Is it risky to build R6 application if all the clients are R6 but the servers are R5 ? I presume that if my scheduled agents don’t use any R6 features I “should” be ok, but i’d like to have a 100% confirmation that there is no risk at all. Any known issue ?
Thanks in advance.
JR
Subject: Client R6 vs Server R5
In a typical R5 to ND6 upgrade the clients are the last piece of the upgrade. While technically you should be okay you’ll really only know for sure with serious testing.
Subject: Client R6 vs Server R5
This can be a problem, but we do this all the time, up until just a little while ago we ran R4.6, R5.0.x Servers, and nd6 servers but do all of our development in 6.5 (much nicer) the problems are that if you include ND6 code in your forms or agents they wont run on the other environments. So the issue is test test test and you should be OK. The other issue is the ODS differences between the versions. So long as you let the server/client do the copying/replication you are OK. If you ever have to do an OS File Copy you can be in trouble. One way that we have got around this is to use the file extension NS5 which then inforces the consistant ODS.While migrating the servers first is the recommended method it is not always possible, and many time you will need to co-exist with servers at different version levels.