You should be able to backup Informix 7.21 directly into ADSM with on-bar.
Documentation is available from both IBM and Informix which indicates that
this is possible.  I'm sure that Cyndie Behrens will append to this thread
also, with more details.  We have not done this yet, but are planning to RSN.
..Paul

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On Thu, 23 Jan 1997 22:22:32 -0800 David Ong said:
On Thu, 23 Jan 1997 22:22:32 -0800 David Ong said:
>Russ,
>We also use Informix with SAP and are waiting anxiously for Datatools or
>Informix/SAP to provide an online backup capability via the api to ADSM.

>At 10:22 AM 1/23/97 -0500, you wrote:
>>I have a customer with two 3490s sitting virtually unused.  They are also
>contemplating getting a couple of 3590s.  They have SAP with an Informix
>database running on an AIX 4.1 system on raw drives.  They are telling me
>that Informix cannot cope with the autoloaders, and ADSM, which can cope
>with 3490s doesn't work with raw devices.  I thought adsmpipe would do raw
>devices, but it can only do full offline backups and is not fully
>supported.  Comments or suggestions?
>>
>>Regards,
>>Russ Brooks
>>
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