PH 8.13d problems

[Falkingham, Nick]

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Ron is quite right, there have been a number of issues with PowerHouse
8.13.D and Cognos has been quick to fix the most serious of these issues and
release an RBF 8.13.D1.

The major problems with 8.13.D were to do with the Relational Transaction
Model (Oracle), the handling of BLOB/LONG fields in ORACLE and PowerHouse
(ALL MODULES) and the use of the WRAP function in QUIZ. Indeed the Ron and
his company were adversely affected by this release and Cognos has done and
is doing everything possible to rectify that situation.

As Ron has pointed out all of the MAJOR issues (with the exception of the
WRAP problems with QUIZ and large text objects across page breaks) have been
fixed in 8.13.D1. A list of RBF for 8.13.D1 is included in this document.

I would strongly advise going with the RBF rather that 8.13.D.

Regards

Nick Falkingham
Project Manager, BI/ADT Services

For the latest company news, visit our web site:
http://www.cognos.com

-----Original Message-----
From: OLENICR@dteenergy.com [mailto:OLENICR@dteenergy.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 1999 9:40 AM
To: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
Subject: Re: PH 8.13d problems


Gosh Ray, where to begin.... 
 
We are upgrading from a VMS installation to 8.13d on the Unix.  A
conservative 
estimate would say that we have lost six weeks of productive time due to the

pursuit and capture of PowerHouse bugs.  To their credit, Cognos has been
very 
responsive when we come upon a problem that would stop us from going to 
production, but I did not expect to get to know the development team in
Ottawa 
on a first name basis... .   
 
A few of the problems have no current resolution and we have implemented 
workarounds to allow us to go to production. 
 
1: Blob datatype 
	Its a long list, if you can avoid this data type I would strongly 
advise you to do so. 
 
2: Large text fields 
	The wrap function does not work in heading and footing statements. 
 



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