Re: Stupid Informix Tricks

Joe Lumbley writes: |I just had the pleasure of updating to 5.03.UC5 with 4.13.UE3 |on HP9000 systems and thought I'd share you one of the more |monumental pieces of Informix stupidity I've seen in quite a |while. | |Some of the rocket scientists in Menlo Park decided that they |needed to provide color curses support in this new product series. |Of course, they did not bother to **mention** this fact. When the |products were installed, tbmonitor barfed looking for "/usr/lib/libcur_colr.sl" |on the HP. Seems that Informix wants to use a library that is not |included with the HP distribution. A call to Informix support came up |with the "solution" of just copying my curses library over to libcur_colr. We had the same problem - however, we were informed that there is an HP Patch specifically for this problem, namely PHCO_4502. We installed this and our problems went away (the patch copy of libcur_colr.sl is different, in size at least, to the libcurses.sl file that you have copied) Perhaps you could try applying this patch and see if your hassles become less monumental (We do not have 4GL 4.12, so I cannot try it here, unfortunately). I do agree with you, however, that it seems irresponsible of Informix to release these kinds of versions without at least warning their customers of this problem (I have yet to see any warning, BTW) Hope this helps, Richard Ridley DHL Asia Pacific