Informix 5.0.UD1 on Solaris 2.1

Informix OnLine 5.0.UD1 under Solaris 2.1 I ran into some problems with the above configuration recently. Specifically when I ran the following commands, a segmenetation fault would be caught hence the core dump. isql sqlexecd The following commands would not cause seg faults but yield 457: Database server terminated unexpectedly. dbaccess any esqlc programs that open a database Has anyone run into this yet? The response from the support engineer working with me was that the version of Informix that I am running with has a bug (#16449) in accessing information from the NIS server as a result, the above symptom. The workaround he recommended is to eliminate the use of NIS (formerly known as Yellow Pages). As this is not acceptable as a workaround in my opinion, he offered to put us on the escalation list for the bug fixes. He later called and explained an Informix policy indicating that we were not eligible to be added to the escalation since we only had an evaluation copy for the particular version of Informix. I have some questions: 1) Has anyone seen this bug? How do you workaround the problem? 2) Is this policy for real? What kind of impression would it give to their prospects? Well, we evaluated Informix, it would have been a great product, if it works, but it does not and Informix will not fix it soon unless we pay first? Thanks for your comments! -- Tony Chang email: tony@cwi.com Database Engineer phone: (714) 453-2200 ext. 241 CaseWare, Inc., Irvine, CA