Hi,

hmm. You want to get the database schema from the old system?
Is that what you mean by "structure" ? You don't want the actual data?

Basically you have to bring back to life the old system, then you can
run the utility "dbschema" using the option "-ss" to get the database
schemas of the old system. "-ss" means that the utility will also output
system specific information (like table extent sizes, dbspace names,
etc.).

To bring back to life the old system you have to place the "chunks" at
the same location (with the same path name) where they were before,
use the "onconfig" configuration file and the server name (environment
variable $INFORMIXSERVER, see SERVERNAME in the old onconfig
file) from the old system, together with a corresponding entry in the
sqlhosts file. With that you should be able to start the system (by
executing
"oninit" without any option), so that you then can run the "dbschema"
utility.

Regards,
Martin
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Martin Fuerderer
IBM Informix Development Munich, Germany
Information Management

informix-list-bounces@iiug.org wrote on 03.02.2006 15:59:19:
> Hello
> I have a problem. There was an informix data base, whose files were
> copied before the pc was formated. That is, any export was done. Now I
> have created a new informix data base, and I want to recover the
> structure from the old data base. How can I do that?
> Thanx
>
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