An interesting point that I found when updating the "Current Version" thread. (PAW and Windows Server 2019)
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2022 4:36 am
As I've noted in that thread, PAW 74 was released this week. Finally it has support for Windows Server 2019.
I do not currently have a 2019 platform but am slated to get one in the not too distant future. Given 2019's much improved support for containerisation, whether this change will improve the dystopian nightmare that is the installation and running of PAW on a Windows environment remains to be seen. (It will continue to be the only significant piece of software I can think of that requires the user to go out and run scripts from a command line as part of the installation process in the 3rd decade of the 21st century, but hey, one thing at a time.)
Certainly I have long since lost the ability to give IBM the benefit of the doubt in such matters. Or anything else, really.
(Such as the fact that I received an e-mail this afternoon re my personal business account with IBM Italia. "La tua password IBM sta per scadere - Ti invitiamo a prenderne nota", which it then translated as "=> Your IBM password will expire soon - PLEASE READ". Gee thanks IBM, it's an Italian account, with IBM Italy, one which is based in Italy, with all of the internal settings set to "Italian". It's pretty safe to assume that I do actually know what the Italian sentence said, without the need for the English quasi-translation. What I don't know is why in the living h3ll I need to change a password that is several hundred characters of random gibberish long (meaning that it is waaaaayyy beyond the capacity of Watson to crack it; but then, working out a series of prime numbers is probably also beyond Watson) when I only changed it a couple of months back.)
They're also dropping support for "the capability to remain on Planning Analytics Workspace Classic" as from next July... if anyone cares that much.
(No, seriously, I have no idea whether they do or not. For obvious reasons.)
I suppose that I should probably offer thanks for finally supporting an O/S that is less than half a decade old... but get back to me when I have 2019 up, and ask me then.
I do not currently have a 2019 platform but am slated to get one in the not too distant future. Given 2019's much improved support for containerisation, whether this change will improve the dystopian nightmare that is the installation and running of PAW on a Windows environment remains to be seen. (It will continue to be the only significant piece of software I can think of that requires the user to go out and run scripts from a command line as part of the installation process in the 3rd decade of the 21st century, but hey, one thing at a time.)
Certainly I have long since lost the ability to give IBM the benefit of the doubt in such matters. Or anything else, really.
(Such as the fact that I received an e-mail this afternoon re my personal business account with IBM Italia. "La tua password IBM sta per scadere - Ti invitiamo a prenderne nota", which it then translated as "=> Your IBM password will expire soon - PLEASE READ". Gee thanks IBM, it's an Italian account, with IBM Italy, one which is based in Italy, with all of the internal settings set to "Italian". It's pretty safe to assume that I do actually know what the Italian sentence said, without the need for the English quasi-translation. What I don't know is why in the living h3ll I need to change a password that is several hundred characters of random gibberish long (meaning that it is waaaaayyy beyond the capacity of Watson to crack it; but then, working out a series of prime numbers is probably also beyond Watson) when I only changed it a couple of months back.)
They're also dropping support for "the capability to remain on Planning Analytics Workspace Classic" as from next July... if anyone cares that much.
(No, seriously, I have no idea whether they do or not. For obvious reasons.)
I suppose that I should probably offer thanks for finally supporting an O/S that is less than half a decade old... but get back to me when I have 2019 up, and ask me then.