Hi.

Installed Informixs directories (/opt/informix/.....) must be owned by "informix" user, as well as files into them. This happens because some internal jobs are scheduled by "informix" user.

If you just chage ownership to directory  "/opt/infor1" it should work fine.

Greetings.

"Is there no other software vendor left that bets on Informix and is willing to talk about it ?"

Well searching for "hp dl980 informix" brings up http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA3-8848ENW.pdf which mentions Informix being replaced by MS SQL Server due to

1. "“We had serious challenges getting the .NET platform to interoperate properly and effectively with an Informix or Oracle database,"

What? and IBM didn't help them?

2. "“Demands on our system were going up while costs were rising and efficiency was going down,”

OK if comparing against an IBM p595 but IBM didn't benchmark on the HP DL980? Offer the normal discounts?

3. "One reason is that Microsoft .NET is optimized to use Microsoft SQL server with native calls—with no additional TCP layer or communications layer."

So do Microsoft not allow other vendor to integrate without an extra communications layer? Is that not anti-competitive behaviour?

So IBM, what happened to this sale?

I got an error when input the command onstat -m, below is the output:

shared memory not initialized for INFORMIXSERVER 'ol_ids_1150_1'

Message Log File: C:\PROGRA~1\IBM\IBMINF~1\11.50\ol_ids_1150_1.log

Thread(7, main_loop(), 0, 1)

File: rspartn.c Line: 9431

15:08:29 Results: Chunk 1 is being taken OFFLINE.

15:08:29 Action: For all spaces other than temporary dbspaces, restore the space containing the chunk from the archive. If this chunk belongs to a temporary dbspace and if it is not the only chunk in that dbspace, then drop and re-create the chunk. Otherwise drop and re-create the temporary dbspace.

15:08:30 stack trace for pid 2388 written to C:\PROGRA~1\IBM\IBMINF~1\11.50\tmp

\af.3ef056c

15:08:40 See Also: C:\PROGRA~1\IBM\IBMINF~1\11.50\tmp\af.3ef056c

15:08:43 Releasing server from system block

15:08:49 chunk failed sanity check

15:08:51 chunk failed sanity check

15:08:51 I/O error, Primary Chunk 'C:\IFMXDATA\ol_ids_1150_1\rootdbs_dat.000' -

- Offline (sanity)

15:08:51 oninit: Fatal error in shared memory initialization

15:08:51 IBM Informix Dynamic Server Stopped.

May I know what is going on to my Informix? Any clue would be appreciated.

Hello Eric

The chat is 10:30 AM US Central Time is 17:30 our time (Central European Summer Time (GMT+2))

Claus 

Hello Mr Eherber!

I´m in Brazil, and I would like to obtain this material, so that I could translate it, is there any possibility for you to send it

to me? Or could you maybe send me any english text about this, please?

Thanks a lot! Best regards!

Informix story - IBM dont want to push it and people are not asking for it.

Thank you for the feedback on IOD 2011 in Mumbai.

IBM still doesn't understand that it is a great thing to have two databases to compete against Oracle and when to use the one or the other. Everything is focused on DB2 with still very moderate success outside of the SAP area.

If IBM would have invested the same marketing power that they spend in DB2 for Informix during the last 10 years, they would surely own a bigger part of the Unix/Windows database business as they do today. The problem is that there are a lot of guys in good positions at IBM that build their career on DB2 and they don't want to see Informix succeed.

Things are getting better, but IBM is still far away from an equal treatment of DB2 and Informix (:-

I have been trying to do some stuff on Ubuntu Linux.  However, some files/commands you use just don't exist there.

For example: rc.status, rc_status, rc_reset, rc_failed.

Are there equivalents to these in Ubuntu?  If I know what they do I could emulate them or decide to do without them altogether.

Suggestions?

Thanks

A paper describing the IDS benefits for Centric iSolutions' can be found here:

ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/common/ssi/ecm/en/imc14147gben/IMC14147GBEN.PDF

Hi Eric,

Thanks for keeping a summary of the Informix 11.7 press coverage.  You are making life too easy for our PR folks! 

Here are a few more I found that you can add to the list:

Reuters - http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS135238+13-Oct-2010+PRN20101013

Centre Daily Times - IBM Helps Organizations Boost Business Performance With New ...

??????C????????.?? - IBM ??????????? ??????????? ??????????? Informix 11.7

Regards,

Sally

Try to google for "ibm informix international competency center"

and the very first result starts with:

"The IBM Oracle International Competency Center is located..."

Yeah - this is way to advertise!