installing Informix dynamic server

Joerg, "Joerg_Mauz@abs.org" wrote: > > 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 ??? You can find some information about Informix+Linux at www.informix.com/idn After registration you have access to all IDN corners. Visit the Linux corner to get an "install pdf" for Linux... Uwe -- Uwe Weber Trainer Central Europe Informix Software Oskar-Messter-Strasse 22 Tel.: +49-(0)89-99613-890 D-85737 Ismaning FAX.: +49-(0)89-99613-880

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

Try: www.informix.com/informix/products/linux/5274.pdf This is a PDF document which requires Adobe Acrobat. You can get to this page browsing to the Informix Developers' Network, Linux Corner which requires that you register with a valid serial number which you should have gotten when you downloaded the software from IntrWare. Art S. Kagel "Joerg_Mauz@abs.org" wrote: > > 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

hi and thx to all, i think described my problem not exactly enough ! ;) i've already visited these urls but my problem is how to create the partitions and how to use them in a correct way and also how to configure a well working onconfig file ! thx in advance joerg mauz "Art S. Kagel" schrieb: > > Try: > > www.informix.com/informix/products/linux/5274.pdf > > This is a PDF document which requires Adobe Acrobat. > > You can get to this page browsing to the Informix Developers' Network, > Linux Corner which requires that you register with a valid serial number > which you should have gotten when you downloaded the software from > IntrWare. > > Art S. Kagel > > "Joerg_Mauz@abs.org" wrote: > > > > 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 -- Joerg Mauz ABS Systemberatung GmbH Haufstr. 9 75385 Bad Teinach-Zavelstein Joerg_Mauz@abs.org www.abs.org +49 7053 929003

"Joerg_Mauz@abs.org" wrote: > > hi and thx to all, > > i think described my problem not exactly enough ! ;) > i've already visited these urls but my problem is how to create > the partitions and how to use them in a correct way and also how to > configure a well working onconfig file ! AHH, entirely different question, yes. You want information on tuning your engine and creating dbspaces and chunks, correct? To the latter: Create disk partitions on Linux the way you would for a filesystem then you have to decide whether to use a filesystem file or an entire device/partition. If you decide to use the entire partition make sure that the partitions are <= 2GB as this is currently the largest chunk that Informix can use and even using offsets you cannot use space in a larger partition past the 2GB boundary. Using a device will allow you to take advantage of the new Linux TRUE RAW partitions when the code has been made part of a production release (it is in the current development release and available for several current production releases separately). Otherwise create filesystems and touch the filenames of the chunks you will need on these filesystems. Next create a directory, usually under the Informix install directory, named say "chunks" and place there soft links (ln -s) to all of the partitions' device files and or filesystem files that you will use for your chunks. Now you can use either onmonitor or onspaces, assuming the engine is already online, to create dbspaces and add chunks from the links you have created (remember to use absolute pathnames). To the former: See my article on tuning your engine and system in Tech Notes Volume 8, Issue 3 and/or William D. Burton's article on the topic which will be in the upcomming Tech Notes Volume 9, Issue 3 (William posted a URL pointing to the latest draft of that article a few days ago, search the IIUG archives of this list by his name to find it). Also get one or two of the excellent books on the subject by: Joe Lumbley (highly recommended), Carlton Doe, Elizabeth Sota, and others. Search amazon.com or bn.com (Barnes and Noble) for keyword "Informix" and you'll find them all. Finally, setup the server, play tuning games, and benchmark typical queries and updates to see how your tuning is helping of hindering performance, every installation is unique and this kind of testing is the ONLY way to get peak performance. [SNIP] Art S. Kagel