Re: Is IDS 9.40.FC7 supported on AIX 6.1

What is the point of changing the OS? You don't have support for the database, so what is the goal? Are you planing to upgrade both and want to do the OS first? I had a situation similar to that, and the customer decided to upgrade the database first and then the OS (they were on 5.3) When the latest 9.40 fixpack was launched there was no AIX 6.1, so you won't find any document saying it's supported. Regards On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:53 PM, idos <idos.dba@gmail.com> wrote: > We are running IDS 9.40.FC7 on AIX 5.2 and want to upgrade the O/S to > AIX 6.1. My question is IDS 9.40.FC7 supported on AIX 6.1. > I searched IBM sites and the System Requirements pages only list > information for IDS 10 and 11. > Any info. is highly appreciated. > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list > -- Fernando Nunes Portugal http://informix-technology.blogspot.com My email works... but I don't check it frequently...

On Jul 22, 5:32 pm, Fernando Nunes <domusonl...@gmail.com> wrote: > What is the point of changing the OS? > You don't have support for the database, so what is the goal? Are you > planing to upgrade both and want to do the OS first? > I had a situation similar to that, and the customer decided to upgrade the > database first and then the OS (they were on 5.3) > > When the latest 9.40 fixpack was launched there was no AIX 6.1, so you won't > find any document saying it's supported. > > Regards > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:53 PM, idos <idos....@gmail.com> wrote: > > We are running IDS 9.40.FC7 on AIX 5.2 and want to upgrade the O/S to > > AIX 6.1. My question is IDS 9.40.FC7 supported on AIX 6.1. > > I searched IBM sites and the System Requirements pages only list > > information for IDS 10 and 11. > > Any info. is highly appreciated. > > _______________________________________________ > > Informix-list mailing list > > Informix-l...@iiug.org > >http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list > > -- > Fernando Nunes > Portugal > > http://informix-technology.blogspot.com > My email works... but I don't check it frequently... Thanks for the replies and I am aware of the lack of support for 9.40. Yes, the goal is to move to 11.10 on AIX 6.1 on a different box. I am researching the best way to move 7 instances with around 25 GB per instance on average. Each instance has anywhere from 1 to 6 databases (total 30) of varying sizes. I was hoping to install 9.40.FC7 on the new box with AIX 6.1 and use the ontape backups from my existing to restore and do an in-place upgrade to 11.10. Doing an in-place upgrade on the existing system is not an option. Also, moving to 11.50 is not an option because of third-party software restrictions. At this time, I am thinking export/import is the only option. Any ideas are welcome and appreciated. -- idos

A few more comments. 25GB is not that much for today's standard. It really depends on the possibility of having downtime. For that data ammount, I would say that remote "INSERT INTO ... SELECT FROM" would work. It's harder to run, but will leave you with a clean system. And you can do it individually for each database (assuming your applications don't cross databases). As for 11.10, it's a shot in the foot. That version has a lot less functionality than 11.50. And for a vendor, it should not be difficult to run the certification tests against 11.50. I'd bet they won't have any serious problems. You'll get into a version that will not see enhanced functionality... Try pressing the vendor... As for running 9.40 on AIX 6.1, it's possibly that it works... the problem is that nobody will assure this. Regards. On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 4:05 AM, idos <idos.dba@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jul 22, 5:32 pm, Fernando Nunes <domusonl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > What is the point of changing the OS? > > You don't have support for the database, so what is the goal? Are you > > planing to upgrade both and want to do the OS first? > > I had a situation similar to that, and the customer decided to upgrade > the > > database first and then the OS (they were on 5.3) > > > > When the latest 9.40 fixpack was launched there was no AIX 6.1, so you > won't > > find any document saying it's supported. > > > > Regards > > > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:53 PM, idos <idos....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > We are running IDS 9.40.FC7 on AIX 5.2 and want to upgrade the O/S to > > > AIX 6.1. My question is IDS 9.40.FC7 supported on AIX 6.1. > > > I searched IBM sites and the System Requirements pages only list > > > information for IDS 10 and 11. > > > Any info. is highly appreciated. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Informix-list mailing list > > > Informix-l...@iiug.org > > >http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list > > > > -- > > Fernando Nunes > > Portugal > > > > http://informix-technology.blogspot.com > > My email works... but I don't check it frequently... > > Thanks for the replies and I am aware of the lack of support for > 9.40. > Yes, the goal is to move to 11.10 on AIX 6.1 on a different box. I am > researching the best way to move 7 instances with around 25 GB per > instance on average. Each instance has anywhere from 1 to 6 databases > (total 30) of varying sizes. > I was hoping to install 9.40.FC7 on the new box with AIX 6.1 and use > the ontape backups from my existing to restore and do an in-place > upgrade to 11.10. > Doing an in-place upgrade on the existing system is not an option. > Also, moving to 11.50 is not an option because of third-party software > restrictions. > At this time, I am thinking export/import is the only option. Any > ideas are welcome and appreciated. > > -- idos > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list > -- Fernando Nunes Portugal http://informix-technology.blogspot.com My email works... but I don't check it frequently...