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  1. RealHeavyDude

    Resolved Memory usage for DB buffer pool in RHEL 7.8 system running on vSphere 6.5

    OpenEdge 11.7.6 RHEL 7.8 vSphere 6.5 Maybe somebody can help me to understand this: Our production system is running on a RHEL 7.8 system which is hosted on vSphere 6.5. The VM is configured with 128 GB memory and 4 CPUs. The dababase is 500 GB large, blocksize 8K and the buffer pool is...
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    Question Remote servers exhausted with pending connections

    OpenEdge 11.7.3 on RHEL 7.5 (migrated from 11.3.3 Solaris last weekend). We are live with the new system and are facing a strange issue in that the users are getting the following error message: The server or the system has no more resources. Please contact Progress Technical Support. (748)...
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    Comment Solaris - RHEL Migration horror story ...

    Did anybody encounter tables without a single index yet in an OpenEdge database? By chance, only after the migration, I stumbled over 15 indexes which were residing in the schema area on the target system where they reside in the respective type II storage areas in the source system. Dammit -...
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    Set security administrators from batch

    OpenEdge 11.7.3 The data administration tool provides a menu item to set security administrator on the database in the security menu. I need to invoke this function from a batch procedure and I don't like to roll my own and fiddle with the respective meta-schema tables can-* settings. Does...
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    Can you believe that?

    If it wouldn't be real I would think this is a bad dream ... 2 weeks ago I tried to open a support case just to find out that the maintenance for our Progress licenses has expired. Wut? As it turns out, our vendor management has been off-shored to Mumbay (India) Q4 last year and they are...
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    Question OE 11.7.3 on RHEL 7.4

    I've just had a discussion with our storage admins concerning the file system types used for databases with RHEL. Up to this point I was under the impression that we will get Ext4 file systerm for the database but now checking the system I just got I see that they are xfs. In the product...
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    Question OE11.7.3 on RHEL 7.4 - superfluous OE Management

    I've just made a template installation for the Enterprise RDBMS and Enterprise AppServer product on RHEL 7.4 with proinst. We do not use nor plan to use OE Management in any way - therefore, to me, it is a superfluous component which is installed additionally out-of-the-box. This has bothered...
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    Answered Kernel params & dba user privileges on RHEL 7

    We are migrating from OE11.3 on Solaris SPARC to OE11.7 on RHEL 7. On Solaris we had to tweak the project and process settings with projmod like process.max-file-descriptor project.max-shm-ids project.max-shm-memory So far I have not found out how I would do this for RHEL. Are these relevant...
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    Bad code

    A journalist asks a developer what makes bad code. No comment from the developer.
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    Question OE Replication

    OE 11.7 Just to clarify: As per my understanding OE Replication requires the source and target databases to reside on the same platform. As far as I know ( I vaguely remember my sole forays into OE Replication back in 2003? ), you need to start OE Replication with a backup of the source...
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    Can't believe it

    I still can't believe it. I and a colleague of mine are all set to attend to PUG Challenge in Dublin in October! Finally I was able to talk some of the Powers that be into supporting us. Looking forward to see some of you there!
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    Resolved Before Image buffer waits & After Image buffer waits

    OpenEdge 11.3.3, Sun Solaris SPARC 64Bit ( Sun V490+ 1800 Mhz with 64 GB memory - database files residing on ZFS file systems on a SAN ). I know - we should have migrated to a more decent hardware on RHEL a long time ago and I wish I could do something about the SAN but I can't. A migration...
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    Comment Is Progress The New Samsung, Hp & Co?

    Many owning an Android smart phone from Samsung & Co or a Windows notebook from HP or the like might have had the experience: Bloatware which can not be uninstalled easily and cleanly or one even being prevented from doing so. In comes the OpenEdge 11.6 OEDK Premier edition. We "upgraded" our...
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    Question Truncating The After Image Archival Log File

    Solaris SPARC 64Bit - OpenEdge 11.3.1 ( soon to be OpenEdge 11.6 or 11.7 ) I don't want the log file of the After Image archiving daemon to grow forever. So far I did not find any tool from Progress that would truncate the log file of the After Image archiving daemon like for example the...
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    Answered Hot To Get The Sequence Number Of Ai Extents Of A Damaged Database

    OpenEdge 11.3.1 / Solaris SPARC 64Bit I am trying to come up with a script that produces a "restore hint" for a given database in the way that it tells the one who is executing it, which commands you should execute in which order to be able to restore the database and apply all necessary after...
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    Answered Change Physical Database Name

    OpenEdge 11.3 / Solaris SPARC 64Bit I know that I can change the database name using probkup / prorest. For a 1 TB large database this will take me a small alount of time given the ultra mega monster super duper SAN file systems I've been blessed with on which the database resides. Although I...
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    Resolved _trans._trans-duration > Process Life Time

    OpenEdge 11.3.1 64Bit Solaris SPARC Lately we run into trouble with long running transactions causing the Before Image of our production database to unexpectedly grow. Bad code ... Therefore I have introduced a transaction monitor to report long running transactions and eventually disconnect...
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    Answered Before Image Cluster Size Vs. Checkpoint Interval

    OE 11.3.1 64 Bit on Solaris SPARC 10. I've recently checked the checkpoint interval during the night on our production database where the batch processing in our applications creates ca. 24 GB worth of After Image transaction notes in roughly 6 hours. During that time the checkpoint interval is...
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    Question B2 Puzzle

    OpenEdge 11.3.1 Solaris SPARC 64 Bit I am having trouble understanding this. Maybe I am completely wrong - but here goes: I have a database, blocksize is 8192, for which I moved the Schema Area to the B2. The Schema Area only contains the meta schema of the database and consist of one variable...
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    Answered Where To Download The Eula ( End User License Agreement )

    Maybe I can't find the obvious or maybe it is perfectly hidden. Does anybody happen to know where I could download the EULA from Progress that is referenced in the license addendums? Thanks in Advance and Best Regards, RealHeavyDude.
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