Re: Is Informix v7.23 good?

Sujit Pal wrote: > Cosmo/Mark > > I haven't followed this thread, so if I have a suggestion that has = > already been suggested, please ignore this. > > It is possible to set INFORMIXDIR to something else, say > /usr/informix2 = > and install the new software. We have done this occasionally when = > testing an upgrade. Once it is done, we simply drop the old = > /usr/informix directory (after killing all open processes of course, = > > like oninit), tar off the /usr/informix2 to disk and tar it back in to > = > /usr/informix. > > That way we can keep the 2 versions together on the same box for = > sometime before we decide either way. > Sujit, you've got the right idea, but I think you're doing more work than you have to. What we do is to create directories named after the version of Online, e.g.: /usr/informix7.22. Then we create a link /usr/informix which points to the directory of the version we want to use. This way you don't have to even change the INFORMIXDIR variable. And you don't have to move any files around. HTH.