IDS 11.7

Posted in 2011

Jeremiah — Mon, 3 Jan 2011 12:22:03 -0800 (PST) — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

I have two questions, the first one is fairly easy. I was looking at the OS requirements of Informix 11.7 and it shows for AIX, versions 6.1 and 7.1. Am I right in saying that Informix 11.7 won't work in AIX 5.3? My second question involves ISM. How do I configure ISM to backup straight to tape? We are using IBM TSM for tape backups. Thanks.

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Art Kagel — Mon, 3 Jan 2011 15:53:18 -0500 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Correct, 11.50 supports AIX 5.3, 11.70 supports only AIX 6.1 officially. Will it run on 5.3? Don't know, but not supported. On your other question... you are not clear. If you are using Tivoli for system archives, then probably you will want to be using Tivoli rather than ISM as the storage manager for onbar. Art Art S. Kagel Advanced DataTools (www.advancedatatools.com) IIUG Board of Directors (art@iiug.org) Blog: http://informix-myview.blogspot.com/ Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that my own opinions are my own opinions and do not reflect on my employer, Advanced DataTools, the IIUG, nor any other organization with which I am associated either explicitly, implicitly, or by inference. Neither do those opinions reflect those of other individuals affiliated with any entity with which I am affiliated nor those of the entities themselves. On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Jeremiah <yogensha.sql@gmail.com> wrote: > I have two questions, the first one is fairly easy. I was looking at > the OS requirements of Informix 11.7 and it shows for AIX, versions > 6.1 and 7.1. Am I right in saying that Informix 11.7 won't work in AIX > 5.3? > > My second question involves ISM. How do I configure ISM to backup > straight to tape? We are using IBM TSM for tape backups. > > Thanks. > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list >

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Jeremiah — Mon, 3 Jan 2011 13:09:07 -0800 (PST) — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Thank you for the reply. Pardon my lack of knowledge, I'm quite new to upgrading. Actually, this would be my first time. So if we were to upgrade from our current version 10, we'd have to upgrade the OS first? We are currently running IDS 10 in an AIX 5.3 box. This also brings another (third) question: during an in-place upgrade, can I copy over the onconfig file to the new location? Would that cause a problem? I guess for my second question, what I meant was how do I go about to configure onbar to go to tape? Judging from your reply, I take it that if I go TSM, I won't have to configure ISM. Am I right? On Jan 3, 2:53 pm, Art Kagel <art.ka...@gmail.com> wrote: > Correct, 11.50 supports AIX 5.3, 11.70 supports only AIX 6.1 officially. > Will it run on 5.3? Don't know, but not supported. > > On your other question... you are not clear. If you are using Tivoli for > system archives, then probably you will want to be using Tivoli rather than > ISM as the storage manager for onbar. > > Art > > Art S. Kagel > Advanced DataTools (www.advancedatatools.com) > IIUG Board of Directors (a...@iiug.org) > Blog:http://informix-myview.blogspot.com/ > > Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that my own opinions are my own opinions and > do not reflect on my employer, Advanced DataTools, the IIUG, nor any other > organization with which I am associated either explicitly, implicitly, or by > inference. Neither do those opinions reflect those of other individuals > affiliated with any entity with which I am affiliated nor those of the > entities themselves. > > On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Jeremiah <yogensha....@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have two questions, the first one is fairly easy. I was looking at > > the OS requirements of Informix 11.7 and it shows for AIX, versions > > 6.1 and 7.1. Am I right in saying that Informix 11.7 won't work in AIX > > 5.3? > > > My second question involves ISM. How do I configure ISM to backup > > straight to tape? We are using IBM TSM for tape backups. > > > Thanks. > > _______________________________________________ > > Informix-list mailing list > > Informix-l...@iiug.org > >http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list

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Art Kagel — Mon, 3 Jan 2011 16:21:10 -0500 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

See below: Art Art S. Kagel Advanced DataTools (www.advancedatatools.com) IIUG Board of Directors (art@iiug.org) Blog: http://informix-myview.blogspot.com/ Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that my own opinions are my own opinions and do not reflect on my employer, Advanced DataTools, the IIUG, nor any other organization with which I am associated either explicitly, implicitly, or by inference. Neither do those opinions reflect those of other individuals affiliated with any entity with which I am affiliated nor those of the entities themselves. On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Jeremiah <yogensha.sql@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thank you for the reply. Pardon my lack of knowledge, I'm quite new to > upgrading. Actually, this would be my first time. So if we were to > upgrade from our current version 10, we'd have to upgrade the OS > first? We are currently running IDS 10 in an AIX 5.3 box. > Everyone was once new at this. ;-) Yes, you would have to upgrade the OS first if you want to go all the way to 11.70, or perform a complete unload of your current 10.00 databases, upgrade the OS, install 11.70 fresh, and reload the databases from the exports. Honestly, while I do have one client that is using 11.70 in production, I do not currently recommend doing so yet, unless you have a particular need for some 11.70 feature that is not available in 11.50.FC8 (the current 11.50 release). If you have no such need, I would upgrade to 11.50.FC8 right now and begin to test 11.70 in a QA/Development environment to make sure that if there are any new bugs in it that will prevent me from using it down the road, I can find out quickly and report them to IBM so that they are fixed in the .xC2 or .xC3 release so I can upgrade to 11.70 in six months or so when 11.70 has been shaken out a bit more. > > This also brings another (third) question: during an in-place upgrade, > can I copy over the onconfig file to the new location? Would that > cause a problem? > You could, however, that is not recommended as you will be missing any new ONCONFIG parameters that have been introduced since 10.00. I always recommend that one take a clean copy of the new onconfig.std and manually update that with all of the important parameter settings from the older ONCONFIG file, then take a second pass through the newly edited ONCONFIG file and set up any of the new parameters that you want to take advantage of. One such example: early releases of 10.00 only had Leaf Scan and Range Scan modes available for the BTree Scanner threads and while the later releases also included the superior ALICE Mode Scan mode, it was not as configurable as it is in 11.xx, so you might not be running your BTree Scanner threads in the most efficient manner if you just used the older ONCONFIG file. > > I guess for my second question, what I meant was how do I go about to > configure onbar to go to tape? Judging from your reply, I take it that > if I go TSM, I won't have to configure ISM. Am I right? > Correct. ISM is just a default Storage Manager for shops that are not using any other storage manager. It is a "lite" version of the Veritas Storage Manager with some serious limitations over a full featured SM. > > > On Jan 3, 2:53 pm, Art Kagel <art.ka...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Correct, 11.50 supports AIX 5.3, 11.70 supports only AIX 6.1 officially. > > Will it run on 5.3? Don't know, but not supported. > > > > On your other question... you are not clear. If you are using Tivoli for > > system archives, then probably you will want to be using Tivoli rather > than > > ISM as the storage manager for onbar. > > > > Art > > > > Art S. Kagel > > Advanced DataTools (www.advancedatatools.com) > > IIUG Board of Directors (a...@iiug.org) > > Blog:http://informix-myview.blogspot.com/ > > > > Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that my own opinions are my own opinions > and > > do not reflect on my employer, Advanced DataTools, the IIUG, nor any > other > > organization with which I am associated either explicitly, implicitly, or > by > > inference. Neither do those opinions reflect those of other individuals > > affiliated with any entity with which I am affiliated nor those of the > > entities themselves. > > > > On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Jeremiah <yogensha....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I have two questions, the first one is fairly easy. I was looking at > > > the OS requirements of Informix 11.7 and it shows for AIX, versions > > > 6.1 and 7.1. Am I right in saying that Informix 11.7 won't work in AIX > > > 5.3? > > > > > My second question involves ISM. How do I configure ISM to backup > > > straight to tape? We are using IBM TSM for tape backups. > > > > > Thanks. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Informix-list mailing list > > > Informix-l...@iiug.org > > >http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list >

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Neil Truby — Mon, 3 Jan 2011 22:59:07 -0000 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

"Jeremiah" <yogensha.sql@gmail.com> wrote in message news:371ac05e-0e65-4d6a-941f-91d520da854c@k30g2000vbn.googlegroups.com... >I have two questions, the first one is fairly easy. I was looking at > the OS requirements of Informix 11.7 and it shows for AIX, versions > 6.1 and 7.1. Am I right in saying that Informix 11.7 won't work in AIX > 5.3? It probably will work, but you may have problems getting support from IBM. Given that FC1 is "leading edge" there's some chance that you *will* have problems to report.