Re: Upgrading from 7.24 to 7.30

Have just boarded the same ship and had lots of trouble. Before you start up 7.3 make sure that you have read the file MIGRATE_7.3 in the release notes directory and ensure that you have got all the patches and settings loaded as recommended. Running on Solaris there is some 40MB of operating system patches that need to be installed. I am still busy with the upgrade/downgrade etc. We ran into some more bugs on 7.3 (we had bugs on 7.23 which instigated the upgrade). 7.3 would crash with an insertion error when doing a level 0 archive. 7.23 had assertion errors on Client Server connections. On doing the reversioning more trouble was found. Several table alterations were made under the newly installed 7.3 which the reversion failed on. The 'In Place' update statement was run on all the tables (fortunately I could remember all those that were altered) and the reversioning (7.3 down to 7.2) ran through. 12 hours later all 4GL application started failing with a -597 - Premature end of buffer. On running a 'oncheck' errors after the reversion were also returned and it ended up that the system catalogue had all the required entries for specific tables, yet the tablespace could not be found. I am at this moment reconfiguring to go back to 7.3 (that is where mu last archive & log backup is) as to export the database. Hopefully after the latest set of patches installed 7.3 will remain stable. Will keep you informed. BTW. What OS are you on currently? Dennis Harding (dennish @ wpr co za) Bomi Pardiwalla wrote in message <6m60eb$3g$1@news.xmission.com>... > >Due to various problems and bugs detected on Informix-Online Ver 7.24 >UC4, we have decided to move on to IDS Ver 7.30. > >Has anyone already gone through the process, and hit any problems in >doing so. > >Please advise. > >Thanks And Regards > >Bomi