IDS 9.4 on XP Pro
A user installing IDS 9.4 on Windows XP Pro saw the "server is being initialized" message hang for over 30 minutes. Suggestions: check onstat -/-m output and whether the IDS service is running, read the online.log (large chunk allocation can simply take a long time), and check the registry, since a blank IXUSERS Group "Name" value under HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Informix\\OnLine\\<instance>\\Security can break startup (set it to "*"). Others noted failed installs can leave zero-length dbspace/sbspace files that you can create manually with onspaces, and that such install bugs on XP were mostly pre-9.40 or fixed by 9.40.TC3. The poster never reported back, so no confirmed resolution.
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Hello, I "finally" got around to downloading the 9.4 package for IDS for windows to play around with it on my laptop (OS XP-Pro). Has anybody had any problems doing this? The message I'm getting now is "Your IBM Informix Dynamic Server is being initialized..". This message has been displayed for at least 30 minutes now. Is there any tricks to get a simple database running on a pc? Pete
Hi,
Can you open up an Informix Dynamic Server 9.40 command window from the Start
menu and run:
onstat -
onstat -m
and paste the output, to see what it thinks it's doing?
Also see if the IDS service is running in Control Panel->Administrative
Tools->Services.
Regards
Guy
PETE DICKSON <pdickson@atsystemsinc.com> wrote:
Hello, I "finally" got around to downloading the 9.4 package for IDS for
windows to play around with it on my laptop (OS XP-Pro). Has anybody had any
problems doing this? The message I'm getting now is "Your IBM Informix Dynamic
Server is being initialized..". This message has been displayed for at least
30 minutes now. Is there any tricks to get a simple database running on a pc?
Pete
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Hi, Depending on the size of the chunks you have chosen, this might take a long while, cause informix will reserve space. You should take a look in the online.log, this gives you some hints about what is happening. Marcus -----Original Message----- From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of PETE DICKSON Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 12:48 PM To: ids@iiug.org Subject: IDS 9.4 on XP Pro [6397] Hello, I "finally" got around to downloading the 9.4 package for IDS for windows to play around with it on my laptop (OS XP-Pro). Has anybody had any problems doing this? The message I'm getting now is "Your IBM Informix Dynamic Server is being initialized..". This message has been displayed for at least 30 minutes now. Is there any tricks to get a simple database running on a pc? Pete **************************************************************************** *** Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum.
Hi Pete, Last year I have a similar problem. After days and days of investigating I found that installation did not write all information to registry. This value was wrong: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\\\SOFTWARE\\\\Informix\\\\OnLine\\\\<yours instance name>Security\\\\IXUSERS Group] "Name"="" i.e. ixusers group was not defined. I changed that to: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\\\SOFTWARE\\\\Informix\\\\OnLine\\\\<yours instance name>\\\\Security\\\\IXUSERS Group] "Name"="*" i.e. all user groups belong to ixusers group. Also I recommend this excellent article on Informix/Windows issue http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.informix/browse_thread/thread/ 8ebe94e744bb32ff/c41ecf83c64da6c6?lnk=st&q=ixusers+zorko&rnum=1&hl=hr#c41ecf 83c64da6c6 BR Hrvoje Zokovic -----Original Message----- From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of PETE DICKSON Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 12:48 PM To: ids@iiug.org Subject: IDS 9.4 on XP Pro [6397] Hello, I "finally" got around to downloading the 9.4 package for IDS for windows to play around with it on my laptop (OS XP-Pro). Has anybody had any problems doing this? The message I'm getting now is "Your IBM Informix Dynamic Server is being initialized..". This message has been displayed for at least 30 minutes now. Is there any tricks to get a simple database running on a pc? Pete **************************************************************************** *** Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum.
I used 9.4 (the distribution from the IIUG download site) on a Windows XP
laptop for a while, it worked really fine, except when hibernating /
standy'ing the computer, I needed to relaunch it.
I had a similar pb with 9.3 on XP, where I actually broke the install and
created all the spaces by hand.
Here is an abstract of a document I wrote on that:
----
4.3.2.2 Creating the DbSpace
Thus the database engine is running, as the automatic installation process
failed, there is no other DbSpace than the rootdbs. If you go to
"C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye", you will see that the files are there but nothing
is initialized.
Figure 53 - Content of "C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye"
C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 306A-4E8E
Directory of C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye
2002/11/23 15:43 <DIR> .
2002/11/23 15:43 <DIR> ..
2002/11/23 15:43 0 dbs_popeye_dat.000
2002/11/23 15:58 52 428 800 rootdbs_dat.000
2002/11/23 15:43 0 sbspace_dat.000
3 File(s) 52 428 800 bytes
2 Dir(s) 14 095 757 312 bytes free
We can use the Informix "onspaces" command to create what we need.
4.3.2.3 Running "onspaces"
The "onspaces" command will help us create the missing DbSpace.
To run "onspaces", we are going to run a special "Command Prompt", the one
created by the Informix installation program.
Click on the "Start" button, go to "All Programs", "Informix Dynamic Server
9.30" and click on "ol_popeye", as shown in Figure 54.
Figure 54 - "ol_popeye" icon enlarged
Figure 55 - onspaces command line for creating the DbSpace
onspaces
-c
-d dbs_popeye
-p C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye\\\\dbs_popeye_dat.000
-o 0
-s 50000
Quick explanation:
. "-c" is used for creating,
. "-d" followed by "dbs_popeye" specifies the name of the DbSpace,
. "-p" sets the path, note that the path and file already exist,
. "-o" sets the offset at the beginning of the file this is mostly
used when using raw devices,
. "-s" defines the size of the DbSpaces, as we decided for 50 Mb
earlier, here the DbSpace size is defined as 50 000 Kb.
Figure 56 - Running onspaces for creating the DbSpace
C:\\\\Informix>onspaces -c -d dbs_popeye
-p C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye\\\\dbs_popeye_dat.000 -o 0 -s 50000
Verifying physical disk space, please wait ...
Space successfully added.
** WARNING ** A level 0 archive of Root DBSpace will need to be done.
If you recall well, we also wanted to create a Smart BLOB Space. This one as
well was not completed successfully.
Figure 57 - onspaces command line for creating the Smart BLOB Space
onspaces
-c
-S sbspace
-p C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye\\\\sbspace_dat.000
-o 0
-s 10000
Quick explanation:
. "-c" is used for creating,
. "-S" followed by "sbspace" specifies the name of the Smart BLOB
Space,
. "-p" sets the path, note that the path and file already exist,
. "-o" sets the offset at the beginning of the file this is mostly
used when using raw devices,
. "-s" defines the size of the Smart BLOB Space, as we decided for 10
Mb earlier, here the Smart BLOB Space size is defined as 10 000 Kb.
Figure 58 - Running onspaces for creating the Smart BLOB Space
C:\\\\Informix>onspaces -c -S sbspace -p C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye\\\\sbspace_da
t.000 -o 0 -s 10000
Verifying physical disk space, please wait ...
Space successfully added.
** WARNING ** A level 0 archive of Root DBSpace will need to be done.
A quick check can be done by going to the directory and listing its files,
as in Figure 59.
Figure 59 - Quick check
C:\\\\Informix>cd C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye
C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 306A-4E8E
Directory of C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye
2002/11/23 15:43 <DIR> .
2002/11/23 15:43 <DIR> ..
2002/11/25 09:09 51 200 000 dbs_popeye_dat.000
2002/11/23 15:58 52 428 800 rootdbs_dat.000
2002/11/25 09:40 10 240 000 sbspace_dat.000
3 File(s) 113 868 800 bytes
2 Dir(s) 13 993 553 920 bytes free
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On
> Behalf Of Hrvoje Zokovic
> Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 09:36
> To: ids@iiug.org
> Subject: RE: IDS 9.4 on XP Pro [6402]
>
>
> Hi Pete,
> Last year I have a similar problem. After days and days of
> investigating I found that installation did not write all
> information to registry. This value was wrong:
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\\\SOFTWARE\\\\Informix\\\\OnLine\\\\<yours instance
> name>Security\\\\IXUSERS Group]
> "Name"=""
> i.e. ixusers group was not defined. I changed that to:
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\\\SOFTWARE\\\\Informix\\\\OnLine\\\\<yours instance
> name>\\\\Security\\\\IXUSERS Group]
> "Name"="*"
> i.e. all user groups belong to ixusers group.
>
> Also I recommend this excellent article on Informix/Windows
> issue
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.informix/browse_
> thread/thread/
> 8ebe94e744bb32ff/c41ecf83c64da6c6?lnk=st&q=ixusers+zorko&rnum=
> 1&hl=hr#c41ecf
> 83c64da6c6
>
> BR
> Hrvoje Zokovic
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On
> Behalf Of PETE DICKSON
> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 12:48 PM
> To: ids@iiug.org
> Subject: IDS 9.4 on XP Pro [6397]
>
> Hello, I "finally" got around to downloading the 9.4 package
> for IDS for windows to play around with it on my laptop (OS
> XP-Pro). Has anybody had any problems doing this? The message
> I'm getting now is "Your IBM Informix Dynamic Server is being
> initialized..". This message has been displayed for at least
> 30 minutes now. Is there any tricks to get a simple database
> running on a pc?
>
> Pete
>
> **************************************************************
> **************
> ***
> Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum.
>
>
> **************************************************************
> *****************
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>
>
>
I've IDS on my XP laptop and it works fine, but you can' install the some of
the blades and that makes it a non-starter for me
Paul Watson
Tel: +44 1414161772
Mob: +44 7818003457
GO FURTHER with DB2
GET THERE FASTER with Informix.
Attend the IDUG 2006 North America Conference.
Tampa, Florida, USA. 7-11 May 2006.
Visit http://www.iiug.org/conf for more information.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On
> Behalf Of Jean George....
> Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 7:39 AM
> To: ids@iiug.org
> Subject: RE: IDS 9.4 on XP Pro [6403]
>
>
> I used 9.4 (the distribution from the IIUG download site) on
> a Windows XP
> laptop for a while, it worked really fine, except when hibernating /
> standy'ing the computer, I needed to relaunch it.
>
> I had a similar pb with 9.3 on XP, where I actually broke the
> install and
> created all the spaces by hand.
>
> Here is an abstract of a document I wrote on that:
>
> ----
>
> 4.3.2.2 Creating the DbSpace
>
> Thus the database engine is running, as the automatic
> installation process
> failed, there is no other DbSpace than the rootdbs. If you go to
> "C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye", you will see that the files are
> there but nothing
> is initialized.
>
> Figure 53 - Content of "C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye"
> C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye>dir
> Volume in drive C has no label.
> Volume Serial Number is 306A-4E8E
>
> Directory of C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye
>
> 2002/11/23 15:43 <DIR> .
> 2002/11/23 15:43 <DIR> ..
> 2002/11/23 15:43 0 dbs_popeye_dat.000
> 2002/11/23 15:58 52 428 800 rootdbs_dat.000
> 2002/11/23 15:43 0 sbspace_dat.000
>
> 3 File(s) 52 428 800 bytes
>
> 2 Dir(s) 14 095 757 312 bytes free
>
> We can use the Informix "onspaces" command to create what we need.
>
> 4.3.2.3 Running "onspaces"
>
> The "onspaces" command will help us create the missing DbSpace.
>
> To run "onspaces", we are going to run a special "Command
> Prompt", the one
> created by the Informix installation program.
>
> Click on the "Start" button, go to "All Programs", "Informix
> Dynamic Server
> 9.30" and click on "ol_popeye", as shown in Figure 54.
>
> Figure 54 - "ol_popeye" icon enlarged
>
> Figure 55 - onspaces command line for creating the DbSpace
> onspaces
> -c
> -d dbs_popeye
> -p C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye\\\\dbs_popeye_dat.000
> -o 0
> -s 50000>
> Quick explanation:
> .. "-c" is used for creating,
> .. "-d" followed by "dbs_popeye" specifies the name of the DbSpace,
> .. "-p" sets the path, note that the path and file already exist,
> .. "-o" sets the offset at the beginning of the file this is mostly
> used when using raw devices,
> .. "-s" defines the size of the DbSpaces, as we decided for 50 Mb
> earlier, here the DbSpace size is defined as 50 000 Kb.
>
> Figure 56 - Running onspaces for creating the DbSpace
> C:\\\\Informix>onspaces -c -d dbs_popeye
> -p C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye\\\\dbs_popeye_dat.000 -o 0 -s 50000
> Verifying physical disk space, please wait ...
> Space successfully added.
>
> ** WARNING ** A level 0 archive of Root DBSpace will need to be done.
>
> If you recall well, we also wanted to create a Smart BLOB
> Space. This one as
> well was not completed successfully.
>
> Figure 57 - onspaces command line for creating the Smart BLOB Space
> onspaces
> -c
> -S sbspace
> -p C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye\\\\sbspace_dat.000
> -o 0
> -s 10000>
> Quick explanation:
> .. "-c" is used for creating,
> .. "-S" followed by "sbspace" specifies the name of the Smart BLOB
> Space,
> .. "-p" sets the path, note that the path and file already exist,
> .. "-o" sets the offset at the beginning of the file this is mostly
> used when using raw devices,
> .. "-s" defines the size of the Smart BLOB Space, as we
> decided for 10
> Mb earlier, here the Smart BLOB Space size is defined as 10 000 Kb.
>
> Figure 58 - Running onspaces for creating the Smart BLOB Space
> C:\\\\Informix>onspaces -c -S sbspace -p
> C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye\\\\sbspace_da
> t.000 -o 0 -s 10000
> Verifying physical disk space, please wait ...
> Space successfully added.
>
> ** WARNING ** A level 0 archive of Root DBSpace will need to be done.
>
> A quick check can be done by going to the directory and
> listing its files,
> as in Figure 59.
>
> Figure 59 - Quick check
> C:\\\\Informix>cd C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye
>
> C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye>dir
> Volume in drive C has no label.
> Volume Serial Number is 306A-4E8E
>
> Directory of C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye
>
> 2002/11/23 15:43 <DIR> .
> 2002/11/23 15:43 <DIR> ..
> 2002/11/25 09:09 51 200 000 dbs_popeye_dat.000
> 2002/11/23 15:58 52 428 800 rootdbs_dat.000
> 2002/11/25 09:40 10 240 000 sbspace_dat.000
>
> 3 File(s) 113 868 800 bytes
>
> 2 Dir(s) 13 993 553 920 bytes free
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On
> > Behalf Of Hrvoje Zokovic
> > Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 09:36
> > To: ids@iiug.org
> > Subject: RE: IDS 9.4 on XP Pro [6402]
> >
> >
> > Hi Pete,
> > Last year I have a similar problem. After days and days of
> > investigating I found that installation did not write all
> > information to registry. This value was wrong:
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\\\SOFTWARE\\\\Informix\\\\OnLine\\\\<yours instance
> > name>Security\\\\IXUSERS Group]
> > "Name"=""
> > i.e. ixusers group was not defined. I changed that to:
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\\\SOFTWARE\\\\Informix\\\\OnLine\\\\<yours instance
> > name>\\\\Security\\\\IXUSERS Group]
> > "Name"="*"
> > i.e. all user groups belong to ixusers group.
> >
> > Also I recommend this excellent article on Informix/Windows
> > issue
> > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.informix/browse_
> > thread/thread/
> > 8ebe94e744bb32ff/c41ecf83c64da6c6?lnk=st&q=ixusers+zorko&rnum=
> > 1&hl=hr#c41ecf
> > 83c64da6c6
> >
> > BR
> > Hrvoje Zokovic
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On
> > Behalf Of PETE DICKSON
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 12:48 PM
> > To: ids@iiug.org
> > Subject: IDS 9.4 on XP Pro [6397]
> >
> > Hello, I "finally" got around to downloading the 9.4 package
> > for IDS for windows to play around with it on my laptop (OS
> > XP-Pro). Has anybody had any problems doing this? The message
> > I'm getting now is "Your IBM Informix Dynamic Server is being
> > initialized..". This message has been displayed for at least
> > 30 minutes now. Is there any tricks to get a simple database
> > running on a pc?
> >
> > Pete
> >
> > **************************************************************
> > **************
> > ***
> > Forum Note: Use
> I had a similar pb with 9.3 on XP, where I actually broke the install and
> created all the spaces by hand.
There were some known problems on XP with IDS versions before 9.40, in
including not creating the dbspaces, for example:
161355 SERVER INSTALL ON A FRESH XP MACHINE REPORTS THAT THE SERVER WAS NOT
INITIALIZED SUCCESSFULLY
In the first few versions of 9.40 there was also similar problems when
installing via Remote Desktop/Terminal Server but these were all resolved by
around TC3.
Guy
"Jean George...." <jgp@iiug.org> wrote:
I used 9.4 (the distribution from the IIUG download site) on a Windows XP
laptop for a while, it worked really fine, except when hibernating /
standy'ing the computer, I needed to relaunch it.
I had a similar pb with 9.3 on XP, where I actually broke the install and
created all the spaces by hand.
Here is an abstract of a document I wrote on that:
----
4.3.2.2 Creating the DbSpace
Thus the database engine is running, as the automatic installation process
failed, there is no other DbSpace than the rootdbs. If you go to
"C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye", you will see that the files are there but nothing
is initialized.
Figure 53 - Content of "C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye"
C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 306A-4E8E
Directory of C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye
2002/11/23 15:43 .
2002/11/23 15:43 ..
2002/11/23 15:43 0 dbs_popeye_dat.000
2002/11/23 15:58 52 428 800 rootdbs_dat.000
2002/11/23 15:43 0 sbspace_dat.000
3 File(s) 52 428 800 bytes
2 Dir(s) 14 095 757 312 bytes free
We can use the Informix "onspaces" command to create what we need.
4.3.2.3 Running "onspaces"
The "onspaces" command will help us create the missing DbSpace.
To run "onspaces", we are going to run a special "Command Prompt", the one
created by the Informix installation program.
Click on the "Start" button, go to "All Programs", "Informix Dynamic Server
9.30" and click on "ol_popeye", as shown in Figure 54.
Figure 54 - "ol_popeye" icon enlarged
Figure 55 - onspaces command line for creating the DbSpace
onspaces
-c
-d dbs_popeye
-p C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye\\\\dbs_popeye_dat.000
-o 0
-s 50000
Quick explanation:
.. "-c" is used for creating,
.. "-d" followed by "dbs_popeye" specifies the name of the DbSpace,
.. "-p" sets the path, note that the path and file already exist,
.. "-o" sets the offset at the beginning of the file this is mostly
used when using raw devices,
.. "-s" defines the size of the DbSpaces, as we decided for 50 Mb
earlier, here the DbSpace size is defined as 50 000 Kb.
Figure 56 - Running onspaces for creating the DbSpace
C:\\\\Informix>onspaces -c -d dbs_popeye
-p C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye\\\\dbs_popeye_dat.000 -o 0 -s 50000
Verifying physical disk space, please wait ...
Space successfully added.
** WARNING ** A level 0 archive of Root DBSpace will need to be done.
If you recall well, we also wanted to create a Smart BLOB Space. This one as
well was not completed successfully.
Figure 57 - onspaces command line for creating the Smart BLOB Space
onspaces
-c
-S sbspace
-p C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye\\\\sbspace_dat.000
-o 0
-s 10000
Quick explanation:
.. "-c" is used for creating,
.. "-S" followed by "sbspace" specifies the name of the Smart BLOB
Space,
.. "-p" sets the path, note that the path and file already exist,
.. "-o" sets the offset at the beginning of the file this is mostly
used when using raw devices,
.. "-s" defines the size of the Smart BLOB Space, as we decided for 10
Mb earlier, here the Smart BLOB Space size is defined as 10 000 Kb.
Figure 58 - Running onspaces for creating the Smart BLOB Space
C:\\\\Informix>onspaces -c -S sbspace -p C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye\\\\sbspace_da
t.000 -o 0 -s 10000
Verifying physical disk space, please wait ...
Space successfully added.
** WARNING ** A level 0 archive of Root DBSpace will need to be done.
A quick check can be done by going to the directory and listing its files,
as in Figure 59.
Figure 59 - Quick check
C:\\\\Informix>cd C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye
C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 306A-4E8E
Directory of C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye
2002/11/23 15:43 .
2002/11/23 15:43 ..
2002/11/25 09:09 51 200 000 dbs_popeye_dat.000
2002/11/23 15:58 52 428 800 rootdbs_dat.000
2002/11/25 09:40 10 240 000 sbspace_dat.000
3 File(s) 113 868 800 bytes
2 Dir(s) 13 993 553 920 bytes free
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On
> Behalf Of Hrvoje Zokovic
> Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 09:36
> To: ids@iiug.org
> Subject: RE: IDS 9.4 on XP Pro [6402]
>
>
> Hi Pete,
> Last year I have a similar problem. After days and days of
> investigating I found that installation did not write all
> information to registry. This value was wrong:
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\\\SOFTWARE\\\\Informix\\\\OnLine\\\\
> name>Security\\\\IXUSERS Group]
> "Name"=""
> i.e. ixusers group was not defined. I changed that to:
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\\\SOFTWARE\\\\Informix\\\\OnLine\\\\
> name>\\\\Security\\\\IXUSERS Group]
> "Name"="*"
> i.e. all user groups belong to ixusers group.
>
> Also I recommend this excellent article on Informix/Windows
> issue
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.informix/browse_
> thread/thread/
> 8ebe94e744bb32ff/c41ecf83c64da6c6?lnk=st&q=ixusers+zorko&rnum=
> 1&hl=hr#c41ecf
> 83c64da6c6
>
> BR
> Hrvoje Zokovic
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On
> Behalf Of PETE DICKSON
> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 12:48 PM
> To: ids@iiug.org
> Subject: IDS 9.4 on XP Pro [6397]
>
> Hello, I "finally" got around to downloading the 9.4 package
> for IDS for windows to play around with it on my laptop (OS
> XP-Pro). Has anybody had any problems doing this? The message
> I'm getting now is "Your IBM Informix Dynamic Server is being
> initialized..". This message has been displayed for at least
> 30 minutes now. Is there any tricks to get a simple database
> running on a pc?
>
> Pete
>
> **************************************************************
> **************
> ***
> Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum.
>
>
> **************************************************************
> *****************
> Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum.
>
>
>
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What are the mos
> I've IDS on my XP laptop and it works fine, but you can' install the some of
> the blades and that makes it a non-starter for me
Is this because you are using blades which are not supported on Windows or
because of other known or unknown problems?
Guy
Paul Watson <paul@oninit.com> wrote:
Paul Watson
Tel: +44 1414161772
Mob: +44 7818003457
GO FURTHER with DB2
GET THERE FASTER with Informix.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On
> Behalf Of Jean George....
> Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 7:39 AM
> To: ids@iiug.org
> Subject: RE: IDS 9.4 on XP Pro [6403]
>
>
> I used 9.4 (the distribution from the IIUG download site) on
> a Windows XP
> laptop for a while, it worked really fine, except when hibernating /
> standy'ing the computer, I needed to relaunch it.
>
> I had a similar pb with 9.3 on XP, where I actually broke the
> install and
> created all the spaces by hand.
>
> Here is an abstract of a document I wrote on that:
>
> ----
>
> 4.3.2.2 Creating the DbSpace
>
> Thus the database engine is running, as the automatic
> installation process
> failed, there is no other DbSpace than the rootdbs. If you go to
> "C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye", you will see that the files are
> there but nothing
> is initialized.
>
> Figure 53 - Content of "C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye"
> C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye>dir
> Volume in drive C has no label.
> Volume Serial Number is 306A-4E8E
>
> Directory of C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye
>
> 2002/11/23 15:43 .
> 2002/11/23 15:43 ..
> 2002/11/23 15:43 0 dbs_popeye_dat.000
> 2002/11/23 15:58 52 428 800 rootdbs_dat.000
> 2002/11/23 15:43 0 sbspace_dat.000
>
> 3 File(s) 52 428 800 bytes
>
> 2 Dir(s) 14 095 757 312 bytes free
>
> We can use the Informix "onspaces" command to create what we need.
>
> 4.3.2.3 Running "onspaces"
>
> The "onspaces" command will help us create the missing DbSpace.
>
> To run "onspaces", we are going to run a special "Command
> Prompt", the one
> created by the Informix installation program.
>
> Click on the "Start" button, go to "All Programs", "Informix
> Dynamic Server
> 9.30" and click on "ol_popeye", as shown in Figure 54.
>
> Figure 54 - "ol_popeye" icon enlarged
>
> Figure 55 - onspaces command line for creating the DbSpace
> onspaces
> -c
> -d dbs_popeye
> -p C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye\\\\dbs_popeye_dat.000
> -o 0
> -s 50000>
> Quick explanation:
> .. "-c" is used for creating,
> .. "-d" followed by "dbs_popeye" specifies the name of the DbSpace,
> .. "-p" sets the path, note that the path and file already exist,
> .. "-o" sets the offset at the beginning of the file this is mostly
> used when using raw devices,
> .. "-s" defines the size of the DbSpaces, as we decided for 50 Mb
> earlier, here the DbSpace size is defined as 50 000 Kb.
>
> Figure 56 - Running onspaces for creating the DbSpace
> C:\\\\Informix>onspaces -c -d dbs_popeye
> -p C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye\\\\dbs_popeye_dat.000 -o 0 -s 50000
> Verifying physical disk space, please wait ...
> Space successfully added.
>
> ** WARNING ** A level 0 archive of Root DBSpace will need to be done.
>
> If you recall well, we also wanted to create a Smart BLOB
> Space. This one as
> well was not completed successfully.
>
> Figure 57 - onspaces command line for creating the Smart BLOB Space
> onspaces
> -c
> -S sbspace
> -p C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye\\\\sbspace_dat.000
> -o 0
> -s 10000>
> Quick explanation:
> .. "-c" is used for creating,
> .. "-S" followed by "sbspace" specifies the name of the Smart BLOB
> Space,
> .. "-p" sets the path, note that the path and file already exist,
> .. "-o" sets the offset at the beginning of the file this is mostly
> used when using raw devices,
> .. "-s" defines the size of the Smart BLOB Space, as we
> decided for 10
> Mb earlier, here the Smart BLOB Space size is defined as 10 000 Kb.
>
> Figure 58 - Running onspaces for creating the Smart BLOB Space
> C:\\\\Informix>onspaces -c -S sbspace -p
> C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye\\\\sbspace_da
> t.000 -o 0 -s 10000
> Verifying physical disk space, please wait ...
> Space successfully added.
>
> ** WARNING ** A level 0 archive of Root DBSpace will need to be done.
>
> A quick check can be done by going to the directory and
> listing its files,
> as in Figure 59.
>
> Figure 59 - Quick check
> C:\\\\Informix>cd C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye
>
> C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye>dir
> Volume in drive C has no label.
> Volume Serial Number is 306A-4E8E
>
> Directory of C:\\\\IFMXDATA\\\\ol_popeye
>
> 2002/11/23 15:43 .
> 2002/11/23 15:43 ..
> 2002/11/25 09:09 51 200 000 dbs_popeye_dat.000
> 2002/11/23 15:58 52 428 800 rootdbs_dat.000
> 2002/11/25 09:40 10 240 000 sbspace_dat.000
>
> 3 File(s) 113 868 800 bytes
>
> 2 Dir(s) 13 993 553 920 bytes free
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On
> > Behalf Of Hrvoje Zokovic
> > Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 09:36
> > To: ids@iiug.org
> > Subject: RE: IDS 9.4 on XP Pro [6402]
> >
> >
> > Hi Pete,
> > Last year I have a similar problem. After days and days of
> > investigating I found that installation did not write all
> > information to registry. This value was wrong:
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\\\SOFTWARE\\\\Informix\\\\OnLine\\\\
> > name>Security\\\\IXUSERS Group]
> > "Name"=""
> > i.e. ixusers group was not defined. I changed that to:
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\\\SOFTWARE\\\\Informix\\\\OnLine\\\\
> > name>\\\\Security\\\\IXUSERS Group]
> > "Name"="*"
> > i.e. all user groups belong to ixusers group.
> >
> > Also I recommend this excellent article on Informix/Windows
> > issue
> > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.informix/browse_
> > thread/thread/
> > 8ebe94e744bb32ff/c41ecf83c64da6c6?lnk=st&q=ixusers+zorko&rnum=
> > 1&hl=hr#c41ecf
> > 83c64da6c6
> >
> > BR
> > Hrvoje Zokovic
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On
> > Behalf Of PETE DICKSON
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 12:48 PM
> > To: ids@iiug.org
> > Subject: IDS 9.4 on XP Pro [6397]
> >
> > Hello, I "finally" got around to downloading the 9.4 package
> > for IDS for windows to play around with it on my laptop (OS
> > XP-Pro). Has anybody had any problems doing this? The message
> > I'm getting now is "Your IBM Informix Dynamic Server is being
> > initialized..". This message has been displayed for at least
> > 30 minutes now. Is there any tricks to get a simple database
> > running on a pc?
> >
> >