OS: HP-UX 11i v1 (11.11)
DB: IDS 9.40.HC5
We just moved from IDS 7.31.UD6 last weekend (please don't ask why we
were still on 7.31.UD6). Since the upgrade, we've had problems with

I'm trying to get terminfo to work with Informix SE 7.25.UC6 running on
Slackware Linux 9.1.  Slackware has terminfo installed in
/usr/share/terminfo and I've set INFORMIXTERM=terminfo, but if I try to
start dbaccess with TERM=wyse60 it says "The type of your terminal is

I am using Four J´s BDL to compile and run my informix based programs.
 OS: Windows XP Professional Edition
 When i send a report to a dot matrix printer, the printer appends an empty sheet of paper at the end of the report.
 In my reports i use a page length of  66 lines ...

I am looking for some advice on how to tune TAPEBLK and LTAPEBLK when
using disk devices for TAPEDEV and LTAPEDEV. Is there any reason to
move away from the default of 32KB and match the values to the block
size of my filesystem, i.e. 8KB?

Doing a simple "ontape -s" and getting the following -
"function write to tape failed code -1 errno 16"
Anyone know what that means?
Permissions are OK, I can tar/untar from the tape device as user  

I have question about CPU utilization. My system is a HP UX 11.11 with
IDS 10.00.FC5. I heard once IDS is well configured if you have
usercpu/syscpu relation of >= 4 in onstat -p.
Today I checked my instance and I found a relation of 2 only. My

I am running Informix 7.31.FD7
I would like to do an inline select.  I found the SQL syntax for
informix as:
SELECT * FROM TABLE(MULTISET(SELECT * FROM mytable))

I'm working on the migration of a database from Informix to SQL Server
2000 and I have a question I hope someone can give me the answer.
I need to change some data types, and I'm using "datetime YEAR to
MONTH" in Informix and I don't know how to change it to SQL Server

A new website is up and running which might be of interest
for the Informix user community:
http://www.informix-zone.com
If you are interested, you can operate your own blog at "The Informix

I'm running compiled 4GL version 7.32 UC3 on Linux and when I try to
execute a 4ge program I get the following error:
Program stopped at "program.4gl", line number 40.
SQL statement error number -329.

I tried to migrate database from ids73 to ids10,
I can not move data from ids73 to ids10 by INSERT ... SELECT statement.
the steps that I done list below :
(source host)

Wondering if there is a way to script a backup operation for specific tables
as opposed to an entire database?
Our scenario involves backups being written to a tape drive.
We would wish to backup a couple of tables to tape and then restore if a job

We have been told by Sarbanes Oxley to tighten up our database permissions
(ie revoke DBA from public !) and I have granted resource to all users for
each individual database. I have also granted ALL on each table in each
database to public. My problem now is that the application is ...

Dear,
So far I beleived that raw device offers far better performance over
cooked files.
recently, I had the opportunity to install 2 instances on the same

We are having problems with onabr and Veritas NetBackup. Our logical
logs are bing backed up to tape just fine but when we try to kick off a
level 0 on the Database, nothing gets written to the log.xxx file and
the onbar command immediately comes back to screen and no messages.