Informix IDS 7.30 to 7.31 (Informix has replied please upgrade)

Hi all, Informix have given us the usual response upgrade to version ....... My client has just been through two upgrades in the last 2 months, so this response is wearing thin. We are currently running IDS 7.30.UC5 on our Sun sparc Ultra-enterprise and Sun sparc Ultra-5. We are running Enterprise Replication between the two boxes and have encountered unresolved problems with replication. Could any who has had specific problems with version 7.30, and has had them cured by upgrading to 7.31 please advise what the problems were (especially if in the area of replication). TIA, Stephen C Manga Email: Stephen.Manga@dbgroup.co.nz Stephen@quanta.co.nz

In article <7ivjp0$gl$1@news.xmission.com>, Stephen Manga <steve@quack16.quanta.co.nz> writes > >Hi all, > >Informix have given us the usual response upgrade to version ....... >My client has just been through two upgrades in the last 2 months, so this >response is wearing thin. > >We are currently running IDS 7.30.UC5 on our Sun sparc Ultra-enterprise and >Sun sparc Ultra-5. We are running Enterprise Replication between the two >boxes and have encountered unresolved problems with replication. > >Could any who has had specific problems with version 7.30, and has had them >cured by upgrading to 7.31 please advise what the problems were (especially >if in the area of replication). > We have had problems.. 7.30.Uc3 would not build indexes properly. 7.30.UC5 has the problem that:- sum a field which is decimal(5,2), if the result is larger than decimal(5,2) then your get a -1226 (Value exceeds maximum precision) error. This should be fixed in 7.30.UC8 and 7.31. We just got UC8 at work and a customer will be getting 7.31.uc2 real soon so I'll get back to you. I've seen uc6 and uc8 and they certainly fix some nasty problems. I'd move to 7.31 ASAP. >TIA, > >Stephen C Manga >Email: Stephen.Manga@dbgroup.co.nz > Stephen@quanta.co.nz > > > -- David Williams

On Mon, 14 Jun 1999 00:02:00 +0100, David Williams <djw@smooth1.demon.co.uk> wrote: >In article <7ivjp0$gl$1@news.xmission.com>, Stephen Manga ><steve@quack16.quanta.co.nz> writes >> >>Hi all, >> >>Informix have given us the usual response upgrade to version ....... >>My client has just been through two upgrades in the last 2 months, so this >>response is wearing thin. >> >>We are currently running IDS 7.30.UC5 on our Sun sparc Ultra-enterprise and >>Sun sparc Ultra-5. We are running Enterprise Replication between the two >>boxes and have encountered unresolved problems with replication. >> >>Could any who has had specific problems with version 7.30, and has had them >>cured by upgrading to 7.31 please advise what the problems were (especially >>if in the area of replication). >> > > We have had problems.. > > 7.30.Uc3 would not build indexes properly. > 7.30.UC5 has the problem that:- > > sum a field which is decimal(5,2), if the result is larger than > decimal(5,2) then your get a -1226 (Value exceeds maximum precision) > error. This should be fixed in 7.30.UC8 and 7.31. > I am on AIX 4.2.1, Informix 7.30.UC7-1 I tried this in a program and it never goes past the maximum. Can you give me the bug number associated with this? The place that I am working at decided it was too expensive to keep Informix support. It now looks like it is going to be too expensive to NOT have kept the support. > We just got UC8 at work and a customer will be getting 7.31.uc2 real > soon so I'll get back to you. > > I've seen uc6 and uc8 and they certainly fix some nasty problems. > > I'd move to 7.31 ASAP. > > >>TIA, >> >>Stephen C Manga >>Email: Stephen.Manga@dbgroup.co.nz >> Stephen@quanta.co.nz >> >> >> > >-- >David Williams Thanks in advance for your help. Chris Burton