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Posted By Mark Scranton Thu December 03, 2020 09:29 PM
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Thanks Fernando. Appreciate it. Will dig into it as an option. Sounds very possible. Get Outlook for iOS This email, including attachments, may contain information that is private or confidential. If you received this communication in error, please delete it from your system without copying it and ...
Posted By Mark Scranton Wed December 02, 2020 10:45 AM
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Thanks Andreas .. appreciate it. ------------------------------ Mark Scranton ------------------------------
Posted By Mark Scranton Wed December 02, 2020 10:31 AM
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Andreas - Using the ploader (external tables) for bulk loads, etc. During an express load onstat -g lap shows the light appends and the buffer count. Have a very large reorg coming up and just turning knobs for tuning if possible on smaller tests. Do you know what factors determine the light append ...
Posted By Mark Scranton Tue December 01, 2020 07:34 PM
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I thought back in the day we could increase the number of light append buffers. Anyone recall that option? I get 4 buffers know matter how any threads are running or fragments involved in source or target. Thanks! ------------------------------ Mark Scranton mark@markscranton.com ...
Posted By Mark Scranton Wed July 29, 2020 10:52 AM
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IDS 12.10.FC12W1; AIX. Working on a large reorg and testing with disk and pipes via the ploader (external tables). As expected, I see light appends when using disk during load, but not when using pipes. Using pipes, the unload/load data never hits the ground as it's cloning rows from source table ...
Posted By Mark Scranton Fri March 06, 2020 03:22 PM
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Colleagues - When using Informix on AWS, is there an IBM license cost as well as the per-usage cost required for using AWS? Thanks! Mark Scranton mark@markscranton.com ------------------------------ Mark Scranton ------------------------------ #Informix
Posted By Mark Scranton Tue February 25, 2020 02:14 PM
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All TCP. Not the shmem limit you might be thinking of ... ------------------------------ Mark Scranton ------------------------------
Posted By Mark Scranton Tue February 25, 2020 09:16 AM
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We are having more and more issues around shmem block header corruption with IDS 12.10.FC12W1. Sometimes the bad pool gets repaired, sometimes not. If not, the engine will eventually stop accepting new connections, so we bounce the hard way of course. Anyone else experiencing similar? I've created ...
Posted By Mark Scranton Tue February 25, 2020 09:16 AM
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Hey Art - Did HCL/IBM publish this "new approach?" (outside of IIUG World). The README is very sparse. I wonder how many customers are tripping over trying to find IDS14 full product tar for other than Dev Edition. Thanks - Mark ------------------------------ Mark Scranton ------ ...