We moved from 4.3.3 to 5.2, and 9.3 to 9.4 without much pain.
Only real stumble was OPTCOMPIND.
You might want to dbexport from 7.24 and dbimport into 9.4.
RTFM and carefully set your onconfig.



Brian Grellinger
I.S. Manager
DHIAC Information Systems
>>> "Obnoxio The Chav" <obnoxio@serendipita.com> 01/11/05 20:00 PM >>>

Olaf Gustafson said:
> We're planning on upgrading from AIX 4.3.3 to 5.1 and IDS 7.24 to 9.4
> over the weekend soon.
>
> Does anyone else think this is a bit risky?
>
> I recall something similar happening where I used to work and it was a
> real pain trying to figure out which upgrade caused the problem (it
> was HP-UX though - don't remember the versions)
>
> It turned out the problem in that case was a faulty DBA (not me!) -
> left out an index because he also recreated some tables to use fewer
> extents.

Well, once you've tested it a couple of times you should know that it
will
be OK...

--

Bye now,
Obnoxio

"C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien à dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule"
- Coluche

"I'm trying to see things your way, but I can't get my head up my ass"
- JCH

"Ogni uomo mi guarda come se fossi una testa di cazzo"
- Marco

You're so stupid, you think martial arts are paintings by a sheriff...

I went to the airport to check in and they asked what I did because I
looked like a terrorist. I said I was a comedian. They said, "Say
something funny then." I told them I had just graduated from flying
school.

-- Ahmed Ahmed
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Brian Grellinger wrote:
> We moved from 4.3.3 to 5.2, and 9.3 to 9.4 without much pain.
> Only real stumble was OPTCOMPIND.
> You might want to dbexport from 7.24 and dbimport into 9.4.
> RTFM and carefully set your onconfig.
>
>
>
> Brian Grellinger
> I.S. Manager
> DHIAC Information Systems
> >>> "Obnoxio The Chav" <obnoxio@serendipita.com> 01/11/05 20:00 PM
>>>
>
> Olaf Gustafson said:
> > We're planning on upgrading from AIX 4.3.3 to 5.1 and IDS 7.24 to
9.4
> > over the weekend soon.
> >
> > Does anyone else think this is a bit risky?
> >
> > I recall something similar happening where I used to work and it
was a
> > real pain trying to figure out which upgrade caused the problem (it
> > was HP-UX though - don't remember the versions)
> >
> > It turned out the problem in that case was a faulty DBA (not me!) -
> > left out an index because he also recreated some tables to use
fewer
> > extents.
>
> Well, once you've tested it a couple of times you should know that it
> will
> be OK...
>
> --
>
> Bye now,
> Obnoxio
>
> "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien à dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule"
> - Coluche
>
> "I'm trying to see things your way, but I can't get my head up my
ass"
> - JCH
>
> "Ogni uomo mi guarda come se fossi una testa di cazzo"
> - Marco
>
> You're so stupid, you think martial arts are paintings by a
sheriff...
>
> I went to the airport to check in and they asked what I did because I
> looked like a terrorist. I said I was a comedian. They said, "Say
> something funny then." I told them I had just graduated from flying
> school.
>
> -- Ahmed Ahmed
> sending to informix-list
>
> sending to informix-list

We upgraded from 4.3.3 to 5.2, and 7.31 to 9.40 without too much pain.
Ditto on the OPTCOMPIND issue and the onconfig settings. The optimizer
just seems to be less forgiving of mediocre code. Also make sure to get
the most recent version of 4gl, we had inexplicable program hangs until
we did.

On 12 Jan 2005 06:40:50 -0800, "Darryl Priest"
<darryl.priest@piperrudnick.com> wrote:

>
>We upgraded from 4.3.3 to 5.2, and 7.31 to 9.40 without too much pain.

That's encouraging.

>Ditto on the OPTCOMPIND issue and the onconfig settings.

And RTFM too!

>The optimizer
>just seems to be less forgiving of mediocre code.

That's not encouraging.

>Also make sure to get
>the most recent version of 4gl, we had inexplicable program hangs until
>we did.

Got it - for some reason. We're actually going to be using FourJs -
which is working sort of....

There are a few things that don't work, but if the users complain too
much, I'll delete their accounts ;-)