RE: 7.30 to 7.31 IDS upgrade
IDS 7.3x Release Notes and Documentation Notes are available online.
Look at:
http://www.informix.com/informix/resource/ids.htm
-----Original Message-----
From: Surfer!
To: informix-list@iiug.org
Sent: 2/26/00 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: 7.30 to 7.31 IDS upgrade
Thanks. In other words I don't get the correct FM to read until I've
read the software onto a computer! So I need to read it onto another
machine (can probably do that in the office) or into a difference
directory on the customers machine!
Thanks, Informix. If ever there was something to put in the little
printed manual in the brown box....
In article <899ccr$2r$1@news.xmission.com>, Bernstein, Rick
<rbernste@alarismed.com> writes
>
>Read Release Notes, which come with your IDS 7.31 release.
>
>Our IDS 7.31.UC3-1 release contained the following instructions in
>$INFORMIXDIR/release/en_us/0333/SERVERS_7.3. Similar instructions were
>provided when I upgraded from IDS 7.24 to 7.30.
>
> Conversion and Reversion
> ------------------------
>
> The 7.31.UC1 and 7.31.TC1 releases support automatic data
> conversion from previous versions to 7.31 INFORMIX versions, as well
as
> automatic data reversion from 7.31 to older versions.
>
> To convert or revert existing data, use the following guidelines:
>
> CONVERSION
> ----------------------
> Source
> ----------------------
>*Single user mode
> onmode -sy
> onmode -l
> onmode -c
>
>*Data integrity check
> oncheck
>*Level-0 backup
>
>*Server shutdown
> onmode -yuk
>
> ---------------------
> Target
> ---------------------
> Server startup
> oninit
>*Update statistics
> highly recommended
>*Data integrity check
> oncheck options
>*Level-0 backup
>
> REVERSION
> ..(clipped)..
>
>During the conversion or reversion process, monitor the server
>online.log activity.
Monitor for what? Its a bit like the vague statement in a course I am
taking 'browse to chapter 3' without saying why!
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Surfer!
>To: informix-list@iiug.org
>Sent: 2/26/00 8:19 AM
>Subject: 7.30 to 7.31 IDS upgrade
>
>
>I've been trying to find out if there is anything beyond installing the
>new engine and starting it up for this upgrade, which is what I would
>have expected based on moving from 7.24 to 7.30 - in other words about
>30 minutes work at the outside most of which is installing the three
IDS
>licences to ensure that '.snfile' is correct. I'm not including the
>time for the level 0 archive which I would want done beforehand!
>
>The recent postings about upgrade to 7.31 made me wonder.
>
>I've RTFM to no avail!
>
>TIA
>
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Surfer!