PH 6.07 (was Rounding question)

[Latimer, Richard]

I agree Conrad - 6.07 for the AS/400 is very stable. We have been using
it for 10 years and have never had an issue that needed escalation
beyond our local Cognos agents. Our Y2K migration was a complete non
event as was shifting our application from a CISC (48bit) machine
running V3R2 of OS/400 to a new RISC (64bit) machine running V5R2. 

In fact we didn't even load the 'F' release, since it only had
dictionary changes, until the machine migration last year and even then
only bothered because 'E' was on a tape the new box couldn't read while
'F' was on CD ...

Richard Latimer
National MIS Manager
Airways New Zealand
Ph  +64 4 471 4744
Fax +64 4 471 0395




-----Original Message-----
From: powerh-l-admin@lists.sowder.com
[mailto:powerh-l-admin@lists.sowder.com] On Behalf Of Whittall, Conrad
Sent: Thursday, 5 May 2005 9:22 a.m.
To: PowerHouse List
Subject: RE: Rounding question


I believe John is thinking of the (in)famous 6.09, rather than 6.07.

6.07 was actually a pretty solid release for the IBM AS/400. I remember
beta testing it with a customer in London. It actually included a new
arithmetic expression engine that didn't convert everything to floating
point if it could avoid it. Instead it kept the operands in their
original format so long as that was compatible with the requested
operation. So integer multiplied by integer was kept as an integer
operation, while packed decimal divided by float would convert to float.

As for 6.09...well the less said about that the better ;)

Best regards,
Conrad

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:powerh-l-admin@lists.sowder.com] On Behalf Of Pickering, John
(NORBORD)
Sent: Wednesday 4 May 2005 16:12
To: PowerHouse List
Subject: RE: Rounding question

Blue reminisces ...

>The report was written in PH 5.?

>When 6.00 of PH came out (VAX_VMS, Rdb) the report no longer worked as 
>expected

>When version 6.10 was released and we upgraded the problem went away 
>and we could go back to the original report logic.

If 6.00 on VAX was as great as 6.07 on MPE was then I can completely
understand. This was not one of Cognos' stellar releases :-)  And us
dinosaurs won't forget or let Cognos forget either. 
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