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Enterprise Replication
We are starting to set up Enterprise Replication with IDS and IWS 7.30.tc2 on NT 4.0 servers. We had three server participating in our replication scheme and things seemed to be going well, until... I came in after a weekend and the were no humans logged on, but there were 195 …
IFX 14.10 FC14 License File
it seems FC13 license can work with FC14 package: onstat -V IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 14.10.FC14 ------------------------------ ke chen ------------------------------…
Replication not replicating
Jaco: What type of replication have you set up? Enterprise Replication (ER)? High Availability Data Replication (HDR), or Remote Secondary Server (RSS) replication? If HDR post the output from "onstat -g dri" If RSS post the output from "onstat -g rss" If ER post the output from:…
Stelo software as a replacement for Enterprise Replication
My organization wants to migrate databases with many hundreds of millions of records and hundreds of tables from an Informix database on an AIX machine to an Informix database on a Red Hat Linux machine. I've become familiar with Enterprise Replication, and I've done a lot of exp…
How to restrict access for a user to Informix by IP?
Hi, IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.FC5XE AIX 7.1 We have several application servers and LDAP based authentication. How to prevent a user's connections from any but the application servers' IPs? ------------------------------ Sincerely, Dennis -------------------------…
Defragment sbspace
Hi, IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.FC5XE Please, how to defragment (repack) a sbspace after plenty LOBs been deleted? ------------------------------ Sincerely, Dennis ------------------------------…
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 ------------------------------…
INT to SERIAL in-place alter
Hi, IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.FC5XE My question is, why MODIFY INT to SERIAL does not use in-place alter? ------------------------------ Sincerely, Dennis ------------------------------…
Informix enterprise replication
Hi I need to know that Informix enterprise replication support from source Informix version 14.10 on HP UX host to target Informix version 14.10 on Redhat Linux. Documentation clamming that replication on dis-similar hardware is supported but I want to confirm if the source and t…
Simple Large Object Replication
Hi Juan Luis, in case "not yet decided which kiind of" should also include ER (Enterprise Replication) and they'd decide for that, they could even keep their blobspace blobs. (And ER also supports non-logged smart blobs.) It really depends on what they want to achieve... Andreas…
How to know what edition is installed ?
I think that when there is no suffix on the version, that that is Enterprise Edition: IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 12.10.FC6XC <-- custom build, but no suffix IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 14.10.FC3 ------------------------------ Mike Walker ------------------------…
ontape error
Sergio: Try using ifxclone instead, it handles all of the complexity of an archive-and-remote-restore for you, even setting the server type of the target when it is done. You run ifxclone on the target machine. It can optionally copy and modify the ONCONFIG and sqlhosts files for…
Are there hidden gotchas w.r.t. moving sysadmin tables?
Steps to move sysadmin https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/moving-resetting-sysadmin-database-new-dbspace-ibm-informix-dynamic-server-ids ------------------------------ Gaurav Kumar ------------------------------…
Fast Recovery after correct shutdown
When the engine is down –what is the last line in the online.log ? If it is not IBM Informix Dynamic Server Stopped then the engine was not shutdown properly Cheers Paul…
How do I determine which edition I m running?
John Miller used to have a web page on this but I'm pretty sure it disappeared. If you execute a onstat - or an oninit -Version and see: IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 12.10.FC10AEE -- On-Line ...... this is Advanced Enterprise Edition IBM Informix Dynamic Server Vers…
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…
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…
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…
cdr autoconf serv failed...
Hallo everyone. I have two servers with Informix 12.10.U8 (Linux) and I want to make an "update anywere" ER between then. Local network, no firewalls, CDR_AUTO_DISCOVER = 1 on both servers. host1: - INFORMIXSERVER=server1 - sqlhosts: g_1 group - - i=1 server1 onsoctcp host1 9088…
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)…
sh.addShard
Hello, IDS 12.10 FC4 RHEL Linux Used MongoDB shell to create a Shard. Did a bunch of configurations, setup, tests...... Eventually, I am stuck here, mongos> sh.addShard("leslie-dat:9171") { "code" : null, "ok" : 0, "errmsg" : "command failed -- undefined server (37) " } mo…
RSS not working
-bash-4.2$ onstat - IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.FC9 -- On-Line --…
Informix/Oracle
Flip: Whoa! I've heard of salespeople streching the truth, but this is a bald faced lie! Or more than one actually. Either the salesman is lying to you or his management lied to him! I'm sure someone from IBM will join this thread, but for now here is the truth as I know it: - …
Informix upgrade
>> Only if the Workgroup license doesn't cover something from Enterprise that you actually use. Enterprise replication would be an example. Everett is wholly correct, but a better example might have been the use of table fragmentation, permitted in Enterprise, not available in W…
CDR_LOG_LAG_ACTION shutdown issues
Hello, I have an Enterprise Replication setup in a lab environment, and I am specifically testing to see if setting CDR_LOG_LAG_ACTION to shutdown will turn off replication when the replay position is in danger of being overrun. I have three 256MB logical log files, and I pulled…
when use IfxDataReader.GetIfxDateTime to NULL valu
Hello, The version of Informix products in my environment is: Database server: AIX IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.FC5 IBM Informix CSDK Version 2.90 IBM-ESQL Version 2.90.FC4 Client: PC Windows IBM Informix-ESQL 3.70.TC5DE.…
DB_locale or local naming convention
Hi, I already mention the informix version. IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.TC1IE…
Error -556 on @ reference
In IDS_A have a stored procedure do_some that has a insert into a local table. In IDS_B have a stored procedure do_some that does: call base@IDS_A:do_some(); Calling this sp works ok. In IDS_C i try to run: call base@IDS_B:do_some(); Fails with error -556 Cannot create, drop,…
ER - How many times a table has been replicated
I'm trying to find out which tables are most active in Enterprise Replication, anyone have any ideas? Am I just missing something really obvious? Thanks, Andrew…
dbimport logging how to stop
thanks for that info Fernando We use enterprise replication here, Would logging of smart blobs be needed for that ?…
Innovator-C is now available!
The README file indicates the following about Replication! Changes to Replication in Informix 11.70.xC5 Innovator-C edition For 11.70.xC5, Informix Innovator-C edition no longer supports Enterprise Replication (ER) or High-availability data replication (HDR). If you were using r…
Enterprise replication on large tables
I don't believe it's normal, in my case it haven't happened in this way, have you set crcols for using update anywhere? You should first configure scope by row at first sync avoiding long transaction, after you should recreate the replicate changing the scope by transaction. --s…
"cdr define server" for enterprise replication
Servers: HP-UX Risc (11.11) and Solaris 10 (Intel) Database engine: 11.70 (both sides) We can 't run a "cdr define server" on a server after we have run a "cdr delete server": On the master: informix@elvis1:~/scripts/migration$ cdr list server SERVER ID STATE STATUS QUEUE CONN…
IDS 7.31 UD5 data(base) recovery
Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.31.UD5 I understood that IDS 7.31 entered End Of Support in September 2009 ( 2 and a half years ago) I hope this is not a business critical system…
enterprise replication time to replicate data
IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.FC6 Question for enterpise experts Does anyone know a command that will give me time that it takes to replicate data to a node? for example i update on server a and it replicates to server b . How long did it take? cdr view profile gives …
HDR question once again
Jack: You are missing a lot. A bit of recent history then. Informix from version 7.10 through 7.31 and 9.10 through version 10.00, supported two overall replication types: 1. HDR or High availability Data Replication - This supported one read/write primary server and one read-…
Enterprise Replication
I plan to use Enterprise Replication for replicating information amongst multiple IDS instances. Regarding this I had few queries: a) Can there be two different sets of replicates configured between different nodes. For e.g. consider the below scenario: i) Replicate 1 - Nodes A…
Looking for CDR Jump Start
Look here... How to set up Enterprise Replication for the first time https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21153338…
Enterprise Replication
Hello All Fairly new to the ER world and when i peruse the catalog for ER training it mentions this: -Database Design Issues - Correct database design issues that can negatively impact replication: Serial keys, Cascading deletes, Triggers, Accumulators What are Accumulat…
HDR & RSS
Have you looked at enterprise replication? I reckon enterprise replication is the way to go. Very easy to keep in sync,and easty fix if it gets out of sync. If you have are not keeping the logs ,that is have device set to /dev/null why bother to log at all doesnt make sense ?…
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…
enterprise replication log usage
Karl, We won't log the blobspace blob data when writing it, and also for a blob space blob, we extract the blob when transmitting the replicated transaction to the target server. However, on the target, we may have to spool the blob because we can't apply the replicated transac…
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 replicating instance on sam
hello folks IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.FC6 Using enterprise replication update anywhere conflict resolution Looking for some advice on the following. I have two servers running replication fine replicating between phyical servers wuast130 and auast120. on server w…
Error -19816: Cannot perform this operation on a
We are not using Enterprise Replication, just HDR. We have CDC but there is no CDC sessions running on the server. Where else should I look? Thanks for the response.…
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…
Enterprise Replication systems
It states the systems must be homogeneous..what happens if you need to do an OS update (upgrade levels) or even update the IDS? Do you have to take all systems down to do this? Also, I read something similar for HDR...is that the same?…
Enterprise Replication help - urgent
Hi, I have two machines, RHEL4, IDS 11.50.UC5X2 is a ER Leaf node, RHEL4 IDS 11.50.UC5 is the ER Enterprise node. The leaf node is in collect mode and won't transfer any data back to the ER node (we have replicates running both ways and neither are processing at the moment). I ne…
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…
Enterprise Replication issues
Hello. Could you post here you replicates / replicateset configurations, from the three servers ? Maybe something wrong related on your ER topology. Best regards. Alexandre Marini Tecnologia da Informação - DBA SEFAZ-MS / SGI-UIMP / Sistemas IBM-Informix <cid:part2.02070901…
replicating databases in the same instance
I forgot to say we are using enterprise replication and only want to replicate some tables…
replication migration pronb 11.10 to 11.5
hello ,Folks hoping someone can help here I have mirgated fom informix 11.10 to 11.50. Replication no longer works. I have run concdr.sh 11.10 11.50 as stated by release notes,still no joy. Has anyone else struck this problem. When i revert back to 11.10 replication still does no…
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…
Re: How to delete Enterprise Replication
"cdr start [-c prodserver]" on the production server? Should start without any replication partner active. Afterwards the other commands should work. HTH, Reinhard. > -----Original Message----- > From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org > [mailto:informix-list-bounces@iiug.org]On B…
RE: How to delete Enterprise Replication
You may have to bring down the engine and then bring it back up using oninit -D, which prevents the replication treads from starting, then you should be able to drop the syscdr database. Then depending on how tangled up it was, you may have to grind through each database and mak…
How to delete Enterprise Replication
Hi everybody! A client, LONG time ago, configured Enterprise Replication from a main server to a test server. After they finished their tests, they stopped the replication and did nothing else. Now, years later, I have to alter a replicated table, I get 19989: Enterprise Repl…
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…
Can't reorg a replicated table
I am using Enterprise Replication (cdr) and I need to reorg a replicated table. (out of extents) I created a new table and loaded it using HDL. Now I need to drop the replicated table and rename the new table. But informix will not drop the table - non exclusive access - I tried …
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…
ER Error Enterprise Replication
Enterprise Replication is giving the following message when I do a simple cdr list server ndl12:ndl12a common_reporting$ cdr list server SERVER ID STATE STATUS QUEUE CONNECTION CHANGED ----------------------------------------------------------------------…
Problem with ER replication
Hello, We are using IDS 7.31.UD1 with Enterprise Replication. We added 4 columns to a table that is replicated, and now got the error "CDR:23 (Error: Internal error (buffer too small for stored procedure arguments))". Is there a limit in the row size of replicated tables? Thank…
RE: BTS index on HDR Secondary usable?
Sorry to top post. What's to stop you from configuring something to manually update the BTS index on your secondary? I'm shooting from the hip, but I think you could put together something of a kludge that would work. > Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:39:01 -0400> From: jimtranny@gmai…
use stored proc that return multiple columns in a query
forgot to include version info: IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.UC6W5 -- On-Line -- Up 207 days 22:14:39 -- 1441100 Kbytes…
Enterprise Replication db recovery
Hi. I have a database that uses Enterprise Replication (at least it appears to be ER as opposed to High Availability Replication) based upon the use of "cdr" commmands and CDR* onconfig parms. It is a simple setup though. It is ONEWAY with only a subset of tables being replicated…
Enterprise Replication General Error
Hi folks, Is it possible to replicate from one instance to another on the same physical machine? I created one replication server OK but I'm getting "command failed -- General Error (-1) (-1)" when running cdr define server on the second replication server. Cheers R…
installing informix dynamic server in linux
hi, I'm new to informix... I tried to install informix dynamic server(iif. 11.50.UC2E.Linux-RHEL4.tar) in my linux machine. I'm getting an error like this... One or more prerequisite system libraries are not installed on your computer. Install libpam.so.0, libncurses.so.5…
Informix Dynamic Server v 11.50 Developer's Edition
Does everyone know that the Informix Dynamic Server Developer's Edition v11.50 that you can download from the IIUG Web site (www.iiug.org) is NOT timebombed, is completely and fully functional (including HDR, MACH11, ER etc.). Do you know that the only limitations on this versio…
Informix Dynamic Server v 11.50 Developer's Edition
Does everyone know that the Informix Dynamic Server Developer's Edition v11.50 that you can download from the IIUG Web site (www.iiug.org) is NOT timebombed, is completely and fully functional (including HDR, MACH11, ER etc.). Do you know that the only limitations on this versio…
Re: Enterprise Replication and locking
Jarrod, You can have different lock mode for each participant. To avoid possible locking issues due to page level lock, you could use CDR_DSLOCKWAIT configuration parameter, it specifies the number of seconds ER should wait for the locks to be released. Regards, Nilesh informi…
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.…
Simple logical log question
Hi everyone. With IDS 9.4 database does the following mean that one should add more logical logs, or perhaps make some onconfig change? Is it serious? Thanks...... Warning - The log space appears to be configured too small for use with Enterprise Replication (ER). ER may requir…
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…
IDS 10 Replication Logs
Hi All, I am using IDS-10 on two servers and configured enterprise replication on it. Replication is working perfectly fine. If I want to see the SQL processed on primary server which will initiate data to be replicated on target site, please advice where and how can I find thes…
ER - Replicate in ALTERMODE state
Hi all, We use ER between 10.00.UC4 servers. One of our replicates remains in ALTERMODE state, so that it is not possible to update the table replicated through that replicate. We updating the table, we get the error 19992: "-19992 Cannot perform insert/delete/update operatio…
RE: Enterprise Replication question
Any chance of some assistance with this? I've had a further look and I can't make the -e option work anywhere in my ER replicates, from starting new ones to changing existing ones or through the use of a replicate set. Is there something I'm missing here? Do I need to turn this …
Enterprise Replication question
Hi, Running 10.00.UC3 -> 10.00.UC3 replication, both on RedHat EL 4 I set up a one-way replicate to transfer data and it works beautifully (Go Informix) but I forgot to set the frequency option in the replicate. I've now set it to the right thing, using cdr modify replicate but…
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: Error in Enterprise Replication
On 16 May, 14:12, "Navaid Arif" <navaid.a...@access.net.pk> wrote: > Hi All, > I have increased the number of logical logs by adding 9 more logical logs of 20MB each. Now I have 20 logical logs. But the problem is that after performing some table load activity all logs have b…
Re: Error in Enterprise Replication
On 3 May, 07:49, "Navaid Arif" <navaid.a...@access.net.pk> wrote: > Dear All, > I am already using following setting. Should I increase LTXHWM and LTXEHWM to some higher value like 100 or 120 ? > Actually at source side of Replication environment, We are using a vendor applic…
Logical Logs in Enterprise Replication
Hi All, I am using Enterprise Replication on IDS10 UC5. I have 33 Logical Logs for IDS, each of 5000 pages i.e. 20,000KB. Test >onstat -l IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.UC5 -- On-Line -- Up 09:00:11 -- 81408 Kbytes Physical Logging Buffer bufu…
Re: admin tools like PC client
Mike, What version of Informix are you using? Informix SE? Informix OnLine? Informix Dynamic Server? Most Informix versions these days come with a product call I-Connect that needs to be installed on the PC and rovides the Informix ODBC drivers.…
Error when initializing
06:36:20 IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version [b]10.00.UC6TL[\\b] I believe this is likelt ot be a new ish instance to a newish user of the software…
Re: Error in Enterprise Replication
Hi all, Actually, I am using the application which is apparently using dbaccess in the background. For some reason, I cannot ask my vendor to change the application therefore, I am using the other way around i.e. adding more logs or freeing previous logs which are used and ba…
RE: Error in Enterprise Replication
Navaid, You need to load the data in smaller chunks. You are opening a transaction at the beginning of the insert and then you start inserting records, these inserts are getting put into the logical logs. You cannot wrap around the opening of the transaction, "BEGIN WORK". …
Re: Error in Enterprise Replication
Hi All, I have increased the number of logical logs by adding 9 more logical logs of 20MB each. Now I have 20 logical logs. But the problem is that after performing some table load activity all logs have become 100% used. At this stage, no application is running even I have r…
Re: Error in Enterprise Replication
Dear All, I am already using following setting. Should I increase LTXHWM and LTXEHWM to some higher value like 100 or 120 ? Actually at source side of Replication environment, We are using a vendor application which is not using dbload or other utility and I cannot force my v…
Re: Error in Enterprise Replication
On 02/05/07, Navaid Arif <navaid.arif@access.net.pk> wrote: > > Hi All, > I am using IDS 10 UC5 and during testing of Enterprise Replication > facing following problem: Anyone have any idea about it? > > > SQL: New Run Modify Use-editor Output Choose Save Info Drop …
Error in Enterprise Replication
Hi All, I am using IDS 10 UC5 and during testing of Enterprise Replication facing following problem: Anyone have any idea about it? SQL: New Run Modify Use-editor Output Choose Save Info Drop Exit Modify the current SQL statements using the SQL editor.…
Re: Abnormal behaviour of Enterprise Replication
On 17/04/07, Navaid Arif <navaid.arif@access.net.pk> wrote: > Hi All, > > I created the database having table "merchtbl" with "no logging" option two > years back and enabled UN-BUFFERED Logging on this database recently. My > question is, how can I enable unbuffered logging on t…
Abnormal behaviour of Enterprise Replication
Hi All, I am running IDS10 UC5 on AIX5. And successfully configured ER-Replication on both Primary Server (srvtest) and Target Server (eftdr). Replicates rp72_dralways and rp72_merchtbl are successfully added but replication is working only on rp72_dralways successfully, othe…
Enterprise replication errors
Hi, I'm setting up Enterprise Replication as a primary target between 2 servers I've defined my replicate servers and my replicates and started the replication. When I update a record on the master, the information is sent to the slave server. However, the transaction is rejected…
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…
ER
Hi guys, Informix 10, Solaris 10 is the following situation possbile with Enterprise Replication: create table A (id integer, des char(10)); create table B (num smallint, name varchar(40)); create table C (seq integer, title varchar (40)); I want to replicate first column o…
Re: IDS Performance Problem
I am going to be setting up replication (HADR) between to Linux boxes running RH Enterprise 4.0 and IDS 10.00.FC5. Do storage backups have to run on the slave server when in slave mode? Or only when in master mode? Thanks Peter…
Informix transactional replication
mladen.spoljaric@gmail.com wrote: > Hi all! > > Since I'm new to Informix, I'd like to get quick info to take furder > steps in learning about and finally setting up transactional > replication in a way that is supported on MS SQL Server. > Can transactional replication based on …
Re: How to enable Database logging
You can change the logging mode from 'no logging' to 'unbuffered logging' via the ontape command ontape -s -L 0 -U <dbname> If you don't really want to perform a backup to tape you can set your TAPEDEV onconfig parameter to /dev/null, you will need exclusive access to the datab…
License Extension
Help.. I need a license extension for the IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.FC3R1TL which I downloaded to do a evaluation. How can I get the license extened..my project is in the final stages .. Dhaya Commercial bank…
Re: Security Vulnerabilities Addressed in Informix Dynamic Server
Clive Eisen wrote: > Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > > Yes the buffer overflow issues are a pain and frankly they shouldn't occur > > if IBM did formal code reviews. Or rather they should be caught and > > corrected prior to release. > > > > "Paul Watson" <paul@oninit.com> wrote in m…
Security Vulnerabilities Addressed in Informix Dynamic Server
Not sure if this has posted here or not but .... http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=630&context=SSGU8G&dc=D600&u id=swg21242921&loc=en_US&cs=UTF-8&lang=en Cheers Paul Paul Watson Tel: +44 1414161772 Mob: +44 7818003457 Web: www.oninit.com GO FURTHER with DB2 GET THER…
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: New Features IDS 10
>From the IDS info centre I find the following when I search under "new features" IBM Informix Dynamic Server, Version 10.00.xC1 contains new features in the following areas: Security enhancements Server usability enhancements Performance enhancements SQL enhancements Enterpri…
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/…
Enterprise Replication between 9.40 and 10.00
Hi I'm trying to add in a new 10.00.FC4 (RHEL AS4) server into an Enterprise Replication environment that already has 2 servers running 9.40.FC2 (Tru64 5.1B), but when I issue the cdr define server command from the sync_server, I get the following error: connect to g_bsids2b fa…
Enterprise Replication Conflict Notification
My company is in the process of implementing a 7 instance, update-anywhere ER topology using timestamp conflict resolution. We have decided that we want/need to know when and if a conflict occurs. I asked an IBM resource if IDS offered an alert of some mechanism for trapping the…
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!…
RE: Mirror / Raw device / Informix
Muthana- In order to use redundant drives on your server: in your onconfig file, change MIRROR 0 to MIRROR 1, then bounce your database. You may then use onspaces -m to mirror your dbspaces. Read the manual first. For replication across servers, Informix has b…
Mirror / Raw device / Informix
Muthana.AL-Temimi@tu-harburg.hamburg.de wrote: > Dear IIUG, > > > > I would like to ask if I can do a mirror of my database which is > installed on raw device into the 2 server by using mirror technology. <SNIP same question asked 4 ways.> To understand, you seem to be saying th…
Re: informix market share
"DA Morgan" <damorgan@psoug.org> wrote in message news:1133072683.547964@yasure... > xiaoxin wrote: > > The list price of IDS is about 20% more than oracle EE. No one is > > more expensive than oracle, when it comes to database. > > But wouldn't a more accurate comparison of IDS …
Re: ER between different versions
Hi, ER (Enterprise Replication, aka CDR): yes. And just to be clear: HDR (High avalability Data Replication): no. Regards, Martin -- Martin Fuerderer IBM Informix Development Munich, Germany Information Management owner-informix-list@iiug.org wrote on 11/24/2005 07:55:57 AM: …
Enterprise Replication, hour syncronization
Hi all, I should implement an installation of Informix ER with 12 servers. I'm afraid of the right syncronization between all the 12 servers, 8 Linux SUSE, 4 Linux SUSE on VMWare and 4 Windows OS that accomodate the virtual machines. About the hour sync: how many seconds/minute…
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 …
Enterprise Replication restore concerns
I am in the process of implementing a 7-node update anywhere ER solution. My management has successful posed a few questions that I cannot answer and can't seem to find any literature on. Question #1 If a cold restore has to be done on a specific node and the last logical log wa…
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.…
ER licensing
Willem, There is no additionnal license for Enterprise Replication if you have an IDS Enterprise Edition. If you have a Workgroup Edition, contact IBM. see this URL : http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/informix/ids/enterprise/ Regards. ________________________________ Phili…
Re: No future for DB2
Madison Pruet wrote: > Since the IBM Informix Enterprise Replication uses less than 10% of the > total resources, it is simply easier to replicate the whole DB. And since > disks are so cheap now, I would have difficulty not justifying having a > multi-node grid like arrangement…
Re: No future for DB2
"Mark Malakanov" <markmal@rogers.com> wrote in message news:Na2dnez77IBP62zfRVn-2Q@rogers.com... > Madison Pruet wrote: > > "Mark Malakanov" <markmal@rogers.com> wrote in message > > news:xLydnbH1n-Pl8GzfRVn-tQ@rogers.com... > > > >>Madison Pruet wrote: > >> > >>>At a minimun the…
Re: No future for DB2
"bka" <badamache@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1122867226.713664.145680@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com... > Replicaton to/from Oracle has nothing do with Enterprise and/or > standard edition - to replicate to Oracle or SQL Server, you need IBM > Information Integator. > On mina…
Re: No future for DB2
HansF wrote: > On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 00:10:29 -0700, Noons interested us by writing: > > >>DA Morgan wrote: >> >>>Madison Pruet wrote: >>> >>>>I didn't know that Oracle replication was available on the standard edition. >>>>I thought that it was only available on the enterprise edi…
Re: No future for DB2
On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 00:10:29 -0700, Noons interested us by writing: > > DA Morgan wrote: >> Madison Pruet wrote: >> > I didn't know that Oracle replication was available on the standard edition. >> > I thought that it was only available on the enterprise edition. Am I >> > mist…
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:…
OT: verboten WAS: Insider #59: IDS Express
try_and_err@web.de wrote: > Interesting, i try to write halfway understandably english and > americans and canadians write german... > As an german i would write "forbidden" for "verboten", can anybody me > explain what is the difference ? Forbidden works for me. I was just ind…
Re: Enterprise Replication
Jonathan Leffler wrote: > Marquis de Bogier wrote: > >> IDS 9.4 (Linux) >> >> I wonder if it's possible to replicate a complete database without >> replicating each table itself. >> We are using a tool which creates new tables, but we can't automatically >> specify the replicatio…
Enterprise Replication
IDS 9.4 (Linux) Hi all, I wonder if it's possible to replicate a complete database without replicating each table itself. We are using a tool which creates new tables, but we can't automatically specify the replication command for that new tables from outside that tool. We alwa…
HELP ME WITH THE FAQ....Please review
I've just finished adding all the FAQ Updates I have and fixing my email address everywhere (thanks June Hunt!). http://smooth1.my-bulldog.com/pages/smooth1_my-bulldog_com/ifaq/informix.htm Questions 1. Can someone review "How do I setup Enterprise Replication (ER)?" http://s…
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…
Informix Dynamic Server information Centre
Great new utility just posted under IDS 10 on the docs site has uses for other products and versions than just IDS 10 so take a look even if you are not using 10 yet!! http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ids9help/index.jsp…
Cannot find message file. Check INFORMIXDIR and DBLANG.
im trying to run the oninit -i in the command prompt when the message appear... we installed... IBM Informix Dynamic Server 9.40 IBM INFORMIX-4GL Rapid Development System Version 7.32.UC2 IBM INFORMIX-4GL Version 7.32.UC2 set up sqlhosts, services, onconfig, path... but when tr…
Re: Informix Enterprise Replication
Dear All, I opened a case with Informix regarding this issue. They came back to me today and said it was a known bug with Solaris 8 and IDS 7.31.UD1, that was fixed in UD3. So my plan now is to upgarde Informix. Thanks again to all who tried to help. Regards Alex "Alex Daman"…
RE: Informix Enterprise Replication
Dirk Moolman > > Sorry, meant to say "save" ......... d'oh ! > > On Behalf Of Dirk Moolman > Sent: 16 February 2005 11:43 AM > > Just to safe yourself possible headaches - make sure your > Solaris patches are not old / out dated - caused LOTS of > problems for me ! We fort t…
RE: Informix Enterprise Replication
Sorry, meant to say "save" ......... d'oh ! -----Original Message----- From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Dirk Moolman Sent: 16 February 2005 11:43 AM To: Alex Daman Cc: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: RE: Informix Enterprise…
RE: Informix Enterprise Replication
Just to safe yourself possible headaches - make sure your Solaris patches are not old / out dated - caused LOTS of problems for me ! -----Original Message----- From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Alex Daman Sent: 16 February 2005…
RE: Informix Enterprise Replication
You should use the group server (g_pocmel instead of pocmel). Uri -----Original Message----- From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org]On Behalf Of Alex Daman Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 9:09 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Informix En…
Re: Informix Enterprise Replication
Alex Daman said: > > No matter what cdr command I run, I get this type of response back. My > INFORMIXSERVER variable is of course set, however I think the problem lies > somewhere else. Very frustrated at the moment Other commands work OK? Like onstat, onmode, etc.? -- Bye no…
Informix Enterprise Replication
Hi All, Is there anyone out there who has setup ER on 7.31.UD1. Im trying to implement a proof of concept for replicating two of our sites. Im runnig with Online 7.31.UD1 on Sun Solaris platform. I have configured my sqlhosts files according to the Replication guide, see below: …
Enterprise replication-unable to initialize server
I have three servers: server1 IDS 9.30 server2 IDS 9.30 server3 IDS 9.40 Server 1 and 2 are currently doing update anywhere replication, I want to add server 3. This is my define script: cdr define server -c omagrs -A /tmp/ats -R /tmp/ats -I omagrs -S omaha Here's what the log…
IDS 9.50
Hi Diego, I've gathered from Mark Scranton's website (http://www.iiug.org/markscranton/informix/informix.htm) that IDS v9.5 is set for general availability on Jan 2005. Some of the major features are: - Column-level encryption - a very popular customer request to allow encryptio…
Re: Running Informix on 2 different Servers in parrallel
wcottishpoet wrote: > Neil, > > other than the holiday, how about all the following which are available > in 9.40 .... > > > Improved Performance 8-15%better in internal benchmarks;Fuzzy > Checkpoints;Shared Statement Cache;New Buffer Management System;B-Tree > Scanner;Improved R…
Best Setup Recommendations
Even though we have a good server configuration unfortunaltely our ATM Switch software runs on Informix 9.2 only. One question of the replication . Can the replication do a daisy wheel replication. Meaning, Machine1 - replicates Machine2 and Machine2 replicates Machine3. Since o…
How to stop Enterprise Replication on IDS7.3
Hi all I was tesing Enterprise Replication on IDS7.3. I have implemented ER on one table and it is working well. Now am unable to remove it successfully. Kindly help me out Regards Abdul Haleem…
RE: ER and inplace upgrade 7.31 to 9.40
=20 =20Andrew=20Hamm=20wrote >=20Hi=20folks >=20 >=20I=20need=20to=20upgrade=207.31=20to=209.40=20on=20servers=20which=20pa= rtake=20in=20 >=20Enterprise=20Replication.=20We=20did=20a=20test=20server,=20and=20it=20= barfed=20 >=20because=20of=20a=20few=20things: >=20 >=201)=20n…
Enterprise Replication no start or stop
Hello everybody, I have a problem with enterprice replication. Informix version is 9.30.UC2W8 I delete server from replication and now i can't do anything. When I run command: "cdr start" the answer is that it's already active (63) when I run command: "cdr stop" the message is…
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…
Replication (different OS-es and IDS versions )
Hello, I have 2 IDS 7.3/Uniware servers working with replication enabled. I would like to migrate one of them to 9.4/AIX and then to enable enterpsrise replication with the second IDS 7.3/Unixware server. I could not find unequivocal answer in Informix Enterprise Replication G…
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…
Enterprise Replication: Serverstate = Quiescent
Hi all, IDS 7.31 UD4 SCO Unix 3.2 5.0.6 'cdr list serv' on server olms152cdr shows: olco234cdr 20 Quiescent Connected Jul 10 23:03:16 2004 'cdr list serv' on Server olco234cdr shows: olms152cdr 13 Active Connected Jul 10 23:03:17 2004 Serverstate…
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…
Database replication with 9.4
brett wrote: > Hi all > > Has anybody used the data replication feature of IDS 9.4 ? > > For the manual it looks very exciting and will provide the solution > for our proposed redundant database site. I've used Enterprise Replication (ER) with 7ish engines and so have many peop…
Re: Extremly long checkpoints: How to find the reason and solve the
I don't have the DSS Query right now, as a matter a fact , I don't even work on the same company where I had that problem. In that time, the decision was to migrate to Enterprise Replication because of this problem and primary because of the replication granularity flexibility al…
RE: Extremly long checkpoints: How to find the reason and solve the
You'll sometimes see user threads in log-buffer-wait (onstat -u flags column has a B) and onstat -l shows, uhmmm, i don't recall exactly what it says - something about waiting in the header, but it boils down to not being able to switch to the next log buffer (of the three (tripl…
Re: Extremly long checkpoints: How to find the reason and solve the problem (7.31 FD3)
Francisco Roldan wrote: > Are you Replicating to other server ? > Some time ago I got very long checkpoints in an > Informix Server with High Availability Data Replication (HDR) > on the primary server. > > I found out that the reason was an extremely complex query > executed in …
Alter Fragment on a table in syscdr
Hallo, I have a large table "trg_send_sbuf" in dbspace "cdrquedbs" belonging to the database syscdr (Enterprise Replication). The table has 1 GB with no rows. Can I do an ALTER FRAGMENT ON trg_send_sbuf INIT IN <cdrquedbs>; to reclaim the space without any trouble with ER. Mus…
Enterprise Replication & Triggers
Hello, I'm replicating the table1 on Serv1 to another table2 on Serv2 with ER. No Problem. But, If I add a trigger on the target table2 to copy this one on another table3 under the same database with the following CREATE TRIGGER test_er INSERT ON dwmd_bran_53 REFERENCING NEW a…
Enterprise Replication : Restrictions
Hello, I have 2 questions when using Enterprise Replication : 1 - In the case of consolidation, is it possible to replicate table from the primary to table from the target which will have one column more containing the name of the primary. It is useful when we have a lot of pri…
Question on Enterprise Replication
Hello all, I have a question regarding Informix Enterprise Replication (ER), also known as CDR. We have several instances involved in a replication scheme right now and are looking to add a lot more to it. The scheme is a little complicated but I will try to simplify: Instance…
Q: continous restore at remote instance?
Hello. I searched old posts for a possible solution to the problem I have but without success. The summary is this: is there a possibility to continously restore transactions commited on one Informix instance to another? I know about HDR and Enterprise Replication but each one is…
RE: ISDN & Enterprise Replication
Bj Although ER is possible over ISDN I am not sure I would recommend it. You either need the line continuously available (as you have found) as the servers communicate with each other every few minutes even if there is nothing to send, or you request replication to store up the …
ISDN & Enterprise Replication
Hello, I'm doing some tests with Enterprise Replication of INFormix. When I defined the replication for UGnd1 and MisterX, I have a big problem. The ISDN Line is never released even if no replication is done. That is not a good idea for the telecom bill :-) Here are the comman…
Re: DDR Down - how up with it?
Madison Pruet wrote: > Case Number? What happens if you run cdr start? $ onstat -g ddr Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.30.UC5 -- On-Line -- Up 53 days 19:47:04 -- 282848 Kbytes DDR -- Down -- $ cdr start command failed -- Enterprise Replication already active (63) > …
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…
Informix Enterprise Replication
Hi Everybody, One of my cleint wants to syncronize the data in two servers which are at different locations and both the servers should be online so that users can use the servers. I have suggested them to have enterprise replication done on these two servers. They want to go f…
Re: An interesting meeting with IBM
I forgot to mention that work is being done in Enterprise Replication so that re-synchronisation is much easier. Getting that initial sync, and then maintaining it when schems changes, is the only real hassle with ER at the moment.…
Enterprise Replication
HAVE 4 9.30uc5 servers running update anywhere er. This has worked great for over a year. We are trying to add a 5th box running 9.4 to be a target only report server. Everytime we cut on replication the original boxes go haywire. Please let me know any info you may have to su…
Enterprise Replication
We have 4 boxes ABCD running Update anywhere replication Informix 9.3 uc5. This has worked very well for the past 1 1/2 year but we have now need to add a 5th server target only running 9.4. When we hook this server up and start the replicates we hose the ABCD boxes and often c…
ddr question
Gustavo Tobares <gtobares@redmegatone.com> wrote in message news:<c4elcm$pul$1@terabinaries.xmission.com>... > Hi all, > > I making my first steps with HDR, it is configured and working but > I'm confused with the output of two commands: > > informix> onstat -g dri > > > > Infor…
another enterprise replication
1/ Is it possible to replicate a table to anothet table ? The new table has more fields and maybe another primary key ? 2/ I have a HDR pair in my EDR replication. This works fine. When I put my primary (hdr) off, and place my secondary to accept all connections (onmode -d stand…
enterprise replication question
Hello, I have 4 servers. 1 + 2 -> setup hdr 3 -> central 4 -> upper level I defined a replication between 1-2 group and the central group. This replication works just fine. I also defined a replication between 3 and 4 . This replication also works fine. But when I insert a new…
informix enterprise replication
Hello, I have 4 servers. 1 + 2 -> setup hdr 3 -> central 4 -> upper level I defined a replication between 1-2 group and the central group. This replication works just fine. I also defined a replication between 3 and 4 . This replication also works fine. But when I insert a new…
Re: [Informix Dynamic Server (IDS):] Digest 2671
For a course in the US, check out: http://www-306.ibm.com/services/learning/ites.wss?pageType=course_description&co urseCode=L1760&country=us&language=en (IBM course L1760). There is probably a similar course offered in Europe somewhere. Hope this helps. Kevin Doiron Toronto,…
Re: Transaction support in informix dynamic server(IDS)
chaithra wrote: > i wanted to know, if in IDS we can get to know the status of a > transaction at any given time. or once any transaction commits or > rollsback we should be able to know the status. > is it possible through c++ interface provided by the IDS. I'm not quite s…
Transaction support in informix dynamic server(IDS)
hi all, i wanted to know, if in IDS we can get to know the status of a transaction at any given time. or once any transaction commits or rollsback we should be able to know the status. is it possible through c++ interface provided by the IDS. thanx in advace chaithra…
What is quickest way to create a copy of a databas
Anthony I assume you were considering HDR which needs to be run between independant, but almost identical, machines. Have you considered Enterprise Replication which can be run between two Database Servers on the same machine. This has the advantage over "dd" of being totally up…
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…
RES: Drop tables with CDR enable
My problem is that I should not turn down the replicate for this table. Doing that, every time the user need to do this operation (made by an ERP) someone from IT would have to exec such command. I'm looking for a way that I just can bypass or change the sql, although I think it …
ENC: Drop tables with CDR enable
You need to first remove the participant's table from replication via the "cdr change replicate -d" command. M.P. "Julio Cesar" <julio@prodesmaq.com.br> wrote in message news:btjvg5$514$1@terabinaries.xmission.com... > > Is there a way to process "drop table" sqls on tables con…
ER - Log space too small ?
Good morning/evening, We use ER to replicate one primary server on two secondary servers. Primary IDS 9.40.UC2 Secondary IDS 9.40.UC2 and IDS 9.30.FC3 On the primary server, we observe the following message in online.log : "Warning - The log space appears to be configured too …
Replication Issue
Hello All, We are trying to setup a replication between two informix database servers and we have struck up in a issue which we are not able to solve. We would be grateful if any of you can help us in solving out. The issue is We have a two server ol_server1 and ol_server2 we…
Informix optimizer
Hi, Does anyone know if the Informix Dynamic Server (7.31 or 9.4) database optimizer uses star schema optimizer techniques? Thank you, Tony…
TRUNCATE TABLE command in 9.3?
I am aware that Informix Dynamic Server previously has not included the TRUNCATE TABLE command. Does anyone know if 9.3 or 9.4 include this command?…
RE: Enterprise Replication question
>Josh Marshall wrote > > I've got Enterprise Replication working nicely with a table > on Informix 9.40, > but I'm wanting to replicate the whole database between the > two servers. > > There is a situation where tables can be dynamically created > and I want these > to automatic…
Re: Enterprise Replication question
Hi Josh. How about using HDR(High-Availability Data Replication) ? See refer to http://www-3.ibm.com/software/data/informix/pubs/library/ids_9.html You may see Admin guide. (Chapter 19). Regards. -- Tsutomu Ogiwara from Tokyo Japan. ICQ#:168106592 >From: Josh Marshall <josh@w…
Enterprise Replication question
Hi everyone, I've got Enterprise Replication working nicely with a table on Informix 9.40, but I'm wanting to replicate the whole database between the two servers. There is a situation where tables can be dynamically created and I want these to automatically be included in the …
Re: ER ... yes / no ?
"Dirk Moolman" <DirkM@mxgroup.co.za> wrote in message news:<bk9fjf$4dl$1@terabinaries.xmission.com>... > IDS 7.31 FD3 > Solaris 8 > > > I know this statement is a bit vague, but if I have the choice to use Enterprise Replication or not, should I go for it ? It depends on what you…
Enterprise Replication - Primary Key
Hi everybody, I am in charge of administering two AIX 4.3.3/RS6000 IBM Servers with Informix 7.31 running on each one. After one week of research and night work I got my two servers configured for Enterprise Replication (tmp-ats and tmp-fis filesystems, sqlhost group definition, …
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…
Enterprise Replication questions
I've been assigned the task of coming up with a way of not loosing a = single transaction in case of a physical disaster at the location of our database servers = (and backup servers). =20 To achieve this, I'm thinking of using ER in a many to one mode. That = is, replicating ma…
offline replication
But Enterprise Replication can give us a 'transportable' copy (in tape or disk file) of the data needed to be updated rather than try to connect to any other server to make the updates by itself? That's our main problem: we can't have connected our servers (for geographical reas…
Enterprise replication
Hello everyone, I'm trying to define an Enterprise Replication system between: - A siemens server (ReliantUNIX-N 5.45 B2005 RM400 4/1024 R10000) Informix 7.31.UD2X4 which is the source server and - A Sun server (5.8 Generic_108528-20 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-880) Informix 9.30.…
Re: DB2 to Informix DB connectivity
> > > Hi All, > > Recently, our company started using DB2 UDB ESE V 8.1, and one of the > projects is already in the development. > Otherwise, all projects are on different flavours of Informix Dynamic > Server. > Now, there is a urgent need for Database connectivity between Info…
IDS 9.3 Enterprise Replication
Hi, I have problems to define server for Enterprise Replication running IDS 9.3 on W2K. Command line: "cdr define server --init g_server1" returns an error: "command failed -- Smart blob space specified for the send/receive queue does not exist (107)" Server and server_group bot…
enterprise replication
Hi all, I am trying to set up enterprise replication between two servers. Sqlhosts files of both the servers contain same information. Both servers are using tlitcp connections. I started one server as a replication server. But when I try to start the second server as a replicat…
Enterprise Replication log
Enterprise Replication does not have a seperate set of logs. It snoops from the normal logical log file buffers. It only snoops from the log files themselve during recovery or if for some reason it falls behind.…
Replication
We are considering using some method of data replication/failover. Some of the options we have considered are Informix Enterprise Replication, Informix Data Replication, Legato, and Veritas. I would like to hear from users with experience on any of those methods regarding the ea…
Enterprise replication
--------------61BA173DE4C37191D4A7B827 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all, I am trying to setup Enterprise replication on my HP-UX 11. I have a problem when i run "cdr start repl -c g_test1". The error is "connect to -g_test1 fail…
What requires an IDS Linux?
Hello What requires an Informix Dynamic Server Linux a desktop and/or a network version of Linux? Thanks in advance Jacqueline Romero Miranda…
Informix v Oracle
Hi Is there a function in Informix Dynamic Server 2000 that is like Oracles CREATE SEQUENCE that uses NEXTVAL/CURVAL and %ROWCOUNT, ect? Thanks for all contributions Jordan jbruce@asaglobalserv.com…
Replication blobs questions .
Hi all. We are migrating to IIF.2000 with WebDatablade. The WebDatablade store the pages in Sblobspaces. We want a High Available System, to do this we use HDR but we read at manuals and * Adminintrator's Guide for Informix Dynamic Server.2000 ver 9.2 ----Important: The databas…
Replication conflicting with constraints
For Enterprise Replication... onstat -g ddr display the snoopy/replay position onstat -g grp display information about the grouper onstat -g rqm display information about the queues onstat -g nif information about network transfer of replicated data onstat -g dss inform…
replication
Enterprise Replication offers the ability to replicate at a smaller granularity than at an instance level, but I would not recommend using ER on any version less than 7.31UC4. However, I do not understand your question fully. If you are currently using additional software to do…
informix replication
Informix has two replication strageties. The first (HDR) provides mirror image replication. Basically the source instance is replicated onto the target instance. This provides High Availability with a rather low latency. Also it is fairly easy to setup. However it does have …
Enterprise Replication
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Retrieving product name
Hi all, Is their a system table somewhere on an informix server that stores the product name. For example 'Select owner from systables where tabname = � VERSION� will return the version of the server. I would like to be able to tell if a server is a Universal server or a Dynamic …
IDS 7.3x on Win2000?
Does Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.3x runs on Windows 2000 (Professional)? Thanks for your help. Guy Dillen…
Problems with Data Replication
I suppose we are talking Enterprise Replication here & not Continuous Data Replication, if you are using the cdr command line utility & talking about primary to target strategies, etc.? Yes, use the rdate command to sync the servers as a first step before even defining servers - …
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…
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: Reliability of Informix
From: "Harry Sheng" <harry@ss8networks.com> > >What is the equivalent of Oracle Standby Server in Informix IDS2000 ? >Is replication the only selection ? I don't know it, but judging by the name it sounds like HDR (High Availability Data Replication). You can also use Enterpris…
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…
ER time synchronization
This message addressed more towards sysadmins on UNIX, but since I am stuck with DB admin and sysadmin... Running Enterprise Replication on 2 different servers: what will be good solution to synchronize time between'em? xntpd? if someone had experience - please, reply? Regards, …
BLOB replication on IDS 9.20.UC.1 - how to
Hi group, I'm using Informix Dynamic Server and I've read that enterprise data replication doesn't support BLOB replication. Is possible to turn around that problem? Thanks in advance Auri…
Data Replication between diferent versions of IDS.
You can replicate (ER) from 7.30 to 9.2, but I'd really rather see a customer on 7.31 instead of 7.30. You almost have the sqlhosts file correct. You need to add a g= option for the tcp entry in each of the groups. Also, what you have actually done is to create two enterprises…
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…
Distributed database question
> > Please, do tell me - what is distributed database? To simplify, one examble of a distributed database is set up by two or more databases replying each other. Please see Guide to Informix Enterprise Replication (on Answers online of course). Hope this can help you. Dennis.…
Replication
Hello everybody. I would like to know if it is possible to replicate an Informix database between a UNIX-based 7.32UC2 Informix Dynamic Server and an linux-based IDS2000 without problems. Thanks in advance. jhernandez@geuropa.com…
Re: Question about replication
From: tkimnguyen@my-deja.com > >My reading of Informix replication is that it is log based, and this >type of replication architecture has a number of deficiencies. Informix >replication will probably meet your requirements in a two server >scenario, but you might want to have a…
Question about replication
I was going to remain silent on this thread because I thought that some of the user members had answered the original question rather nicely. However, there were some misconceptions about Informix and Enterprise Replication in this email, so I felt that I needed to respond. See…
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…
Re: Replication Manager
Have you installed server agent on the Unix box? Jin. Informatica wrote: > Hello, > > I'm testing Enterprise Replication. I installed Replication Manager on a NT > 4.0 workstation. > I want to replicate from one server (on_nat4_tcp) to another server > (on_dev2_tcp). > Both se…
Replication Manager
Hello, I'm testing Enterprise Replication. I installed Replication Manager on a NT 4.0 workstation. I want to replicate from one server (on_nat4_tcp) to another server (on_dev2_tcp). Both servers are UNISYS UNIX servers. The installation and configuration of RM went fine. But wh…
HELP! Informix Dynamic Server 7.3
I'm trying to install a new IDS on Linux (RedHat 6.1) on a cooked file. Everything looks right, but upon oninit, I receive the following: oninit: Cannot open chunk '/u1/naf_chunk'. errno = 2 oninit: Fatal error in shared memory initialization Log reflects: 09:11:07 Informi…
UDR Support in Informix Dynamic Server.
Can someone tell me what exact version of Informix Dynamic Server that first supported C User Defined Routines. I've tried searching for this on their website with no joy. (their advanced search doesnt work at all !) Rgds, Peter. Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before y…
OFFICE Connect V.1
Informix Office Connect, Version 1.0, is compatible with the following Informix servers: Informix Dynamic Server, Version 7.3 or later Informix Dynamic Server with Universal Data Option, Version 9.14 Informix Dynamic Server 2000, Version 9.2 or later e Informix-SE 7.23 n�o func…
Enterprise Replication
Hello, We're thinking about running ER between 2 machines at each of 2 sites. We'd only update on one server at a time -- the other 3 servers are backups only. I've got some questions on ER: a) There seems to be very few postings on the subject to this group. Does …
How can I speed up the 'drop index' command?
Hi Its the first time for me posting a question to the group, so here goes. Running IDS7.31 with Enterprise Replication active, how can I export my databases without having to shutdown replication. Cheers Folks h.straker@videonetworks.com…
Hot Backups for Databases
Ontape will backup a system as of a point in time. The hot site will have to be configured like the original system. A better way is to use Informix's Enterprise Replication if you want a "hot site" backup. Harry Johnson Keene Information Systems, Inc. In article <01bf76c7$e5…
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…
RE: Enterprise Replication / HDR (2855)
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_01BF6919.7085BD18 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Keep in mind with ER -- you may not get the "workload …
Enterprise Replication / HDR (2855)
Hey all, here is one for you all that test support has as of so far been unable to help with. I am planning / setting up a new database of the following Informix DS 9.20UC1 on 2 linux 2.2.5-15 machines (everything the same) The database is used in a publishing system, and will…
Data Replication
In article <3890BDE1.9E283668@sportingnews.com>, jmaes@sportingnews.com wrote: > > What kinda of DR? Enterprise replication, HD replication. Everything > you need to know is in your manuals. > ER (Enterprise Replication) is the replication you will need. HDR is not supported…
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: Baan and Informix Enterprise Replication
This is another wonderful feature of Baan, their tables doesn't have Primary Key and their indexes are over the hash fields. Theoretically you can create the Primary Key directly through Informix... but this is an impossible mission due to the great number of tables. ******…
Baan and Informix Enterprise Replication
Hi Is someone using or have setup Baan with Informix Enterprise Replication? We intend to setup Informix Enterprise Replication between two servers. I am told by someone that Enterprise Replication may not work with Baan because of primary key constraint. Shall be grateful on …
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…
Need some Information about Enterprise Data Replication
Hi, I need detail information about the Enterprise Data Replication and how is it implemented in Informix. Please get back to me ASAP. Thanking you in anticipation Regards & TIA, Kumar ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http…
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: Automating Informix Database Environment Restore
Yes, we can make the servers identical in every aspect. However, the inquiry-only user's application that runs, which is setup to only perform inquiries and reporting, creates temporary tables on the fly. From what I have read about HDR, the secondary server's data is read-only…
RE: Automating Informix Database Environment Restore
Are the production server and the inquiry-only server identical? If they are close enough in configuration (OS version, Informix version, disk layout, etc.), then I would *highly* recommend that you look at high-availability data replication (HDR). This is exactly the type of s…
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…
Replication from HPUX to Window NT
Enterprise Replication would be required to do this. You can not use HDR to do this as that requires that the platforms be identical. If you are going to use ER to do this, I would suggest that you use 7.31 or 9.2. 7.31UC4 and 9.2 support what we call Hierarical Routing. This…
Error in installing Enterprise Replication Manager
Hi When I am trying to install Enterprise Replication Manager on Windows98, I get the following error. Couldn't load CDRINS.DLL I have already I-Connect on my PC and it is wroking fine. Any suggestions ? Thanks in advance. Muhammad Usman Sent via Deja.com http://www.dej…
Re: installing Informix dynamic server
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installing Informix dynamic server
hi all, can anybody give me an URL where to find a good description of how to setup and install an Informix Dynamic Server with using RedHat Linux ??? I've searched a whole day but founf nothing useful.. :( thx ind advance joerg…
Help! Cant start database service
Hello All I had my informix dynamic server (7.3) running fine till a few days back. Now the dynamic server service and the informix messenger service won't start automatically and if I try to start the server, it does start but I'm unable to connect to it. If I try to start the…
ER vs HDR
Wu <wuyf@tm.net.my> writes: > A few questions on these replication :- > > 1. What's the difference between this two replication ? > > 2. Is it TRUE that ER can replicate regardless of OS / Engine Setup ? Nope. > 3. What's the basic requirement for ER ? Look at the do…
Informix Online Dynamic Server DBA Book
Hello Could anyone recommend a good Informix Online Dynamic Server book. I did a search in Amazon.com but I could not decide on which one to choose. Thanks in advance. Ajay…
pricing for informix info?
Hello, Was wondering what other people out there paid for informix dynamic server 7.3... Basically, i wanted to know if they had a web server licensing schem like microsoft. or ibm's db2 (per cpu license). and would the licenses be transferable if I decided to move from le…
Enterprise Replication - Questions on monitoring Replication
Hello all, We have been using ER now for around 3-4 months and have found the manuals and information supplied rather limiting. We have two sets of two Sun Solaris boxes running replication (one set as test, the second is live). We have managed to set up the servers and replic…
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.…
Enterprise Replication
My company is looking into Enterprise Replication for Informix 7.23 for a hot site backup. My first 2 questions are: Is this an appropriate vehicle for a hot site backup? Do we need the same type of server ( or another server with the same power) in order to replicate the entire…
Re: CDR Conflict Resolution
Katja, Since my last reply I have done a test trying to add a replicate with conflict=timestamp without adding crcols. The answers to your problems will be: 1) Add crcols - ALTER TABLE tablename ADD CRCOLS; 2) Here is a sample definition: cdr define replicate \\ …
Re: CDR Conflict Resolution
Hello Katja, My first question is why do you wish to add timestamp conflict resolution? Here is my (limited) understanding on how the conflict resolution works. Update conflicts occur when a row is updated on both ends, with timestamp conflict resolution the rows have addition …
CDR Conflict Resolution
Hello again! I have been setting up Enterprise Replication with CDR APIs (IDS 7.24) and finally got it work OK (thanks to the kind assistance of Mr. Pruet). Now I would like to change my conflict resolution rule to "timestamp" and that's where the problem arises. Our system is …
64bit IDS for Solaris 7/SPARC ?
Is there a 64bit Informix Dynamic Server 7.3x for Solaris 7/SPARC available? tia, joerg…
Posting from the Informix-list
what is the last version of Informix Dynamic Server for HP-UX 10.20, where can i find more Information about this.…
Latest versions for various Informix products ???
Which are the latest versions for Informix Dynamic Server Informix Dynamic Server, Workgroup Edition Informix 4GL Informix SQL on Solaris 7/SPARC ? Where can I find such informations on Informix's website ? tia, joerg…
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.…
Informix IDS 7.30 to 7.31 (Informix has replied please upgrade)
Hi all, Informix have given us the usual response upgrade to version ....... My client has just been through two upgrades in the last 2 months, so this response is wearing thin. We are currently running IDS 7.30.UC5 on our Sun sparc Ultra-enterprise and Sun sparc Ultra-5. We ar…
HDR and enterprise replication
Does anyone know the difference between HDR and enterprise replication? It seems they both exist in version 7.3, but only HDR is available in 9.14. Thanks in advance, david.tamburin@protegrity.com…
Out of buffer?
Hi, I got the following error message from an Informix IDS 7.30: <<Informix Dynamic Server>>> WARNING! Buffer pool size may cause Dynamic Server to get into a locked state. Recommended minimum buffer pool size is 4 times maximum concurrent user thre…
Does anyone know how to monitor ER?
Hello we have recently set up Enterprise Replication between to SUN Sparc boxes configured with IDS 7.30.UC5. We need to know how we can monitor the effectiveness of the replication and how we can monitor the send and recieve queues (i.e. No of transactions / Mb). Thanks, Step…
[Fwd: Data Replication questions]
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Data Replication questions
How do you want to replicate the instances? Do you want to use HDR? If so, then the database chunks must be in the same location on the secondary as the primary. Can you do this without running into conficts? In this case you will have to have 5 instances on the replicating s…
RE: replication
The older HDR, or High-availability Data Replication, replicates everything in one instance over to another instance (log-based replication); very robust, very simple to set up and administer, but rather restrictive; single primary to single secondary only (secondary is in read-o…
replication
Can anyone give me explanation of the difference between data replication enterprise replication.…
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: Replication on 7.24.UC5
Bill, You will need to specify what type of replication you have in mind. 7.24.UC5 supports Enterprise Replication as well as HDR. Just an FYI - 7.31 is now available and ER sites should be quite pleased with the improvements that we have made with that level. Bill Spencer wr…
ONSTAT
HI folks, looking for help using onstat -g que I would like to know if Enterprise Replication is working I don't know the meaning of this output.. Any help will be really appreciated. Thanks Javier Puente…
How to configure Enterprise Replication
1. May I know the syntax on how to configure/setup CDR primary/target scheme at the command line. I only have primary and secondary servers. 2. I'd like to replicate the whole database rather than a specific or group of tables. What's the most efficient way to do this? Thanks i…
Starting Informix Dynamic Server !
Hi Gurus, Just wondering is there any difference in starting the informix engine as root user versus as Informix user. ? The reason why I ask this question is , the IDS 7.23 UC6 on HP-UX 10.2 crashes due to a bug (declared as bug by Informix Technical support)when we start in…
Informix Dynamic Server Archive/Restore
Hello All: We have a large scale Informix DB resident on an HP 9000, K460, with AutoRaid Disk Subsystem (218gb). And we are running IDS 7.30. Currently, we are using the Informix ontape archive/restore utility to archive the DB and to perform continuous logical logging. We u…
Any one know this?
Hi folks: Is there a script that can check informix on-line dynamic server is up and running or not? If not it will e-mail a note to D.B.A. groups Thanks in advance Garry…
ENTERPRISE REPLICATION
Hi Informixs, I need some help in enterprise replication. I had worked with it since HDR, but now I have got some problems. I have a Primary_target replication scheme using a central server and four remote destinations with a 64kbps satelital connection. Sometimes replication j…
converting Informix Online 5.1 esql/c to Dynamic Server esql/c?
Hi converting Informix Online 5.1 esql/c to Dynamic Server esql/c? What is the easiest way to do this? Is there a parser that could do this? edward…
RAID Technolgy
We are using Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.2. We are going in for a new DEC UNIX Server with RAID Technolgy. It incorporates mirroring at the hardware level. So is it not necessary to do mirroring using Informix?. Can anybody give suggestions regarding mirroring and other feat…
Informix on Linux
Does anybody know how much a copy of Informix Dynamic Server would run me for use on Linux?? Thanks in advance -steve…
Upgrade Dynamic Server 7.13 - 7.24
I need to upgrade Informix Dynamic Server version 7.13 to version 7.24. Can anyone advise of any problems they may have had whilst doing this?…
Informix Dynamic Server 7.31?
Is any information available regarding the release of IDS 7.31 for Unix? We have Sun E3000 and E4000 machines and are experiencing problems with both 7.30.UC3 and 7.30.UC5 and are curious about 7.31. Thanks. Carleen Avant Naval Safety Center Internet < cavant@safecen.navy.mil …
STRING FUNCTIONS
Are there functions for manipulating varchar type, like upper() or lower() in Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.2? Thanks in advance.…
Re: "On-Demand?" Replication
This is what Enterprise Replication supports. Shannon Sellers wrote: > I'll try to keep this short. > > We have a system that consists of 18 remote database servers and 1 > headquarters server. All modifications to the "Vehicle" file are replicated > to the headquarters server…
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 $INFORMIXDIR/bin and �INFORMIXDIR/esql help wo…
Enterprise Replication
I'm trying to set up ER to replicate data between IDS 7.3 and IWS 7.3 on Windows 4.0 servers. When I start repman I get the error 406. Finderr says this is a memory allocation error, but I don;t believe this to be the case. Does someone have an idea what I've missed. I've sca…
Index on Informix Online 7.22 ?
I have installed a new Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.22UC3 on our server (HP-UX 10.20). I find it is much much slower than the Informix 7.12 Online DS server if I do not create index for a same program. Why and what is the difference between the two version of Dynamic serv…
Re: esqlvers statement.....results are different on 2 DB servers ???
Tim Jones wrote: > > I've installed Informix 7.30UC3 with the ClientSDK 2.01 software on 2 > servers. Let's call them Server A and B. > > Both A and B had a prior ESQL/C versions. > > After the install, logged in as informix userid on A and ran "esqlvers" > and got this : > I…
esqlvers statement.....results are different on 2 DB servers ???
I've installed Informix 7.30UC3 with the ClientSDK 2.01 software on 2 servers. Let's call them Server A and B. Both A and B had a prior ESQL/C versions. After the install, logged in as informix userid on A and ran "esqlvers" and got this : INFORMIX-ESQL Version 7.22.UC1 …
Re: IDS Workgroup Edition
In article <729vhj$qv4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, jshaley@my-dejanews.com wrote: >Thanks, Peter. > >I found this document early on in my search, but some of the marketing >verbage makes more sense now that I know something about the product. > >It looks like HADR is the replication f…
Informix Dynamic Server Personal Edition
What development apps are known to work with IDS-PE for 95? Infrmx wants to sell me licenses for Dynamic 4gl, esql-c, ddvb for 150usd. Do these work and are there others? 150 sounds ok but the catch is is that the Open-Line Support is outrageous for this (3K usd for unlim. suppor…
Will informix 7.24.uc5 compatiable with solaris 7?
Hi there, I was wondering if Informix Dynamic Server 7.24.uc.5 will be compatiable with solaris 7 when it comes out? Thanks advance, Pat Militzer pmilitzer@ultracom.com…
Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.2.2
When I try to iniailize the shared memory I get an error "oninit: Critical error initializing shared memory" I checked the log and it says the base memory address is 0x80080000 and should be 0x80400000 when I change it it reverses. this is on a SCO open server 5. nay ideas.…
Informix Dynamic Server on Linux NOW!
Check out the Informix WEB Site. There is an announcement that IDS 7.3 is shipping on Linux TODAY! http://www.informix.com/ Art S. Kagel…
Problem installing to NT4.0 server
I'm trying to install Informix dynamic server workgroup edition to Primary domain Nt 4.0 Server. I have created Informix-Admin group and Informix account and grant it all Administrators rights and also Domain administrator rights. The server setup runs ok, but when setup is tryi…
Compuware EcoTools and Platinum ProVision
Does anyone happen to know if Compuware's Ecotools and/or Platinum Provision monitor XPS or Enterprise Replication? I am doing some consultant work for a customer of ours. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Adam Wright ITAG…
Deployment Licenses of Informix Dynamic Server
I need a free Deployment Licenses of Informix Dynamic Server!…
Re: Informix Dynamic Server blocks
In article <3609EB18.2AB1B1CD@bull.net>, Helmut Leininger <Helmut.Leininger@bull.net> writes >Hi, > >Sporadically, the Informix server seems to block (every try to connect >or onstat times out and no reaction on onmode -ky). In the MSGPATH I >find the following message: > >09:03:…
Informix Dynamic Server blocks
Hi, Sporadically, the Informix server seems to block (every try to connect or onstat times out and no reaction on onmode -ky). In the MSGPATH I find the following message: 09:03:42 mt.c, line 8362, thread 2139, proc id 17096, mt_notifyvp timed out. Informix server is 7.22.UC2…
Informix Dynamic Server blocks
Hi, Sporadically, the Informix server seems to block (every try to connect or onstat times out and no reaction on onmode -ky). In the MSGPATH I find the following message: 09:03:42 mt.c, line 8362, thread 2139, proc id 17096, mt_notifyvp timed out. Informix server is 7.22.UC2…
Enterprise Replication
Has anyone out there set up Enterprise Replication in such a way that deletions on the source table are ignored on the target table? In our particular scenario we would like to replicate any inserts or updates to a particular table from the source to the target. However, we want…
ER Error
Could somebody give suggestion for error below, pls... I try running Enterprise Replication on INF 7.24 UC1. When activate hosts1 (cdr1), it's running well, but for cdr2, failed.. all configuration exactly the same both of cdr1 and cdr2. here are the errors : Running version …
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 …
Re: Replication w/ Workgroup edition
Hi, I think Workgroup Replication (IDS-Workgroup Edition replication) works only in one direction (from dbserver machines to the central server) and in this case the central server must be an IDS (not workgroup) that supports Enterprise Replication. The configuration you want mus…
OnLine Dynamic Server 7.2 Vs INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3
What are the major differences between INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server 7.2 and INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3? Is it ORDBMS vs RDMBS? Thanks, Ben…
Informix computer Base classes
Has any body used the Informix computer base training classes. I am wondering if any of the computer based training classes: "Informix Dynamic Server System Administration" or the "Managing and Optimizing Informix Dynamic Server Databases" is good. Thank You…
Re: Informix Online Dynamic Server 7 on Linux
Piet le Roux wrote: > > If anyone has succeeded to run Informix ODS 7 (SCO) on Linux help would > be appreciated. > I have installed iBCS and the shared libraries and the binaries work, > except that the engine cannot initialize shared memory: Error message > semctl: errno 22…
Informix Online Dynamic Server 7 on Linux
If anyone has succeeded to run Informix ODS 7 (SCO) on Linux help would be appreciated. I have installed iBCS and the shared libraries and the binaries work, except that the engine cannot initialize shared memory: Error message semctl: errno 22 create_vp: cannot allocat m…
Problems with Informix Dynamic Server for NT
Hi Has anyone tried downloading and running the dynamic server product for NT? I have it installed, but get the following error when I boot the system: AdmAgent.exe - Applicatioin error The instruction at "0x10087c69 referenced memory at "0x00000000". The memory could not be r…
Enterprise Replication
Hi there! I have been investigating Enterprise Replication and found that there appear to be two methods (not unrelated) that one can use to configure an ER environment: Use the NT admin tool or use the CDR (old name) API calls. Is there another way, such as some SPL I can't fi…
RE: What are the differences between Informix Dynamic Server
It is confusing! =20 Here's what I know: Prior to renaming: 7.2x =3D ODS 8.0 =3D XPS 9.1 =3D IUS After renaming: 7.2x =3D IDS 8.0 =3D IDS/AD/XP 9.1 =3D IDS/UDO=20 After the 7.3 release: 7.3 =3D IDS 9.1 =3D IDS/UDO After the 8.2 release: 8.0 =3D…
RE: What are the differences between Informix Dynamic Server and
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Re: Index for Informix Dynamic Server
William Lai wrote: > > Hello, > > We alreay upgrade our database server from SE5.X to IDS 7.3. After we > convert all the old data to the new server, we have some problems on the > index search. For example, a table: > > table : ith ( ithitno, ithname ), total 1,500,000 records…
Re: Index for Informix Dynamic Server
William Lai <rwie@netvigator.com> offerred: +We alreay upgrade our database server from SE5.X to IDS 7.3. After we +convert all the old data to the new server, we have some problems on the +index search. For example, a table: + +table : ith ( ithitno, ithname ), total 1,500,000…
Index for Informix Dynamic Server
Hello, We alreay upgrade our database server from SE5.X to IDS 7.3. After we convert all the old data to the new server, we have some problems on the index search. For example, a table: table : ith ( ithitno, ithname ), total 1,500,000 records index : ith_1 on ithitno, ithn…
Informix Dynamic Server 7.3
Hello, Since I'm planning a Data Warehouse, I would to do it with the new version of Dynamic Server. Impressions, stability and on which platform? Regards. Fernando _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Fernando Collalti Phone: +…
Enterprise Replication
Hello fellow informix users I have a really weird problem with replication. I have to replication groups defined on different servers. cdr server one comes up just fine but cdr server two shows itself in quiescent mode. The instance itself is on-line and you can access the datab…
Informix Dynamic Server & Text columns
Hi everybody, Can you help me ? I've created a table with the following structure : column type -------- ---- code smallint obs text How can I insert into this table with Java program ? I'm using Informix Java AP…
Intermittent Problem - error 529 Cannot attach to transaction
We have a HP-UX box (Ver 10.20) running Informix Online Dynamic Server Ver 7.13 and a NT Server (NT4.0) running Informix Online Dynamic Server Ver 7.23. We are trying to access some of the database tables resided in the HP-UX box from the NT Server via synonyms. But we faced inte…
How 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.…
Enterprise Replication
Hello, Does anybody have experience with Enterprise Replication for Informix 7.23 Dynamic server? We've followed installation, as far as we know, to a T... running informix's snmpd on an HPUX 10.20 machine. We've got cdragt up and running, but everytime we try to connect with …
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: Replication on INFORMIX ?
Bharat Onso wrote: } } Hi Guys, } } I'm new in this nw and need u'r help ... } we're trying Informix Dymanic Server 7.22 on SCO and soon also for our SUN } Solaris ... } it's running well but I have difficulties with the REPLICATION Features ... } this's actually the reason we mi…
ODBC unix and dynamic SQL
Hi, Can someone give me some help on using informix odbc drivers (unix) with dynamic SQL on Informix-online dynamic server (7.22 unix) when I use "SQLprepare" I receive the message "too many or too few host variables given" but I think all is Ok R. Gueye…
Re: Replication on INFORMIX ?
Hi Akins, Thankz anyway for u'r reference .... I think Replication Enterprice is the answer ... ( for my need ) and I have good a CD for REPLICATION MANAGER on NT ... but till now It can't work ... I have tried to setup all the stuff by myself ... but I got many difficulties ...…
Re: Replication on INFORMIX ?
In article <66musu$8rr@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, Clem Akins <clem@informix.com> writes >Bharat asks: >[...] >my quez are : (as seen at page 236, Unleashed Informix by John Mc.Nally, >Glenn Miller, SAMS Publishing) >[...] >>do we need this .... I mean actually this is a mirroring .…
Re: Replication on INFORMIX ?
Clem Akins wrote: > > Bharat asks: > [...] > my quez are : (as seen at page 236, Unleashed Informix by John Mc.Nally, > Glenn Miller, SAMS Publishing) > [...] > >do we need this .... I mean actually this is a mirroring ... not a > >replication enginee ... right? > > Had you bough…
Re: ODS/Solaris2.6/disk farms
Maria L. Wilson wrote: > > Greetings, > > I am in the planning stages for an install of ODS 7.23.UC5 on a > SUN/Solaris 2.6 server that is connected to a disk farm. This disk farm > has 18 physical disks of 9G each. I'm not sure what software is > managing the disk's...…
Fw: Enterprise Data Replication
---------- }Subject:: Enterprise Data Replication } Date: Friday, October 17, 1997 1:04 PM } } I was wondering how other corporations handled the security implications } when doing enterprise data replication, which requires hosts participating } in the replication to be fully tr…
Enterprise Replication
--------------8239C8961BAD1F313A3F5DA4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=EUC-KR Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I want to know something about Enterprise Replication I am currently using Enterprise Replication Manager(Platform winnt4.0) and Informix OnLine 7.23 for Solaris 2.5.…
Next Extent Calc.
Hi, I have INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server Version 7.14.UD2. Does anyone know of a script or program to calculate the next extent size ? Thanks in advance Manuel…
Re: replication
Hello Maria, > I am interested in the functional differences in CDR (Continuous Data > Replication) and ER (Enterprise Replication). Informix originally called their "new" data replication product CDR (Continuous Data Replication) during the beta release. During the beta proc…
Onbar restore to a different machine.
I am trying to figure out how to back one AIX system running ODS 7.23 using onbar and ADSM and restore this backup to another AIX system also running ODS 7.23 and then setup up the systems in a replicated fashion using Informix replication(NOT enterprise replication). Help of any…
Re: SNMP configuration problems
Petteri Yliniemi wrote: } } Javier Puente wrote: } } > JEAN-FRANCOIS_LE-CARRE-PETIT@non-hp-france-om4.om.hp.com wrote: } > } } > } } JEAN-FRANCOIS_LE-CARRE-PETIT@non-hp-france-om4.om.hp.com wrote: } > } } > } > } } > Hello, } > } } > } > } } > we are working on Informix-Online 7.…
Re: SNMP configuration problems
JEAN-FRANCOIS_LE-CARRE-PETIT@non-hp-france-om4.om.hp.com wrote: } } } JEAN-FRANCOIS_LE-CARRE-PETIT@non-hp-france-om4.om.hp.com wrote: } } > } } > Hello, } } > } } > we are working on Informix-Online 7.22.UC3 on HP-UX 10.20. } } > } } > The processes onsrvapd and onsnmp are runnin…
REPLICATION MANAGER
Hi folks, I am trying Enterprise Replication, I have installed the Replication Manager software in a NT-Workstation. When i start Replication Manager i define the sqlhosts as c:\\informix\\repman\\repman.txt, where repman.txt is sqlhosts (file from unix server). According to ER …
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: ENTERPRISE REPLICATION
At 02:53 PM 7/3/97 GMT, Bob Carts wrote: }Javier, }Informix does provide an snmp agent for UNIX. Look in $INFORMIXDIR/bin. The }name of the executable is "snmpdm". You will also find the sub-agent Beware. Informix is not SUPPOSED to provide the SNMP agent. If you received it in…
Re: ENTERPRISE REPLICATION
Bob Carts wrote: } } Javier, } Informix does provide an snmp agent for UNIX. Look in $INFORMIXDIR/bin. The } name of the executable is "snmpdm". You will also find the sub-agent } "cdragt". Make sure you read the release notes, because they describe the } parameters used for "c…
Re: ENTERPRISE REPLICATION
Javier, Informix does provide an snmp agent for UNIX. Look in $INFORMIXDIR/bin. The name of the executable is "snmpdm". You will also find the sub-agent "cdragt". Make sure you read the release notes, because they describe the parameters used for "cdragt". We use something lik…
ENTERPRISE REPLICATION
Hi folks, Trying to configure the informix Enterprise Replication, I do have a problem. According to Informix documentation (Informix SNMP Subagent Guide) is required a master daemon of SNMP in the machine of the database server. I have a SUN Sparc 5 with Solaris 2.5 and my SUN …
Re: Parallel Database Solutions
Hi Jeff, Jeff Rochlin wrote: > Is anyone aware of a solution for Informix that will allow two servers > to access the same instance of a database at the same time ? No. This will not be possible anytime in the near future, sorry. > How about a database replication scheme that …
Enterprise Replication
Anyone out there using Informixs Enterprise replication? I am looking at using the tool to update other databases (some non-Informix) on a scheduled basis. I would be interested in your comments, information etc.. ----------------------------------------------------- Maria L. W…
Re: CDR- WITH DSA 7.22???
In article <5jgreo$2k0@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, informix@noboagye.noboa_corp.com.ec says... > >Hi folks, >I am looking for some help configuring the Data Replication CDR that >comes with Informix DSA 7.22. >I had an upgrade but i don't have the required documentation. Is >somebod…
Re: Informix Enterprise Rep. & API
At 12:34 PM 4/8/97 -0600, stiglich@promarkone.com wrote: >Hello, > > Has anyone developed any programs to take advantage of the >Enterprise Replication API's? The numbskull's at informix who >didn't develop a command line interface for replication should be >drawn & quartere…
Re: Data Replication ? Diff between CDR and current replication by Informix
There is a whitepaper at the following URL that may give you some answers: http://www.informix.com/informix/corpinfo/zines/whitpprs/datarep/datarep.htm There is also a whitepaper on Enterprise Replication accesible from http://www.informix.com/informix/corpinfo/zines/whiteidx.htm…
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: Oracle replication wasRe: Sybase 11 TPCC on DEC (your comments please)
>Actually, Oracle allows 2 phased commit and asynchronos replication. It >depends upon what you want to do. Having a choice is a good thing. Sometimes >one wants to require enterprise wide consistency (2 phase commit) and other >times asynchronos replication will be most appro…
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?…