Reasons to install a maintenance upgrade

[Richard Kreiss]

Reasons to install a maintenance upgrade beside the obvious bug fixes.  

 

One of my client's running Windows 5.6.6 was complaining about the slowness
of the runtime to create an output in a file with just over 15 million
records and a size of about 3.5GB.  When I checked dprodir it reported a
negative  number of records.

 

At Ken's suggestion, I installed 5.6.10 last night.  This morning the person
who had to run this output came ot me with a big smile on his face and told
me that it took 30 minutes to run this output this morning instead of the 7
hours it had been taking.  I had suggested archiving some of the records and
he thought I had done that, I hadn't.

 

What ever fix corrected the negative record number being displayed in
dprodir, apparently had a major effect on the speed of generating an output
this file.

 

I realize that it is not always easy to install the latest maintenance
release, and some bug fix listed may seem minor or is something that has not
affected your client, but it may have positive effects on how the system
runs as this case indicates.

 

Yes, any new release should be tested before going live.  

 

Richard Kreiss

GCC Consulting

 

 

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