Re: IFMX Command Center hangs!

I would hope that Informix Tech Support has been notified of this problem so I can be corrected, either with a patch, or in a future maintenance release. If you haven't contacted Tech Support, please do so. It will assist in increasing the quality of the products. dave In article <882197526.1781727235@dejanews.com>, dturnbul@msn.com says... > >The problem is that Informix' GUI utilities centered around >the Server >Administration port you define (go to Setup in Command Cente >r even though >Command Center is not working. The port definitions are in t >here) do not >handle large memory areas well. As a result, after a certai >n amount of >RAM has been allocated for the Informix instance, the utilit >ies stop >working. The Database Explorer works on the Database Admin >istration >port and does not have this problem. > >You can temporarily fix this by: > >1) stopping Informix (and any related software such as Baan) >2) Editting your onconfig file and changing the following pa >rameters: > BUFFERS <= 9000 > LOCKS <= 9000 > LOGFILES <= 20> and reduce any other parameter that is creating demand for >RAM (such as >SHM_VIRTSIZE, LOG_BUFFERS, etc). > >3) Re-start your database. > >Unfortunately, this makes your database's resource usage con >siderably >smaller which will affect its performance. Particularly for > Baan, this >should ONLY BE DONE TO USE THE GUI utilities. All settings >should be >restored after the DB admin is done so that normal users do >not have >reduced performance. > >For most folks, this is not a good choice however and they e >nd up simply >using the command line utilities. Informix will have this f >ixed >(hopefully) in the upcoming version release of 7.23 -dt > > > > >In article <jlumbleyEL01o7.7oA@netcom.com>, > jlumbley@netcom.com (Joe Lumbley) wrote: >> >> Eric R. Gavin (Eric_Gavin@maf.org) wrote: >> : I'm running ODS7.23 on NT4 and when I try to use any of >the Command Center >> : GUI utilities, they will all hang and eventually go "Not > Responding..." once >> : the database server is selected and a username and passw >ord is entered (I >> : have the ask password at runtime option set in SetNet32) >> >> : HOWEVER, the Database Explorer works just fine!! AND, a >ll of the Command >> : Line Utilities work just fine as well. >> >> : The case mentioned above happens both when I'm using the > Command Center >> : utilities from a remote machine (one on the LAN) and at >the local server >> : itself. >> >> : Because of restrictions placed by the Baan software runn >ing on the same >> : server, the NT Server is NOT part of our domain -- if th >at helps any. >> >> I'm not totally sure about this, as I'm debugging the same > problem on one >> of my systems, but I think it has to do with not having ad >ministrator >> permissions on the server's domain. I haven't been able t >o test it yet >> because our network administrator is so anal-retentive tha >t nobody else can >> get network admin permissions and it's not worth fighting >about. >> >> Anybody know the answer for sure? >> >> joe >> : Can anybody offer insight into this problem? >> >> : TIA, >> >> : Eric Gavin >> >> -- >> ---------------------------------------------------------- >----------------- >> Joe Lumbley(jlumbley@netcom.com) author of: "INFORMIX DB >A Survival Guide" >> >> Slaving away on "INFORMIX DEBUGGERS Survival Guide", avail >able early 1998 >> from Prentice Hall/Informix Press. If you have debugging >tips, tools, or >> ideas to share, please send me some e-mail. >> ---------------------------------------------------------- >----------------- > >-------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------- >------------ > http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Use >net