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RE: S.O.S....Upgrade from 11.50.FC9W2X8 to 12.....

Posted By: Ekstrand, Pamela A. -ND
Date: Friday, 4 September 2015, at 2:57 p.m.

What about permissions on the oninit binary? Do they look like:

-rwsr-sr--. 1 root informix 25199626 Jun 8 17:18 oninit

We have had a similar issue when these were not correct.

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From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [ids-bounces@iiug.org] on behalf of Paul Watson [paul@oninit.com]
Sent: Friday, September 4, 2015 2:50 PM
To: ids@iiug.org
Subject: Re: S.O.S....Upgrade from 11.50.FC9W2X8 to 12..... [35728]

you seeing any missing files issues in the online.log when starting?
Missing hosts.equiv files etc ?

Cheers
Paul

> Hi Guys!
>
> I have just upgraded from AIX 6.1 to AIX 7.1....and I had also upgraded=
> IDS
> from 11.50.FC9W2X8 after the OS upgrade to IDS12.10.FC4W1 on AIX 7.1. =
> I
> can swear before the upgrade last year or 1 1/2 years ago that I went
> through that same drill or upgrade process but from IDS11.50.FC9W2X8 TO=
>
> IDS12.10.FC4W1 and that on AIX6.1 and that all my connections were
> checked ,were working fine and succeeded.
> Now, after the upgrade of IDS12.10.FC4W1 on AIX 7.1 to IDS12.10.FC4W1, =
> all
> hell broke loose. Not sure who is the culprit yet.
>
> I am noticing that going to dbaccess
> dbaccess <dbname> takes you straight to the query tool for a specific =
> user
> or any users that have connect rights and then querying and connecting =
> the
> database is successful. (no need to enter id/passwd)
>
> However if you do for the same user(s)
> dbaccess
> --connection
> --connect
> --select database server
> --user name (provide)
> --password (provide)
> then hit enter , you get the 951:incorrect or user johndoe@hostname i=
> s
> not known on the database server
>
> That is the same scenario for Ilogin, setnet32 and odbc connections...t=
> hey
> will all fail at authentication but if you do dbaccess follow by the
> database name, logon as any of those users that failed above at the un=
> ix
> level it works fine ( dbaccess <dbname> as any users).
>
> The same users are able to access databases that are on 11.50.FC9W2X8 o=
> n
> those same AIX 7.1 servers where they are failing to connect with IDS12=
> ..1,
> whether from odbc connections or at the back end unix level through
> dbaccess or batch.
>
> Another interesting point is that , informix id or any other unix id t=
> hat
> belongs to the DBA group have no issues to connect with all the scenari=
> os
> stated above.
>
> Please help! A PMR has already been opened with IBM.....no clues as to=
> why
> yet.
>
> Regards,
>
> jp
>
> =
>
>
>
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  • RE: S.O.S....Upgrade from 11.50.FC9W2X8 to 12.....
    jpierrot@chubb.com -- Friday, 4 September 2015, at 3:13 p.m.
    • RE: S.O.S....Upgrade from 11.50.FC9W2X8 to 12.....
      Mike Walker -- Friday, 4 September 2015, at 3:30 p.m.
      • RE: S.O.S....Upgrade from 11.50.FC9W2X8 to 12.....
        jpierrot@chubb.com -- Friday, 4 September 2015, at 3:42 p.m.
        • RE: S.O.S....Upgrade from 11.50.FC9W2X8 to 12.....
          Mike Walker -- Friday, 4 September 2015, at 3:59 p.m.
          • RE: S.O.S....Upgrade from 11.50.FC9W2X8 to 12.....
            jpierrot@chubb.com -- Friday, 4 September 2015, at 4:07 p.m.
            • RE: S.O.S....Upgrade from 11.50.FC9W2X8 to 12.....
              Mike Walker -- Friday, 4 September 2015, at 4:31 p.m.

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