PowerHouse Web

[Deskin, Bob]

I said I would update you as to what's happening with this in mid-May. I
have spent a couple of weeks gathering together all of the information we
had on OpenVMS differences and putting it together for the development team.
That exercise is mostly complete but there are still a number of issues we
have to investigate. The project to add the OpenVMSisms into the 8.xx code
stream is underway. I'm not going to go into schedules at this stage (partly
because I'm not the product or project manager for this one). 

I want to thank you all for your contributions (yes Bill and Chris, I kept
and re-read all of your messages). I think I can safely say that the vast
majority (if not all) of what we call OpenVMSisms will be available
including PHD/POW. Some of this comes under project planning so I can't go
into details yet. I found lots of things that were in 8.20 but many major
features that weren't. There are also a number of differences that we have
to resolve one way or another.

I will be making my work available to Customer Support and to anyone who
requests it as an Excel spreadsheet. It won't be complete until the product
is actually out and will be constantly updated as we learn new differences
(I wish there weren't any, but let's be realistic). I still have some things
to clean up in terms of having my entries make sense. Since I'm on vacation
the next two weeks I don't see this happening this week. In any event, if
you want the list, e-mail me (not the ListServer) and I'll send it to you
when it's available.

Bob

Bob Deskin              
PowerHouse Web Product Manager and Senior Product Advisor
Application Development Tools, Cognos Inc.
bob.deskin@cognos.com (613) 738-1338 ext 7268 FAX: (613) 727-1178
3755 Riverside Drive P.O. Box 9707 Stn. T, Ottawa ON K1G 4K9 CANADA


-----Original Message-----
From: Bill D Michael [mailto:Bill.Michael@ipaper.com]
Sent: May 17, 2000 11:23 AM
To: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
Subject: RE: PowerHouse Web



Regardless of whether features were "taken out" or "never there" (a totally
meaningless distinction), 8.20D on VMS is effectively unusable. (And it's
far better than prior 8.20's, or 8.10.) In addition to the "missing"
features, there are several serious bugs in the VMS version, at least one
of which has now been "promoted to a Critical site". That one caused us to
delay our move to 8.20 indefinitely (originally scheduled for this
weekend). If you can possibly wait for 8.30, I'd recommend you do so - or
at the very least, wait for 8.20"E", or whatever they call the bug-fix
version.

Bill





"Hamilton, Allison" <Allison.Hamilton@Cognos.COM>@sphere.swau.edu on
05/17/2000 09:51:27 AM

Sent by:  owner-powerh-l@sphere.swau.edu



To:   "'Chris Sharman'" <Chris.Sharman@ccagroup.co.uk>,
      nick.butland@acco-uk.co.uk
cc:   powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
Subject:  RE: PowerHouse Web


PowerHouse Web is only available with PowerHouse 8.20... and the VMS stuff
wasn't taken out- it was never in that version. But don't give up on it
getting there yet...

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Sharman [mailto:Chris.Sharman@ccagroup.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 10:17 AM
To: nick.butland@acco-uk.co.uk
Cc: Chris.Sharman@ccagroup.co.uk; powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
Subject: RE: PowerHouse Web



>Since we can't interest anyone in our British weather, here's something a
>little more interesting technically. We currently run 7.10.E6 (yes, yes,
>upgrade pending, G2 probably) on Vax/Alpha under VMS 6.2. With some
>assistance from our account manager & his technical sidekick, we are going
>to attempt to convert a few screens for a trial on PH Web.

7.10G4 is the latest available VMS version. I believe PH Web requires 8.10
(the version with all the VMS stuff taken out), also available. VMS has
moved
on a way as well ;)

>The only site we have been advised of as actually using this is Caledonian
>MacBrayne (apologies for spelling). Is there anyone else out there doing
any
>trial work at the moment, or having developed an intranet using the
product,
>prepared to share observations?
Looked at possibilities, done nothing, saying nothing, yet.
But I'd be interested in seeing here what others are doing, who's
bought it / evaluated it, and for what purpose / size of project,
particularly in the UK.

And the warm weather has been & gone - 90 degrees in the office last
Monday.
But who cares - this is the land of warm beer, not warm weather.

Chris
_______________________________________________________________________
Chris.Sharman@CCAgroup.co.uk       http://www.ccastat.demon.co.uk/
CCA Stationery Ltd, Eastway, Fulwood, Preston, Lancashire, PR2 9WS.
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