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Not enough room in ROOT DBspace
Hi Jack, thanks for your response. I already created physical and logical log dbspaces, moved the physical log to that dbspaces and created the rest of the logical logs in the other dbspace. But I was wondering why the first dbspaces is the ROOTNAME Thanks…
script to check status of dbspaces & chunks
Hi All, I need to write a shell script to check the status of all dbspaces & all chunks of an instance & send an email if any of dbspaces/chunks got corrupted/dropped/inconsistent etc Can any body help me in this regards? Regards…
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 ------------------------------…
Want to DROP an empty rootdbs chunk
I thank you, once again, Andreas for your helpful response. I don't like to beleaguer this and drag it out (too late1), but now I have a more tutorial question, in response to your suggestion. I had actually thought of scripting the creation of dummy tables, just as you suggested…
Temp dbspace usage
Glad we could help :-) https://www.oninitgroup.com/faq-items/dbspaces-how-to-list-temp-dbspace-contents ------------------------------ Doug Lawry Oninit Consulting ------------------------------…
database list under dbspace
Amit: select name, dbinfo( 'dbspace', partnum ) as dbspace from sysdatabases where dbinfo( 'dbspace', partnum ) = 'datadbs_1'; name art dbspace datadbs_1 name forums dbspace datadbs_1 name nologging dbspace datadbs_1 name logged dbspace datadbs_1 name pinn…
Table Extent Size calculation
Bejamin is correct in everything he says. However, there are two issues with just creating the table with the default extent sizing of 8K and letting it grow: If the dbspace into which you are placing it has its free space fragmented by dropped smaller objects, then the initial e…
down chunk
Andreas, The oncheck -ce did not report any errors on the primary. When I run it on the DR server, I get: > oncheck -ce Validating extents for Space 'rootdbs' ... ERROR: Failed to get header page for partnum 0x100001 (buffer may be locked). Please limit DDL/DML activity when ru…
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…
how to change the default location of rootdbs
I have installed innovator-c 11.7 with default settings. when I do onstat -d /usr1/Informix/ol_informix1170/dbspaces/rootdbs /usr1/Informix/ol_informix1170/dbspaces/plogdbs /usr1/Informix/ol_informix1170/dbspaces/llogdbs /usr1/Informix/ol_informix1170/dbspaces/datadbs /usr1/Infor…
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…
storagepool free space recovery
Hello everyone, I dropped a storagepool dbspace using 'onspaces -d' instead of the function 'drop dbspace to storagepool'. How do I return the free space to the storagepool? Is there a function to list the contents of the storagepool? Thanks, Benoît…
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.…
Which dbspace does a database occupy
IDS 11.50.FC5 Solaris 10 I have several dbspaces and databases. How can I tell which dbspace a particular database is in? Thank you. Larry sorensen…
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…
onload questions
IDS 11.50.FC5 Solaris 10 I sent this in a couple of days ago, but I never saw it posted. --- I created an onunload copy of a database on a server. The original database is housed in two difference dbspaces, a 2k and an 8k. Questions Does the unload contain any dbspace infor…
onload - onunload
IDS 11.50.FC5 Solaris 10 I created an onunload copy of a database on a server. The original database is housed in two difference dbspaces, a 2k and an 8k. Questions Does the unload contain any dbspace information? How does it know to send the tables to the different dbspaces?…
dbspace soft links to storage
Hi all, Regarding using soft links for dbspaces, I understood how I do it for a dbspace, make a soft link in $INFORMIXDIR/storage/chunks to the dbspace on the storage and then add the dbspace using the soft link as the path. But do I do it for the rootdbs ? since it is created at…
use of dbspaces?
Gurus: If the entire database is cached in the bufferpool, does it matter how the database tables and indices might be physically deployed in dbspaces? I typically observe read cache hit rate to be 99.99% and write rate to be 98%. The database layout hasn't been modified for o…
Dbspace with 2 chunks
Thanks for your explanation. Enviado desde mi iPhone > El 02/03/2016, a las 11:35 a.m., Art Kagel <art.kagel@gmail.com> escribió: > > Maybe. It depends. If the first chunk has all of its remaining free space > in a single extent of say 10KB there are three possibilities if a pa…
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)…
Chunks Down Help
Hi restore the dbspace from your last archive, if you don't have an archive you must call the support, they have tools to quickly bring up dbspaces.…
Re: Identify the sessions which using all tempspac
Done! Meanwhile: http://www.oninitgroup.com/listing-temp-dbspace-contents Regards, Doug Lawry…
12.10 From 11.50 Using 40% More Space
John, It would appear to be an issue with over estimating the size of the initial extent for the tables being imported. I'm trying the import again with the -D option. Gregg > I am sorry, but I missed if someone said if this is the space inside the > tables/Index or is this j…
dbspaces corrupted
We have Version 11.70FC4 sitting on a Red Hat 5.9 server that is, in turn virtualised. All dbspaces are on cooked file systems. We had a process that blocked the server using "onmode c block" followed by a level 0 backup using "ontape s L 0". At some point during the backup,…
Root db space fills up
The instantiated view is approximately 160 MB and the dbspace added is 2GB. It seems that the database doesn't even try to use the new dbspace. I've looked at what is in the different dbspaces during execution of the select query against the view and the temp table appears in the…
RSS not working
-bash-4.2$ onstat - IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.FC9 -- On-Line --…
consolidating dbspaces
HP UX B.11.31 U 9000/800 IDS 11.70.FC7GE Good Day, I want to consolidate a number of 2gb chunks into a single chunk. Can anyone advise me on how to do that ? Thanks…
Problem dropping dbspace
A little more information, in case it is helpful. The cause of the corruption is that the raw devices were accidentally allocated to a second instance while still allocated to this instance. Both instances have flagged these devices as offline. The original plan was to drop thes…
onload question
When using the onload -d dbspace option, when the original database was unloaded from two dbspaces, does the -d option overwrite both the original dbspaces and write them both to the specified dbspace? If so, is there a way to say, if the database came from dbspace 1, write it t…
RE: onload question
Solaris 10 - Sparc IDS 11.50.FC5 When using the onload -d dbspace option, when the original database was unloaded from two dbspaces, does the -d option overwrite both the original dbspaces and write them both to the specified dbspace? If so, is there a way to say, if the databa…
Informix upgrade
Can we upgrade informix from Dynamic Server Version 11.70 to 12.1 workgroup edition directly?…
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.…
repack
No, maybe. Repack only "shifts" the records to the "beginning" of the table. This per si, will not free any extent. But after you do a repack, you can "shrink". Shrink will try to release the space left free (full extents) by repack. So, if the repack leaves your second extent fr…
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,…
Indexes contain multiple extents after reorg
Informix 11.50.FC6WE, HP-UX 11.31 PA-RISC. I have a process in place that periodically drops and re-creates indexes to consolidate multiple extents into a single extent. For most cases, this works fine, but there are several indexes which end up with exactly the same number of e…
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…
Out of extents. But ...
IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.FC8X3 on HP-UX 11.31 We have a table that has run out of extents. And indeed it has; the last 11 added have been absolutely tiny. Until those last few the extent size kept doubling until the last 11. Then they were tiny. We would like t…
DBSpace Full?
We are trying to insert data into a table and get the following error WARNING: DBspace dldata1 is full Seems pretty straight forward... except the space is not full. Only the last chunk added is full. (see onstat -d below) informix@psdb03sat:~> onstat -d | grep 19 8e33ee80 …
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 …
onbar dbspace restore with fragmentation
Five minutes after my data warehouse project's weekly ETL script for its logged database completed, an assert failure occurred and the informixserver halted at a checkpoint. When I forced it to continue, the instance remained online but an entire dbspace with constituent chunks …
dbpaces
hi, i want to copy using sql a table from 1 dbspace to another dbspace . Is this operation possible with ids 11.50? exemple: insert into dbpace1.database1.table1 from select * from dbspace2.database2.table2 thank's for your help…
Drop DBSpace
Hi experts, I want wo drop a dbspace, which we have been using for some byte columns as blob store. Now, we added a smartblob space and copied all the values to a blob column. The whole table was copied and access to the new table works good. Old table was dropped now. We want t…
Determine Dbspace Pagesize
What query can I run vs. sysmaster or system catalog tables to determine the pagesize for a given dbspace?…
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…
Dbspace restore
Several large tables located in a single dbspace of a database were inadvertently truncated. I attempted an onbar restore of the dbspace but received the following error message in onbar log: "Storage space <dbspacename> is not down so it will not be restored." But I've restore…
Dbspace restore
A user accidentally truncated tables all located in a single dbspace of a database, but I'm unable to restore the individual dbspace as a warm onbar restore -- onbar log grouses "Storage space <dbspace> is not down so it will not be restored." However, I've been able to …
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.…
Error 136
First, the largest extent that the server can create is the size of a chunk. So, unless you have a single 65GB chunk in the dbspace containing this table, the initial extent is far smaller. Second, the largest extent may be significantly smaller than a chunk if there are other ta…
dbspace planning
Hello, I have only 4-300GB SAS 10K RPM drives that are mirrored across 2 channels. I'm using RAW devices. Any suggestions as to optimal dbspace layout in this IDS 11.7UC1GE instance on RHEL5.5 32-bit for OLTP? I'm planning layout below: disk 1. rootdbspace, phys log, logical …
Performance advantage: fragment across dbspaces vs. in single space
Is there any advantage to fragmenting across multiple dbspaces instead of simply fragmenting in the same space? Aside from performance, are there any other reasons to fragment across dbspaces? Using IDS 11.50.FC4 on HPUX 11.23.…
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…
onunload dbspace handling
Does onunload/onload handle variations in dbspaces? That is: 1) If I onunload a database which resides in 2 dbspaces, can I onload it into another instance with differently named dbspaces? If so, what is the command line syntax? 2) Can I onload a database which resided in 2 d…
upgrade from 9.4 to 11.5-Tablespace extent problem
Hi all we are trying to do upgrade from Informix 9.4 to 11.5, but after running oninit on new installed version we get the following output: 11:40:56 Conversion from version 9.40 Started 11:40:57 Checking partition header pages for needed free space 11:40:58 ERROR: Not enough sp…
Number of dbspaces
Hi, I have a database of 250 GB of user data. How many dbspaces is suitable for optimal performance: - For OLTP transactions ? - For queries ? - For backup using onbar ? Currently, I have 30 dbspaces configured. Is there any strategy or tip that I can use? Please, provide any i…
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…
Raw Devices
Currently we are using our database on IDS 11.50.FC6 and our dbspaces are on UFS file system.Can we transfer our existing dbspaces on raw disk and how we do it , Also how much down time is expected.…
Extent and DBSpace
Hi, I have a database space issue due to the 2Gb limit on a DBSpace. How do you force the next extent of a table to be on another DBSpace. Thanks Andrus…
Dbspace recovery
Hi, I have started testing revovery of a singe dbspace or all. The senario is that the server that the IDS was running on is completely gone and we have to restore a backup from the backupsystem (we use Veritas NetBackup) to a new server/host running the same IDS version (for ti…
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…
Move a table to particular DB space
Hi All, How we can a move a particular table from one dbspace to another dbspace? Please help. Thx…
Curiosu about a message in bar_act.log
What does this message mean in bar_act.log? "n percent of [dbspace name] has been backed up."…
dbspace space status
It might be that the table in question has too many extents. All of a table's extent locations must be recorded on the table's TABLESPACE or partition page along with the key details of any attached indexes (in OnLine 5.xx there are only attached indexes so that's all indexes). F…
dbspace utilisation in Informix 5x
The manual is unclear as to how the engine goes about "checking/verifing" the chunk free list and corresponding free space and tblspace extents. If errors are encountered and the tables are updated then there will be some row locking on some of the system tables.…
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…
Need a Way to create sysutils & sysadmin DB
Hi, Using IDS 11.5 , 1)Have any way to migrate sysutils & sysadmin DB to different DBSPACE? 2)Or create in different dbspace? rgds schillache…
Data writing on chunks
IDS allocates extents to table using the free block with the smallest chunk number and offset within the chunk that has sufficient free space and prefers the free block closest in size to the requested extent. This all means that a newly added, completely empty, chunk will not be…
WARNING: Next backup of DBspace rootdbs must be le
Hi, thanks for answering, yeah we add chunks to dbspaces, but we had not added chunks to rootdbs y physical y logical logs dbspaces. For example today and May 26 i added chunks to normal dbspaces and we didnt get the WARNINIG NEXT backup message. What other reason it could cause …
Re: Upgrade to 10 Failed
chang the link name of root dbspace file, it can't be same as rootdbs.…
Free pages count does not increase after deleting
Hello, Thank you for your fast response. You were right, after an 'ontape -s -L 0' to /dev/null, the free pages count increased. However, I have been purging old data whilst new data is still being inserted. As such am I right in thinking the cleared pages will only be marked a…
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 …
how to save the removed chunks by mistake
Someone want to drop a dbspace and remove the chunk file by mistake. Server can not restart owing to the down chunk. Can not drop dbspace or chunk by 'onspaces' or 'onmonitor'. Any way to solve this problem ?…
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…
Dbspace creation
Hi, I have 3 hard disk partitions hda5, hda6, hda7. I would like to create dbspace in each of this file system partitions. hda5 - dbspace1 hda6 - dbspace2 hda7 - dbspace3 We wish the dbspaces to have the size equivalent to the partition size. I have created the dbspace1 usin…
use stored proc that return multiple columns in a query
forgot to include version info: IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.UC6W5 -- On-Line -- Up 207 days 22:14:39 -- 1441100 Kbytes…
installing informix dynamic server in linux
hi, I'm new to informix... I tried to install informix dynamic server(iif. 11.50.UC2E.Linux-RHEL4.tar) in my linux machine. I'm getting an error like this... One or more prerequisite system libraries are not installed on your computer. Install libpam.so.0, libncurses.so.5…
insert performance on fragmented table
I added another dbspace and the insert time was cut in half. Thank you Paul Sullivan…
Migration to a new storage
We will use a new storage for dbspaces. How I can migrate data from old storage to new the new storage. Can I use ‘dd’ for it? I will move dbspaces by ‘dd’ and re-link my dbspaces on new storage.…
Informix Dynamic Server v 11.50 Developer's Edition
Does everyone know that the Informix Dynamic Server Developer's Edition v11.50 that you can download from the IIUG Web site (www.iiug.org) is NOT timebombed, is completely and fully functional (including HDR, MACH11, ER etc.). Do you know that the only limitations on this versio…
Informix Dynamic Server v 11.50 Developer's Edition
Does everyone know that the Informix Dynamic Server Developer's Edition v11.50 that you can download from the IIUG Web site (www.iiug.org) is NOT timebombed, is completely and fully functional (including HDR, MACH11, ER etc.). Do you know that the only limitations on this versio…
CONFIGURATION ONAUDIT-IBM Informix Dynamic Server
Hello, I need to configure onaudit and onshowaudit able to register for each of the consultations that are made to the database, either through dbaccess, ODBC or another application. I've been reviewing the IBM Informix Trusted Facility Guide, but I was not working. What param…
Is there a downside to creating large chunks?
I am running a Baan ERP system on Informix 11.50/HPUX that has 5800 tables. I want to spread these across 8 dbspaces. Is there a disadvantage or advantage to creating 1 chunk per dbspace initially? Thanks, Andy…
Methods for Reducing Extents
When you use any of the techniques for increasing the next extent size you need to be sure that you currently have enough contiguous free space to build the table into. If you haven't then the table will still be fragmented. There are a number of ways to check for contiguous fr…
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.…
what is using tmp dbspace ?
Is there a way to tell what session is using the tmp dbspaces ? Thanks, floyd…
after delete of rows is space immediately availabl
Hi, the space is immediately available (after committing the delete) - for that same table, that is. This is because the deleted rows were in extents that have been allocated for that particular table. The space that was occupied by the deleted rows in these extents is free, bu…
Space allocation
On Jan 24, 3:09 pm, scottishpoet <drybur...@yahoo.com> wrote: > On Jan 24, 9:06 pm, mohitanch...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Version IDS 10: > > > Table that has a dedicated dbspace got 100% full. Then I started the > > delete process and since than it has deleted around 2.5 M rows, s…
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…
Monitoring Physical logging
Informix Version 10: Does physical log have extents ? It may sound a dumb question, but what I am seeing is that in onstat -d physical log show 0 pages free but I don't see any errors. onstat -l report .05% used. So I am wondering, is it like other dbspaces where once the space …
Rename Dbspaces
Hi All: I can rename logs dbspaces online ??? Thanks _________________________________________________________________ Regístrate en el nuevo Windows Live Messenger beta. [1]¡Haz click aquí! References 1. http://g.msn.com/8HMAESAR/2734??PS=47575…
Check for Next Extent Size vs Remaining Space in D
When I was quite heavy into v7 and v9 instances several years ago, I came across and used a shell script that would examine the remaining space within a dbspace and determine if any tables' (or indices') next extent exceeded that remaining space . thus not allowing the table (or …
Free Extents
I am running IDS 9.40 on a Unix box. I have a dbspace configured with 5 chunks. In this case we will call them Chunk #5,6,7,8 and 9. This particular dbspace is dedicated to one large table. I recently deleted millions of rows from this table. My question is, how do I determine …
Fragment by partition
Version: Informix 10 I have couple of questions regarding fragment by partition in same dbspace: 1. Is there any limitation as to how many partition a dbspace can have. 2. Is partition name unique to dbspace or unique to index/table. Logically it should be unique to dbspace as …
free pages in tablespace
Can't answer your blobspace questions. AFAIK there is a single tablespace for each fragment/partition of a table (not for each extent). The bitmap pages have a 1 or 0 to indicate whether there is free space or not. Bitmap pages occur every so oftern throughout the table - depe…
Restoring Specific dbspaces
IDS9.40.FC4 HPUX11.0 Hello all a few questions for you regarding restoring specific dbspaces. The customer we support has added a test company (within baan) into a specific dbscpace, if this testdata becomes corrupt would it be feasible to restore this dbspace only? When restor…
IIUG TV
Great job on the video work!! I look forward to seeing more! -t- -- -- Informix Dynamic Server Database Engine -- http://www.informix.com --…
Types of dbspaces
Hi all: In INFORMIX+HDR that types of dbspaces support ???? Thanks _________________________________________________________________ MSN Amor: busca tu ½ naranja http://latam.msn.com/amor/…
RE: Extent size limit (again)
If you have next size for the table set at 512000 at the 16th extent. When it creates the next extent it may increase next size on the table. Informix tries to locate the first free extent at the size of next size - located next to the table if possible. If none exist that siz…
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…
Creating Space
No. IDS tables do not release deleted row space to the common free pool. You would have to reorganize the table(s) to release unused extents to the free pool. Art S. Kagel ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Gathogo <ids@iiug.org> At: 4/12 10:43:34 All Am just wondering i…
Dbspace script
Hi, Is there a script or utility that can review your current layout of dbspaces and then create a script of "onspaces" commands to duplicate the environment?…
problems with Informix dynamic server 9.4 @ WIndows 2003
I have problems with connecting the server. I use correct user/password to connect to the server, but the server do not known the server. I'm sure the user exist and is one of the user in Informix_Admin group. I have installed Informix dynamic server 9.4 in a windows xp system in…
RE: Listing all the tables in using a dbspace in Informix
I tried using oncheck -pe <dbspace name> and got the following message WARNING: Cannot access configuration file $INFORMIXDIR/etc/$ONCONFIG. V…
Listing all the tables in using a dbspace in Informix
Is there a way to list all the tables which use a specific dbspace as well as their sizes in Informix. regards V…
Dropping DBSpace
Hi All, I want to Drop a DBSpace and it has 2 chunks. When I tried to drop DBSpace, the error message "DBspace is not empty" I tried to drop secondary chunk first and cannot drop primary chunk first, still its same message "Chunk not empty" Is there is any way to drop the DBSp…
Dropping DBSpace
Hi All, I want to Drop a DBSpace and it has 2 chunks. When I tried to drop DBSpace, the error message "DBspace is not empty" I tried to drop secondary chunk first and cannot drop primary chunk first, still its same message "Chunk not empty" Is there is any way to drop the DBSp…
Determine which tables and indexes are in which dbspaces
I am trying to run a SQL against system tables that will show me which tables are in each dbspace and then correlate their indexes to see if the indexes are in the same dbspace. I know have some indexes in dbspaces that have tables in other dbspaces and want a query that will sh…
temp dbspace
Hi, On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 Art S. Kagel wrote: > DBSPACETEMP temp_dbs # Default temp dbspaces > Most sequential scans result in a sort to satisfy an ORDER BY or GROUP BY clause so if you have three or more temp > dbspaces >> listed above (or if you set the PSORT_NPROCS=12 (or …
RE: Freeing Extents
Alter fragment on table <tablename> init in <dbspace_name>; This will rebuild the table, so you'll need to have enough space in your target dbspace to hold a second copy (though, if it's empty, that's not hard). DC > -----Original Message----- > From: informix-list-bounces@iiu…
Freeing Extents
Hello, Is there any way to free extents allready claimed by a table after removing data from said table? Running out of disk space for a table and I wish to delete an ammount of data. IFX 10.0UC5 Thanks for the advice, Tam.…
File System Backup....
is your filesystem on the same devices as your informix dbspaces? what does the sar i/o activity report?…
Dbspace Down
Hi, I have IDS 9.3-TC1 on Win 2000 SP4. When I run the command onstat -d two dbspaces are marked as down. Is there a way to bring them up? 2e351680 8 0x5 8 2 ND informix primenic01 Thanks, Vasilis…
To recover dbspaces
Hello� they can help me with sintaxys of the command ONSPACES to recover dbspaces. I execute it this way: $onspaces -s dbspace_name -p /dev/informix/chunk01 -o 0 -O Warning: Bringing chunk back online. Do you really want to continue? (y/n)y Verifying physical disk space, pleas…
Re: Not able to increase the extent size?
calyanram@hotmail.com wrote: > I am not able to increase the extent size , next size beyond a > particular > level even if specify more number > > what to do? > example > create table test (with 200 columns ) extent size 3902 next size > 1858692 > > > what to check? > Actual siz…
Re: Not able to insert rows becoze of extent size
calyanram@hotmail.com wrote: > I am not able to add rows even though space is available in dbspace. > > > how to alter the extent size of the table? > > shall i need to reorg or is there any way to do? > > regards > s.kalyan > > _______________________________________________ > I…
Re: Not able to increase the extent size?
calyanram@hotmail.com wrote: > actually still we are having more space in the dbspace. > > around 25 chunks are empty. > > we are using informix 7.31 and os is HPUX 11 > > I am able to recreate the table with larger extents but how to allocate > more > pages to it : > the data > …
Re: Not able to increase the extent size?
I use a script which checks for contiguous free space. It queries the sysmaster syschfree table. Any self-respecting database administrator can easily work out the script. I would provide it but I'm not in the office and so don't have all the details to hand. Generally I find t…
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…
mirroring dbspaces
Hi all, anyone having experience with mirroring ? I inherited an informix config from a former collegue, and it looks very strange and insecure to me. In short : system running Solaris 8, 2 disks. All slices EXCEPT slice 6 (used for Informix raw-devices), are mirrored with Sol…
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…
Can't drop down dbspace
I've been restoring a development database from very old backups (long story). Due to errors doing a full DB restore, I restored the critical dbspaces and 1 user dbspace. Logical restore of the next dbspace fails in the same logical log, probably due to a corrupted index. So that…
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…
Quick Ontape -r rootdbs question
Hi, If you attempt to use the ontape -r with redirection of the chunk names parameters for a specific database, is there any effect on rootdbs for the other databases? In other words if we have a 2 server set up described below and restore one dbspace, will ontape also restore th…
TEMP DBSPACE
Hi we have two quries like below create temp table tmp_table_no ( sl_no serial, lang_a char(2), lang_no char(14), rec_cnt integer) with no log second one is insert into tmp_table_no (lang_a, lang_no , rec_cnt) ", select distinct language_a, lang_no, count (lang_no) from ti_lang…
Initialising Informix
I am trying to initialize informix on a new server and I am getting this error. The server is HP UX 11.11 and Informix IDS 7.31 What could be the problem / This action will initialize Informix Dynamic Server; any existing Informix Dynamic Server databases will NOT be accessible …
Informix Connection From WIN CE.NET Emulator?
How do I connect to informix dynamic server from WIN CE.NET Emulator? Is there a WIN CE informix driver?…
Re: Table Editor for Multiplatforms
Enhancements in Version 4.3 ..... also supports the Informix Dynamic Server 9.x. http://www.ibm.com/software/data/db2imstools/db2tools/db2te/…
Fragmentation Elimination Problem
I am on version IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.FC4.…
Re: Informix Dynamic Server 9.30 - Shared Memory
Ronald Schwingel wrote: > Can someone please tell me how much Shared Memory (gigabytes?) > Informix Dynamic Server 9.30 (32-bit version) for AIX 5L can use > before asserting with a Shared Memory access error? Can you provide > documentation that I can pass on also? It looked to…
RE: Informix Dynamic Server 9.30 - Shared Memory
First off you shouldn't be getting shared memory access errors. That sounds more like a bug that technical support should address. I wouldn't be surprised if your getting can't allocate additional shared memory segment messages. Informix 32-bit on AIX is a bitch. The problem …
Informix Dynamic Server 9.30 - Shared Memory
Can someone please tell me how much Shared Memory (gigabytes?) Informix Dynamic Server 9.30 (32-bit version) for AIX 5L can use before asserting with a Shared Memory access error? Can you provide documentation that I can pass on also? We are looking at providing one of cust…
create a DB on Linux
Hi! I have installed Informix dynamic server on Linux. Now I want to create a data base. What should I do? Thanks…
RAID 5 hardware and different dbspace ?
Is there a interest to separate tables on different dbspaces if disks are managed by a RAID 5 hardware…
Re: Extent allocation
"Why did it not allocate the 2nd next extent as 25000 and so on? " There was not enough contiguous free space in the dbspace when the new extent was allocated. I assume a large enough amount of contiguous free space was available when the last new extent was added.…
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: drop a chunk in v10
Yes. In fact I'd like a move extent feature. onspaces -me (move extent) -p <oldpath>... -o ...<old_offset> -ne (new extent) -p <newpath>... -o ...<new offset> [ -s <number_of_pages> ] Move extent at offset old_offset in chunk old_path to offset new_offset in chunk newpath. Wor…
RE: number of extents
Bill asked: > If you drop a referential constraint and re-add it, will the new index be in > one extent, or will IDS just snag the first free blocks it comes to? My understanding is that the behaviour is different in 9.4 than previous versions. It seems to take a lot more space…
Increased extent size, but still hit max extents
The table is in a DBSPACE of related tables. Other "schemas" are in their own dbspaces, and each dbspace has its own group of chunks. Can I infer from your question that if Informix can't find a 20M contigous area, it will just choose the next larger? Which would imply that I ne…
Space Recalamation
IDS reserves the space allocated to a table for future reuse even if all of the rows have been deleted. If you want to release the space used by the table without dropping it, you can release all but the initial extent using: ALTER FRAGMENT ON tablename INIT IN dbspacename; -- d…
Re: IDS 10 - documentation questions
Oops! I mean IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.TC3ET Althought the release notes (idse_win_release_notes_10.0.html) start with:- "Release Notes for IBM Informix Dynamic Server Express Edition for Windows Platforms 10.00.TC3E, 1 July 2005 " so it is TC3E or TCE3T? and …
Re: Sql to concatenate multiple rows to a single row / column
Thank you SaltTan - it works beautifully. BTW, we have IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.FC6.…
Temporary dbspace
Many of my current systems have just one temporary dbspace. Is there any mileage to be gained by adding a second temporary dbspace on a multi-processor system but with only 2 disks which are mirrors of each other? Some reports and queries are not performing as well as they did …
Relocate Informix database from Raw slices to filesystem
Thats sounds promising. So effectively add a mirrored chunk to each dbspace using onspaces and then drop the original chunk. Can you do this for the rootdbs dbspace too...? Matt…
Error creating table
Please check the First extent size for the table. There may by total 1GB free on dbspace, but might not have contiguous free disk space for the first extent. Thanks Anup --- rguevara <rguevara@mcanet.com.ar> wrote: > When i creating table, the dbacces say: > > 261: Cannot crea…
New IDS Forum on IBM Developerworks website
This forum provides a place for Informix Dynamic Server developers and users to share their questions, thoughts, and ideas with others. http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/dw_forum.jsp?forum=548&cat=19…
Database and no dbspace
Help. The dbspace is drop but now the database can't be drop. How do I drop/remove the database. I have created the dbspace but no luck. error: 311: Cannot open system catalog (systables). 135: ISAM error: TBLspace does not exist…
Re: IDS 10 Express Edition
Note 10.00.xC3 = Enterprise Version 10.00.xC3E = Express Edition http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ids9help/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.relnotes.doc/uc3E/idse_win_release_notes_10.0.html Then click on "IBM Informix Dynamic Server Express Edition" in the right pane:…
setup Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC1E1 to linux error
I setup Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC1E1 to linux execcute oninit -ivy is failed the online.log is write /// 16:31:32 Dynamically allocated new virtual shared memory segment (size 8192KB) 16:31:32 Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC1E1 Software Serial Number AA…
how to find a dbspace for a table
Can someone show me how to find which dbspace a table is on in database? I used below SQL but dbspace shows as 0 select trunc(partnum/16777216) dbspace, sum(nrows*rowsize) bytes, tabname from systables where tabtype = 'T' group by 1,tabname order by 1; Thanks for your help. T…
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…
identifying objects in a dbspace
Hi, I've dropped an index of a fragmented table from a dbspace, but to my surprise the dbspace still has used pages. I would have thought the dbspace would be empty. When rebuilding the index, the used pages do not seem to be reused. Then when I try to drop the dbspace I rece…
Slow writing data into BLOB through JDBC
> Is the BLOB column stored in a regular dbspace or in a blobspace? Any > BLOB data stored in a regular dbspace will go through the buffers . . > . > JWC The BLOB is in dbspace. I will create a blobspace and make a test again. Thank you for your help. Georgi Cholakov…
Inconsistent Dbspaces
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0013_01C4AB83.56BABA80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Guys Can anyone tell me what procedure u take when you have Inconsistent Dbspaces ?? What could cause …
chunk capacity
we are using BM Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC2X3 on Linux Kernel 2.4.21 the command 'onstat -d' shows ... Expanded chunk capacity mode: disabled how can I change this mode to 'enabled'?…
Next Extent Mystery
Hi, I am currently running IDS 9.21.UC3 on a Sun platform. As I was doing some checks ealrier today I found that one of the tables was fast running out of space on it's current extent (100MB free). Based on the DB Schema, the next extent request is 2GB while the total unallocated…
Request: Dbspace Space Checker Routine
How anyone written a routine that checks for one or more of the following conditions and send an email when the conditions are detected 1. Not enough free space available for the largest "next extent size" table to fit within the largest remaining FREE space within its dbspace. …
IDS V7.30 and Windows 2000
Can Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.30.TC6 be run on a Windows 2000 host system? TIA Erwin…
dbspace down
I have stopped the database with onmode -k and now it refuse to come up saying that it will need restore of dbspaces. What is the best way to restore the database and make the engine online. Any inupt is highly appreciated, thanks Mukund sending to informix-list…
Re: Error Initialize Informix Dynamic Server
Art S. Kagel wrote: > On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 05:05:41 -0400, madiego wrote: >>I install Informix Dynamic Server and when I initialize 'oninit -iv' : >> >>This action will initialize Informix Dynamic Server; any existing Informix >>Dynamic Server databases will NOT be accessible - Do…
Error Initialize Informix Dynamic Server
Hello, I install Informix Dynamic Server and when I initialize 'oninit -iv' : This action will initialize Informix Dynamic Server; any existing Informix Dynamic Server databases will NOT be accessible - Do you wish to continue (y/n)? y Checking group membership to determine ser…
Re: Informix Dynamic Server and DB Tuning
I am experiencing similar problems with users migrating from Standard Engine to IDS 9.30. It appears that some applications are more susceptible than others. What application(s) are you running? We also have experience of adding more BUFFERS, LOCKS, etc and not improving the sit…
RE: Informix Dynamic Server and DB Tuning
Muthana Increase BUFFERS in onconfig file. UPDATE STATISTICS for each table (as a minimum) rerun the query and see what improvements you get. If you still have problems post the results of:- onstat -p onstat -m onstat -R and sqexplain.out of any particularly slow query or updat…
Informix Dynamic Server and DB Tuning
Dear Sir, The question how can make DB Tuning for Informix Dynamic Server version 9:30 to get the query faster. I used IDS 9:30 and it's not quick enough like our old Standard Engine. which Parameter can i change to make that or what shall i do? Regards Muthana AL-Temimi…
Can IDS accessing Informix SE Tables.
Hello, Now we are using Informix SE. We are planning to go Infomix Dynamic Server 9.x. Before migrating our current applications to IDS 9.x., first we have to develop a new application in IDS 9.x, in that we need to use some of the tables from informx SE. Could you please answer…
Logical logs from rootdbs to own logspace
I want to set-up a logspace dbspace - easy enough. But how do I tell informix to use this logspace dbspace instead of rootdbs?…
Delete BLOBs but chunk space not freed
This is expected behaviour. The space is allocated to the "tablespace" in extents, not on a per row basis. Space is not freed up from the tablespace as data is deleted. Extents are generally bigger than 1 row, but space isn't even freed up when a whole exetnt is empty The theo…
Re: Can data pages in IDS act like a torn page in SQL ser
----- Original Message ----- From: R.... Konikoff <konikoffr@BRAGG.ARMY.MIL> At: 5/19 15:32 > Me: INFORMIX-OnLine Version 7.23.UC11 > > OS: HP-UX 11 > > One of our MS-SQL server guys came over and explained that he experiences > "torn pages" where a corrupt data element leaves a…
Dose anybody have the dbtop script in the Troubleshooting informix course?
Dears, I study the Troubleshooting ibm informix dynamic server course. At the module 4 exercise need the dbtop script. Dose anybody has this dbtop script and post for me? Thanks. Philip Yeh.…
RE: Performance advice
On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 03:00:06 -0400, Willem Roos wrote: > I've been led to believe that all logged temp table activity goes to rootdbs > and all unlogged activity goes to temp dbspaces. Yes, no? <SNIP> If there are no 'normal' dbspaces listed in DBSPACETEMP then logged temp tabl…
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…
SMI Table
How to use smi tables to create a list showing all dbspaces and databases in each dbspaces? Thanks.…
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,…
dbspace destroyed
Hi! On one machine dbspace was destroyed by unwary sysadmin who repartiioned disk with informix chunks on it (raw devices). Now, informix can be started (it complains about missing chunks though). What is the procedure for removing staled information for chunks? I should remov…
Detaching Indexes
If you are checking free space in the dbspaces, then yes, simply detaching the indexes will not automatically release pages to the free pool. The now unused space within the table IS free for the table to use for more data pages (run oncheck -pt or -pT to check), but to release …
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…
Dropping a dbspace
I have a bad dbspace I wanted to drop (and recreated). But I have some problem. Here is the output form onstat -d: 5010c7d8 1 0x20001 1 1 N informix dbroot_test3 5020dcb0 2 0x20005 2 1 ND informix dbdata 5020de00 3 …
How to tell size of database?
Interesting question!! If you create a 1000 page extent and put 1 row in it, how do you measure the size of the database? You can add up the size of all the extents in your database using the sysmaster database : select sum(size) from sysextents where dbsname = <dbname> This …
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…
What is in my dbspace
Try oncheck -pe. This will report the contents of all dbspaces/chunks.…
Where can I get the client API?
Hi, does anyone knows where to get the client API for Informix Dynamic Server 7.x? Perhaps we want to access the server via api directly. Kind regards, Joachim Engel.…
Informix optimizer
Hi, Does anyone know if the Informix Dynamic Server (7.31 or 9.4) database optimizer uses star schema optimizer techniques? Thank you, Tony…
TRUNCATE TABLE command in 9.3?
I am aware that Informix Dynamic Server previously has not included the TRUNCATE TABLE command. Does anyone know if 9.3 or 9.4 include this command?…
Linux fgl_getenv
Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.30.UC3 on Linux. Do I have to do something before I can use the fgl_getenv call in a stored procedure? When I try I get 674: Routine (fgl_getenv) can not be resolved.…
IDS 7.3* - Long long long checkpoint !
I've noticed very long checkpoints in the online.log file. What does IDS do in a checkpoint that can take so long ? Environnement: IDS running on NT 2000 or Linux (even SCO !) with at least 128MB RAM, monoproc. IDS is usually the only big apps running on the box. "Small" databas…
big dbspace
Hello, I need a very big dbspace (at least 15Gb) for my database (IDS 9.4) but the limit for a single dbspace is about 2Gb. How can I increase this limit? thank you…
break one dbspace in to two dbspace
Hi all I have one dbspace where I have all data and indexes I wanted to created one more dbspace one dbspace has the data in it one dbspace has the indexes in it how do that ? regard sending to informix-list…
large extent created in index dbspace?
On 25 Sep 2003 02:13:59 -0700, robert.smith@huntleigh-healthcare.com (Rob Smith) wrote: >Hi All, >Question > >I have created a table with >First extent size 1600000 >Next extent size 160000 > >The indexes are kept in a seperate dbspace >All seems to go…
Re: Multiple Temp dbspaces
You might want to check your DBSPACETEMP entry - it looks from your post like there's white space between the dbspace names - Informix will stop parsing at spaces, tabs etc. and will only pick up the first dbspace listed. HTH -- Phil@oninit.com…
Re: dbspace ?
Where do we all begin? A dbspace is an area where databases, tables, etc can be stored. It is not just one file, it is more likely to be a number of files or more likely devices. When a database is created it will have a base dbspace where all tables will be created unless othe…
dbspace ?
Hi, Sorry, I am a little bit new in Informix. We need to modify the structure of a table, and the system allways answer that the disk is not big enough. They say it's because the dbspace is too small. Questions : - is the Dbspace a file or just allocation ? - is there ONE dbsp…
Is there a 2gb dbspace limit NT 4.0, IDS 7.3?
Is there a 2gb dbspace limit on Windows NT 4.0, IDS 7.3?…
Rename a dbspace
Hi, Does someone know an easy mean which permit me to rename a dbspace contening just a separated index ? Thanks in advance. Best Regards Fred…
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…
Reg: Max size allowed in creation of dbspace
Hi , I need to create a dbspace of abt 5-6 GB. on using onspaces to create the dbspace i am limited in size to about 2.09 GB is there a way to create a dbspaces of about 6 GB or is there a size restriction ? Thanks for any help Sudhir sending to informix-list…
Where are the logical logs?
Hi there, Is there any way to know which dbspace are the logical logs in? Thx.…
why I can't see the output of "onstat -g wts"
test:/informix>onstat -g wst Informix Dynamic Server 2000 Version 9.21.FC7 -- On-Line -- Up 5 days 13:23:03 -- 11132960 Kbytes Wait statistics not enabled How to enable the wait statistics???…
informix SDK 2.81 ifxoledbc OLEDB and ADO
When Updating or deleting a non existing row in a table, the informix oledb provider produces an "UnSpecified error". Environment: Informix Dynamic Server 7.31 Informix SDK 2.81 ADO 2.6 Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance…
Re: Free space in an extent
update statistics; select tabname, npused from systables; cheers j. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bronson Tubb" <btubb@rotech.com> To: <informix-list@iiug.org> Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 1:57 PM Subject: Free space in an extent > Hello, > I am trying to find out how much …
Free space in an extent
Hello, I am trying to find out how much room is left in dbspace. The output from an onstat -d shows all chunks for that dbspace as full ( 0 free pages) however the next extent size was set rather large so I know we have some room left, I just don't know how much. I am trying th…
Free space in an extent
Hello, I am trying to find out how much room is left in dbspace. The output from an onstat -d shows all chunks for that dbspace as full ( 0 free pages) however the next extent size was set rather large so I know we have some room left, I just don't know how much. I am trying th…
Dbspaces access
Hi All, Does anyone know how to obtain a report of a dbspaces more accesed, read / write, by sap or informix I really need this information, thanks in advance!! Luis Arturo López Caballero Proyecto ASARE - Modulo Base Mexico D.F. Tel. 01(55)52294400 Ext. 85705…
delete down dbspace
Hi, I have a down dbspace, I am not able to do anything with it, there is no needed data inside, how I am able to delete this dbspace. (the dbspace has one chunk). Thanks Sven…
Actual free space by Chunk/dbspaces
Please do not post HTML/Mime, this is a text only newsgroup. Tham Huei Hwan wrote: > > Hi all, > > If anyone out there can let me know the sql syntax that can be use to > find out the actual free space by chunk / dbspaces after the data > purging (instead of load/unload and alte…
question on how to list tables in a DBSPACE?
Hi, Does anyone have some type of scripts that list All DBSPACE for an Informixserver, and all tables in each DBSPACE + how much bytes they take? Thanks!…
actual dbspaces/chunks size
Although you are removing/archiving data, the tables are probably still holding their initial extents. Try running this command: oncheck -pt DATABASE:TABLE | head -21 This will output a report in the following format: TBLspace Report for cl_bigsys_amarta:dba.contract Physic…
Fragmented dbspaces
Yup, dbspaces *not* fragmented tables. Our system holds about 75Gb on a mixture of 4.3Gb & 9Gb disks, raw chunks, HP-UX 10.20, IDS7.31. When it was built we ran some predictions re. growth and so on based on the figures given to us by the business analysis group, upon which we ba…
What requires an IDS Linux?
Hello What requires an Informix Dynamic Server Linux a desktop and/or a network version of Linux? Thanks in advance Jacqueline Romero Miranda…
RE: explanation of "out of space"
"Parker, Jack" <JParker@engage.com> writes: > hen you delete rows, you don't release the disk space that was allocated. > Inserting new rows will use existing holes in your table (provided you > aren't using HPL in express mode or ploader in which case all loaded data is > writt…
Re: How to monitor Informix on Unix
From: "Shivvers, CC" <CShivvers@hy-vee.com> > >I am currently running Informix on my Unix box it's RS/6000 running AIX >4.3.3 and running the most current version of Informix. I am not running >Xwindows. What is the best way to monitor the performance of Informix? >Such as data…
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…
Dangers of dropping foreign key constraints?
c-eriks@algonet.se wrote in message <8ve7si$n47$1@nnrp1.deja.com>... >OK! I managed to do a "ALTER INDEX index-name TO CLUSTER" without >dropping any indexes. I didn't get the result I wanted though. The >number of extents for the table wasn't reduced. I have achieved that >when …
Re: Extent size when rebuilding a table
From: chris <cwalz@mayn.de> > >use in ur create table statement >create table ... >{... >} >extent size SIZE >next extent size SIZE NEXT SIZE, not NEXT EXTENT SIZE. >c-eriks@algonet.se wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > I'm trying out ways to reduce the number of extents for tables. The …
Dropping a dbspace
Hello All, Can somebody please help me with this. When I try to drop a dbspace, it says can not drop it. db space not empy. How do I find out what is there in the dbspace. Please help. Regards Aboo…
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…
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RE: inf 9.2 taking much more space than 7.23
Rumor has it that each index item has an additional 8 bytes of overhead. Scott H. > -----Original Message----- > From: Roy Mercer [SMTP:roy_d_mercer_1234@yahoo.com] > Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 8:34 AM > To: Informix List > Subject: Re: inf 9.2 taking much more space t…
Re: inf 9.2 taking much more space than 7.23
9.X is taking up more space because the 9.x release stores all indexes in their own TBLSPACE. If you look at on oncheck -pt you will find your indexes have been detached. All of you 7.X extent sizing included indexes. When you import the indexes are taking their own space and t…
dbspace is down ...
When I try to drop the dbspace, it reports following ... $ onspaces -d rootdbstest WARNING: Dropping a DBspace/BLOBspace. Do you really want to continue? (y/n)y WARNING! The dbspace you wish to drop has been disabled. There may be database catalog entries for tables or indices…
dbspace is down ...
Sorry for MIME format ... I have no alternative ... BUT PLEASE HELP ME ... IX: OWS 7.2, OS: SCO UNIX During my initial years as IX DBA, I tried to create two instances of informix ows 7.2. For this I created a dbspace using COMMAND CENTER from my windows station. then I put thi…
dbspace is down ...
Sorry for MIME format ... I have no alternative ... BUT PLEASE HELP ME ... IX: OWS 7.2, OS: SCO UNIX During my initial years as IX DBA, I tried to create two instances of informix ows 7.2. For this I created a dbspace using COMMAND CENTER from my windows station. then I put thi…
DBspaces and IECC
I have installed IECC on an NT4 machine with a 36 gig hard drive. I have created a dbspace on the D drive that is currently 7Gig. The D drive has 24 gig of free space, but Informix is not seeing it. When I try to add space to the dbspace it tells me that there is no free space…
Optimizing dbspace
Hello, I have a quite large table that acquires about 3 million rows a month. Every two weeks we purge the data by unloading it to a backup and deleting the "old" information. We do run 'update statistics' every time when deletes are performed. But it looks like it does not opt…
Re: How to search for a string in a TEXT field
Hi, :-( SELECT name, REPLACE(text,"ZNOTREADY","found") AS your_output FROM tablewithtextfield; Blobs are not allowed in this expression. I use Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.31.UC2A…
RE: Extent Q and could be possible architecture Q
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Create user in Informix Dynamic Server
Hello all I`m new in INS. Could you help me? I have Database server with one user Informix. How to create another user to Database?…
Informix ODS on Win 2000?
Does Informix Dynamic Server V7.31.TC5 for Intel Pentium Windows NT 4 also run on Windows 2000? Thanks for any help. Guy Dillen ITP…
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…
Creating Dbspace
I am trying to create a new dbspace with a size of ~2Gig. When I specify the path to the cooked file to use it tries to verify the disk free space and always fails at around 1 gig. I know that I have plenty of free space on the disk so I can't figure out what the problem is. I…
Altering DBSPACE
Hello group, We have created all of our tables in dbspace "st_ux01_001". Now the "dbadmin" want to move all of our tables to dbspace "st_ux01_002". In Informix dokus we didn't find any command to alter a dbspace. The only way we know to alter the dbspace is, to export all data…
DBSPACE by table
There is a table in sysmaster who contains dbspace for every table. Thanks in advance. -- Francisco Gaspar SISTEL (Servicios Inform�ticos de Software y Telecomunicaciones, S.L.) Avda. Los Jarales, 4 03010 Alicante Tel: 96 593 00 80 Fax: 96 593 01 53…
extent allocation of alter fragment
Roger Xu wrote: > > Hi, > > Can someone tell me how does "alter fragment" allocate extents while doing > the following: > > alter fragment on table <tablename> init fragment by round robin in > dbspace1, dbspace2, dpspace3 The same as every other Informix command that alloc…
Dbspace in CDROM
Hello, Can I create a dbspace for readonly in a CDROM? If it is possible, how can I do it? Regards. Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.…
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…
DBSpace is disabled
Hello. I've a big problem: one DBSpace is disabled (chunk marked as Inconsistent), Informix ODS is off-line and I dont have an archive. I think exists an utility, that brings that inconsistent chunk On-Line. May be some body can give me it . Operating system is AIX 4.2.1.0, Infor…
Defraging
I assume you are talking about getting rid of incontiguous extents instead of data partitioning. If the free spaces in the dbspace are not contiguous at all, the new table can't allocate contiguous extents as you hoped. do following may help: 1.export database (you have done) …
Index Dbspace
As I determine through tables of sysmaster dbspace that it has assigned an index? Thank * Sent from AltaVista http://www.altavista.com Where you can also find related Web Pages, Images, Audios, Videos, News, and Shopping. Smart is Beautiful…
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…
DBs in a dbspace
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------DB252259E0E5E1E7CD818FAA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all, Good moring. Please help me in finding the dbs in a dbspace. What is the easiest way. Regards Aboo ---------…
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…
TEMP dbspaces
Hi I have peculiar problem with temp dbspaces on IDS 7.22 UC1 and HP-UX 10.2. We defined tempdbs1,tempdbs2 as TEMPDBSPACES and 50000 pages for each dbspace. This system was configured two years back and using for development. This IDS server never be shutdown until necessary. …
List tables per dbspace
I am trying to generate a list of the Informix tables per each dbspace. My sysfragments table only contains the indexes. I have dbspaces that are filling up and am trying determine which tables could possibly be moved to another dbspace (while still being aware of application c…
DBSPACES and RAID
Hi Has anyone had any experience of setting up DBSPACES on a RAID 5 machine (in particular - running linux) I'm trying to make sure that there won't be any problems when I do the final port off the (un-RAIDed) HP machine to a RAIDed linux box - so would appreciate any advice in …
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: extent problem
If you do not specify your extent size at object creation then Informix will default your extent size to 8 pages. The Informix extent algorithm doubles every 16 extents so extents 17-32 will be made up of 16 pages, 33-48 will be 32 pages per extent and so on and so on. You can ma…
Re: Dbspaces
You don't like betty then:-)) "Art S. Kagel" wrote: > > > # Database/Table/Index Owner DBSpace Created Logging NLS > === ====================== ======== ================== ========== ========== === > 1 flintstones kagel dbspace4 …
Dbspaces
Hello, Can I find that which dbspace containing the database and tables. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com…
detecting fragmented dbspace...
Sunil Bhaskarla wrote: > > Hi, > Which tool will provide me with detail information about fragmented dbspace? oncheck -pe Reports all extents by dbspace and what table each belongs to. Art S. Kagel…
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…
informix dynamic server on linux help
Hi all, I am an informix newbie, and i have problems running it on redhat linux 6.0. The installation went just fine, but now when i start dbaccess and try to create a new database i get this error message: 25584: Network driver can not access server program /opt/informix/lib/sq…
Informix Dynamic Server on IBM SSA
Can any one share their experiences, recommendations, pit-falls, comments about creating an IDS db engineOLTP environment on an IBM SSA Raid system? We have 2 SSA adapters and have 4 loops with 4 drives each. The IBM techs for the Smoothstart services will be coming next Tuesday…
RE: Extents
Steve Yes, much better. ALTER TABLE tablename NEXT SIZE whatever; ALTER FRAGMENT ON TABLE tabname INIT IN your_dbspacename; This will rebuild the table. You cannot alter the primary EXTENT SIZE without dropping the table. This allows you to create a table with 2 extents -…
DBSPACE / DBSIZE
I am forced to inherit and maintain and Informix database for now. I studied the Informix book(s) over the weekend and have yet to find what I need. I hope to be a master some day as well, but for now I need immediate help with these questions: How do I determine the c…
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…
dbspace not empty
Hi Thanks for all the suggestions about the database reorg - when I finally managed to export all the data I ran an oncheck -pe and 5 of my chunks had data in them and they weren't related to any of my databases - see attached oncheck -pe. Any idea how to clear them out as I ca…
Re: move dbspace/chunks on NT
Jay Walters wrote: > Is there any way other than backup/restore to move a chunk on NT to > another disk. Can I move the root dbspace this way? > > TIA, Sure. Save data from the dbspace containing your chunk (dbexport, unload, onunload). Remove all data from the dbspace. Drop …
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…
DBSPACE Problem.
Hi , I am running informix 730 uc8 server. One of the DBSPACE status (dbase5) showing disabled. Server in Quiscent mode. I am unable shutdown or bring up to Multiuser mode. Actual size of chunk used for dbase5 is 2044 Mb but its not showing the correct size. Pl find the online…
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…
Ontape -r failed
I am trying to do a restore of a level 0 backup. It is failing with an error "Physical restore failed - [db_sort ] Invalid DBspace list. I am getting this error eventhough the dbspaces and ids on the backup tape matches exactly to the dbspace list in onmonitor. Any ide…
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…
which tables are in a specific dbspace?
Hello! How can I get, which tables are in a specific dbspace? thanks Gabor…
dbspaces on NT
Hello, somewhere I read :-)) that IX DBSPACE is limited to 2GB and NTFS to 4GB. I have 10GB HDD for Informix only (IDSWE 7.30) and PII server. Exists better solution than 5x 2GB NTFS? Thanks Leos…
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…
altering DBSpaces
I will be adding some chunks to a BLOB space this evening. In the past I had been told by Informix to run an oncheck command after changing DBSpaces but I cannot recall what flags for oncheck. Can anyone help me out?…
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.…
space alloc for detached indexes
allenj wrote: > > Environment: > HP K260 w/ HP-UX 10.20 > Informix 7.31.UC2 > 1 gig RAM > RAID 10 disc array > > How does Informix go about allocating space in detached index dbspaces? > > I am experimenting on my soon-to-be production machine. I built an > index aga…
alter index to cluster
When the 'alter table' re-built the table there wasn't enough contiguous free space to take the table as one extent! Top Cat wrote in message <7o6q24$26f$1@nnrp02.primenet.com>... >I had a table which had 22 extents. I altered the unique index to cluster >through isql. Now, on…
# of chunks for a dbspace !
Hi Users, In an Informix IDS 7.3 / SAP 4.5B environment what is the maximum number of chunks that can be assigned to a growing dbspace. Thanks in advance Pramod ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com…
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…
dbspace sizes
I am configuring a 7.3 IDS engine on a SUN box. I configured a 4 GB volume on 1 disk. I created a dbspace on the volume with the first chunk at offset 0 and a size of 2 GB (approximately). I try to add a second chunk, with an offset of 2GB and a size of 2GB but Informix won't …
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…
size of dbspace
Hi, I have a IDS 7.30 on solaris. I will transfer a import a datadase from NT environment. Which size shall I create for the dbspace for my database ? Thanks…
Problems starting IDS 7.30.TC7 on Windows NT SP4.
When i try to start informix dynamic Server, the following message appears "Only informix user can start informix dynamic server" this message appears when i logged on with the informix's user. When i try to start the service on the control panel , error 2140 appears.…
Out of buffer?
Hi, I got the following error message from an Informix IDS 7.30: <<Informix Dynamic Server>>> WARNING! Buffer pool size may cause Dynamic Server to get into a locked state. Recommended minimum buffer pool size is 4 times maximum concurrent user thre…
dbspace and the table
How can I identify in which dbaspaces the table is located?…
DBSPACE
Author : T.Jalaludeen E-mail : jala@hpsgm99.sgp.hp.com Hai, I created a database in INFOMRIX 7.23 - HP UX. I created tables also. But later I found thatthe transaction logging has not been turned ON for this database, so droped the database and created using "CREATE DATABASE <d…
Re: DBSPACE
"T.Jalaludeen" wrote: > > Author : T.Jalaludeen > E-mail : jala@hpsgm99.sgp.hp.com > > Hai, > I created a database in INFOMRIX 7.23 - HP UX. > I created tables also. But later I found thatthe > transaction logging has not been turned ON for this database, > so droped the databas…
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…
DBSPACE size
It is possible to create a rootdbspace during instalation larger than 30 Mb ?…
Rename Dbspaces
Does anyone know of a safe way to rename a dbspace? I can't drop and recreate the dbspace, because it's the "home" for a database, and the database is too large for dbexport/dbimport.…
Dbspaces and indexes
Hello, Is it possible to determine what dbspace an index resides in? I know generally the index resides in the same dbspace as the table, but there are exceptions. There dont seem to be any utilities to tell you where the index resides. I am sure there is a query from the SMI …
Empty dbspaces.
When I clear a dbspaces, solely in use for tables from tables with "alter fragment ...." then I see with onstat -d that the dbspace isn't completely empty however looking in the sysfragments tables for the datbases I found the dbspace isn't in used. Also oncheck -pt shows me that…
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…
Rename a dbspace
v7.24 UC6 on HP-UX 10.20: Does anyone know if this is simple? The reason I want to do so is that I need to move a large database from one server to another, with onunload/onload. There is a (glaring) bug in onload whereby you must load the database into a dbspace with the same…
Re: How to change column type NCHAR back to CHAR
Richard Spitz wrote: > > Hi Informixers, > > due to the abysmal performance of MATCHES queries against NCHAR columns > (this is a "bug called feature" that Informix has finally acknowledged > and is working on) I have to change back quite a few of these columns > back to CHAR. Th…
tables in dbspace
Folks, Might someone suggest a way to derive a list of all tables that exist in each dbspace? Thank you for any comments. David Grove Dept. Health & Social Svcs. State of Alaska…
IDS v7.24 UC6 onload
I had a strange situation using onload. I wanted to copy database A from Server 1 to Server 2. I used onunload to unload the database (on Server 1 it resided in dbspace X). When I tried to onload it into Server 2, specifically into dbspace Y, the load failed with a "no such db…
free space in an extent
I'm tring to find a way to calculate the remaining free space within an extent. Any help ? Thanks, David Donaldson daved@newvisionsystems.com…
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?…
Create DBSpace...
Hi folks, We're trying to automatize our database installation throughout hundreds of sites and it is straightforward to use onspaces command to create desired dbspaces. In an NT 4.0 (SP3) box with Informix 7.23 TC1, a 500 MB of dbspace can be created in as long as 20 *MINUTES*.…
dbspace full
Hi friends , Now we face a problem , a dbspace is full but we do not want to add disk space for this dbspace , there are 4 databases located in this dbspace , I know delete rows in the tables will not release the spaces , we must drop some tables or do the tbcheck/dbexport/dbimp…
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.…
Moving sysmaster table extents
We have a database that uses 24 chunks split across 16 dbspaces. The first dbspace has two chunks. This dbspace contains the catalog tables for the database. I have moved most of the data tables out from this dbspace so the first chunk could easily hold the catalog tables. Howeve…
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…
dbspace error
hi all: I accidentaly delete the chunk filr for a dbspace, now I droped the database, when I try to remove the dbspace, it gives me a internal error. How would I delete a dbspace while it's chunk file is gone? thanks yan…
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 …
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…
Tables in dbspaces
Is there a way to list all of the tables that are in a dbspace? Thanks in advance. Steve…
unloading a dbspace
I am using Informix Universal Server 9.14UC2 on Solaris 2.5.1. I have a database which has tables spread across 9 dbspaces and two of them are smart blob spaces. What I would like to do is to unload each dbspace, copy the file to another instance of online to restore into a dbsp…
Deployment Licenses of Informix Dynamic Server
I need a free Deployment Licenses of Informix Dynamic Server!…
Re: Informix Dynamic Server blocks
In article <3609EB18.2AB1B1CD@bull.net>, Helmut Leininger <Helmut.Leininger@bull.net> writes >Hi, > >Sporadically, the Informix server seems to block (every try to connect >or onstat times out and no reaction on onmode -ky). In the MSGPATH I >find the following message: > >09:03:…
Informix Dynamic Server blocks
Hi, Sporadically, the Informix server seems to block (every try to connect or onstat times out and no reaction on onmode -ky). In the MSGPATH I find the following message: 09:03:42 mt.c, line 8362, thread 2139, proc id 17096, mt_notifyvp timed out. Informix server is 7.22.UC2…
Informix Dynamic Server blocks
Hi, Sporadically, the Informix server seems to block (every try to connect or onstat times out and no reaction on onmode -ky). In the MSGPATH I find the following message: 09:03:42 mt.c, line 8362, thread 2139, proc id 17096, mt_notifyvp timed out. Informix server is 7.22.UC2…
Re: the explain of tbcheck -pt
In article <36080690.702A@bellsouth.net>, "Carlson@WHSmith" <carlson1@bellsouth.net> wrote: > jjdai@hotmail.com wrote: > > . . . snip snip snip . . . > > > Hi John , > > > > I am JianJun , thanks for you answer , to my understanding of your reply , > > you said only one extend…
Re: the explain of tbcheck -pt
jjdai@hotmail.com wrote: . . . snip snip snip . . . > Hi John , > > I am JianJun , thanks for you answer , to my understanding of your reply , > you said only one extend for this table , so only the first extent is > allocated, but there are 34 pages of data in the table , and…
Re: DBSCHEMA doesn't show the DBSPACE????
roger.bruening@metrokc.gov wrote: > > When running DBSCHEMA, the only table that shows the dbspace that it was > placed on is one where a fragmentation scheme is in place. As I recall, the -ss option will show the dbspace name for all tables other than those that reside in the "…
Re: ALTER FRAGMENT
Sahrul Hidayat wrote: > > Dear All, > > Question about this subject, > > 1. How ALTER FRAGMENT work, All rows are read then written into the new dbspace (or original dbspace if that's what you specify), and the original table is dropped. > 2. What we have to take care before do …
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: alter index
Sadagopan, Sathish wrote: > > Hi, > Is Alter index to cluster a good idea to force contiguity and free up space > than > doing a dbexport/dbimport , what are the pros and cons ? It depends on the version. Most ALTER commands now do in-place alters. So the only sure way at this s…
OnLine Dynamic Server 7.2 Vs INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3
What are the major differences between INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server 7.2 and INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3? Is it ORDBMS vs RDMBS? Thanks, Ben…
Informix computer Base classes
Has any body used the Informix computer base training classes. I am wondering if any of the computer based training classes: "Informix Dynamic Server System Administration" or the "Managing and Optimizing Informix Dynamic Server Databases" is good. Thank You…
Re: Informix Online Dynamic Server 7 on Linux
Piet le Roux wrote: > > If anyone has succeeded to run Informix ODS 7 (SCO) on Linux help would > be appreciated. > I have installed iBCS and the shared libraries and the binaries work, > except that the engine cannot initialize shared memory: Error message > semctl: errno 22…
Informix Online Dynamic Server 7 on Linux
If anyone has succeeded to run Informix ODS 7 (SCO) on Linux help would be appreciated. I have installed iBCS and the shared libraries and the binaries work, except that the engine cannot initialize shared memory: Error message semctl: errno 22 create_vp: cannot allocat m…
Problems with Informix Dynamic Server for NT
Hi Has anyone tried downloading and running the dynamic server product for NT? I have it installed, but get the following error when I boot the system: AdmAgent.exe - Applicatioin error The instruction at "0x10087c69 referenced memory at "0x00000000". The memory could not be r…
Re: Removing a chunk
BlackStar escribi�: > Is there anyway I can remove a chunk from a DBSPACE without deleting > the DBSPACE? Can I do it online? > > Thanx > Standard Disclaimer You should use "onspaces -d <dbspace> -p <chunk-pathname> -o <offset>". And remember that the chunk must be empt…
Removing a chunk
Is there anyway I can remove a chunk from a DBSPACE without deleting the DBSPACE? Can I do it online? Thanx Standard Disclaimer…
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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DBSPACE - DATABASE
in which "systables" can i read the relation between dbspace to databases????…
Dbspace Question.
Hi, I'm sure of the 6 dbspaces assigned to a perticular database. Also I'm sure that no other tables from any other databases are residing there. When I drop that database and look at the chunks, I get the following output. 99d04108 35 20 0 1000000 998796 PO…
Re: Question about Extents
The best way to free previously allocated space or force restructuring of a table is to alter one of the table's indexes to CLUSTER. This will always physically restructure the table, even if the index is currently clustered. Suhas Tembe stembe@msn.com Carlos Novo Negrillo wrot…
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…
Question about Extents
I'm working with Online 7.2. I've seen that when Informix alocates a new extent for a table, and later that table is erased ( not dropped ), the space previosly allocated is not freed ... How can I make online to free that space for being allocated for other table/s when needed…
dbspace question
Currently my dbspace is spread over 5 different chunks on several small and slow hard-disks. After replacing these disks with a larger and faster one, is it a good idea to merge the small chunks into one large chunk ? If yes, is there an easy way to do that ? Detlef Liem…
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: +…
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…
Sizing dbspaces
Does anyone have any recommendation or guidelines we can use in determining a base sizing strategy for rootdbs and physicaldbs. I am most conerned about physicaldbs. I used the formula in the Admin guide to determine a size for physicaldbs but I am not sure if the result was in…
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…
corrupt dbspace
I am running Informix ODS 7.22 on AIX V 4.1. I accidentally removed a file from AIX that Informix ODS had listed as a chunk in a dbspace (that I was about to remove anyway). I don't back the system up since it is our test system. All I want to do is remove the dbspace and all…
Create Index Problem.....
Hi, I've created one databse in a perticular dbspace with one table. If I create an index on that table using 'in dbspace' clause, sysextents table in sysmaster database reports it But if I create the same index without 'in dbspace' clause, it doesn't report it. Why ? ? Abhay …
Re: Help - I've hit the maximum number of extents in Informix 5
"robert.vorbroker" <robert.vorbroker@MCI2000.com> offerred: (in response to "what happens if you hit the max # extents for a table?") :You need to find some downtime and diskspace. : :Unload the table to a file. :Drop and recreate the tables with new sizing and extent sizing. :Re…
dbspaces question ....
Hi, Environment : OSD 7.23uc4 HP-UX 10.20 We have all 2Gb disk chunks ( told by Unix Admin to me ). I tried to run onspaces command for the size more than this and I found that I can allocate 2.048Gb Also existing allocation of disk space leaves gaps of few Mb in be…
Re: Database DBSpace
mbaumgartner@cardhealth.com wrote: > > I have a database created in a non-root dbspace. I would like to relocate the > database, not any tables, to another dbspace without unloading/exporting the > database. Is it possible to relocate a database to another dbspace? > > Mark Bau…
Dbspace Question ----
Hi, If there are 2 informix servers on one machine and I create a dbspace for the first server which overlaps one of the dbspaces for the second, what will happen ? Does it gives error or I'll loose the data ? Thanks in advance. Abhay Mannur.…
Re: How is disk space allocated to Indexes?
apatankar@s1.com wrote: > > My questions are as follows: > Assume that you create a table and allocate it an initial extent of some size. > Then you create an index on that table in the same dbspace. Then you add rows > to the table, so that nodes get created in the index. Is the…
Re: How is disk space allocated to Indexes?
apatankar@s1.com wrote: >My questions are as follows: >Assume that you create a table and allocate it an initial extent of some size. >Then you create an index on that table in the same dbspace. Then you add rows >to the table, so that nodes get created in the index. Is the spac…
How is disk space allocated to Indexes?
My questions are as follows: Assume that you create a table and allocate it an initial extent of some size. Then you create an index on that table in the same dbspace. Then you add rows to the table, so that nodes get created in the index. Is the space allocated to the index part…
How can I read the header tape of the archive created by ontape?
I have Informix Dynamic Server 7.23.UC1. I would like know the tape header structure created by ontape.…
Re: My Whole World Fell Apart!!
Samuels David NTSE (David.Samuels@nts.hl.siemens.de) wrote: : I have a table called scpard it was created with an initial extent of : 620 Kb and a next extent size of 124 Kb. the problem might be how space is allocated in your chunks. even if you specify 124kb as your next ex…
Database DBSpace
I have a database created in a non-root dbspace. I would like to relocate the database, not any tables, to another dbspace without unloading/exporting the database. Is it possible to relocate a database to another dbspace? Mark Baumgartner Cardinal Health…
Re: oncheck -pT question
mukta mohindra wrote: > > I altered a table columns from char(60) to varchar(100). > When I did oncheck -pT on the table the extents were collapsed into 1 > extent, however the first and next extent size still showed 8 when the > total number of pages allocated was 160. Why is th…
oncheck -pT question
I altered a table columns from char(60) to varchar(100). When I did oncheck -pT on the table the extents were collapsed into 1 extent, however the first and next extent size still showed 8 when the total number of pages allocated was 160. Why is that ? Also, the amount of free s…
Re: How to reuse pages in other tables?
Hi, Answer your question one by one. At 04:44 PM 2/10/98 +0200, Leonids.Voroncovs@dati.lv wrote: >Hi, All! >Please, help. > >Created a table: CREATE TABLE ... >Checked: oncheck -pT database:table > ... > Number of extents 1 > First extent size …
Re: A question on shared memory usage
In article <34DF0E07.32C6@bloomberg.com>, Art S. Kagel <kagel@bloomberg.com> writes >com@netinfo.moldova.net wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> In article <34dcff94.500279443@10.209.30.200>, >> jharris@westpac.com.au wrote: >> > >> > Octav, >> > >> > Once Infomrix allocates a shared mem…
mirroring
What dbspaces should I mirror? Of course rootdbs is a give. thanks…
Re: Upgrading Informix from Online engine to Dynamic Server
Seth Grimes wrote: > > Jane Vohden wrote: > > > > I have been talking with Informix about upgrading our site from the > > 5.xx Online engine to 7.2x Dynamic Server. They said there was no cost > > I don't think that anyone has pointed out the mistaken terminology > h…
What's the difference between ODS 7.22 and 7.23?
What's the difference between Informix Online Dynamic Server version 7.22 and version 7.23? Thanks in advance. Bill Westphal Rodney District Council mis@rodney.govt.nz…
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…
onstat -d,onstat -D
Can anyone tell me the difference between a dbspaces address with a flag of 1 and a dbspaces address with a flag of 1001...... Tony Reynolds, NEC Group, Birmingham , UK 8-)) tr-2959@necgroup.co.uk tonyreynolds2@compuserve.com…
Re: Informix DB Reorganisation
Information Systems wrote: > > We are running Informix 5 on DGUX 4.11. What is the best way to perform a > database reorganisation or defragmentation? Unload and reload or, if you have the disks, create new tables, with larger extent and next sizes in the new dbspace, copy the …
invalid dbspace
I have been receiving this message for awhile..it hasn't seemed to affect normal functionality...but, I still would love to know what this message means: Warning: Invalid dbspace 'tmpdbs1' listed in DBSPACETEMP. lrwxr-xr-x 1 informix informix 19 Oct 16 1996 tmpdbs -> /d…
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: Chunk really full??? Puzzling . . .
} ... But the extents are }still allocated for the table and not shown as being free even though }rows have been deleted from the table. If this is the case, how does }one find out the "real" free space in a chunk? >>The "onstat -d" reports free pages which are not assigned to …
Re: Chunk really full??? Puzzling . . .
Space is allocated to tables in extents. An extent almost always can contain many rows of a table. When Online needs space for a table it will look in all chunks in the tables dbspace for the space. You're not giving copletre info from onstat -d or the create table statement so …
Re: Chunk really full??? Puzzling . . .
The "onstat -d" reports free pages which are not assigned to an extent. Your display shows that no space exists for additional extents. It does NOT mean that all extents in this dbspace are full. Use the "oncheck -pt <database>:<table-name>" command or query the corresponding SMI…
Chunk really full??? Puzzling . . .
The following is the output of an `onstat -d` for a particular chunk - calldata_dbs_4_cnd_1. de04c18 13 13 0 400000 0 PO- /chunks/calldata_dbs_4_cnk_1 ^ zero free space Notice that t…
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…
Where is dbspace?
On a raw disk(instance product) I created a database test. On other instance(training) on the same raw disk and fisical area other database with thehe same name was created. I deleted the second database and dbspace but on the first instance I can't access, drop the database tes…
Re: Minimizing Extent?
Chris Burton <cburton@gte.net> wrote in article <3314d07e.3489275@news.gte.com>... > On 26 Feb 1997 11:23:17 -0500, twright@inbrand.com (Terron Wright) wrote: > > >Is there a better way to reduce table extent than onunload and onload? > >Is there a way to do this on the fly. > > …
Re: Minimizing Extent?
On 26 Feb 1997 11:23:17 -0500, twright@inbrand.com (Terron Wright) wrote: >Is there a better way to reduce table extent than onunload and onload? >Is there a way to do this on the fly. ALTER INDEX index_name TO CLUSTER; ALTER INDEX index_name TO NOT CLUSTER; This will rebuild …
Re: free up disk space
The only way to free up an extent allocated to the table is to drop the table and add it back or create a cluster index as you said. Why will creating a cluster index cause a problem. Is the table(s) very large and you do not have enough disk space. Wendy Zheng (wendyinf@ebi.co…
free up disk space
Dear Informixers, I have a problem: How to free up extents that have been allocated to tables without restarting application that has cursor defined on the tables? We are using Online 5.0 on HP-UX. The datababase is to record some kind of daily activity. The data is accumula…
root dbspace
I have a test machine running Online 7.1. On performing a VERY large query I received an error message saying that there was no free disk space to write sorted rows into a temporary table. On examining the space available in the rootdbs 32252 pages remained out of 575000. I sh…
Dropping a dbspace.
We are trying to drop a bad chunk. The chunk is a cooked file and is the only chunk in that dbspace. When I try to drop the chunk I get the following message. % onspaces -d ch_dbspace1 WARNING: Dropping a DBspace/BLOBspace. Do you really want to continue? (y/n)y WARNING! The…
Removing a DBSpace
I'm having some trouble removing a DBSpace from an old Online 5.0x server. I created a temporary space to test some things, finished the testing, and deleted the database I had created, but it complains that the space isn't empty. Here is the "tbcheck -pe" output: Chunk: 4 …
dbspace
Hi Before I was hired, another non-DBA SA wrote a script: create database coris that went to rootdbs automatically, I believe It showed as Database Name Owner In Dpspace When Created Log Status coris informix rootdbs 01/24/96 B but It should be Database Name Owner I…
dbspace
Hi Before I was hired, another non-DBA SA wrote a script: create database coris that went to rootdbs automatically, I believe It showed as Database Name Owner In Dpspace When Created Log Status coris informix rootdbs 01/24/96 B but It should be Database Name Owner I…
Re: ** Extent limit reached, please help !! **
1) How big was he last extent allocated? If you don't know look in systables at the field nextsize for the table in question. 2) How much space is free in this table? run oncheck -pT <database>:<table name> 3) If you don't have much space free can you afford to unload som…
Drop db chunk
At one time, I accidentally add a chunk to a wrong dbspace. Is there a way to remove this wrongly added chunk so that the chunk may be allocated to the right dbspace? Edmund To an Informix novice Chinese University of HK…
AW: What happens when ?
Hi, One possible solution is to dump the correct dbspaces with dd on tape. After restoring the correct archive, it might be possible to overwrite the restored dbspaces by dumping the dbspaces back.(This works with Infomix 5, maybe with 7) Robert…
Fraged Tables/Onunload 7.13uc1
If a table is fraged across multiple dbspaces, and the indexes are created in a different dbspaces of its own, will onload work successfully if the table was droped and then reloaded? I know I can specify the dbspaces in which I want to load the table on the command line, but wh…
Informix Certified Professional Program Update
Informix offers two certification paths. Each path requires the successful completion of two exams. Each exam is US $250 and is between 60-90 minutes long. * Database Specialist for INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server 7.x 111 - Database Fundamentals Exam 112 - Managin…
Re: Informix v7.x Problem on Digital Unix: 2GB Limit
I think that you can solve the problem by creating a dbspace composed by 2 or more chunks of 2 Gb. Then, when you create the database you must specify this special dbspace. The load of the information will work fine! Bye Paulo Nunes (p.nunes@mail.telepac.pt)…
Temporary dbspace
I have created a temporary dbspace. It is referenced by the onconfig file parameter DBSPACETEMP. It was made larger recently because our reports explicitly create temp table using the "WITH NO LOG" option and the temp tables created by 2 specific reports can get pretty big. It i…
Re: Calculation of actual raw space used from allocated pages
Are you trying to calculate the amount of space free, including empty space in allocated extents? Larry Pettit wrote: > > Is there any way to determine the actual amount of raw space used from > the total allocated pages within a dbspace? We are running the 5.04 > Online Engi…
Space utilization questions
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------------------143863452663130277419171450 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii We recently ran into a situation where our chunks were full. We could not insert any additional r…
Re: Online 5.1, How to remove a chunk
Hi, You have to drop the dbspace in order to free up the chunk and the dbspace has to be empty when you drop it. Thanks Ryan…
Re: Online 5.1, How to remove a chunk
You can't remove a chunk in version 5.x. This is possible in version 7.x. If the chunk is in a non-rootdbs dbspace, you could remove all data from the dbspace, then drop the dbspace to reclaim chunks.…
Re: Help calculating extents from esql-c
As to your initial question, I do not think that you will be able to calculate the number of extents. As far as I am aware tbcheck is the only way that you can calculate the number of extents on a table. If you look at the extent sizes for a table, as shown an a tbcheck, you wil…
Re: Help calculating extents from esql-c
As to your initial question, I do not think that you will be able to calculate the number of extents. As far as I am aware tbcheck is the only way that you can calculate the number of extents on a table. If you look at the extent sizes for a table, as shown an a tbcheck, you wil…
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?…
Find names of all databases in a DBSPACE
Is there a way to get a list of all of the databases in a dbspace? My dbspace is very dynamic and I need a way to get this list. Using Informix Online 5.x on Sun Sparc SunOS 4.1.3c David Clough…
Re: Data Deletion in Informix
Alan wrote: >If I have done a mass deletion on tables, when I do a tbstat -d , I don't see >the space being free up. Is it the space was free logically but not >physically ?? Alan, the answer to your question is that when you perform a mass delete on a Informix table, the tables…
dbspace Q
i am looking for any pgms that might help monitor "space hogs". it would be nice to be able to get a listing of databases found under a specific DBSPACE along with its owner and size. i thought i saw a news thread along this topic a few months ago. thanks, jim ________…
Re: Mirroring
Ti Lian Hwang writes: |We have a new HP9000 machine with 2 fast SCSI disks and 2 slower |disks. | |We are using informix mirroring on them. | |Is there advantages or disadvantages if the mirror copies are both |in the in the slow disks, or a mix of slow and fast disks ? | |I mea…
Mirroring
We have a new HP9000 machine with 2 fast SCSI disks and 2 slower disks. We are using informix mirroring on them. Is there advantages or disadvantages if the mirror copies are both in the in the slow disks, or a mix of slow and fast disks ? I mean Disk A (slow) Disk B …
remote dbspace
Is anybody define a dbspace on a remote machine...!!! with online 5.0. Thanks...…
Re: no space after delete?
> I have a problem with free table space after delete on my first INFORMIX- > project. I create many tables (also with indexes), then I store many, many > data. Whenever 90 % table space consumed, I will remove oldest data. > I remove with "delete from ... where ...;". The data w…
dbspace lost
Platform: Everex 486 running Interactive 3.2 and Informix Online 4.00.UE1. Recently, we took a power hit that caused some damage to our file system. Specifically, the device file Informix writes to was lost. Should I reinstall Online or can I just re-create the device file? Al…
Defragging tables and clustering
We frequently have to defrag large tables, and sometimes these tables contain foriegn keys. Rather than dropping and reloading the table it is sometimes desirable to reindex to cluster. My question is this: If there is enough FREE space immediately before and after the first ex…
Prevent users from creating databases?
Is there any way to prevent users from creating databases? Or at least to prevent them from creating databases in the system dbspace? Or even a way to change the default place for databases from system dbspace to another dbspace? Thanks in advance. -- Rick Hamel Database Admi…
tables in dbspace (Online 5.x)
Is there a simple way to find which tables are in a dbspace? (Or, what dbspace a table is in?) -Brian ------ brena@hcia.com…
DBspace Question
I'm looking for a way in a sql statement to have on-line return me based on a given table name the dbspace name that the table is located in. The following sql statment returns the dbspace number the table is located in but what I need is the actual dbspace name. select h…
dbspace for database
Yes I know I have antique software, and yes I am sure you've answered this before...but I need to know now, and cannot find it in Walt's excellent archives... On a UNisys 5000 platform, running Turbo with 2.10.03G SQL... 2 databases were created. tbmonitor shows rootdbs, and 2 o…
Default dbspace?
This has probably already been discussed to death, so please reply by e-mail. Is there a way with OnLine v4.0 or v4.1 to make the default dbspace something other than the root dbspace? Thanks. -- +--------------------+-------------------------------------------------------+ |…
Cooked dbspace...
A client of of ours was playing with OnLine, and created a chunk on the cooked file system. When he was done, he decided "Okay, I'm through." and did an "rm mychunk" from. Note that he didn't bother to drop the dbspace inside of OnLine. So now he has a dbspace that OnLine thinks …
Dropping a dbspace
Hello, I am currently using the Informix Turbo engine. I tried to drop a dbspace the other day and couldn't do. Does anybody have info on how to do this? Thanks ! Brian MacWilliams USAMC - SIMA LEAD CHAMBERSBURG PA…