Re: RE: Upgrade recommendations
Well there are a lot of onconfig settings to move/tune if you are going from SE 7.x to IDS 10.x. Would be used the same machine? Or there are newer hardware (Memory/Disks-San/MultiCPUs/OS,etc) ? You have to test your 4gl code, it won't be hurt by the upgrade but pay special atention on the way that null/empty strings are handled. J. -----Original Message----- From: "William Weaver" <wweaver@amicus.com> To: "'Jean Sagi'" <jeansagi@myrealbox.com> Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 14:52:04 -0500 Subject: RE: Upgrade recommendations We will definitely have that opportunity and there will also be an extended and extensive testing period before cutting over, but any suggestions to make that whole process much smoother? Bill Weaver Director of Engineering Amicus, Inc. 512-531-3463 (office) 512-531-3401 (fax) "A lie told often enough becomes the truth." - Lenin "I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises." - Neil Armstrong "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." - Soren Kierkegaard "To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben "To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have." - Ken S. Keyes -----Original Message----- From: Jean Sagi [mailto:jeansagi@myrealbox.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 2:30 PM To: wweaver@amicus.com Cc: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: Upgrade recommendations If possible do an upgrade/test what you need to do on a lab. machine. J. -----Original Message----- From: "William Weaver" <wweaver@amicus.com> To: <informix-list@iiug.org> Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:48:56 -0500 Subject: Upgrade recommendations We have a client coming on board with us that currently is running the following versions: SE 7.24_UC8 4GL 7.20_UE1 (RDS) As part of bringing them on board, we'll need to take them to the latest Informix versions. This includes migrating them from SE to IDS 10 as well as upgrading their 4GL. Being such a large version jump in both products, I'm leery that there may be several "gotchas" in the process. Can any of you provide some things we need to look out for? Any specific advice? Also, because of our environment, we may have to transition them from RDS to compiled 4GL in addition to the version upgrade. What should we look out for there? I've never really had many issues with Informix upgrades in the past, but I've never been through this large of a leap before so I'm understandably paranoid. Unfortunately, we probably won't have the luxury of doing this incrementally but rather will have to do it in one huge swath. Bill Weaver Director of Engineering Amicus, Inc. 512-531-3463 (office) 512-531-3401 (fax) "A lie told often enough becomes the truth." - Lenin "I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises." - Neil Armstrong "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." - Soren Kierkegaard "To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben "To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have." - Ken S. Keyes Jean Sagi jeansagi@myrealbox.com jeansagi@gmail.com Jean Sagi jeansagi@myrealbox.com jeansagi@gmail.com sending to informix-list