Upgrade from 7.10.G1 to 8.40D

[Joe Boyle]

also, did you create the new dictionary with a new/different file name or
directory, could it be that the original dictionary ( or parts of it ) have
been overwritten  ?

Regards, Joe.


-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Boyle [mailto:atla38@dsl.pipex.com] 
Sent: 29 March 2005 12:49
To: 'Lemin, Graeme'; 'powerh-l@lists.sowder.com'
Subject: RE: Upgrade from 7.10.G1 to 8.40D

Re number of phd files ? as a simple test how about going to a new directory
and typing/pasting the syntax below into pdl; then count the number of phd
files created.

Canc clear
create dict tstdict not preloaded
elem rownum  numeric size 8
file myrec Organization Direct 
Record myrec
Item rownum  Datatype integer Size 8
load


As for the qkgo files, did you use a new/different file name for the new set
of qkgo files, or could it be that you have created a new version of the
same file name as the original ? If the latter, remove the latest versions (
checking creation dates ) and the try again with a new/different qkgo file
name.

In the circumstances I would suspect that the error is related to a corrupt
dictionary or qkgo file. What happens if you go into qshow to interrogate
the new dictionary, or qkgomaint to look at setup pages of the new qkgo file
? 

Does 'showdict' confirm that you are pointing at the new dictionary file ? 

Have you tried running 'lmstat -a' against your new license keys or are you
on temporary license keys ?


Regards, Joe.


-----Original Message-----
From: powerh-l-admin@lists.sowder.com
[mailto:powerh-l-admin@lists.sowder.com] On Behalf Of Lemin, Graeme
Sent: 29 March 2005 10:20
To: powerh-l@lists.sowder.com
Subject: Upgrade from 7.10.G1 to 8.40D

Hi all

As part of an overall systems upgrade from:

VMS 7.3-1 and OracleRDB 7.1-03

to

VMS 7.3-2 and OracleRDB 7.1-04

we are upgrading Powerhouse from 7.10.G1 to 8.40D.


We've discovered a few things that didn't work as expected.

Under 8.40D, we now have only four .phd files, whereas under 7.10.G1 we had
FIVE .phd files.  The dictionary was converted using the PHDCONV utility.
Is this correct, does the new version have only four .phd files, or are we
missing something?

When building our 8.40D QKGO file, we used the 'copy' function within
QKGOMAINT to copy (and convert) from a 7.10.G1 QKGO file.  According to the
manual, it should say "Convert an existing 7.10 QKGO file [Y/N]", but the
only question it asks is the second one we expected, ie "Copy old TICs?".  

Using the dictionary and qkgo file created in the preceding steps, our
application will start up, showing us the highest level menu screen.
Attempting to go to a subsequent screen results in a "fatal error 604"
message.  Does anyone know what this error means?

Our QKGO file doesn't appear to have transferred the DFK definitions.  If we
enter them manually, and then try to view the data we've just entered,
QKGOMAINT tells us that there is no data.  If we believe this message and
try and re-enter the definition, we get an error saying that key and data
definitions already exist for this key.

MATCHPATTERN appears to be giving us results inconsistent with what we were
getting in 7.10.G1.   Is this a known problem, and if so, is there a
workaround or a fix for it?

Thanks in advance!

Graeme Lemin
Media Solutions - Telstra
(Black Diamond Technologies)	
Melbourne, Australia
(03) 8695 7040


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