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RE: IDS 9.4 on XP Pro

Posted By: Paul Watson
Date: Thursday, 16 February 2006, at 11:47 a.m.

In Response To: RE: IDS 9.4 on XP Pro (Guy .)

The blades are only certified against the Windows server - means it very
hard to have a demo on your laptop, cos lot of laptop drivers are not
available for the server version. The laptop I use has no video/audio
drivers for 200x server

Paul Watson
Tel: +44 1414161772
Mob: +44 7818003457

GO FURTHER with DB2
GET THERE FASTER with Informix.
Attend the IDUG 2006 North America Conference.
Tampa, Florida, USA. 7-11 May 2006.
Visit http://www.iiug.org/conf for more information.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On
> Behalf Of Guy .
> Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 10:35 AM
> To: ids@iiug.org
> Subject: RE: IDS 9.4 on XP Pro [6413]
>
>
> > 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:
>
> Paul Watson
> Tel: +44 1414161772
> Mob: +44 7818003457
>
> GO FURTHER with DB2
> GET THERE FASTER with Informix.
> Attend the IDUG 2006 North America Conference.
> Tampa, Florida, USA. 7-11 May 2006.
> Visit http://www.iiug.org/conf for more information.
>
> > -----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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Messages In This Thread

• IDS 9.4 on XP Pro
  PETE DICKSON -- Wednesday, 15 February 2006, at 6:48 a.m.
  • Re: IDS 9.4 on XP Pro
    Guy . -- Wednesday, 15 February 2006, at 6:55 p.m.
  • RE: IDS 9.4 on XP Pro
    Marcus Haarmann -- Thursday, 16 February 2006, at 3:03 a.m.
  • RE: IDS 9.4 on XP Pro
    Hrvoje Zokovic -- Thursday, 16 February 2006, at 3:36 a.m.
    • RE: IDS 9.4 on XP Pro
      Jean Georges Perrin -- Thursday, 16 February 2006, at 8:39 a.m.
      • RE: IDS 9.4 on XP Pro
        Paul Watson -- Thursday, 16 February 2006, at 8:58 a.m.
        • RE: IDS 9.4 on XP Pro
          Guy . -- Thursday, 16 February 2006, at 11:34 a.m.
          • RE: IDS 9.4 on XP Pro
            Paul Watson -- Thursday, 16 February 2006, at 11:47 a.m.
      • RE: IDS 9.4 on XP Pro
        Guy . -- Thursday, 16 February 2006, at 11:32 a.m.

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