Re: 4gl version 4 to 7 upgrade

Malcolm, Maybe that's naive, but just to make sure: have you upgraded the engine as well? I think that version 7.20.xx of I-4GL requires IDS 7.24.xx or later. Best regards, Cristian. Mark D. Stock wrote: > > 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"!|/ > ////////| > > +----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+