Re: Is Informix v7.23 good?

Cosmo Lee wrote: > > Mark D. Stock wrote: > > > Cosmo Lee wrote: > > > > > > Whenever we load a new version of Online, we have to manually copy > > the > > > ONCONFIG file to the new directory. Informix seems to assume that > > we > > > will always install newer versions of Online to the same directory > > as > > > the previous version. What's with that??? > > > > Seems a fair assumption to me. If you bought two versions, then > > that's fine. But if it's an upgrade, then the whole idea is to > > overwrite your last version. Also, your support won't cover your old > > version after the upgrade. > > I can't say I would consider this a fair assumption. :-( > > Before I overwrite my old, stable version with a new one, I always > load > the newer version to another directory and test it out first. This > seems to me like a smart strategy. Otherwise, if we load the new > version and it doesn't work right - for whatever reasons we can't get > back into business until we reloaded the older version. That means > our > system is down for the duration. No that's fine. But once it's up, you don't expect support on the old system. > This has happened before. Most recently (you've probably seem my > posts, > folks) we've gotten "Bad magic file/header" errors from `cpio` when > trying to load Online. To date, we've found no solution to this, even > after receiving a total of 4 Online CD-ROM distributions. If we > hadn't > copied files to a non-production directory, our system would have been > down until we were able to reload the old version. You have a perfectly sensible approach to the whole thing. Cheers, -- Mark. +----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+ |Mark D. Stock - Informix SA http://www.informix.com |//////// /| |mailto:mdstock@informix.com FAQ 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"!|/ ////////| +----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+