4gl and IDS 11.5
Troels Arvin wanted to upgrade to IDS 11.5 for Kerberos but found only 4GL 7.32 (2003) on offer. scottishpoet and Art Kagel said 7.32 is the latest and works with 11.50, though post-7.31 features need PREPARE and advanced types such as LVARCHAR and BIGINT are unavailable. Jonathan Leffler added 7.32 cannot easily use the Kerberos connection type, which needs CSDK 3.50; a newer 4GL was expected.
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Hello, The kerberos features in IDS 11.5 sound very relevant for us, so I would like to upgrade ASAP. But I'm not sure about 4gl: The latest 4gl download I can find on Passport Advantage is "IBM Informix 4GL RDS Runtime for Multi-platforms Version 7.32 US English CD ROM Media Pack" with a release date of March 28, 2003(!). Will such an old 4gl version be compatible with IDS 11.5? Or is all 4gl related software included with IDS 11.5? -- Regards, Troels Arvin <troels@arvin.dk> http://troels.arvin.dk/
4GL 7.32 will be the latest version of 4Gl available and will work with IDS 11. What version of 4GL and the server are you using today? I am a great believer in not changing too much in one go, becasue if something stops working it is more difficult to identify what broke it. It may be that your exisiting 4GL will still work with IDS 11. Alternatively it may be easier to upgrade your 4GL then change your server.
The 4GL v 7.32 is the latest and it is fully compatible with IDS 11.50. Just note that IDS features that were not part of IDS 7.31 are not available to 4GL natively. So, for example, if you want to execute certain later SQL features you have to PREPARE the statements they will not pass the 4GL syntax parser, but 4GL will pass them onto the database engine if they are PREPARED without a syntax check and they will run fine. Similarly, there will be no access to advanced data types, except as they are convertible to standard 7.31 types, so not LVARCHAR, BIGINT, etc., unless you write your own 4GL callable functions in C or ESQL/C to make the interface yourself. Your existing 4GL apps, however, will continue to run fine on IDS 11.50. Art S. Kagel Oninit On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 7:05 AM, Troels Arvin <troels@arvin.dk> wrote: > Hello, > > The kerberos features in IDS 11.5 sound very relevant for us, so I would > like to upgrade ASAP. But I'm not sure about 4gl: > > The latest 4gl download I can find on Passport Advantage is "IBM Informix > 4GL RDS Runtime for Multi-platforms Version 7.32 US English CD ROM Media > Pack" with a release date of March 28, 2003(!). > > Will such an old 4gl version be compatible with IDS 11.5? Or is all 4gl > related software included with IDS 11.5? > > -- > Regards, > Troels Arvin <troels@arvin.dk> > http://troels.arvin.dk/ > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list >
Troels Arvin wrote: > The kerberos features in IDS 11.5 sound very relevant for us, so I would > like to upgrade ASAP. But I'm not sure about 4gl: > > The latest 4gl download I can find on Passport Advantage is "IBM Informix > 4GL RDS Runtime for Multi-platforms Version 7.32 US English CD ROM Media > Pack" with a release date of March 28, 2003(!). > > Will such an old 4gl version be compatible with IDS 11.5? Or is all 4gl > related software included with IDS 11.5? As others indicated, I4GL 7.32 (which is only from 2003 - not all that old) will work fine with IDS 11.50 -- but... It won't easily be able to use the Kerberos feature - the olsocssl connection type. That requires ESQL/C 3.50, and I4GL 7.32 was built with an earlier version (2.90, I believe). There isn't a supported way to use I4GL 7.32 with CSDK 3.50. There should be a new version of I4GL forthcoming built with CSDK 3.50; I'm probably not going out on a limb when I say 'before the end of the year', and I expect rather sooner than that. -- Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com Guardian of DBD::Informix v2008.0229 -- http://dbi.perl.org/ publictimestamp.org/ptb/PTB-3233 ripemd160 2008-05-13 15:00:07 FAB2D6C16FA9BB19F884E16C6F39DB352C14DEF8