Re: New Cool stuff in V7

[Jeff Young <jyoung0950@xxxxxxxxx>]

hit enter too soon.
If I had not been curious and poked around, I would not have known what
release we were now on.

Thanks to everyone for the useful links.


On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Jeff Young <jyoung0950@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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