PH7.29 vs PH8.19

[John Pearce]

John Pickering wrote:
>I'm in the middle of several upgrades to 8.19. We've found no show   
>stoppers in 8.19 yet. We chose 8.19 over a "proven" 7.29 for the upgrade   
>because of the y2k "friendly" features.

I'm not so concerned about the Y2K friendly features as I am about bugs
that may appear when we're 50% through the project.  In 7.29's first
release, you may remember that QTP supported a reduced number of subfiles
as compared to earlier versions.  That one was a show stopper and I didn't
find it until *after* I spent two weeks working my way through the PDL
changes and all the Quick screens.  I guess the lesson there is to do an
initial recompile of everything (PDL, Quick, Quiz and QTP) then examine all
the *E* in the spoolfile looking for the nasty ones.

>I haven't noticed any great performance penalty (over 7.29) but most of   
>our serious machine busting stuff still runs in 5.09.

Well, now I don't feel so bad that one of my major systems is still in 6.09.

>So far I'm happy with the choice of 8.19 vs. 7.29.

Thanks for the information.  So far, the recommendations are for 8.19.


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John Pearce  <jpearce@rmi.net>       | Bethesda Management Company 
Speaking for only myself             | Colorado Springs, CO  USA
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