Dave, something tells me that this is directly related to the change from C to Java, but, for compatibility sake, you should stand-up a quick Tomcat and Mid-Tier (not hard), even locally on your machine, just to check if the newer client takes care of the problem, if so, you may be looking at a bit more of an upgrade than expected with this release :)
On Sep 1, 2016 8:02 AM, "Dave Barber" <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > All, > > We have an in house developed incident management application that is > currently running on ARS 7.6.04/Solaris/Oracle. We're starting the process > of database upgrades (from 10 to 12) in order to support ARS9. > > One of our dev instances has already gone through the upgrade, and aside > from a slight behaviour issue (which will be discussed below), it all seems > pretty good. Similar performance, despite our ridiculously old hardware. > > Onto the behaviour issue. > > We have a few points where a user will key in a partial company or contact > name, and a list will then be presented. On 7.6.04 this works fine, list > of the potentially matching companies or contacts is displayed, along with > a few related fields to help the user choose. > > On v9, fields in the selection list with nothing in them (ie. "null") are > actually displayed with the word "null", rather than being presented with, > well, nothing. This is from a set fields/search, if multiple records > found, present a list. > > We are currently accessing the application via the 7.6.04 (SP4) user > tool. We don't actually have the mid-tier installed on our legacy > developer instances. > > Assuming I have explained this adequately, is this difference in behaviour > being caused by a minor compatibility issue between the v9 server and the > 7.6.04 user tool? > > Regards > > Dave > _ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" and have been for 20 years_ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"
