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IFX 14.10 FC14 License File
it seems FC13 license can work with FC14 package: onstat -V IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 14.10.FC14 ------------------------------ ke chen ------------------------------…
Need advice on compiling dostats utility
Hi Art, When I ran this command (dostats 2 -h prdweb -m -v 2 -e -d ALL -Q 20 -p -P 0 -w 60), I got two warnings that I don't really understand why: dostats says "Extra arguments ignored!", I checked the syntax, I don't see any reason why it gives that warning. 2. it says "Only St…
Long transaction message discusses a strange number
Hi, I hade the same problem, I simulate a Longtansaction and at the end I create this script to monitor it. this will find sessions with Longtansaction, and write all ses information once to log file . good luck //Layth #!/bin/bash LOGG="/var/informix/log/db_longtx.log" CDATE=$(d…
HDR secondary server extends bufferpool to maximum on memory=auto
Nayden: The problem is that you have not set the cache_hit_ratio option to the 2K BUFFERPOOL setting. That option defaults to 90%. On the primary that works just fine because you are querying those CLOBs so the cache hit ratio is higher than 90%. However, in the secondary, you ar…
WARNING: Buffer pool size is too small for read ahead operation
When I am loading millions of records into a database and I occasionally see a warning message about the buffer pool size being "too small for read ahead operation", should my reaction be: (a) ignore the warning because it only occurs with unusually large loads of data, or (b) in…
How to restrict access for a user to Informix by IP?
Hi, IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.FC5XE AIX 7.1 We have several application servers and LDAP based authentication. How to prevent a user's connections from any but the application servers' IPs? ------------------------------ Sincerely, Dennis -------------------------…
Defragment sbspace
Hi, IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.FC5XE Please, how to defragment (repack) a sbspace after plenty LOBs been deleted? ------------------------------ Sincerely, Dennis ------------------------------…
Large memory segment vs smaller ones
Hi Dennis. Yes: " vmo -p -o v_pinshm=1". You must have RESIDENT 2 or more for large pages as they must be pinned. The "rsam" pool is in the dynamic segment. You need RESIDENT 2 or more. It doesn't sound like the problem is with the buffer pool but the "rsam" pool. Your BTR is fin…
Changing DBSPACETEMP run-time
Hi, IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.FC5XE Please, is there a way to change DBSPACETEMP for a session inside 4GL? ------------------------------ Sincerely, Dennis ------------------------------…
INT to SERIAL in-place alter
Hi, IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.FC5XE My question is, why MODIFY INT to SERIAL does not use in-place alter? ------------------------------ Sincerely, Dennis ------------------------------…
What units do 'buffers' use in BUFFERPOOL?
That phrase indeed is wrong, at least in this general form. A buffer is a buffer for an entire page, each buffer pool's buffer size is that of the page size this bufferpool is for. So if you configure 625000 buffers for your 16kB page size buffer pool, you'll get 625000 16kB buff…
Informix processing "freezes"
Hi, from my experience this can occur when a real huge rollback is occurring (or multiple at the same time). This might result in a stuck engine, which reacts to onstat but is permanently blocking in very long checkpoints. You can monitor this in onstat -x (which will give you an…
BUFFERPOOL with memory vs pages strange behavior
Jared: So, if you specify "memory" instead of "buffers" memory is the maximum buffer size and "start_memory" is the initial memory allocation which, since you did not specify it, defaults to 32K. When you specify "memory" then "extendable" defaults to '1' or ON, and the number of…
Clear BUFFERPOOL
Probably the greatest Informix trick since sliced onion, thank you Vladimir! 07/08/2022 09:36:17 All dirty buffers flushed to disk. All cached buffers invalidated. IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 14.10.FC5IE -- On-Line -- Up 2 days 01:35:22 -- 5307756 Kbytes 2022-07-08 09:3…
Facing some difference in size between 'onstat -d' , 'oncheck -ce' and 'syschunks' table values for 8k page size dbspaces and chunks
Yeah, not intuitive what's stored in syschunks or syschunks_fast (querying syschunks will trigger recalculating free BLOBSPACE pages like running "onstat -d update", syschunks_fast is what onstat queries if you don't add the "update" option). Since version 11.10 the chksize and n…
Buffer wait occurs when performing INSERT in multiple sessions
You have to only peripherally related problems. The issue about not enough KAIO resources is an operating system tuning parameter. You can read the maximum value and set it here: $ cat /proc/sys/fs/aio-max-nr 65536 echo 131072 >/proc/sys/fs/aio-max-nr # set new maximum And see …
Adjusting lru_min_dirty and lru_max_dirty when an instance is online
Short comment. When investigating function "checkpointtime(lrumax,min)" make sure that actual number of modified buffers in the buffer pool is tracked. In some configurations Informix will not be able to maintain LRUMAX for one or more pools, that needs to be addressed on the sto…
for the sysmaster gurus
Thanks Art, I was coming to some conclusion like this. That may explain why onstat -P takes forever on large buffer pools .... Cheers Eric Eric Vercelletto Data Management Architect and Owner / Begooden IT Consulting KandooERP Founder and CTO IBM Champion 2013,2014,2015,2016,2017…
monitoring session memory
Onstat –g afr can be useful as well…
Index page size recommendations
16 k for indices is a good starting point. After that is depends on the data. If I am using TS then I would tend to have dedicate spaces as well. And yes you need a buffer pool for each page size. Paul Watson Oninit LLC +1-913-387-7529 www.oninit.com Oninit® is a registered trade…
How to know what edition is installed ?
I think that when there is no suffix on the version, that that is Enterprise Edition: IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 12.10.FC6XC <-- custom build, but no suffix IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 14.10.FC3 ------------------------------ Mike Walker ------------------------…
onstat statement
Dears, Kindly let me know if I run onstat - g stm command to check current sql statement which give the Session ID but sometimes if I try to kill the session by onmode -z <id> , it doesn't kill the session. So do I need to connect the session id with onstat -k session id ? kindly…
long checkpoint
Yes, the issue most likely is related to storage. Quick check would be to look at the value for the RAS_PLOG_SPEED in "onconfig", if instance had been setup from scratch the number reflects (relative) I/O performance of the device used for the physical log. If, on POWER9, it's m…
dbload with "datetime year to second" datatype
Hello Marc, You can do this by setting the USE_DTENV and GL_DATETIME environment variables. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSGU8G_11.70.0/com.ibm.glsug.doc/ids_gug_085.htm [informix@db2 ids1410fc3]$ onstat - IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 14.10.FC3IE -- On-Li…
Are there hidden gotchas w.r.t. moving sysadmin tables?
Steps to move sysadmin https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/moving-resetting-sysadmin-database-new-dbspace-ibm-informix-dynamic-server-ids ------------------------------ Gaurav Kumar ------------------------------…
Execution of Long Restores Remotely
Or even onstat -Dr …
Fast Recovery after correct shutdown
When the engine is down –what is the last line in the online.log ? If it is not IBM Informix Dynamic Server Stopped then the engine was not shutdown properly Cheers Paul…
How do I determine which edition I m running?
John Miller used to have a web page on this but I'm pretty sure it disappeared. If you execute a onstat - or an oninit -Version and see: IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 12.10.FC10AEE -- On-Line ...... this is Advanced Enterprise Edition IBM Informix Dynamic Server Vers…
Hugepages
Anything in onstat –m Cheers Paul…
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…
Keep definied tables/columns in shared memory?
Not explicitly. The buffer pool management algorithm should achieve that if the pages are effectively being used (provided you have enough buffer pool). If the pages are not effectively being used it's a bit useless to keep them in memory (the only advantage would be to guarantee…
Problem with backup
Original post: Hello, every time we release a copy with onbar , the Database server gets blocked one to three minutes. Is this normal ? Our version is 12.10.FC3WE and the command is onbar -b -w Thank Response: The answer is possibly. At the start of every backup, the server…
Bufferpool configuration
Hi informix community, on a SPARC M10-1 Server we have a informix 12.10FC10 instance. Currently this instace use a buffer pool with around 7GB. Now i have the chance to configure the buffers up to 40GB. I would like to use the following configuration of the buffer pool: BUFFER…
BUFFERPOOL Configuration
Oh, one more reason to use multiple page size buffer pools: - To be able to isolate the IOs against some objects from those of other objects so that, for example, index IO activity does not flush data pages from the cache.…
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.…
Informix 12.1 Blocking Checkpoints
> On 7 Nov 2017, at 10:48, NATYURAL HORACIO <horacio.natyural@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > Based on the current workload, the physical log might be too small > to accommodate the time it takes to flush the buffer pool during > checkpoint processing. The server might block tran…
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…
keep-alive in sqlhosts
Fernando, Andreas, we use Solaris 10 and as you said the interval is 2H. The command to show is /usr/sbin/ndd -get /dev/tcp tcp_keepalive_interval. You will see milliseconds. In our case 7200000. Yes, we'll try it. k=1 is part of the comma separated options list in fifth column…
identify what is allocating memory
original post: Hi , How identify what/who is consuming memory in a specific virtual memory segment ? With onstat -g ses , there is no session with high memory allocated. The amount of users sessions is keeping at regular average... No buffers pool was allocated automatically (I…
Buffer pools in 11.50.FC5
IDS 11.50.FC5 Solaris 10 Sparc I need some guidance on BUFFERPOOL. I am receiving the 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 threads. I am not sure how that translat…
IDS not writing to online.log
Also, onstat - always has the same output…
Odd Bufferpool Behaviou
Original post: AIX 6.1 IDS 11.70.FC8X8 I have a new machine with a lot of extra memory. Given that, I added a bunch of new buffers (4k, 8k, & 16k) and went to town testing away. Long story short, with all those new buffers, I get virtual segments added at startup. In onstat -g …
sysmaster tables for onstat -u and onstat -g ath
Greetings. In my quest to produce Perl scripts that consolidate the output of onstat commands, it has been mostly straightforward to break up a line into into its component pieces of data. For example, onstat -u, every line has exactly one string in every column. Not so for som…
onstat -a order
Hi All, On Informix v.12.1, what is the order of the results for 'onstat -a'? Our file is 234MB large, so I'm breaking it down into the individual pieces. I've gotten to the 'onstat -g all' section, but am stuck on the section with the heading: Thread Thread id Cancelled I/Os C…
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)…
onstat -d
I am sure it must exist Does someone have a script to give a pretty layout of onstat -d ............. The dbspace, and following that the chunks belonging to that dbspace ? My company decided not to stick to naming conventions, and now I am trying to match dbspaces with chunks …
Hash function in Informix
Hi Madison, I probably will put in a feature request to have this documented. Thanks for the great information! Very useful!! Bob -----Original Message----- From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Madison Pruet Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2015 …
Re: RE: Which session is using the most cpu resour
since 11.50 there is also an onstat available for that purpose - onstat -g cpu…
onstat -d
Hi, I see a line in onstat -d output that say metadata Size Free Bpages Metadata 17324 4005 17324 I see the free space was drastically reduced when I run cdr commands. My question is, what will happened with that space if it gets empty ? Thanks in advance. --001a11c11a8c11f…
Stuck transaction
Hi all!!! SUCCESS!!!!! After all these months, we got tripped up by this transaction while trying to upgrade to Informix 12. After the install, running 'oninit' caused a Fatal Error that the engine had found an open transaction from the previous version and could not complete. …
Stuck Transaction with BTS!
Bounce the instance. Art Art S. Kagel, President and Principal Consultant ASK Database Management www.askdbmgt.com Blog: http://informix-myview.blogspot.com/ Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that my own opinions are my own opinions and do not reflect on the IIUG, nor any other…
RSS not working
-bash-4.2$ onstat - IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.FC9 -- On-Line --…
Physical Log Size
IDS 11.70.FC8 AIX 1 6 00CC96664C00 I received the following message in the online.log file ..... is it something to be concerned about ? Based on the current workload, the physical log might be too small to accommodate the time it takes to flush the buffer pool during checkpoi…
Onstat -d
Hi, Every day I run onstat -d command, and notice that every 3 or 4 weeks rootdbs has from 2 to 8 free pages less. Why this happend? Enviado desde mi iPhone…
new bufferpool
original post This concerns ids12.10TC3IE . These are the old lines in my onconfig... #BUFFERPOOL default,buffers=10000,lrus=8,lru_min_dirty=50.00,lru_max_dirty=60.50 #BUFFERPOOL size=4K,buffers=100000,lrus=8,lru_min_dirty=20.00,lru_max_dirty=30.00 #BUFFERPOOL size=16K,buffers=…
Informix upgrade
Can we upgrade informix from Dynamic Server Version 11.70 to 12.1 workgroup edition directly?…
Buffer Size and Use
Folks, We recently had a conversation with a well-respected name in the Informix world, recently, concerning our bufferpool configuration. When exported, our database takes up only about 18 GB. We had a buffer pool of 12 GB, figuring that the more memory resident, the better. Al…
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.…
onstat -g ckp Question
When we are transferring an index from the primary to the secondary we = have a problem. All the work and maintain a clean buffer pool on the primary= is done all the index is being built. However on the secondary there is no= way to keep the buffer pool clean. If we do not keep …
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,…
Bufferpool max size in Windows Server 2008 64bit
Hi, I restarted engine once more and now it looks right. So, probable user error! Are there other memory parameters that would benefit from very large values? Thanks, Lauri d:\\\\Program Files\\\\IBM\\\\Informix\\\\11.70>onstat -X IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.FC…
onstat errors
Hi Art We are old dostats fans. Last version we compiled is: dostats: Features Version 6.00, Source Revision: 1.172 ! Copyright 1996-2009 by Art S. Kagel. License for private usage (including use by commercial enterprise for its own needs) is granted. Commercial and exploita…
onstat & SMI
Good day. Is it possible to get information from SMI similar as "onstat -g sql <sid>" shows? Especially we need current sql and last parsed sql... Thank you in advance. P.S. IDS 11.50FC9 for AIX.…
buffer pool and dbimport (11.70FC5)
Hi, I'm facing a problem and i don't understand how is it possible ... I'm loading (dbimport) a big table (> 3 Million records) and my buffer pool becomes quickly full (700000 buffers with LRU min = 0.50 and max 1.00). Checkpoint is not trigger until CKPINTVL (180) and you can im…
shared memory
This concerns IDS 11.70.TC5IE on Windows Server 2008 . This article http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/idshelp/v117/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm .perf.doc%2Fids_prf_750.htm defines buffer_value = (BUFFERS * pagesize) + (BUFFERS * 254) + 250000and goes on to say: âIf you hav…
Disabling LRU flush
Hi, IFX 11.70 FC 5 Innovator-C , Linux 64bits OpenSuse. I'm working with database load. Basically I'm using HPL, unfortunately some tables have huge rowsize0 (1 row size = 2 pages) and lvarchar datatype which force use deluxe mode. Consequently use buffer pool , and then LRU fl…
BTR on each buffer pool?
This concerns IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.TC5IE . I have a 16k page size space where I put a temp space and all primary and foreign key indexes. Since I can select nbuffs, bufwaits, bufwrites, pagreads from sysmaster:sysbufpool I can get the BTR on each pool. Should…
LRU Queues - more or less
onstat -F shows 0 LRU Writes…
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…
Fw: Query troubles
What level of stats (MEDIUM, HIGH) do you have on the fragmentation column (week#?) and at what resolution/confidence/sampling? How many total rows in the table? According to sysdistrib when were stats last calculated on the table? I would initially suggest forcing stats updates…
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 …
ZFS and Informix
I'm well aware that the buffer pool has nothing to do with the underlying file system. We're just trying to figure out what scales better. We know that ZFS's ARC scales very well (the algorithms come from IBM !!). I trust though the people that have been out in the trenches worki…
Informix Status Explanations
hi, can anyone shed light on this for me. what does this mean? status yield bufwait- does it mean i'm lacking buffer pools? what does this indicate? cond wait netnorm - session is not doing anything. running- does it mean the sql is currently running. yield lockwaits - does th…
RSS with DELAY_APPLY is dog slow!
On Nov 10, 2:52 pm, Nick <milesnmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone have experience with RSS and the DELAY_APPLY feature? > > I am running tests, with the end goal to find the best HDR or RSS > setup that will minimize the performance impact on my primary db > server…
Increase buffer pool size
Dear All, i found the following line in the message log of an IDS 10.00 on a Linux Box having 3GB memory: WARNING: Buffer pool size is too small for read ahead operation I would like to increase this parameter, as obviously it has the default size of 5000 buffers with a 2k page…
Informix question
Original Post: Hi, I have two confused question. 1 When a update SQL will update totally 3 pages in bufferpool? How many mutex IDS will allocate for this thread in the buffer-head entry in the buffer table? 2. What the temporary sbspace will be used for? thanks for your time.…
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.…
Onload, the "fast" alternative
On 15/03/2011 14:23, Neil Truby wrote: > 11.5FC8W2 on Linux > > I'm doing a 9.40 upgrade to 11.5 on a smallish database, around 100g. I > want to unload and reload the data too, as the dbspace layout is dreadful. > > timings so far: > dbexport 2h 20m > dbimport 10h > > So I thou…
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…
onstat -l
I'm seeing a couple of extra lines in the output of 'onstat -l', which I can't find documented in the 11.50 administrators guide and references. The lines in question look like this: Buffer Waiting Buffer ioproc flags L-1 0 0x1 0 L-2 0 0x1 0 The exact lines varies (L-1 through…
Can't access sysindexes remotely
Hi, We are using IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.FC6 using Platform: SunOS 5.10 Generic_125100-09 sun4v sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-T200 Thanks…
Re: how to terminate global transactions?
On 28.06.10 11:19, Davorin Kremenjas wrote: > On Jun 27, 6:51 pm, Frank Langelage<fr...@lafr.de> wrote: >> On my Informix instance I have two global transactions holding some >> locks. See onstat -G and onstat -x output below. >> How can I get rid of them? >> Also after a server…
how to terminate global transactions?
On my Informix instance I have two global transactions holding some locks. See onstat -G and onstat -x output below. How can I get rid of them? Also after a server reboot they are still there. onmode -Z <address> or onmode -H <address> do not work (see below). IBM Informix Dynam…
RE: Long Checkpoints with HDR and 11.5.
Art Kagel wrote: No, Jacques, IDS secondaries do not share buffer pool updates with the primary. Only the logical log buffers are transferred, so only the server's transaction rate would affect the data transfer rate between the servers and that would be about the same regardles…
Network Buffer Pools
IDS 11.50.FC5 AIX 5.3 For HDR replication between two AIX 5.3 servers, is there a suggested value for the following environment parameters: 1. IFX_NETBUF_PVTPOOL_SIZE 2. IFX_NETBUF_SIZE 3. Sqlhosts option b (client buffer size) The primary has 64GB of memory while the second…
onstat -g ses output
Greetings, Can someone define or point me to a document that defines all of the output from the onstat -g ses session_id command? Specifically, I am interested in knbowing what this output section means: Host variables : address type flags value ---------…
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…
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…
physical log might be too small
Hello, We are getting following error while checking checkpoints "Based on the current workload, the physical log might be too small to accommodate the time it takes to flush the buffer pool during checkpoint processing. The server might block transactions during checkpoints. I…
Re: Informix RESIDENT and Solaris 8 and 10 swap usage
On Jun 29, 10:17 am, Koya <chav...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jun 29, 8:42 am, Eric Rowell <erow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Koya , > > Wish I still had access to my old Solaris systems (past live), this is > > what I remember. > > > There was a change to the mapping a…
Informix RESIDENT and Solaris 8 and 10 swap usage
On 26 June, 20:55, Koya <chav...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > I have the follwoing question about RESIDENT and swap usage in > Solaris. > > My understanding is if we set RESIDENT value greater than zero, swap > should not be used. If this is corrent, do you have any idea w…
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…
onstat -g iov
No doubt the real answer is RTFM. But, can anyone give me or point me to a good description of the i/o -wakeup ratio, and why 0.5 is "good"?: onstat -g iov -r 5 IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.FC8W2 -- On-Line (Prim) -- Up 81 days 06:27:37 -- 46892464 Kbytes AIO I/…
Buffer Pool
Hi, We are running informix 9.4 FC5xs with SAP. Our SAP admin recently advised that the INFORMIX buffers were set to low. Based on some SAP recommendation, we increased the buffers parameter from 301049 to 501049 (about 600Mb to a little les than 1Gb. 2 days later I found the fo…
size in MB written on disk
Hi, using iostat command will you get realtime data by every disk or volum of your system. Also you can schedule "sar" command to retrieve disk statistics and visualize it on a workstation. Also you can get valuable data about disk activity via snmp with "ucd/net - Device I/O" C…
Fatal error
Dear Friends, When i am try to onlining the informix i got this messages informix@DBSERVER> oninit -v -y Checking group membership to determine server run modesucceeded Reading configuration file '/export/home/informix/IDS0/etc/onconfig.voms'...succeeded Creating /INFORMIXTMP/.…
Re: Best Use of Free Memory
David, I see the confusion now. The English phrase, "Needs to acquire a buffer," is too vague. There are really two major cases, but the manual is only addressing one (the rarer one). The cases are: 1. The required data is already in the buffer pool. In this case the thread nee…
Re: Best Use of Free Memory
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 7:14 PM, david@smooth1.co.uk <david@smooth1.co.uk>wrote: <SNIP> > > > > As the number of buffers go up the lru chains get longer and so the > time to find a buffer can increase (if the buffer is further down an > LRU queue > at the time). > David, If the…
Best Use of Free Memory
BUFFERS is generally a good place place to use extra memory, subject to a couple caveats: 1. If the working set already fits in the current buffer pool, adding still more buffers will not produce any noticeable performance increase. Check "onstat -g buf" output for your %cached.…
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…
If there were no onstat...
IDS v10.00.UC8 Solaris 8 6-1, 175 Bats: Left Throws: Right Born: 11/17/1967 in Independence, MO. Pretend there was no onstat -x (or any onstat) to get info about open transactions. You wanted to find out if there were any open transactions in a logical log file older than the cu…
Test Restoration failed
Bet you three chocolate dipped donuts that your 'test' system has RAID5 disks under the chunks you created while the 'dev' system is using RAID10. Art On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 4:38 AM, VICKY H <vickykh26@gmail.com> wrote: > Finally i reinitialized the test instance and started t…
Informix Dynamic Server v 11.50 Developer's Edition
Does everyone know that the Informix Dynamic Server Developer's Edition v11.50 that you can download from the IIUG Web site (www.iiug.org) is NOT timebombed, is completely and fully functional (including HDR, MACH11, ER etc.). Do you know that the only limitations on this versio…
Informix Dynamic Server v 11.50 Developer's Edition
Does everyone know that the Informix Dynamic Server Developer's Edition v11.50 that you can download from the IIUG Web site (www.iiug.org) is NOT timebombed, is completely and fully functional (including HDR, MACH11, ER etc.). Do you know that the only limitations on this versio…
CONFIGURATION ONAUDIT-IBM Informix Dynamic Server
Hello, I need to configure onaudit and onshowaudit able to register for each of the consultations that are made to the database, either through dbaccess, ODBC or another application. I've been reviewing the IBM Informix Trusted Facility Guide, but I was not working. What param…
How to use Informix Dynamic Server
I have installed trial version of "Informix IDS Dynamic Server Developer Edition 11.5 for Windows 2003, XP, Vista, 32bit Version 1150TC1DE". But i am new to informix. Can anyone explain how to use IDS in detail.…
understanding oncheck -pp
Thanks Mike, Here is the excerpts from the af.xxxxxxx file - ***** 11:08:29 Assert Failed: Page Check Error in btcurrent:bad current page 11:08:29 Who: Session(16, informix@DV11, 3743, 10b013e98) Thread(45, sqlexec, 10afd38f0, 1) File: rsdebug.c Line: 1057 11:08:29 Results: Po…
3 parameter/onstat questions
I just got off the chat-with-labs with John Miller. He left me with 3 questions I am hoping to get more info about, having failed to get anything useful from the version 10 docs. I'm on ids10.0.fc5. 1) He strongly recommended having the chunk mode set to expanded 'always'. He sa…
"tty" column in onstat -u
(HP-UX 11i, IDS9.30HC5) Just a comment, really, and wondering if this is the same on other systems? Doing a remote dbaccess query from one box to another, I've found that when I do an 'onstat -u' on the target machine, under the 'tty' column it shows the tty of the session on th…
Ip for a network session
onstat -g ses look under "hostname"...…
What is IPA abbreviation ?
Hi all IBM INFORMIX DYNAMIC SERVER 10.00 PRODUCT RELEASE bug_number 168928 description WITH NON-DEFAULT PAGE SIZE AND ACTIVE IPA'S, TABLE LEVEL RESTORES FAIL product_code ONUTILS component_code ARCHECKR What is IPA ? Thanks…
Re: tblsnum in onstat -k
Sounds good... select * from syslocks.... is easier.. Superboer way fast=http://www.clipjes.nl/clip/nederlands/n/normaal_- _oerend_hard.html On 6 dec, 01:30, mohitanch...@gmail.com wrote: > Version IDS 10: > > Is following sql correct to retrieve associated table for that lock…
tblsnum in onstat -k
Version IDS 10: Is following sql correct to retrieve associated table for that lock listed in onstat -k: select * from sysptnhdr where hex(partnum) = tblsnum; or select * from systabnames where hex(partnum) =tblsnum;…
Re: 9.40FC9 BUFFERS limit
On Jul 25, 4:41 pm, <eshkambx-i...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi > > Does anyone know what is real maximum number (not from release notes) of BUFFERS parameter for IDS > 9.40FC9 for Solaris 10? Exact Solaris version is: Solaris 10 11/06 s10s_u3wos_10 SPARC. > > Situation: > > We have ne…
description of onstat -g ntt
Hi Karl, From IBM Performance Guide v9.4, we can find this explanation on the q-exceed field: << output output field Description -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- onstat -g ntm q-exceeds Number of times the free buff…
Re: Strange behaviour of the buffer pool
On Jul 17, 8:57 am, RoB <pluma...@gmail.com> wrote: > >My post to the news group is taking forever. In any case, I looked > >around a bit and it seems like the easiest way to get your resident > >section to become larger, other then BUFFERS in the $ONCONFIG, is the > >LOCKS para…
Re: Strange behaviour of the buffer pool
On 17 Jul, 12:10, RoB <pluma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > IDS: 9.40.FC3W2 > OS: HP-UX 11.11 > > What am I missing here? An instance is unexplainably allocating 224 MB > of buffer pool in addition to the amount configured. > > The BUFFERS onconfig parameter is set to 6250 (=…
Re: Strange behaviour of the buffer pool
Looking at a larger instance on the same versions I can see the "resident" pool being 354MB while the "res-buff" being the same the BUFFERS setting: onstat -g mem|grep " R " res-buff R c00000001669d040 1280004096 2848 2 2 resident R c000000000491040 …
Strange behaviour of the buffer pool
Hi all, IDS: 9.40.FC3W2 OS: HP-UX 11.11 What am I missing here? An instance is unexplainably allocating 224 MB of buffer pool in addition to the amount configured. The BUFFERS onconfig parameter is set to 6250 (= 12.2MB): onstat -c|egrep "BUFF|SHM" BUFFERS …
IIUG TV
Great job on the video work!! I look forward to seeing more! -t- -- -- Informix Dynamic Server Database Engine -- http://www.informix.com --…
Re: Slow database creation and loading
On Jun 18, 10:50 pm, "Jack Parker" <jack.park...@verizon.net> wrote: > If you are using HPL, that grabs it's own memory. Data does not go through > the normal buffer pool (unless you are using deluxe mode). You might not > want to increase buffers. I need to double check but I…
tty value
HI, Guys, I am wondering the TTY values from onstat -u. It is normally a number, but the folowing looks..... Any idea? AIX 5.3, IDS10 UC5 Tahnks, Frank IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.UC5 -- On-Line -- Up 18:50:39 -- 77088 Kbytes Userthreads address flags sessid …
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…
onstat -p
Dear forumers, Attached is the "onstat -p" command : Do you think my bufwaits is high ?? Or is there anything significant from this information that need attention for performance reasons ? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------…
onstat -p
The following is the output of onstat -p, I am curious why numckpts: 2325 < ckpwaits : 2683 ? How is that possible? Thanks, Frank informix@erika $ onstat -p IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.UC5 -- On-Line -- Up 36 days 02:20:10 -- 1976640 Kbytes Profile dskreads pagr…
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…
onstat -a runaway process
Greetings, family (if y'all haven't disowned my by now ;-) We have a problem (so what else it new) with onstat -a: we have a script that periodically runs onstat -a and oncheck -pe. The onstat occasionally starts to eat CPU and the user calls us DBAs to kill the process. If s…
monitoring load
IDS 10, RedHat Linux Which onstat tells me that there are threads waiting to be processed? - onstat -g wai or - onstat -g rea TIA. Bob…
Total length of columns in constraint is too long
Hi, We recently migrated our application from MySQL to IDS. While the migration (post DDL and few other code changes) worked just fine in a dev. environment on windows, while executing DDL scripts on Linux, IDS throws this error. Basically I have a unique constraint on 3 columns…
Onstat Reference
It's taken a while but I've finally got our onstat reference pages (www.oninit.com/onstat) up to data with all the recent (ish) stuff. The V11 changes will be in place when the V11 Beta goes public. I'm happy to be told where they are wrong. If you like it then use it, if you …
License Extension
Help.. I need a license extension for the IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.FC3R1TL which I downloaded to do a evaluation. How can I get the license extened..my project is in the final stages .. Dhaya Commercial bank…
running onstat commands against a shared memory du
Hmmmm. df -h tells me I have 17GB available on the partition where the shmem dump files resides. -Peter Clifton Bean wrote: > All I know is on my box (AIX 5.2): > #define ENOSPC 28 /* No space left on device */ > > I used to work at Informix and they had us doing that command …
XA Transaction blocking server
Hi, we encountered a problem on our development server, which lead to a blocking IDS 10.0 instance: We made a XA-Transaction containing two datasources on different IDS instances. For some reason, the transaction was aborted: 18:48:35 Aborting Long Transaction: tx 0x10f151398 no…
record locked
a combination of onstat -k and onstat -u…
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…
Re: tricky performance problem on DELETE
Any triggers on that table ? How about any constraints ? Can you see the sql running or is it waiting on something ? ( onstat -u , onstat -g sql, onstat -g ses ) ======================== -<<Floyd Wellershaus>>- Database Administrator Unix Administrator email: fweller…
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: Database Encryption
Madison Pruet wrote: > Jonathan Leffler wrote: > >> >> When the IDS encryption functions operate, they take the password or >> pass phrase that you provide (6-128 characters), and hash it, along >> with a random IV or Initialization Vector, and use that to create a >> 112-bit key…
RE: Reducing checkpoints
-----Original Message----- From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:informix-list-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of TBP Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 3:13 PM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: Reducing checkpoints Superboer wrote: > hope NO RAID 5 NO RAID 5 NO RAID 5 > > fo…
Performance issue after 732 to 94fc6 upgrade
Sorry, the previous posting of with the onstat output file did not have the sequence of onstat commands. They were in order: informix211 /tmp$ onstat -g cac >> retwa.stats.out informix212 /tmp$ onstat -p > retwa.statsdone.out informix213 /tmp$ onstat -d >> retwa.statsdone.out inf…
help on onstat
hi, please help me how to leave onstat -i mode? thanks…
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?…
who locks a record?
onstat -k followed by an onstat -u…
How do it get writes form the lrus in V10
> -----Original Message----- > From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Bill > Marshall > Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 7:21 AM > To: ids@iiug.org > Subject: How do it get writes form the lrus in V10 [6648] > > > I have a new HP Intel 32 bit chip mach…
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/…
Onstat -g sts
Hello all, I have this problem : 01:08:38 Found during mt_shm_free 4 01:08:38 Pool 'sscpool3' (0x7000000e0e22040) 01:08:38 Bad block header 0x7000000f7fd1000 blk-64 07000000f7fd0fc0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ........ ........ 07000000f7fd0fd0: 00000000 00000000 0…
/usr/informix/bin/onbar[84]: 22716 Memory fault
On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 16:47:09 -0500, Darren_Jacobs@carmax.com wrote: > >Greetings, > >I'm getting the above error when running onbar from a script. Does anyone >have any ideas? > >9.40 FC2 >HPUX 11.11 > >set -x output from script: > >+ [ ! -f /usr/informix/logs/db_archive.log ] >…
HP-UX KAIOON
Shouldn't there be any kio vp's in then onstat output?…
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: Track a session to a Buffer
onstat -b/-B/-X would be your friends.…
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!…
Check INFORMIXDIR and DBLANG.FAILED
Hill, what could have caused it ? angel:/opt/informixids/msg/en_us/0333}oninit -v Checking group membership to determine server run modesucceeded Reading configuration file '/opt/informixids/etc/onconfig.angel'...succeeded Creating /INFORMIXTMP/.infxdirs ... succeeded Creating …
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: MGM Mutex Locks hangs the system
What OS and version? What Informix version? What mutex locks? onstat -g mgm gives? onstat -g lmx gives? onstat -s gives?…
Re: Sql to concatenate multiple rows to a single row / column
Thank you SaltTan - it works beautifully. BTW, we have IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.FC6.…
Re: IDS 10 erratic run times
"Neil Truby" <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote in message news:3pliprFb403pU1@individual.net... > IDS 10.0FC3 on Solaris 2.9 > >>> This is a brand new server which we are preparing to migrate a v9 system >>> to. > Over the past few weeks I have run multiple dbimports from more-or-le…
RE: IDS 10 erratic run times
No, not much help, but thanks for sharing your story with us. We enjoyed it. --- "Hamilton, Jerry" <hamiltoj@fleishman.com> wrote: > I'm seeing the same problem with my v9.4 update > statistics jobs too. > I've had the same eight Update Stat jobs that run in > about 3.5 hours, …
RE: IDS 10 erratic run times
I'm seeing the same problem with my v9.4 update statistics jobs too. I've had the same eight Update Stat jobs that run in about 3.5 hours, in parallel, on a 9.21 system for years. On my 9.4 system these same jobs, running in parallel, take almost 7 hours to run. I never had the…
Re: IDS 10 erratic run times
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 01:01:44 +0100, "Neil Truby" <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote: >IDS 10.0FC3 on Solaris 2.9 > >This is a brand new server which we are preparing to migrate a v9 system to. >Over the past few weeks I have run multiple dbimports from more-or-less the >same data so…
IDS 10 erratic run times
IDS 10.0FC3 on Solaris 2.9 This is a brand new server which we are preparing to migrate a v9 system to. Over the past few weeks I have run multiple dbimports from more-or-less the same data source - certainly the same schema - but the import time varies widely. The fastest I've…
Error Dopping Temp DB Space
How does it show up on 'onstat -d update'?…
Re: Re: oninit error .. [5496]
$ oninit -ivy Checking group membership to determine server run modesucceeded Reading configuration file '/opt/informix/etc/onconfig.padbv2'...succeeded Creating /INFORMIXTMP/.infxdirs ... succeeded Creating infos file "/opt/informix/etc/.infos.padbv2" ... "/opt/informix/etc/.co …
Installation problem
I am attempting to upgrade an Informix installation from 7.3x on Sun 5.7 to 9.4 on Sun 5.9. When I run oninit -ivy I get the following: Creating buffer pool 200002 kbytes...succeeded Initializing rhead structure...succeeded init_alarm failed fyi: I installed a new version of IS…
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…
error the running INSTANCIA
Hi: Cuando inicio la instancia me sale el siguiente mensaje de error.... alguna idea, se los agradecere. Me pueden dar una pista ??? saludos ============================================================= Checking group membership to determine server run modesucceeded Reading co…
error the running INSTANCIA
Hi: Cuando inicio la instancia me sale el siguiente mensaje de error.... alguna idea, se los agradecere. Me pueden dar una pista ??? saludos ============================================================= Checking group membership to determine server run modesucceeded Readin…
Transaction Rollback
onstat -x…
How to determine optimum buffer size?
Hello, how do I (or how do you) determine the optimum buffer size (on IDS 9.40, but I think it's a generic question) ? I have a machine with almost 'unlimited' memory (96 GB RAM). Therefore I could define a large number of buffer pages. But I'm not sure if at some point the adm…
What counts sysbufhdr.reusecnt ?
Hi, I found the table sysbufhdr in the sysmaster database apparently containing information about the database buffer pages. One column has the name 'reusecnt' - does anybody know what exactly that column counts? Most entries have reusecnt=0 and I have one system (with a very la…
Re: RESIDENT and BUFFERPOOL
David E. Grove wrote: >>On Solaris the 4MB page size is used for any segment made resident, no >>matter how many there are. > > Since page size is now settable in IDS 10, does the above have any > implication on specifying a BUFFERPOOL page size? I'm no sure whether you understa…
Re: RESIDENT and BUFFERPOOL
David E. Grove wrote: >>On Solaris the 4MB page size is used for any segment made resident, no >>matter how many there are. > > Since page size is now settable in IDS 10, does the above have any > implication on specifying a BUFFERPOOL page size? I'm no sure whether you understa…
Re: Expert advice needed on Buffer management
jpierrot@chubb.com wrote: > Hi gang, His per-session buffer pool requirement calculation is completely bogus since most sessions will be sharing the use of the same pages of data and which pages are shared and which are uniquely used by a single session will differ from server t…
Expert advice needed on Buffer management
Hi gang, I received this below from the architecture Dept. trying to simulate Production like performance in QC and development envs. Assuming performance testing would be equal in all those environments if buffers are adjusted to a certain value. Please advise! My question to yo…
Expert advice needed on Buffer management
Hi gang, I received this below from the architecture Dept. trying to simulate Production like performance in QC and development envs. Assuming performance testing would be equal in all those environments if buffers are adjusted to a certain value. Please advise! My question to yo…
RE: orphaned lock process
may be the transaction is not completed, is it a distributed transaction ? if it is, then, one of the option is, - make sure there are no distributed transactions running on the database - issue onstat -x and identify the transaction (the fifth character in the flag will be a 'G…
RE: orphaned lock process
may be the transaction is not completed, is it a distributed transaction ? if it is, then, one of the option is, - make sure there are no distributed transactions running on the database - issue onstat -x and identify the transaction (the fifth character in the flag will be a 'G…
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…
IDS 10 Download?
So many questions... I have played with multiple buffer pools and different page sizes... creating a dbspace with an 8k page size..oh wow! Make size is only 16K though...oracle (where I guess this idea came from) allows 64K! onstat -h (buffer hash chain info) gives two outputs …
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…
onstat -p
We are running IDS 9.3 on Tru64. Most of the onstat -p statistics quit being accumulated 3 days ago and I = have no idea how to restart accumulation without restarting the = instance. What/how causes the stats to not accumulate? How do you begin accumulation again? Copy of onst…
onstat --p
Hi: Considerations can recommend me that parametros and/or deberia to make for being able to improve the performance of my motor, because deacuerdo when coming out of onstat - p Êched=91.21 and to be 98 Thank's ========================================================== Profil…
onstat --p
Hi: Considerations can recommend me that parametros and/or deberia to make for being able to improve the performance of my motor, because deacuerdo when coming out of onstat - p %cached=91.21 and to be 98 Thank's ========================================================== Prof…
IDS V7.30 and Windows 2000
Can Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.30.TC6 be run on a Windows 2000 host system? TIA Erwin…
problems of Inztallation's
Hi: I have problems with thle installation of IDS. Plataform: HP-UX 11.11 IDS: 7.31 FD8 I cannot initialize !!! If I want to iniciarlize via onmonitor .... the error is: shared memory not initialized for INFORMIXSERVER 'crazy_tcp If i want to inicialize vi command ..... the err…
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…
Intitialization problem
Hi, I have a problem with IDS 7.31 on SCO 5.0.5 When trying to initialize IDS and it hangs. Here is the oninit -v command: # oninit -v Checking group membership to determine server run modesucceeded Reading configuration file '/usr/informix/etc/onconfig'...succeeded Creating …
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…
error -229 with php
Hi, I'm using Informix 9.40.UC2 on Redhat Fedora, apache 1.3.29 and php 4.2.1 Everythink works fine, but then I tried the following: $conn=@ifx_connect("database@server","user","passwd"); define("DB",$conn); $sql="select * from myview "; $sql.=" where rna_text = \\"bla…
Informix IDS problem
Hi All, When I try to start the IDS 9.40 on HP PA-RISC machine, I get the following error. If I reinstall the IDS it works properly. If I shut down & restart the database it fails with the below message.. Checking group membership to determine server run modesucceeded Reading …
RE: Clearing Buffer Pool
Informix (unlike MS SQL) keeps all pages in the buffer pool 'forever' - until page becames replaced by another page... ------------------------------------------ Alexey Sonkin > From: Dave Griffen [mailto:dgriffen@nospam.finishline.com] > > I do mean to remove all non essential…
RE: Clearing Buffer Pool
To clear the buffer pool from dirty pages, generate a chackpoint with 'onmode -c' If You mean to remove all pages from it, then it's impossible. ------------------------------------------ Alexey Sonkin > -----Original Message----- > > Does anyone know if there is a way to clea…
Clearing Buffer Pool
Does anyone know if there is a way to clear the buffer pool without bouncing the engine?…
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…
Onstat -D / onstat -u mismatch
IDS 9.21.UC6, Solaris 2.8 building an ETX index, into logged smartdbs, onstat -u shows the nreads column ticking up. The nwrites is remaining at zero. Onstat -D shows heavy reads on one smartdbs where the data is, and heavy writes on smartdbs where the index is heading. onstat…
Re: [Informix Dynamic Server (IDS):] Digest 2671
For a course in the US, check out: http://www-306.ibm.com/services/learning/ites.wss?pageType=course_description&co urseCode=L1760&country=us&language=en (IBM course L1760). There is probably a similar course offered in Europe somewhere. Hope this helps. Kevin Doiron Toronto,…
Re: Remote LONGTX with no userthread in 9.30 UC6 W4
rdtbra wrote: > Hello all. > > We use here IDS 9.30.UC6W4, running in SunOS 5.7. Both Informix and Solaris are > 32 bits. For the second time we have reached a situation where the instance > shows a LONG TRANSACTION marked with flags --H--G and userthread 0. When this > instance …
Re: Buffers and LRU.
Madison, the standard interpretation of LRU is Least Recently Used. The standard usage of such a queue is as follows: Each queue has an MRU (Most Recently Used) end and an LRU end. When a buffer is touched (either read or written) it is moved to the MRU end of the queue. When a…
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…
Buffers and LRU.
The buffer pool is the page cache of the engine. The LRUs are simply a means of chaining the buffers together. There are two chains per LRU - the free and the dirty. (Actually a free buffer has a page in it, but it is not dirty.) There are multiple LRUs so that if a thread tri…
Re: Hash Tables
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configure computer for using informix
what shell I do to make my computer work with informix. I have installed winXP on my computer, informix 4 i informix dynamic server? THANKS…
Re: database restore with ontape -r on Informix Online Dynamic Server
David Williams wrote: > "Colin Bull" <c.bull@videonetworks.com> wrote in message news:btmcr4> That > will make it a lot tidier, should be able to use a case statement. > >>I will revise next week sometime. >> > > > http://www.smooth1.demon.co.uk/ifaq06.htm#6.33 > > 6.33 What sta…
RE: database restore with ontape -r on Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.31 on Linux
"Colin Bull" <c.bull@videonetworks.com> wrote in message news:btmcr4> That will make it a lot tidier, should be able to use a case statement. > I will revise next week sometime. > http://www.smooth1.demon.co.uk/ifaq06.htm#6.33 6.33 What status codes does onstat return? On 21st …
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…
onstat -F
What does the "data" column in onstat -F output signify? Where is this documented? Thanks Andy…
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?…
What's in my buffers script
Ever wonder what tables are in your buffer cache and how many pages each are contributing? Onstat -P too terse and onstat -B too voluminous? Try this script: Art S. Kagel ########### CUT HERE ############ #!/usr/bin/ksh which nawk|fgrep "no nawk in" >/dev/null if [[ $? = 0 ]…
RE: ALTER FRAGMENT goes walkabout
Are the indexes in the same dbspace as the data? If so, I'd guess that dropping the indexes frees up lots of space, making for less extent hunting/allocation when the table and indexes are rebuilt. Just a guess... HTH, Paul Mosser -----Original Message----- From: Neil Truby […
ALTER FRAGMENT goes walkabout
IDS 9.21 FC4 on HP-UX 11.11 Can anyone explain to me how ALTER FRAGMENT ... INIT IN DBSPACE actually does its stuff? I've a 32GByte table which I want to reorgainse, to get all the free space contiguous. I can't use HPL, as there is a known bug in 9.21 that makes the unloads (…
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…
Bad performance
Hi folks, we have three servers running Linux (SLES7) and Informix 9.30 (2x) and 9.21 (1x). A developer has run a script against 9.21 and it worked fine and performantly. Now running it against the 9.30ies shows a very bad performance. Has somebody perhaps an idea of what is th…
onstat flags
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Redbrick
----- Original Message ----- To: malcolmw@fast24.co.uk At: 3/26 8:29 Several commercial applications, notably SAP and PeopleSoft, have 10,000-30,000 tables, that's the main reason. Also there are instances, like our development servers here, where you may have over 100 databases…
regarding concept of physical logging??
hello, i have a serious confusion regarding tha concept of physical logging, this might sound silly for an expert kindly bear with me and explain.. according to what the book says.. physical logbuffer contains the before images of the data that taken from disk for modification..…
onstat -b
Hello all, Below is the output of onstat -b : informix@test:/usr/informix> onstat -b Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.30.UC8 -- On-Line -- Up 6 days 21:06:56 -- 506592 Kbytes Buffers address userthread flgs pagenum memaddr nslots pgflgs xflgs owner waitlist 31427e88 0 …
RE: what is light scan and look aside??
All of these 'advanced' questions. Are you retreading from some other vendor? You should consider a course. Light Scan: Normally when you read a table, you go through the buffer pool. That is your row is retrieved from disk, stuck into a buffer, an LRU entry is made to track…
onstat -b
Hello all, Below is the output of onstat -b : informix@test:/usr/informix> onstat -b Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.30.UC8 -- On-Line -- Up 6 days 21:06:56 -- 506592 Kbytes Buffers address userthread flgs pagenum memaddr nslots pgflgs xflgs owner waitlist 31427e88 0 …
RE: onstat
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 dr_pablo@my-deja.com wrote: >> I have seen vendor-supplied scripts, which use the following >> exit codes from "onstat". I do not know where they are documented. > >Here's the URL to the FAQ page containing the info: > >http://www.iiug.org/resources/faq/ifaq0…
RE: onstat
I got this email awhile back: >PEOple, > >For those of you who do not know, it is very tough to determine the *real* >status of IDS. "onstat -" will return, stating that the server is "online" >but many times it is in the process of a "fast recovery", etc. In >addition, "onsta…
RE: onstat
The exit codes were posted into a FAQ at the IIUG web site at one time. Wayne E Martin Informix Database Administrator Kmart Corporation -----Original Message----- From: Bogdan Neagu [mailto:bogdan.neagu@alcatel.com] Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 11:17 AM To: informix-list@iiu…
RE: onstat
Hi Bernstein. Please visit following site. >exit codes from "onstat". I do not know where they are documented. http://www.informix.com/informix/iuc/ppt/ts_ids.ppt And search "onstat". Regards. -- Tsutomu Ogiwara Technical Group & Red Brick Group, Informix Sales Promotion …
Re: onstat
At 11:17 01/01/29 -0500, Bogdan Neagu wrote: Hi Bogdan. When the meaning of the question is different, I'm sorry. onstat returns the following. The server status is expressed as a number 0 Initialisation 1 Quiescent 2 Recovery 3 Backup 4 Shutdown 5 Online 6 Abort Regards. >…
RE: onstat
I have seen vendor-supplied scripts, which use the following exit codes from "onstat". I do not know where they are documented. integer inf_dwn1=255 # Informix mode is down integer inf_dwn2=-1 # Informix mode is down (60_USAP2) integer inf_init=0 # Informix mode is Initia…
onstat
Hi all. I was told by our DBA that onstat has different exit codes depending on the engine's mode (or mood). So, if I test $result (in C shell) or $? (Bourne / Korn shell), I should get a numeric value. My tests show 1=Quiescent, 5=On-Line. Does anyone know what these values …
onstat -b
Hello all, Below is the output of onstat -b : informix@test:/usr/informix> onstat -b Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.30.UC8 -- On-Line -- Up 6 days 21:06:56 -- 506592 Kbytes Buffers address userthread flgs pagenum memaddr nslots pgflgs xflgs owner waitlist 31427e88 0 …
What requires an IDS Linux?
Hello What requires an Informix Dynamic Server Linux a desktop and/or a network version of Linux? Thanks in advance Jacqueline Romero Miranda…
Informix v Oracle
Hi Is there a function in Informix Dynamic Server 2000 that is like Oracles CREATE SEQUENCE that uses NEXTVAL/CURVAL and %ROWCOUNT, ect? Thanks for all contributions Jordan jbruce@asaglobalserv.com…
bug in onstat -t ?
onstat -t gives following output (look at column npages): Tblspaces n address flgs ucnt tblnum physaddr npages nused npdata nrows nextns resident 17 c0000000995f8908 0 1 100001 10000e -9223372036854775558 250 0 0 5 0 120 c0000000995f8d78 …
Onstat -P
Hello all, I am hoping you can clear up something for me. I am curious about the onstat -P command. The Admin Guide/Manual for 7.3x has one pithy statement about "display for all partitions the partition number and break up of pages in the buffer pool belonging to the partitio…
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 …
onstat on IDS2000
Hello all IHAC with IDS2000 ans the output of onstat -d is the following : Informix Dynamic Server 2000 Version 9.20.UC3X4 -- On-Line -- Up 6 days 16:59:45 -- 459440 Kbytes Dbspaces 500d1d08 6 8001 6 1 N S informix usersbs0101 Chunks address chk…
IDS 7.3x on Win2000?
Does Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.3x runs on Windows 2000 (Professional)? Thanks for your help. Guy Dillen…
dbcopy and shm
cyclonejls@my-deja.com wrote: > > Can dbcopy use a shared memory connection? When I run dbcopy using a > shared memory connection, I get the following error: Dbcopy uses a separate connection to a database server for each side of the copy. That is why it can copy between datab…
Re: Why is rootdbs busy?
Nice script, but I'm afraid that there are some problems. 1) This does not calculate the hash value correctly. The hashing algorithm includes the char value of the name, the position of the character, and the number of hash buckets (DD_HASHSIZE). 2) Unless the sysxxx tables in …
Fwd: FW: Why is rootdbs busy?
Based on your system load and number of buffers defined you might be suffering from statistics lookups. Try enabling Data Distribution Cache. My database system tables are in a separate DBspace and I reduced the I/O by 50% using the DDC. Mileage may vary, I have 30,000 tables …
Re: Why is rootdbs busy?
While I approve of the DD_HASHSIZE, I'm not so sure about HASHMAX. That limits the dictionary hash chains to only four entries. While that might be OK, it can also indicate a pontential for thrashing. Basically if there are four entries and a table is no longer referenced, the…
Why is rootdbs busy?
Where are your databases defined? If the database is defined in the root dbs and the tables are defined elsewhere, then you might be hitting the systables quit a bit. What does onstat -g dic look like? There is a max length of each of the dictionary chains. If all of the hash…
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: Performance problems with large SELECTS in 7.3x ?
Stefan Weideneder wrote: > > Hi, > > I tried to select some pages of a table that was a bit larger > than my buffer pool. I estimated that my statement will take > about 5 seconds but it took 12 seconds. > I found out, that the server spent approx. 7 seconds for > "buffer waits".…
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…
onstat -u
I have a telnet user who consistently is walking out the door without logging off. Here's how I assume I should go about killing the user, with the problem listed below. 1. Do a who -u | grep username (identify tty port) 2. Do a onstat -u | grep username (to identify session i…
Informix cost???
Someone can said how much does Informix cost? I need to know: -Informix costs -cost for client Thanks very much. I need the last version of dynamic server for Unix. Ciao, Berna…
Re: Onstat
Are you executing onstat with -r 1 option? It happens sometimes. Try with -r 5 option. Vinod Bhansali --- Srinivas Sreekumar <SRINIVAS_SK@inf.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently installed Informix dynamic server > 7.31.UC6 on HP UX 11.0 > > I am getting an error while running …
RE: Onstat
I had a low value for the shared memory kernal parameter for my unix server. When I increased it it started working.. Thansk, Srini -----Original Message----- From: Marat [mailto:maratkotik@mail.ru] Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 7:41 PM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: Onst…
Onstat
Hi all, I recently installed Informix dynamic server 7.31.UC6 on HP UX 11.0 I am getting an error while running onstat. "Changing data structure forced command termination. " can someone interpret this message for me and tell me the action to be taken. Thanks, Srini…
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…
onstat -p
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Re: How do I check LRU contention - onstat -g spi ????
bothwellno@spam.duke.edu wrote: > Art S. Kagel & Family <kagel@erols.com> wrote: > : InfoJones wrote: > : [output SNIPPED] > > : To determine whether buffer contention or LRU contention is involved > : try to calculate your buffer turnover rate: > > : Buffer Turnovers = (dskread…
dynamic server with Informix distant database
We have this problem : - write of a html page (this pages will contain many many fields). - Receiving of the page data on a http server based on a M1 machine. - Using of 4gl/informix programs based on the M2 machine with the pages data - 4GL programs will set up a � result � tabl…
RE: rootdbs size?
From: William Rice <ricew@operamail.com> > >onstat -c >onstat -m >onstat -d >onstat -D >onstat -p >onstat -P | tail -5 >onstat -R >onstat -F >onstat -g seg I feel like I'm stuck in a time loop! ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email a…
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…
Re: How do I check LRU contention - onstat -g spi ????
Art S. Kagel & Family <kagel@erols.com> wrote: : InfoJones wrote: : [output SNIPPED] : To determine whether buffer contention or LRU contention is involved : try to calculate your buffer turnover rate: : Buffer Turnovers = (dskreads + bufwrits) / BUFFERS : BTR = (Buffer Turnove…
3rd Party Tools???
We had a 90 day eval of BMC Patrol, which was running with IDS 7.3. We discovered that it crashed our engine periodically, so we un-installed it. (I can only hope that BMC has since fixed that bug....). BMC is very expensive -- at our shop, the BMC licenses, maintenance, and s…
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…
Posting from the Informix-list
onstat -g ntd Nona…
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…
onstat -u
I am running Informix 8.2 on HP-UX 11.0. When I issue onstat -u command it shows the following: address flags sessid user tty wait tout locks nreads nwrites Under flags option: There are seven flags, the Seventh place flag is I know B,C,D,F; but it also shows M sometime. …
Setting up Rootdbs on a raw disk
In article <850qbs$lje$1@news.xmission.com>, Anne Shelp <shean@mcdss.co.gov> writes > >Hi all, > >I got the part about setting up databases on raw files. I understand that using >links is the way to go. What I am >having problems with is actually getting it to work. I created a l…
fragment by expression question
"MATTHEW H. DEVLIN" wrote: > > why are all fragments being scanned? I thought that fragments would be > eliminated based on the expression and after not seeing fragments > dropped when querying on just ia_group_id I figured i would use the > exact expression used in fragmenting …
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…
ovbuff vs. fgwrites question
Bobby Medus <jeepin@eatmydirt.com> wrote in message news:382C304D.90240C61@texas.net... > This may be a stupid question but you know the old saying..... > > I noticed an increase in 'ovbuff' on the onstat -p. This is a very > small database running on NT and so I increased my b…
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…
onstat & SMI
Hi, does anybody knows what query (queries) I must run to produce same output as onstat -u command? I'm not sure for flags, which fields in SMI represents those flags. Thnx in advance.…
Re: installing Informix dynamic server
From: "Joerg_Mauz@abs.org" <Joerg_Mauz@abs.org> > Is there something wrong the the gateway, Hotmail or are there just loads of idiots posting today. (Apart from me, that is! :-) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hot…
installing Informix dynamic server
hi all, can anybody give me an URL where to find a good description of how to setup and install an Informix Dynamic Server with using RedHat Linux ??? I've searched a whole day but founf nothing useful.. :( thx ind advance joerg…
Help! Cant start database service
Hello All I had my informix dynamic server (7.3) running fine till a few days back. Now the dynamic server service and the informix messenger service won't start automatically and if I try to start the server, it does start but I'm unable to connect to it. If I try to start the…
Re: write cache / NETTYPE
>From: "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@hotmail.com> >To: Valerie.H.Webber@m1.irs.gov, informix-list@iiug.org >Subject: Re: write cache / NETTYPE >Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 13:46:43 BST > >From: Webber Valerie H <Valerie.H.Webber@m1.irs.gov> >> >>How important is the % Write cache on th…
Re: write cache / NETTYPE
From: Webber Valerie H <Valerie.H.Webber@m1.irs.gov> > >How important is the % Write cache on the onstat -p (listed below)? I read >you should shoot for 85%..... ours is very low... 8% and sometimes 0%. How >do you tune the database for write cache. We do mostly reads and inserts…
write cache / NETTYPE
Webber Valerie H wrote: > How important is the % Write cache on the onstat -p (listed below)? > I read you should shoot for 85%..... ours is very low... 8% and > sometimes 0%. How do you tune the database for write cache. We do > mostly reads and inserts and very few updates. >…
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…
Sizing DBSPACETEMP
Any one have any suggestions on sizing the database temp spaces? What option for onstat or Unix command do you use to monitor db temp space? thanks in advance!! Val Valerie H. Webber Valerie.H.Webber@m1.irs.gov 704-569-1002 x107…
RE: BUFFERS
Hi Valerie. Different problem. The problem for 128, apparently fixed at least in 7.31, was harmless. The problem with LRUS=64, and possible also 96, is quite harmful causing the bufwaits reported in onstat -p to increase by 5 to 10 times what it would be for 63 or 65. This on…
Onstat command
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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.…
Tuning Informix 7.2.4
Webber Valerie H wrote: > > Hi All, > > Can anyone take a look at the ONCONFIG file and the output of ONSTAT -P, > ONSTAT -M and part of ONSTAT-G and make some tuning recommendations. This is > running 7.2.4 on a Pyramid UNIX machine with 512M of memory, 4 CPUs and a > 12K line …
Re: FW: Upgrading from version 4.1.2 to 7.2.4
Valerie IMHO, your question is too general. Monitoring tools are mainly onstat (and oncheck to check for disk structures). I would take a quick look at the online log (onstat -m) and do an onstat -p for profile information and post these here for help. HTH Sujit Webber Valerie…
onstat -z
Is there any way to tell the last time someone ran "onstat -z"? This seems like it should actually be logged in the online.log file rather than having to rely upon my fellow DBA's to communicate the fact that they reset things. Especially when I have to monitor hundreds of syste…
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…
onstat
Hello after executing an onstat following message appears in the first lines: "Changing data structure forced command termination" What does this mean? Why does the Profile (as in a normal onstat) not appear and the onstat view only shows me the sessid? Regards André…
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…
Re: Performance Problems with 7.30.UC7XB
Dominic Binks wrote: > > "Agnew, Doug" wrote: > > > > Phil, > > > > The database has been performing fairly well, at least not exhibiting the > > behavior that we are seeing now. We have just recently changed from > > 3.1h SAP kernel to 3.1I kernel and as a result moved from 7.24…
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.…
onstat options....
Hi Users, Which is the best site(s) / Book(s) to explain in detail all the columns of different options in onstat. There are a few changes in onstat results from 7.2x to 7.3.... so need something which explains all these. Thanks in advance, Pramod ___________________________…
Re: Out of buffer?
On Wed, 26 May 1999, Mark D. Stock wrote: > Xavier wrote: > > > > 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…
Re: Out of buffer?
Xavier wrote: > > 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 time…
Out of buffer?
Hi, I got the following error message from an Informix IDS 7.30: <<Informix Dynamic Server>>> WARNING! Buffer pool size may cause Dynamic Server to get into a locked state. Recommended minimum buffer pool size is 4 times maximum concurrent user thre…
Re: onstat
In article <7hpivn$l4u$1@news.gte.com>, michael.talbot@telops.gte.com says... > Hello, > > Question from a unix/informix neophyte: > > > > When I issue the onstat command I get the following reply. Does anyone know how to resolve this? > > /tmp-> onstat > shared memory not initi…
Re: onstat
Either the environment variable INFORMIXSERVER is not set (or isn't set to the correct value) or the Informix database engine is down. What is the value of DBSERVERNAME in the ONCONFIG file? John Carlson Informix DBA WHSmith USA Hello, > > Question from a unix/informix neophyt…
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…
ONSTAT
HI folks, looking for help using onstat -g que I would like to know if Enterprise Replication is working I don't know the meaning of this output.. Any help will be really appreciated. Thanks Javier Puente…
onstat columns
Does anyone have a listing, even partial, of on onstat command column meanings? Informix's references are completely unhelpful, or nearly so, in describing, for example, what the "q-limits" column of "onstat -g ntd" means or how it's calculated, except for saying that the comman…
Re: onstat -u / onstat -g ses Problem
Informix Netherlands advised to start the database with the environment variable SINGLESEG_OFF=1. Try it! Regards Hans Bosma Database Administrator NCCW(Netherlands Ing Thoralf Bihlo wrote: > > I´ve got an HPUX 10.20 / Serie 800 Server with Informix Dynamic Server > 7.30 UC6. >…
REQ: Problem with onstat -u / onstat -g ses
I´ve got an HPUX 10.20 / Serie 800 Server with Informix Dynamic Server 7.30 UC6. My SHMVIRTSIZE is 32k and onstat -g seg shows that I have just one Segment. When I try an onstat -u or onstat -g ses I get the Error: >Changing data structure forced program termination< during the …
onstat -l
When my machine is blocked in a CKPT, onstat -l shows ... Buffer Waiting Buffer ioproc flags L-1 57c6ab54 0x1 0 L-3 57c69884 0x1 0 ... which is not documented anywhere. I can guess what it means, but does anyone know what exactly it means (and what flags ar…
Re: RESIDENT and PDQ
Chuck Renaud wrote in message <7ddp91$hpf$1@news.xmission.com>... > >As for light scans--those only happen if the table being read is >larger than the buffer pool. So if you max out your buffers, you >won't get light scans unless they're huge tables... So, would this mean 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…
7.23 loses pages off the buffer hash chain?
Informix On-Line Dynamic Server 7.23.UC9 HP K420 4-way, HP-UX 10.10, 2 GB RAM, one dbspace disk. We're trying to keep a 780 MB database fully cached, and have allocated 550000 buffers (1100 MB) for it. We're also trying to keep it clean so checkpoints are short, so we've got 3 …
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…
Delete
Hi. I've a question. When execute a delete by where on field not indexes, it sequential scan table' s page. Before to delete records, it casche pages in buffer pool ? Tank you.…
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…
RE: onstat -t
onstat -t shows tblnum in hex. So you can link it with hex(partnum) of systabnames to get your tablename. HTH Sathish -----Original Message----- From: David Tamburin [mailto:david.tamburin@protegrity.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 1999 4:16 PM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subje…
onstat -t
Hello, Is there anyway to tell what the actual tablenames are when you execute a onstat -t ? I know that tblnum is the tablespace number, but what can this be related too to tell me something useful? Thank you david.tamburin@protegrity.com david Tamburin…
Informix on Linux
Does anybody know how much a copy of Informix Dynamic Server would run me for use on Linux?? Thanks in advance -steve…
Upgrade Dynamic Server 7.13 - 7.24
I need to upgrade Informix Dynamic Server version 7.13 to version 7.24. Can anyone advise of any problems they may have had whilst doing this?…
Informix Dynamic Server 7.31?
Is any information available regarding the release of IDS 7.31 for Unix? We have Sun E3000 and E4000 machines and are experiencing problems with both 7.30.UC3 and 7.30.UC5 and are curious about 7.31. Thanks. Carleen Avant Naval Safety Center Internet < cavant@safecen.navy.mil …
STRING FUNCTIONS
Are there functions for manipulating varchar type, like upper() or lower() in Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.2? Thanks in advance.…
Re: Online command to get status
In article <367EC431.ED304417@calva.net>, "J.-M. Gimenes H. Zalkind" <jmg-hz@calva.net> wrote: > Hi, > > I am running Informix 7.23 UC5 on Solaris 2.6 > > I need to know an Informix command (quick online command I can include > in a script) to get status of Informix server (Qui…
Re: Online command to get status
onstat - J.-M. Gimenes H. Zalkind wrote: > Hi, > > I am running Informix 7.23 UC5 on Solaris 2.6 > > I need to know an Informix command (quick online command I can include > in a script) to get status of Informix server (Quiescent, On-Line, > Recovery...). > > I thought first a…
Re: Online command to get status
J.-M. Gimenes H. Zalkind (jmg-hz@calva.net) wrote: : Hi, : : I am running Informix 7.23 UC5 on Solaris 2.6 : : I need to know an Informix command (quick online command I can include : in a script) to get status of Informix server (Quiescent, On-Line, : Recovery...). : : I thought…
Netscape Enterprise Connection for Informix Dynamic Server
Hi: Does anyone know the procedure for setting up a Netscape Enterprise Server to connect to an Informix Dynamic server on a remote machine? Michael…
oninit: shared library problem
I'm having problems when initialising the DB using oninit. Config: INFORMIX Dynamic Server Ver 7.23, on a UNISYS-UNIX SVR4. When Initializing, I get the error ...dynamic linker: oninit: symbol not found: gettimeofday The LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set to $INFORMIXDIR/bin and �INFORMIXDIR…
Initi DB
I'm having problems when initialising the DB. Config: INFORMIX Dynamic Server Ver 7.23, on a UNISYS-UNIX SVR4. When Initializing, I get the error ...dynamic linker: oninit: symbol not found: gettimeofday The LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set to $INFORMIXDIR/bin and �INFORMIXDIR/esql help wo…
Index on Informix Online 7.22 ?
I have installed a new Informix Online Dynamic Server 7.22UC3 on our server (HP-UX 10.20). I find it is much much slower than the Informix 7.12 Online DS server if I do not create index for a same program. Why and what is the difference between the two version of Dynamic serv…
Re: esqlvers statement.....results are different on 2 DB servers ???
Tim Jones wrote: > > I've installed Informix 7.30UC3 with the ClientSDK 2.01 software on 2 > servers. Let's call them Server A and B. > > Both A and B had a prior ESQL/C versions. > > After the install, logged in as informix userid on A and ran "esqlvers" > and got this : > I…
esqlvers statement.....results are different on 2 DB servers ???
I've installed Informix 7.30UC3 with the ClientSDK 2.01 software on 2 servers. Let's call them Server A and B. Both A and B had a prior ESQL/C versions. After the install, logged in as informix userid on A and ran "esqlvers" and got this : INFORMIX-ESQL Version 7.22.UC1 …
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!…
onstat -u
I was running an 'onstat -u' command and have been receiving the following message: "changing data structures forced command termination" I was wondering if any of you have seen this message and might know what it means and how to correct it? David Meyer Guerilla Software…
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: onstat -h
In article <jlumbleyEytwzI.L2n@netcom.com>, jlumbley@netcom.com (Joe Lumbley) wrote: > > Does anyone have any info about the meanings of the output of the > onstat -h (hash chain info) in IDS 7.3? It's not in the hardcopy or in > the 7.3 Admin manual, and I'm trying to documen…
Re: Reducing checkpoint intervals...
Hi, in my opinion you must reduce LRU_MAX_DIRTY and LRU_MIN_DIRTY. It's not a good idea to reduce the time interval between the checkpoints because each checkpoint costs a lot of overhead ( thread-synchronisation and checkpoint-waits ). How about: http://www.weideneder.de/info…
onstat -h
Does anyone have any info about the meanings of the output of the onstat -h (hash chain info) in IDS 7.3? It's not in the hardcopy or in the 7.3 Admin manual, and I'm trying to document it. Thanks, joe -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------…
Re: Performance problems with large SELECTS in 7.3x ?
Stefan Weideneder wrote: > > Hi, > > I tried to select some pages of a table that was a bit larger > than my buffer pool. I estimated that my statement will take > about 5 seconds but it took 12 seconds. > I found out, that the server spent approx. 7 seconds for > "buffer waits".…
Performance problems with large SELECTS in 7.3x ?
Hi, I tried to select some pages of a table that was a bit larger than my buffer pool. I estimated that my statement will take about 5 seconds but it took 12 seconds. I found out, that the server spent approx. 7 seconds for "buffer waits". Now I added a few buffers to the buffer…
onstat -D vs onstat -g iof
Informx gurus: --------------------------- This is a copy of a post that I previously send, however seems that because of the problems with the informix-list not many people had the opportunity to read it. I am sorry if you already read this message. ----------------------------…
onstat -D vs. onstat -g iof
Informx gurus: Could some one explain the output of onstat -D and compare it with the output of onstat -g iof? On my online 7.23 running on AIX 4.2 I get the following for onstat -D: address chk/dbs offset page Rd page Wr pathname .... 400382c8 2 2 1 40261 303…
onstat commands
Does anyone know of a source that describes all of the onstat commands? The 7.x manuals are pretty good, but some of the explanations are a bit brief. ==================================================================== Harold Luse Phone: (970) 491-4120…
Re: OnLine Dynamic Server 7.2 Vs INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3
On Tue, 28 Jul 1998 14:40:44 -0500, Ben Jazi <bjazi@fallschurch.esys.com> wrote: >What are the major differences between INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server >7.2 and INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3? Is it ORDBMS vs RDMBS? No, IDS 9.x is the ORDBMS. This autumn the 7.3 and 9.x code lin…
Re: OnLine Dynamic Server 7.2 Vs INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3
Ben Jazi wrote: > > What are the major differences between INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server > 7.2 and INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3? Is it ORDBMS vs RDMBS? > > Thanks, > Ben I don't know the differences in detail but you could check the following pages, where IDS 7.3 is described …
OnLine Dynamic Server 7.2 Vs INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3
What are the major differences between INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server 7.2 and INFORMIX Dynamic Server 7.3? Is it ORDBMS vs RDMBS? Thanks, Ben…
Informix computer Base classes
Has any body used the Informix computer base training classes. I am wondering if any of the computer based training classes: "Informix Dynamic Server System Administration" or the "Managing and Optimizing Informix Dynamic Server Databases" is good. Thank You…
Re: Informix Online Dynamic Server 7 on Linux
Piet le Roux wrote: > > If anyone has succeeded to run Informix ODS 7 (SCO) on Linux help would > be appreciated. > I have installed iBCS and the shared libraries and the binaries work, > except that the engine cannot initialize shared memory: Error message > semctl: errno 22…
Informix Online Dynamic Server 7 on Linux
If anyone has succeeded to run Informix ODS 7 (SCO) on Linux help would be appreciated. I have installed iBCS and the shared libraries and the binaries work, except that the engine cannot initialize shared memory: Error message semctl: errno 22 create_vp: cannot allocat m…
Problems with Informix Dynamic Server for NT
Hi Has anyone tried downloading and running the dynamic server product for NT? I have it installed, but get the following error when I boot the system: AdmAgent.exe - Applicatioin error The instruction at "0x10087c69 referenced memory at "0x00000000". The memory could not be r…
Re: onstat -g ses
>Hi, >In the onstat -g ses output , what is the basis for allocation of 'total >memory' ? >There is also the figure 'used memory' , why not just allocate required >memory ? Well, we could do that but then that would 1) fragment memory and 2) create bottlenecks. Memory in shared…
onstat
I tried to run onstat not as user informix and i got onstat:Share memory:permission denied. The env. looks fine , the informix server is up. I am running 7.23. You have to have Informix priv. to run onstat ? Thanks Gabriel Weisz…
Re: onstat
Gabriel Weisz wrote: > > I tried to run onstat not as user informix and i got > onstat:Share memory:permission denied. > The env. looks fine , the informix server is up. > I am running 7.23. You have to have Informix priv. to run onstat ? No. Check the permis…
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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onstat -t output
Hi, The output of onstat -t shows zero in the column 'nrows' , whereas ' nused ' and 'npdata' have non-zero values . Why is this so ? TIA Sathish…
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…
Onstat -R
Can someone explain the onstat -R headings.. Is the percentage free or used. Been digging thru the texts.. examples but little explanation? INFORMIX-OnLine Version 7.24.FC4 -- On-Line -- Up 4 days 17:40:47 -- 36320 Kbytes 8 buffer LRU queue pairs # f/m length % of pair…
Novice needs tuning help!
Hello, I've included a zip file of an onstat -a. Can anyone tell this informix novice any obvious problems or changes I can make to improve performance for my OLTP application? I'm running Informix Online 7.22 on a Sun SPARC Ultra-2 with 128K RAM (Solaris 2.5.1). Thank you! …
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: +…
onstat -g ...
Hi guys, Where I can find explainations about the output format (headers and key words) reported after executing onstat -g ... In the Informix Administrator's Guide there is an explaination of all other options of "onstat", but for "-g" option I did not find detailed informati…
onstat -k
Thanks to everyone who answered the onstat -k tblsnum question. I appreciate it. ==================================================================== Harold Luse Phone: (970) 491-4120 Veterinary Teaching Hospital Fax: (970) 491-1275 Colorado S…
onstat -k
How would one link the tblsnum field of an onstat -k with a table name? Locks address wtlist owner lklist type tblsnum rowid key#/bsiz 3008c64c 0 4004a354 0 HDR+S 100002 230 0 3008c680 0 40042814 0 S 100002 22f …
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…
onstat -u
Here's a good question. Sample: 4004d214 Y--P--- 4999 dbolte 91 40c936d8 4004d654 Y--P--- 4965 tgreenwa 56 40129f98 0 1 2071 4004ded4 Y--P--- 4484 bhitchen 32 40b4c5c0 0 1 136 4004e314 Y--P--- 5023 hwhite 77 40006f8c 0 …
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…
onstat and tbstat
Hi, We have just upgraded from 5.x to 7.x. Those tbxxxx files are now onxxxx files, but they still exist lots of tbxxxx like tbstat, tbmonitor, and so on, are these files different from the new version onstat and onmonitor or they are the just the same but with different names??…
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: (CKPT REQ) ?????
W. H. SMITH wrote: > > Barry Lemrow wrote: > > > > I have been experiencing problems where the database locks up. The onstat > > command banner contains this: > > > > INFORMIX-OnLine Version 7.21.UD3 -- On-Line (CKPT REQ) -- Up 6 days > > 05:13:28 -- 175552 Kbytes > > Blocked:…
What's the difference between ODS 7.22 and 7.23?
What's the difference between Informix Online Dynamic Server version 7.22 and version 7.23? Thanks in advance. Bill Westphal Rodney District Council mis@rodney.govt.nz…
Re: Help to Promote Linux! - Economics....
> > > I don't see a real market for Online (OWS and the works) on Linux. > Because if you are going to use databases that big then you probably want > to use mirroring and a volume manager. And having Big Money in a > database justify to invest more money to keep it save. > Actu…
ODBC unix and dynamic SQL
Hi, Can someone give me some help on using informix odbc drivers (unix) with dynamic SQL on Informix-online dynamic server (7.22 unix) when I use "SQLprepare" I receive the message "too many or too few host variables given" but I think all is Ok R. Gueye…
Re: onstat -d,onstat -D
I believe 1001 indicates that the dbspace is a blobspace. I know that 2001 indicates that the space is a temporary dbspace. "Tony_Reynolds(Accounting & Purchasing System") wrote in message <67972r$caj@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>... >Can anyone tell me the difference between a dbspa…
Re: onstat -d,onstat -D
I believe it in indicates that table in dbspace has been dropped. -Lin "Tony_Reynolds(Accounting & Purchasing System") <tr-2959@mail.necgroup.co.uk> wrote: > Can anyone tell me the difference between a dbspaces address with a > flag of 1 and a dbspaces address with a flag of 100…
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 vs. Sybase vs. Oracle vs. (gasp) MS SQL Server
My turn....... ;) Yes - there is a cost associated with doing a lot of row level locking. Even though the lock are organized by a hash algorthem, by having row level locks does mean that the hash chains can be longer. Also - If the applications are designed to do "localized up…
Onstat Utility
Hi, I'm using onstat -g ath and see threads that are slleping forever. What could this be? Are users not exiting properly from Informix? How do I kill these processes. Thanks Bob…
onstat and threads
Hi, I'm run onstat -g ath and I see threads that are sleeping forever. Do I kill these processes and what could it possibly be from. Users not exiting properly? Bob…
RE: Exit status of onstat
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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…
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: Logical logs are backed up but seen as not freed in onstat -l
In article <3399DA10.C5B@columbia.edu>, Boris Niyazov <ban5@columbia.edu> writes >I've just upgraded my Online 5.07 to 7.22 DS (Solaris 2.5.1 Sparc). >What I am noticing that while I am runing continious backup ontape -c, I >see that logical logs are backed up ok , but they appea…
Onstat question
When we use the Onstat -u , sometimes we get this display: onstat -u INFORMIX-OnLine Version 7.12.UC1 -- On-Line -- Up 11 days 20:31:52 -- 142096 Kbytes Userthreads address flags sessid user tty wait tout locks nreads nwrites 332c020 ---P--D 0 inf…
Re: onstat options
Mark H. Preston (markp@mamasita.rose.hp.com) wrote: : Hi, : What are the best indicators of response time, trans/sec, and general : load for monitoring an informix database... using the onstat program? : Any help would be appreciated. Thanks : Mark~ Hi Mark ... Here is a sa…
onstat options
Hi, What are the best indicators of response time, trans/sec, and general load for monitoring an informix database... using the onstat program? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Mark~…
Re: onstat
Steve Romankiw wrote: } } In onstat, what does "total" refer to. } } . } . } 1192132c Y--P--- 537 winterm - 12434068 0 1 240 } 0 } 13 active, 128 total, 44 maximum concurrent } } Thanks. } } Steve Romankiw } Executive Risk Inc. For Online 7.1, the total fi…
Re: onstat
Carol Davies wrote: } } Steve Romankiw wrote: } > } > In onstat, what does "total" refer to. } > } > . } > . } > 1192132c Y--P--- 537 winterm - 12434068 0 1 240 } > 0 } > 13 active, 128 total, 44 maximum concurrent } > } > Thanks. } > } > Steve Romankiw } >…
Re: onstat
Steve Romankiw wrote: > > In onstat, what does "total" refer to. > > . > . > 1192132c Y--P--- 537 winterm - 12434068 0 1 240 > 0 > 13 active, 128 total, 44 maximum concurrent > > Thanks. > > Steve Romankiw > Executive Risk Inc. From the Informix Administrat…
onstat
In onstat, what does "total" refer to. . . 1192132c Y--P--- 537 winterm - 12434068 0 1 240 0 13 active, 128 total, 44 maximum concurrent Thanks. Steve Romankiw Executive Risk Inc.…
onstat documentation
Does anybody have any good documentation for onstat? In case it varies to much from one version to the other I have online 7.11UC1. thanks…
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: Good Buffer Size For Tuning Informix?
Chris Jenkins (chrisj@informix.com) wrote: : The only really important factor in determining the number of buffers is : the read and write cache hit ratios reported by tbstat -p. Keep : increasing the number of buffers until these cache hit rates do not : increase when the system…
ONSTAT question
Hi there. onstat -u (version 7.1) sometimes shows a user thread with position 1 of the flag field set to Y. The Informix manual says it means "Waiting for condition". I cannot find anything else. What is a condition, and why is my thread waiting for it? Thanks for any help Ba…
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?…
Re: Keeping clean pages in shared memory
> If you have a DSS app, the buffer pool does not become dirty, so the > LRU_MAX_DIRTY will not have any impact. ...unless of course you're generating temp tables. Which just about all apps do at some time or another. akent@cix.compulink.co.uk (Andy Kent) ----------------------…
Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM--94)
***************** C I K M -- 94 ***************** Preliminary Program & Registration THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT (CIKM'94) November 29 -- December 2, 1994 National Institute of St…
Re: Lock types
In <21clml$hj6@panix.com> clay@panix.com (Clay Irving) writes: >I tried to to select the count of the number of rows in a table this >afternoon and I received a message from ISQL that the table was locked. I >ran 'tbstat -k' and received the following: > RSAM Version 5.00.UC2 …