Looking at moving large amounts of data from place to place, repeatedly, and
I wondered if you could weigh in on the pros/cons of using HPL. One of my
peers is of the opinion that it's not all that worth while as it requires an
X Windows install etc... and there are better tools ...

Anyone got a copy of the latest CSDK for 32bit Solaris that be
downloaded ?
Please don't say IBM - that part of the site is down:-)
Paul Watson

One of the tenants I've always adhered to when tuning RDBMS is that logfiles
and datafiles should always be on separate physical devices if at all
possible in order to exploit the nature of sequential reads vs. writes.
Is there any reason this strategy should not be applied to an ...

Hi, i need to store "files" (.doc, .pdf, etc.) in an informix database,
the scenario is:
production enviroment: IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.31.FD8 on
SunOS 5.9

Well, isolation levels (specifically serializable) and truncate table
are causing controversy over in comp.databases.oracle.server.
For the thread, try: http://tinyurl.com/yzuxxf
It goes to a 120-character groups.google.com thread.

Eweek has on page 36 of the October 23, 2006 print edition an article titled
"IBM debuts new server type".  It's about a mythical server that will do ETL
built into the "engine", whatever that is.  Sounds like bullsh but who knows.
In the center of the article a highlight box with ...

We are implementing a script to automatically kill off idle application
sessions. The way we identify whether it's idle is by the timestamps
obtained by "onstat -g ntt", and we will use "kill -15" to kill off the
"fglgo" process if the sesion is idle for more than a configured ...

I'm looking for a way to insert MARC21 data in an informix database.
Can anyone help me with this?
thx,
Ben

I have 2 server setups, which slightly differ in specs.
Both servers are IBM x336 with RAID 1 on 2 internal disks with RHEL4
installed(2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp).
Both with IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.UC5

can sombody tell me if I can benefit from PDQ on single processor system ?
According Informix performance guide, multiple treads are started when
when PDQ is used, but can i benefit from this wif one physical processor
is available only ? I am afraid the extra work to manage the ...

IBM talked in the Informix performance guide about DSS and OLTP queries,
but I missed a clear definition of these two types of queries.
Is a join of 2,3 or 4 tables a DSS query already ?
In general I would define a DSS query as complex and long running query,

I thought there was going to be some kind of news/media blitz for Informix 10?
I keep waiting and watching but haven't seen anything but that awful CRN news item.
What happened?

Hi, I'm new to informix.
I am trying to do a common division like
select   2/1
and I get 0.

Now in version 10.FC5, the users can't execute 'select ' from table
syssqlstat. In other version it's posible execute this select , but in
10 version only informix user can execute it.
There is a environ varible for another users ??

Currently running 9.40.FC5 on Solaris 9.  Have been asked to migrate the database.  So I did a complete install on the new remote server also Solaris 9.   I installed 4glrds, 4glid, isql, engine, csdk in that order. I did run the run-as-root scripts following the server install ...