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Anyone have an inkling of when we might get 8.2.05 on-prem release? I was told by end of year 2018, but that has come and gone. I'm fine with them holding off if it means they're fixing the 72K bugs we tend to find when upgrading. Just curious as to why we haven't seen it yet.
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8.2.02M (production), 8.2.02M (test), Windows 10, all outputs.
Posts: 1113 | Location: USA | Registered: January 27, 2015
Okay, thanks guys. Appreciate the responses. My guess is it'll be delayed til right before Summit, but that's me. Again, no big deal. Just was curious, since we are hoping to move to that version next. Thanks all!
8.2.02M (production), 8.2.02M (test), Windows 10, all outputs.
Posts: 1113 | Location: USA | Registered: January 27, 2015
Well, the end of January thing didn't happen. We're now going on March. Would love to get our team moving out of the 8.2.02M GA (beta) release soon, but no sign of any updates from IBI on release date plans for 8.2.05 on-prem (the one that matters) yet...
8.2.02M (production), 8.2.02M (test), Windows 10, all outputs.
Posts: 1113 | Location: USA | Registered: January 27, 2015
We now have 8.2.05 available in our downloads! It's arrived! Finally! Thank you random IBIer(s) for this grace you've extended us. haha It is appreciated. Here's hoping for a bugless transition.
8.2.02M (production), 8.2.02M (test), Windows 10, all outputs.
Posts: 1113 | Location: USA | Registered: January 27, 2015
Unfortunately, the powers-that-be here won't let us use it. We are in the middle of testing with 8.2.03. My vote is to install 8.2.05M and restart testing. My management isn't very technical and set a hard deadline (totally artificial) to roll out 8.2.03 from our current 8.1.05M.
I will install it in our sandbox and see if it breaks any of our 8.2.03 code.
WebFOCUS 8.2.03 - Production WebFOCUS 8.2.04 - Sand Box Windows 2012 R2 Server HTML, PDF, Excel In FOCUS since 1980
Posts: 115 | Location: Seattle, WA | Registered: April 07, 2015
Ouch. That's no fun. Sorry man. They are literally losing $$ and time by forcing 8.2.03 on you guys when 8.2.05 is now out. Tell them someone who knows his -choose your word- (years of hard learned lessons of this) says to listen to you and move to 8.2.05 instead. It is WELL worth the change in plans. Modern companies should be adaptable to change anyways if they want to succeed.
8.0.xx through 8.2.04 == beta product.
8.2.02M (production), 8.2.02M (test), Windows 10, all outputs.
Posts: 1113 | Location: USA | Registered: January 27, 2015
Oh, that's right... IBI never accommodates existing customers out of the gate of a new release like every other company in existence. I've been sleeping and forgot that. Thanks Babak!
Mike, never mind! Stick with 8.2.03 then. Sorry. LOL
Our company was going to give 8.2.05 a shot and see if it was finally up to snuff, but now with this info, never mind. I guess we can't. We're already considering migrating to Power BI. We've already began moving our company code base to Azure Repos from TFS, and will hook up to our Dynamics 365 data from Power BI for reporting, visualizations, etc. in time is my guess.
Absolutely ridiculous.
8.2.02M (production), 8.2.02M (test), Windows 10, all outputs.
Posts: 1113 | Location: USA | Registered: January 27, 2015
Yes - the 'new applications only' statement from IBI was hard to decipher. Does that mean that it will break all your legacy (8.2.03 and prior??) code.
WebFOCUS 8.2.03 - Production WebFOCUS 8.2.04 - Sand Box Windows 2012 R2 Server HTML, PDF, Excel In FOCUS since 1980
Posts: 115 | Location: Seattle, WA | Registered: April 07, 2015
The existing code in the language will work fine. There are new features in 8205 that require migration. The utility for that migration might not be available in the first release.
WebFOCUS 8206, Unix, Windows
Posts: 1853 | Location: New York City | Registered: December 30, 2015
True, the migration tool may not be available yet. I know that has been a sticking point for the 8.2.05 release to current customers. I will wait until the migration tool is ready.
WebFOCUS 8.2.03 - Production WebFOCUS 8.2.04 - Sand Box Windows 2012 R2 Server HTML, PDF, Excel In FOCUS since 1980
Posts: 115 | Location: Seattle, WA | Registered: April 07, 2015
That would be interesting to try. Once we finish our 8.2.03 upgrade from 8.1.05M, I plan to load 8.2.05 onto my sandbox and try to CM our 8.2.03 into it.
WebFOCUS 8.2.03 - Production WebFOCUS 8.2.04 - Sand Box Windows 2012 R2 Server HTML, PDF, Excel In FOCUS since 1980
Posts: 115 | Location: Seattle, WA | Registered: April 07, 2015