Re: 64-bit IDS with 32-bit 4GL?

From: "Colleen M. Morrow" <cmmorrow@jonesday.com> > >I'm going to check with Informix support about this, but I thought I'd see >if anyone has first-hand experience with this scenario. > >We're planning on upgrading to HP-UX 11.0, and we'd like to upgrade to a >64-bit version of IDS 7.31. However, because no one wants to recompile all >of our 4GL's, we'd like to stay with our current 32-bit version (7.20.UD6). >Will this cause a problem? Has anyone out there done this before? AFAIK, you can't recompile all your 4GL's, because there isn't a 64-bit port of I4GL yet. This means you will have to use TCP connectivity between 4GL and the server, and I visited a HP site that had huge problems with the speed of disconnecting a session. In the normal course of events, this isn't a problem, but at the particular site they had used lots of building blocks (like a short 4GL program that displayed a value on screen in a massive loop) and the 3-second disconnect on every iteration of the loop caused much anguish. (As an aside, dbaccess does not seem to suffer from this hangup, so I replaced the 4GL program with a dbaccess script, et voila...!) ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com