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From: ambrose@iris.ucdavis.edu (Paul Ambrose)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Informix 4gl - another construct statement bug
Message-ID: <3174@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
Date: 13 Oct 88 23:38:36 GMT
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Reply-To: ambrose@iris.ucdavis.edu (Paul Ambrose)
Organization: U.C. Davis - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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In article <492@pan.UUCP> jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson) writes:
>
>If DBDATE is set to any value specifying a 2-digit year, when the 4gl
>construct statement is called to input a series of fields, one of which
>is a date type, the string returned will be truncated after the date
>field; this means that selection criteria for fields preceding the date
>field will work correctly, but criteria for fields following the date
>field will be ignored.  

I reported this bug to Informix in July of 1987!!! 
I have been getting the same run-around from Informix for OVER A YEAR!!
Each month its been - "Yeah, uh, well, "QA" is still looking at the new
release, it should be out next month." - SINCE JULY OF LAST YEAR!!!
Informix, PLEASE don't respond to this posting by telling me the
problem has been fixed - BULLSHIT!!  A bug isn't fixed until it is
fixed for the ENTIRE port list. The last date I received for the 
Xenix release was mid-November.

Paul Ambrose
ambrose@iris.ucdavis.edu