Kim,
 
 We converted from a series 70 to a series 947 in 1992. I vaguely
remember that we had a problem with an in-house written SL routine
that had a problem when we tried to run it in compatibility mode.
The program failed with an unresolved external. The name of the
routine was "date'mm/dd/yy" (converted a yymmdd value to mm/dd/yy).
I don't remember the answer the response center gave us. What we
ended up doing was changing the routine name to "date'mm'dd'yy",
recompiling, and it worked. That is the only major glitch that
stands out. A critical application, with a lot of users.
 
 Hope this helps, and good luck! :-)
 
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On Thu, 4 May 1995, Kim Kreider wrote:
 
>   I'm sure its been discussed before:  we have a rather large production and
> inventory management system running on a classic 70.  We are getting
> ready to upgrade to an new PA box.  Most of the code is TRANSACT (augh!).
>
>  Does someone have a log of their experiences,  a headsup on what to
> expect, or a warning of the 'gotchas'.  We have to do this with almost
> zero downtime for our facility which is a 24x365 operation.
>
>  Any thoughts on the TRANSACT side would be greatly appreciated.  Can we
> mix native and compatability mode TRANSACT?
>
>   Thanks for your help, and apologizes to those who may have done this long
> ago and are tired of hearing (or talking) about it.
>
>   Thanks,
>
> Kim Kreider
> Franklin, Virginia
>