Who is using BR 4.2?

Post by **Susan Smith** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 10:36 am

Hi all,

If you are using BR 4.2 - either in production or in testing, can you please let me know? This is related to the planning of the Spring Conference. You can reply to me here or privately - either way.

Thanks.

-- Susan

bluesfannoz · Post by **bluesfannoz** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 10:38 am

We are using it in testing only. Not confident enough in it.. particularly on the MAC version to put it in the field.

Kevin Klappstein · Post by **Kevin Klappstein** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 11:02 am

We are using 4.2 in development of the new version of our software.

John · Post by **John** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 11:16 am

We are also using 4.2 in the development of our next release

Mikhail · Post by **Mikhail** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 6:00 pm

Using 4.2 for testing at this point.

Larry TIetz · Post by **Larry TIetz** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 6:09 pm

I am using 4.2C. Runs quite nicely. Every now and then there is a backward compatability issue, mostly with printing.

I don't recall any issues related to 4.2C, but I still don't use all the features, particularly in lists and grids.

I would be interested in testing out the web application that, I forget who, has been trying to install over the past several weeks. I think I saw that it is now up and running.

Congratulations.

GomezL · Post by **GomezL** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 6:49 am

We implemented BR 4.20c for our in-house support application around June of last year. The BR is dated 5/4/2009.

I turned on the following options:

OPTION 56 - SRCH returns -1 instead of 0
OPTION 60 - Save in 4.18 format

I love the idea behind OPTION 56, but we have a ton of IF SRCH<0 lines in our program. If only we had used IF SRCH<=0.

Option 60 retains BR 4.18 compatability with the code. My strategy is to use BR 4.2 as a "Bridge Release", next time, I will remove OPTION 60, and use the new format. This makes is easier to support multiple releases simultaneously at the cost of some BR 4.2 features.

Post by **gordon** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 9:45 am

No OPTIONS created in the last decade have been dropped.

For a good list of OPTIONS to use for backwards compatibility see:

http://brwiki.ads.net/index.php?title=O ... patibility

In release 4.1 and after you can see a complete list of all OPTIONS supported and their current status with the command

Code: Select all

ST CON -P

or

Code: Select all

STATUS CONFIG -P