IBM Quietly Pulling Releases of V10?
I am hoping someone here would have more information about the following. Support was helpful but not as clear as I had hoped. If you are using Passport Advantage you should notice that you can no longer download the following releases of V10; 10.00.FC2 10.00.FC6 10.00.FC7 Support says this happened because of issues being Stable and with Performance but couldn't provide anything more. Why is this a concern of mine: End of last year we upgraded to 10.00.FC5 and within 2 weeks had to rollback due to a rare, user un-reproducible bug (which we crashed from more then once). The bug was "fixed" in 10.00.FC7, which we have deployed and is running my companies core business. If something is pulled from availability this makes me wonder if we should stay on the version. Especially when things are pull quietly. Why so Quiet about this? So does anyone have any details as I prepare to test FC8? Eric B. Rowell
Hi, IDS 10.00.FC7 has an optimizer bug which may lead to wrong select results. See APAR IC54680 at IBM support site: www-1.ibm.com/support/entdocview.wss?uid=swg1IC54680&NotUpdateReferer= Therefore I would recommend to update to FC8. Regards, Andreas Kutsche > ------------------------------------------- SPAR Österreichische Warenhandels-AG Hauptzentrale A - 5015 Salzburg, Europastrasse 3 FN 34170 a Tel: +43 662 4470 24223 Mobile: +43 664 6259575 E-Mail: Andreas.KUTSCHE@spar.at Internet: http://www.spar.at Wichtiger Hinweis: Der Inhalt dieser E-Mail kann vertrauliche und rechtlich geschützte Informationen, insbesondere Betriebs- oder Geschäftsgeheimnisse, enthalten, zu deren Geheimhaltung der Empfänger verpflichtet ist. Die Informationen in dieser E-Mail sind ausschließlich für den Adressaten bestimmt. Sollten Sie die E-Mail irrtümlich erhalten haben so ersuchen wir Sie, die Nachricht von Ihrem System zu löschen und sich mit uns in Verbindung zu setzen. Über das Internet versandte E-Mails können leicht manipuliert oder unter fremdem Namen erstellt werden. Daher schließen wir die rechtliche Verbindlichkeit der in dieser Nachricht enthaltenen Informationen aus. Der Inhalt der E-Mail ist nur rechtsverbindlich, wenn er von uns schriftlich bestätigt und gezeichnet wird. Sollte trotz der von uns verwendeten Virus-Schutzprogramme durch die Zusendung von E-Mails ein Virus in Ihre Systeme gelangen, haften wir nicht für evtl. hieraus entstehende Schäden. Wir danken für Ihr Verständnis. Important notice: The contents of this e-mail may contain confidential and legally protected information that is in particular related to operational and trade secrets, which the recipient is obliged to treat as confidential. The information in this e-mail is made available exclusively for use by the addressee. In the event that the e-mail may have been sent to you in error, we would ask you to kindly delete this communication from your system and to contact us. E-mails sent via the Internet can be easily manipulated or sent out under someone else's name. We therefore do not accept legal liability for the information contained in this communication. The contents of the e-mail are only legally binding if they have been confirmed and signed by us in writing. If, in spite of our using Antivirus protection software, a virus may have penetrated your system through the sending of this e-mail, we do not accept liability for any damage that may possibly arise as a result of this. We trust that you appreciate our position. ------------------------------------------- -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] Im Auftrag von > Eric Rowell > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 10. April 2008 18:15 > An: ids@iiug.org > Betreff: IBM Quietly Pulling Releases of V10? [11832] > > I am hoping someone here would have more information about the following. > Support was helpful but not as clear as I had hoped. > > If you are using Passport Advantage you should notice that you can no > longer > download the following releases of V10; > 10.00.FC2 > 10.00.FC6 > 10.00.FC7 > > Support says this happened because of issues being Stable and with > Performance but couldn't provide anything more. > > Why is this a concern of mine: > > End of last year we upgraded to 10.00.FC5 and within 2 weeks had to > rollback due to a rare, user un-reproducible bug (which we crashed from > more > then once). The bug was "fixed" in 10.00.FC7, which we have deployed and > is > running my companies core business. If something is pulled from > availability this makes me wonder if we should stay on the version. > Especially when things are pull quietly. > > Why so Quiet about this? > > So does anyone have any details as I prepare to test FC8? > > Eric B. Rowell > > > ************************************************************************** > ***** > Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum. > > See you at the IIUG Informix 2008 Conference > The Power Conference for Informix Professionals > April 27 - 30, 2008 Marriott Overland Park (Kansas City), Kansas > http://www.iiug.org/conf > Registration Now Open!!
We just upgraded to 10.00.UC8 - to avoid the optimizer bug and some others regarding ESQL/Cobol (yes Cobol - sigh). After a few days of strenuous testing we are happy campers. Looking forward to getting to v11 though... Mike