Re: New Cool stuff in V7

[Jeff Young <jyoung0950@xxxxxxxxx>]

Rob,
Our IT Operations staff upgraded the system over the weekend.
In fact, no mention was made to any of the programmers about being on a new
release, just a new 720 server..


On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 2:02 PM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> MK,
> No slam against you, but I think Jeff was hoping to find some positive
> about the change, perhaps even take advantage of new techniques, etc.
> Not simply, "damn, we upgraded, I hate change.  What should I look for?"
> type of stuff.
> But, I agree, the cautions are important too.  Hence, why, when upgrading
> from V5R4 to 7.1 one should read BOTH the 6.1 and the 7.1 MTU.
>
>
> Rob Berendt
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> From:   "Koester, Michael" <mkoester@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To:     Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Date:   06/17/2013 01:43 PM
> Subject:        RE: New Cool stuff in V7
> Sent by:        midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> Jeff,  there was one SQL issue that bit me when I'd missed the piece in
> the MTU that mentioned about new warning-level SQLSTATE values.  Prior to
> that, I had a bunch of code that tested the first two characters of
> SQLSTATE for '00' as my indication that all was cool.  With the new
> warnings (like for Select into where the receiving host variable was
> shorter than the column) returning '01...', my programs would then take a
> different path than before.  Oops -- had to scramble to fix those.  Maybe
> this was fixed in v5.4 via PTF since we moved to 7.1, and you've had a
> chance to go through that already.
>
> Otherwise, I had no other adverse impacts.
> Enjoy!
> -- Michael
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-
> > bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Young
> > Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 12:47 PM
> > To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> > Subject: Re: New Cool stuff in V7
> >
> > Thanks Louis,
> > I do indeed use SQL.
> > I will check  the MTU for 6.1 and 7.1 to see whats new there.
>
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