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Hi All,
I am running IDS 7.31 on a HP-UX box(OS: HP-UX 10.20).
A strange thing has just happened to me this morning.

As a matter of course, I ran the command:

oncheck -cR  (to check the reserved pages)
......an error occured in the validation - the error I got was:

    Validating PAGE_CONFIG...

ONCONFIG config file error on element CDR_QUEUEMEM.
    Value in reserved page:  4
    Value in config file:    4096

    Validating PAGE_1CKPT & PAGE_2CKPT...
          Using check point page PAGE_2CKPT.

.....but everything else was OK.

I panicked when I saw this but I soon realised that there was nothing wrong
with the two database that I have in this instance (not counting 'sysutils'
and 'sysmaster').

I then did some reading and found that the 'CDR_QUEUEMEM' parameter in the
ONCONFIG file relates to "Informix Enterprise Replication" which I am not
even using!

I then checked my MSGPATH file and saw that after I had taken the Server
offline and brought it back up that it had the following:

9:03:29  Informix Dynamic Server Initialized -- Shared Memory Initialized.
9:03:29  Physical Recovery Started.
9:03:29  Physical Recovery Complete: 0 Pages Restored.
9:03:29  Logical Recovery Started.
9:03:32  Logical Recovery Complete.
       0 Committed, 0 Rolled Back, 0 Open, 0 Bad Locks

9:03:33  Onconfig parameter CDR_QUEUEMEM modified from 4 to 4096.
9:03:33  Dataskip is now OFF for all dbspaces
9:03:33  Quiescent Mode
9:03:33  Checkpoint Completed:  duration was 0 seconds.
9:08:57  On-Line Mode

So my questions are:

1) How would this parameter change by itself?
2) What should I do about the fact that the PAGE_CONFIG portion of the
    Reserved page validation does not match the $ONCONFIG file? Should I
    change my $ONCONFIG file so that 'CDR_QUEUEMEM' value(4096)
   matches the 'CDR_QUEUEMEM' value(4) in the reserved page? Or will this
do more harm than good?

Regards - Adam

Quote:> 1) How would this parameter change by itself?

No way. It can't be changed by IDS. You must found who maid this.

Quote:> 2) What should I do about the fact that the PAGE_CONFIG portion of the
>     Reserved page validation does not match the $ONCONFIG file? Should I
>     change my $ONCONFIG file so that 'CDR_QUEUEMEM' value(4096)
>    matches the 'CDR_QUEUEMEM' value(4) in the reserved page? Or will this
> do more harm than good?

You simply need to restart your server(this will synchronize reserved pages
with $ONCONFIG) or return CDR_QUEUEMEM back. 'oncheck -cr' reads $ONCONFIG
and compares params with reserved page 2. This feature is needed when you
changed some params and your server can't start. Using this command you will
find incorrect params.

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With best regards, Yuri Dovgart
SAP R/3, Informix technical consultant,
Informix Certified Professional,
Senior System Consultant
System Architecture and High Availability Systems,
'Telecominvest' company

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