CA 12 - Thoughts/Feedback?

[adam_mc]

Has anyone done an upgrade to CA 12 yet?
I am planning to put this new release/version on our LAB environment soon.

If so:

• Any problems during upgrade?
• Did all reports upgrade without issues?
• Any thoughts - Likes/Dislikes?
• Other?

Any information you have would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Adam.

[dougp]

Not CA12, specifically.  I'll be waiting for the CA12 LTS release.  I have had very bad experiences with early releases of Cognos.  Upgrading from 10.2.1 to 11.0.4 was likely the biggest mistake of my IT career.  The finally got things fixed in 11.0.13FP3 and then again in 11.1.7IF1021.  (so even the LTS releases weren't initially useful)

12.x looks very interesting with many new bells and whistles like Watson integration and generative AI -- and even some actually useful things like using expressions for default prompt values.  But test well before inflicting an early release on your users.