Re: Informix 4.13 with HP-UX 10.2
Not a HP person myself, but in ages gone by, O/S vendors promised us backwards binary compat... HA! lies. all LIES! We tried installing 5.1 on a MP-RAS 3.2 box... hehe! never happened. It ran fine under MP-RAS 2.something though. Same sort of problems on AIX where kernel structures change almost every maintenance release. demn back to punch cards! brett Rex Richardson wrote: > > Trust but verify. We are finally upgrading from Informix 4.13 to 5.1, > and the OS is upgrading from HP-UX 9.04 to 10.2. I have been told that > this is binary incompatible, but would like to confirm this. Can > anyone confirm this? > The next question, then: is it possible to partition a drive on the > HP machine and try Informix 9.04 on one partition, and 5.1 on another? > > -- > Rex Richardson > Manager, software development > Washington State Department of Agriculture > > Sent via Deja.com > http://www.deja.com/ -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Brett's 10th law of UNIX administration... rm is forever ----------------------------------------------------------------- Brett Geer - UNIX Admin/Analyst/Programmer - Intratex Holdings. Tel. +27 31 717 4000 Direct. +27 31 717 4146 Fax. +27 31 717 4001 ----------------------------------------------------------------- The little voices are talking to me again, telling me to reach for a keyboard and type rm -rf /* last week they had me rm -rf `echo $MANPATH | sed 's/:/ /g'` now I fear I have no answers -----------------------------------------------------------------
I agree with Brett. PREPARE to RECOMPILE your applications. For your sanity if nothing else. Also gives you a new project. LOAD new OS onto a TEST box, Recompile WORLD, Test Thoroughly, THEN approach your PRODUCTION box... Note make at least 2 Backups of everything DB, Applications, etc. before you touch your Production Box. Murphy is out there waiting for you to be careless... Good luck, Rob Vorbroker Brett Geer <brett@brabys.co.za> wrote in message news:91urhe$n90$1@news.xmission.com... > > Not a HP person myself, but in ages gone by, O/S vendors promised us > backwards binary compat... HA! lies. all LIES! > > We tried installing 5.1 on a MP-RAS 3.2 box... hehe! never happened. > > It ran fine under MP-RAS 2.something though. > > Same sort of problems on AIX where kernel structures change almost > every maintenance release. > > demn back to punch cards! > > brett > > Rex Richardson wrote: > > > > Trust but verify. We are finally upgrading from Informix 4.13 to 5.1, > > and the OS is upgrading from HP-UX 9.04 to 10.2. I have been told that > > this is binary incompatible, but would like to confirm this. Can > > anyone confirm this? > > The next question, then: is it possible to partition a drive on the > > HP machine and try Informix 9.04 on one partition, and 5.1 on another? > > > > -- > > Rex Richardson > > Manager, software development > > Washington State Department of Agriculture > > > > Sent via Deja.com > > http://www.deja.com/ > > -- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Brett's 10th law of UNIX administration... > rm is forever > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Brett Geer - UNIX Admin/Analyst/Programmer - Intratex Holdings. > Tel. +27 31 717 4000 Direct. +27 31 717 4146 > Fax. +27 31 717 4001 > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The little voices are talking to me again, telling me to reach > for a keyboard and type rm -rf /* > last week they had me rm -rf `echo $MANPATH | sed 's/:/ /g'` > now I fear I have no answers > -----------------------------------------------------------------
Rex Richardson wrote: > Trust but verify. We are finally upgrading from Informix 4.13 to 5.1, > and the OS is upgrading from HP-UX 9.04 to 10.2. I have been told that > this is binary incompatible, but would like to confirm this. Can > anyone confirm this? I have not found any binary problems between 10.XX and 11.0, but I am not sure about earlier releases. If possible, call HP support for information on such upgrade issues. I have found them very useful. > The next question, then: is it possible to partition a drive on the > HP machine and try Informix 9.04 on one partition, and 5.1 on another? Although it is possible to run different releases of Informix on the same machine, I doubt that Informix 9 is supported on HP-UX releases earlier than 10.20. I agree with the suggestion that you do the upgrade on a new box. With my own clients, I always insist on a test/development system to test out the upgrade process. Even better is a new system to migrate to. Best wishes, David Dahl Portland, Oregon