Upgrade to 8.39 and PowerHouse Architect support

[Bill D Michael]

Agree fully with the "unusable to most of us" comment about 8.10, also
known as the "bug release". 8.20 is up to D6, although the support web site
has never listed 8.20 downloads at all, and says the latest release is D3.
8.20D6 is _almost_ usable; there are workarounds for most (but not all...)
of the major bugs, and we actually have it in production. Of course, since
the head of PH development left the group earlier this year, it appears
that all work has stopped, or at least all communications.

To get back to 8.39 - based on our VMS experience, if it's at all possible
to stay on a 7.xx release, I would do so for as long as you can. Consider
any comments on future enhancments in 8.4x, or anything not already in your
hands, as 'nebulous goals', with no guarantees of when (if ever) you'll
have them. 8.30 (or at least it's feature set) is what, two years late? So
far? Too late for us at any rate, as we couldn't wait and had to go ahead
and rip out all the "VMS-isms" and move to 8.20 so we could use Oracle. We
don't plan on putting that code back in, so 8.30 is now a non-issue.

Bill
(Speaking for myself, not the company...)





"Chris Sharman" <chris.sharman@ccagroup.co.uk>@cube.swau.edu on 09/05/2001
05:35:59 AM

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To:   "Boyle, Joe" <joe.boyle@cognos.com>, <powerh-l@lists.swau.edu>
cc:
Subject:  RE: Upgrade to 8.39 and PowerHouse Architect support


First  I've heard of 8.49.
Should  we expect 8.30 for OpenVMS before it, after it, with it, or never
Us  VMSers don't seem to have had much development for our maintenance
payments  lately: since 7.10G & G1 three years ago (Fall '98), there's been
just minor  fixes in G2 & G3 in '99, and the (unusable to most of us) 8.10
release  (whenever). And still no suggestion when 8.30 might ship.

Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Boyle, Joe  [mailto:joe.boyle@cognos.com]

In current plans for the  PowerHouse 4GL 8.49 for MPE/iX release, it is
hoped that it will be  possible to include the ability to use PHD data
dictionaries (together with  the POW application for maintaining them) as
well as  the current PDC data dictionaries... giving MPE/iX customers the
same choice  that OpenVMS customers will have as they upgrade to PowerHouse
4GL 8.30. PHD  with POWwill allow for all of the functional aspects of
Architect in terms of  dictionary management, less the reporting  side.

However, as indicated  earlier, it is thought that  PHD will be available
in  PowerHouse 4GL 8.49 which will be released in the timeframe, December
2001 to February 2002.