David Briars Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 We are currently on release 8105M. In December of 2019 we upgraded from 8105M to 8206 in our Sandbox. For various reasons (staff resources related) we were not in a position to upgrade from 8105M to 8206 across our environments. We are now looking to pick up again upgrading from 8105M. In looking at recent posts here in myibi, as well as, looking a the 8207 New Features site, it appears that 8207 isnt an incremental upgrade from 8206 (fixes/tweaks) but a real improvement (leap) in the the product. I am thinking of shifting gears and not upgrading to 8206 as in our original plan, but to 8207. Id love to hear any thoughts or comments on this topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warren Hinchliffe Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 I would recommend it. We did just upgrade from 8104 to 8207.11 and planning on another to 8207.24. Seems there are new features and capabilities coming out regularly and Designer seems to be the way forward, in particular for us. We did have a lot of issues with code tightening and the like. But that would also depend on how your fexes were written. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Huebgen Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 There are some Upgrade docs https://webfocusinfocenter.informationbuilders.com/wfappent/upgrade/ 8207 contains a lot of changes related to user interface and user experience Most important - new Home page and introduction of WebFOCUS Designer UI - early versions exist in 8206 but with very limited capabilities https://webfocusinfocenter.informationbuilders.com/wfdesigner/8207-new-features.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Briars Posted February 2, 2021 Author Share Posted February 2, 2021 Thanks Waz and Patrick! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori McClellan Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 We are doing 7702/3 to 8207 with MS 2019 server and MVS PDS config as phase 1 and then taking the time to move to AD and dashboards on z/Linux client and a WebFOCUS server to get to the use out of the IBM IFL on VM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Dalton Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 Hi Waz, specifically what issues did you have exactly with code-tightening as we have some very old modules that to date have stood the test of time. Regards, Ian ps. we are planning to upgrade at some stage from 8.1.05M to 8.2.07. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warren Hinchliffe Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 Most were related to bad coding. Like missing semicolons, not specifying a format, but an amper variable on dialog manager calls to functions. Some were also around Composer HTML pages and they way they were handling parameters. Difficult to give more info without referring to old documentation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Dalton Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 Ok good to know - hopefully wont cause us too much work !! Many thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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