Informix on VM
I was wondering if anyone has ever created or seen a document that describes best practices for running Informix 11.x (specifically 11.7) on a virtual machine. I'm wondering if there are any "must-dos"...
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My take: Best practice for running Informix on VM: Don't. Unless the server will be very low throughput or you have TONS of real physical RAM to assign to the VM just don't. IO performance on VMs is...
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At least you could hollow out a chopstick and make a straw :) But you made an interesting point about the i/o throughput because we do seem to suffer a little bit in the i/o performance area. But once...
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Thanks Marcus, your response really helps :) in fact i would like to work on informix on my own, and i was wondering how to start if a client contact me for a new informix platform...
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John: Here's a link that describes the various editions of Informix: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/library/techarticle/dm-0801doe/ Art Art S. Kagel, Principal Consultant ASK Database...
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Hi, I f it is for yourself only, get a developer edition, which is limited in data size but has almost all features. Alternative can be an Innovator-C edition, which is limited mostly for memory usage...
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Hi Bill, We run Informix Servers on VM's here. Looking at one of our busier ones, OAT tells me we have around 40,000 SQL operations/second. Not really sure if that's high :) We have Redhat Linux 5,...
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I can add to that. We have a system based on the FEDERAL Electronic Court. We have 4 servers in ZVM each running about 10 - 12 courts /instances. Usage and I/O is negligible and we use cooked files....
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Oh yeah, I forgot to add, these are Suse 11.2/3 based with 8GB ram allocated to each. On 01/29/2014 05:55 PM, Ben Duncan wrote: > I can add to that. > > We have a system based on the FEDERAL...
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The closest I was to a Linux VM environment with a (future) production database, the reason why I was called was I/O. Customer already had a storage supplier's report saying the system could not handle...
View ArticleUTF-8 encoding support in Informix 11.10
Hi I am using IDS 11.10 and want to implement Indian regional language support at 4GL and database level. Does IDS 11.10 supports Indian Regional Languages (Hindi, Marathi etc.), if yes how to...
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Hi Everyone, IDS 11.70.FC7W3X3 O/S AIX 6.1 I have a scenario in which I have 3 servers in RSS replication, rss1 is the "primary" where the other 2 get their changes from rss2 is a replicate of rss1...
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What you have to do is to promote RSS2 to be an HDR secondary then from HDR to primary. An RSS can't go directly to primary. You really should be running RSS2 as an HDR secondary normally with RSS3 as...
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You need to set DB_LOCALE=en_us.utf8 CLIENT_LOCALE = EN_US.UTF8 Then create a database in dbaccess. In your client side too you will need set the locales. I had tried with Japanese and Chinese...
View Articlesmart blob metadata space is not being released
IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.70.FC5 We have a database where we keep one year's worth of transaction logs. The data spaces are fragmented by month so on the first of each month I detach last...
View ArticleHelp with dbcopy/dbmove
Hi all! I'm trying to move some tables with Blob fields (stored in sbspaces) from an 11.50FC9 (HP-UX) to 12.10FC2(Linux). I've tried to use dbcopy and dbmove from the last utils2_ak package, but, in...
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Luis: Bad news, dbcopy has never been extended to handle smart blobs, it only handles TEXT and BYTE type blobs. Dbmove, because it basically uses INSERT INTO .... SELECT FROM, cannot be used to move...
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