> Alan McDonald wrote:
>
> > The AlterUser function, on the other hand does not offer a
> means of setting
> > the USERID or GROUPID which is, in fact, retrieved by the services API.
> > So it's not "broken" but don't you agree that it needs to be tidied up?
>
> There are a number of things that have changed between FB1.5 and FB2
> which are documented in the FB2 notes. Personally I get annoyed at some
> of the changes which seem to have little logical reason and are more
> related to 'personal choice'. IBO has always been transparent to a
> number of 'problems' in the original Interbase, and these latest changes
> are making it more and more difficult to provide a version of IBO that
> can talk to different servers in parallel. So much so that I suspect
> that it may be necessary to drop some of the compatibility and have a
> switch to provide an FB2 only mode ? AlterUser is an example
> I know that Jason runs large systems with - I Think - FB1.5, and it is
> unlikely that he will be switching those for some time. He has said that
> getting an FB2 system up for testing was a problem, and so he is only
> really now finding his feet on FB2 'upgrades'. The same applies to the
> newer versions of BDS which cost money for little apparent gain.
>
> The latest gismos are nice, but please be patient and lets document the
> problems and TRY and work out compatible solutions for things that are
> simply incompatible ;)
>
> --
> Lester Caine - G8HFL

I currently have applications running against both 1.5 and 2 servers. My
current solution is quite compatible to them both. The AlterUser issue
(GROUPNAME) is not required by either since it makes no logical sense - it's
not a technical issue.
Alan