Re: Informix 4GL v7 PROBLEMS.

Fred, <snip> > We need help! We have a system that is running v6.01 (as I understand it > is not Y2K compliant). We have been trying to upgrade the application to > the v7 in the past 3 months (no success). > > Here are the BUGS that we have found with the UD1 of version 7.20: > 1) construct What was this problem ? > 2) length of substring of character > 272 This one was fixed in a patch earlier than UD4, even in UD4 we found it to be working, because we had seen that bug in our earlier version of 7.20 > 3) clipped function Again what was this problem > 4) variable initialization requirement (if not then anything can happen) > > 5) core dump when exiting of form with large field (bug#96518) Explain a little more about this also. > 6) large executables (from c4gl - bug#94393) This one according to Informix have been fixed, if you use shared libraries then your executable size will be about 1/4 or even less than that of the size with static libs. Even for static lib. executables, we saw about 6% reduction in size for programs without reports. > > Yesterday we have received the latest version (UD4). We thought that we > are saved. Today I have a very different opinion (after installed it and > tested it). It did not seem to solve any of our problems. IT actually > create a NEW one for us. > > At our site, we have the database and the front-end products installed > in different location. We created some soft-links under $INFORMIXDIR to > point to the tools location and set the tools location in the beginning > of the PATH. Thus, we can use both the database and the front-end tools > within a same window. Everything was working well with the last version > of the front-end products (v6.01 and v7.20 UD1). But the v7.20 UD4 is > using the $INFORMIXDIR to locate the front-end products (rather using > the PATH)! > We used to be worried about the $PATH, now if tools are being picked up from INFORMIXDIR/bin, then we would like it. > Anyone out there has the same problem or solution? > -- Have a nice day Felix K. Mathews mailto:fmathews@systems.dhl.com