RE: general informix wierdness

In message "general informix wierdness", CRAIG@CHEMISTRY.CHEM.UTAH.edu writes: > I haven't come across your particular problem. But, I did have > similar results once when I miscalculated the offset of a dbspace. > In my case, I had two dbspaces which resided on the same raw > device. Due to bad addition on my part, I had defined the spaces > to overlap. Thus, an update of one space wrote garbage into the > second space. As it turned out, we only rarely used the second > space and did not discover the problem for quite a while. When > we did, though, we had a large number of oncheck errors similar > to yours. > > I hope you aren't in this situation! So do I. Thanks for your reply. I've just posted another installment following up this subject. See what you make of the latest development. It looks like it will work *some* of the time.... Informix themselves aren't being particularly helpful, I think we're almost at the stage of asking them to come on-site to fix it. Cheers, Rich.