Re: NewEra: Anyone using it?

> Godwin Schembri wrote: > > Jens Ebert wrote: > } > } Hi, > } > } please share your comments with we on the following subjects: > } > } - Overall experience > } - Migration 2.2 to 3.0 > } - 3-tier applications: PC, applications server(s), database server(s) The NewEra partitioning facility sounds great but you can't migrate objects across different platforms. Objects can be instantiated on either platform but may only communicate by sending elemental data items like CHAR, INTEGER etc. > } - How do the applications perform? Depends on the application and the platform. From the client point of view, NE3 is much faster than NE2 but then again, the NT platform executes applications faster than WFW3.11 > > I've been trying for the last three weeks to migrate NE 2.2 programs to > NE 3 using the syspg migration utility but to no avail. I contacted uk > support and they still haven't been able to help me. I can't get the > migartion utility to connect to the syspg4gl database, even though > everything else works fine. Anyone managed yet?? > After a lot of experimentation, I decided that it was simpler to go through our libraries and development code updating as required. We only needed to change some references to ixTypeInfo and the CCL classes - globally changing the constructor to be of type ixSQL[Connect|Stmt][INFX|ODBC] as required.