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581 messages in this archive (549 questions asked, 32 answers given) — 2004-01-08 19:00:05 to 2006-11-03 09:47:04

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HUPDATE record format
RE: IIUG ELection
RE: IIUG ELection
Use of offset 0 with AIX
Whither Informix?
Re: AIX and Informix
RE: AIX and Informix
Re: onmode -F: is it just HP-UX?
Re: is increase in extent will affect the performance
RE: Insider #75: Highlights: IBM Information On Demand 2006, The Next Informix IDS Release...
Re: Insider #75: Highlights: IBM Information On Demand 2006,The Next Informix IDS Release...
Re: Not able to increase the extent size?
Re: Insider #75: Highlights: IBM Information On Demand 2006,The Next Informix IDS Release...
RE: Let me be the first
RE: 408 error
Informix customer list
Is the gateway working?
4ge to 4gl conversion
Checking database partition index... FAILED
Re: Upgrading to version 10 ontape question
RE: Dumb DBA mistakes
RE: Flannery - INFORMIX handbook
RE: Stuart strikes again - history is altered! (3 messages)
Informix Information
131: ISAM error: no free disk space
Update Stats slowing.....
Re: Thoughts on Logical Log use requested
How can I feeing space in a Informix Database
Migration from IDS 9.3 to IDS 9.40.FC7
RE: Shared Memory challenge on AIX 5.1
RE: Raw device VS cooked file - any benchmark recently done?
RE: "IDS 10.0 Cities Tour 2006"
Re: IIUG Board of Directors 2006
IIUG Board of Directors 2006
RE: Some vital information on ISM
Some vital information on ISM
RE: Merry Christmas & Happy new year
Changing versions of AIX - is new software required?
RE: Problem with the sysmaster database.
RE: Write cache rate
RE: Write cache rate
RE: Weird Sysmaster behaviour
RE: IBM & Informix
RE: fragmentation factor
RE: fragmentation factor
ISM restore to different machine
RE: Informix/TSM Point In Time Restore
RE: Informix/TSM Point In Time Restore
A New Brand from IBM
RE: Do extents impact speed?
RE: Disappearing of oninit and onmode excutable file
Attribute for prompt in 4GL
RE: Error message in online.log
Estimated cost
RE: Form reverse engineering
IDS 10 docs
Configuring ISM/OnBar to backup to disk
9.30 "too old"?
RE: Archive to disk
RE: informix installation
RE: The world is really unstable these days......
RE: UK Informix meeting...
RE: IDS 9.40 migration-question
RE: dbexport/dbimport question
RE: on bar procedure
RE: dbimport feature/bug on 9.40HC3
Re: dbimport feature/bug on 9.40HC3
RE: dbimport feature/bug on 9.40HC3
RE: dbimport feature/bug on 9.40HC3
Dormant Users
Dormant Users
Passport Advantage withdrawal
Passport Advantage withdrawal
RE: Tape capacity planning?
RE: Tape capacity planning?
update statistics - large amount of log space
RE: Logical Log Files are Full -- Backup is Needed
RE: Unload to and ODBC
Sysmaster tables for "onstat -g ntt" info
How many locks have been used?
onbar/ism on AIX 5.2 running on HACMP
RE: Program finding out what the engine is
oninit: Not enough room in ROOT DBspace.
RE: Lock table overflow
RE: Informix UC7.41 - slow
RE: Running 4GL on table that changes a lot
RE: How long can an Informix database name be?
Onbar - some advice please
Cooked files vs Raw disc
Onbar - failures with pit recovery
What could make insert fail?
RE: When table extent was added
A migration question
64bit and 32bit compatability
RE: Interpretation of onstat -g ses, hostname column
RE: Interpretation of onstat -g ses, hostname column
RE: extents primer - what to wory about and when to worry?
RE: Database Storage Difference between IDS 7.31 and IDS 9.40
Informix loader domain file
informix loader domain file not present
ISM default device
RE: Disk Crash
Distributed systems - a small query
Limits?
Imported restore using ISM
Re: ISM and 2 Gbyte file limits in IDS 9.4
ISM and 2 Gbyte file limits in IDS 9.4
Extra lines added to ONCONFIG by onparams
RE: Determine Size of Database
Re: IDS on AIX 5.2 Offsets? lv types?
RE: IDS on AIX 5.2 Offsets? lv types?
IDS on AIX 5.2 Offsets? lv types?
And the T-shirt goes to ...
Re: It's not funny any more!
It's not funny any more!
A "funny" on IDS 9.4 (THE REAL MESSAGE)
A "funny" on IDS 9.4
A "funny" on IDS 9.4
A "funny" on IDS 9.4
Re: Installation Order
Re: Informix Dynamic Server and DB Tuning
Now I've seen it all
A Question about Perform
RE: unknown problem (217)
On the subject of standards - was - On the use of ANSi
RE: Looking for an informix book
RE: backup with ISM
Do synonyms affect perrmance?
RE: Are Deadlocks function of extents number ?
RE: Logical logs - how to tell if full?
RE: onstat -g sql in 9.4
RE: onstat -g sql in 9.4
RE: Former Informix head sent to prison
RE: description of "int_flag"
RE: An Update Statistics funny
Re: Down chunks
An Update Statistics funny
9.30 TO 9.40 upgrade
RE: Using an autoloader tape drive to receive level-0 archives?
RE: online backup of 9.21 with onbar ?
RE: Dbexport failure
RE: Onbar - a few funnies
Onbar - a few funnies
Re: Is there anybody out there?
RE: Is anyone supplying HSTools licences these days?
RE: Onbar completion codes
RE: admin: can this disgusting stuff be deleted?
RE: Onbar completion codes
RE: IDS 9.4 / AIX
RE: Informix
RE: An interesting meeting with IBM
RE: An interesting meeting with IBM
RE: An interesting meeting with IBM
RE: An interesting meeting with IBM
RE: An interesting meeting with IBM
RE: News Group vs Email Responses (was Re: DESC TABLE <table> does seem to word with ODBC)
Re: News Group vs Email Responses (was Re: DESC TABLE <table> does seem to word with ODBC)
RE: Chunk reported full, while it shouldn't ...
RE: When You Hear The Heavy Accent & The Poor Phone Connection... HANG
RE: Reduction in the Quality of Informix Support
RE: Free space in chunks
RE: OT was Oracle 10G
OT was Oracle 10G
RE: Physical Log Size (Error Updating Table Structure)
RE: Restricting dbcreator
RE: -951 error connecting to Informix SE for Windows
RE: Informix to Oracle migration
RE: SE Migration Path
RE: IDS v7 -> v9 upgrades
RE: Back up takes too long
RE: Back up takes too long
RE: Back up takes too long
RE: saceprep/sacego on Linux
RE: Connecting to new database within Informix Instance
RE: saceprep/sacego on Linux
RE: saceprep/sacego on Linux
RE: saceprep/sacego on Linux
RE: Whatcha' wanta have?????
RE: Do I have to have an Informix Database?
RE: Whatcha' wanta have????? (single user maintenance mode)
RE: why don't U filter the contents
RE: why don't U filter the contents
RE: why don't U filter the contents
RE: why don't U filter the contents
RE: Informix on DOS?
RE: Informix on DOS?
RE: These crazy emails about IDS to DB2 conversion
These crazy emails about IDS to DB2 conversion
RE: Precise documentation (onstat)
RE: IDS to DB2 conversion
RE: informix newbie
replying to emails on informix-list
Re: Calculate Logical Log Required
Re: user and password
Re: IDS to DB2 conversion
Re: IDS to DB2 conversion
Re: EXE - ISQL on Fragmented tables
Re: EXE - ISQL on Fragmented tables
Re: Problems with installing 9.40UC2 on Linux
Fw: 4GL question
Re: 4GL question
Problems with installing 9.40UC2 on Linux
Re: IDS to DB2 conversion
Re: IDS to DB2 conversion
Re: IDS to DB2 conversion
Re: TechInfo Centre as was
Re: Looking for a risk overview
Re: Looking for a risk overview
Re: meta data structure where?
Re: Looking for a risk overview
Install IDS 9.4 on Suse Linux 8.1
Re: date issue (one day more)
Re: 4GL 7.32 on Linux
Re: 4GL 7.32 on Linux
4GL 7.32 on Linux
Re: C-ISAM to relational Database
Re: MIME
Re: Difference Between dbaccess & isql
Re: Spurious error 197?
Re: Honest Answer Hard to Achieve
Re: Perfomance Tuning
Re: Getting table extents from sysmaster
Apologies
Re: Synonyms to an SE database
Re: Quarterly RAID5 Rant - enhanced
Re: Dbexport
Re: Dbexport
Re: serial jumps
Re: Oracle V Informix
Re: which tables have lowest cache hits?
Re: Can you have the same table in two SE databases?
Which ODBC drivers
Can you have the same table in two SE databases?
Re: Question about permissions used on onconfig and sqlhosts files
Re: Informix customer support outside U.S
Re: Informix customer support outside U.S
Re: Problem Determination Mastery tutorials are now available for
Re: oncheck -me
Problems accessing informix-list
Server session stats
Re: From SE to IDS
Re: changing logging mode
Re: changing logging mode
Re: Backup Issue
Re: Company thought DB2 will be better than Oracle.
Re: Not a number check in Informix 4gl
Re: Oncheck error
Re: Is it only me getting all these viruses ?
Re: Is it only me getting all these viruses ?
Re: OnLine 5 Lev 0 to dbexport
Re: Question on Extent Size
Re: Log Message - Retun code 142
Re: Slow insert when table is almost "full". IBM Informix call 376023
Re: dbspace ?
Re: Product Defect Query
Re: Important Newsgroup Virus Information
Re: Product Defect Query no longer available????
Re: POLITE REQUEST FOR HELP: Why "onbar -b -L 1" sometimes runs level 0 backups?
Re: Using ontape when the server is up ?
Re: How to get only the user table names from systables
Re: Crying Wolf - was Re: Clarification please
Crying Wolf - was Re: Clarification please
Re: lock table overflow
Re: Date Arithmetic in SQL or 4GL
Re: Chunk Size Questions
Re: Disks for informix
Re: Retrieving user privileges via sql
Re: MAX() Function
Re: order by view
Re: Onconfig file parameters
Re: ids stops
Re: dbaccess
Re: Tetra and Update Statistics
Re: Dynamic Server versus Universal Server ??
Re: Sybase User Asks: Creating Database
Re: How to retrive modified records
Re: Logging with CREATE INDEX
Re: IDS FCx on HP-UX 11.11
Re: IDS FCx on HP-UX 11.11
Re: IDS FCx on HP-UX 11.11
Re: Querying free extents through sysmaster
Re: No messages since last 3 days ...
Re: No messages since last 3 days ...
Re: Informix Migration
Re: Passport Advantage
Re: create temp table with no log
Re: backup onbar
onconfig file
Is BOOLEAN a legacy data type?
reg: migration from IDS 7.3 to 9.2
rootdbs full for IDS 9.3
Advice sought
Re: PERFORM FORMS: non-table input field help
Re: defining logical and physical log size
Re: Multiple database opens with informix 5.0
Re: Dbaccess output formatting
INFUSE Meeting 29th October
Re: Performance suggestions welcomed
Re: Unique identifiers
Re: Cannot force process
Re: Index clustering and performance
Re: Importing a tab delimted text file?
Re: Basic question: ignoring case
Re: PREPAREd statement
Re: ?stupid question?
Re: US-MD MAINFRAME PROGRAMMERS NEEDED
Re: Test Database
Re: Connecting to different DBMS's with isql
Re: Shared memory errors
Re: Informix Online 5.x database identity
Re: DSA vs Online Workgroup
Re: initializing shared memory
Re: Online NT Workgroup Server
INFUSE Conference October 29th
Re: initializing shared memory
Re: Informix 5, How to copy a table / database, HELP!
Re: Making a copy of a database
Re: Is table or database level backup possible?
Re: Re Wher != and NULLS
Re: Disconnecting from sqlturbo process.
Re: help: set explain on
Re: Input fails when on key calls function that opens Window.
Re: Dynamic Web Page
Re: tbmode -z KILL PROCESS
Re: Another SET EXPLAIN error
Re: 2K page restore from 4K archive
Re: c.d.i. gathering @ user conference
Re: c.d.i. gathering @ user conference
Re: Split comp.databases.informix!
Re: SERIAL seed value
Re: 408 problems
Re: About year 2000 rollover
Re: Informix 408 Error
Re: 4GL HANGING PROBLEMS
Re: Question
Re: rc files and TBCONFIG
Re: Can a .frm be reverse engineered to a .per
Re: Changing the database at runtime
Is Client/Server Dead? Conference May 15th
Re: Pseudo Code or Compiled
Re: Cobol interface to an Informix Table?
Re: Application Development
Re: Job recruitment in comp.databases.*
Re: help dbload or LOAD which is faster?
Re: Job recruitment in comp.databases.*
Re: Drop/Create index vs bcheck
Re: Saving query result into NEW table
INFUSE Conference May 15 1996
Re: New Professional Association for Developers
Re: Reducing size of .dat and .idx in SE5.02
Re: Multi-Server Links
Re: LEAP YEAR PROBLEM
Re: Using DISPLAY to show a solid line
Re: To log or not to log, that is the question.
Re: Leap Year
Re: To log or not to log, that is the question.
Re: [Q] Frusturating SQL question
Re: Audit Trail?
Re: The dreaded long transaction error.
Re: HyperScript Tools - Hiding Main Menu?
Re: INFORMIX-4GL Compiled / INFORMIX-4GL RDS in the same
Re: Poor support
Re: Abysmal Informix Support
Re: Picky .sig trend
A Date for your diaries
Re: What is the ISQL tool?
Re: What are the .... ?
Re: Newbee with questions about physical and logical log allocations.
Re: Querix. Heard of it?
Re: Q: PRIMARY KEY vs UNIQUE constraint
Re: Schema comparison
Rising to the bait
Re: Primary chunk - a misnomer
Re: IS ANYBODY USING HYPERSCRIPT TOOLS ?
Re: Using C-ISAM files under INFORMIX-SE
Re: Using C-ISAM files under INFORMIX-SE
Re: 132 column report to screen
Re: TCP benchmarks
Re: Informix Online Performance
Re: Netiquette
Re: B1/C2 security level?
Re: Problem with Temp Tables and Logging
Re: Informix (raw or cooked)?
Re: Converting from SE to Online
Re: Rollforward Database AHHHH HELP!!!! NOW!!!!!
Re: Training guidance
Re: New 4GL Compiler available
Re: [Q] SQL question
Re: Trimming field data
Re: Strange compiling behaviour in r4gl.
Re: The PUT Command is better than EXECUTE Insert?
Re: Washington DC Users Group - Forum 96
Re: Wierd problem
Re: SQL Question???
Re: Engine Performance Requirements - Help !
Re: Selecting printer in ACE reports using prompt
Re: 4GL and ISQL - is it one OR the other?
Re: 4GL: Record wtihin a record input
Re: sql question
Re: Read/Write C-isam from PC
Re: sql question
Re: row sizes
Re: What happens when a table has over 200 extents?
Re: I know this sounds like a real newbie question but...
Re: Viewing Informix DB files????
Re: How to print graphs in reports?
Re: I know this sounds like a real newbie question but...
Re: Table modification transaction size problem
Re: Emergemcy Chunks Offline
Re: datetime in 4GL
Re: Table modification transaction size problem
Re: Transaction log files in a SE database
Re: Req'd: Info. on Informix Architecture
Re: Problems with INPUT statement
Re: Proper Name Converter
Re: 2 small ISQL questions (FORMS)
Re: How "BETWEEN date1 AND date2" determines century
Re: "UPDATE" format, need help
Re: How "BETWEEN date1 AND date2" determines century
Re: CHAR() v. VARCHAR()
Re: PRESS - INFORMIX TAKES FIRST PLACE IN ON-LINE HELP CONTEST WITH INFORMIX-N
Re: UK INFORMIX Contracts
Re: How Convert Wingz to Excel?
Re: 1996 International Users Group
Re: Data Administration - Anyone Interested?
Let's cut down on the noise
Re: Informix ISQL and report ranges (user input)
Re: Graphing with Informix?
Re: New Era is a PC product ( was reply )
Re: Suppressing error messages
Re: Can I access data on SmartWare From Informix
Re: Serial Data type
Re: Incomplete error files.
Re: Set explain Comments
Re: "LAST PAGE TRAILER" I
Re: INFORMIX WORLDWIDE: "BUSINESS CASUAL"
Re: how many lines in a table?
Re: "last page trailer" in reports?
Re: Telephone number
Re: Function Numbering
Re: Informix Documentation Question
Re: CDI at Informix Conference
Re: Long transaction
4GL Programming Efficiency
Re: Informix Worldwide - Where to stay?
Re: HELP - ERROR -408 !!!!
Re: This outer join thingy...
Re: Outer Join Bug (was It's Incredible)
Re: HOW in the HECK can we import comma quote delimted ASCII !!!????
Re: Monthly Posting of the use of the THERE THEIR THEY'RE words
Re: Books on Informix ??
Re: Problem with END INPUT
Re: Book For Informix People
Recovering .PER files
Re: LENGTH function and trailing spaces
Re: Informix 4GL. A Future?
Re: Dumb SQL Question
Re: looking for informix expert
Re: De-Installing Informix SE
Re: Temp Table Space Gobbled Up
Re: Error -4518 in version 4.1
Re: Why do I need New Era?
Re: Passing Information from 4ge's?
Re: Informix accounting package ?
Re: New Era - Whats your opinion?
Re: Reserved Words
Re: remote client?
Re: Globals file in SE/4GL v4.00
Re: # symbols on reports
Re: HELP: C-ISAM errors, 0 and 2??
Re: Logical log write volumes
Re: Logical log write volumes
Re: Logical log write volumes
Re: Keeping clean pages in shared memory
Re: Ireland, Belfast jobs
Re: How to define a record like another record
Re: Three cheers for 4gl's CONSTRUCT
Re: update syntax
Re: Recovery time with Online 5.x ??
Re: TOO MUCH NONSENSE
INFUSE Conference May 1995
Re: DBEXPORT/DBIMPORT to move tables to another DBSPACE?
Re: Report Format
Re: DBEXPORT help
Re: dbexport/dbimport problems
Re: user process,server process,application process
Re: dbexport/dbimport problems
Re: Screen Record arrays
Re: What do I need?
Re: How to get username in SQL form.
Re: dbexport/dbimport problems
Re: Trouble using Informix ONLINE on DEC Alpha OSF1/V3.0
Re: dbexport/dbimport problems
Re: Online 6/Solaris 2.3/Inet 5.01
Re: books???
Re: Looking for someone in the Northern California Informix User Group...
Re: Informix FAQ 2.1 now available
Re: Querix. Any Good ?
Re: Setting database at runtime with 4GL
Re: Use of Informix with a 'process'-oriented application
Re: Temporary String Space errors
Re: Cannot login
Re: Freeing space after delete
Re: Questions about Informix Functionality
Re: CLOSE and FREE
Error 25544 from SQLEXECD
Re: Freeing space after delete
25544 The sqlexecd daemon cannot get a host structure.: No Error
Re: CLOSE and FREE
Re: DATA TYPES
Re: SE has array datatype?
HyperScript Applications Info sought
Re: DBA Survival Guide
Re: Pension Fund Administration
Re: Another DATETIME, INTERVAL type problem
Re: Searching for a trim() function
Re: comp.databases.kerry.sainsbury and tbtape
Re: Informix DBA Problem
Re: Data deletion in Informix
Pathnames in Wingz 1.1 HyperScript
Re: validating a date in hstools?
Re: Indexes on highly duplicate columns - Performance?
Re: Challenge!!!
Re: USER in ace reports
Re: Informix SE to Online problem
Re: INet American Date format
Re: Stretching the limits of SE
Re: Database tuning.. any hints?
Re: USER/TODAY in forms?
Re: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Help Me!!!
Re: Usage Statistics (important note)
Re: load and unload and update
Re: Usage Statistics
Re: Help: SQL .*Not IN* alternatives
Re: On-Line engine administration/capabilities
Re: running informix on a mainframe
Re: from SE to Online: Experience??
Re: new era
Re: DUPLICATE KEYS
Re: Export/Import Database - Help??
Re: Help! Drawing in Wingz/Hyperscript in a dialog box
Reference sites required
Re: Rule of Thumb for Database Size ?
Re: Error No. - 4420
Re: informix for newbies
Re: Dynamic SQL and speed
Re: Informix agent in UK
Re: Informix I-Net PC and Informix Online 5.01
Re: Error -259, too many open cursors ?
INFUSE This Month
Re: SQL -410 on nonPREPAREd INSERT
Re: AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHH!
Re: Ordering data regardless of case
Re: Informix DBA tasks
Re: 4GL: space allocation for temp. s..
Re: Cost-based Optimizers
Re: Wanted: Book on Informix
Re: hyperscript tool
Re: Informix SQL ver.2.10 Report Question (HELP)
Re: dbexport, dbschema do not keep chunk, blob info. Bug? Feature?
Re: Hiddedn blob pages
Re: Informix manuals online
Re: How do you choose database at RUNTIME in r4gl?
Re: The Informix FAQ 1.3
Re: How to determine a db's dbpace?
Re: Printer control characters in Informix Report
Re: Who's using what?
Re: Product Offer at Informix Conference
INFORMIX SUPPORT
Re: Wingz Save As... Doesn't?
Re: Wingz chart axis label problem
Re: Data Migration
Re: All u vendors out there
Re: Informix manuals online
Re: All u vendors out there
Re: Quality of Informix Support
Re: NewEra Pricing
Re: Quality of Informix Support
Re: Informix sales staff, what is there problem?