IDS10 stability VS IDS11 features (aka "for IBM")
Posted in 2008
Right, probably a very lame try to imitate Gumby, but I'll give it a try :) I'd like to hear you opinions on this topic, here is mine. IDS11.50 is around for a good deal time now, _loads_ of new features. I can see a lot of them making my DBA life easier so I'm looking to upgrade reasonably soon. On the other hand, running IDS 10.FC8(ish) very stable in production with all HDR/ER goodies I'm a happy man. Also, I'm doing regular upgrades every time a new patch comes out (looking to roll out IDS10.FC9W2 in the next few weeks on all prod instances). But, every time I read the release notes/bug fix lists they scare the s**t out of me. Too many crashes for my taste for (at least seemingly, R&D please don't get offended now) trivial reasons (update stats or whatever). This makes me conclude the next: IDS10 support is ending in less than 2 years (30 Sep 2010 according to IBM website) wouldn't it be nice to "freeze" IDS10 code and work ONLY on bug fixes? Whoever wants to trade- off features for stability, great, here's 11.50, just upgrade. For the rest of us, we'd like to sleep well :) And in two years time, I'm sure v11.50 will be just as stable as v10 is now, we'll have vNext too, so the whole story can be repeated. Does this make any sense to the rest of you? Or am I just being too naive? (Now I know at least the Clown will answer :o)) Cheers Davorin