Re: Informix 4GL v7 PROBLEMS.
Fred, have a look at the following excerpt from /usr/informix/release/en_us/0333/SERVER_7.1 SUPPORT OF MULTIPLE INFORMIXDIRS ================================ Even though Informix does not advocate installing different versions of database server products in the same directory ($INFORMIXDIR), the database server and embedded language products of the same version must be installed in the same directory. Therefore, there will be no support for installation of servers and embedded language products in multiple Informix directories leading to the usage of multiple $INFORMIXDIR environment variables. IE, what you are doing is not supported. I suspect that with carefull usage of INFORMIXDIR, you might be able to get away with two different INFORMIXDIRS, however you would need two different sessions two access tools and engine executable at the same time. That said, it looks to me that up to now you have exploited a product behaviour which wasn't really as per spec, and 7.20.UD4 has rectified this. You should have expected this to happen, sooner or later :-) Ciao, Marco ______________________________________________________________________________ Marco Greco <marco@informix.com> Standard disclaimers apply! Informix faq http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/informix.htm 4glworks http://www.ctonline.it/~marcog Informix on Linux http://www.ctonline.it/~marcog/ifmxlinux.htm Fred Lee wrote: > > We need help! We have a system that is running v6.01 (as I understand it is > not Y2K compliant). We have been trying to upgrade the application to the v7 > in the past 3 months (no success). > > Here are the BUGS that we have found with the UD1 of version 7.20: > 1) construct > 2) length of substring of character > 272 > 3) clipped function > 4) variable initialization requirement (if not then anything can happen) > 5) core dump when exiting of form with large field (bug#96518) > 6) large executables (from c4gl - bug#94393) > > Yesterday we have received the latest version (UD4). We thought that we are > saved. Today I have a very different opinion (after installed it and tested > it). It did not seem to solve any of our problems. IT actually create a NEW > one for us. > > At our site, we have the database and the front-end products installed in > different location. We created some soft-links under $INFORMIXDIR to point to > the tools location and set the tools location in the beginning of the PATH. > Thus, we can use both the database and the front-end tools within a same > window. Everything was working well with the last version of the front-end > products (v6.01 and v7.20 UD1). But the v7.20 UD4 is using the $INFORMIXDIR > to locate the front-end products (rather using the PATH)! > > Anyone out there has the same problem or solution? > > Sincerely, > Fred Lee