a simpleton. Stop right there. Go and fin…
Re: onconfig
> From: Sue Alsbury <salsbury@mdshealth.com> > Date: Friday, October 18, 1996 4:11 PM > > Hi there. I am an Oracle/Sybase dba. I've just been put on a project > which uses Informix Workgroup Server V7.12 on Windows NT. I have no > training or manuals in either Informix or NT, so …
Re: onconfig
In article <3267E47A.54DA@mdshealth.com>, Sue Alsbury <salsbury@mdshealth.com> writes >Hi there. I am an Oracle/Sybase dba. I've just been put on a project >which uses Informix Workgroup Server V7.12 on Windows NT. I have no >training or manuals in either Informix or NT, so this …
onconfig
Hi there. I am an Oracle/Sybase dba. I've just been put on a project which uses Informix Workgroup Server V7.12 on Windows NT. I have no training or manuals in either Informix or NT, so this question may appear to come from a simpleton. I issue a select * from tablename. The tab…
RE: event-alarms
---------- From: Stuber[SMTP:sstuber@intrlnk.com] Sent: Thursday, August 15, 1996 3:22 PM To: informix-list@rmy.emory.edu Subject: event-alarms The Administrator's Guide (7.1) states "When any of the events in a = predefined set occur, OnLine invokes=20 this executable" wher…
Re: event-alarms
Hi, There was an articule in our last user group newsletter on Alarms which has an example of how to use Alarms. You can view it at our user group web site www.access.digex.net/~waiug Regards - Lester > The Administrator's Guide (7.1) states "When any of the events in a prede…
event-alarms -Reply
I don't have the answer to your question but basically everything which writes an alarm to the log will call alarmprog. It is a handy utility except that at present it doesn't work to well. If alarmprog gets passed a string longer than a predefined length (512 bytes?) then it wi…
event-alarms
The Administrator's Guide (7.1) states "When any of the events in a predefined set occur, OnLine invokes this executable" where "this executable" refers to ALARMPROGRAM. Is the "predefined set" referring to figure 33-2? In other words any event of a sort listed in that table wi…
Help! OnAutomatic backup using Informix...
Hello I work with Informix 7.10.UC1 on Solaris 2.4 I have a program that forks and execs ontape, communicates on a pipe to feed "return" to it and continues doing some other work. It needs to be informed when and with what status ontape completed. I tried using the event-al…
Help! OnAutomatic backup using Informix...
Hello I work with Informix 7.10.UC1 on Solaris 2.4 I have a program that forks and execs ontape, communicates on a pipe to feed "return" to it and continues doing some other work. It needs to be informed when and with what status ontape completed. I tried using the event-al…
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:Timeout in 4GL Programms
tvarnas@compulink.gr (Apostolos Varnas) schrieb : tv>I want to implement a timeout of a 4GL application from inside the tv>application.I tried to use alarm() but I found out that alarm() is used tv>internally from Informix and thus resetted after each keyboard stroke. tv>This po…
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?…
Process Priority with onilne 4.10
Does Online ver 4.10 have fixed priority support like ver 7.0 does with the NOAGE onconfig param. Thanks Chris…