TROUBLE CONVERTING IDS 9.40 TO 10

Hi. We want to test IDS 10 migration by converting a development database. But when we try to begin, oninit aborts abnormally, and writes "Cannot Allocate Physical Log File, x wanted, y available." in online.log. Why does it happen? We are using same O.S. (Solaris 9). Thanks in advance Omar

please post your onconfig file for v9 and v10, also an onstat -d from v9 "Omar Mu'oz" <omarmun@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:mailman.482.1238792814.1831.informix-list@iiug.org... Hi. We want to test IDS 10 migration by converting a development database. But when we try to begin, oninit aborts abnormally, and writes "Cannot Allocate Physical Log File, x wanted, y available." in online.log. Why does it happen? We are using same O.S. (Solaris 9). Thanks in advance Omar

PHYSFILE is larger than the actual size of PHYSDBS. Example $ONCONFIG file entries are: PHYSDBS physdbs # Location (dbspace) of physical log PHYSFILE 30660 # Physical log file size (Kbytes) Regards, Doug Lawry "Omar Mu'oz" <omarmun@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:mailman.482.1238792814.1831.informix-list@iiug.org... > > Hi. > > We want to test IDS 10 migration by converting a development database. > But when we try to begin, oninit aborts abnormally, and writes "Cannot > Allocate Physical Log File, x wanted, y available." in online.log. Why > does it happen? > > We are using same O.S. (Solaris 9). > > Thanks in advance > > Omar

IDS 10 will be withdraw from support in 2010. I would suggest that you look to migrate to IDS 11 rather than IDS 10. IDS 11 has a longer shelf life.

Trouble is, to go from 9.4 to 11.5 requires rhel 4 at minimum. That means a lot of time and recustomisation for us (o/s and apps). For us, migrating to IDS 10 may buy us some time. -----Original Message----- From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:informix-list-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of wcottishpoet Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 12:10 PM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: TROUBLE CONVERTING IDS 9.40 TO 10 IDS 10 will be withdraw from support in 2010. I would suggest that you look to migrate to IDS 11 rather than IDS 10. IDS 11 has a longer shelf life. _______________________________________________ Informix-list mailing list Informix-list@iiug.org http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list DISCLAIMER This transmission and the information contained herein and/or in any attachments hereto and/or in any attachments thereto is privileged and/or confidential and is intended ONLY for the use of the individual(s) and/or entity(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are strictly prohibited from disclosing, printing, copying, using or disseminating this transmission and/or any such attachments and any information contained in this transmission and/or in any such attachments. ANY unauthorized interception of this transmission and/or any such attachments is a violation of federal criminal law. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the transmission and all such attachments.

"June Nebab" <jnebab@idealcut.com> wrote in message news:mailman.490.1239043450.1831.informix-list@iiug.org... > Trouble is, to go from 9.4 to 11.5 requires rhel 4 at minimum. That means > a > lot of time and recustomisation for us (o/s and apps). For us, migrating > to > IDS 10 may buy us some time. Also, 10 is arguably more stable..

Hello Omar, Upgrading in-place has the advantage of using your existing disk space and the ability to roll back to your v9 if your v10 does not work properly. But if you are willing to skip all that, then you can create a separate v10 instance and then select from v9 while inserting into v10. The advantage here is you will reorg all your tables and you can better load balance your hardware (i.e. separate busy tables onto different disks). The disadvantages are you will have a lot of script writing to do and the "conversion time" will be longer. -L. S.