Re: Upgrade from 7.30 to 9.X

Luse Harold wrote: > > I have gotten the impression that the switch for the 7.30 engine to the > 9.X engine is not very complicated. Is this true? > > We currently have the 7.30 engine and have been toying around with the > possibility of going to the 9.X engine because we would like to have the > multimedia functionality that smart blobs and datablades would provide. > > Has anyone made this switch, and would you have any empirical wisdom that > you would be willing to share? I've done it, but the point is it's a DOWNGRADE, not an upgrade. So you have to use onmode -b to downgrade to 7.2 first, then install 9.1x after that. As people have pointed out, if you can wait, then 9.2/2000 will combine both engines and should therefore be a simple upgrade. Cheers, -- Mark. +----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+ | Mark D. Stock http://www.informix.com |//////// /| | mailto:mdstock@mydas.freeserve.co.uk |///// / //| | http://www.iiug.org +-----------------------------------+//// / ///| | |What year 2000 bug? year 2000 bug? |/// / ////| | |year 2000 bug? year 2000 bug? year |// / /////| | |2000 bug? year 2000 bug? year 1900 |/ ////////| +----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+