Re: 4GL 7.20, IDS 9.4

Five Cats wrote: > > Does anyone know if we can continue to use programs written in 4GL v7.20 > (currently running with IDS 7.3x) if we upgrade the engine to 9.4x? The > platform is SOLARIS - can't remember which exact version, can find out > if it matters. > > The only reason for the upgrade is the 2GB limit. It is stopping them > doing dbexport to disk as the largest table (31 million rows) is larger > than 2GB when unloaded. Actually I think they are getting horribly > close to it being larger than 2GB in the data pages as well. Pardon my ignorance, but what a 2GB disk file limit has to do with using 7.2 or 9.4 . If your file system cannot handle 2GB file Informix will not help you. Am I missing something. Michael > > We don't want to alter the version of RDS due to the issues with the > p-code altering and our having to then recompile and reissue all the > programs. They have a complicated mixture of standard and bespoke > programs, and recompilation would for one thing might well show that > there is a degree of uncertainty as to where all the correct source for > the bespoke is.... > >