Re: Year 2000 issues HELP

Richard Percival wrote: > > 2. We have SE V5.07, 4GL / SQL V4.13. According to the Informix web site > SE V5.1x, 4GL / SQL V4.2x are compliant. > > So a minor upgrade should give us compliance. By compliance I mean it > will give me the DBCENTURY environment variable which should solve most > problems provided 2 digit date information has not been hard coded and > we do the other things Informix suggest like making sure the hardware > and OS is compliant. > > Two questions then - firstly - are my assumptions about these versions > solving most non hard coded y2k problems with Informix correct? Yes. > Secondly, what are the migration issues in going from my current version > to the compliant one? I assume this minor upgrade should be pretty > straightforward - recompilation only? Certainly significantly more > straightforward than going for Informix SE 7? Yes... But, version 5 engines (4 tools) will not be supported for ever more. My current understanding is that support will be dropped at the end of 1999. > Any comments, advice and suggestions gratefully recieved. Upgrade to the latest version. You're going to have to make the jump from 5 to 7 at some point. Why not get it over with before any year 2000 issues kick in? ;-) Cheers, -- Mark. +----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+ |Mark D. Stock - Informix SA http://www.informix.com |//////// /| |mailto:mdstock@informix.com http://www.informix.com/idn |///// / //| |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"!|/ ////////| +----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+