Upgrading AIX revision level of server running IDS 9.4
We have Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.FC8 running on AIX 5300-04. I recently found that IBM has released AIX 5300-09-02-0849. Has anyone experienced or is aware of any issues with IDS 9.4 on 5.3-09-0849? Are there any special considerations to keep in mind with Informix when updating the OS to the new revision level? Thank you Rob
<robert.millerd@gmail.com> wrote in message news:b8768aaa-c0d7-444e-9203-0b6a8b7c275f@s1g2000prd.googlegroups.com... > We have Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.FC8 running on AIX > 5300-04. I recently found that IBM has released AIX 5300-09-02-0849. > Has anyone experienced or is aware of any issues with IDS 9.4 on > 5.3-09-0849? > > Are there any special considerations to keep in mind with Informix > when updating the OS to the new revision level? > > Thank you > Rob I don't, I haven;t used IDS 9 for several years. But I'm interested to know why you would want to take the AIX upgrade. Is it to fix a specific problem? Or, is it just to keep the software up-to-date? If the latter, why would you not adopt the same attitude to IDS? IDS 9 goes out of support at the end of this month.
On Apr 1, 3:20 pm, "Neil Truby" <neil.tr...@ardenta.com> wrote: > <robert.mill...@gmail.com> wrote in message > > news:b8768aaa-c0d7-444e-9203-0b6a8b7c275f@s1g2000prd.googlegroups.com... > > > We have Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.FC8 running on AIX > > 5300-04. I recently found that IBM has released AIX 5300-09-02-0849. > > Has anyone experienced or is aware of any issues with IDS 9.4 on > > 5.3-09-0849? > > > Are there any special considerations to keep in mind with Informix > > when updating the OS to the new revision level? > > > Thank you > > Rob > > I don't, I haven;t used IDS 9 for several years. > But I'm interested to know why you would want to take the AIX upgrade. > Is it to fix a specific problem? > Or, is it just to keep the software up-to-date? > > If the latter, why would you not adopt the same attitude to IDS? IDS 9 goes > out of support at the end of this month. Yes, it is the latter, it just to keep the software up-to-date. The reason I cannot upgrade IDS is because it is the backend for our ERP that is maintained by a vendor that does not support IDS greater than 9.4. If i could I would. Thank you for your response.
"Rob" <robert.millerd@gmail.com> wrote in message news:f0db8834-e624-4ff4-8da4-ebffd5e332bd@a5g2000pre.googlegroups.com... On Apr 1, 3:20 pm, "Neil Truby" <neil.tr...@ardenta.com> wrote: > <robert.mill...@gmail.com> wrote in message >> Yes, it is the latter, it just to keep the software up-to-date. The reason I cannot upgrade IDS is because it is the backend for our ERP that is maintained by a vendor that does not support IDS greater than 9.4. If i could I would. Bummer! I still feel that this (ISVs not supporting IDS) is a huge millstone around the product's neck. I mean, why back DB2 in the LUW space rather than IDS?? Is the ISV Lawson?
On Apr 2, 1:05 pm, "Neil Truby" <neil.tr...@ardenta.com> wrote: > "Rob" <robert.mill...@gmail.com> wrote in message > > news:f0db8834-e624-4ff4-8da4-ebffd5e332bd@a5g2000pre.googlegroups.com... > On Apr 1, 3:20 pm, "Neil Truby" <neil.tr...@ardenta.com> wrote: > > > <robert.mill...@gmail.com> wrote in message > >> Yes, it is the latter, it just to keep the software up-to-date. The > > reason I cannot upgrade IDS is because it is the backend for our ERP > that is maintained by a vendor that does not support IDS greater than > 9.4. If i could I would. > > Bummer! > I still feel that this (ISVs not supporting IDS) is a huge millstone around > the product's neck. I mean, why back DB2 in the LUW space rather than IDS?? > Is the ISV Lawson? No, it is not Lawson, it's a smaller company who has developed a appliction specifically for our industry, industrial equipment sales. I agree with your first statement...actually they have decided to migrate their application over to Microsoft's SQL server instead of continuing to the next version of IDS.