Help I am bewildered by something I've done a million times.
I am working on upgrading in aix from ids 10 to 11.5.
Trying to do a quick ontape of a small instance before upgrading.
I am in my old INFORMIXDIR ( the 10 version )
I set the ONCONFIG to a directory and file for TAPEDEV.
I chown informix:informix and chmod 660 ( tried 666, 777 etc.. ) to the file.

No matter what I do, even if Informix owns the directory, whenever I issue the ontape command ontape -s -L 0, it I keep gettting:
could not write archive tape.

What the heck is going on !! It's got to be something so overwhelmingly simple that I am brain farting on.

I have installed the 11.5 software, but I am not pointing to it at all, and can't see how that can affect this, but who knows.

Thanks.

On 3 March 2010 13:49, Floyd Wellershaus <floyd (AT) fwellers (DOT) com> wrote:
Floyd

Double check your environment, INFORMIXDIR, INFORMIXSERVER,
INFORMIXSQLHOSTS, ONCONFIG and PATH.

Keith

Thanks.
Already did all of that. Everything is pointing to IDS10.
That's what's so weird about this.




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Sent: Wed, March 3, 2010, 8:58 AM
Subject: Re: can't get ontape to work

On 3 March 2010 13:49, Floyd Wellershaus wrote:

"Floyd Wellershaus" <floyd (AT) fwellers (DOT) com> wrote

Thanks.
Already did all of that. Everything is pointing to IDS10.
That's what's so weird about this.

As user informix please could you:

onstat -c | grep TAPEDEV

to confirm the full path to the archive file then:

ls -l <path>
ls -lL <path>

Problem solved.
It was the TAPEBLK parameter. It was set to a real high number.
I changed it to 64 and it works.
Told you it would be something stupid. >;grin

Floyd,

Make sure that INFORMIXDIR, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and PATH are all pointing to
the same (ie the older) INFORMIXDIR location.

Art

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On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Floyd Wellershaus <floyd (AT) fwellers (DOT) com>wrote: