Re: MORE Bugs in 5.02UD6?

Joe Lumbley (jlumbley@netcom.com) wrote: : Folks, : I just discovered this one on a site 2000 miles from home 40 minutes : after Informix support closed for the weekend. We went from 5.01 to : 5.02.UD2 and had all the problems that caused them to pull 5.02.UD2 : from the market. After all their hoopla and "proactive" BS, Informix : sent me their "new, improved" 5.02.UD6 that was going to cure the : memory leak fixes.....ad nauseum. I was waiting for someone to mention their "proactive" letter. All I could do was laugh when I got that letter a month after I had installed the product and almost 3 months after they KNEW it had serious problems. I really wanted to write that Marketing guy back and tell him what I thought of his "proactiveness". : Now I'm in LA trying to install 5.02.UD6 and run across this. DBACCESS : complains about a ERROR 206 (Cannot allocate memory) when you try to : get table status twice in a row in dbaccess. This is a pain, but it : can be lived with for a while.......but..... : Has anybody seen anything else wrong with 5.02UD6 (especially on HP)? Is : there another killer just waiting for me to get on an airplane to come : back home before it manifests itself? I'm not feeling real comfortable : with this product :( I've been running that version of the On-line engine on SCO Unix for a couple of months now and haven't experienced any problems that I know of (other than the -408 errors which I'm blaming on I-Net). We're a relatively small install and we're not too happy about the quality of product coming out lately either. I've been wondering what you guys that do SERIOUS database stuff have been thinking/doing about these screwed up versions that have been coming out. I know that I'm glad I don't have to explain these problems to an impatient corporate boss. : And a further, rhetorical question. Has Informix ever heard the term : "regression testing"? You'd think that if 5.02 was so bad that they : had to take it off the market, that when they re-released it they : would try to test it a little. Like maybe it might be a little : ****EMBARASSING**** to them do make the same stupid mistakes twice : in a row? I would think so. I'm just wondering when to trust an update again. -- Dale Van Voorst voorst@dordt.edu Computer Services postmaster@dordt.edu Dordt College Sioux Center, IA 51250 (712) 722-6299