I never said that they sold the marketing list. Just that they were pimping vendor rate. Actually you said "pimping out the IIUG mailing list". Ok,...

Neil Truby

11-06-2009 07:56 PM
Neil Truby

acquire exclusive access by itself.

Andrew Clarke

11-06-2009 07:26 AM
Darren_Jacobs@carmax.com

Hi all, I created a new index ONLINE. Thought that would cause no problems in production. However, one program reported errors: Is this a bug or...

Habichtsberg, Reinhard

11-05-2009 04:41 PM
Andrew Clarke

2010 IIUG Informix Conference April 25-28, 2010 Call for Presentations Deadline Extended to November 15, 2009 Haven't submitted your abstract yet? ...

James Edmiston

11-04-2009 07:20 PM
James Edmiston

Hi all, IDS 11.50.FC5 and IDS 11.50.FC5W2 I tried to start a new replicate with synchronisation. The table holds about 2 Million rows on the...

Habichtsberg, Reinhard

11-04-2009 02:32 PM
david@smooth1.co.uk

Hi while trying to set up a new replicate and working on a very long queue (up to 80.000.000 length whatever) there appear connection errors in the...

Habichtsberg, Reinhard

11-04-2009 10:38 AM
Habichtsberg, Reinhard

Fastest Informix DBA Contest II Congratulations to the new Winners of the Fastest Informix DBA Contest! The results were announce at the IBM IOD...

Lester Knutsen

11-03-2009 07:34 PM
Lester Knutsen

I'm pretty sure the answer to this is no, but thought I'd double check. We are using IDS10.0.FC5. When we unload with either unload or hp loader,...

Floyd Wellershaus

11-03-2009 04:41 PM
Floyd Wellershaus

Old & chine’s new ships iron scrap iron ore ships photos Old-ships for buying used rails iron scraps &...

fvfgfg

11-03-2009 01:52 PM
fvfgfg

I had an email from the IIUG last week asking me to rank various features that could be incorporated into IDS next in terms of very useful;...

Neil Truby

11-02-2009 04:33 AM
Superboer

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 07:36, Art Kagel <art.kagel (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote: It is not something that DB-Access or ISQL has to recognize; it...

Ralf Hackmann

11-01-2009 09:42 PM
Jonathan Leffler

We have to fragment a table now because of nearing the page limit size. Yes we could just change the page size but think at 240million rows, it's...

Floyd Wellershaus

10-31-2009 10:15 PM
Beau Nanaz

Hi Everyone, having fun trying to use Auto Update Statistics. After a call to IBM I registered the correct datablade in sysadmin database so at...

PeterP

10-30-2009 09:03 PM
PeterP

what about startup times of simple things like vi? Is it a machine difference? Longer $PATH or $LD_LIBRARY_PATH with more or less to wade through?...

Andrew Clarke

10-30-2009 05:31 AM
Neil Truby

While running a dbimport the following error ocurred: $time dbimport db1 -d datadbs -i /mnt/ids2_data/20091024 19:10:21 shm_fe.c, line 933, shm...

brenddie

10-29-2009 08:07 PM
brenddie

IDS 10.00.UC8 Solaris 10 Commvault 8.0 We just changed storage managers, moving from Netbackup to Commvault. Our backups and restores run fine when...

Shoeless_Mike

10-29-2009 12:06 PM
Shoeless_Mike

Hi all, IDS 7.31.UD1X4, I know, very old version. Somebody created a tables in an informix database by using the export function of MS Access via...

Habichtsberg, Reinhard

10-29-2009 07:33 AM
Art Kagel

Good morning Informixers. I have uploaded new releases of utils2_ak and myexport and both are available for download in the IIUG Software...

Art Kagel

10-28-2009 09:57 AM
Art Kagel

http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5937406/fulltext.html for those who want to take a look at it. It was awarded in 1999, so the patent is still...

Ian Michael Gumby

10-27-2009 10:53 AM
Ian Michael Gumby

Does anybody know how to get the size and sbspace location of BLOB/ CLOB data using the embedded C functions of ifx_lo_specget_extsz() &...

Mick

10-26-2009 06:22 PM
Nilesh Ozarkar

Guys, Is anyone aware of a limit on the number of select statements that a union view can handle? I have tested a union view with 100 "select *...

fandelau

10-25-2009 10:59 PM
Jacob Salomon

You may have to bring down the engine and then bring it back up using oninit -D, which prevents the replication treads from starting, then you should...

MADS

10-23-2009 09:14 AM
MADS

Would someone please post an example or a pointer to an example of a 4gl makefile. I am having difficulty in getting the global files via VPATH. I...

Randall Young (ADE)

10-23-2009 07:09 AM
Randall Young (ADE)

That sounds like a process-intensive load as opposed to a typical dbimport type of operation. Regardless, 10 seconds per is nuts unless someone can...

Jeremiah Leong

10-22-2009 02:43 PM
david@smooth1.co.uk

We've found two caveats in upgrading. One of them should only affect in place upgrades: Ensure that your rootdbs is big enough to hold the...

Tom Lehr

10-21-2009 04:03 PM
david@smooth1.co.uk

Have you ever tried to figure out how to tune your IDS instance without taking the risk of having an adverse impact on your production servers? Have...

Art Kagel

10-21-2009 11:24 AM
Art Kagel

hold the phone; a plain unload doesn't follow indexes; do you have a WHERE clause on the unload? Regardless of whether the rows are drifting in the...

Bones

10-20-2009 04:54 PM
Fernando Nunes

Hi We have recently upgraded to 11.50.FC5 on Hp-ux 11.31.ia and have problems running level 1 backups When we tried to start a level1 backup 22...

oma

10-16-2009 12:40 AM
oma

No, I don't work for Uncle Mikey, but this headline required further reading. Just wondering if anyone else saw this and what the...

John Carlson

10-15-2009 07:14 PM
Ian Michael Gumby

We have two Informix 9.4 FC7 instances (call them TEST and PROD) that were inherited from a previous management team. As part of our mandate, our...

steven_nospam at Yahoo! Canada

10-14-2009 03:39 PM
Art Kagel

Hi all, I have to start new ER replicates with tables up to 400 Millions rows. I want to avoid to unload/load the tables because I have problems...

Habichtsberg, Reinhard

10-14-2009 06:07 AM
Habichtsberg, Reinhard

change of type - character device (raw), block device (buffered) or cooked (plain file) is determined when the engine starts up, and any performance...

sdhaya

10-13-2009 05:28 PM
Andrew Clarke

I think you will. The SQLIDEBUG output needs to get parsed by a program, sqliprint, and in I know in some versions of the product we included it,...

Tom

10-13-2009 08:59 AM
Tom

2009/10/12 zyrko <zyrko (AT) mailinator (DOT) com>: You need to upgrade to 11.5 as 7.3 is out of support. Ah! you don't have a support contract, how...

zyrko

10-13-2009 08:27 AM
Ian Michael Gumby

We are delighted to invite you to attend the 2009 IDS Roadshow which will be held on 22 – 23 October at IBM Hursley, near Winchester. We've planned...

scottishpoet

10-12-2009 11:38 AM
Ian Michael Gumby

Has anyone taken a serious look at Big Table (Google) or Hadoop and HBase? Love to hear your...

Ian Michael Gumby

10-09-2009 12:47 PM
Ian Michael Gumby

I've seen a bunch of posts where users do archives to disk, THEN encrypt the files and then send them (maybe) to tape, but is there any "direct"...

Pete

10-08-2009 08:07 PM
Doug Lawry

Hi, I have a query regarding client Java application connectivity in HDR Environment. I am using Informix 11.5 with Red Hat Linux 4 update 6 After...

Krishnan Rangachari

10-07-2009 05:11 PM
mpruet

Please, if anybody knows about this question: What do it mean pid = -1 in output from onstat -g ses ? I have an excess of connections from a...

Peternt

10-07-2009 05:05 PM
Fernando Nunes

Prior to the 11 versions, HDR could be setup on a private IP or NIC and you can assign a connections listed in DBSERVERALIASES to handle HDR traffic...

Roy Mercer

10-06-2009 05:09 PM
mpruet

I'm trying to figure out if a program has already created a temporary table or not. Normaly in 4GL you'd do a whenever error continue drop table...

pjfalbe@gmail.com

10-06-2009 05:38 AM
Ian Goddard

This happens very occasionally (annually at worst) while the engine's up and running, some users complain that access is slow for a minute or so but...

Malc

10-05-2009 02:39 PM
david@smooth1.co.uk

Simple question... Anybody doing telemetry using a combination of timeseries and geospatial datablades? Considering an issue of air traffic control...

Ian Michael Gumby

10-05-2009 07:50 AM
Ian Michael Gumby

Currently we have a cron job that checks for the database every 5 minutes, in order to report to us if it is down or hung. The sysalarm program that...

Floyd Wellershaus

10-03-2009 04:35 AM
Doug Lawry

Hi Mark, Yes my question was really do I need to run update stats so that the optimizer will recognize the indices. So you are saying I don't need...

Dave

10-02-2009 10:53 AM
Informix DBA

Ever store the data as ‘regular expressions’ and pass a literal in the sql? Example: I can’t do this: Store StringField as “_SD%� in...

tenesmus

09-30-2009 09:28 PM
Art Kagel

Ok,color me silly, but I have to ask... 7.x original Online code stream. 8.x XPS code stream 9.x Illustra code stream. 10.x Blending of 7 and 9 11.x...

Ian Michael Gumby

09-30-2009 07:21 PM
Neil Truby

You can read the full article here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/29/tpc_slaps_oracle/ But what was interesting was the following quote: "Big...

Ian Michael Gumby

09-29-2009 08:58 PM
Ian Michael Gumby

So I was under the impression if you run a query that requires implicit sorting and needs temp space, and you have nothing set in the environment...

Floyd Wellershaus

09-29-2009 09:08 AM
Floyd Wellershaus

we have Informix database on Redhat LINUX server. Due to primary DBA off, I need temporary take care the Database. My questions are: 1. how to...

aaa

09-28-2009 07:24 AM
Floyd Wellershaus