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Is anyone using IDS 9.40 or 10 on Solaris 10?

Any problems?

IDS 10.00.FC1 on Solaris 10 is working fine for us.

DG


"Neil Truby" <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote in message
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> Is anyone using IDS 9.40 or 10 on Solaris 10?
>
> Any problems?
>
>

Neil Truby wrote:
> Is anyone using IDS 9.40 or 10 on Solaris 10?
>
> Any problems?

The only tricky part is if you have decided to employ zones. With no
zones, Solaris 10 is a simple upgrade of Solaris 9, etc, and the rules
are much the same as ever -- it works.

If you have IDS running in a global zone, that works pretty much the
same as Solaris 9 too.

If you have IDS running in a non-global zone, then you have to treat
that non-global zone like it was a machine. Specifically, you use the
non-global zone name in the sqlhosts file (column 3).

The other issue is that there are some things that you can't do in a
non-global zone (even as root) that you can do in a global zone or in an
unzoned machine. Such things will give you an error in the online log
file, and the action won't be effective, but the server continues to
run. IIRC, one of the items is pinning shared memory; another might be
setting NOAGE. Interestingly, processor affinitying is OK - there are a
couple of interfaces that do that, one that works and one that doesn't,
and it so happens that IDS uses the one that does work.

There should soon be official information on the IBM/Informix web site
documenting the details - including a pointer to the Sun site where
zones are described.


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Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h>
Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com
Guardian of DBD::Informix v2005.01 -- http://dbi.perl.org/

Just starting to move some applications to IDS 10 running on Solaris 10.
Stay tuned for updates. Tested IDS 10 on Solaris 8 and did not have any
problems with that.

Hal Maner
M Systems International, Inc.
www.msystemsintl.com

"Neil Truby" <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote in message
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> Is anyone using IDS 9.40 or 10 on Solaris 10?
>
> Any problems?
>
>