Focal Point Banner


As of December 1, 2020, Focal Point is retired and repurposed as a reference repository. We value the wealth of knowledge that's been shared here over the years. You'll continue to have access to this treasure trove of knowledge, for search purposes only.

Join the TIBCO Community
TIBCO Community is a collaborative space for users to share knowledge and support one another in making the best use of TIBCO products and services. There are several TIBCO WebFOCUS resources in the community.

  • From the Home page, select Predict: WebFOCUS to view articles, questions, and trending articles.
  • Select Products from the top navigation bar, scroll, and then select the TIBCO WebFOCUS product page to view product overview, articles, and discussions.
  • Request access to the private WebFOCUS User Group (login required) to network with fellow members.

Former myibi community members should have received an email on 8/3/22 to activate their user accounts to join the community. Check your Spam folder for the email. Please get in touch with us at community@tibco.com for further assistance. Reference the community FAQ to learn more about the community.


Focal Point    Focal Point Forums  Hop To Forum Categories  WebFOCUS/FOCUS Forum on Focal Point     [CLOSED] 8.2 Upgrade

Read-Only Read-Only Topic
Go
Search
Notify
Tools
[CLOSED] 8.2 Upgrade
 Login/Join
 
S.J. Kadish
Guru
posted
FOCUS Nation
We will be upgrading from WF 8.010 to 8.2M shortly. Please share any issues you may have encountered upgrading to 8.2.

Thanks in advance,
Sandy Kadish Cool

This message has been edited. Last edited by: FP Mod Chuck,


Sandy Kadish
Dev: 8.2.04- PostgreSQL
Test: 8.2.04 - PostgreSQL
Prod: 8.2.04 - PostgreSQL
 
Posts: 238 | Location: Atlanta, GA/Rehovot, Israel | Registered: May 06, 2003Report This Post
Tamra
Guru
posted Hide Post
S.J. Kadish,
Here is a link to the WebFOCUS 8.2.01M technical documentation. You will find the Release notes and installation guides etc.

Application and Enterprise Editions (8.2.01M)

This is a good start until our members share their experiences.

Thank you for participating in the Focal Point Forum!
Tamra Colangelo
Focal Point Moderator
Information Builders


WebFOCUS 8x - BI Portal, Developer Studio, App Studio, Excel, PDF, Active Formats and HTML5
 
Posts: 487 | Location: Toronto | Registered: June 23, 2009Report This Post
Doug
Expert
posted Hide Post
8.2M is (so much) better... imho.

Anyone not there yet, should plan on doing so ASAP... imho




   In FOCUS Since 1983 ~ from FOCUS to WebFOCUS.
   Current: WebFOCUS Administrator at FIS Worldpay | 8204, 8206
 
Posts: 3132 | Location: Tennessee, Nashville area | Registered: February 23, 2005Report This Post
Thomas Raspberry
Member
posted Hide Post
Doug, what specifically you like about it? Currently, we have 8.105m and I am trying to build the case for upgrade and any improvements would be welcome to hear from You.

For example, I would like to see 'main page' of the 8.2 WebFocus, is it dramatically different as I heard from conferences?

Thanks,


WebFOCUS 8.201
 
Posts: 23 | Location: MI | Registered: October 06, 2016Report This Post
BabakNYC
Virtuoso
posted Hide Post
Some of the 8.2 features I really like are:

Auto Drill, Auto Link, Much better Geo features with extra demographic layers, Responsive Templates for App Studio Composer, a lot of D3 Chart Extensions, Collaborative Portals. Narrative Charts are cool too.


WebFOCUS 8206, Unix, Windows
 
Posts: 1853 | Location: New York City | Registered: December 30, 2015Report This Post
Thomas Raspberry
Member
posted Hide Post
Thank you BabakNYC,
One more question, do you guys maybe used already "Collaborative Portal" under 8.2? If so, if a user reply/post the comment, is there some kind email/notification that there is a comment? and who would receive that notification? (Everyone who have access to that report?)


WebFOCUS 8.201
 
Posts: 23 | Location: MI | Registered: October 06, 2016Report This Post
BabakNYC
Virtuoso
posted Hide Post
I haven't fully tried it so I don't know if an email or notification will be sent. Something you might want to find out from IB Tech support and post here so we know.


WebFOCUS 8206, Unix, Windows
 
Posts: 1853 | Location: New York City | Registered: December 30, 2015Report This Post
WFDevConsultant
Platinum Member
posted Hide Post
Nobody receives any email when you reply/post the comment. That works similar to the blog. Whoever access to the portal can able to see those post.


8.2.06
Windows, All Formats
 
Posts: 184 | Registered: December 27, 2013Report This Post
Wep5622
Virtuoso
posted Hide Post
We're also looking at upgrading to 8.2. What we're interested in is: What stopped working in 8.2? Or, more to the point: What backward-incompatible changes are in 8.2?

We heavily rely on server-side fexes and we still use the projects tree (for deployment and filtering).

We do have an 8.2 demo system, but it doesn't have adapters configured (or licensed) to our various databases, so we can't readily test our existing reports against it (yet).
That demo is primarily an attempt to sell InfoAssist (and HyperStage) to our business analysts, which is mostly a battle between how fancy things look on competing systems (which we all know is rather irrelevant).


WebFOCUS 8.1.03, Windows 7-64/2008-64, IBM DB2/400, Oracle 11g & RDB, MS SQL-Server 2005, SAP, PostgreSQL 11, Output: HTML, PDF, Excel 2010
: Member of User Group Benelux :
 
Posts: 1669 | Location: Enschede, Netherlands | Registered: August 12, 2010Report This Post
eric.woerle
Master
posted Hide Post
What about IBI's cloud offering? Has anyone looked at that at all? IBI came in and was talking to my bosses about possibly switching over to it... Visions of 2008 and the wonders of Version 8 instantly flashed in my mind ( I think the first release date I heard of was in 2009...). Does anyone know if the cloud offering is stable and worth looking into? Or is it going to be such a large change for IBI that we are looking at another 5 years before it becomes stable?


Eric Woerle
8.1.05M Gen 913- Reporting Server Unix
8.1.05 Client Unix
Oracle 11.2.0.2
 
Posts: 750 | Location: Warrenville, IL | Registered: January 08, 2013Report This Post
  Powered by Social Strata  

Read-Only Read-Only Topic

Focal Point    Focal Point Forums  Hop To Forum Categories  WebFOCUS/FOCUS Forum on Focal Point     [CLOSED] 8.2 Upgrade

Copyright © 1996-2020 Information Builders