Re: Informix 7.1 and AIX 414

>you wrote: >Has anyone made this transition recently. Is there a problem in running >Informix 5 clients with 7 online. We have a lot of code that needs to be >recompiled in order to move our clients to version 7. > We are in the midst of porting from AIX 3.2 and Informix 5.02 to AIX 4.14 and informix 7.12. Our application is written in 4GL (with some esql/c libraries). If you are using 4GL, make damn sure you have 4GL 6.03 or better because there is a REALLY BAD informix bug in the MENU command that wasn't fixed until Informix did an emergency port from 6.02 to 6.03 for us on AIX. Another thing you need to watch out for is functions returning a different number of values than the calling function expects (i.e. you CALL function_a () RETURNING var1,var2 and function_a RETURNs var1,var2,var3). You SHOULD get an error with this condition in 5.02 (4GL 4.12) on AIX, but you DON'T! 7.12 adn 4GL 6.03 do give you a runtime error in this case. If you want any other 5.02 to 7.12 porting horror stories on AIX, you can email me directly at mikeh@medcmp.com. Mike Hodges (mikeh@medcmp.com) Medic Computer Systems My opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer.