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================================= MACHINE SPECIFIC NOTES FOR IBM Informix Database Server 11.70.FC5 PRODUCT RELEASE ON SUN SOLARIS 64bit DATE: 09 May 2012 ================================= OS Information : Built on Solaris 10 release update 6. System Requirements =================== 1. This product was built on Solaris 10 using the following compilers from Sun Studio 12: Sun C 5.9 SunOS_sparc Patch 124867-09 2008/11/25 Sun C++ 5.9 SunOS_sparc Patch 124863-11 2009/03/10 2. Solaris patch information for the IBM Informix Database Server Install the recommended patch cluster for your OS version. The cluster is available at http://sunsolve.Sun.COM/. 3. IBM Informix Database Server is supported to work with and without Zones on Solaris 10. Read the following document for more information: ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/data/informix/ids/IDS-SunSPARC-reqs.pdf 4. The UNIX graphical tools provided with this release require 64-bit X Windows System X11R6 and Motif 2.1 or later runtime libraries. If these tools cannot find the location of the X and Motif shared libraries, set the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include these locations: /usr/openwin/lib/sparcv9 and /usr/dt/lib/sparcv9. 5. The High Performance Loader utilities, onpload and ipload, require a minimum of 35 MB of memory and 70 MB of swap space in order to run. 6. IBM Informix Database Server uses the libraries and utilities provided by the IBM Global Security Kit (GSKit) for data encryption and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) communication. The GSKit is bundled with the server and will be installed on your machine as part of the server installation process. Here are more details on the GSKit: a. The GSKit is also bundled with other IBM products and might already be present on your machine. If GSKit8 is not installed, Informix server will install GSKit in /opt/ibm/gsk8_64 directory on your machine. b. The GSKit installation directory must have 35 MB of free disk space. Check the following web site for the latest Solaris system requirements for IBM Informix Database Server: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=630&uid=swg27013343 System Configuration ==================== 1. Kernel Parameters a) On Solaris 10, all System V IPC facilities are either automatically configured or can be controlled by resource controls. The resource controls have the following default values on Solaris 10: process.max-sem-nsems 512 project.max-sem-ids 128 project.max-shm-memory 1/4 of physical memory project.max-shm-ids 128 Check project.max-shm-memory on your system, IBM recommend the value of 4398046511104 for the IBM Informix Database Server. On systems that have zones enabled, zone-wide resource controls are specified in the zone configuration. Refer to the rctladm(1m) man page for more information about available resource controls. Examples: 1. To display the current value of project.max-shm-memory set to the project and system wide, where Informix server is running under the default project, run this command: # prctl -n project.max-shm-memory -i project default 2. To display the values of all the resource controls for a specific Informix server process, run this command: # prctl <oninit pid> 3. To set the value of project.max-shm-memory for the project default to 4 TB without restarting the system, run this command: # prctl -n project.max-shm-memory -r -v 4tb -i project default 4. To perform the same action as in example 3, but instead use the projmod command to modify the attribute value for project.max-shm-memory in /etc/project the local source of project information file, run this command: # projmod -a -K 'project.max-shm-memory=(priv,4TB,deny)' default b) Informix server Failure with a Large Intimate Shared Memory Page Size On certain hardware configurations, Solaris 10 can use very large memory pages for Solaris Intimate Shared Memory (ISM): 32 MB or 256 MB instead of the previous limit of 4 MB. Informix server uses Solaris ISM for shared memory segments that are forced to be memory-resident by the RESIDENT configuration parameter, however Informix server might experience problems if 32 MB or 256 MB pages are used by Solaris (APAR 36804462). If you receive a message that contiguous shared memory segment allocation failed and the value of the SHMBASE configuration parameter is the same as its value in onconfig.std, then Informix server might fail unexpectedly. To prevent this problem, set the Solaris 10 operating system mmu_ism_pagesize configuration parameter to limit the memory pages to 4 MB for ISM. To set this parameter, edit the /etc/system file and add the following line: set mmu_ism_pagesize = 4194304 Then restart the Solaris computer. 2. Location of Shared Memory The ONCONFIG variable SHMBASE should be set to the following: SHMBASE 0x10A000000L 3. Environment Variables It is recommended that the environment variable INFORMIXSTACKSIZE be set to 128 (the default is 64) if the application involves operations which would require the IBM Informix Database Server to perform recursive database tasks (for example, cascading deletes). Feature Notes (alphabetized by feature) ============= 1. High Performance Loader User-defined conversion routines for the High Performance Loader must be provided in a dynamic, shared library called ipldd11a.so. This shared library is installed in the $INFORMIXDIR/lib directory. You can set the location of this file with the HPL_DYNAMIC_LIB_PATH configuration parameter in the file pointed to by PLCONFIG environment variable. For more details see the "High-Performance Loader User's Guide". To create a 64-bit shared library, the flags "-m64" can be used to convey to the compiler that a 64-bit object is to be generated. Onpload will use shared memory during its execution. It will allocate memory beyond the address for the server, leaving room for server shared memory expansion. 2. IPv6 Support IBM Informix Server supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (128 Bit Internet Addresses) as well as IPv4 (32 Bit Addresses). In order for the machine name specified in the SQLHOSTS file to resolve to the correct IP address, the name services files on the operating system should be correctly configured. If the machine has IPv6 address configured and the listener thread is bound to an IPv6 address, then the name resolution files /etc/nsswitch.conf should be configured to fetch IPv6 addresss. Also use the appropriate /etc/hosts setting if local machine settings are used. For compatibility with older IBM Informix client and server products, assign the same hostname with both an IPv4 address and an IPv6 address. If the listener needs to be bound to an IPv4 address and the name services resolve the name in the order of the IPv6 address followed by IPv4 address, then an explicit IPv4 address needs to be put in nodename field of SQLHOSTS file. Client applications should also use the same setting. 3. J/Foundation (Java in the Server) J/Foundation supports the JRE 6.0 release from Sun Microsystems, which uses the Solaris native threads based Java Virtual Machine. The JRE 6.0 is available under $INFORMIXDIR/extend/krakatoa/jre and should be used with J/Foundation. To use this JRE, set the value of the ONCONFIG variable JVPJAVAHOME as follows: JVPJAVAHOME <jvphome>/jre where <jvphome> is $INFORMIXDIR/extend/krakatoa For developing Java UDRs used with J/Foundation, use the JDK 5.0 which can be downloaded from http://java.sun.com/javase/index.jsp For IBM Informix Database Server ONCONFIG settings for J/Foundation, refer to "onconfig.std" in $INFORMIXDIR/etc. 4. Large Memory Addressability (LMA) IBM Informix LMA provides the ability to support system configurations with greater than 4GB of RAM. Most UNIX systems are limited to 4GB of RAM based on the memory addressing limitations of 32-bit architectures. The values for the following ONCONFIG parameters are increased from 32-bit to 64-bit platform by LMA support: - The maximum number of buffers in BUFFERPOOL is 536870912. - The maximum of LRU queues for lrus field in BUFFERPOOL is 512. - The DS_TOTAL_MEMORY, which is the total memory available for decision support memory, is only limited by the amount of virtual memory available (2^40)/2 MB. The sort memory comes out of the DS_TOTAL_MEMORY memory and hence there is no explicit limit on the amount of sort memory. - The read ahead parameter RA_PAGES is only limited by the number of buffers and therefore can be any value less than 536870912. The "chunk" write algorithm is not dependent on the amount of buffers or shared memory and can write as many pages in a single I/O as possible. - The maximum size of any shared memory segment is 4398046511104 bytes. - The value for SHMADD is 4294967296 kilobytes. Refer to IBM Informix Administrator's Reference manual for the information about the related configuration parameters setting. 5. MQ Messaging Database Extension The MQ extension provides mechanism for data exchange between Informix server and queues managed by Websphere MQ. Note: MQ extension expects Websphere MQ libraries installed in the default location /opt/mqm. Otherwise create symbolic links from /opt/mqm/lib64 to the 64-bit Websphere MQ libraries. 6. Network Protocols The following protocol(s)/interface(s) are supported on this platform: TLI using TCP/IP SOCKETS using TCP/IP IPC using stream pipe To use TLI with TCP/IP: a. NETTYPE in the ONCONFIG file and the nettype field in the sqlhosts file entry must contain "ontlitcp". b. To enable an IBM Data Server Client to connect to Informix Database Server, NETTYPE in the ONCONFIG file and the value data of protocol in the sqlhosts file entry must contain "drtlitcp" To use SOCKETS with TCP/IP: a. NETTYPE in the ONCONFIG file and the nettype field in the sqlhosts file entry must contain "onsoctcp". b. To enable an IBM Data Server Client to connect to Informix Database Server, NETTYPE in the ONCONFIG file and the value data of protocol in the sqlhosts file entry must contain "drsoctcp" If a CLI or JCC client wants to connect to Informix server via DRDA while supporting SQLI connections you could add a DBSERVERALIASES entry to ONCONFIG which corresponds to the sqlhosts file. When using either TLI or SOCKETS, set the "connections" field in the ONCONFIG NETTYPE parameter and the kernel driver ndd parameter "tcp_conn_req_max_q" to the maximum number of expected concurrent connections. If the "tcp_conn_req_max_q" is set too low, you will see a client error with sqlcode = -908 and isamcode = 13. If the NETTYPE "connections" field is set too low, you will see a server listener-thread error with err = -25571. To use IPC (interprocess communication) with stream pipe: a. NETTYPE in the ONCONFIG file and the nettype field in the sqlhosts file entry must contain "onipcstr". Remote 32-bit applications and tools (example: ESQL/C, 4GL, ISQL) can only connect to the IBM Informix Database Server using the TCP/IP protocol. Local 32-bit applications and tools can connect to the 64-bit server using either the TCP/IP or the IPC stream pipe protocols. Fast poll is supported with all TCP/IP and stream pipe interfaces. FASTPOLL in the ONCONFIG file can be set to 0 to disable the fast poll. By default the fast poll is enabled (value is 1). The protocol used for supporting MaxConnect on this platform is "ontliimc". 7. OnLine Backup and Restore (ON-Bar) Some of the functions invoked by ON-Bar are in a shared library supplied by third party storage management vendors. For ON-Bar to access these functions, the library must be installed in one of the three ways noted below. a. Rename the library to $INFORMIXDIR/lib/ibsad001.so. b. Create $INFORMIXDIR/lib/ibsad001.so as a symbolic link to the library. c. Set the BAR_BSALIB_PATH parameter in $INFORMIXDIR/etc/$ONCONFIG to the full pathname of the library. This shared library must be compiled in 64-bit mode. Informix Interface for Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) is supported on this platform. The interface is built with TSM API version 5.3.2. 8. OnSNMP The SNMP agent for OnSNMP is based on SNMP Research (SNMPR). 9. Optical The name of the IBM Informix shared library for Optical on Solaris is iosm11a.so. This library must be located in $INFORMIXDIR/lib (or must have a link provided in $INFORMIXDIR/lib). Refer to the "Optical Subsystem Guide" for more information about enabling optical functionality. 10. Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) PAM functionality is supported on Solaris operating system. The PAM is dependent on the libpam.so library supplied by the Operating System vendor. Use of PAM can be enabled or disabled by the system administrator. By default, IBM Informix server will use the traditional authentication mechanism in order to avoid widespread changes required by the users. The PAM service identifies the PAM module. This PAM module typically resides in /usr/lib/security and its parameters are listed in /etc/pam.conf. 11. Secure Sockets Layer IBM Informix Database Server uses the libraries and utilities provided by the IBM Global Security Kit (GSKit) for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) communication. a. Before uninstalling GSKit, verify that it is not needed on your system. It is possible that software other than Informix Database Server requires GSKit. Uninstalling entails removing the GSKit packages with the pkgrm command-line tool As root user run the pkgrm command to remove each package as needed. For example, the following command removes the GSKit SSL and GSKit Crypt packages: pkgrm gsk8ssl32 gsk8cry32 b. If you want to restore Secure Sockets Layer capability after you have uninstalled GSKit, see the readme file in $INFORMIXDIR/gskit for how to install GSKit. 12. Simple Password Communications Support Module The name of the IBM Informix shared library for Simple Password CSM on Solaris is libixspw.so. Features not supported ====================== Migrating to this 64-bit Version ================================ 1. To migrate to this 64-bit version from previous versions of the server (64-bit as well as 32-bit), refer to the migration process described in the IBM Informix Migration Guide, Version 11.70. To revert from this 64-bit version to all previous 64-bit versions refer to the IBM Informix Migration Guide, Version 11.70. To revert from 64-bit 11.70 (this server) to 32-bit 11.50, 11.10, 10.00, or 9.40: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ a. Disconnect all users from this server. The 64-bit server should be in online mode. b. Run the following command as user informix or DBA: $INFORMIXDIR/etc/conv/update.sh -32 c. Revert to 9.40, 10.00, 11.10 or 11.50 32-bit by following the steps described in the IBM Informix Migration Guide, Version 11.70, in the section "Reverting from Informix Version 11.70". 2. All UDRs and Database Extensions that are built in 32-bit mode must be re-compiled in 64-bit mode to work with the 64-bit server. If you have any UDRs that were developed on 32-bit, make sure that the proper size and alignment of the data structures are used for the UDRs to work correctly on 64-bit after re-compilation in 64-bit mode. Known Defects ============= Refer to section I in doc/ids_defects_11.70.txt for the information regarding known issues. Defects Fixed in current Release ================================ Refer to section II in doc/ids_defects_11.70.txt for the information regarding defects fixed in this release. Defects Fixed in Previous Releases ================================== Refer to rest of sections in doc/ids_defects_11.70.txt for the information regarding defects fixed in previous releases. (C) Copyright IBM Corp. 2002, 2012