There will be an IMAGE migration The good news is that it won’t be anytime immediately. It’s part of the 3000 division’s growth project to increase limits for IMAGE/SQL, and some of these will involve migrating your databases to the version of IMAGE with the greater limits. The subject came up during the HP database roundtable at HP World, as SIGIMAGE chair Ken Sletten solicited input on which limits need attention. There’s hasn’t been such a wholesale IMAGE migration since IMAGE became TurboIMAGE in 1985, and we recall that customers made the shift without trauma back then. While Sletten told users they should mark up a ballot which the SIG will circulate later this year, HP’s IMAGE lab leader wasn’t ready to take on a long list of limits enhancements. “Try not to think of this as a ballot,” Jon Bale of CSY’s database lab told attendees. “If you don’t know of any limits that need fixing, don’t vote.” Bale wants customers to tell him of existing database designs that will push the current IMAGE/SQL limits (you can e-mail the Solution Team leader at jon_bale@hp.com). The lab announced plans in March to take the fundamental 3000 database from 80Gb datasets — now available in the PowerPatch 5 MPE/iX 5.5 release — to datasets of 10 terabytes. The lab has been funded to investigate which limits need increases. Copyright 1998 The 3000 NewsWire. All rights reserved