Re: SE 5.03 vs 7.2

:>Marty McDowell <oshmis1@pacbell.net> wrote: : :>:We are running SE 5.03 and are thinking of moving to SE 7.2 :>:to get support of DBCENTURY. Is there any hidden gotcha's that :>:people have run into when upgrading? Are there any new great :>:features? We have 70 remote sties at ~300mb each we might need :>:to upgrade. Thanks for any info. ...snip... :In <330c0959.1842940@gate.idg.no> Nils.Myklebust@idg.no (Nils Myklebust) writes: :> The 4GL programs where a straight :>recompile with no changes at all. batonnet@zeta.org.au (Bryan Tonnet) wrote: :You obviously write better code than me. In my last upgrade to SE 7.2, :I had quite a few probs with previous bugs (in RDS) that were fixed in :6.0x. One that springs to mind is the handling of AFTER ROW in an INPUT :ARRAY (jumped to next row even when a NEXT FIELD was in the clause). :The old apps had worked around the problem, and the upgrade :broke them. There were a few others like this, but this is all RDS stuff, :the engine upgraded as smoothly as a SE[a] breeze. Sorry, I didn't think too well before I posted. The above problem is truly there, and paritcularly if you have made special workarounds that may not work any longer (we never did). There where also several new bugs in early versions of 6.x but they should be fixed if you get the latest version. However the construct statement is different. It used to place " (double quotes) arround character literals. It now use ' (single quote) which is the ANSI standard. This is a problem if you, like we, manipulate the results of construct statements. (We search for the quotes.) Now I hope we have got the major differences straight. Nils.Myklebust@idg.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org