I am asking this on behalf of another:


We have a customer running Informix 4GL Runtime Version 6.1 and

Informix Standard Engine Version 7.2 on AIX 5.2.



I know these version are not explicitly supported on AIX6, but will

the run on AIX 6?




Has anybody out there run this? I am assuming it is a canned application and they want to upgrade hardware.

TIA,

David Link

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 13:19, Link, David A <DALink (AT) west (DOT) com> wrote:

Which version number in the SE 7.2x range?

7.20..7.24 should be viewed with extreme caution - dating as they do back to
the mid-90s.

7.25 and 7.26 are different -- I think 7.25 is out of date and 7.26 is
current; it could be that I'm one step ahead and 7.25 is current.

If the 7.26 (or 7.25) was ported to AIX 5.x, the chances are that it will
work OK on AIX 6.x. If it was ported to AIX 4.x, the chances are less good,
but since SE is less demanding than IDS (by a large margin) on the services
of the o/s, there is a better chance of it working.

The I4GL 6.01 (presumably?) is worrying; that is very archaic - circa 1996.
Try it; if it works, great - if it doesn't, sorry, but... I wonder if that
was AIX 3.x? Probably.

As always, please get version numbers quoted accurately - sometimes, all of
the version number matters.

I know these version are not explicitly supported on AIX6, but will
If the SE is close to current, probably yes.

If the I4GL is really 6.01 (the last 6.x release was 6.05, IIRC), then you
are on thin ice. Backwards compatibility may get you there, but I'd not
want to count on it because we're talking about 15 years old releases. If
the SE is the same vintage as the I4GL, then you may have problems there,
too.


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