RE: Upgrade AIX and IDS at same time - bad idea?

Posted in 2005

Dirk Moolman — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 19:34:22 +0200 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

I have gone through upgrades like these, and the important thing is: Test, Test and Test again. You cannot upgrade without testing that your software works. -----Original Message----- From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Olaf Gustafson Sent: 11 January 2005 10:53 PM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Upgrade AIX and IDS at same time - bad idea? We're planning on upgrading from AIX 4.3.3 to 5.1 and IDS 7.24 to 9.4 over the weekend soon. Does anyone else think this is a bit risky? I recall something similar happening where I used to work and it was a real pain trying to figure out which upgrade caused the problem (it was HP-UX though - don't remember the versions) It turned out the problem in that case was a faulty DBA (not me!) - left out an index because he also recreated some tables to use fewer extents. sending to informix-list