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My experience with informix has been soley on Solaris. Currently, we are running Solaris 9 and IDS 9.40.FC5. I am being asked if I can support several IDS 9.40 databases running on AIX. I am not expected to do anything with the operating system at all - just the database... If I expect IDS 9.40 to be the consistent across platforms, am I in for any surprises? I mean if I am able to administer 9.40 on Solaris, then I should be able to do the same on AIX...right? thanks John Campbell

Personally I think that to be an adequate DBA you need to understand the underlying OS at least as well as Informix. I for one, despite being a self-appointed Informix God, often used to turn down IDS-on-Windows work (although less so now I have colleagues with such skills). I think good OS knowledge is vital. However, as about the only DBA in England who hasn't worked for DHL, I am told by others that many big sites have a completely different team do the sysadmin work. Personally I don't see how I could be as effective if a vital part of my armoury - sysdmin tasks - is derogated to someone else. Just my opinion though .... -- Neil Truby t:01932 724027 Director m:07798 811708 Ardenta Limited e:neil.truby@ardenta.com "Campbell, John (GE Consumer Finance)" <John.Campbell2@ge.com> wrote in message news:mailman.326.1145034780.18205.informix-list@iiug.org... My experience with informix has been soley on Solaris. Currently, we are running Solaris 9 and IDS 9.40.FC5. I am being asked if I can support several IDS 9.40 databases running on AIX. I am not expected to do anything with the operating system at all - just the database... If I expect IDS 9.40 to be the consistent across platforms, am I in for any surprises? I mean if I am able to administer 9.40 on Solaris, then I should be able to do the same on AIX...right? thanks John Campbell