I have two questions, the first one is fairly easy. I was looking at
the OS requirements of Informix 11.7 and it shows for AIX, versions
6.1 and 7.1. Am I right in saying that Informix 11.7 won't work in AIX
5.3?

My second question involves ISM. How do I configure ISM to backup
straight to tape? We are using IBM TSM for tape backups.

Thanks.

Correct, 11.50 supports AIX 5.3, 11.70 supports only AIX 6.1 officially.
Will it run on 5.3? Don't know, but not supported.

On your other question... you are not clear. If you are using Tivoli for
system archives, then probably you will want to be using Tivoli rather than
ISM as the storage manager for onbar.

Art

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On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Jeremiah <yogensha.sql (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

Thank you for the reply. Pardon my lack of knowledge, I'm quite new to
upgrading. Actually, this would be my first time. So if we were to
upgrade from our current version 10, we'd have to upgrade the OS
first? We are currently running IDS 10 in an AIX 5.3 box.

This also brings another (third) question: during an in-place upgrade,
can I copy over the onconfig file to the new location? Would that
cause a problem?

I guess for my second question, what I meant was how do I go about to
configure onbar to go to tape? Judging from your reply, I take it that
if I go TSM, I won't have to configure ISM. Am I right?


On Jan 3, 2:53*pm, Art Kagel <art.ka... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

See below:

Art

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On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Jeremiah <yogensha.sql (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

Everyone was once new at this. ;-)

Yes, you would have to upgrade the OS first if you want to go all the way to
11.70, or perform a complete unload of your current 10.00 databases, upgrade
the OS, install 11.70 fresh, and reload the databases from the exports.
Honestly, while I do have one client that is using 11.70 in production, I do
not currently recommend doing so yet, unless you have a particular need for
some 11.70 feature that is not available in 11.50.FC8 (the current 11.50
release). If you have no such need, I would upgrade to 11.50.FC8 right now
and begin to test 11.70 in a QA/Development environment to make sure that if
there are any new bugs in it that will prevent me from using it down the
road, I can find out quickly and report them to IBM so that they are fixed
in the .xC2 or .xC3 release so I can upgrade to 11.70 in six months or so
when 11.70 has been shaken out a bit more.


You could, however, that is not recommended as you will be missing any new
ONCONFIG parameters that have been introduced since 10.00. I always
recommend that one take a clean copy of the new onconfig.std and manually
update that with all of the important parameter settings from the older
ONCONFIG file, then take a second pass through the newly edited ONCONFIG
file and set up any of the new parameters that you want to take advantage
of. One such example: early releases of 10.00 only had Leaf Scan and Range
Scan modes available for the BTree Scanner threads and while the later
releases also included the superior ALICE Mode Scan mode, it was not as
configurable as it is in 11.xx, so you might not be running your BTree
Scanner threads in the most efficient manner if you just used the older
ONCONFIG file.


Correct. ISM is just a default Storage Manager for shops that are not using
any other storage manager. It is a "lite" version of the Veritas Storage
Manager with some serious limitations over a full featured SM.

"Jeremiah" <yogensha.sql (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote

It probably will work, but you may have problems getting support from IBM.
Given that FC1 is "leading edge" there's some chance that you *will* have
problems to report.