Re: version 11 in plae upgrade and HDR

fyi I just found that Nick L's method did not work upgrading from 11.50.fc4 to 11.50.fc6. When initializing the secondary, I got errors immediately stating that each chunk was marked down, and to revert back to fc4 to bring the chunks online. (I did not actually try that, knowing that I had just cleanly shutdown.) Too bad - this would have saved lots of time! On Apr 20, 2:43 am, Nick Lello <nick.le...@rentrakmail.com> wrote: > This is totally unsupported; but we managed to upgrade from 10.0.fc6 to > 11.10.fc1 about 6 months ago in a similar situation (wide-area hdr, database > too big to archive/restore over the network). > > Here's what we did:- > >    - All threads off, take both engines to quiescent mode >    - Shutdown primary; onmode -yuck >    - Shutdown secondary; onmode -yk >    - Get the new Informix software in place on both servers (we have >    $INFORMIXDIR pointing to a symbolic link so we can upgrade easily) >    - Bring up the primary -- allow all upgrade activity to complete >    - Bring up the secondary --- internal upgrade processes + updated pages >    spooled through HDR appeared to perform the upgrade cleanly > > I'll repeat, IBM in no way sanctioned or supported upgrading the HDR pair in > this manner; we did this out of desperation to get the upgrade completed. >