Just wondering if anyone out there start using (successfully or not) new Cognos 8.4.1 release. What is your big challenge? Any big drawback? Any new and exciting features?
By reading what is new document I’m not seeing anything major besides FireFox and IE8 officially supported now. Do all studios work with FireFox now?
Anyone want to share opinion if it worth to start brand new installation (not like simple upgrade with SPs or FPs)? I’m currently in 8.4 FP2, so want to see if any benefit to try with 8.4.1 or wait for next major release.
i have version 8.4.1 up and running and i have not seen significant new features yet.
Firefox 3.5 is working and supported now for all studios except for event studio. ???
The installation did not take much time because the reports and contentstore are upgraded during the first startup with the configuration manager. Here is the fix list of version 8.4.1
See if you experience problems which are solved in the 8.4.1 release, otherwise i would say “never change a working configuration…”
Thanks for confirmation! Glad to hear that I’m not missing anything if I’m still not upgrading to this version. Yes, I read already this fix list and therefore I’m not sure if any other purpose of this version other then bug fix.
Although, I have one question: you mentioned that everything upgraded seamless after first start up. Did you install 8.4.1 over previous version or you migrated deployment and then started up your new environment? Just want to make sure I’m not missing a step here…
Also, you said all studios are up except Event Studio. Do you Metric installed? How that working now with 8.4.1 and Firefox? Did you test it on Windows 7 by any chance?
I used uninstall but i install it in another directory
Backup you contenstore and metric store databases
uninstall all 8.2 FP2 components
copied the remains of the directory to a temp directory (all changes you made in templates, xml etc ) will be overwritten during the installation of 8.4.1.
install 8…4.1 components
configure and start cognos in configuration manager. The content store and all content is upgrade to the 8.4.1 version.
copy the changed file back if or make the same changes in the file like you did in the 8.4 FP2 version.
test,test,test
I did not install Metrics 8.4.1 yet, but it supports firefox 3.5 as well.
Microsoft Windows 7 is supported as Active but for Browser and Client only. Which means, only browser, framework manager, map manager, metrics designer and transformer, not server components.
I have been using 8.4.1 for a while, and my experience is that it seems to be pretty stable, and it fixes a few “negative undocumented features” in 8.4.
So far, I haven’t found anything that broke as a result of moving to 8.4.1 (hope I’m not tempting fate by saying that!)
I used uninstall but i install it in another directory
Backup you contenstore and metric store databases
uninstall all 8.2 FP2 components
copied the remains of the directory to a temp directory (all changes you made in templates, xml etc ) will be overwritten during the installation of 8.4.1.
install 8…4.1 components
configure and start cognos in configuration manager. The content store and all content is upgrade to the 8.4.1 version.
copy the changed file back if or make the same changes in the file like you did in the 8.4 FP2 version.
test,test,test
I did not install Metrics 8.4.1 yet, but it supports firefox 3.5 as well.
Microsoft Windows 7 is supported as Active but for Browser and Client only. Which means, only browser, framework manager, map manager, metrics designer and transformer, not server components.[/quote]
Dear all.
After installing Metrics 8.4.1, can you provide your feedback on any upgrade drawbacks from 8.2 if any ?
I have been using 8.4.1 for a while, and my experience is that it seems to be pretty stable, and it fixes a few "negative undocumented features" in 8.4.
what are you meaning with this? We are planning to upgrade our 8.3 SP2 to 8.4.1 FP2.
Affected products are:
BI server
Metric Server
Planning Server
Transformer
[quote=“Ellen, post:7, topic:140”]In v8.4, I can’t use date range to drill from cube to relational package so it was recommended by IBM to upgrade to 8.4.1.
We also have Cognos Planning 8.4.
What are the steps in upgrading from 8.4 to 8.4.1?[/quote]
This depends how u modelled your time dimensions in frameworkmanager.
It is not necessary to upgrade just for this problem.
Setup a current date and use 2 time dimensions with the right scoping to solve this.
