Ryan

Good catch.

Yes, as more of the UniData subsystem gets ported to UniVerse, those sites
will need to become more familiar with the dark art of tuning these. It's
not forgiving when you hit the limits and, frankly, most of the
documentation for this reads like machine speak. One of the nice things
about UniVerse is that it generally behaves even if badly tuned, and can
dynamically adapt to wildly changing workloads or huge differences in
resource needs between different processes - it just won't run optimally
rather than falling over in a heap (unless you fill up your lock table that
is <grin>). So whilst we reap the benefits of better replication etc. the
flipside is getting used to 'No More LCT' style messages.

Brian



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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Ladd, Ryan
Sent: 25 September 2013 19:01
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re: [U2] Recommended 11.1.point release to upgrade to.

Chuck,
  Two other new parameters that may require changing are SHM_GNTBLS and
SHM_GNPAGES.  The "What you need to know for Eleven-One" document mentions
these, but in the segment that called "Shared Memory Parameters that should
not require changing".  The key word in that statement is "should".  When we
upgraded on AIX to 11.1.4 from 10.3.9 the defaults were used and we ran out
of GCT entries fairly early in the day.

  I would also say that if you use dynamic files with i-type indices as well
as triggers, pay close attention to the patches.  You may need to modify
your TXMEM parameter to avoid write errors for larger records.

  I remember change to the FMT statement.  I believe the "fix" was the
addition of the "FMT_TEXTMARK" configurable.  We were lucky with that one
and noticed the issue before upgrading our production environment.

Ryan



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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Rick Nuckolls
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 6:16 PM
To: 'U2 Users List'
Subject: Re: [U2] Recommended 11.1.point release to upgrade to.

Chuck,

I agree that they took a simple (but fine) route on the local scoping.  What
is funny is that the interpretation of it seems to be that it allows the
overriding of the production version of subroutines rather than simply
creation of a "safe" version of gosub.  It should work for both; I just
never pictured it that way.

Be sure to read the install notes on 11, in particular, the "NUSERS" config
item is new & important.  Fixtool finally seems to work well.  I know that a
lot of work has gone into that over the previous couple of years.

Rick

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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Charles Stevenson
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 3:53 PM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re: [U2] Recommended 11.1.point release to upgrade to.

Thanks, Rick.

They're finally getting in your desired variable scoping into 11.2, too.
>From what I read, I like how they did it.

My prejudice against being an early adopter of major releases kicks in &
makes me not want 11.2.0.   11.2.4 maybe.  Also, if I wait until
November, my window closes.

The vast majority of the issues listed in the 11.1 release notes have to do
with stuff we don't use at all (DR, DARE, MQ, etc), or use so minimally that
complete regression testing is easy (XML, callHTTP, etc.)

There were several issues having to do with indexing.   I think if I
validate the indexes after regression tests, that should suffice.

Issues that involve locking are trickier.  It will require load testing and
lock contention.
I am not looking forward to that.

The only time in my whole career that I recall having any problem with
backward compatibility after a UV upgrade is also the only time I've seen a
day's worth of work for an entire company abandoned and the previous night's
backups restored.  There was an undocumented change to
FMT  was made that ended up truncating out data, if I recall.   It's in
the U2-list archives.  Some of the same people who suffered through that are
with me now.

cds

On 9/25/2013 12:53 AM, Rick Nuckolls wrote:
> Chuck,
>
> We currently have one machine running 11.1.12 with no real problems.
11.1.13 is basically a one, only-on-severe-load, bug fix, and even then,
unlikely.
>
> There is at least one thing that I am expecting in 11.2 that is worth
waiting for, assuming it shows up.  I did not see it in the public beta. I
think that 11.2 is supposed to be out around Nov 1.
>
> -Rick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org 
> [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Charles 
> Stevenson
> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 2:28 PM
> To: U2 Users List
> Subject: [U2] Recommended 11.1.point release to upgrade to.
>
> We're finally going to upgrade from 10.2.10 to 11.1.[something].
>
> But which point release?
>
> We're on Win2003.  (Linux next year.  Baby steps.)
>
> Release    Date               Issues
> 11.1.13   Sept 2013         3     brand new.
> 11.1.12   June 2013        38      rescinded
> 11.1.11   Mar 2013        30     Metadata Manager  introduced.
> 11.1.10   Dec 2012         66
> 11.1.9     May2012         75
> 11.1.8     ?                          2
> 11.1.7    Dec 2011             3
> 11.1.6    ?                           4
> 11.1.5    Nov 2011          42
> 11.1.4    Aug 2011          17
> 11.1.3    Jun 2011           17
> 11.1.2    May 2011         29
> 11.1.1    Feb  2011          45
> 11.1.0    ?                         23
>
> I generally tend to not be an early adopter when the major release 
> first comes out unless it has a new functionality that I have a strong 
> business need for.
> The later point releases tend to be bug fixes, so I am more prone to 
> get them sooner rather than wait.
>
> In this case though, we have new functionality, Metadata Manager, 
> introduced at 11.1.11.
> Are many users on 11.1.11?  Happy?
>
> If i understand correctly, 11.1.12 was pulled off the market because 
> of a bug that was fixed in 11.1.13, which just came out.  So not much 
> experience in the wild with these 2.
>
> Which one  did / would  you choose to upgrade to 11.1?
>
>
> TIA
> Chuck Stevenson
>
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