What database is my environment hitting ?

Did you clone your test environment?

I thought about this over the weekend, and I wondered the same thing as Jimmy.

If you cloned your productline into a running environment (regardless of whether that enviroment was cloned), then the first access will cache the MICROSOFT file.

So I ask the following:
1) Have you changed your LAWDIR/pline/MICROSOFT file to reflect the test database?
2) Have you EITHER restarted your test environment OR run 'dbadmin idleAll', *when your environment was quiet*?
(NOTE: for dbadmin to work, there can be NO accesses to a productline. This is usually hard to ensure with WebSphere running, thus it is easier to restart)

Kwane

Yes, I ghosted my servers in an attempt to clone my production environment and thereby get a test environment. Dealt with MicroFocus. Everything seemed fine at that point, but I was unsure. I asked my AP/AR and Payroll officers to do some things in the test system to see what data it was hitting, and 'lo and behold it is hitting my production data. I have edited the LAWDIR/prodline/MICROSOFT file. I put in the pure IP address of the test database server. The database name is the same. When I do that, it breaks lawson. If I use the hostname, even though I have it where that hostname gets resolved to the new/test database server, it still hits the production server. Puzzling. Apparently, there are hooks to data in other places. That's all I can figure. I have NOT run "dbadmin idleALL". I can, but can you tell me what exactly it is that this will do to "aim" my environment at the new/test database server and database ?

Bob,
This is fairly complex, and ghosting your environment would be a very bad way to do this. Call me offline for me to explain, as I have a few minutes during my lunch break.

Kwane
505-433-7744

Also, my advice would be to immediately stop running transactions through this clone, until you get the linkage cleaned up, as there's a fair bit more than modifying your MICROSOFT files

Kwane

I wish I had come back to check the forum out sooner after my last posting. I got tied up in other things. Yep, we figured it out quickly enough that we didn't do any damage to our production database. We have the turned off the clone and have left it off.
How much more could there possibly be in there in terms of how it gets to it's data ? You'd think there was a Lawson KB on it, but I have yet to find it.