Re: Upgrade from 5 to 7
>From: "Paul Mosser" <pmosser@primenet.com>
>Date: 25 Apr 1997 07:49:02 -0700
>X-Informix-List-Id: <news.37130>
>
>Rudy Fernandes <rferdy@kuwait.net> wrote:
>>Richard Spitz <spitz@ana.med.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:
>>>John F. Tosh wrote:
>>>> I am currently creating a document to support my reasoning for upgrading
>>>> our Informix database from version 5 to 7 [...]
>> We've recently done the 4.1 -> 6.04 trip. While the code has to
>> be recompiled, the incompatibilities we faced were few. In
>> fact, we found only two.
>
>I have heard that the "notfound" syntax (as in 'if status=notfound...') is
>no longer valid in 6.x. Can anyone confirm / refute that???
Consider it refuted!
At the very least, I'd be more than greatly astonished if that had changed
between the two versions as the lexical analyser and grammars are the same
(identical) for the two versions, so it would take explicit effort on the
part of the maintenance team to make that change.
And, in any case, here's a successful compilation on Solaris 2.5.1 with
I4GL 6.04.UC1:
$ c4gl -V
INFORMIX-4GL Version 6.04.UC1Software Serial Number INF#J081894
$ c4gl -c kk.4gl
$ cat kk.4gl
FUNCTION f()
IF STATUS = NOTFOUND THEN
DISPLAY "not found"
ELSE
DISPLAY "was found (or an error occurred)"
END IF
END FUNCTION
$
Please berate your source of information for propagating unsubstantiable
rumours!
Yours,
Jonathan Leffler (johnl@informix.com) #include <witticism.h>