Re: ontape and logical log questions

Mark Christmas wrote: > > Two unrelated questions: > 1) is it possible to launch an ontape -c command from an executable, and > if it is, how do we detect when the tape is full - is there a message > that we could scan for? > > 2) is it possible to determine where the logical log files are kept > (that is, what dbspaces are they in)? > > TIA.....Mark > -- > +-----------------------------------------+ > | Mark Christmas mchristmas@crosskeys.com > | CrossKeys Systems Corp www.crosskeys.com > | 350 Terry Fox Dr > | Kanata, ON, Canada K2K 2W5 > | Phone (613) 591-1600 Fax (613) 599-3626 > +-----------------------------------------+ Hi Mark, First, you can invoke the ontape -c command from every program. There are different messages send by ontape. I think all messages are written to "stdout" and all input is read from "stdin". Try to call ontape from the command line with a very small LTAPESIZE (10MB). Backup your system and then you will see the message that you can scan for. Second, it must be possible to find out, in what dbspaces the log files are. I didn't test it, but look at the syslogfil table in your sysmaster database. Maybe it's the first 12 bit of the physloc column ? Hope you can try it, best regards Stefan stefan@weideneder.de PS: Although it's not supported by Informix, I always use a named pipe as a tape device for ontape. Then it's up to me to write all the data to the tape device. Using this way it would be easy to know, when the tape becomes full.