Initialize Dynamic Server 10.0

If you just installed Dynamic Server as user root, you must switch to user informix before initializing the server.

Dynamic Server 10.0 writes to the logical logs with the transactions that result from creating the sysmaster database. If you run out of log space before the creation of the sysmaster database is complete, Dynamic Server 10.0 halts and indicates that you must back up the logical logs. After you back up the logical logs, the database server can finish building the sysmaster database. You cannot use ON–Bar to back up the logical logs because the database has not been converted yet. If you have ALARMPROGRAM set to log_full.sh in the ONCONFIG configuration file, errors are generated as each log file fills during the conversion. Set the value of ALARMPROGRAM to either nothing or no_log.sh so that these errors are not generated. If your logical log does fill up during the conversion, you need to back it up with ontape, the only backup tool you can use at this point. Issue the ontape -a command.

Bring Dynamic Server 10.0 online for the first time by executing oninit on UNIX or by using the Service control application on Windows. For instructions, see the IBM Informix: Dynamic Server Administrator's Guide.

As Dynamic Server 10.0 comes online for the first time, it modifies certain disk structures. This operation should extend the initialization process by only a minute or two. In the unlikely event that your disks cannot accommodate the growth in disk structures, you will find a message in the message-log file that instructs you to run oncheck on a table. The oncheck utility will tell you that you need to rebuild an index. You should rebuild the index as instructed.