Y2K Versions

[Kevin Gordon]

Mark Stewart wrote:

"7.10.F4 is no longer supported after the release of 7.10.G."

This is getting silly! No way is Cognos going to withdraw support for an
immediately prior version as soon as the next one is released - especially
when that release (7.10.G) is a major upgrade requiring a dictionary
conversion and recompilation and re-testing of all applications. I presume
you must have meant that the 7.10.Fn release is no longer being maintained,
i.e. no 7.10.F5 etc, but AFAIK Cognos has not said this. In the past RBFs
have continued to be issued simultaneously for more than one version, e.g.
6.20 and 7.10. In practice some level of support is provided for all prior
versions, you just have to be prepared to be told that the best solution to
your problem is to upgrade.

There still seems to be a lot of confusion about "millennium compliance" and
"millennium friendliness" 7.10.F2 (which has been out for around a year) is
the first "millennium compliant" version, though earlier releases were only
non-compliant due to a quirk when the system date got to Feb 29, 2000.
7.10.G is the first "millennium friendly" version, i.e. it gives the
developer sensible options for handling the transition from one century to
the next as smoothly as possible. Earlier versions had a Default Century
option which was, IMHO, totally useless and might just as well have been
hard-coded as 19 for all the good it did.

Just my opinions of course!

Kevin Gordon
Sea Containers
London

VAX/AXP VMS 6.2 & 7.1
Oracle Rdb various versions from 6.0.1.3 to 7.0.1.2
PowerHouse 7.10.F2 & 7.10.G (testing)

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