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Informix Error -32198: Not an OnLine/Secure root chunk.

Cause and resolution

Not an OnLine/Secure root chunk.

Modify the ONCONFIG file to refer to a rootdbs that an OnLine/Secure database server created.

Oninit® Troubleshooting Guidance

Reasons / Common Causes

-32198 fires when the ONCONFIG file's rootdbs setting doesn't refer to a root chunk an OnLine/Secure database server created — per the official guidance.

  1. ONCONFIG's rootdbs points to a chunk not created by an OnLine/Secure database server, per the official guidance — the direct, only cause.
Solutions / Resolution
  1. Modify ONCONFIG to refer to a rootdbs that an OnLine/Secure database server created, per the official guidance.
Examples
N/A

No specific triggering statement is documented beyond ONCONFIG pointing to a non-OnLine/Secure root chunk.

Diagnostic Checks
  1. Confirm the rootdbs chunk referenced in ONCONFIG was created by an OnLine/Secure database server.
Related Errors / Related Topics
  • -32197 — "Not an OnLine/Secure tape." A related OnLine/Secure-origin error, on a restore tape rather than the ONCONFIG rootdbs chunk.

ONCONFIG's rootdbs setting pointed to a chunk not created by an OnLine/Secure database server — point it to one that was.