IDS 10 Setup Suggestions

Hi All, Please guys give me suggestion if this IDS setup of mine if it will work fine, - Am installing IDS 10.00,UC4 on suse linux 10, - My primary chunks are lying on my xseries IMB servers, they are actually symbolic links pointing to the actual harddrives on the /dev - My Mirror chunks are lying on a network storage device (netapp) I don't have a temp dbspace, what do i use for this? can i point any dbspace to be a temp dbspace, and what will be the impact for this? I would also want to point my tape backup and logical backups to a /dev/null, though if try this ontape -a complains that it can't backup on /dev/null .. any suggestions? Will this setup perform perfectly? Paul.

If you have LTAPEDEV set to /dev/null, there is no need to do "ontape -a". Bob Roussey Unix / Informix Administration Spirit Airlines Robert.Roussey@SpiritAir.com -----Original Message----- From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of PAUL GATHOGO Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 11:49 AM To: ids@iiug.org Subject: IDS 10 Setup Suggestions [8911] Hi All, Please guys give me suggestion if this IDS setup of mine if it will work fine, - Am installing IDS 10.00,UC4 on suse linux 10, - My primary chunks are lying on my xseries IMB servers, they are actually symbolic links pointing to the actual harddrives on the /dev - My Mirror chunks are lying on a network storage device (netapp) I don't have a temp dbspace, what do i use for this? can i point any dbspace to be a temp dbspace, and what will be the impact for this? I would also want to point my tape backup and logical backups to a /dev/null, though if try this ontape -a complains that it can't backup on /dev/null .. any suggestions? Will this setup perform perfectly? Paul. ************************************************************************ ******* Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum.

paul check below Giri On 4/16/07, PAUL GATHOGO <pgathogo@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > Please guys give me suggestion if this IDS setup of mine if it will work > fine, > > - Am installing IDS 10.00,UC4 on suse linux 10, > - My primary chunks are lying on my xseries IMB servers, they are actually > symbolic links pointing to the actual harddrives on the /dev Make sure chunks owned by Informix:informix, and 660 permissions. - My Mirror chunks are lying on a network storage device (netapp) as long as you have better I/O i do not see any issue there I don't have a temp dbspace, what do i use for this? can i point any dbspace > to be a temp dbspace, and what will be the impact for this? You can't keep temp dbspace with any dbspace, while creating dbspace you need to specify is it temp db space or regular one. to take advantage of temp space it must be created as temp dbspace and check dbspace name is registered in ONCONFIG "DBSPACETMP" see below example DBSPACETEMP tempdbs1,tempdbs2 I would also want to point my tape backup and logical backups to a > /dev/null, > though if try this ontape -a complains that it can't backup on /dev/null > .. > any suggestions? if you are not planning to rollback or implementing onbar thats fine Will this setup perform perfectly? Paul. > > > > ******************************************************************************* > Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum. > > -- Giri Raju

Points: 1. If you archive to /dev/null you throw away any possibility of recovering from problems. Expect the unexpected. I suppose if this is just a sandbox server it's not so bad, but even so I wouldn't want to lose the latest on-the-fly schema changes I made 5 minutes before the server crashed. 2. Temp dbspaces: You can put any dbspace into the DBSPACETEMP list, however, normal dbspaces can only be used for logged temp tables, unlogged temp tables must be placed in to actual 'temp' dbspaces created by onspaces with the '-t' flag. You normally want both regular and temp dbspaces configures in DBSPACETEMP so neither of these temp table classes ends up in the ROOT dbspace. Art S. Kagel ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Gathogo <ids@iiug.org> At: 4/16 11:49:49 Hi All, Please guys give me suggestion if this IDS setup of mine if it will work fine, - Am installing IDS 10.00,UC4 on suse linux 10, - My primary chunks are lying on my xseries IMB servers, they are actually symbolic links pointing to the actual harddrives on the /dev - My Mirror chunks are lying on a network storage device (netapp) I don't have a temp dbspace, what do i use for this? can i point any dbspace to be a temp dbspace, and what will be the impact for this? I would also want to point my tape backup and logical backups to a /dev/null, though if try this ontape -a complains that it can't backup on /dev/null .. any suggestions? Will this setup perform perfectly? Paul. ******************************************************************************* Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum.

You should have a temp dbspace, it is setup as a temp dbspace using onspaces -t. I thought I remember reading you should have more than one. If you don't sorts (and probably other stuff) occur on /tmp. I can't comment on putting a mirrored space on a NAS device, but it doesn't feel right. John Moore -----Original Message----- From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Robert Roussey(IT) Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 8:56 AM To: ids@iiug.org Subject: RE: IDS 10 Setup Suggestions [8913] If you have LTAPEDEV set to /dev/null, there is no need to do "ontape -a". Bob Roussey Unix / Informix Administration Spirit Airlines Robert.Roussey@SpiritAir.com -----Original Message----- From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of PAUL GATHOGO Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 11:49 AM To: ids@iiug.org Subject: IDS 10 Setup Suggestions [8911] Hi All, Please guys give me suggestion if this IDS setup of mine if it will work fine, - Am installing IDS 10.00,UC4 on suse linux 10, - My primary chunks are lying on my xseries IMB servers, they are actually symbolic links pointing to the actual harddrives on the /dev - My Mirror chunks are lying on a network storage device (netapp) I don't have a temp dbspace, what do i use for this? can i point any dbspace to be a temp dbspace, and what will be the impact for this? I would also want to point my tape backup and logical backups to a /dev/null, though if try this ontape -a complains that it can't backup on /dev/null ... any suggestions? Will this setup perform perfectly? Paul. ************************************************************************ ******* Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum. **************************************************************************** *** Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum.