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Upgrade Issues with Informix 64-bit Version

Question: I am quite new as an Informix DBA. Our company is currently running the Informix 7.31 32-bit version on a 64-bit processor. They are thinking about upgrading to a

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Dropping a Bad Chunk

Question: I have a bad chunk in a dbspace that is bad and marked “down” by Informix. I don’t really care about the data in that chunk anyway, so I

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Informix Online Dynamic Server Installation

Question: We have Informix-Online Dynamic Server Version 5.1 running on Sun 4 architecture machines (Sparc 4, Sparc 5, etc.). We plan to upgrade some machine to Ultra 2. I just

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Retrieve Time Zone information

The GetTimeZoneInformation API returns a TIME_ZONE_INFORMATION variable that contains several pieces of information about system’s time date and time setting. The first Long value in this structure holds the “distance”