Re: 4gl version 4 to 7 upgrade

Malcolm Weallans wrote: > > A customer is trying to upgrade about 1000 4GL programs from v4.1 to v7. > They have started encountering problems with facilities which worked before > but don't now. Does anybody have any experience in this area and would be > prepared to share their advice. > > Perhaps we could all collectively compile a list of the problems and > publish this for others to use. I am quite prepared to collate the list. Yes I think it was called the release notes. Although most major changes came at version 6.x. I don't know if these release notes are still distributed with 7.x. > The problems encountered so far seem to have been with prepared statements. > Any ideas? Have a look in the TOOLREL_* files. There are lots of issues with global cursor names and WHERE CURRENT OF, etc., etc. Cheers, -- Mark. +----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+ |Mark D. Stock - Informix SA http://www.informix.com |//////// /| |mailto:mdstock@informix.com http://www.iiug.org |///// / //| | +-----------------------------------+//// / ///| | Tel: +27 11 807 0313 |If it's slow, the users complain. |/// / ////| | Fax: +27 11 807 2594 |If it's fast, the users keep quiet.|// / /////| |Cell: +27 83 250 2325 |Therefore, "No news: travels fast"!|/ ////////| +----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+