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Serge

Hi 2 All,
I am new to INFORMIX database.
I am using INFORMIX 9.4 database in HP-UX System.
I have few questions, Please clarify those questions for me :

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I wonder if you guys have a standard way of  dealing with the
following problem which is not very likely to happen but
gives you problems in batch jobs running on a regular basis:

So when is 11.5 Stable enough to use?
Perhaps that should read - When is 11.5 stable enough to feel safe to
use.
Knowing a bit about the bugs in early versions, I'm wondering how 11.5

We are doing a port over from a sqlanywhere database to informix. Many rows.
In sqlanywhere, the datetime year to fraction function yields 6 integers for the fraction, but in our informix database only takes 3.
So, I'm trying to parse a line like this:

I am trying to update a record and I am getting ISAM error 105 bad file
format.  I have tried to delete the record and get the same error.  Any help
would be appreciated.

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tes.htm

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Hi 2 All,
I want to install INFORMIX 9.4.0 FC8 on HP-UX 11i System.
I was not able to find any documents for the installation.
Could anyone please tell me the step-by-step procedure for

I am trying to subtract a datetime field with now(current), and like to see
something like
i.e. 6.56 days
round((interval(0) minute(9) to minute  + (extend(current, year to minute) -

Anyone having any problems installing IDS 11.5?
I'm using RHEL 5 Update 1.
First if all the install script wouldn't run at all, barfing with a "Java
class error" when trying to run JRE bundled with IDS.

i m new in informix.i would like to create a report, which show record
by hourly.
i trying to do a query by group by hour. But i fail to find any
method.

I've been stuck all day long with something I thought it would be easy
to do.
I'm using MS Enterprise Library and C# (.net 3.5) to retrieve some
data from informix (via OleDB). If I create a statement like

I am not sure what has happened but over the last week we went from
zero complaints about speed to a lot of complaints.  No app changes.
The DB Server is a Sun V490 with 24 FC 15k drives configured as Raid
10.

Database is Informix Online 9.40 on a Sun Solaris machine, connecting from a
windows XP client machine with SDK 3.00.TC3 installed (.net provider).
Using visual studio 2008; can successfully connect to the database and
populate a dataset, but cannot flush changes in the dataset ...