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Re: Reasons: Crashes of all supported IDS versions

Posted By: david@smooth1.co.uk
Date: Friday, 27 July 2012, at 5:02 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Reasons: Crashes of all supported IDS versions (FRANK J. COMPUTER)

Say you are running a version of Informix 3 years old and a new version appears

Option A) Upgrade immediately - high risk

Option B) Wait for 1- 2 years until other customers feel it is stable and
upgrade, in the process find

1) There are new reserved words in the sql language and your app/schema needs
5 changes

2) There are features removed and your app needs change in 3 places

3) Some bugs need fixing.

Option C) Wait for 10 years

1) There are new reserved words in the sql language and your app/schema needs
100 changes, you spent ANOTHER 7 YEARS adding usage of the new reserved words

to your app/schema!

2) There are features removed and your app needs change in 100 places, you
spent ANOTHER 7 YEARS adding usage of the removed feature to your app which will
need

to be remediated.

3) Some of your source code has been lost and that part has to be rewritten
from scratch and peoples memorys of how it should work. Spent next 2 years
rewriting that

part of the code as different customers say it used to work differently
then the rewritten version.

Option D) Wait for 15 years

In the 14th year the last hardware dies which runs an OS version compatibile
with that version of Informix you were running.

You know that 6 months upgrade/test process - well you are down and need to
do that before you can get running again - screwed!

You will need to upgrade eventually when hardware moves on and no OS you can
run on the new hardware is compatibile with your database or app.

My policy is:

1. Play with the FC1release and use for compilation testing/sniff testing , you
have plenty of time to make any codes changes to ensure your

code will compile/run against that release without majro issues. Any bugs
you find the vendor has plenty of time to fix.

Even better would be to get on the beta program and complain loudly if they
remove a feature you need. Complaining 5/10 years later is not going to help!

Also the vendor knows their customers rely on that feature so it needs it's
fair share of testing even if the developers want to remove the feature.

2. Play again with a later release - used to be FC4 but with the QA seeming to
have gone down I am holding off on even 11.70.FC5 for now.

3. When people on these lists say a release is stable and stop mentioning new
bugs, get it, retest and consider using it for real.

There is always a cost whether you upgrade or not..

David.

On 25 July 2012 at 02:50 "FRANK J. COMPUTER" <frank_in_pr@hotmail.com> wrote:> I
still believe in "If everything has been stable and fulfilling the needs,
> don't change it until the support life cycle has ended!". Changes are
> expensive and as software becomes more complex, more probabilities for
> something to go wrong!
>
> If you were to conduct a survey of the top Fortune 500 Corporations, you'll
> find out that most of them are still running stuff that's at least 3 to 30
> years old! Some monsters, like the Social Security Administration have 85% of
> their code still runing in COBOL with DL/I calls to IMS. Even a change request
> to alter a table needs to be carefully evaluated and may not even be approved!
>
>
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