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From: "piotrek" <piotrUSUN_T_O110@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
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Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 9:43 AM
Subject: Re: reliability?
> >
>>
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/im/ids/dev.html?S_TACT=105AGX28&S_CMP=DLMAIN
>>
>> I followed the link labeled "Download the IDS Developer Edition" on the
>> IDS 11 main page here:
>
> Ok, I give up - but it's a quite new thing
>
>> I don't know what to say about the FREE and immediate and easy to find
>> access to patches. I'm not sure how the other guys do it but IDS
doesn't
>> do "patches", just new releases with the bug fixes included. If you
have
>> sup****t it is not a problem to get these fixes from IBM's download
site,
>> but if you don't have sup****t, are you really entitled to the bug
fixes?
>>
>
> - If IDS does not have pathes (fixes) then what is this:
> http://www-1.ibm.com/sup****t/docview.wss?uid=swg24009130
> - Such a bug in optimiser is like faulty stearing mechanism in a car -
you
> cannot trust an application build on something like this. Maybe 'other
> guys'
> are also not faultless but what is a problem with fixing (whithout extra
> charge) things which when not fixed makes a product unusable (what a
kind
> of
> agrement is that)?
> In automotive industry they are even installing a path for you (product
> recall)
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Like Mark said IDS does not sup****t a patch mechanism, the bugs and new
features are rolled into the next release. To take advantage of a bug fix
you must install a new version of IDS. It has always been this way, even
before the IBM aquisition.
As for as needing to be current with sup****t to get these new releases, I
kind of agree that this is a weird area. If you bought something and it
has
a defect, then shouldn't you be entitled to the fix for free? Maybe. But
on the other hand, if you're running a system im****tant enough to care
about
an optimizer bug, then shouldn't you have current vendor sup****t for that
system?
Andrew
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