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Status Under review
Workspace Informix
Components Informix Server
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 9, 2024

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XPS provides a dot notation for COSERVERS, this is blocked under IDS which means a change from XPS to IDS requires a complete application layer rebuild

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Migrating from a long time out-of-support XPS system to V14 requires all the <INFORMIXSERVER>.<COSERVER> notation  to be change to  <INFORMIXSERVER><COSERVER> as the dot notation is not supported under IDS.  As XPS is  long time out-of-support then the application will also mostly be old,  and the knowledge of these applications can be non-existent.  The application might not even be recompilable.

If the dot notation is allowed then the migration from XPS to IDS is now a export/import exercise. The convertion of XPS Sql Schema to IDS is trivial as most of the XPS syntax has finally made it to IDS.

The only option is to rewrite/refactor the application, and this always leads to the question .... why don't we move away from Informix

Needed By Yesterday (Let's go already!)
  • Guest
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    |     Aug 12, 2024

    Sounds like a simple change - seems like an easy way to keep XPS customers on Informix!

  • Guest
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    |     Aug 10, 2024

    The least amount of changes I find is always best. This would certainly be an easy way to keep XPS customers on Informix 

  • Guest
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    |     Aug 10, 2024
    Sounds like a no-brainer!
  • Guest
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    |     Aug 9, 2024

    That could be really useful for getting customers in to modern IDS , and does seem like a pretty minor change. 

  • Guest
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    |     Aug 9, 2024

    This seems like both a good idea and a trivial change given that the parsing code is there in the XPS library for the taking.

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