Re: Emergemcy Chunks Offline - tbzero utility

mstrothr@informix.com (Michael Strother) writes: >The moaning that you people are doing is nothing compared to what would happen >if Informix made tbzero available. tbzero has the capability to bring a very >corrupt system online while you may think that tbzero magically fixed your >original problem (It didn't). The bottom line is that if your system went >offline, it did so for a reason and if you can't isolate and fix the original >problem tbzero is only going to make things worse. >Informix policy here is on the money. Yeah...Online went offline in my case for a specific reason - there was a bad cluster on the disk - which AIX successfully remapped. So, because AIX remapped a bad cluster, online shit the bed. Something's wrong here... And this doesn't fall into the catagory of "DBA or SysAdmin oversights". I'm not suggesting that tbzero be released under all circumstances, but in my case Informix was not able to call into the database due to policy at my end. If you recall, the database in question had classified government data in it. Boring or otherwise, outside organizations aren't permitted to access this data - that includes Informix. It's under situations like this where I feel that Informix needs to make tbzero available. Instead of being able to mark up the chunk and make it available in a matter of minutes, the system had to be down for a day to restore everything from backups. -Bill