Hi ,

Hi Guru's

In my  PRD system through dbacockpit , database size showing only 2gb free space.

Before alter database i need to know,

Automatic database size configured or not through DBACOCKPIT in my SAP sybase ASE 15.7.0.122 .

How to check Automatic DBsize configure or not ?

Thanks and Regards,

Syam.

Hi Experts,

We are frequently getting logged with the below message in SPA.log file for our system SPA installed with ASE 16.0 sp02 on SUSE LINUX.

00:0006:00000:00064:2016/07/04 08:00:01.83 server  Increase the config parameter 'number of open partitions' to avoid descriptor reuse. Reuse may result in performance degradation.

We have checked sp_monitorconfig 'number of open partitions' and found that the reuse_cnt is populating with positive value.

1> sp_monitorconfig 'number of open partitions'

2> go

Usage information at date and time: Jul  4 2016  4:07PM.

Name                      Num_free    Num_active  Pct_act Max_Used    Reuse_cnt   Instance_Name

------------------------- ----------- ----------- ------- ----------- ----------- ------------------------------

number of open partitions           3       49997  99.99        50000      167402 NULL

(1 row affected)

(return status = 0)

Can anyone advise me over the parameter with an example, this message and how to make the reuse_count value back to 0 to attain performance?

Regards,

Dilip Voora

what are the steps to take if "online database" seems to hang. i.e. taking unusually long time compared to regularly.

physical_io keeps moving though.

We are getting error 16104 whenever  user defined error message returned from store procedure:

Jun 30 11:21:23 msstrvapvldv21 dbproxy2[16035]: ERROR: Server message handler: number [20037], severity [16], state [1], line [77]Message text: There are no active Dockets for Account 'tvjov10 - Feb 21'. Please create/activate a docket to continue.Procedure name: xsp_get_dockets_by_id

Jun 30 11:21:23 msstrvapvldv21 dbproxy2[16035]: ERROR: DBX_ERROR:-16104, DBH:94B73C8 , TranId:0 , DbName:default , DbUser:applremreg , Dbx.c@1809, Msg:Number of fetched rows does not match number of rows affected by command

Jun 30 11:21:23 msstrvapvldv21 dbproxy2[16035]: ERROR: ::RPCExecuteStatement() -- failed to fetch buffer, error:-16104

Jun 30 11:21:23 msstrvapvldv21 dbproxy2[16035]: ERROR: ::RPCExecuteStatement() -- failed with database server error:20037, Server message handler: number [20037], severity [16], state [1], line [77]Message text: There are no active Dockets for Account 'tvjov10 - Feb 21'.

We are running: ASE SDK15.7 SP136 and SAP ASE Adaptive Server Enterprise/15.7/EBF 23823 Cluster Edition SP132 /P/RS6000/AIX 6.1/ase157sp131x/3919/64-bit/FBO/Tue Jan 20 07:36:36 2015

Hello

We have just installed and configured Adaptive Server Enterprise/15.7/EBF 24646 SMP SP134  on AIX 7.

When trying to boot Web services Server, we get the following error message in webservice.log file:

$ $SYBASE/$SYBASE_WS/bin/runws -U sa -P sybase -S SYBASE_PRUE -f $SYBASE/$SYBASE_WS/props/ws.properties

$runws initiating execution at Tue Jun 21 12:12:36 CLT 2016.

Starting ASE Web Services ...
Using SYBASE_JRE6 as /sybase15/shared/SAPJRE-7_1_027_64BIT
Using SYBASE as /sybase15
Using SYBASE_WS as WS-15_0
Succeed to set permission mode as '600' for file '/sybase15/WS-15_0/props/ws.properties'
/sybase15/shared/SAPJRE-7_1_027_64BIT/bin/java -Dsybase.home=/sybase15 -Docs.home=OCS-15_0 -Dcom.sybase.ase.ws.libtcl= -classpath /sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/axis.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/jaxrpc.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/saaj.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/commons-logging-1.0.4.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/commons-discovery-0.2.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/log4j-1.2.4.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/wsdl4j-1.5.1.jar:/sybase15/jConnect-7_0/classes/jconn4.jar:/sybase15/jConnect-7_0/classes/jTDS3.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/xercesImpl.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/xmlParserAPIs.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/server.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/sqlx.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/flexlm.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/servlet-api-2.5-20081211.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/jetty-http-7.6.5.v20120716.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/jetty-io-7.6.5.v20120716.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/jetty-security-7.6.5.v20120716.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/jetty-server-7.6.5.v20120716.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/jetty-servlet-7.6.5.v20120716.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/jetty-util-7.6.5.v20120716.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/jetty-continuation-7.6.5.v20120716.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/tools.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/jcert.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/jnet.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/jsse.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/jce1_2_2.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/sunjce_provider.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/ws.jar:/sybase15/shared/lib/dsparser.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/props:/sybase15/WS-15_0/producer/WEB-INF com.sybase.ase.ws.producer.MainServer -properties /sybase15/WS-15_0/props/ws.properties -username sa -password ******** -service SYBASE_PRUE > /dev/null 2>&1
Please check the webservice.log file for any errors or informational messages.
runws execution complete at Tue Jun 21 12:12:38 CLT 2016

$ cat /sybase15/WS-15_0/logs/webservice.log
2016-06-21 12:12:40.590 FATAL [main] - A NullPointer was encountered: java.lang.NullPointerException: while trying to invoke the method java.io.File.createNewFile() of a null object loaded from a local variable at slot 4

Interfaces file has the corresponding entry:

$ cat $SYBASE/interfaces
SYBASE_PRUE
master tcp ether srvsybase15 5800
query tcp ether srvsybase15 5800

BACKUP_PRUE
master tcp ether srvsybase15 6666
query tcp ether srvsybase15 6666

SYBASE_PRUE_XP
master tcp ether 10.55.0.191 7004
query tcp ether 10.55.0.191 7004

ws
master tcp ether srvsybase15 8190
query tcp ether srvsybase15 8190

JRE Version: 1.7.0_71
Java Home: /sybase15/shared/SAPJRE-7_1_027_64BIT
Please check the webservice.log file for any errors or informational messages.
runws execution complete at Tue Jun 21 12:00:40 CLT 2016

I've attached the .properties file

Thank you

Regards

Jose

Good Day,

I got this information on ASE 15.7  certification for Linux x86_64:

Red Hat 6.x

Adaptive Server Enterprise        RHEL6.5(x86_64)             15.7 ESD4.2        Certified               2014-12-15

Adaptive Server Enterprise        RHEL6.5(x86_64)            15.7 SP120(x64)    Certified               2014-01-29

Adaptive Server Enterprise        RHEL6.4(x86_64)            15.7 ESD4(x64)     Certified               2013-03-22       

The question is if RH 6.7 , and 6.8 are also certified for  15.7?

Thank you

Regards

Jose

Hi,

I've been looking into special characters in ASE passwords and from what I am aware the special characters parameter was included from ASE 15.7 and above.

I have figured out how to set this parameter and upon investigating which special characters I can use I found KBA 2246903.

The problem I am finding is that some if not most of the special characters in the KBA are not accepted in ASE passwords. I managed to only get the underscore to work (still have not tested all).

Could somebody shed any light on which special characters they know for sure are accepted in ASE passwords?

Thanks,

Nick Sahota.

Hi experts,

When I tried to connect to an Sybase ASE instance "ASE1570_S1", I got following error:

[sybase@rhel64-ase-tgt ~]$ isql -Usa -Psybase -SASE1570_S1

CT-LIBRARY error:

        ct_connect(): user api layer: internal Client Library error: Read from the server has timed out.

CT-LIBRARY error:

        ct_connect(): network packet layer: internal net library error: Net-lib operation timed out

I can see following warning in error log /opt/sybase/errorlogs/ASE1570_S1.log:

00:0001:00000:00000:2013/12/30 15:10:29.54 kernel  Warning: The internal timer is not progressing. If this message is generated multiple times, report to Sybase Technical Support and restart the server (alarminterval=-1162).

00:0001:00000:00000:2013/12/30 15:20:29.54 kernel  Warning: The internal timer is not progressing. If this message is generated multiple times, report to Sybase Technical Support and restart the server (alarminterval=-7162).

The Adaptive Server version is:

Adaptive Server Enterprise/15.7/EBF 21341 SMP SP101 /P/x86_64/Enterprise Linux/ase157sp101/3439/64-bit/FBO/Thu Jun  6 16:08:18 2013

Any hint would be high appreciated.

Hi experts,

I have a question.

In Sybase ASE we have a lot of 2k units.

But what does it mean?

For example the parameter 'statement cache size' is in 2k in our system with 51200.

So 2k means 2048, right?

And 2048*51200 = 104857600, so around 104MB.

Is this calculation correct?

Kind regards

Just found a really useful feature in ASE 16 (but oddly I can only find 3 lines of documentation in http://help.sap.com/Download/Multimedia/zip-ase1602/SAP_ASE_Whats_New_en.pdf)

Here's what I've found.

Essentially, you can create a definition of a temp table. The actual underlying temp table will get create as you insert into it and will be local to the session.

eg create global temporary table x (i int)

insert into x values ( 10 )

From this session, "select * from x"  shows

i

-----------

          10

but from other sessions, x will be empty.

Looking at the query plan gives

       |   |   |SCAN Operator (VA = 0)

       |   |   |  FROM TABLE

       |   |   |  ##x

       |   |   |  Table Scan.

       |   |   |  Forward Scan.

Here's sp_space for 2 sessions both having inserted into table "x"

##x990371100127 1               128 KB          16 KB           0 KB            112 KB

##x990004000109 2               128 KB          16 KB           0 KB            112 KB

Am sure there are a few cases where this is useful but I think the main one is for communication between Client code and DB.

Using the ADO Client code, the connection pool is awkward when using temp tables. You never know if there are temp tables left lying around (Sybase or ADO won't clear them up), so we have to check if the temp table exists first and then create it if it doesn't and truncate it if it did exist.

Using global temp tables, we know the table always exists, so we can just truncate table (we can't assume its empty as its the connection pool) and insert into it.

[We looked at Table Variables to do this, but with a thousand rows in a table variable, the performance nose-dived]

Caveat: You can "create" indexes on the "global temp table" but they have no effect. If you try and force the index, it will say it doesn't exist.

Guys, I don't know who is responsible for this interface at SAP side but could you please change its time-out policy?  It is very inconvenient to work on cases using this site (or to work on KBAs) when your session times out every couple of minutes and you have to reconnect.  Moreover, why timing out sessions that open articles and notes?  When you work on a case it is quite common that you locate relevant information using the KBA search and keep the articles open - sometimes for a couple of days.  It is very inconvenient and counter-productive to have all this information made inaccessible after the session times out.  I'd suggest the general time-out to be increased to 24 hours and the sessions displaying KBA articles not to be timed out at all.  Is it doable?

Thanks.

Andrew 

Hi Experts,

We are frequently getting logged with the below message in SPA.log file for our system SPA installed with ASE 16.0 sp02 on SUSE LINUX.

00:0006:00000:00064:2016/07/04 08:00:01.83 server  Increase the config parameter 'number of open partitions' to avoid descriptor reuse. Reuse may result in performance degradation.

We have checked sp_monitorconfig 'number of open partitions' and found that the reuse_cnt is populating with positive value.

1> sp_monitorconfig 'number of open partitions'

2> go

Usage information at date and time: Jul  4 2016  4:07PM.

Name                      Num_free    Num_active  Pct_act Max_Used    Reuse_cnt   Instance_Name

------------------------- ----------- ----------- ------- ----------- ----------- ------------------------------

number of open partitions           3       49997  99.99        50000      167402 NULL

(1 row affected)

(return status = 0)

Can anyone advise me over the parameter with an example, this message and how to make the reuse_count value back to 0 to attain performance?

Regards,

Dilip Voora

hi all.

if we convert all of our servers to ASE 16 would it be a horrible waste to leave the 2k page size ? if we make all the servers 4 k pages,

them what do we do if we have to load a 2 k dump from the past for existing sla's  ? we have to keep one 2 K server spinning forever ?

along these lines, any "gotchas" that other folks have experienced going from 15.5 to 16 ?  thanks.

Hi,

I was trying to install Sybase 15.7 on windows 2012R2 X64. But i wam getting the error as :

zerogu2 windows dll failed to load.

I used the software "51044414" .Could you please let me know which software I have to use for Windows 2012R2 with ASE 15.7 .

regards

Ranjith

Hi Guru's

In my  PRD system through dbacockpit , database size showing only 2gb free space.

Before alter database i need to know,

Automatic database size configured or not through DBACOCKPIT in my SAP sybase ASE 15.7.0.122 .

How to check Automatic DBsize configure or not ?

Thanks and Regards,

Syam.

Hi All,

Is there any tool to read multiple sp_sysmon reports and tell us a consolidated recommendation. My ASE version is 15.7 SP122

Thanks

Swami

Please follow the below steps to repair the Index :

1. Get the object name, object ID, and index ID of the corrupted index.

2.  If the corrupted index is on a system table in the master database, put the Server in single-user mode using -m option as below :

startserver -m -f runserver_file

3. Connect to server using isql with a user having sa_role.

4. If the corrupted index is on a system table in a user database, put the database in single-user mode :

1> use master 
2> go 
1> sp_dboption database_name, "single user", true 
2> go
1> use database_name 
2> go 
1> checkpoint 
2> go 

5. Set the configuration parameter to allow updates to system tables:

1> use master 
2> go
1> sp_configure "allow updates", 1 
2> go

6. Run the sp_fixindex command as below :

1> use database_name

2> go

1> sp_fixindex database_name, object_name, index_ID

2> go

7. Run dbcc checktable to verify that the corrupted index is now fixed.

1> dbcc checktable(object_name)

2> go

8. Disallow updates to system tables:

1> use master
2> go
1> sp_configure "allow updates", 0 
2> go

9. Put the database in Multiuser Mode :

1> sp_dboption database_name, "single user", false
2> go 
1> use database_name 
2> go 
1> checkpoint 
2> go 

10. If server started in single user mode, Please shutdown and then start the server in Normal mode (without using -m option).

1> use <db>

2> go

1> sp_helpdefrag

2> go

Msg 247, Level 16, State 1:

Server 'XXXX', Procedure 'sp_helpdefrag', Line 182:

Arithmetic overflow during implicit conversion of FLOAT value '10.0' to a NUMERIC field .

(return status = -6)

1> select @@version

2> go

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Adaptive Server Enterprise/16.0 SP02 PL02/EBF 25318 SMP/P/RS6000/AIX 7.1/ase160sp02plx/2492/64-bit/FBO/Sun Nov 22 18:44:08 2015   

Is this bug ....?

Regards

Ajay Pandey                             

Hello

We have just installed and configured Adaptive Server Enterprise/15.7/EBF 24646 SMP SP134  on AIX 7.

When trying to boot Web services Server, we get the following error message in webservice.log file:

$ $SYBASE/$SYBASE_WS/bin/runws -U sa -P sybase -S SYBASE_PRUE -f $SYBASE/$SYBASE_WS/props/ws.properties

$runws initiating execution at Tue Jun 21 12:12:36 CLT 2016.

Starting ASE Web Services ...
Using SYBASE_JRE6 as /sybase15/shared/SAPJRE-7_1_027_64BIT
Using SYBASE as /sybase15
Using SYBASE_WS as WS-15_0
Succeed to set permission mode as '600' for file '/sybase15/WS-15_0/props/ws.properties'
/sybase15/shared/SAPJRE-7_1_027_64BIT/bin/java -Dsybase.home=/sybase15 -Docs.home=OCS-15_0 -Dcom.sybase.ase.ws.libtcl= -classpath /sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/axis.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/jaxrpc.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/saaj.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/commons-logging-1.0.4.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/commons-discovery-0.2.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/log4j-1.2.4.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/wsdl4j-1.5.1.jar:/sybase15/jConnect-7_0/classes/jconn4.jar:/sybase15/jConnect-7_0/classes/jTDS3.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/xercesImpl.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/xmlParserAPIs.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/server.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/sqlx.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/flexlm.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/servlet-api-2.5-20081211.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/jetty-http-7.6.5.v20120716.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/jetty-io-7.6.5.v20120716.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/jetty-security-7.6.5.v20120716.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/jetty-server-7.6.5.v20120716.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/jetty-servlet-7.6.5.v20120716.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/jetty-util-7.6.5.v20120716.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/jetty-continuation-7.6.5.v20120716.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/tools.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/jcert.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/jnet.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/jsse.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/jce1_2_2.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/sunjce_provider.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/lib/ws.jar:/sybase15/shared/lib/dsparser.jar:/sybase15/WS-15_0/props:/sybase15/WS-15_0/producer/WEB-INF com.sybase.ase.ws.producer.MainServer -properties /sybase15/WS-15_0/props/ws.properties -username sa -password ******** -service SYBASE_PRUE > /dev/null 2>&1
Please check the webservice.log file for any errors or informational messages.
runws execution complete at Tue Jun 21 12:12:38 CLT 2016

$ cat /sybase15/WS-15_0/logs/webservice.log
2016-06-21 12:12:40.590 FATAL [main] - A NullPointer was encountered: java.lang.NullPointerException: while trying to invoke the method java.io.File.createNewFile() of a null object loaded from a local variable at slot 4

Interfaces file has the corresponding entry:

$ cat $SYBASE/interfaces
SYBASE_PRUE
master tcp ether srvsybase15 5800
query tcp ether srvsybase15 5800

BACKUP_PRUE
master tcp ether srvsybase15 6666
query tcp ether srvsybase15 6666

SYBASE_PRUE_XP
master tcp ether 10.55.0.191 7004
query tcp ether 10.55.0.191 7004

ws
master tcp ether srvsybase15 8190
query tcp ether srvsybase15 8190

JRE Version: 1.7.0_71
Java Home: /sybase15/shared/SAPJRE-7_1_027_64BIT
Please check the webservice.log file for any errors or informational messages.
runws execution complete at Tue Jun 21 12:00:40 CLT 2016

I've attached the .properties file

Thank you

Regards

Jose