Can 11.0 client connect client-server to 10.2B DB?

[Rob Fitzpatrick]

I have done this successfully, but I am looking for an official word somewhere in the Getting Started docs or release notes. Does anyone know if this is officially supported?

 

[TomBascom]

The official policy has been that the client must be at the same release, or 1 higher, than the db server ever since the dark ages.

 

[Rob Fitzpatrick]

Thanks, that's what I thought. I had heard that that might change this time around, that even remote (11.0) clients would not be able to connect to a DB until it was upgraded from version 10 to 11.

 

[Stefan]

11.0 is the first version to not be able to connect to 9.1D (possibly also 9.1E). Our translat database has been running on 9.1D for years.

 

[TomBascom]

You can use app servers to cross multi-version boundaries.

 

[Stefan]

You can use app servers to cross multi-version boundaries.

Thanks, I'm aware of this but its a bit hard compiling code over the boundary. The translat database is the translation manager database that is used to put translated strings into the r-code when compiling with the LANGUAGES option.