Previously in these hallowed halls I have queried the values for user
and sys cpu as reported by sysmaster.  The documentation says that it
reports minutes but I have proved that it is seconds.
The today I hit another "strange effect".  I have been trying to look

In Informix F1-F64 Function keys are there.
If in options insert key F36 is used , then which function key is going
to be used for this operation?
What is the purpose of all these function keys is only F1-F12 only

I have some chunks DOWN within my Instance in IDS 7.3. When an instance
has any chunkd down it does not let me do backups at a Instance level
using ontape command. I have some doubts:
-Is it possible to put it online again and recover it? I tried it using

4GL run-time error number -4518.
The 4GL program cannot allocate any more space for temporary
string storage.
what to do reg this erro

I know I couldn't apply to this, but just to know (If you are allowed to
share this information):
- How much get paid a job like this?
J.

regarding lock mode wait behavior, if i set lock mode wait to 10 - does
informix wait for 10 before re-trying it or does it keep hitting it
repeatedly up to the count of 10 ?
thanks,

IDS 10.0FC3 on Solaris 2.9
This is a brand new server which we are preparing to migrate a v9 system to.
Over the past few weeks I have run multiple dbimports from more-or-less the
same data source - certainly the same schema - but the import time varies

I've constructed below after researching  from the cdi archive.
Initially it worked for a small db and now it fails for larger.
dbexport
mknod /tmp/test p

IDS 7.31 UD4
SCO Unix 3.2 5.0.6
In the syscdr db are two tables "trg_receive_sbuf" and "trg_receive_stxn"
which contains only on one server (we have 12 server in ER)

My group is considering using ISM for archiving our XPS 8.5 instances.  I'd
like to configure it so the archives are written to disk and I can run a
filesystem backup to store the images to tape.  
Does anyone have any experience using this product who could give me some

I intuitively understand what this message in online.log means,
<>11:02:56  chunk reserve page extent is allocated from non-root chunk:
(51:13292,42)
11:02:56  chunk reserve page extent is allocated from non-root chunk:

I usually use MS SQL Server, but am working on a project where I also
have to integrate with a legacy Informix box.  I do not have write
priveleges to the Informix box, just read only, so I cannot create a
stored procedure.  Basically what I want to do is insert text into my

IDS 9.40 on Suse Linux SLES8.
We backup IDS to disk using onbar and ISM. We then backup the whole Linux
disk using cpio.  And we have recovered this configuration to the same
physical machine in the past.  We are now trying to "clone" the machine for

I'm trying to get the media for Informix SE on AIX.  Unfortunately I can't
get it from Passport Advantage.  I've looked on the IBM Partner "Value Pack"
website and can download v7.25UC4 as the most recent available.  But I have
some CDs here sent to us 2 years ago or so that 7 ...

It could impact the "KAIO disabled" performance which
was mentioned in the backup and restore comments.
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