Re: Is this a record !

DB2 v7.2 (released in June, 2001) supports 64-bit on HP-UX, and will support 32-bit HP-UX until 6/2003. Current plans are that DB2 v8 will support 32-bit on HP-UX (as 32/64 on HP and the other platforms: Unix, Windows, etc) until at least 2004. The Version 7.2 commitment is official and announced. The v8 statements is a plan (although we're obviously building DB2 v8 on HP 32 and 64 every night in development now). Perhaps Oracle was having problems with the ACC compiler? It was certainly troublesome for us when we switched to it, but we were able to get through all problems.

Regarding your other post Nuno (the alter user to 20 cm where you were concerned about fragmentation) - DB2 would avoid fragmentation in such a case with the use of larger page sizes (4k, 8k, 16k, 32k - whatever it takes). Whether it's a tuple or some other more intimate object, DB2 is built for scalability.

Nuno Souto wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 13:04:12 +0100, "Jonathan Lewis"
> <jonathan_at_jlcomp.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >
> >I've finally installed 9.0.1 on my HP-9000 -
> >and it only took 4 days ! Is this a record.
> >
>
> Ay! This is gonna be a problem.
> ORACLE better look at all this install rigmarole or the volume of
> complaints is gonna go through the roof.
>
> With someone with a lot of knowledge, it's not a major issue. We all
> know that 64-bit is not trivial in UNIX, even in this day and age.
>
> But to someone who has been quietly muddling along at 32-bit to have
> to go through all this...
>
> I can see the headlines already:
> "ORACLE 9i too difficult to install!"
> "Users report 3 days of patching their systems and 1 day to install
> ORACLE".
> etc,etc.
>
> IMHO, this move to 64-bit only in HP was a bit premature.
> Wide-visioned, but premature nevertheless.
>
> Cheers
> Nuno Souto
> nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam
Received on Sat Aug 25 2001 - 12:14:47 CDT