RE: Change database mode online using onmode in Informix

Onmode -m only works if the engine is already started. Try oninit (no parameters, if you want to go directly to online mode), instead. --EEM > -----Original Message----- > From: alanmas@gmail.com [mailto:alanmas@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 8:37 AM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Change database mode online using onmode in Informix > > Hi. > > I would like to put 'Online' and 'Offline' via command an IDS server. > I tried put a serer Offline by typing: onmode -ky and it works. > > informix@FO:/informix$ export INFORMIXSERVER=backup_source > informix@FO:/informix$ onmode -ky > > However I tried to put it Online again by typing: onmode -my but it > does not work. Does anybody knows wheter the expression is correct or > whether the server must be first in transient mode or why it does not > work? > > informix@FO:/informix$ onmode -ky > shared memory not initialized for INFORMIXSERVER 'backup_source' > > Thank you all. sending to informix-list