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Upgrade AIX and IDS at same time - bad idea?

Posted in 2005

Topics: Installation, Setup & Upgrades, Storage & Space Management, Server Administration, Platform-Specific Issues, Versions, Editions & End-of-Life

Olaf Gustafson — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

We're planning on upgrading from AIX 4.3.3 to 5.1 and IDS 7.24 to 9.4 over the weekend soon. Does anyone else think this is a bit risky? I recall something similar happening where I used to work and it was a real pain trying to figure out which upgrade caused the problem (it was HP-UX though - don't remember the versions) It turned out the problem in that case was a faulty DBA (not me!) - left out an index because he also recreated some tables to use fewer extents.

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The Harlequin — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

"Olaf Gustafson" <none@dev.null> wrote in message news:0re8u0dqkqflobr2oh6q95ophd8j6t2ogg@4ax.com... > We're planning on upgrading from AIX 4.3.3 to 5.1 and IDS 7.24 to 9.4 > over the weekend soon. > > Does anyone else think this is a bit risky? > > I recall something similar happening where I used to work and it was a > real pain trying to figure out which upgrade caused the problem (it > was HP-UX though - don't remember the versions) You've answered your own question IMHO.

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