PowerHouse 8.49 and MPE 7.5 - Anyone?

[Pickering, John (NORBORD)]

John

We've been running 8.49C on a new N-class with 7.5 since last fall; since
mid-February in production. We moved all the source from a 969 running MPE
6.5 and PH 8.19 and simply recompiled everything. I seem to remember only a
handful of programs out of several thousand not compiling -- a slightly
tighter syntax which caused some sloppy Qtp runs not to compile because of
unqualified items about which Qtp would formerly have made some assumption
which it is no longer prepared to make. Once compiled, everything worked as
expected and without incident.

In the process we did discover a Y2K bug in 8.19 which somehow escaped Mr.
Deskin's careful testing. We had been getting away with something in 8.19
that shouldn't have worked (and didn't in 8.49) -- changing the dictionary
options to what they should have been all along solved this one.

Incidentally, we use Multiview accounting systems. The version we are using
is compiled with 7.29C. Cognos support said it wouldn't work -- not because
it wouldn't but because they didn't test it since 7.29 has been obsolete for
quite some time. It works just fine and is another example of the 3000's
legendary backward compatibility :-)

Sorry, no PHWEB here.

Regards,
JWP

-----Original Message-----
From: John MacLerran [mailto:macljohn@isu.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 3:43 PM
To: powerh-l@lists.sowder.com
Subject: PowerHouse 8.49 and MPE 7.5 - Anyone?


Dear PowerHouse Listers,

We're planning to upgrade to MPE 7.5 PowerPatch1 in the near future. I 
contacted Cognos Support to see if there were any issues with that 
version of MPE and PowerHouse 8.49 (and PowerHouse web 2.49), and they 
indicated that PH has not been tested with MPE 7.5 yet, but that there 
have been Cognos customers who have upgraded to MPE 7.5 and have 
reported no issues.

Has anyone here upgraded to MPE 7.5 yet?  If so, have you found any 
issues?  Do you use PowerHouse web too, or just PH4GL.

Thanks!

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