Active Reports no future anymore ?

[bi4business]

All,

Last week I had a meeting with a local IBM Cognos consultant who told me to not use Active Reports anymore.
I was a little suprised about this, but he told me IBM wants to 'disable' this capability.

Does anyone heard the same story or is this story a little difference ?

Kind Regards.

[CognosPaul]

I have also heard the same. There are no plans to continue working on it, and when browsers drop support for MHT that will be the end.

Once the owner of Active Reports left IBM I think they just abandoned the tool. Personally I hope they wise up, active reports are invaluable especially for end users on the road.

[bi4business]

Hi CognosPaul,

Thanks for youw reply.

Hum, I do agree with you, Active-Reports are there for a special end-user group and they love it.
Would be sorry when IBM really discontinue the capability.....

There are users for this capability out there.

[MFGF]

Yep, I also heard there are no plans to develop the Active Reports technology any further. I suspect they will be a part of Report Authoring for a good while, though. I can't see them being deprecated any time soon. As Paul suggests, I imagine it will be browser support for MHT that is the significant factor.

Cheers!

MF.