This section of the Readme contains late-breaking information related to the PowerPlay Enterprise Server and PowerPlay Web components.
In the Series 7 Version 3 release of PowerPlay Web, dragging and dropping a category in a particular location in a custom subset redefined the custom subset.
In the Series 7 Version 4 release of PowerPlay Web, you can reorder categories in dimensions. As a result, dragging and dropping a category in a particular location in a static custom subset now applies the crosstab rendering functionality. This change in functionality improves efficiency, and provides consistent drag and drop behavior across all crosstab axes and levels.
Advisory Reference: ADVS7PPES02_1106
In some circumstances, using zero suppression in PowerPlay Enterprise Server against Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services cubes can result in non-zero rows being excluded when one of the following conditions occur:
To minimize the potential of a data integrity problem, we strongly recommend that you download and install the update for the product and version if applicable to you.
Failure to follow these important recommendations may result in incorrect data returned. IBM Cognos will not be liable for any loss or damages arising from the failure to implement these recommended directions.
To download the product update that addresses this vulnerability for the version of the product that you currently use, please follow the appropriate link below. If you do not see the version and language required, please contact Customer Support.
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When you run a query to retrieve metadata or data in a DB2 OLAP server, you may see an exception window indicating that there is a problem with the query.
The error probably occurred because Windows did not have enough remote procedure call (RPC) ports available. This lack of sufficient RPC ports can cause data retrieval from DB2 OLAP and Essbase data sources to fail because of network communication errors.
To resolve this problem, you must increase the number of RPC ports that are available for program use. Hyperion and Microsoft propose that you add two registry entries, MaxUserPort TCP/IP and TcpTimedWaitDelay in Microsoft Registry Editor.
For more information about these parameters, see http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/2000/server/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/2000/server/reskit/en-us/regentry/58811.asp.
Important: Use Registry Editor at your own risk. Incorrect use may cause problems that require you to reinstall your operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that you can solve problems that result from using Registry Editor incorrectly.
We also recommend that you edit the cer5.ini configuration file.
Administrators are strongly advised to use the MountAt folder option when configuring failover environments. This will allow administrator-published cubes and reports published as links to be accessible from Upfront if the main dispatcher fails.
The MountAt folder must be identically named on all PPES servers and must point to the same physical location. We recommend that administrators not use the MountAt folder option on a collection (folders with a source specified).
Do not use mapped drives on Windows 2000 when specifying MountAt locations, as rebooting may cause errors.
If you click the link for an IBM Cognos Series 7 Quick Tour and it fails to open, check the pop-up blocker setting in your Web browser. Some browsers, such as Firefox, block pop-up windows by default. For the tours to launch correctly from their links, you must disable pop-up blockers.
When using PowerPlay Enterprise Server Administration on Windows XP to add a folder, cube or report, only local drives appear in the drop-down list for Folder Source, Cube Source, or Report Source. If you type a letter corresponding to a mapped network drive that contains cubes or reports, the cubes and reports don’t appear.
To specify a network location as the source for a folder, cube, or report, do one of the following.
Users of the integrated PowerPlay and IBM Cognos ReportNet or IBM Cognos 8 solution using IBM Cognos Connection as the portal will not be able to access PowerCube data under specific user class views. The only option available to access secure PowerCubes is via <All User Classes>.
When you set the font of a chart title to a Japanese font, you may get an error. This error occurs if the selected Japanese font is not an UTF-8 font. To fix this error, select a UTF-8 Japanese font.
You may have trouble accessing the Imported Reports folder when it is shared in a distributed environment. You may also experience problems with operations such as Save As and Publish. If this happens, restart the PowerPlay Enterprise Server.
The Firefox 1.5 browser has started reporting non W3C CSS compliant styles as errors in the JavaScript console. This includes many Internet Explorer specific styles and some badly formatted styles. These errors do not affect the successful loading of PowerPlay reports and cubes.
Word-wrapping works only in languages that use a space to separate words. To force a word wrap in languages such as Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Thai, insert a single-byte space at an appropriate place to simulate a word break.
In some chart elements, bi-directional Hebrew text may be displayed in a "logical" order rather than the expected "visual" order.
For more information, go to http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/bidi/
When creating a pie chart in PowerPlay Web, the OTHER category is generated and is visible in the legend. After exporting to PDF, the correct category name replaces OTHER in the legend. This is the expected behavior.
In a PDF report when you hover over a category label (not data), you'll get a popup indicating an embedded URL. If you then CTRL+Click, you'll get a popup window with the explain information for the appropriate category.
With Adobe 7.0.5 (and above), as soon as the popup explain window is launched, it is minimized to the Taskbar. The explain popup is fully functional and you can subsequently bring focus back to the popup to read the information.
If you use Internet Explorer 7, you may get an unreadable display with higher zoom settings. For example,
To correct the display, reduce the Internet Explorer 7 zoom setting.