Tuesday, April 27, 2010

New 11.1.2 Information

I was talking with one of my contacts this week and learned some things that would be of interest to those of you working with 11.1.2. Keep in mind that, in regards to products/service packs that have not shipped, Oracle makes no guarantees of what will ship until it has actually shipped, so plan your actions accordingly. The things I learned include:
  • There are known issues with the install but many of them are documented in either the epm_1112000_readme.pdf or in the readmes for the individual products.
  • Release 11.1.2 really is for new installs only and there are no provisions for upgrade or migration from any previous version. Upgrade and migration capabilities are planned for a point release later in the year.
  • Essbase 11.1.2 is not compatible with any other version. While it will be tempting to use the new separate installer for the Excel Add-In with previous versions of Essbase, there's no guarantee it will work. The contact continued to say it should as there haven't been any new features in the Add-In for a while now, but it would definitely create an officially unsupported environment.
  • There are service packs in the works for the 9.3.1.x and 11.1.1.3.x codelines to add a stand-alone Add-In installers.
  • As widely reported in other Hyperion blogs, Release 11.1.2 introduces support for Internet Explorer 8.
  • Not all the products shipped with EPM 11.1.2. There is no 11.1.2 version of Essbase Analytics Link for HFM (formerly HyperRoll), and Data Integration Management 11.1.1.1 is certified to run with EPM 11.1.2.
I have some people on my tech support team currently working on installations of both the 32-bit and 64-bit Essbase stack on Windows 2008 and Windows 7. We should be starting our Dodeca QA tests on 11.1.2 either tomorrow or the next day. We already have customers asking for our Dodeca-Essbase services for 11.1.2; we promise shipment within 2 weeks of 11.1.2 shipment.

Of course, as I learn more that I can share with you, I will post it here.

11 comments:

A. Soong said...

Hi Tim - thanks for sharing. Have you heard if whether or not the future "point release" allows for an upgrade from 11.1.1.3? Knowing that would make a world of difference to our environments. TIA.

Tim Tow said...

Hi Andy,

My sources say yes.. Wow, that sounds like an answer from one of those 'Magic 8 Ball' toys! I didn't use a 'Magic 8 Ball' in my answer though.. Really!

Tim

A. Soong said...

Hi Tim,

Whew! Thanks for the quick reply! JB will be glad to hear the news.

Thanks again,
Andy

Anonymous said...

Hi Tim

We are planning to move Hyperion Essbase , Planning, Shared services from 9.3.1 to 11.1.2 . Please suggest the best way of doing it? Is it very difficult to do it? Thanks in Advance .

Tim Tow said...

Search the OTN forums as your question has been answered many times there.. In short, there is currently no upgrade path to 11.1.2 but 11.1.2.1 is supposed to add the ability to upgrade.

Tim

Anonymous said...

Hi Tim,
I have a problem after installation of Hyperion planning 11.1.2,
It is starting shared services console but not the work space console, so i have gone through all the services to be run accordingly but iam not able to get started.
iam trying from 3 days i need ur sugestion on this
thaks in advance

Tim Tow said...

I don't use Hyperion Planning, so I would have no idea. The Oracle Technology Network is the place you should ask this question.

Tim

Ana said...

Hi Tim,
You once had an article in the ODTUG Technical Journal about Installing Essbase 11.1.1.It was very informative and easy to follow. Any chance you might do a similar one for 11.1.2?

Tim Tow said...

Hi Ana,

Actually, the installation for 11.1.2 has become much easier and actually doesn't really need a blog post. That being said, perhaps we could do a quick video to show people how to install. I don't have a timeframe for a video, however, but it does sound like a good topic for the blog.

Michael said...

Hi Tim, do you know if it is required to go from 11.1.1.3 to version 11.1.2.1? I am currently on 11.1.1.2, and was hoping to not have to do the intermediary release update.

Thank you,

- Michael

Tim Tow said...

According to the "Supported Paths to this Release" section of the documentation at http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17236_01/epm.1112/epm_1112100_readme.pdf, Oracle recommends upgrading from 11.1.1.x to 11.1.1.3 before upgrading to 11.1.2.1.

There is more information in the document which is freely available on the web.

Tim