Re: Upgrading to mult-user without re-installing

Create backups etc (from database and $INFORMIXDIR just in case...) shut the database. (onmode -uyk) cd $INFORMIXDIR as root: chown -R informix:informix as informix: ./installserver -->> supply your new sn and key when all is done successfully do as root ./RUN_AS_ROOT.server Superboer. kirk.davis@gmail.com schreef: > Hi All, We have a single user version of IDS 9.21 currently installed > on our box; we have now purchased a ten user license. > > Is it possible to re-licence the above without re-installing form > scratch, and if so, how? > > Thanks in Advace, Kirk

Thanks! This seems easier than I expected; I was envisaging re-installing the whole RDBMS. One thing I forgot to mention and probably the most important part! I'm runnin Windows 2003 as the platform OS; I can't seem to see the installserver script \\ command. Is the procedure different for Windows? Superboer wrote: > Create backups etc (from database and $INFORMIXDIR just in case...) > > shut the database. (onmode -uyk) > > cd $INFORMIXDIR > as root: > > chown -R informix:informix > > as informix: > ./installserver > > -->> supply your new sn and key > > when all is done successfully > do as root > ./RUN_AS_ROOT.server > > Superboer. > > > > kirk.davis@gmail.com schreef: > > > Hi All, We have a single user version of IDS 9.21 currently installed > > on our box; we have now purchased a ten user license. > > > > Is it possible to re-licence the above without re-installing form > > scratch, and if so, how? > > > > Thanks in Advace, Kirk

Hum.... windowze.... that'll change it. create a backup of all (save your onconfig do not overwrite it. shut the db. reinstall the software and supply the sn/key. DO NOT configure it!!!!! test this on a test box first since 9.21. is old and the installer may not work... and yes it does make a difference, single user is single user!!!!! Superboer. kirk.davis schreef: > Thanks! This seems easier than I expected; I was envisaging > re-installing the whole RDBMS. > > One thing I forgot to mention and probably the most important part! I'm > runnin Windows 2003 as the platform OS; I can't seem to see the > installserver script \\ command. Is the procedure different for Windows? > > > > Superboer wrote: > > Create backups etc (from database and $INFORMIXDIR just in case...) > > > > shut the database. (onmode -uyk) > > > > cd $INFORMIXDIR > > as root: > > > > chown -R informix:informix > > > > as informix: > > ./installserver > > > > -->> supply your new sn and key > > > > when all is done successfully > > do as root > > ./RUN_AS_ROOT.server > > > > Superboer. > > > > > > > > kirk.davis@gmail.com schreef: > > > > > Hi All, We have a single user version of IDS 9.21 currently installed > > > on our box; we have now purchased a ten user license. > > > > > > Is it possible to re-licence the above without re-installing form > > > scratch, and if so, how? > > > > > > Thanks in Advace, Kirk