Re: Why should I upgrade my 7.31 instance to 9.4 or 10.0

Thanks go to everyone who participated in my query. Management agreed to the upgrade. :-) ----- Original Message ---- From: "Priest, Darryl" <darryl.priest@dlapiper.com> To: informix-list@iiug.org Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 7:50:43 AM Subject: RE: Why should I upgrade my 7.31 instance to 9.4 or 10.0 DIV { MARGIN:0px;} We did an upgrade similar to this a while ago. I don't recall the exact versions but we are on Tools 8.48 now and the move from Informix 7.31 to 9.4 did improve performance noticeably. HTH, -D From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:informix-list-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of DL Redden Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 6:43 PM To: Carsten Haese; informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: Why should I upgrade my 7.31 instance to 9.4 or 10.0 I love your thought process. Will consider. ----- Original Message ---- From: Carsten Haese <carsten@uniqsys.com> To: informix-list@iiug.org Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2007 4:17:03 PM Subject: Re: Why should I upgrade my 7.31 instance to 9.4 or 10.0 On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 14:00 -0700, DL Redden wrote: > We have a PeopleSoft 7.52 installation still running on IDS 7.31.UC4. > I want to upgrade/migrate the database > to a newer version of Informix, probably 9.40.FC7 or 10.0.FC6. The > version will be dictated by the PS 8.48 or 8.49 tools that we install. > I'm looking for reasons that would help me sell this idea to my upper > management. > > I can think of a few reasons that make me want to make to move, such > as: > > longer object names (The 18 character limit is a thorn in my side), > better buffer management (I think, someone please confirm this), > IDS 7.31 is reportedly EOS in April of 2009 > > Quite honestly I'm having a hard time coming up with a good list of > reasons since we've been running in this configuration for 7 or more > years and it just runs. You have to love Informix for this trate but > right now I just wish it'd break so that I'd have a good reason to get > it upgraded. > > Can anyone help me out in making a case? The upgrade should improve performance. If users aren't complaining about performance yet, nuke a couple of indexes, and tell the users the application has outgrown the database server and it needs to be upgraded ;-) -- Carsten Haese http://informixdb.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Informix-list mailing list Informix-list@iiug.org http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list _____________________________________________________________________________________ The information contained in this email may be confidential and/or legally privileged. It has been sent for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication, or any of its contents, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. To contact our email administrator directly, send to postmaster@dlapiper.com Thank you. _____________________________________________________________________________________