Re: informix bugs

"try_and_err" <try_and_err@web.de> wrote in message news:fbcbd702.0504100207.5f3dda1e@posting.google.com... > Mark Townsend has wrote > "http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/informix/pubs/library";, not > "http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/informix";. > Or "www.ibm.com"... > > At present you can only check the release notes, look at the > "Defects Fixed Addendum" for the newest version (known issues/bugs > fixed). > Or search on google. > > To Informix times it was possible to search in a case/bug database, > short time > after IBM acquired Informix this nice possibility was dropped. > > IBM: Why has IBM dropped this very useful function ? Is this feature > really dropped or must i be gold,gold,gold customer to use this > function ? This was dropped a couple of years ago. No reason was ever given as I recall. IBM tech support staff still have access to the facility. I don't believe that any customers do, even "regency" ones. Nor do some categories of user (IBM Business Partner, Informix Certified Professional) who previouly had access. Possibly the facility has been withdrawn to improve the attractiveness of maintenance renewals, or because of some "legal reasons", or perhaps because of paranoia over allowing anything negative, such as bugs, even to be hinted at. Just speculation though, I have no special insight.