Re: Multiple customers on same machine

In article <4goe14$o1m@news.informix.com>, dennisp@informix.com (Dennis Pimple) wrote: >Bill Glidden (glidden@informix.com) wrote: >: Clay Irving (clay@panix.com) wrote: >: : Pluses: - better resource utilization >: : - easier archiving >: : - continuouse archive of logical logs possible >: : Minuses: - if the database crashes, all customers crash >: : - restoring an archive in a catastrophic failure, restores >: : all customer to point of failure. > >Another thought is that I think there's still a restriction that forces >database names to be unique in an instance of OnLine, so having > 1 >customer in a single instance you're going to have to maintain >different database names, which will impact the 4GL source code. We used to run seperate instances just because of the had multiple databases with the same name. We've since started reading the name from an environment variable. This allowed us to switch to one engine. Take it from someone who's been there, USE ONE ENGINE. Gary Mitchell mitch@lexmark.com