PH Enhancements Rant - WAS: Quiz Hang When Using Image in Axiant

[Darren Reely]

Flame on...

Joe Boyle wrote:
> ...perhaps you did'nt argue the case strongly enough when 
> attempting to have a bug fix logged.

As was stated to me, it was NOT a bug. So if you want the FEATURE you 
need to send them an enhancement request. I don't remember if I argued 
for the enhancement. That was over 6 years ago!

Cognos doesn't (the developers may) seem to have any drive to add new 
features to Powerhouse. They work on the background stuff (bugs and DB 
access stuff) they need to, but that often isn't obvious to a PH 
programmer. What was the last feature added to Powerhouse, the format 
number capability. Oh, wait, that was available for years on one 
platform, so they only ported it to the base code.

I've been using Powerhouse since 1991, and the only enhancements I 
recall are access to relational databases, the limited ability to use 
cursors, PHWEB, and a few new function calls.  Main maintenance items 
have been the common code base, the underlying common data access layer 
shared between products, and of course the common task of keeping the 
product usable with newer databases and OS's.

I think Bob and Conrad have both asked for requests. We as developers 
need to be more proactive. Perhaps part of the problem is the limited 
communication between developers doesn't generate enough discussion to 
push the product forward. We can't see beyond the edge of our 
development universe.

It would be nice to see the proposed list Cognos has, and items of 
interest directly from us developers. How does Cognos get feedback on 
what is already in their request list?

By the way, the last New Features document I have is for Powerhouse 
8.39. We're currently running 8.43d.

Flame off.

Darren