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05-13-2008, 06:16 PM

Troels Arvin

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4gl and IDS 11.5

Hello,

The kerberos features in IDS 11.5 sound very relevant for us, so I would
like to upgrade ASAP. But I'm not sure about 4gl:

The latest 4gl download I can find on Passport Advantage is "IBM Informix
4GL RDS Runtime for Multi-platforms Version 7.32 US English CD ROM Media
Pack" with a release date of March 28, 2003(!).

Will such an old 4gl version be compatible with IDS 11.5? Or is all 4gl
related software included with IDS 11.5?

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Regards,
Troels Arvin <troels@arvin.dk>
http://troels.arvin.dk/

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05-13-2008, 06:16 PM

scottishpoet

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Re: 4gl and IDS 11.5

4GL 7.32 will be the latest version of 4Gl available and will work
with IDS 11.

What version of 4GL and the server are you using today? I am a great
believer in not changing too much in one go, becasue if something
stops working it is more difficult to identify what broke it.

It may be that your exisiting 4GL will still work with IDS 11.
Alternatively it may be easier to upgrade your 4GL then change your
server.

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05-13-2008, 06:16 PM

Art Kagel

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Re: 4gl and IDS 11.5

The 4GL v 7.32 is the latest and it is fully compatible with IDS 11.50.
Just note that IDS features that were not part of IDS 7.31 are not available
to 4GL natively. So, for example, if you want to execute certain later SQL
features you have to PREPARE the statements they will not pass the 4GL
syntax parser, but 4GL will pass them onto the database engine if they are
PREPARED without a syntax check and they will run fine. Similarly, there
will be no access to advanced data types, except as they are convertible to
standard 7.31 types, so not LVARCHAR, BIGINT, etc., unless you write your
own 4GL callable functions in C or ESQL/C to make the interface yourself.

Your existing 4GL apps, however, will continue to run fine on IDS 11.50.

Art S. Kagel
Oninit

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 7:05 AM, Troels Arvin <troels@arvin.dk> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> The kerberos features in IDS 11.5 sound very relevant for us, so I would
> like to upgrade ASAP. But I'm not sure about 4gl:
>
> The latest 4gl download I can find on Passport Advantage is "IBM Informix
> 4GL RDS Runtime for Multi-platforms Version 7.32 US English CD ROM Media
> Pack" with a release date of March 28, 2003(!).
>
> Will such an old 4gl version be compatible with IDS 11.5? Or is all 4gl
> related software included with IDS 11.5?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Troels Arvin <troels@arvin.dk>
> http://troels.arvin.dk/
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> Informix-list mailing list
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>

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05-16-2008, 01:44 PM

Jonathan Leffler

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Re: 4gl and IDS 11.5

Troels Arvin wrote:
> The kerberos features in IDS 11.5 sound very relevant for us, so I would
> like to upgrade ASAP. But I'm not sure about 4gl:
>
> The latest 4gl download I can find on Passport Advantage is "IBM Informix
> 4GL RDS Runtime for Multi-platforms Version 7.32 US English CD ROM Media
> Pack" with a release date of March 28, 2003(!).
>
> Will such an old 4gl version be compatible with IDS 11.5? Or is all 4gl
> related software included with IDS 11.5?

As others indicated, I4GL 7.32 (which is only from 2003 - not all that
old) will work fine with IDS 11.50 -- but...

It won't easily be able to use the Kerberos feature - the olsocssl
connection type. That requires ESQL/C 3.50, and I4GL 7.32 was built
with an earlier version (2.90, I believe).

There isn't a supported way to use I4GL 7.32 with CSDK 3.50. There
should be a new version of I4GL forthcoming built with CSDK 3.50; I'm
probably not going out on a limb when I say 'before the end of the
year', and I expect rather sooner than that.

--
Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h>
Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com
Guardian of DBD::Informix v2008.0229 -- http://dbi.perl.org/

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