For the last 17 years Focal Point has been the social media ...

[Manoj Chaurasia]

For the last 17 years Focal Point has been the social media forum for Information Builders and it was officially retired on December 1, 2020 so we can now all use myibi the next generation of social media! For the last 4 years I have been the moderator of Focal Point and I am very excited to do the same for myibi, it is a huge improvement in social media. During the 17 years of Focal Points existence there were 28.097 discussion topics created with over 170,000 responses by the 10,800 members of Focal Point to those topics. There is a wealth of information still available to anyone who wants to search this repository. You can use this URL to access Focal Point and use the Search menu option. http://forums.informationbuilders.com/eve/forums There is no need to sign-in just use the search opion

 

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[Sanford Kadish 5]

Where can recruiters post jobs in the new IBI Community Site

Everybody be safe and smile.

Sandy Kadish

[Manoj Chaurasia]

There is a Job Opportunities category for that purpose.

[Dennis Van der Vieren 2]

Yikes, it finally happened. FocalPoint is gone!

Is there any info on how to get at the content on Google drive

[Manoj Chaurasia]

Hi Dennis

It is a work in progress still. Once it becomes available I will update this post on how to access it

[David Briars]

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I would love for the FocalPoint threads to be folded into myibi.

If that isnt possible, I wouldnt be fussy about what other way they were available.

I wouldnt recommend that the FP threads be gone forever.

[Manoj Chaurasia]

Well I just found out that I was mistaken about the google drive implementation. That is going to be for internal support use only. I am so sorry to have misunderstood their intent. I really need to hear from anyone and everyone about how this will impact you.

[David Beagan]

Focal Point is still a valuable resource. Many people in the user community spent a lot of time and effort posting answers.

To just take it away shows either arrogance or indifference to the WebFOCUS developer community. It makes us wonder if this is an indication of the kind of care for the developer community that is to be expected going forward.

[Cory Vendrely]

I often go back to old Focal Point conversations. The documentation in there has been very helpful for me and others on our team. I had a Focal Point page bookmarked from a few days ago so that I could come back to it today, and now I see that it was taken down. That page had valuable info for reporting purposes. I would really like to see everything from Focal Point brought into myIBI if possible.

[Debra Waybright]

I agree! I love having the FocalPoint information as a reference. That is a HUGE loss of information if they dont make it available in some form.

[Dawn Thurber]

This is definitely a loss of information that is used. I would LOVE to have access in some manner to this reference material.

[Rob Fosnaugh]

I reference Focal Point on a weekly basis as myIBI content is still in the infant stages when it comes to the more intermediate uses of defines, computes, and other uses. This is going to be a big blow to our company as we heavily lean on the sage wisdom that was poured into Focal Point over all of these years. I would understand removing it if it wasnt relevant but the majority of the content over there is still pertinent for those who need to do more than the easy stuff. There is still a long way for WebFOCUS to go in surfacing functionality to think about the possibility of implying that the knowledge of Focal Point is baked into the tooling.

This is nothing against what is being done here in myIBI as this is a great future facing forum but the past is as relevant today as ever and must be maintained. So thankful for this community and the ability to help each other.

[Todd Wallace]

FocalPoint was our go to resource for the difficult questions we could not uncover/decode via the manuals and other resources. We would love to see it in a modern KB format or if that is not possible in any form that is searchable on the site. Without it many of the harder problems will go to support and tie up all the support staff making all users experiences worse.

[Michael Bock 3]

Hi Chuck,

the focal point forum was an essential source of information for me.

This information is going beyond the content of the standard documentation.

Please find a way to integrate this treasure of information in myibi.

Generally I cant understand that there is no solution / alternative available since the announcment to retire the Focal Point Forum and that there will be an alternative was already in December 2020.

Im really disapointed about this approach.

Regards from Germany

Michael

[John Edwards 2]

Focal Point is the single most effective online resource for ALL of your developers in the outside world. It is the go-to place for the esoteric information that isnt covered (or covered well enough) in the online user manuals. It is the place where you can see concrete examples of code that uses WebFOCUS (and Data Migrators) byzantine function calls. This is a huge loss for the community.

This is the Go-To for WebFOCUS programmers, available at about zero cost to IBI/Tibco. At a time when WFs market share is being encroached on by competitors, this is one more nail in the coffin, one more reason to make the switch to another toolset. I justify the cost of WF/I-Way every year at my current client. That just became harder.

Frankly, its saved me from opening probably about 100 tickets over the last 25 years. Removing this resource is going to cost Tibco dearly.

[Manoj Chaurasia]

I am not ignoring these posts and working to get a resolution. I really appreciate what is being posted it is helpful to me.

[S T]

i use the focal point forums a lot. They have answer to everything. This just made troubleshooting webfocus issues much harder. Can we please have access to this content somehow.

[John Edwards 2]

Thank you Chuck.

I used to present at IBI user forums all the time. One of the answers I gave over and over was look in the forums. They are the keys to the kingdom. They are so much faster than opening a ticket. Without them WebFOCUS and I-Way are greatly diminished.

[Michel Pageau]

FP is a gold mine. (specially for beginners users)

I use it frequently even if Im an expert user.

The fact that FP was taken down without warning is unprofessional for me.

I would even say that it is a lack of respect towards the WF users community.

They should have maintained FP until it was switched to Myibi or some other place.

And now, what do we do

I suspect that this treasure will not be available for a long time.

Even worse, it wont probably be not available anymore.

Big lost.

[Manoj Chaurasia]

Michael I take full responsibility it was my impression that it would be replaced immediately with a google drive interface but I was wrong. I am trying my best to correct it ASAP.

[April Casteel]

I am feeling quite lost the last few weeks without Focal Point. My company acquired a business that uses WebFocus. We are bringing over all of their reports and trying to replicate them into our system. Imagine converting a 20 year old system to the latest version. Of course, some things dont work. But more frustrating is that Im getting errors or see commands that Ive not used before. My life would be so much easier if I could search for these on Focal Point and at least get a starting point of how people have used these in the past or more information and solutions to these errors. How frustrating that Focal Point was removed like this. Those of us that use WebFocus have always bragged up how amazing the forums are. I have wasted so many hours the last few weeks searching through manuals with little to no luck.

I really hope some kind of resolution is come to very soon about how to get to that information. Such a wealth of knowledge to just be thrown away!

[Warren Hinchliffe]

You can get to Googles cached version of the code from the Google Search. Just click on the three dots and look for cache

[Rob Wagner]

I also search the Focal Point forums regularly; Id be substantially hobbled with them!

[Joel Elscott]

Just to pile on here, I used Focal Point several times a week and feel totally lost without it. Yesterday I was trying to figure out how to get a file definition of a hold file so I could do a -READ against it. Im sure Waz has answered that question dozens of times on Focal Point!

[Ken Dunbar]

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Focal Point would keep me from having to open cases so often

It would make support better, finding answers quicker, sharing ideas easier and make me more likely to champion WF as a viable platform going forward.