Re: Why should I upgrade my 7.31 instance to 9.4 or 10.0

On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 14:00 -0700, DL Redden wrote: > We have a PeopleSoft 7.52 installation still running on IDS 7.31.UC4. > I want to upgrade/migrate the database > to a newer version of Informix, probably 9.40.FC7 or 10.0.FC6. The > version will be dictated by the PS 8.48 or 8.49 tools that we install. > I'm looking for reasons that would help me sell this idea to my upper > management. > > I can think of a few reasons that make me want to make to move, such > as: > > longer object names (The 18 character limit is a thorn in my side), > better buffer management (I think, someone please confirm this), > IDS 7.31 is reportedly EOS in April of 2009 > > Quite honestly I'm having a hard time coming up with a good list of > reasons since we've been running in this configuration for 7 or more > years and it just runs. You have to love Informix for this trate but > right now I just wish it'd break so that I'd have a good reason to get > it upgraded. > > Can anyone help me out in making a case? The upgrade should improve performance. If users aren't complaining about performance yet, nuke a couple of indexes, and tell the users the application has outgrown the database server and it needs to be upgraded ;-) -- Carsten Haese http://informixdb.sourceforge.net