Re: ISM and 2 Gbyte file limits in IDS 9.4

Hi, maybe the 2GB limit of ISM found in ids_ism_docnotes_9.40.txt is a documentation bug. In my experience ISM can backup and restore dbspaces > 2GB as you described below. Andreas On Monday 23 August 2004 17:51, malcolm weallans wrote: > According to the Docnotes for IDS 9.4 ISM cannot be > used for dbpaces > 2Gbytes due to a limitation in > Legato Networker 5. > > Would any of the Informix personnel who read this list > like to comment about this. Should IBM Informix > provide all customers with an alternative storage > manager as a workaround for this deficiency? Or is it > a deficiency at all. We have certainly been > successful in backing up and restoring dbspaces which > are bigger than 2 Gbytes. It seems that a number of > 2Gbytes files were used as part of the same backup. > > regards > > Malcolm > sending to informix-list sending to informix-list