Re: Replication on INFORMIX ?

Hi Akins, Thankz anyway for u'r reference .... I think Replication Enterprice is the answer ... ( for my need ) and I have good a CD for REPLICATION MANAGER on NT ... but till now It can't work ... I have tried to setup all the stuff by myself ... but I got many difficulties .... hope there's some hands helping me on this case ( the deadline is before this x'mas ) :( what I have here are : - 2 SCO 5.02 - Informix Dynamic Server 7.22 - tcp/ip well configured ( snmp is ok ... I have checked them ) - a NT station for REPLICATION MANAGER I got a some problem/ confuse on - group for Rephosts - CDR inialization error - etc tia Bharat / JAKARTA -----Original Message----- From: Clem Akins <clem@informix.com> To: magician@indosat.net.id <magician@indosat.net.id> Cc: informix-list@rmy.emory.edu <informix-list@rmy.emory.edu> Date: Monday, December 15, 1997 8:04 PM Subject: Re: Replication on INFORMIX ? }Bharat asks: }[...] }my quez are : (as seen at page 236, Unleashed Informix by John Mc.Nally, }Glenn Miller, SAMS Publishing) }[...] }>do we need this .... I mean actually this is a mirroring ... not a }>replication enginee ... right? } }Had you bought Carlton Doe's book, the "Informix-OnLine Dynamic Server }Handbook", you'd know that "Unlike disk mirroring...Replication creates }and maintains a complete copy of an instance on a separate physical }server." } }>and also in replication ... we need not to replicate the whole database ... }>only some tables ...and also the hardware and o/s are different ... .... }> as I have seen in other databases ) }>so any idea about this ... ? ... someone please help me on this ... } }You can do this several ways: } } Informix Enterprise Replication (formerly Continuous Data Replication) } Praxis OmniReplicator } Application code } }But NOT with High Availability Data Replication, formerly called just }replication, and evidently described in the Sams book. } }>I already tried to get contact with the informix guys ... and also the }>distributor here ...but they' were giving me quite funny answer and asking }>more time for further answers ... } }Did you read the Informix web site? I found 100 hits on the word }"replication", }the first of which was a white paper on Enterprise Replication. } }Did you search the Informix documentation for information? A quick search }revealed 54 occurrences of the word "replication", including a chapter of the }Administration Guide entitled "What is Data Replication." } }Informix offers a course in Enterprise Replication. It is not trivial to }configure, and can require application changes. I heartily recommend the }course to people who are interested in replication. } }>what I need to know is : }> - could we replicate some tables only }> - do we need identical machine, o/s, equal space, etc }> - how to do the setup ... we this this quite soon .. very soon } }And those actions would answer your questions. } }___________________________________________________________ }Clem Akins (aka clem@informix.com) }Informix Software, Inc (Standard disclaimers apply) }International Technical Support }Last seen: Dodging hail, rain, and flood in Menlo Park.