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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 ------------------------------…
ADO - activex data object
What do I require, to connect "ado activex data object" to Informix ? AIX 7.2 IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 12.10.FC9W1 Regards Dirk…
listener-thread@soc_be.c:3073: err = -25582:
Adding Version details Informix Version : IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 12.10.FC6 O/S Version : Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.9 Thanks & Regards, Karthik Rajan…
Informix and speculative execution
Hi all, I have seen speculative execution patches for Firefox and SQL Server. Are there speculative execution patches for Informix in progress? There is no IBM Flash for Informix Dynamic Server and speculaative execution! Regards, David.…
Misconceptions about Update Statistics
- Drop statistics of a columns followed by collecting high mode statistics for the same column for every indexed columns - After that, update statistics for procedure - This routine repeats for every database of the instance. So I developed a system with database execution queu…
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…
How to monitor wait conditions and times
Look about QSTAT WSTAT and monitor with onstat -g qst / wst do not give the information you need. Em ter, 1 de ago de 2017 22:22, david@smooth1.co.uk <david@smooth1.co.uk> escreveu: > > > https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSGU8G_11.70.0/com.ibm.adref.doc/ ids_adr_0…
How to avoid blocking checkpoints?
Gustavo: Are the chunks RAW or COOKED? If cooked then you should have at least 1.5 AIO VPs per active (non-temp) chunk and you only have one. You have seven CLEANER threads, now many non-temp chunks do you have? You should have at least one CLEANER per actively modified chunk (t…
CDR DS CDRD_xx thread is aborting
Your stable storage SBLOB for the receive queue was probably unlogged so when the fail-over occurred the transactions were not complete. While it might look scary, it is probably not a real issue. Items are placed in the receive queue only when the receive memory buffers become …
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)…
Enable or Apply Auto Update Statistics
Hi All, Here is email communication between Ben and myself. I hope this will help someone who really want to play with AUS feature. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------- Hi Ben…
Process exited with return code 0
Folks, IDS12.10 FC4, Redhead Linux. I believed I saw this error before and can not recall its answer or explanation. /usr/informix/etc/alarmprogram.sh is the original script( no touched). It was quite before, just started to complain two days ago after the instance bounce . Ot…
Move sysadmin database
More info from log. Frank 14:41:41 Maximum server connections 173 14:41:41 Checkpoint Statistics - Avg. Txn Block Time 0.000, # Txns blocked 0, Plog used 2098, Llog used 16042 14:42:42 SCHAPI: thread dbWorker1 task mon_checkpoint(7-14406) shutting down 14:42:42 SCHAPI: thread db…
SCHAPI table estimate_compression
Folks, IDS12.10 FC4, Redhat Linux Just curious about the automatic " SCHAPI Estimate Compression..." info in the online log. Why did it estimate compression automatically? Really needed ? Apparently, Informix does not compress tables automatically. Thanks Frank 4:28:05 Check…
RSS not working
-bash-4.2$ onstat - IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.FC9 -- On-Line --…
Informix upgrade
Can we upgrade informix from Dynamic Server Version 11.70 to 12.1 workgroup edition directly?…
CDR_LOG_LAG_ACTION shutdown issues
Hello, I have an Enterprise Replication setup in a lab environment, and I am specifically testing to see if setting CDR_LOG_LAG_ACTION to shutdown will turn off replication when the replay position is in danger of being overrun. I have three 256MB logical log files, and I pulled…
when use IfxDataReader.GetIfxDateTime to NULL valu
Hello, The version of Informix products in my environment is: Database server: AIX IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.FC5 IBM Informix CSDK Version 2.90 IBM-ESQL Version 2.90.FC4 Client: PC Windows IBM Informix-ESQL 3.70.TC5DE.…
WL -244 Could not do a physical-order read to
Hi Gurus, I would like to ask your assistance on isolating the problem encountered below. The application team is trying to isolate what caused the problem -244 in Weblogic Apps Server side. I have already verified the indexes and also done update statistics of the tables concer…
ER network replication state
Hi Madison, that the problem is on the target would explain that we have the same problem on the 2 source servers. But why we cannot see anything on the receive queue? There was no spooling. Or 'full receive queueu' means only the memory queue has to be full to get this blocking …
ASF Echo-Thread Server: asfcode = -25582 oserr = 4
01 Logical Log 2976 Complete, timestamp: 0x4b72b5ad. 03/29/13 11:13:03 Logical Log 2976 - Backup Started 03/29/13 11:13:07 CDR Spool transaction queue completed 03/29/13 11:13:15 Logical Log 2976 - Backup Completed 03/29/13 12:11:08 Logical Log 2977 Complete, timestamp: 0x4bd674e…
Enterprise Replication recovery slow on Solaris
I do not recall if update statistics was run on the backup, but we have a script that is run periodically out of cron that is tuned to our application to run update statistics on the primary. Unfortunately, I did not realize until now that this cron job is disabled on the backup.…
Re: ER issue
Yes - basic checks look good - although onstat -g nif shows run/blocked on server 1 [informix@psdb01spr logs]$ onstat -g nif IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.FC7 -- On-Line -- Up 9 days 08:37:50 -- 20724404 Kbytes NIF anchor Block: 0x7d2f0ad8 nifGState …
ER issue
I have two IDS 11.7FC7 servers replicating data. I have ER replication between the two, all data changes are made on server 1, recently it appears that data has stopped moving to server 2. The sendq on server 1 continues to grow, while the recvq on server 2 appears to be stuck…
DB_locale or local naming convention
Hi, I already mention the informix version. IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.TC1IE…
Scheduler Status
original post: IDS 11.7 I know how to stop and start the scheduler: execute function task ("scheduler start"); execute function task ("scheduler stop"); ..... but how do you check the status, to see if it is running or not ? Response: You can run onstat -g dbc If you see …
ER queue question
Hi, we are using ER to replicate some tables from one to another database server. Version on both is 11.70.FC5. Now I see some replicates where the QUEUE SIZE does not change. My experience is that the QUEUE SIZE always tends to zero. cdr list repl | grep QUEUE QUEUE SIZE: 0 …
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,…
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…
Wait and Queue statistics
Can anybody provide clues on how to interpret onstat -g wst and onstat -g qst output please? I looked at the standard documentation but not much useful. Thanks, idos…
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 …
ifx versus POWER7 - SMT4
Hi, We have here IFX 11.50 FC8 running over a new machines, AIX 6.1, Power7 Machine (p740), 16 core option (2 socket, 8 cores each), configured with LPAR. I need some reference, official preferentially about what is better configuration to Informix. Monitoring this machines, I…
Over 1,000 days of 24x7 database uptime!
On 29.07.2011 20:38 Lester Knutsen wrote: > From one of our customers, their Informix server hit 1,000 days today > .... congratulations;) > > IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.FC8 -- On-Line -- Up > 1000 days 00:31:45 -- They beat mine just bit ... IBM Informix D…
Setting up HDR- First Time -11.70 Innovator-C
Hi, I am setting up HDR for the first time. onstat - on primary shows IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.UC2IE -- On-Line (Prim) -- Up 0:11:5s onstat - on secondry shows IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.UC2IE -- Fast Recovery (Sec) -- Up 00s onstat -m on sec…
ISAM error 197: Partition recently appended to
Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC5 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (i586) I have done a level 0 backup directed to /dev/null and tried again. still it is throwing the same error.…
ER RQM error in IDS11.50 FC8
Madison or all ER experts, We have three sites by ER replicated with UpdateAnyWhere. This is a brand new installation and ready to be operational soon. We are doing some testing and saw the following types of RQM error in online log( see below logs) frequently when you run cdr …
ER error
Sorry Karl, for any confuse. Build Version: 11.50.FC8 Build Number: N198 Build Host: vidar Build OS: Linux 2.6.9-34.ELsmp Build Date: Fri Nov 12 21:58:33 CST 2010 GLS Version: glslib-4.50.FC11 I wish the info now is more clearer. The following is log info generated by a cdr st…
IDS 11.50/AIX 5.3 Slowness Issue?
Bob, On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 4:36 PM, rroussey@comcast.net <rroussey@comcast.net>wrote: > How many LUNs are you hitting? How many dbspaces / chunks are on those > LUNs? > Does Compellent have a utility to show queue depth on the SAN? You may have > too many threads hitting a lo…
ER errors after 11.7 FC2 upgrade
I'm confused. Are you on IDS 10 or 11.7? Why don't you send me a dbexport of your syscdr database --- assuming that the queues are currently empty... From: "JARED HEATH" <jared.heath@sbcglobal.net> To: ids@iiug.org Date: 03/31/2011 05:58 PM Subject: Re: ER errors after 11.7 F…
IDS 7.31UD7 on MP-RAS not able to initialize
Wow didn't think MP-RAS still existed. If you search the CDI archives from around 1999/2000 then I know I was building a lot of MP-RAS/7.3x servers. You need/needed some very 'strange' settings - hopefully there is something there Cheers Paul > I am attempting to initialize 7.…
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…
RE: Enterprise Replication help - urgent
PMR logged - 03969,999,796 - now I wait for IBM to ring back :) -----Original Message----- From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Madison Pruet Sent: Tuesday, 24 August 2010 2:45 a.m. To: ids@iiug.org Subject: Re: Enterprise Replication help - urge…
RE: Enterprise Replication help - urgent
Thread 205 is gone (disappeared with the engine bounce) As it was heading into the night here in New Zealand, I threw a whole heap of space at the smart blob space and said "sort it in the morning". My first task when I get in to work (about an hour away) is to raise a case with …
Enterprise Replication help - urgent
Hi, I have two machines, RHEL4, IDS 11.50.UC5X2 is a ER Leaf node, RHEL4 IDS 11.50.UC5 is the ER Enterprise node. The leaf node is in collect mode and won't transfer any data back to the ER node (we have replicates running both ways and neither are processing at the moment). I ne…
Enterprise Replication help - urgent
Hi, I have two machines, RHEL4, IDS 11.50.UC5X2 is a ER Leaf node, RHEL4 IDS 11.50.UC5 is the ER Enterprise node. The leaf node is in collect mode and won't transfer any data back to the ER node (we have replicates running both ways and neither are processing at the moment). I ne…
Can't access sysindexes remotely
Hi, We are using IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.FC6 using Platform: SunOS 5.10 Generic_125100-09 sun4v sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-T200 Thanks…
optimum usage of resources
The current onconfig is as follows : ========================================== #************************************************************************** # # Licensed Material - Property Of IBM # # "Restricted Materials of IBM" # # IBM Informix Dynamic Server # (c) Copyright I…
How can I use 32Gb of ram in IDS 9.4
I have IDS9.4 on Suze 8.2 on a IBM 445 with 8 CPU and 32 Gb of ram How Can I use more of the Ram ? I have tried playing around with buffers but if I go past 280000 the instance dosn't come on like and complains : Segment locked: addr=0x44000000, size=1450098688 shmat: [ENOMEM]…
ontape -s -L 0 too slowly(onconfig)
continue,below is onconfig:(system has two cpu,4GB ram) # Root Dbspace Configuration ROOTNAME rootdbs # Root dbspace name ROOTPATH /dbspace/rootdbs # Path for device containing root dbspace ROOTOFFSET 10 # Offset of root dbspace into device (Kbytes) ROOTSIZE 2000000 # Size of ro…
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…
too many open cursors in one table
For a queue table like that, assuming the number of rows is about the same from one day to the next, I would run an UPDATE STATISTICS LOW... DROP DISTRIBUTIONS after the load at 8:30 and NOT anytime between the delete and the reload. Without distributions, IDS will use the older …
Seeing one oninit working hard while others are no
It's normal to see the CPUVPS doing the bulk of the work. The other VP= S are special purpose VPS and are only used to do things such as IO, netw= ork stuff, etc. Also it is normal to see the first couple of CPUVPS doing more work tha= n the later. It is not efficient to assign …
OPTCOMPIND and perl
Anyone know if I can change OPTCOMPIND after establishing a DB connection or does it need to be set before connecting? ta SLES10 SP1 IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.UC5…
I/O writes
Thanks a lot. It got me out of confusion. And do you hinkthat I/O queue length are not bad? Here are recent messages found in online.log ------------------------------------------------------------------ 07:35:02 Logical Log 27846 Complete, timestamp: 0x5a4d390a. 07:35:02 Process…
Buffer Turnover Rate question
HPUX 11vi2, 4x440MHz cpu, 8GB RAM, Informix 10.00.HC5 I just recently downloaded the ratios.ksh script and started running it. I'm not noticing any performance problems as such but it seems like the BTR is quite high. onstat -c and onstat -p output is included below. Anything to…
Informix Dynamic Server Scheduler question
Hi! I'm working on a project at my faculty. It's a java desktop application with an informix database. I have a problem using informix dynamic server scheduler. I have a particular table in my database. This table contains records that are inserted by the desktop aplication I'm …
IDS 9.40 End of Support Imminent
I have seen a number of posts on CDI recently related to IDS 9.40 As per the announcement on September 7th 2007, effective on the dates listed below, IBM will withdraw support from the following product releases licensed under the IBM International Program License Agreement: 9…
Re: MSC virtual-processor class too loaded aft....
Hi, first of all, thank you very much John and Jacques for your answers. The IDS engine allocated another vp msc (I supose due to the high load of the first one). I have tried without success (at the moment) to catch operations that msc vp is doing with the following command: …
MSC virtual-processor class too loaded after migra
Marc: As you might guess the misc vp does many things, but it does run allot of network authentication calls. I would check things like NIS, dns,... I am guessing you will find some network service is not responding timely. I see you have allocated a second misc vp. You are exe…
-25588 error after CPU & fiber channel failure
More information on our setup. If anyone has an idea of what to look at or try let me know. Otherwise the only thing left I haven't tried is whipping the server and start fresh. kernel parameters semaem Static 16384 16384 16384 - semmni Static 16384 16384 2048 0.3% semmns Stati…
slow connections
> My idea : > > - OS level such as kernel parameter, error log from system > , i/o busy > - Network level such as network card errors , network log > > For IDS : > - Check point duration and check point interval (system will be blocked while doing checkpoint) > - try to change > …
use stored proc that return multiple columns in a query
forgot to include version info: IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.UC6W5 -- On-Line -- Up 207 days 22:14:39 -- 1441100 Kbytes…
installing informix dynamic server in linux
hi, I'm new to informix... I tried to install informix dynamic server(iif. 11.50.UC2E.Linux-RHEL4.tar) in my linux machine. I'm getting an error like this... One or more prerequisite system libraries are not installed on your computer. Install libpam.so.0, libncurses.so.5…
Long checkpoints
askel wrote: > Hello there, > > I've been reading about long checkpoints issue for a while but haven't > found solution for our case. > > We're using IDS 9.40.FC6 on Solaris 9 for OLTP. It is Sun Fire V1280 > with 8 UltraSPARC-III+ 1.2 GHz and 16 Gb of RAM on board. The database …
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…
Analysis of activities during checkpoint.
Thank you andreas, Please have a look at the onconfig entries - ROOTNAME rootdbs # Root dbspace name ROOTPATH /informix/P10/sapdata/physdev1/data01 ROOTOFFSET 16 # Offset of root dbspace into device (Kbytes) ROOTSIZE 200000 # Size of root dbspace (Kbytes) MIRROR 1 # Mirroring fl…
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 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…
Tuning IDS 7.3 TC9
Hi, You could increase BUFFERS (to 100000 minimum) and NUMCPUVPS (to 4 minimum), set MULTIPROCESSOR to 1 and SINGLE_CPU_VP to 0 to make use of the multiprocessing. NUMAIOVPS should be higher (4 recommended for Logging, plus one per chunk if the machine does not support KAIO). If…
Raw Device setup on SAN disks - suggestions?
Unfortunately, 1 LUN = 1 queue (for all reads and writes). IDS is multi-threaded. The "many physical disks" does not overcome the 1 queue in my experience. I would suggest multiple smaller RAID 10 LUNs so IDS can pump the data through multiple queues. Bob Roussey Unix / Informix…
Re: Res: long checkpoints on informix
On Jul 17, 3:43 pm, Cesar Inacio Martins <cesar_inacio_mart...@yahoo.com.br> wrote: > Hi Sakura, > > I wrote a shell to monitor my checkpoints and discover what dbspace/chunk is take more time. > > Copy the code below into a file on your unix , execute a chmod 700 and execut…
Re: Res: long checkpoints on informix
On 17 jul, 15:43, Cesar Inacio Martins <cesar_inacio_mart...@yahoo.com.br> wrote: > Hi Sakura, > > I wrote a shell to monitor my checkpoints and discover what dbspace/chunk is take more time. > > Copy the code below into a file on your unix , execute a chmod 700 and execute …
Re: Res: long checkpoints on informix
On 17 jul, 15:43, Cesar Inacio Martins <cesar_inacio_mart...@yahoo.com.br> wrote: > Hi Sakura, > > I wrote a shell to monitor my checkpoints and discover what dbspace/chunk is take more time. > > Copy the code below into a file on your unix , execute a chmod 700 and execute …
Res: long checkpoints on informix
Hi Sakura, I wrote a shell to monitor my checkpoints and discover what dbspace/chunk is take more time. Copy the code below into a file on your unix , execute a chmod 700 and execute with informix... when occur a checkpoint , it will display to you the dbspaces/chunks wher…
Re: long checkpoints on informix
On 16 jul, 06:34, Ben Thompson <b...@nomonitorsoftspam.com> wrote: > Sakura.g...@gmail.com wrote: > > hi everyone > > i recently start to have some long and constant checkpoint > > i did lot of change but cant reduce it > > i have Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.FC2 > > and …
Re: long checkpoints on informix
On 16 jul, 06:34, Ben Thompson <b...@nomonitorsoftspam.com> wrote: > Sakura.g...@gmail.com wrote: > > hi everyone > > i recently start to have some long and constant checkpoint > > i did lot of change but cant reduce it > > i have Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.FC2 > > and …
long checkpoints on informix
Sakura.ggxx@gmail.com wrote: > hi everyone > i recently start to have some long and constant checkpoint > i did lot of change but cant reduce it > i have Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.FC2 > and here is some parameter of the onconfig > --------------------------------------…
latch waits and what to do about them
System has been up and stable in OLTP from &AM to 12 Midinght and batch from midnight till 7 AM. However it seems like the latch waits are high. Latch waits go as high as 3875 System is stable but I always want more speed. (as long as it does not effect stability.) Here is onc…
IIUG TV
Great job on the video work!! I look forward to seeing more! -t- -- -- Informix Dynamic Server Database Engine -- http://www.informix.com --…
Optimizer Question
Yoo could lose light scans by making buffers too big. j. >From: Mary Gregory <mary.gregory@rheem.com> >Date: 2007/06/06 Wed AM 09:07:04 CDT >To: ids@iiug.org >Subject: Optimizer Question [9297] >Could the addition of memory to IDS (BUFFERS, SHMVIRTSIZE) cause the >optimizer to…
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…
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: Replication Newbie Question
On Feb 16, 9:15 am, "Laurie Gustin" <LGUS...@utah.gov> wrote: > I learned that one possibility for replication delay may be that I am replicating data from a blobspace, and that process was very slow. That seemed ok, except that now the send q has been growing for over 24 hours…
Re: Replication Newbie Question
Check the queue stats using onstat -g rqm at source. And receive stats using onstat -g rcv on target. Although servers are active, check if replicates are active using 'cdr list repl' and verify the state. Regards, Nilesh "Laurie Gustin" <lgustin@utah.gov> Sent by: informix-li…
Replication Newbie Question
IDS10 FC5 HP-UX 11.11 I have a quick question about replication. I have ER running between two servers and the queue on the sending server just keeps getting larger. It appears that the 2 servers are communicating, but how do I get the queue to write/flush so it doesnt just k…
Checkpoint taking more time
-----Original Message----- From: Gentry, Mark [mailto:mark.gentry@staples.com] Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 1:25 PM To: 'Marcus Haarmann' Subject: RE: Checkpoint taking more time [7893] U can also make ur PHYSFILE smaller -----Original Message----- From: Marcus Haarmann [mai…
License Extension
Help.. I need a license extension for the IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.FC3R1TL which I downloaded to do a evaluation. How can I get the license extened..my project is in the final stages .. Dhaya Commercial bank…
Re: Security Vulnerabilities Addressed in Informix Dynamic Server
Clive Eisen wrote: > Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > > Yes the buffer overflow issues are a pain and frankly they shouldn't occur > > if IBM did formal code reviews. Or rather they should be caught and > > corrected prior to release. > > > > "Paul Watson" <paul@oninit.com> wrote in m…
Security Vulnerabilities Addressed in Informix Dynamic Server
Not sure if this has posted here or not but .... http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=630&context=SSGU8G&dc=D600&u id=swg21242921&loc=en_US&cs=UTF-8&lang=en Cheers Paul Paul Watson Tel: +44 1414161772 Mob: +44 7818003457 Web: www.oninit.com GO FURTHER with DB2 GET THER…
RE: HDR problem with Windows
Alexey Sonkin wrote: > Please, check the fillowing: > - Are you able to connect from 'informix' windows session > on Secondary machine to Primary database server without password? > With password? From Primary to Secondary? > - Did you create the hosts.equiv file under > C:\\win…
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?…
CDRGfan and Database crash
Hi All, MASTER: TARGET: IDS 10.0.UC3 IDS 9.40.TC6 ELAS3 (Kernel 2.4.21-4.ELsmp) Win 2K3 DELL PE 6600, PERC4/DC We had a DB crash. Oops !!!! Logged the issue with IBM thorough our ap…
How do it get writes form the lrus in V10
> I think I should be getting LRU writes. Why ? does checkpoint takes too long to complete ? or checkpoint duration is affecting transaction response time ? You can monitor LRU queues using 'onstat -R' and check the checkpoint duration in message log. On your HP-UX 32-bit syst…
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…
Re: flagship sunk
Funny I have been able to download IDS 10 for Solaris, Windows and Linux am I just smarter than everyone else? www.informix.com Support and downloads In the middle trials and betas Oh look Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) V10.0 easy!…
Performance tuning: troubling long checkpoints and other issues
Jim You appear to have IO issues with the large IO wait in sar. Similarly you get a large queue length on your tempdbs. There is another chunk that reached a long queue length. You have 4Gb Ram yet only 1.5Gb is assigned to Informix. What is using the rest (2.5Gb) and what i…
Poor performance on replacement server
Dear Informix users The firm I work for have recently purchased a 4 processor ES45 Alpha server to run our practice management (sales ledger) system. This is replacing a 2 processor DS25 Alpha server (which struggles at period end). Outline specification is 4x1.2Ghz Alpha proce…
Re: IDS 10 - documentation questions
Oops! I mean IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.TC3ET Althought the release notes (idse_win_release_notes_10.0.html) start with:- "Release Notes for IBM Informix Dynamic Server Express Edition for Windows Platforms 10.00.TC3E, 1 July 2005 " so it is TC3E or TCE3T? and …
Re: Sql to concatenate multiple rows to a single row / column
Thank you SaltTan - it works beautifully. BTW, we have IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.FC6.…
Re: ER problem---CDRACK cause rootserver crash
"cristizaharioiu" <cristizaharioiu@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1130489255.781893.43220@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > Hello, > > I have any problems with ER rootserver; the server often > crashes..about 1-2 times per day.the system is Unixware 7 and IDS 9.20. > The error…
Config for OLTP system
IDS 10.0 v3 on Solaris 9. I'd be grateful for any comments on this OLTP system onconfig about to go live on a SunFire v480 with 2 processors and 8GBytes of RAM. I have only 6 extrenal disks fo the 60GByte database server. I've striped the database across 3 of them with a 32k i…
New IDS Forum on IBM Developerworks website
This forum provides a place for Informix Dynamic Server developers and users to share their questions, thoughts, and ideas with others. http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/dw_forum.jsp?forum=548&cat=19…
Re: IDS 10 Express Edition
Note 10.00.xC3 = Enterprise Version 10.00.xC3E = Express Edition http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ids9help/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.relnotes.doc/uc3E/idse_win_release_notes_10.0.html Then click on "IBM Informix Dynamic Server Express Edition" in the right pane:…
setup Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC1E1 to linux error
I setup Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC1E1 to linux execcute oninit -ivy is failed the online.log is write /// 16:31:32 Dynamically allocated new virtual shared memory segment (size 8192KB) 16:31:32 Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC1E1 Software Serial Number AA…
ONCONFIG comments
Hi: Let me begin by saying thanks to all of the frequent posters to this group. I wanted to offer my config for comments. thanks ============================================================ Hola: Muchas gracias por el tiempo y su ayuda. Estoy dejando mi archivo ONCONFIG par…
Re: Informix Performance Issues
Anirudh Chitnis via DBMonster.com wrote: > > I am using 9.30 on HP-UX 11i. The select queries take quite a long tpo > return. The queries are taking index paths and statistics are also updated. > When I tried to look in to the I/O activity, I could find that kio is > having maxl…
Re: Informix Performance Issues
Anirudh Chitnis via DBMonster.com wrote: > > I am using 9.30 on HP-UX 11i. The select queries take quite a long tpo > return. The queries are taking index paths and statistics are also updated. > When I tried to look in to the I/O activity, I could find that kio is > having maxl…
Re: very high "mt yield 0" on IDS 9.40
"rvb" <rvbon@gmx.de> wrote in message news:6e9a0040.0503030106.178fac00@posting.google.com... > looking at the wait statistics of my IDS 9.40 I find an ever > increasing value for the "MT yield 0" condition. > > Up to my knowledge this means that threads are doing busy waits for …
very high "mt yield 0" on IDS 9.40
"rvb" <rvbon@gmx.de> wrote in message news:6e9a0040.0503030106.178fac00@posting.google.com... > looking at the wait statistics of my IDS 9.40 I find an ever > increasing value for the "MT yield 0" condition. > > Up to my knowledge this means that threads are doing busy waits for …
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…
Monitoring CPU usage
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Scope change.
I have been gathering information about this system. At the end really strange things end up not being true. This is another time it happens. Though the people that were responsible of this before -and supposed to be knowledgeable in Informix- told me the system I posted…
cannot read system catalog
--0-1004379464-1102954650=:32339 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Id: Content-Disposition: inline Hi, Using IDS 9.21 UC4. Solaris 8.0 we have this problem with users trying to connect to the database running. it gives the error 'cannot read system catalog (sys…
Re: SQL Tracing tools?
"Abdullah Kauchali" <abdullah.kauchali@someplace.com> wrote in message news:cnicmc$spp$1@ctb-nnrp2.saix.net... > What do informix users use to profile (log) SQL statements hitting the > database server? (In MS lala-land, we have the almighty Profiler Tool. > Works well.) We us…
Re: Fatal error in ADM VP at mt.c:12239
Here is another part of the af file: ===========------------- - - - - - - /home/informix/bin/onstat -F: IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.FC2 -- On-Line -- Up 1 days 20:14:49 -- 2549264 Kbytes Fg Writes LRU Writes Chunk Writes 0 8396195 30928…
Fatal error in ADM VP at mt.c:12239
I've met the following error: 09:31:12 Maximum server connections 9 09:31:35 Assert Failed: Invalid Mutex Type 09:31:35 IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.FC2 09:31:35 Who: Session(18, informix@sjjz2, 0, 7000000904707e8) Thread(44, btscanner 0, 700000090432168, 5) Fil…
Re: informix begginer on xp
How are you trying to initialize it? ie what are you running? Did it hang during installation, or is it subsequent attempts to initialize that hang? Just making sure you're not trying to run oninit directly from the command line, UNIX style. Also if you run "onstat -m" from an …
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'?…
IDS V7.30 and Windows 2000
Can Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.30.TC6 be run on a Windows 2000 host system? TIA Erwin…
Re: Error Initialize Informix Dynamic Server
Art S. Kagel wrote: > On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 05:05:41 -0400, madiego wrote: >>I install Informix Dynamic Server and when I initialize 'oninit -iv' : >> >>This action will initialize Informix Dynamic Server; any existing Informix >>Dynamic Server databases will NOT be accessible - Do…
Error Initialize Informix Dynamic Server
Hello, I install Informix Dynamic Server and when I initialize 'oninit -iv' : This action will initialize Informix Dynamic Server; any existing Informix Dynamic Server databases will NOT be accessible - Do you wish to continue (y/n)? y Checking group membership to determine ser…
-211 file not open
During a very long process in SQL (almost 36 hours ...) inserting rows (about 150000) in two database tables Informix returns this error: -211 Cannot read system catalog (systables) ISAM error -101: file is not open. and then any new access on database (with this process) fails…
Update statistics performance
Hi all Update Statistic takes a long duration of up to 13 hours to complete, our DB is more than 35 gb. I tried to use PDQ ,PSORT_NPROCS and DBSPACETEMP and the was only a slight improvement i.e from 13 to 12 hours. our IDS version is 17.31 uc5 Kindly advice on how this duration …
Re: Informix Dynamic Server and DB Tuning
I am experiencing similar problems with users migrating from Standard Engine to IDS 9.30. It appears that some applications are more susceptible than others. What application(s) are you running? We also have experience of adding more BUFFERS, LOCKS, etc and not improving the sit…
RE: Informix Dynamic Server and DB Tuning
Muthana Increase BUFFERS in onconfig file. UPDATE STATISTICS for each table (as a minimum) rerun the query and see what improvements you get. If you still have problems post the results of:- onstat -p onstat -m onstat -R and sqexplain.out of any particularly slow query or updat…
Informix Dynamic Server and DB Tuning
Dear Sir, The question how can make DB Tuning for Informix Dynamic Server version 9:30 to get the query faster. I used IDS 9:30 and it's not quick enough like our old Standard Engine. which Parameter can i change to make that or what shall i do? Regards Muthana AL-Temimi…
Comment on my config
Hello, here is our newbie again :) I've been reading a lot lately, I searched the internet and browsed the newsgroups to gather all my info. I would like to thank especially Art Kagel, Neil Truby, Jonathan Leffler and in fact so many other people here ! Cause you guys helped me…
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…
cannot initialize rootdbs
***************************** informix 7.3 UD1 running on Solaris 8 with 70 Mhz CPU and 168 MB RAM ****************************** Problem : Fatal error in shared memory creation error 156 command : $ oninit -i This action will initialize Informix Dynamic Server; any existing In…
onconfig for analisis
Hi, I post the onconfig file for its analisis: Operating System: SuSE 9.0 RAM: 1024 Mb Informix version: 9.40 UC2 All chunks are raw devices. Thanks. #************************************************************************** # # INFORMIX SOFTWARE, INC. # # Title: onconfig…
Upgrading the IDS from 7.31 FC2
Some hints to avoid migration issues when migration InPlace: PHYSLOG should be plenty (minimum 200 MB, 1 GB for large systems) LOCKS should be at least 4x(max(count(sysobjstate),count(syscolumns))) Do oncheck -cDI before migration Do "update statistics low drop distributions" be…
Dose anybody have the dbtop script in the Troubleshooting informix course?
Dears, I study the Troubleshooting ibm informix dynamic server course. At the module 4 exercise need the dbtop script. Dose anybody has this dbtop script and post for me? Thanks. Philip Yeh.…
Work group edition - Unlimited edition??
Taken from IBM web site:- =========================================================================== The following Informix Dynamic Server Workgroup Unlimited editions have been added to the IBM Data Management Gold Transaction Processing Bundle for SMB Unlimited: IBM Informix…
RE: Virtual Processors and CPU-Load
Dont post MIME Have you run the correct update stats? In Informix monitor users -- onstat -u the ready queue -- onstat -g rea the sqls -- onstat -g ses {session number} You need to determine which sessions or parts of the application are causing the load. With 200 users you…
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,…
VPCLASS entries in onconfig when adding logs
Hi, I've got a strange problem. IDS 9.30 UC1 (or UC2) on Solaris 8 I install IDS (using ids_install) and creates an instance. Add a new dbs for logs. I move the physical logs to this dbs, restarts. Everything is fine. I then add a logical log: onparams -a -d logdbs .. but addit…
Rootdbs gets filled
Rootdbs gets filled Dear All, I need ur help. I have IDS 9.3 on sun solaris 8. My Informix server is going for a toss. I am attaching my onconfig file for ur ref. My users are connecting thru java. They are opening a lot of connections, when i do onstat -g ses, i get around 2000…
Help parameters RA_PAGES,RA_THRESHOLD
I have doubts with respect to these parametros, as I should calculate that so that the readings in secueciales in temporary it is mas fast. # Read Ahead Variables #RA_PAGES 4 # Number of pages to attempt to read ahead RA_PAGES 4000 # Number of pages to attempt to read ahead #RA_…
Re: Informix Performance
Middle of the night... Maybe batch jobs are running which are retaining locks for a long time and the users are running into those locks? "Daniel Castro" <daniel.castro@feliciorocho.org.br> wrote in message news:f86fe5d3.0402261055.34916f88@posting.google.com... > Hi, > > I am …
Performance problems soctcp
Good afternoon, I have 2 computers HewlettPackard R390 Series 9000 model 800, each one with HP-ux 11 (64bits) and IDS 9.30.FC4. At the moment I have performance problems when I make conexines between servers, that is to say, when I make a "Select" that goes of a the server "A" …
Informix Performance
Application? OS? Hardware, esp amount of physical memory? Profile of usage of application: eg times of heavy online use; times of batch job runs etc? Output of onstat -g iov also please. "Daniel Castro" <daniel.castro@feliciorocho.org.br> wrote in message news:f86fe5d3.04022610…
Performance problems soctcp
Good afternoon, I have 2 computers HewlettPackard R390 Series 9000 model 800, each one with HP-ux 11 (64bits) and IDS 9.30.FC4. At the moment I have performance problems when I make conexines between servers, that is to say, when I make a "Select" that goes of a the server "A" …
RE: 9.40 vs 9.21 performance
--0-36354248-1077737147=:94325 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Collin, Here are some things to test and trial : 1. Why are u grabbing one million locks at the time of the engine start ? Each lock consumes about 4k of memory from OS side I believe. 2. Please incre…
RE: 9.40 vs 9.21 performance
Eric Rowell wrote > Are you running Solaris? No, Tru64 5.1B as from 2 days earlier ( The management did not want it simple:-)) ES40 2GB, 3 CPU > > What is your ONCONFIG settings? PHYSDBS rootdbs # Location (dbspace) of physlog PHYSFILE 50000 # Ph…
Engine offline without log error
Hi, I will be appreciated if someone help me. IDS turn offline without write any event in message log, nor generated an af file after dump, nor any entry in event viewer. The alarmprogram script didn't execute and sysalarmprogram was comment in onconfig file. The only way to cont…
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…
Performance
Hi, I have problems with the performace of my Server,especially with the yield the CPU, The server is a HP R390, whith 1,9 GB RAM, and one procesador, SO, HPUX 11.00. My question is since I do in order that some processes do not consume the total yield of the CPU, Attach the c…
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…
Little help please
1. On linux I use onsoctcp, not ontlitcp. 2. You have 2 lines for ifxinst01 on sqlhosts. If you want to access the database via SHARED MEMORY, create other INFORMIXSERVER and define it on sqlhosts and onconfig (DBSERVERALIASES) sqlhosts ifxinst01 onsoctcp aaudbasa01 informix if…
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.…
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 9.40 crash after stress test.
Hi , I had install informix 9.40 UC2 on AIX 5.2. did anybody has idea how to check informix server is using tcp connection and not shared memory connection.How to check memory leak in informix server ? Here is some portion of online.log file . ==============================…
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…
replication
tomL wrote: > > Is there a command that will return what type of replication is being > run? If you run onstat - then if you see something like: Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.31.UC5 -- On-Line (Prim) -- Up 62 days 20:28:42 -- 53248 Kbytes or Informix Dynamic Serv…
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…
Dropping distributions after upgrade
John I think you are hitting a known bug:- Bug 157747 UPDATE STATISTICS LOW WITH MANY DELETED BTREE ITEMS CAN CAUSE SEVERE PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION - resolved 7.31.UD6 After the upgrade update statistics had been run; not only did this take an inordinate amount of time, this als…
cpu time
I am not sure how to explain that. It's just 2 cpus and what happens depends on scheduling and timing details. Some minor change in your application or in the online server might be responsible for this. With 9.30.UC3 on an 8 cpu Solaris8 machine with 8 cpu vps and this client s…
Re: Performance & checkpoint
you can double your LRU number to decrease your checkpoint duration. I have been suffered the same problem and I increase my LRU from 128 to 512 and I really help. Also you can increase your CKPTINTVL from 300 to 600. "Wayne T" <ntrieu@yahoo.com> ???????:e6623a40.0305121517.15f3…
Need help, OLTP vs. DSS system
hi! i have one big database(around 500 tbls, 15 tbls foreach over 1 million recs) in one instance which supports many OLTP systems and some DSS systems.The diskIO is extremely busy for some tables which belongs to project AA and resides in one SSA loop. Other tables resides in an…
FW: Queue statistics
On HP I just add the following entry to the onconfig file - WSTATS 1 You will have to shutdown and restart the database of course Dirk Reach Technologies -----Original Message----- From: owner-informix-list@iiug.iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.iiug.org]On Beh…
Queue statistics
Hi! What should I do to enable queue and wait statistics ( those shown with onstat -g qst , onstat -g wst ) ? I have IDS 2000 V 9.20 on an Unixware 7.1 box . Thanks. Sorin Ifrim…
SET LOG question
Art S. Kagel wrote in message <3A5E291C.A9FCC7A7@bloomberg.net>... > >> Does the server write imediatelly the transactions to disk only for that >> session, or for all sessions ? > >Well..... If ANY database is Unbuffered Log Mode and a transaction against >a table in THAT datab…
Re: CLEANERS
In article <3a2d750a$1@news.iprimus.com.au>, "Andrew Hamm" <ahamm@sanderson.net.au> wrote: > William Rice wrote in message <90isbi$1j4$1@nnrp1.deja.com>... > >In article <3a2c1dd0@news.iprimus.com.au>, > > "Andrew Hamm" <ahamm@sanderson.net.au> wrote: > >> hanna_shaw@my-deja.c…
What requires an IDS Linux?
Hello What requires an Informix Dynamic Server Linux a desktop and/or a network version of Linux? Thanks in advance Jacqueline Romero Miranda…
questions onstat -g
Is this a trick question? Type onstat -g at the prompt and you will be presented with the options and descriptions of each. Of course there are so many options, pipe it to a page break, i.e. | pg or | more. Is that the answer you are a looking for? Or how about this? (I don't k…
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…
FW: Performance dive over time
You are right about too many CPU VPS. I currently have 7 on a machine that only has 4 physical cpus - don't ask. We've been having performance problems since we migrated to this machine on August 04. We are also running with an Informix patch and not the standard oninit anymore.…
Insert performance is poor
Tony Flaherty wrote: > >TBLSPACE_STATS 1 > > This has a huge (allegedly 20-30%) processing overhead, it should be turned > of (0) unless you are trouble shooting a specific problem. > This is'nt quite right. TBLSPACE_STATS hardly affects performance (but allows you to retrieve…
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…
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…
backup slow -level zero
Yes, seems a bit slow. I think we get about 14GBytes/hour to DLTs. Your TAPESIZE seems big. Tests I did showed 32k or 64k is optimal. You've got 6M. <chivaviro1379@my-deja.com> wrote in message news:8kfnth$uuo$1@nnrp1.deja.com... > I have a 18 GIG database and Its taking mor…
Create user in Informix Dynamic Server
Hello all I`m new in INS. Could you help me? I have Database server with one user Informix. How to create another user to Database?…
Informix ODS on Win 2000?
Does Informix Dynamic Server V7.31.TC5 for Intel Pentium Windows NT 4 also run on Windows 2000? Thanks for any help. Guy Dillen ITP…
RE: Performance Issues
A couple of notes. I do not have any experience running informix on NT, just UNIX. Read up on all of these parameters before setting any of them. If you have any questions about them, post them to the newsgroup or email me. 2000 BUFFERS is way to low. Is the database the only …
Blocked:DDR
Was wondering if anyone could help me with this problem. We are running IDS 7.31.UC4 on HP-UX 11.0. ER is defined to replicate between 4 servers, 1 server is a Primary and the other 3 are Targets (Read only). One of our target servers has locked all user threads because it is B…
Informix cost???
Someone can said how much does Informix cost? I need to know: -Informix costs -cost for client Thanks very much. I need the last version of dynamic server for Unix. Ciao, Berna…
Replication
Hello everybody. I would like to know if it is possible to replicate an Informix database between a UNIX-based 7.32UC2 Informix Dynamic Server and an linux-based IDS2000 without problems. Thanks in advance. jhernandez@geuropa.com…
dynamic server with Informix distant database
We have this problem : - write of a html page (this pages will contain many many fields). - Receiving of the page data on a http server based on a M1 machine. - Using of 4gl/informix programs based on the M2 machine with the pages data - 4GL programs will set up a � result � tabl…
HELP! Informix Dynamic Server 7.3
I'm trying to install a new IDS on Linux (RedHat 6.1) on a cooked file. Everything looks right, but upon oninit, I receive the following: oninit: Cannot open chunk '/u1/naf_chunk'. errno = 2 oninit: Fatal error in shared memory initialization Log reflects: 09:11:07 Informi…
UDR Support in Informix Dynamic Server.
Can someone tell me what exact version of Informix Dynamic Server that first supported C User Defined Routines. I've tried searching for this on their website with no joy. (their advanced search doesnt work at all !) Rgds, Peter. Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before y…
poor (?) perf on NT
> My questions are: > > 1) Based on the chunk writes from onstat -F (201053) and the total page > writes from onstat -p (427893), the average > chunk write is only 2 pages. I have seen over 6 pages per write on > my unix systems. Is 2 pages per chunk write > too lo…
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…
Why sequential scan???
Jeff Larsen wrote in message <38b5bbb8.288523384@client.ce.news.psi.net>... >mars1972@my-deja.com wrote: > >I think you might have something here. This is a highly volatile >table (a real-time message queue), so the statistics would be meaningless >anyway. Thankfully it stays s…
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…
special thanks and informix performance considerations
Hi! Get the BUFFERS way up. You can dedicate 30-40 MB to Informix. Others will follow with more detailed info, no doubt. Regards, Michael Diego wrote: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01BF5B85.BFC993A0 > Content-Type: text/plain; …
Compatability between Informix products
Hi, I need some version compatability information for the following products. Hardware Platform: Hewlett Packard OS Platform: HP-UX version 10.20 Informix s/w: Informix Universal Server 9.20 Informix Dynamic Server 7.31 Informix Gateway to DRDA vers…
Re: Strange advises
It sounds like what your basic questions are is "Do these suggestions make sense?" and "What can I do to improve performance?" > The first is "You have KAIO running. We are aware that this feature is > causing > performance problem with Informix implementation. Recommend to n…
Bufwaits and Foreground Writes
Got to toss in my $0.02US. Everyone is giving you basically good advice, except those Informix guys (maybe I should give a Performance Tuning class for Informix consultants and trainers!). I just wanted to add the weight of my opinion so you take this good advice. Read on. "B…
Re: 4gl run-time error number -25588 ..
Hello ! Our files: File: Onconfig.test -------------------- #*********************************************************** *************** # # INFORMIX SOFTWARE, INC. # # Title: onconfig.std # Description: Informix Dynamic Server Configuration Parameters # #*****************…
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: upgrade to IDS 7.30 UC2-1
From: "Ralf Peters" <RalfP.remove.@marlows.com.au> > >After we upgraded to version 7.30 UC2-1 IDS running under DG/UX 4.20, the >engine seems to run like a dog , nothing else has changed. it seems that >after running update statistics it is even worse . > >ONSTAT - R >Informix …
upgrade to IDS 7.30 UC2-1
After we upgraded to version 7.30 UC2-1 IDS running under DG/UX 4.20, the engine seems to run like a dog , nothing else has changed. it seems that after running update statistics it is even worse . ONSTAT - R Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.31.UC2 -- On-Line (CKPT REQ) -- …
Long checkpoints
Doug McAllister wrote in message <38234139.F3266E75@fmr.com>... >Greetings all..... > >I watch this group every day and sometimes offer my help. Now it is my >turn. > >I have a system that is generally a lightly loaded system but runs a >batch load a couple times a day. During th…
Please help me!
Hello! 1, Can somebody give me information, what is the new features for Version 7.24 of Informix Dynamic Server according to Version 7.20 of Informix Dynamic Server? 2, Are Version 7.20 of Informix Dynamic Server and 7.20 INFORMIX-ESQL/C 2000 Year Compatible? 3, W…
Re: installing Informix dynamic server
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installing Informix dynamic server
hi all, can anybody give me an URL where to find a good description of how to setup and install an Informix Dynamic Server with using RedHat Linux ??? I've searched a whole day but founf nothing useful.. :( thx ind advance joerg…
Help! Cant start database service
Hello All I had my informix dynamic server (7.3) running fine till a few days back. Now the dynamic server service and the informix messenger service won't start automatically and if I try to start the server, it does start but I'm unable to connect to it. If I try to start the…
Re: Single CPU Performance Problems?
Could you please supply some info about the disk config of this machine. The internal drive on the Ultra5 is not the 'most performant' in the world! Where is the data coming from that you are trying to load into the database? For an 'opinion' on general Sun performance issues, tr…
Re: Single CPU Performance Problems?
Addition to all the good people's comments, you should look into Sun Box more closely.. What I have noticed in your onconfig file; most of them you still kept it as default... Is this parameter same on both NT and Sun box..? - If it is so you should tune Kernel of…
Re: Single CPU Performance Problems?
I see the following: Your logs (physical and logical) are still in the rootdbs which is flooding that chunk with I/O's (look at the onstat -D output!). The virtual segment is almost used up, up SHMVIRTSIZE just a tad. You are also hammering dev1. Consider shifting some active…
Re: Single CPU Performance Problems?
Is the java program running on the database server or on a separate client? 3.5 rows/sec or 10 rows/sec sounds pretty abysmal. I'm guessing the problem is in the client to database communication speed, not within the database itself. To give you some idea of reasonable insert s…
Single CPU Performance Problems?
Hi, I need some help tuning a single processor Sun Microsystems Ultra 5 system with 256 meg of memory running IDS 7.3 and Solaris 7. We have an application written in Java that frequently loads large amounts of data into the database. We can not seem to get reliably good perf…
IDS/BaaN performance issues
Greetings, We are running IDS version 7.30.uc5 on a 4-way HP 9000 K-250 with 2.25 GB of memory, and HP-UX 10.20. We are also a BaaN installation running b40c4 with about 20 production users, and 25 test users. We have been experiencing performance difficulties with BaaN, and I …
Informix Online Dynamic Server DBA Book
Hello Could anyone recommend a good Informix Online Dynamic Server book. I did a search in Amazon.com but I could not decide on which one to choose. Thanks in advance. Ajay…
pricing for informix info?
Hello, Was wondering what other people out there paid for informix dynamic server 7.3... Basically, i wanted to know if they had a web server licensing schem like microsoft. or ibm's db2 (per cpu license). and would the licenses be transferable if I decided to move from le…
Re: Determining version dynamically
Hi, If you have Informix Dynamic Server then use the following sql-statement ' select DBINFO('version', 'full') from systables where tabid = 1' result from the sql is : Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.30.UC5 Take a look in Informix Guide to SQL: Syntax for more about DBINFO…
KAIO: out of OS resources error
Hi~ My informix dynamic server write "KAIO: out of OS resources error .." in online.log. This error log is written during ontape task. How can I solve this problem? platfom : SunOs 5.5.1 Informix Dynamic Server 7.24 uc6 Thanks.…
64bit IDS for Solaris 7/SPARC ?
Is there a 64bit Informix Dynamic Server 7.3x for Solaris 7/SPARC available? tia, joerg…
Posting from the Informix-list
what is the last version of Informix Dynamic Server for HP-UX 10.20, where can i find more Information about this.…
Latest versions for various Informix products ???
Which are the latest versions for Informix Dynamic Server Informix Dynamic Server, Workgroup Edition Informix 4GL Informix SQL on Solaris 7/SPARC ? Where can I find such informations on Informix's website ? tia, joerg…
cdr command line utility in informix 7.24
Hi, Is there a cdr command line utility in informix dynamic server 7.24? I tried to locate it, but the executable is nowhere to find. Thanks, Lu…
Problem Installing Informix Dynamic Server
I downloaded a Try&Buy version of Informix Dynamic Server V7.30 for NT. I installed it on an NT Server. The install seemed to go ok, but after a short time of investigating IECC, I got a blue screen. After this when I started the Command Center, a task seemed to start, but it w…
Problems starting IDS 7.30.TC7 on Windows NT SP4.
When i try to start informix dynamic Server, the following message appears "Only informix user can start informix dynamic server" this message appears when i logged on with the informix's user. When i try to start the service on the control panel , error 2140 appears.…
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…
Wait statistics on NT
Hi group, i'm using some "onstat -g wst"-output (or some queries to sysmaster:sysseswts) to check which sessions in our development-environment are the "baddies". This works fine (as long as WSTATS (undocumented ONCONFIG-Parameter) is set on our UNIX servers. However in our NT-…
RE: HP-UX 10.20 , Informix 7.30 - advice needed
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Index, Foreign Keys, and Fragmented Tables?
Russell Bierschbach wrote: > > My database currently has two large tables (and a couple hundred small > ones). I'm in the process of moving the database to a new server, and > fragmenting these large tables accross several dbspaces at the same time. I > saw previous posts about…
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…
The ready queue Full but Unix not busy
Generally looking at onstat -g ath will give a better idea when this type of problem happens. Often it's more an issue of a single thread acting up. Are you using any UDRs ? It might be that you are using one that is 'ill behaved' and is blocking on somthing besides IO. Yo…
RE: NET or CPU VP Class : confusing NETTYPE recommendations
Stephen Faehn wrote: > Mario, > My company is running a SUN E4500 in our production environment as the DB > server/CI. > We are running SAP R/3 (3.1H). > The E4500 has 6 Processors and 4 gig memory. > We have 3 E3000 application servers connected to the CI. > > Here is what I ha…
Starting Informix Dynamic Server !
Hi Gurus, Just wondering is there any difference in starting the informix engine as root user versus as Informix user. ? The reason why I ask this question is , the IDS 7.23 UC6 on HP-UX 10.2 crashes due to a bug (declared as bug by Informix Technical support)when we start in…
Informix Dynamic Server Archive/Restore
Hello All: We have a large scale Informix DB resident on an HP 9000, K460, with AutoRaid Disk Subsystem (218gb). And we are running IDS 7.30. Currently, we are using the Informix ontape archive/restore utility to archive the DB and to perform continuous logical logging. We u…
Any one know this?
Hi folks: Is there a script that can check informix on-line dynamic server is up and running or not? If not it will e-mail a note to D.B.A. groups Thanks in advance Garry…
Re: Slow Process
>Informix 7.30 >Hp 9000 unix >4 Proc. >1 gig RAM >2 db instances of 14 gig each (approx.) >Application: Elite Legal Billing System >Process: Proforma Generation > >We recently upgraded from 5.10 to 7.30. Everything is running >smoothly with the exception of "proforma" generati…
converting Informix Online 5.1 esql/c to Dynamic Server esql/c?
Hi converting Informix Online 5.1 esql/c to Dynamic Server esql/c? What is the easiest way to do this? Is there a parser that could do this? edward…
RAID Technolgy
We are using Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.2. We are going in for a new DEC UNIX Server with RAID Technolgy. It incorporates mirroring at the hardware level. So is it not necessary to do mirroring using Informix?. Can anybody give suggestions regarding mirroring and other feat…
Informix on Linux
Does anybody know how much a copy of Informix Dynamic Server would run me for use on Linux?? Thanks in advance -steve…
Upgrade Dynamic Server 7.13 - 7.24
I need to upgrade Informix Dynamic Server version 7.13 to version 7.24. Can anyone advise of any problems they may have had whilst doing this?…
Informix Dynamic Server 7.31?
Is any information available regarding the release of IDS 7.31 for Unix? We have Sun E3000 and E4000 machines and are experiencing problems with both 7.30.UC3 and 7.30.UC5 and are curious about 7.31. Thanks. Carleen Avant Naval Safety Center Internet < cavant@safecen.navy.mil …
STRING FUNCTIONS
Are there functions for manipulating varchar type, like upper() or lower() in Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.2? Thanks in advance.…
Netscape Enterprise Connection for Informix Dynamic Server
Hi: Does anyone know the procedure for setting up a Netscape Enterprise Server to connect to an Informix Dynamic server on a remote machine? Michael…
oninit: shared library problem
I'm having problems when initialising the DB using oninit. Config: INFORMIX Dynamic Server Ver 7.23, on a UNISYS-UNIX SVR4. When Initializing, I get the error ...dynamic linker: oninit: symbol not found: gettimeofday The LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set to $INFORMIXDIR/bin and �INFORMIXDIR…
Initi DB
I'm having problems when initialising the DB. Config: INFORMIX Dynamic Server Ver 7.23, on a UNISYS-UNIX SVR4. When Initializing, I get the error ...dynamic linker: oninit: symbol not found: gettimeofday The LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set to $INFORMIXDIR/bin and �INFORMIXDIR/esql help wo…
Index on Informix Online 7.22 ?
I have installed a new Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.22UC3 on our server (HP-UX 10.20). I find it is much much slower than the Informix 7.12 Online DS server if I do not create index for a same program. Why and what is the difference between the two version of Dynamic serv…
Assertion Failure at ok
07:52:16 Assert Failed: Memory block header corruption detected in mt_shm_mallo c_segid 2 07:52:16 Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.30.UC3 07:52:16 Who: Session(847, informix@, 0, 0) Thread(17, soctcplst, 0, 1) File: mtshpool.c Line: 2455 I am constantly having this problem …
Assertion Failure at ok
07:52:16 Assert Failed: Memory block header corruption detected in mt_shm_mallo c_segid 2 07:52:16 Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.30.UC3 07:52:16 Who: Session(847, informix@, 0, 0) Thread(17, soctcplst, 0, 1) File: mtshpool.c Line: 2455 I am constantly having this problem …
Assertion Failure Message
I am constantly having problems with my informix ver 7.2 database on HP-UX 10.2 which is constantly hanging and gives the following error message in the log file. and dumps the file shmem.101c9b.1 in /tmp. After this the whole system becomes slow and for it to be fast you remove …
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…
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: DS 7.23 performance
My replies embedded in your message, and the notes refer to the parameter(s) immediately above them. Remember the golden rule of tuning: Change ONLY one thing at a time and examine the effects of that change before moving on to another. Best regards, Nigel +-------------------…
Re: Dynamically adding shared memory segs
Bill Weaver wrote: > > Today for some reason we've added 5 shared memory segments dynamically. It almost never happens > that we even have 1 added since I've worked to size our initial segment to avoid this. How can > I tell what is causing us to add so many all of a sudden? > …
Re: OnLine Dynamic Server 7.2 Vs INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3
On Tue, 28 Jul 1998 14:40:44 -0500, Ben Jazi <bjazi@fallschurch.esys.com> wrote: >What are the major differences between INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server >7.2 and INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3? Is it ORDBMS vs RDMBS? No, IDS 9.x is the ORDBMS. This autumn the 7.3 and 9.x code lin…
Re: OnLine Dynamic Server 7.2 Vs INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3
Ben Jazi wrote: > > What are the major differences between INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server > 7.2 and INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3? Is it ORDBMS vs RDMBS? > > Thanks, > Ben I don't know the differences in detail but you could check the following pages, where IDS 7.3 is described …
OnLine Dynamic Server 7.2 Vs INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3
What are the major differences between INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server 7.2 and INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3? Is it ORDBMS vs RDMBS? Thanks, Ben…
Informix computer Base classes
Has any body used the Informix computer base training classes. I am wondering if any of the computer based training classes: "Informix Dynamic Server System Administration" or the "Managing and Optimizing Informix Dynamic Server Databases" is good. Thank You…
Re: Informix Online Dynamic Server 7 on Linux
Piet le Roux wrote: > > If anyone has succeeded to run Informix ODS 7 (SCO) on Linux help would > be appreciated. > I have installed iBCS and the shared libraries and the binaries work, > except that the engine cannot initialize shared memory: Error message > semctl: errno 22…
Informix Online Dynamic Server 7 on Linux
If anyone has succeeded to run Informix ODS 7 (SCO) on Linux help would be appreciated. I have installed iBCS and the shared libraries and the binaries work, except that the engine cannot initialize shared memory: Error message semctl: errno 22 create_vp: cannot allocat m…
Re: latch/lock , buffer - questions.
Sadagopan, Sathish wrote: > > Hi All, > 1) When a thread needs a buffer to read in data , does it acquire any > latches/locks.How is the allocation done ? This is all explained in the Administrator's Guide. Basically the thread hashes into the LRU queues selecting a queue at …
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: queue statistics
In article <6ngrh3$j6f$1@news.xmission.com>, "Sadagopan, Sathish" <sadagop0458@att.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > The qst option of onstat says "queue statistics not enabled".How to enable Q > statistics ? > TIA > Sathish > another reply explains what you need in your $ONCONFIG file.…
Re[2]: queue statistics
This is a multipart message in MIME format --------------InterScan_NT_MIME_Boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable In the $ONCONFIG file, set QSTATS to 1 for onstat -g qst to work, or=20 WSTATS to 1 for onstat …
Re: queue statistics
Sadagopan, Sathish wrote: > > Hi, > The qst option of onstat says "queue statistics not enabled".How to enable Q > statistics ? There is an environment variable that has to be set in the engine's environment at startup that enables stq and wai statistics recording. These are dis…
queue statistics
Hi, The qst option of onstat says "queue statistics not enabled".How to enable Q statistics ? TIA Sathish…
RE: What are the differences between Informix Dynamic Server
It is confusing! =20 Here's what I know: Prior to renaming: 7.2x =3D ODS 8.0 =3D XPS 9.1 =3D IUS After renaming: 7.2x =3D IDS 8.0 =3D IDS/AD/XP 9.1 =3D IDS/UDO=20 After the 7.3 release: 7.3 =3D IDS 9.1 =3D IDS/UDO After the 8.2 release: 8.0 =3D…
RE: What are the differences between Informix Dynamic Server and
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Re: Index for Informix Dynamic Server
William Lai wrote: > > Hello, > > We alreay upgrade our database server from SE5.X to IDS 7.3. After we > convert all the old data to the new server, we have some problems on the > index search. For example, a table: > > table : ith ( ithitno, ithname ), total 1,500,000 records…
Re: Index for Informix Dynamic Server
William Lai <rwie@netvigator.com> offerred: +We alreay upgrade our database server from SE5.X to IDS 7.3. After we +convert all the old data to the new server, we have some problems on the +index search. For example, a table: + +table : ith ( ithitno, ithname ), total 1,500,000…
Index for Informix Dynamic Server
Hello, We alreay upgrade our database server from SE5.X to IDS 7.3. After we convert all the old data to the new server, we have some problems on the index search. For example, a table: table : ith ( ithitno, ithname ), total 1,500,000 records index : ith_1 on ithitno, ithn…
Informix Dynamic Server 7.3
Hello, Since I'm planning a Data Warehouse, I would to do it with the new version of Dynamic Server. Impressions, stability and on which platform? Regards. Fernando _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Fernando Collalti Phone: +…
Informix Dynamic Server & Text columns
Hi everybody, Can you help me ? I've created a table with the following structure : column type -------- ---- code smallint obs text How can I insert into this table with Java program ? I'm using Informix Java AP…
Intermittent Problem - error 529 Cannot attach to transaction
We have a HP-UX box (Ver 10.20) running Informix Online Dynamic Server Ver 7.13 and a NT Server (NT4.0) running Informix Online Dynamic Server Ver 7.23. We are trying to access some of the database tables resided in the HP-UX box from the NT Server via synonyms. But we faced inte…
Re: Update Statistics
Robertson Lee NTSE wrote: > > All, > > I have been left a large script by the Informix DBA to run. It does an > update statistics (low, medium and high) on all of the tables in the db. > > Is there any way I can monitor how this is doing as at the moment it is just > sat in dbacc…
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: NUMCPUVPS settings for a four-processor server
Bill Border wrote: + We have found that in the case of systems with very fast CPU's that + there are times that you need to set NUMCPUVPS to more than the number + of physical CPU's. We have a T600 with 10 CPU's where we configure + 15 CPU VP's and we still cannot drive the al…
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…
Performance & PDQ et al...
We have several update process that are currently very slow, (~ 12 hr each) And have enabled PDQ but no table fragmentation yet. Here is our onstat -g mgm output. Interesting that I note, there is not many contention with the PDQ, and very little I/O loading and have free CPU re…
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: Undocumented oninit variables
Hi, Jeff Craig wrote: > You can put two settings in your onconfig file as: > WSTATS 1 > QSTATS 1 > > Then, issue onstats -g wst or onstat -g qst to view wait and > queue statistics. If you make any headway in understanding > what they tell you, please post me back. You may al…
Java and Informix Dynamic Server 7.x
Hi friends! I am trying to do server-side java cgi programming to connect to I-ODS 7.x. Do you know how I can do that? I heard it is possible to use the jdbc-odbc bridge( intersolve or openlink's), but the performance is too slow, because of jdbc to odbc and odbc to jdbc convert…
Re: Undocumented oninit variables
You can put two settings in your onconfig file as: WSTATS 1 QSTATS 1 Then, issue onstats -g wst or onstat -g qst to view wait and queue statistics. If you make any headway in understanding what they tell you, please post me back. ----------------------------------------------…
Re: "lazy"stored procedures-- WARNING: LONG MESSAGE
In article <5mmpum$2jq@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, Oscar Goldes <ogolde@impsat1.com.ar> writes > >------ =_NextPart_000_01BC6CEB.02CFABD0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > >-----Mensaje original----- >De: Denham.M@amstr.com [SMTP…
Re: excessive latch waits
In article <5k3eeg$s0h@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, Mark Steele <msteele@firstam.com> writes >Got a little problem. I am running Informix 5.01.UD3 Online on an IBM >RS/6000. Lately we have seen some performance problems. Then looking >at tbstat -u, I am seeing an excessive amount …
Re: 7.22.UC1X2 Performance tuning questions....
In article <jlumbleyE80sEz.DBu@netcom.com>, Joe Lumbley <jlumbley@netcom.com> writes >tony edwards (tony.edwards@bellsouth.co.nz) wrote: >: Team, >: We have recently upgraded our HP-UX 9.04 / 5.07 to HP-UX 10.20 / >: 7.22.UC1X2. Here is some information about the system >: c…
Re: What do you know about the btclean thread
The btclean cleans up the index entries which have been marked for deletion. It is normally asleep untill it is activiated by another thread. There is a queue containing a list of all leaf pages which have items marked for deletion. When the btclean thread is activated, it runs…
Re: Executing stored procedures - performance problem
Oleg V. Besedin wrote: > > recently we found a kind of interesting behaviour of our Informix system. > Stored procedures which normally work within 2 - 3 minutes started > to take 8 - 9 hours to complete (180 times performance drop - ha-ha). We recently had a drastic performance…
Re: tbinit in debug mode?
David Williams wrote: > > In article <jlumbleyDxMLLz.Ip7@netcom.com>, Joe Lumbley > <jlumbley@netcom.com> writes > >zsun@br00dbss.med.osd.mil wrote: > > > >: Hi, > > > >: Has anyone heard of, or used tbinit in debug mode? I was told there was/is an > >: un-documented option to ru…
RE:debug mode, undocumented features, etc.
}In article <jlumbleyDxMLLz.Ip7@netcom.com>, Joe Lumbley <jlumbley@netcom.com> writes }zsun@br00dbss.med.osd.mil wrote: } }: Hi, } }: Has anyone heard of, or used tbinit in debug mode? I was told there was/is an }: un-documented option to run tbinit in debug mode, unfortunately t…
Re: debug mode, undocumented features, etc.
Jeff Craig (settler@hobbes.dbintellect.com) wrote: : I'm running 7.12.UC3 on an SGI Challenge XL, and I get waitstats : (onstat -g wst) and queue stats (onstat -g qst) by setting the : following in the onconfig: : WSTATS 1 : QSTATS 1 What do you find this does to your performa…
Re: tbinit in debug mode?
In article <jlumbleyDxMLLz.Ip7@netcom.com>, Joe Lumbley <jlumbley@netcom.com> writes >zsun@br00dbss.med.osd.mil wrote: > >: Hi, > >: Has anyone heard of, or used tbinit in debug mode? I was told there was/is an >: un-documented option to run tbinit in debug mode, unfortunately th…
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: LRU writes
On Fri, 3 May 1996, Mickey Mestel wrote: > first of all, have you migrated from another version, where you have > something to compare it with? that is an important point. We came from 5.x > the next question is, have you run update statistics on your > databases, (especial…
Re: LRU writes
brian, > > response time, that is pretty much the end goal. > > Our response times suck! first of all, have you migrated from another version, where you have something to compare it with? that is an important point. the next question is, have you run update statistics on yo…
Re: Peformance degradation
In my experience striping disks used by OnLine should be avoided. The problem is that you lose control over the positioning of the data. You may have by the reorganisation, arranged your data in contiguous extents but has your striping software actually placed the data in phy…
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?…