A word of advice - 8.3 -> 9.x

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ChrisJRutter

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Okay you guys & gals, who out there can give me the heads up (in fifty words or less!) on what's involved in converting an 8.3E GUI app (SmartObjects, etc) to 9.x?

Can I assume the db end is a straightforward conversion with PSC supplied utility or at worst a dump & reload?

I am holding my breath for the answer on converting the app.....

Cheers
Chris

BTW; dev.environment is XP Pro, deployment environment is Windows 2000 Business Server over TCP.
 
Well, we had to convert an OpenPay V8 database to V9. Basically, we had to do the following, with a few minor steps possibly missed out as it was a while ago:

1. Backup the database
2. Dump all the data and sequences
3. Convert from a single-volume database to a multi-volume database with extents (they gave us a template to use)
4. Load the schema and sequences dfs into the new multi-volume database (there was something else we had to do here, but I'm blowed if I can remember what it was, something with proutil to repair the structure?)
5. Load the data and sequence values into the new database

And that's it. It took us about an hour, once we had managed to install V9 and tried a few things first.

Simon
 
The app shouldn't be an issue ... at least we had no major issues.

There were some minor issues like if you use the VALUE-CHANGED event on a browse it may fire/work differently than you expect in V9. But otherwise it was a fairly simple conversion as all the ADM1 objects still exist in V9. Note, the ADM directory represent SmartObjects v1 while the ADM2 represents SmartObjects v2. So with this you have SO separation.
 
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