End of Service for IDS 9.30 Apr 3005

All, Please take notice of the below Hot news released by SAP today regarding IDS 9.30 on SAP. Best regards Tilman -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- SAP Note No. 833692 06.04.2005 Page 1 ________________________________________________________________________ Number 833692 Version 2 from 05.04.2005 Status Released for Customer Set on 05.04.2005 Language EN Master language DE Short text End of maintenance for Informix Version 9.30 Responsible Christian Graf Component BC-DB-INF Informix ________________________________________________________________________ Long text Symptom The maintenance for Informix 9.30 versions ends on April 30th, 2005. Other terms Reason and Prerequisites Your SAP application is running with Informix Version 9.30. Solution The 'End of Service' (EOS) support level for Informix Version 9.30 will come into effect at IBM as of May 2005. This End of Service specifically means: o There will be no more enhancement and maintenance releases. o No new operating system versions will be supported. o IDS Version 9.40 will be required for time-consuming troubleshooting and performance analyses. In particular, corrections that require changes to be implemented in the IDS 9.30 database source code will still only be made available based on IDS 9.40. For over a year now, Informix Version 9.40 has been certified and released for all SAP products that are also released for IDS 9.30. As a result, IDS Version 9.40 is a reliable, alternative Informix version to IDS 9.30. The Basis version currently recommended is 9.40.xC5. You can download the current patch version (for example, 9.40.xC5X3) from the SAP Service Marketplace. When you change from IDS 9.30 to IDS 9.40, at least 9.40.xC5X3 should be used in the SAP environment. We therefore urgently advise all customers who are still using Informix Version 9.30 to upgrade to the current 9.40 database version. Version 9.40 is available for all platforms that have a corresponding 9.30 version. Details about the availability of IDS Version 9.40 for the different SAP components are available on the SAP Service Marketplace (http://service.sap.com) in the Product Availability Matrix (PAM). Page 2 ________________________________________________________________________ Note is release independent ________________________________________________________________________

Hey that's good service ! A thousand years of support !! ;) J. -----Original Message----- From: "Tilman Mode...." <tilman.model-bosch@de.ibm.com> To: ids@iiug.org Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 09:17:27 -0400 (EDT) Subject: End of Service for IDS 9.30 Apr 3005 [4678] ... Jean Sagi jeansagi@myrealbox.com jeansagi@yahoo.com