I seek for an abstract about the new features and advantages of IDS 10 over
IDS 9.40FC4. Would be glad about any advice.
TIA,
Reinhard.

I have a couple of questions on locks on sysprocplan. I came across
several threads in this newsgroup where this has been previously
discussed but just want to confirm some of the facts stated in those
threads and my own conclusions based on what I read in those threads.

I went to http://montana.informatics.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/fsi/fsi.cgi -- to
detect whether text was written by a human or machine generated. I grabbed
the first page out of the Informix roadmap here:
ftp://ftp.software.ibm ...

I have gone through the posts since 1997/8 and it seems that it was
strongly advised to avoid running multiple instances on the same box,
some very educational replies by Art S Kagel. This also seems to be the
advice of Informix in its performance tuning manual.

I'm trying to move some 4GL programs from SCO to Linux.  The SCO
version that is currently running the compiled .4ge programs is
Informix 4GL 7.20 UD6.  I've copied the .4ge programs to my Linux box
which is running Informix 4GL 7.32.UC3, but I can't run any of the

For those interested, I created a SchemaProvider for CodeSmith that uses the Informix .NET Provider.  Tested with IDS 9.4 and CSDK 2.9.  Source can be found here:
http://community.codesmithtools.com/files/9/schemaproviders/entry12998.aspx
CodeSmith is a great tool for generating  ...

I am trying my first ontape restore (no emergency just learning).
Steps:
level 0 ontape -s
dropped my database and dbspace that the database was on

I find in the /proc directory in our Sun Solaris Box lot of folders
starting with a number.
dr-x--x--x   5 informix informix     736 Apr 24 14:49 601
( I see around 72 directories with different numbers)

   somebody knows if Informix have a searchs phonetic ?
Cristiano Torres

I am wondering if it is considered best practice by many to use Archecker to verify Onbar backups.
I've never used it before. Is it worth the resources it uses on the system ( ie, a tape drive, database and system resources) ?
Also, I notice that it does the equivelent of oncheck ...

Currently we have our application running on a Windows 2000 Server
using Informix 9.3. We have around 12 Disks and the dbspaces are
distributed across these disks. The Dbspace path are as follows :-
42b68918 1   1   0        128000   73422             PO-

I'm having trouble understanding grant/revoke on my informix database.
I'm logged onto the server as a "regular" user -- fred.
Vw_rim_department is a simple view that pulls two columns out of a
table.  I'm in DBAccess, and I give the following statement:

 I'm am working on integrating what was a standalone IDS 9.40 on
Solaris system in a remote office to new location in a large office
where there is an enterprise backup system installed (the IT managers
don't want to spend the big bucks for the Informix add-on because the

select stab.tabname Parent,
      scol.colname Primary_key,
      sstab.tabname Child,
      sscol.colname Child_key

Hi, i'm using the IBM Informix ODBC driver v. 2.90 to connect to
informix server. I have this two test procedures; the only differenc
is that the second returns a value:
CREATE PROCEDURE sp_Test1()