6.0 Online Users

Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix Subject: Re: Online V6 Users - HELP Summary: Expires: References: <351106042wnr@smeg.demon.co.uk> Sender: Followup-To: Distribution: world Organization: BPS Healthcare, Los Angeles Keywords: In article <351106042wnr@smeg.demon.co.uk> starbug@smeg.demon.co.uk writes: >We are currently a online v5 user and need to go to v6. Informix say >'its easy - no problem' - they would wouldn't they :) >I would be most interested to know of your experiences and in particular >any 'gotchas'. > >Thanks > If you are fortunate enough to be on a Sequent machine, do try to go to 7.0 as soon as possible. We had 6.0 for a short time and found it rather lacking in stability. Here are just a couple of problems we had: 1. Migration tools from 5 to 6 corrupted data. We ended up rebuilding the engine, data base and data instead of using the migration tools. 2. Update statistics medium created some problems in data bases which caused occasional aborts in the engine during update transactions. 3. Data replication was extremely unreliable. It's much easier to just restore an engine on another machine if your first machine croaks. 7.0 still has a few bugs, but they are only slightly annoying. We're hoping 7.1 will be even better. Bottom line -- if you want to go to 6.0, give yourself lots of lead time and test everything. After that, test some more. Scott -- Scott F. Ford, DBA / Unix SA | sford@wvus.org bps (Benefit Panel Services) | elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!wvus!sford 888 South Figueroa Street, Suite 1400 | Voice: (213) 489-2694 Los Angeles, CA. 90017 | FAX: (213) 489-7973 "...The bozone layer: shielding the rest of the solar system from the earth's harmful effects...."