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RE: IDS 9.4 on XP Pro

Posted By: Guy .
Date: Thursday, 16 February 2006, at 11:34 a.m.

In Response To: RE: IDS 9.4 on XP Pro (Paul Watson)

> I've IDS on my XP laptop and it works fine, but you can' install the some of
> the blades and that makes it a non-starter for me

Is this because you are using blades which are not supported on Windows or because of other known or unknown problems?

Guy

Paul Watson <paul@oninit.com> wrote:

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On
> Behalf Of Jean George....
> Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 7:39 AM
> To: ids@iiug.org
> Subject: RE: IDS 9.4 on XP Pro [6403]
>
>
> I used 9.4 (the distribution from the IIUG download site) on
> a Windows XP
> laptop for a while, it worked really fine, except when hibernating /
> standy'ing the computer, I needed to relaunch it.
>
> I had a similar pb with 9.3 on XP, where I actually broke the
> install and
> created all the spaces by hand.
>
> Here is an abstract of a document I wrote on that:
>
> ----
>
> 4.3.2.2 Creating the DbSpace
>
> Thus the database engine is running, as the automatic
> installation process
> failed, there is no other DbSpace than the rootdbs. If you go to
> "C:\IFMXDATA\ol_popeye", you will see that the files are
> there but nothing
> is initialized.
>
> Figure 53 - Content of "C:\IFMXDATA\ol_popeye"
> C:\IFMXDATA\ol_popeye>dir
> Volume in drive C has no label.
> Volume Serial Number is 306A-4E8E
>
> Directory of C:\IFMXDATA\ol_popeye
>
> 2002/11/23 15:43 .
> 2002/11/23 15:43 ..
> 2002/11/23 15:43 0 dbs_popeye_dat.000
> 2002/11/23 15:58 52 428 800 rootdbs_dat.000
> 2002/11/23 15:43 0 sbspace_dat.000
>
> 3 File(s) 52 428 800 bytes
>
> 2 Dir(s) 14 095 757 312 bytes free
>
> We can use the Informix "onspaces" command to create what we need.
>
> 4.3.2.3 Running "onspaces"
>
> The "onspaces" command will help us create the missing DbSpace.
>
> To run "onspaces", we are going to run a special "Command
> Prompt", the one
> created by the Informix installation program.
>
> Click on the "Start" button, go to "All Programs", "Informix
> Dynamic Server
> 9.30" and click on "ol_popeye", as shown in Figure 54.
>
> Figure 54 - "ol_popeye" icon enlarged
>
> Figure 55 - onspaces command line for creating the DbSpace
> onspaces
> -c
> -d dbs_popeye
> -p C:\IFMXDATA\ol_popeye\dbs_popeye_dat.000
> -o 0
> -s 50000
>
> Quick explanation:
> .. "-c" is used for creating,
> .. "-d" followed by "dbs_popeye" specifies the name of the DbSpace,
> .. "-p" sets the path, note that the path and file already exist,
> .. "-o" sets the offset at the beginning of the file this is mostly
> used when using raw devices,
> .. "-s" defines the size of the DbSpaces, as we decided for 50 Mb
> earlier, here the DbSpace size is defined as 50 000 Kb.
>
> Figure 56 - Running onspaces for creating the DbSpace
> C:\Informix>onspaces -c -d dbs_popeye
> -p C:\IFMXDATA\ol_popeye\dbs_popeye_dat.000 -o 0 -s 50000
> Verifying physical disk space, please wait ...
> Space successfully added.
>
> ** WARNING ** A level 0 archive of Root DBSpace will need to be done.
>
> If you recall well, we also wanted to create a Smart BLOB
> Space. This one as
> well was not completed successfully.
>
> Figure 57 - onspaces command line for creating the Smart BLOB Space
> onspaces
> -c
> -S sbspace
> -p C:\IFMXDATA\ol_popeye\sbspace_dat.000
> -o 0
> -s 10000
>
> Quick explanation:
> .. "-c" is used for creating,
> .. "-S" followed by "sbspace" specifies the name of the Smart BLOB
> Space,
> .. "-p" sets the path, note that the path and file already exist,
> .. "-o" sets the offset at the beginning of the file this is mostly
> used when using raw devices,
> .. "-s" defines the size of the Smart BLOB Space, as we
> decided for 10
> Mb earlier, here the Smart BLOB Space size is defined as 10 000 Kb.
>
> Figure 58 - Running onspaces for creating the Smart BLOB Space
> C:\Informix>onspaces -c -S sbspace -p
> C:\IFMXDATA\ol_popeye\sbspace_da
> t.000 -o 0 -s 10000
> Verifying physical disk space, please wait ...
> Space successfully added.
>
> ** WARNING ** A level 0 archive of Root DBSpace will need to be done.
>
> A quick check can be done by going to the directory and
> listing its files,
> as in Figure 59.
>
> Figure 59 - Quick check
> C:\Informix>cd C:\IFMXDATA\ol_popeye
>
> C:\IFMXDATA\ol_popeye>dir
> Volume in drive C has no label.
> Volume Serial Number is 306A-4E8E
>
> Directory of C:\IFMXDATA\ol_popeye
>
> 2002/11/23 15:43 .
> 2002/11/23 15:43 ..
> 2002/11/25 09:09 51 200 000 dbs_popeye_dat.000
> 2002/11/23 15:58 52 428 800 rootdbs_dat.000
> 2002/11/25 09:40 10 240 000 sbspace_dat.000
>
> 3 File(s) 113 868 800 bytes
>
> 2 Dir(s) 13 993 553 920 bytes free
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On
> > Behalf Of Hrvoje Zokovic
> > Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 09:36
> > To: ids@iiug.org
> > Subject: RE: IDS 9.4 on XP Pro [6402]
> >
> >
> > Hi Pete,
> > Last year I have a similar problem. After days and days of
> > investigating I found that installation did not write all
> > information to registry. This value was wrong:
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Informix\OnLine\
> > name>Security\IXUSERS Group]
> > "Name"=""
> > i.e. ixusers group was not defined. I changed that to:
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Informix\OnLine\
> > name>\Security\IXUSERS Group]
> > "Name"="*"
> > i.e. all user groups belong to ixusers group.
> >
> > Also I recommend this excellent article on Informix/Windows
> > issue
> > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.informix/browse_
> > thread/thread/
> > 8ebe94e744bb32ff/c41ecf83c64da6c6?lnk=st&q=ixusers+zorko&rnum=
> > 1&hl=hr#c41ecf
> > 83c64da6c6
> >
> > BR
> > Hrvoje Zokovic
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On
> > Behalf Of PETE DICKSON
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 12:48 PM
> > To: ids@iiug.org
> > Subject: IDS 9.4 on XP Pro [6397]
> >
> > Hello, I "finally" got around to downloading the 9.4 package
> > for IDS for windows to play around with it on my laptop (OS
> > XP-Pro). Has anybody had any problems doing this? The message
> > I'm getting now is "Your IBM Informix Dynamic Server is being
> > initialized..". This message has been displayed for at least
> > 30 minutes now. Is there any tricks to get a simple database
> > running on a pc?
> >
> > Pete
> >
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