Comments on: Whatever Happened to “Upgrade While Active”?? http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2007/11/08/whatever-happened-to-upgrade-while-active/ Thought-Provoking Commentary for the Lawson Software Community Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:23:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Rajan http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2007/11/08/whatever-happened-to-upgrade-while-active/#comment-94 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:53:48 +0000 http://lawsonguru.wordpress.com/2007/11/08/whatever-happened-to-upgrade-while-active/#comment-94 Why not? If you can use multi-threading using application program, which I dont think is possible in Cobol, it could speed up the conversion. And cobol has the issue of ‘taking-one-record-process-it-and take-next’ rather than select group of records and mass-update ‘em.

]]> By: Frito http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2007/11/08/whatever-happened-to-upgrade-while-active/#comment-54 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 03:26:02 +0000 http://lawsonguru.wordpress.com/2007/11/08/whatever-happened-to-upgrade-while-active/#comment-54 Thank you John… I was beginning to think it was me.

]]> By: John Henley http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2007/11/08/whatever-happened-to-upgrade-while-active/#comment-48 Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:14:03 +0000 http://lawsonguru.wordpress.com/2007/11/08/whatever-happened-to-upgrade-while-active/#comment-48 Sorry, I’m just quoting Lawson, as they attributed the “faster upgrade process” as the reason for not needing Upgrade While Active.

In my opinion, the sole performance improvement is that the copy programs now use sqldbcopy which utilizes the database to do the copying process.

I agree with you that “rewritten in Java” alone would have zero performance impact. The Java “load” programs still have roughly the same performance as their previous COBOL counterparts.

]]> By: Frito http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2007/11/08/whatever-happened-to-upgrade-while-active/#comment-47 Sun, 02 Dec 2007 15:15:26 +0000 http://lawsonguru.wordpress.com/2007/11/08/whatever-happened-to-upgrade-while-active/#comment-47 OK John… please explain to me why “rewritten in Java” would imply any performance improvement. I mean, how would the language make any difference. I hear this kind of talk from these guys all the time and it just makes me laugh.

]]> By: The Creeper http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2007/11/08/whatever-happened-to-upgrade-while-active/#comment-38 Fri, 09 Nov 2007 02:37:46 +0000 http://lawsonguru.wordpress.com/2007/11/08/whatever-happened-to-upgrade-while-active/#comment-38 I remember our 8.0 upgrade, it was very smooth and quick. I can only hope this remains true for 9.0.

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