  Ingres II HOWTO
  Pal Domokos, pal.domokos@usa.net
  v1.01, 23 December 1999

  This document helps install the Ingres II Relational Database Manage-
  ment System on Linux.
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  Table of Contents

























































  1. Introduction

     1.1 Version History
     1.2 Copyright
     1.3 Aim of the HOWTO
     1.4 Disclaimer

  2. The Ingres Software Development Kit

     2.1 University Ingres and Commercial Ingres
     2.2 The Software Development Kit
     2.3 The SDK CD

  3. System Requirements

     3.1 Hardware
     3.2 Software
     3.3 The ingres User and II_SYSTEM

  4. Preparing for the Installation

     4.1 Ingres Environment Variables
     4.2 II_LOG_FILE and II_DUAL_LOG
     4.3 Database Locations
     4.4 The iidbdb database
     4.5 II_DATABASE
     4.6 II_CHECKPOINT
     4.7 II_DUMP
     4.8 II_JOURNAL
     4.9 II_WORK
     4.10 Other Ingres Environment Variables

  5. The Installation Process

     5.1 Starting the Installation Program
     5.2 Express Install
     5.3 Manual Install
     5.4 Completing the Initial Configuration
     5.5 Re-installation
     5.6 Command Line Install
     5.7 The Installer's Log

  6. First Steps

  7. Basic System and Database Administration

     7.1 Starting and Stopping Ingres
     7.2 New Ingres Users and Locations
     7.3 Creating and Destroying Databases
     7.4 Collation Sequence
     7.5 Backup and Recovery
     7.6 Configuring Ingres
     7.7 Monitoring Ingres
     7.8 Message Files

  8. Web Access

     8.1 (TT
     8.2 Configuring Apache
     8.3 ICE Setup

  9. Miscellaneous Topics

     9.1 Automatic Startup and Shutdown
     9.2 (TT
     9.3 Circumventing Ingres Net
     9.4 Forms-Based Development Tools
     9.5 Ingperl and Perl DBI
     9.6 Ingres links


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  1.  Introduction


  1.1.  Version History


  o  v1.0 - 7 November 1999 - Pal Domokos - Original version.

  o  v1.01 - 23 December 1999 - Pal Domokos - Minor fixes.

  1.2.  Copyright


  Copyright (c) 1999 by Pal Domokos.

  This HOWTO may be reproduced and distributed in any medium physical or
  electronic, for purposes personal or commercial, as long as this
  copyright notice is retained on all copies.

  1.3.  Aim of the HOWTO


  This HOWTO aims to help install Ingres II on (Intel) Linux. As always,
  help is useful for those who need it and can utilize it as well.

  If you are an Ingres pro familiar with Linux then you don't really
  need to read this HOWTO. Skim through it though if you have time.

  If you have no previous background in relational database management
  (experience with at least one real RDBMS, not some dBase-like file
  management system), you don't know UNIX and have just started using
  Linux, this HOWTO won't make an easy reading for you. Even then, I
  don't want to persuade you not to install Ingres. Don't give up easy!

  If you are not a novice in database management and have some working
  knowledge of Linux, this HOWTO is for you! We are not going to discuss
  the basics of relational database management or SQL, neither are we
  going to elaborate on how to edit text files in Linux. You can find as
  much information as you want on these topics in numerous places. This
  HOWTO is not an Ingres guide, either: the Ingres manuals serve that
  purpose.

  The objective of this HOWTO is that the reader can prepare for, then
  implement the installation of Ingres on Linux, through simple and
  understandable steps.  It also gives starting points for basic Ingres
  system administration and application development.

  I can only hope that the HOWTO reaches its goal. Anyway, I ask you,
  the reader, to email me your feelings and criticisms concerning this
  document.  I will try to incorporate your suggestions in the next
  version.

  1.4.  Disclaimer


  To put it briefly: there is no warranty about the validity of any
  statement contained in this document. Read and use at your own risk.


  Furthermore, I am not an employee of Computer Associates International
  and I have no official links with CA. Computer Associates
  International bears no responsibility for the contents of this HOWTO.

  2.  The Ingres Software Development Kit


  In this section the Ingres SDK is introduced and you come to know how
  to get it.

  2.1.  University Ingres and Commercial Ingres


  Let us start with an important fact: there are two different types of
  Ingres.  The original one, which was designed and developed by a
  research group led by Michael Stonebraker at University of California,
  Berkeley, was real open source software. It was free to use and
  distribute, source code included. In fact, it is still free software,
  although its development stopped in 1989.  Its last version (version
  8.9) made it into some Linux distributions as well.  If you are
  interested in it, you can download it from, say


  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/current/suse/ap1/ingres.rpm


  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/current/suse/ap1/ingrtool.rpm

  In 1979, with the foundation of Relational Technology, Inc., the
  career of Commercial Ingres started. Since 1995 it has been
  distributed by Computer Associates. Its latest version is called
  Ingres II 2.0. This HOWTO deals with the installation of this version
  of Ingres.

  2.2.  The Software Development Kit


  Ingres, being commercial software, is not free to use. However, CA,
  like other RDBMS vendors, offers a free version of it (the Software
  Development Kit) to everyone who is interested in getting to know
  Ingres. The SDK has two variants, one for Windows NT and one for
  Linux. These variants aren't quite the same as far as components are
  concerned. Obviously, we are engaged in installing the SDK for Linux
  here. This contains the following elements:

  o  Intelligent DBMS: the database engine

  o  Internet Commerce Enabled (ICE): this component makes database
     access through the Web possible

  o  Enhanced Security: the tool supporting mandatory access control

  o  C2 Security Auditing: the possibility of C2 level auditing

  o  Terminal Monitors: forms-based and command line SQL interfaces

  o  Querying and Reporting Tools: forms-based querying, report-writing
     and report-running tools plus a forms editor

  o  Querying and Reporting Runtime: like the previous one, but without
     the forms editor

  o  Vision Pro: integrated, forms-based development environment with a
     code generator


  o  Embedded SQL Precompilers: precompilers for embedding SQL
     statements in 3GL applications. Supported languages are C, C++,
     COBOL, Fortran

  The SDK does not contain the following components:

  o  Net: this component makes possible for Ingres utilities and user
     applications to have access to databases residing on different
     machines

  o  Enterprise Access: communication with different database management
     systems and other, non-relational data sources (used to be called
     Gateways)

  o  Star: to handle distributed databases

  o  Replicator: support for replication functions

  o  Visual DBA: GUI database management tool

  o  OpenRoad: object-oriented, GUI development tool

  You can order a free copy of the Ingres SDK CD at


  http://www.cai.com/registration/cd_ingres.htm

  Remember that you are not allowed to install the SDK in a business
  environment.  It is for evaluating Ingres and prototyping applications
  only.

  The freshest beta version of the SDK is always at


  http://www.cai.com/products/betas/ingres_linux/ingres_linux.htm

  If you want to give the beta version a try, check first if it is newer
  than your CD. You can do it by comparing the ReadMe file on the CD to
  its counterpart on the page above. This on-line ReadMe contains the
  expiration date of the beta as well.

  The full version of Ingres for Linux isn't out yet. According to CA,
  it is due to arrive by the end of 1999.

  Let me note that the Linux version of CA's Unicenter TNG Framework
  also includes Ingres as its embedded database management system. For
  this reason, knowing Ingres may come in handy when using Unicenter,
  too. You can order a free Unicenter TNG Framework CD from


  http://www.cai.com/registration/tng_framework_linux/index.htm: for
  RedHat


  http://www.cai.com/registration/tng_framework_linux/suse_linux.htm:
  for SuSE

  2.3.  The SDK CD


  The SDK CD contains both the Windows NT and the Linux versions of the
  SDK.  You can find the Linux files in the following directories:

  o  /doc: the manuals in PDF format. They are also available at
     http://www.cai.com/products/ingres/documentation_set.htm

  o  /int_lnx: this directory contains ingres.tar, the tarball to be
     installed.  You can find an almost identical version of the ReadMe
     file here, too, under the name of readme.txt. Don't forget to read
     this file! ingres.tar can be installed directly from the CD or you
     can copy it to hard disk first.

  3.  System Requirements


  In this section you will see what hardware and software requirements
  must be met before you can install Ingres. The ingres user, would-be
  owner of the installation, makes a debut, too.

  3.1.  Hardware


  According to the ReadMe, the minimal hardware capable of running
  Ingres is:

  o  486x33 processor, Pentium recommended

  o  16 Mb RAM, with 32 Mb swap space (64 Mb RAM recommended)

  o  150 Mb disk space if you install the whole package (200 Mb
     recommended.  The whole space doesn't need to be in one file
     system: we discuss the possibilities in section Preparing for the
     Installation)

  3.2.  Software


  Based again partly on the ReadMe, the following software elements must
  be present to install and run Ingres:

  o  kernel 2.0.34 or higher

  o  glibc 2.07 or higher (on glibc 2.1 see subsection
     Miscellaneous/Forms-Based Development Tools)

  o  libcrypt.so - because of export restrictions in the US, this
     library isn't included in every Linux distribution. If you live
     outside America, you can download the library from your
     distribution's supplementary site on another continent.

  o  uncompress - certain Linux distributions (such as Caldera's
     OpenLinux 2.2) don't contain the ncompress package. If you don't
     have it, get it from another distribution.

  You can find a list of supported Linux distributions and versions
  here:


  http://support.cai.com/techbases/ingres/linuxversions.html

  3.3.  The ingres User and II_SYSTEM


  We need an account called ingres to install and run Ingres. He will
  own the installed software and only he can perform system management
  tasks such as starting and stopping Ingres. You shouldn't do any other
  work as ingres.

  The ingres user may belong to any group. In the following example, we
  will create a separate group for him which will be called ingres, too.


  The verified (therefore, recommended) shell for the ingres user is
  bash.  All examples in this paper apply to this shell. If you use some
  other shell (which is probably just as fine), take into account the
  differences in syntax.

  The binaries, shared libraries, configuration files and other files
  which make up the Ingres software, will be located in a tree structure
  after installation.  You will set the root of this tree via the shell
  variable II_SYSTEM (to be exact, the root will be $II_SYSTEM/ingres)
  in the environment of the ingres user.

  For the whole SDK, 60-odd Mb free space is needed under
  $II_SYSTEM/ingres.

  If this is the first time you install Ingres, I suggest you keep the
  whole installation (the Ingres software, databases, backups, temporary
  areas, etc.)  in one place so that you can find every component
  easily. If you have at least 150-200 Mb free space under
  $II_SYSTEM/ingres and you don't plan to create large databases (at
  least, not for some time), your system will work without problems.
  Should you at any later time run out of space, you will always have
  the possibility to relocate some of your databases to another
  partition.

  In the following, I will assume that II_SYSTEM is set to /opt.

  Logging in as root, execute the tasks mentioned above:

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  # mkdir /opt/ingres
  # chmod 755 /opt/ingres
  # groupadd -g 200 ingres
  # useradd -g ingres -d /opt/ingres -s /bin/bash ingres
  # chown ingres:ingres /opt/ingres
  # passwd ingres
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  You can choose any Group ID that hasn't been allocated yet. It is
  practical to use a number greater than 100.

  We set the home directory of ingres to /opt/ingres
  ($II_SYSTEM/ingres).  This is not mandatory but convenient. We also
  granted ownership of the directory to ingres (that is compulsory).

  Finally, put the following lines in the .profile file of ingres (or
  one of the other command files that start automatically at login):

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  umask 022
  export II_SYSTEM=/opt
  export PATH=$II_SYSTEM/ingres/bin:$II_SYSTEM/ingres/utility:$PATH
  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib:/usr/lib:$II_SYSTEM/ingres/lib
  export ING_EDIT=/usr/bin/vi
  if [ -n "$DISPLAY" ]
  then
     export TERM_INGRES=vt100fx
  else
    export TERM_INGRES=vt100f
  fi
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  ING_EDIT sets the editor that can be called from Ingres utilities or
  application programs. Naturally, you can use any editor, not just vi.
  You must, however, specify the whole access path to the program. (If
  you stick to vi, check if it is under /usr/bin: it can be somewhere
  else in your system.) Take care: if the EDITOR shell variable is also
  set, it overrides the value of ING_EDIT.

  Setting TERM_INGRES is necessary for the terminal to work properly.
  Forms-based Ingres utilities, such as the install program itself, and
  also applications created with traditional Ingres development tools
  (ABF, Vision) make heavy use of function keys. The .profile above sets
  TERM_INGRES according to the terminal type (VT100-like or X).

  These settings must be included in the .profile of every user that
  will be granted access to the Ingres installation.

  4.  Preparing for the Installation


  This is the longest section and so it should be: after careful
  planning the installation itself should be an easy task.

  4.1.  Ingres Environment Variables


  You will use Ingres environment variables to determine where to put
  further elements of the Ingres installation. These variables, unlike
  II_SYSTEM, aren't shell variables but rather parameters of Ingres
  stored in a file. Some of them can be changed at any time after
  installation, but altering the value of others requires a whole new
  install. Later you will see which of them are of this "stable" nature.

  During installation, you can choose between setting these variables
  manually or letting the installer program set them to their default
  values (Express Install).

  In the following, we will take the Ingres environment variables one by
  one and see what each of them is good for. It will help if you put
  their planned values on paper. You can find an Installation Worksheet
  in the Getting Started Guide which you can print out and use for this
  purpose.

  4.2.  II_LOG_FILE and II_DUAL_LOG


  Ingres uses an installation-wide transaction log file to record all
  changes made to any database (recording changes is necessary for
  rolling back transactions, should it be required, and also for
  recovering databases after a system crash).  The transaction log
  resides in II_LOG_FILE/ingres/log, where II_LOG_FILE is an Ingres
  environment variable. The name of the log file is ingres_log.

  Express Install creates a log file of the minimal possible size, 16
  Mb.  Such a log file may not be large enough even in a development
  system. If you have space and choose manual install (in which case you
  can specify the size of the log), set it to something much larger.

  Both the location of the log file and its size can be changed at any
  time after installation. The method of doing this is described in the
  System Reference Guide.

  You also have to decide if you want dual logging (mirroring the
  transaction log). If the log gets corrupted for any reason, Ingres
  stops and you have to recover your databases from backup. Therefore,
  in a live system, it is almost compulsory either to have some type of
  RAID protection of the log or to have it mirrored by Ingres. If you
  use dual logging, the copy of the log file can be found under
  II_DUAL_LOG/ingres/log. Its name is dual_log.

  In a development environment, mirroring the log is not always
  necessary.

  4.3.  Database Locations


  Files constituting an Ingres database are put in different directories
  determined by means of Ingres locations. Every location points to the
  root of a directory tree. A location can be used for storing different
  types of files (see below). Databases can also share locations.

  Let us see the five location types:

  o  Data location: place for data files of a database. In Ingres every
     system table and every user table, and also every index goes in a
     separate file.

  o  Checkpoint location: checkpoint is the term Ingres uses for a
     database backup. By default, backups are created in the checkpoint
     location of the database.

  o  Dump location: on-line backups are possible in Ingres, that is, the
     database may be in use while the backup program is running. For
     this reason, the database may change while it is being
     checkpointed. Ingres, so that it can restore the database to the
     state it was in at the beginning of the backup, saves the before
     images of those data blocks (pages) that change during the backup
     process.  Ingres places these pages in the dump location.

  o  Journal location: from time to time, Ingres writes the records of
     committed transactions from the log file to journal files
     (journaling may be set on or off at the database or even at the
     table level). The frequency of this activity is set as a function
     of the amount of information that is written to the transaction
     log. Journaling protect the installation against media failures: if
     the disk containing the database crashes, you can restore the last
     (just before the failure occurred) committed state of the database
     using a backup (checkpoint) of the database and the journals
     created after that checkpoint was taken. If you lose the log disk,
     you can restore the last committed state the database was in at the
     time the last journal file was refreshed. Naturally, the journal
     location determines where the journal files for a database reside.

  o  Work location: Ingres, mainly for sorting large volumes of data,
     needs temporary work space on disk. It creates temporary files in
     the work location.

  A database can have more than one data or work location (this is
  called extending the database). However, every database must have a
  primary data location.  The system tables reside on the primary
  location, together with the control file of the database (this latter
  is called aaaaaaaa.cnf. The control file stores certain basic
  information about the database. You can see this information with the
  infodb command after you have completed the installation.) When
  creating a table or index, if you don't specify the location(s) to put
  it in, it will be placed in the primary data location.

  If a database has more than one work location, Ingres, by default,
  uses all of them for each sort.

  When backing up the database you don't necessarily need to use the
  checkpoint location of the database. The ckpdb command allows you to
  specify an arbitrary place for the backup, this way you can checkpoint
  a database directly to tape as well.

  As I said before, every Ingres location points to a Linux directory.
  The opposite is not true: more than one location can point to the same
  directory.  Let us suppose that our database, test, has the following
  locations:

  o  DATALOC1: data location --> /opt

  o  CKPLOC: checkpoint location --> /opt

  o  DMPLOC: dump location --> /opt

  o  JRNLLOC: journal location --> /opt

  o  WORKLOC1: work location --> /opt

  Every location points to the /opt directory. Then, elements of the
  database will be in these directories:

  o  data files: /opt/ingres/data/default/test

  o  checkpoint files: /opt/ingres/ckp/default/test

  o  dump files: /opt/ingres/dmp/default/test

  o  journal files: /opt/ingres/jnl/default/test

  o  temporary files: /opt/ingres/work/default/test

  Let us suppose now, that we extend the database to the following
  locations:

  o  DATALOC2: data location--> /opt

  o  DATALOC3: data location--> /disk2

  o  WORKLOC2: work location --> /disk2

  The database is effectively extended to the directories:

  o  data files: /disk2/ingres/data/default/test

  o  temporary files: /disk2/ingres/work/default/test

  Location DATALOC2 points to /opt, just like DATALOC1. Tables to be
  created in location DATALOC2 will go to /opt/ingres/data/default/test,
  the same directory where tables created in location DATALOC1 reside.

  As a location can be used for storing different types of files, we
  could have created just one location for DATALOC1, CKPLOC, DMPLOC,
  JRNLLOC, and WORKLOC1.

  You can also see from the example above why different databases can
  use the same location: the name of the database becomes part of the
  directory tree, hence files of different databases never mix.

  4.4.  The iidbdb database


  Every Ingres installation has a master database called iidbdb. Ingres
  stores information about users, locations and user databases in this
  database. iidbdb is created by the installer.

  During installation you have to set the locations for iidbdb. These
  locations are stored in the following Ingres environment variables:
  o  II_DATABASE: data location

  o  II_CHECKPOINT: checkpoint location

  o  II_DUMP: dump location

  o  II_JOURNAL: journal location

  o  II_WORK: work location

  These variables determine the default locations for every user
  database as well, if you don't override them when creating those
  databases.

  Changing the value of any of the five variables requires a complete
  re-install of Ingres.

  Let us see them one by one.

  4.5.  II_DATABASE


  II_DATABASE determines the data location of iidbdb. Its default value
  is $II_SYSTEM (in case of a manual install you can enter a different
  value for II_DATABASE, while Express Install inevitably sets it to
  $II_SYSTEM).

  The size of iidbdb after the installation is somewhat more than 5 Mb.
  It can only grow significantly if you create hundreds of Ingres users,
  databases or locations.

  4.6.  II_CHECKPOINT


  II_CHECKPOINT contains the value for the checkpoint location of
  iidbdb.  By default, it is also set to $II_SYSTEM.

  The size of a checkpoint is just about the same as the size of the
  database itself (at least until you modify the template file of the
  checkpoint program: it is possible, as you will see in subsection
  Basic System and Database Administration/Backup and Recovery). The
  installer takes the first checkpoint of iidbdb.

  If you plan to place checkpoints of user databases under II_CHECKPOINT
  then you have to provide more space here.

  A further factor that must be taken into account is how long you want
  to keep backups. When starting the checkpoint program, you can request
  the deletion of older backups if you don't have too much free space.

  4.7.  II_DUMP


  II_DUMP determines the dump location of the iidbdb database. By
  default, its value equals to that of II_CHECKPOINT.

  By the end of the installation process, II_DUMP will contain a very
  small amount of data. If you always create checkpoints off-line then
  you won't need much space here.

  4.8.  II_JOURNAL


  II_JOURNAL contains the value for the journal location of the iidbdb
  database.  Its default value is the same as II_CHECKPOINT's.

  The first checkpoint, taken by the installer causes the first, small
  journal file to appear here. If you don't use different journal
  locations for user databases then the necessary amount of free space
  under II_JOURNAL depends on three factors:

  o  Do you want Ingres to journal at all. If you take checkpoints of
     your databases regularly and don't mind losing the changes you made
     to them since the latest checkpoint should anything nasty happen to
     these databases or the transaction log, you may switch off
     journaling. Naturally, running a live system without journaling is
     usually not acceptable.

  o  If journaling is switched on, then the growth rate of the journal
     area is determined by the volume of changes made to the databases.
     Frequent, large updates require quite a bit of space under
     II_JOURNAL.

  o  The third factor is, how long you wish to keep old journal files.
     If, when taking a checkpoint, you instruct ckpdb to delete the old
     checkpoints, then previous journal files will be removed as well.

  4.9.  II_WORK


  II_WORK determines the work location of the iidbdb database. It also
  defaults to II_CHECKPOINT.

  The problem of sizing the work location only arises if II_WORK serves
  as a work location of user databases as well. It is next to impossible
  to estimate the temporary disk space that will be needed; however,
  having the size of the largest table multiplied by three should work
  as a starting point.

  Remember that a database can have more than one work location. If the
  original location turns out too small, you can always extend the
  database to further work locations.

  4.10.  Other Ingres Environment Variables


  Besides the Ingres environment variables that determine locations
  there are a couple more of them you have to set during installation
  (or have Express Install set them to their default values). These are:

  o  II_INSTALLATION: a two-character code, identifying the
     installation. If you create multiple Ingres installations on the
     same machine, each of them must have its own unique installation
     code. The default value for II_INSTALLATION is II. Once set, it
     can't be changed.

  o  II_NUM_OF_PROCESSORS: number of processors in the machine. By
     default, it is 1. If you set it to a higher value, Ingres will use
     spin-locks when accessing the database cache. If you don't know
     exactly what spin-locks are, don't bother.  The point is to set
     II_NUM_OF_PROCESSORS to 2 if you have a multiprocessor machine. Its
     value can be changed at any time later.

  o  II_CHARSET: this variable determines the code set of all character
     data stored in all databases you will create in the installation.
     Its default value is ISO-8859-1. Perhaps it's not surprising that
     changing it to a different value after installation may corrupt
     data stored in your existing databases.  As the iidbdb database is
     created by the installer program, you shouldn't choose Express
     Install if ISO-8859-1 doesn't suit you.


  o  II_TIMEZONE_NAME: name of the time zone, by default NA-PACIFIC.
     During manual install you can select its value from a list of valid
     codes. Ingres stores all date and time values in GMT and adjusts
     them according to II_TIMEZONE_NAME when communicating with the
     client. Therefore, if you set II_TIMEZONE_NAME to a different
     value, you will see all date-time values in the database change.
     For this reason, set this variable to its final value before
     creating the first user database.

  The (manual) installer prompts you for the value of two further
  parameters which aren't Ingres environment variables:

  o  Maximum number of concurrent users in the system: this is 32 by
     default.  Based on this number, the installer sets the value of a
     number of other parameters, such as the size of the database cache.
     These derived parameters can later be adjusted.

  o  SQL-92 compatible databases: by default, Ingres databases differ
     from the SQL-92 standard in some ways. For example, object names
     not protected by single or double quotes are converted to lower
     case rather than upper case. You can find the other differences in
     the SQL Reference Guide.

  After you have made up your mind on the values of all installation
  parameters, you now know whether the default values for the variables
  that can't be changed after installation are acceptable to you. If
  they are, you can choose Express Install.

  5.  The Installation Process


  In this section, at last, the actual installation of Ingres takes
  place.

  5.1.  Starting the Installation Program


  In the following I will presume that you install directly from the CD
  which is mounted under /cdrom. Log in as ingres and cd to
  $II_SYSTEM/ingres if it's not your home directory. Unpack the install
  subdirectory from the tar file and start the ingbuild program:

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  $ cd $II_SYSTEM/ingres
  $ tar xf /cdrom/ingres.tar install
  $ install/ingbuild
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  On the starting screen of ingbuild you have to specify the path to the
  tar file and select the type of install: Custom or Package.

  If you select Package Install you can choose between the installation
  of two packages: one is the whole software, the other is the DBMS
  server only.  In the latter case none of the development tools will be
  installed.

  I suggest you choose Custom Install. It won't be any more difficult
  than Package and you will see all the elements that can be installed.
  Furthermore, Express Install is available with Custom Install only.

  After choosing Custom Install, a table on the next screen shows all
  components of Ingres together with their respective sizes. Because of
  common parts in different components the sizes added up indicate much
  more necessary disk space than really required.
  You can see three meta-components in the table. These are:

  o  Full Installation

  o  Ingres Intelligent DBMS (the database engine, without development
     tools and terminal monitors)

  o  Ingres Stand-alone DBMS server (the database engine, without
     development tools but with terminal monitors)

  By default every component is set to be installed. If you want to
  exclude some of them, you have to write "No" into column "Install?".
  In this case you have to exclude all meta-components that contain
  these elements as well.

  You had previously decided if the default values for the "stable"
  Ingres environment variables were acceptable for your installation. If
  so, you can choose Express Install here. Remember that you can alter
  the values of II_LOG_FILE and II_NUM_OF_PROCESSORS as well as the size
  of the transaction log at any later time.

  If this is your first Ingres install, you have the necessary space
  under $II_SYSTEM/ingres and the "stable" parameters' default values
  are OK, choose Express Install.

  Let us see this option first.

  5.2.  Express Install


  In the case of Express Install the installer executes the following
  tasks:

  o  It untars the components from the tar file to the
     $II_SYSTEM/ingres/install/tmp directory.

  o  Checks the integrity of all components.

  o  Puts the components into appropriate subdirectories under
     $II_SYSTEM/ingres.

  o  Sets the Ingres environment variables to their default values.

  o  Starts Ingres.

  o  Creates the iidbdb database.

  o  Takes a checkpoint of iidbdb.

  o  Stops Ingres.

  o  Sets up those components that require this (ABF, Enhanced Security,
     etc).

  If the installation process went OK, the program tells you that every
  installed component is ready to use. In the table on the screen the
  "Install?" column shows "Ready" for every selected component.

  Ingres is installed on your machine. Jump to subsection Completing the
  Initial Configuration.

  5.3.  Manual Install


  If you choose Install rather than Express Install, the installer
  untars ingres.tar, checks the integrity of the components and puts
  them into their respective directories. Then it asks you if you want
  to setup these parameters now.

  If you decide to do the setup later, the installer stops. In the table
  containing the components the "Install?" column shows "Not Set Up" for
  every selected component. You can run ingbuild again at any time and
  choose one of the options Setup All or Setup. A component can't be
  used until it is set up.

  Let us see what happens if you choose to set up the components.

  First, you have to set up the DBMS server. On the screens to follow
  you will see a fair amount of explanatory text about the parameters we
  have covered earlier.

  During the setup phase, the installer prompts you for the values of
  the Ingres environment variables and the other parameters:

  o  II_INSTALLATION

  o  II_DATABASE

  o  II_CHECKPOINT: if you set it to the same value as II_DATABASE, the
     program warns you of the dangers of losing a database and its
     backup at the same time.  You have to repeat II_CHECKPOINT's value
     for the program to accept it.

  o  II_JOURNAL

  o  II_DUMP

  o  II_WORK

  o  II_LOG_FILE: the installer reminds you Ingres' capability of
     mirroring the transaction log. Naturally, it only makes sense if
     the mirrored log file is on a different disk than the primary log
     file. The installer asks you if you want to switch off dual
     logging. Then you have to specify the size of the log (16 Mb by
     default, make it bigger if you have space as I suggested earlier).
     After this you have to tell the installer where to put the primary
     log file, and, if you haven't switched dual logging off, the dual
     log file (II_DUAL_LOG).

  o  II_NUM_OF_PROCESSORS

  o  II_TIMEZONE_NAME

  o  II_CHARSET

  o  Maximum number of concurrent users

  o  SQL-92 compatible databases

  At every prompt, enter the appropriate parameter's previously decided
  value.

  The installer will also ask you about C2 audit and Enhanced Security.
  Accept the default values for these.

  5.4.  Completing the Initial Configuration


  After an Express Install (but perhaps after a manual install as well),
  you may want to change the value of some of the Ingres environment
  variables.  You will see how to do this here. Stay logged in as
  ingres.
  You can view the current values of Ingres environment variables with
  the command:

  ______________________________________________________________________
  $ ingprenv
  ______________________________________________________________________



  You can change the value of any variable as in the following example:

  ______________________________________________________________________
  $ ingsetenv II_TIMEZONE_NAME GMT2
  ______________________________________________________________________



  We set II_TIMEZONE_NAME to GMT2 (Greenwich Mean Time + 2 hours), the
  time zone Hungary is placed in. You can find all possible values for
  II_TIMEZONE_NAME in the file $II_SYSTEM/ingres/files/tz.crs (look for
  the lists beginning with the word VALID).

  You can change the value of any other Ingres environment variable in a
  similar way. ingprenv and ingsetenv don't require a running Ingres
  server.

  The System Reference Guide contains descriptions for every Ingres
  environment variable. Let me mention two of those that we haven't
  covered yet.

  II_DATE_FORMAT determines the display format of dates. By default, its
  value is US which provides the format dd-mmm-yy.

  It should be pointed out that the setting of this variable has no
  effect on the way dates are stored in the database. Ingres always
  stores full date values, century included. Hence, you can always
  change the setting of II_DATE_FORMAT without the risk of corrupting
  data. In order to avoid Y2K problems in your applications, you should
  use a date format that contains the century, such as MULTINATIONAL4
  (dd/mm/yyyy) or FINLAND (yyyy-mm-dd). The latter seems especially
  proper under Linux :-)

  Another Ingres environment variable that has a good chance to be
  changed from its default value is II_MONEY_FORMAT. This one is
  responsible for how values of money type are displayed. Just like with
  dates, the value of II_MONEY_FORMAT doesn't have an impact on the
  storage format of money columns which is always the same.

  II_MONEY_FORMAT consists of two parts: the first part tells whether
  the currency sign precedes the amount (L = Leading or T = Trailing),
  the second part describes the currency itself ($, DM, Ft, etc: this
  part is a string of maximum 4 characters). The two parts are separated
  by a colon. II_MONEY_FORMAT defaults to L:$.

  Only the ingres user is allowed to use ingsetenv, since these Ingres
  environment variables apply to the whole installation. However, some
  Ingres environment variables (including II_DATE_FORMAT and
  II_MONEY_FORMAT) can be overridden in the users' shell, via Linux
  variables of the same name. You can check the System Reference Guide
  about which other variables fall into this category.

  Be careful: Ingres doesn't prevent you from changing the value of any
  Ingres environment variable, including II_DATABASE, II_CHECKPOINT,
  II_CHARSET, etc.  (the "stable" parameters as we saw earlier).
  However, if you change one of these, prepare for the nastiest possible
  consequences, the mildest one of which is that Ingres won't run.
  You can find information about how to set up Ingres/ICE in section Web
  Access.

  5.5.  Re-installation


  If you want to re-install Ingres for whatever reason, remember to do
  the following first:

  o  Backup everything you need from $II_SYSTEM/ingres (user databases,
     source code of applications stored there, etc). Also backup any
     other databases you want to keep that are stored in different
     locations. You can use the unloaddb utility for this purpose, see
     the System Reference Guide.

  o  Stop Ingres.

  o  Remove everything under $II_SYSTEM/ingres. Also remove the contents
     of every other location where you stored any part of any database.

  Databases that aren't completely removed can cause problems when you
  try to re-create them.

  5.6.  Command Line Install


  You can run ingbuild in a non-interactive mode as well. The easiest
  way to do an Express Install is to start ingbuild in the following
  way:

  ______________________________________________________________________
  install/ingbuild -express /cdrom/int_lnx/ingres.tar
  ______________________________________________________________________



  In this case a regular Express Install takes place without having to
  press another key.

  5.7.  The Installer's Log


  No matter which type of install you choose (express or manual), you
  can find all of ingbuild's messages in
  $II_SYSTEM/ingres/files/install.log.  I suggest you check this file
  after an Express Install to see what happened during the installation
  process. On the other hand, if ingbuild stops with an error message,
  check this log also.

  6.  First Steps


  After you have installed and configured Ingres, it is time to check if
  it works properly. Supposing you are still logged in as ingres, start
  the Ingres system:

  ______________________________________________________________________
  $ ingstart
  ______________________________________________________________________



  Create a new database:



  ______________________________________________________________________
  $ createdb test
  ______________________________________________________________________



  Start the command line SQL interface:

  ______________________________________________________________________
  $ sql test
  ______________________________________________________________________



  Create a table, insert a row into it and query the table's contents:

  ______________________________________________________________________
  create table t1 (col1 char(10));
  insert into t1 values ('abcde');
  select * from t1;
  \g
  ______________________________________________________________________



  If everything went OK, you should see the following:

  ______________________________________________________________________
  $ sql test
  INGRES TERMINAL MONITOR Copyright (c) 1981, 1998 Computer Associates Intl, Inc.
  Ingres Linux Version II 2.0/9808 (lnx.us5/95)libc6 login
  Sun Oct  3 03:43:54 1999

  continue
  * create table t1 (col1 char(10));
  * insert into t1 values ('abcde');
  * select * from t1;
  * \g
  Executing . . .

  (1 row)


  col1

  abcde

  (1 row)
  continue
  *
  ______________________________________________________________________



  You can leave sql with the command \q.

  7.  Basic System and Database Administration


  In this section we outline the basic tasks of the Ingres system
  administrator and the Ingres database administrator. You will also see
  what tools Ingres provides to perform these tasks. In the following I
  suppose you are logged in as ingres.



  7.1.  Starting and Stopping Ingres


  You have already seen how to start Ingres:

  ______________________________________________________________________
  $ ingstart
  ______________________________________________________________________



  To stop Ingres, use the command:

  ______________________________________________________________________
  $ ingstop
  ______________________________________________________________________



  ingstop only stops Ingres if the are no active user sessions. If you
  want to stop the system regardless of user sessions, use the form:

  ______________________________________________________________________
  $ ingstop -force
  ______________________________________________________________________



  Take care: forcing Ingres to stop might make your databases
  inconsistent.

  After Ingres has stopped you can check if it released all shared
  memory segments and semaphores:

  ______________________________________________________________________
  $ ipcs -a
  ______________________________________________________________________



  If you see that ingres still has some shared memory segments or
  semaphores, you can release them with the utility:

  ______________________________________________________________________
  $ ipcclean
  ______________________________________________________________________



  7.2.  New Ingres Users and Locations


  Since the ingres user has unlimited power of changing and possibly
  destroying any element of an Ingres installation, it is highly
  advisable that you use this account for carrying out administrative
  tasks only. Create one or more new Linux users and set their
  environment to that of ingres.

  In order for any user to have access to the Ingres installation, you
  have to define them as Ingres users with the accessdb utility.

  Start accessdb:




  ______________________________________________________________________
  $ accessdb
  ______________________________________________________________________



  Select the Users option:

  Create

  Enter the name of the user. You don't have to modify permissions
  (perhaps the Set Trace Flags could be set to y to allow debugging).

  Save, then End and End.

  You can also use accessdb to create new locations, change their types
  or extend databases to new locations. The usage of accessdb is covered
  in the System Reference Guide and the Database Administrator's Guide.

  As an alternative to accessdb, you can maintain users and locations by
  running SQL commands on iidbdb (create user, create location, etc.).
  The syntax of these commands can be found in the SQL Reference Guide.

  7.3.  Creating and Destroying Databases


  In section First Steps you created a new database. You didn't specify
  any options in the command

  ______________________________________________________________________
  $ createdb test
  ______________________________________________________________________



  Therefore the values stored in II_DATABASE, II_CHECKPOINT, etc. became
  locations of the test database. You could have specified each location
  explicitly:

  ______________________________________________________________________
  $ createdb test -d<data location> -c<checkpoint location> -j<journal location>
  -b<dump location> -w<work location>
  ______________________________________________________________________



  You can remove a database in the following manner:

  ______________________________________________________________________
  $ destroydb test
  ______________________________________________________________________



  Be careful, because Ingres won't prompt you before destroying the
  database.

  7.4.  Collation Sequence


  The collation sequence determines which of any two character strings
  is less than the other. In Ingres, every database can have its own
  sorting order.  You can specify the collation sequence when creating
  the database:


  ______________________________________________________________________
  createdb test -lhun
  ______________________________________________________________________



  If you omit the -l parameter, characters in that database will be
  ordered as determined by the code set of the installation.

  In order to use a different collation sequence you have to create a
  text file. The structure of this file must obey to simple rules by
  which you specify the absolute or relative ordering of letters and/or
  strings in your language.  This file must then be compiled by the
  aducompile utility for Ingres to be able to use it.

  The Spanish collation sequence and the collation based on the DEC
  Multinational Character Set are available both in source (spanish.dsc
  and multi.dsc) and compiled form (spanish and multi).

  You specify these collation sequences in the following way:

  ______________________________________________________________________
  createdb test -lspanish
  ______________________________________________________________________



  or

  ______________________________________________________________________
  createdb test -lmulti
  ______________________________________________________________________



  The compiled definition files for a collation sequence must be in the
  $II_SYSTEM/ingres/file/collation directory. The syntax rules of the
  definition files can be found in the System Reference Guide. It may
  also be useful to examine the definition files for the Spanish and the
  DEC Multinational collations.

  7.5.  Backup and Recovery


  The only supported way of backing up Ingres databases is via the ckpdb
  utility. With ckpdb, you can back up a whole database or certain
  tables of it. The following command backs up the test database:

  ______________________________________________________________________
  $ ckpdb test
  ______________________________________________________________________



  Checkpoints can be taken on-line.

  Restoring a database can be done with the rollforwarddb command:

  ______________________________________________________________________
  $ rollforwarddb test
  ______________________________________________________________________



  By default, rollforwarddb, using the latest checkpoint and all journal
  files created since that checkpoint, restores the database to its
  current state.  However, you can specify a point in time to restore
  the database to the state it was in at that time. You can go back as
  far as 16 checkpoints (Ingres stores data for the last 16 checkpoints
  in the control file of the database).

  Both ckpdb and rollforwarddb can have many parameters. You can read
  more about these commands in the System Reference Guide. Besides, you
  should read Michael Leo's paper on Ingres backup and recovery at:


  http://www.naiua.org/papers/backup99.zip

  ckpdb and rollforwarddb use a template file
  ($II_SYSTEM/ingres/files/cktmpl.def).  By modifying this file, you can
  customize the Linux commands that do the physical backup and restore
  of the data files. The Database Administrator's Guide explains the
  usage of this file.

  7.6.  Configuring Ingres


  Most Ingres parameters can be set via the cbf utility. This is the
  program by which you can specify the number of DBMS servers, the sizes
  of different caches and a lot of other variables. The usage of cbf is
  detailed in the System Reference Guide.

  7.7.  Monitoring Ingres


  You can use the ipm utility to monitor a running Ingres system (Visual
  DBA doesn't have a Linux version). With ipm, you can monitor user
  sessions, the locking and the logging subsystems. It also contains
  session and server management functions.

  IMA (Ingres Management Architecture) makes possible to write
  customized, SQL-based applications for monitoring and managing Ingres
  installations. You can find information on IMA in the System Reference
  Guide.

  7.8.  Message Files


  You can find the Ingres message files under $II_SYSTEM/ingres/files.
  The most important of these is errlog.log. Should any problems arise
  during the running of Ingres, this is the file to check first.

  8.  Web Access


  Ingres versions running on non-Linux platforms have the Spyglass Web
  Server built into them. Ingres on Linux doesn't include Spyglass but
  the ICE (Internet Commerce Enabled) component of Ingres can be easily
  configured to provide HTTP access to databases. In this section we
  briefly examine how to connect Ingres to Apache, the most popular web
  server on Linux.

  8.1.  ingvalidpw


  The first prerequisite for accessing Ingres databases through a web
  server is the presence of the ingvalidpw program. This program will
  validate the client's identifier and password.

  You have to build ingvalidpw as root, by running the mkvalidpw script.
  Log in as root and set the environment as that of ingres, then simply
  type:
  ______________________________________________________________________
  mkvalidpw
  ______________________________________________________________________



  8.2.  Configuring Apache


  Your Linux distribution probably contains a pre-configured version of
  the Apache Web Server. If it doesn't, you can download either its
  binaries or source from http://www.apache.org, or one of its mirror
  sites. Building, installing and configuring Apache is beyond the scope
  of this HOWTO, we will cover only the parameters that play a role in
  connecting the web server to Ingres.

  First, make sure that the mod_env module of Apache is compiled into
  the binary. If you build Apache, put the following line into
  Configuration.tmpl:

  ______________________________________________________________________
  AddModule modules/standard/mod_env.o
  ______________________________________________________________________



  If you have a pre-installed Apache, run it in the following way
  (provided the executable's name is httpd.apache):

  ______________________________________________________________________
  $ httpd.apache -l
  ______________________________________________________________________



  If you can't see mod_env.c among the listed modules, rebuild Apache
  after you have modified Configuration.tmpl by adding the above
  mentioned line to it.

  The Apache server processes must run as ingres. There are two possible
  ways to achieve this.

  The first method is to run the main process of Apache as root but
  start server processes as ingres. Although this is feasible, it
  creates so many problems that it is simply not worth the trouble.

  For this reason, I suggest you configure the whole Apache system in
  the environment of the ingres user. In the following example, I
  suppose that we will put the Apache executable and all other Apache
  files in the /opt/ingres/apache directory or directories under it. The
  following subdirectories need to be created here:

  ______________________________________________________________________
  cgi-bin
  conf
  logs
  ______________________________________________________________________



  Copy the Apache executable to /opt/ingres/apache, and put httpd.conf,
  srm.conf and access.conf in /opt/ingres/apache/conf.

  Set the following lines in httpd.conf:


  ______________________________________________________________________
  Port 8000 -- must be greater than 1023
  User ingres
  Group ingres
  ServerRoot /opt/ingres/apache
  ErrorLog /opt/ingres/apache/error_log
  TransferLog /opt/ingres/apache/access_log
  CustomLog /opt/ingres/apache/access_log common
  PidFile /opt/ingres/apache/httpd.pid
  ScoreBoardFile /opt/ingres/apache/apache_status
  Timeout  3000 -- or whatever you like, but the default value (300) is probably too small
  (it is measured in seconds)
  PassEnv II_SYSTEM
  PassEnv LD_LIBRARY_PATH
  ______________________________________________________________________



  The last two lines must be added to httpd.conf. These variables will
  be passed from the environment of the ingres user to the environment
  of CGI programs started from Apache (specifically iceinst and ice, the
  two executables of ICE).

  Parameters to be set in srm.conf:

  ______________________________________________________________________
  DocumentRoot /opt/ingres/apache
  ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /opt/ingres/apache/cgi-bin/
  ______________________________________________________________________



  DocumentRoot is the default directory for every document provided by
  Apache, while ScriptAlias is the directory containing the CGI
  programs.

  To be modified in access.conf:

  ______________________________________________________________________
  <Directory /opt/ingres/apache/cgi-bin>
  AllowOverride None
  Options ExecCGI
  </Directory>
  ______________________________________________________________________



  After you have edited the configuration files, start Apache. Supposing
  again, that the Apache executable is called httpd.apache:

  ______________________________________________________________________
  /opt/ingres/apache/httpd.apache -f /opt/ingres/apache/conf/httpd.conf
  ______________________________________________________________________



  8.3.  ICE Setup


  It is time to configure ICE and its Tutorials. You can do this with a
  browser and the iceinst program. Let us suppose that, according to the
  previous example, our CGI directory is /opt/ingres/apache/cgi-bin and
  Apache is listening on port 8000. Let the name of our machine be
  ingserv1. Then you can start iceinst in the following manner:


  ______________________________________________________________________
  $ iceinst -d/opt/ingres/apache/cgi-bin -u/cgi-bin -shttp://ingserv1:8000
  -b/opt/netscape/netscape
  ______________________________________________________________________



  Option -d is the full path to the CGI directory, -u is this
  directory's address within the site, -s is the Internet address of the
  server, while -b is the full path to the browser. If you omit option
  -b and write -remote instead, then iceinst won't try to start the
  browser. This way you can configure ICE from another machine,
  directing your browser to


  http://ingserv1/cgi-bin/iceinst

  First the program asks for the value of II_SYSTEM. Then you should
  visit every screen and set all parameters presented on them. Have
  iceinst install the Dynamic SQL Tutorial and the Macro Processor
  Tutorial as well. These show the usage of ICE via applications and a
  database (icedb by default).

  It is important to create a directory under Apache's DocumentRoot
  where ICE can store the output it creates for clients' requests. ICE
  won't start until you create this directory and specify its name in
  iceinst.

  After you have finished with every form, choose the Install and/or
  Uninstall Selected Components option. If you have set everything
  properly, the configuration of ICE and the installation of the
  tutorials take place. ICE is ready to use.

  9.  Miscellaneous Topics


  Further hints to the use of Ingres.

  9.1.  Automatic Startup and Shutdown


  If you want Ingres to start automatically whenever Linux boots and
  stop when you shutdown or reboot the system, do the following:

  Log in as root.

  Check if your Linux variant has System V or BSD style init (init's man
  page will tell that).

  If your system conforms to System V, the /etc/rc.d/init.d directory
  must exist. Create a file there (call it ingres or any other name you
  wish). The file should contain at least the following:














  ______________________________________________________________________
  #!/bin/sh

  case "$1" in
   start)
    echo "Starting Ingres"
    su - ingres -c "ingstart"
    ;;

   stop)
    echo "Stopping Ingres"
    su - ingres -c "ingstop"
    ;;

   *)
    echo "Usage: ingres {start|stop}"
    exit 1
    ;;
  esac

  exit 0
  ______________________________________________________________________



  Link the file as K01ingres to these directories:

  /etc/rc.d/rc0.d

  /etc/rc.d/rc1.d

  /etc/rc.d/rc2.d

  /etc/rc.d/rc6.d

  Also link it as S99ingres to these directories:

  /etc/rc.d/rc3.d

  /etc/rc.d/rc4.d

  /etc/rc.d/rc5.d

  It is not important to call its links K01ingres and S99ingres, the
  point is that the name starting with K should contain a small number
  (so that Ingres stops early when changing to a lower runlevel) and the
  name starting with S should contain a large number (so that Ingres
  starts after everything else has started). Naturally, the file names
  must not clash with names of existing files.

  If you have a BSD style init, put the following lines into
  /etc/rc.d/rc.local:

  ______________________________________________________________________
  echo "Starting Ingres"
  su - ingres -c "ingstart"
  ______________________________________________________________________



  This will start Ingres. (As a matter of fact, you can use
  /etc/rc.d/rc.local even if you have a System V style init.)

  To stop Ingres automatically, create a file in /etc/shutdown.d (call
  it, say, ingres) that contains the commands

  ______________________________________________________________________
  echo "Stopping Ingres"
  su - ingres -c "ingstop"
  ______________________________________________________________________



  No matter which type your system is, the files you create must be
  executable files, owned by root.

  Naturally, if your system provides a utility for configuring programs
  to start and stop automatically (such as chkconfig in RedHat), use
  that if you wish.

  9.2.  ingmenu


  The easiest way to access an Ingres database (at least, for beginners)
  is via the ingmenu program. You can reach Ingres' forms-based
  utilities, by which you can create, update and query tables, create,
  edit and run reports and ABF or Vision applications, from ingmenu. Its
  usage is:

  ______________________________________________________________________
  ingmenu test
  ______________________________________________________________________



  Test is the name of the database.

  9.3.  Circumventing Ingres Net


  As the SDK doesn't include Ingres Net, in theory it is not possible
  for Ingres applications to access databases on different machines.
  However, there exists a method, not supported by CA, by which you can
  come around this problem.

  Let us suppose your application runs on host ingdev and the database
  (called test) you would like to update or query resides on host
  ingserv. Your first task is to find out the port number of the
  appropriate DBMS server running on ingserv. You can use ipm for this
  purpose: start ipm on ingserv and choose option Server List. In the
  list of servers select one that is of type INGRES and handles the test
  database (you have to see either test or ALL in column Connecting to
  Databases). You find the port number of the DBMS server in the first
  column. Let us suppose it is 1259.

  On machine ingdev, set the shell variable II_DBMS_SERVER in the
  following way:

  ______________________________________________________________________
  $ export II_DBMS_SERVER='ingserv::1259'
  ______________________________________________________________________



  Run the command:

  ______________________________________________________________________
  $ sql test
  ______________________________________________________________________



  If it works, you have access to the test database on host ingserv.

  This solution is applicable only if both machines are of the same
  architecture, the same operating system is running on both of them,
  the character set is the same in both Ingres installations and so on:
  I don't know the full list of necessary conditions. Therefore, I can't
  guarantee that this trick will work.

  On the other hand, if you restart Ingres on host ingserv, the DBMS
  server process will get a different TCP/IP port, therefore you
  probably have to automate fetching the current port number to the
  application server. You can use the show command of the iinamu utility
  for this purpose. The following line gives the port number of the DBMS
  server if there is only one server running:

  ______________________________________________________________________
  $ echo show | iinamu | grep INGRES | tr -s ' ' '\t' | cut -f4
  ______________________________________________________________________



  9.4.  Forms-Based Development Tools


  The installation includes a sample application, created by ABF, the
  traditional development tool of Ingres. You can load it with the
  abfdemo command. Unfortunately, the manuals of ABF and Vision can't be
  found either on the CD or on the CA site.

  An even greater problem is that under glibc 2.1 applications created
  by ABF or Vision can't be either compiled or run directly from the
  database. This problem will be solved in the next Ingres version. In
  the meantime, you can download the RedHat glibc 2.0 compatibility
  packages from the following URL's:

  o  ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-6.0/i386/RedHat/RPMS/compat-
     binutils-5.2-2.9.1.0.23.1.i386.rpm

  o  ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-6.0/i386/RedHat/RPMS/compat-
     egcs-5.2-1.0.3a.1.i386.rpm

  o  ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-6.0/i386/RedHat/RPMS/compat-
     egcs-c++-5.2-1.0.3a.1.i386.rpm

  o  ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-6.0/i386/RedHat/RPMS/compat-
     glibc-5.2-2.0.7.1.i386.rpm

  o  ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-6.0/i386/RedHat/RPMS/compat-
     libs-5.2-1.i386.rpm

  By default, these packages go to /usr/i386-glibc20-linux. Change the
  first line of $II_SYSTEM/ingres/files/abflnk.opt to:

  ______________________________________________________________________
  -L/usr/i386-glibc20-linux/lib -L/lib -L/usr/lib -L/usr/local/lib -L$II_SYSTEM/ingres/lib
  ______________________________________________________________________



  In the users' shell change LD_LIBRARY_PATH:

  ______________________________________________________________________
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib:/usr/lib:$II_SYSTEM/ingres/lib:/usr/i386-glibc20-linux/lib
  ______________________________________________________________________


  The compatibility packages work perfectly in Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 as
  well.  I haven't tested them in other distributions, though.

  9.5.  Ingperl and Perl DBI


  Previous Perl versions, version 4 included, made Ingres access
  possible via libraries known as ingperl. You can find information on
  ingperl at


  http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~lfm/ingperl.html

  In Perl 5 a new, unified database interface, called Perl DBI,
  appeared.  Its site is


  http://www.symbolstone.org/technology/perl/DBI/index.html

  You can download the Ingres module of DBI from that site.

  9.6.  Ingres links


  I leave you with a few pointers to important Ingres sites:

  o  http://www.cai.com/ingres/: home page of the Ingres RDBMS on the CA
     site

  o  http://support.cai.com/ingressupp.html: Ingres Technical Support

  o  http://www.cai.com/ingres/inquire/: inquire_ingres: Ingres magazine

  o  http://www.naiua.org/faqs.html: Ingres FAQ's

  o  http://www.naiua.org/papers/: Ingres papers

  o  news:comp.databases.ingres: the Ingres newsgroup

  Have fun!


























