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  • 1.  Did you know, how to accelerate your large querys with a new feature?

    IBM Champion
    Posted Thu May 14, 2020 02:23 AM
    Edited by System Fri January 20, 2023 04:26 PM

    Hi Informix scentists,

    I have the feeling, that most of you didn't notice a new performance feature I introduce with Informix R&D last year.

    If you like to push up your batch or DS querys, try to set "DIRECT_IO 0x5" . This will enabling the direct i/o for the normal DBSpaces AND the TEMP DBSpaces. It's not that easy to see, that the TEMP DBSpaces didn't work with direct i/o by default - that's the reason we introduce this feature and accelerated large querys and report batches up to 3 times !

    Thank you very much to Holger K. from the Informix team for support on this new feature.

    Hi Informix admins: Set the DIRECT_IO parameter in your onconfig file to 0x5 and accelerate your large queries, if available.

    Have fun on this,
    Henri Cujass, your friend from leolo IT



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    Henri Cujass
    leolo IT, CTO
    Germany
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  • 2.  RE: Did you know, how to accelerate your large querys with a new feature?

    IBM Champion
    Posted Thu May 14, 2020 06:25 AM
    Very cool Henri. Can we get the online documentation updated? Also the New Features pages so we know what versions support this?

    Art

    Art S. Kagel, President and Principal Consultant
    ASK Database Management


    Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that my own opinions are my own opinions and do not reflect on the IIUG, nor any other organization with which I am associated either explicitly, implicitly, or by inference.  Neither do those opinions reflect those of other individuals affiliated with any entity with which I am affiliated nor those of the entities themselves.








  • 3.  RE: Did you know, how to accelerate your large querys with a new feature?

    IBM Champion
    Posted Thu May 14, 2020 08:52 AM
    Hi Art,

    I think this feature was released for 12.10.xc13 and 14.10.xc3 . You can get the information from the inline comments in the onconfig.std file:
    # DIRECT_IO - Set of flags that may be combined to control "special" I/O
    # 0x0 = Neither direct I/O nor concurrent I/O is used
    # 0x1 = Direct I/O is used if available
    # 0x2 = Concurrent I/O is enabled (on AIX operating systems)
    # 0x4 = Special I/O is enabled for TEMP DBspaces

    I remember, that a student shows me in the online documentation - but maybe it's in developerworld and not in the official Informix online documentation.

    I had the feeling, that nobody noticed this new hidden feature.

    Best Regards
    Henri

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    Henri Cujass
    leolo IT, CTO
    Germany
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  • 4.  RE: Did you know, how to accelerate your large querys with a new feature?

    IBM Champion
    Posted Thu May 14, 2020 09:03 AM
    Henri:

    Yup. Hoping someone at HCL will see the thread and update the docs.

    While I'm asking for improvements to the documentation, I'd still like an update to the PDF documentation which has not been updated since 12.10.FC8!

    Art

    Art S. Kagel, President and Principal Consultant
    ASK Database Management


    Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that my own opinions are my own opinions and do not reflect on the IIUG, nor any other organization with which I am associated either explicitly, implicitly, or by inference.  Neither do those opinions reflect those of other individuals affiliated with any entity with which I am affiliated nor those of the entities themselves.








  • 5.  RE: Did you know, how to accelerate your large querys with a new feature?

    IBM Champion
    Posted Thu May 14, 2020 09:10 AM

    A doc request update was made a while back

     

    Cheers

    Paul

     






  • 6.  RE: Did you know, how to accelerate your large querys with a new feature?

    IBM Champion
    Posted Thu May 14, 2020 09:13 AM
    I've been making requests for four years now.

    Art

    Art S. Kagel, President and Principal Consultant
    ASK Database Management


    Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that my own opinions are my own opinions and do not reflect on the IIUG, nor any other organization with which I am associated either explicitly, implicitly, or by inference.  Neither do those opinions reflect those of other individuals affiliated with any entity with which I am affiliated nor those of the entities themselves.








  • 7.  RE: Did you know, how to accelerate your large querys with a new feature?

    IBM Champion
    Posted Thu May 14, 2020 09:10 AM

    It is in 14.10.FC2 although undoc'd.

     

    Cheers

    Paul

     






  • 8.  RE: Did you know, how to accelerate your large querys with a new feature?

    IBM Champion
    Posted Thu June 04, 2020 11:57 AM


    I saw this (in an IIUG presentation?), has anyone done real world testing with this feature?

    Regards,

    David.



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