archecker unsupported in IDS 7.31?
Dear Informixers, I'm having trouble finding any info about the archecker program for IDS 7.31. It is there, but undocumented. Does this mean it is absolutely unsupported for this version of IDS? I thought I'd check in this newsgroup first before trying to argue with our support vendor. Regards, Richard
Hi, yes, you are right. It is not officially supported in 7.31. In 7.31 the use of the tool is "by advice and guidance of IBM Informix Tech Support" or possibly your support vendor. Before you actually "argue" with your support vendor, try to get their support for archecker by just asking (nicley). It may make them more willing ... Chances are they'll be reading this e-mail anyway. :) Regards, Martin -- Martin Fuerderer IBM Informix Development Munich, Germany Information Management informix-list-bounces@iiug.org wrote on 09.01.2007 14:31:56: > Dear Informixers, > > I'm having trouble finding any info about the archecker program for IDS 7.31. > It is there, but undocumented. Does this mean it is absolutely unsupported for > this version of IDS? > > I thought I'd check in this newsgroup first before trying to argue with our > support vendor. > > Regards, Richard > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list
Martin Fuerderer <MARTINFU@de.ibm.com> schrieb: >Before you actually "argue" with your support vendor, >try to get their support for archecker by just asking (nicley). >It may make them more willing ... >Chances are they'll be reading this e-mail anyway. :) Of course you are right, I would have asked VERY nicely as a first try. However, it looks like it will not be necessary after all. What I really needed was a table-level restore like it is well documented for IDS 10. However, it turned out that the backup containing the possibly deleted rows (it is uncertain if they ever existed in the first place) has long expired and was overwritten, so the whole attempt would have been futile anyway. There was a utility (written by June Tong if I remember correctly) called "arcunload" that enabled ascii table dumps using archecker technology, but that isn't available for my version of IDS (7.31UD8 on Linux). I was hoping that maybe the IDS 7.31 archecker could somehow be tweaked to achieve something like a table level restore. Regards, Richard