Re: Fwd: IIUG 2008 survey for new features

DA Morgan wrote: > Art Kagel wrote: > >> Apparently Oracle is more prone to deadlocks than others, though! My >> sources back at my old stomping ground have informed me that several >> of the handful of applications that they have ported from IDS to >> Oracle and some third party apps that were moved from IDS to Oracle >> when the big O bought the vendor (gee who could that be?) are now >> experiencing deadlocks frequently! > > I see that behavior too. People that move code from a non-MVCC > environment to an MVCC environment without learning the differences > in architecture and concepts try to move their code without making > the required alterations to account for the way the product works. > > Perhaps your "sources" should consider learning to read docs or > take classes rather than stumbling around in the dark making > beginners mistakes. > > The same inevitable errors exist when people try to port code from > Oracle to Informix without reading the docs. The reason you don't > hear much about it is that no one is moving from anything to > Informix. So it seems there is agreement that many issues arise when customers or vendors port/migrate from one DBMS to another?! That would imply that such feature requests for IDS are an indication of a desire to have such applications run on IDS that didn't before. Nothing to be ashamed of. It a bit like a Mini Cooper with a steering wheel on the left side, not an admission of failure to drive on the right side, but of opportunity for new markets. Cheers Serge -- Serge Rielau DB2 Solutions Development IBM Toronto Lab