Re: Problems after AIX upgrade

corinne@dssmktg.uucp (Corinne Gregory) writes: >Hi all... > We have a client who has recently upgraded their RS6000 O/S to >03.02.0000 (with several patches to fix 64-port controller problems). IBM >has already given then 4 additional general O/S patches, so we know there >are problems, but the client hasn't applied them as of yet. > Since their upgrade, our software has literally gone to you-know- >where in a handbasket. To put it mildly, it appears as though our package >is deteriorating before everyone's eyes. Now, I know that S/W doesn't >just mysteriously atophy...but I need some help here. The clients users >are regularly getting kicked out of the application with fatal errors, or >core dumps, or sometimes getting thrown out to the system prompt with no >error message. There doesn't seem to be any discernable pattern; everyone >here is stumped. We recompiled the entire application after the O/S upgrade. > Here are the facts: application is compiled on their system >using 4GL version 4.00.UH1, running on S/E 4.00.UH1. They RUN their >application on 4GL runtime 4.00.UH1, S/E 4.00.UH1, and they have SQL >4.00.UH1. As I indicated, we have recompiled after the upgrade, and the >package worked fine before they upgraded O/S. Any ideas??? We're running >out of clever ideas. >- Corinne Hi, We had similar problems with our interface to informix after upgrading to 3.02 of AIX. Try setting your environment variable "MALLOCTYPE=3.1" as was suggested to us by AIX support. This fixed our problems. Good luck! Rod.