Re: archecker unsupported in IDS 7.31?

On Jan 9, 2:02 pm, Richard Spitz <Richard.Sp...@med.uni-muenchen.de> wrote: > Martin Fuerderer <MARTI...@de.ibm.com> schrieb: > > >Before you actually "argue" with your support vendor, > >try to get their support for archecker by just asking (nicley). > >It may make them more willing ... > >Chances are they'll be reading this e-mail anyway. :)Of course you are right, I would have asked VERY nicely as a first > try. However, it looks like it will not be necessary after all. > > What I really needed was a table-level restore like it is well > documented for IDS 10. However, it turned out that the backup containing > the possibly deleted rows (it is uncertain if they ever existed in the > first place) has long expired and was overwritten, so the whole attempt > would have been futile anyway. > > There was a utility (written by June Tong if I remember correctly) called > "arcunload" that enabled ascii table dumps using archecker technology, but > that isn't available for my version of IDS (7.31UD8 on Linux). I was hoping > that maybe the IDS 7.31 archecker could somehow be tweaked to achieve > something like a table level restore. Arc_to_unload is dead. It was written using bits and pieces of proprietary ontape and onload source and while Informix permitted June to publish binary versions, the source was naturally locked up. The last binary is many versions old and will no longer work and June left the fold long ago. Also the archecker version delivered with 7.3x does not contain the table recovery code. It can only be used to verify an archive. You COULD, however, use the archecker that's distributed with 10.00+ to extract data from an IDS 7.31 archive tape set as long as the ontape and archecker are from binary data compatible machines (ie big-endian/little-endian and if you have any floating point data then compatible IEEE FP implementations). > Regards, Richard Art S. Kagel

art.kagel@gmail.com schrieb: >Also the archecker version delivered with 7.3x does not contain the >table recovery code. It can only be used to verify an archive. >You COULD, however, use the archecker that's distributed with 10.00+ >to extract data from an IDS 7.31 archive tape set as long as the >ontape and archecker are from binary data compatible machines (ie >big-endian/little-endian and if you have any floating point data then >compatible IEEE FP implementations). Wow! Thats sound almost too good to be true! I have IDS 7.31UD8 on Linux, so I could download IDS 10 for Linux from the IIUG website, extract only the archecker binary and get going? I almost can't wait to try that out! Thanks for the hint, I'll report the results as soon as I get around to testing this. Regards, Richard