Powerhouse 7.10/8.30 VMS upgrade (survey)

[Bill D Michael]

We went from 7.10 to 8.10, then 8.20, then (now in progress) to 8.30. The
first steps were _extremely_ painful, and I would warn everyone to pay very
close attention to locking issues (ie; test with many users!) before
turning 8.30 loose in production, but at this point most of the major bugs
have been beaten into submission. The minor ones still hanging around at
least all have reasonable workarounds.

I'd suggest a "straight upgrade", with _no_ changes other than what is
required by the compilers; don't try to move to Oracle simultaneously or
anything like that. Remember that this is not like all prior version
upgrades - this is "all new code", coming from the Unix releases, plus VMS
stuff "added on". There are more than the normal number of differences.

Bill

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There has been very little discussion on this group about
upgrades to 8.30.

Either that means that few have attempted it yet or that no-one
has had any issues worth posting. A perusal of the upgrade guide
leads me to suspect that it may be the former.

How about it folks?
If you're on VMS and 7.10, what are your plans?

You may reply privately and I will post the results when they're in.

We are on OpenVMS (Alpha) 7.1-2 using Powerhouse 7.10G1 with RMS
and Oracle RDB 7.0-21, so issues relating to those are of course
what I'm most interested in hearing.

Ingemar Olson




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