Re: Migration from 5.x to 7.x

In article <330c0b5c.2357199@gate.idg.no>, Nils Myklebust <Nils.Myklebust@idg.no> writes >Boris Niyazov <boris@hal2000.law.columbia.edu> wrote: > >:I am intending to migrate from Online 5.07 (Sparc/Solaris 2.5.1/Ultra >:platform) to the engine 7.2. > >We haven't upgraded to 7.2 yet, we are still on 7.1 but had no >problems upgrading to that. >You will have some work to do on tuning. You might want to search for >previous posts on this. > >:Can anybody share his/her experience of doing that? Any particular >:problems while upgrading? Any hints? >: >:I use 4gl development tools version 4.17. Should I move to 6.x tools ??? Is 4.17 out yet? The latest I have heard of is 4.15. Are you porting to Online Workgroup Server 7.2 or OnLine DSA 7.2. Note: OnLine Workgroup Server for Solaris 2.5.1 (Just arrived on my desk yesterday) does NOT include onmonitor!! All the other command line tools are there i.e. onstat,onspaces but not onmonitor. Instead you are supposed to use the Windows 95 client server Admin Tools supplied!! Apparently when you install OWS 7.2 it asks you for parameters for an initial instance and this is the only instance informix will support (This is from Informix Tech Support UK ~1-2 pm GMT today!). ****************************************************************** THAT IS RIGHT Informix say you should only run ONE OWS instance on any one machine. ****************************************************************** We can't do this as we required 5 small databases, 1 large database in one 'live' instance and a small demo database in a seperate instance for testing. Basically we are taking on a large new client which current exists as 5 separate companies but will all be merged into one company over the next year. We want to migrate each client separately as they will each have different reference data. Hence the 5 small databases for initial data takeon and parallel running. When each client is happy with their configuration they will be merged into the large database. This means eventally we will have one large database (24Gb) and one small demo (4Gb). In the past (with a different application) we have managed to crash Online 7.12. Hence we wish to do testing in a separate instance. It appears we will need small 'demo' database in our 'live' instance so we can reproduce problems if we need Tech. Support from Informix! I am getting worried....any advice about installed OWS will be greatly recieved. (I'm flying up to Scotland on Monday to installed it!!!). We I can't say my job is boring...... -- David Williams