Re: An interesting meeting with IBM

David N. Heydon wrote: > Interesting stuff. Was there any talk of offering fixpaks (IBM > terminology) for IDS 7.x and 9.x? It annoys me that for DB/2 I get e- > mail alerts of customer support issues. I can go onto the website and > check on the status of all the bugs and fixes in DB/2 and every so > often a new fixpak will appear which I can download to include all > the various bugfixes (DB/2 V8.1 is up to FP5 and v7 up to FP11). Why > after all this time do we not have the same thing for IDS? Yeah - good call. One of the guys in the meeting mentioned glibly about looking at defect notices etc on the website; I wish now that I said "whaaaa? where?" As for why there's a difference; i'd hazard a guess that it's different styles of management. Maybe DB/2 teams have been doing what you say for years (in various forms) but Informix hasn't had that, and maybe the IDS teams are still doing some things "the old way". Not every procedure can be fixed or changed...