David Usherwood wrote:Since the reference is in the 10.3 doc, you'll be waiting awhile, unless you fancy ponying up for a cloud instance.
The thought had crossed my mind. However there are three factors there that make that less of a problem.
First, one of my new year's resolutions is to learn the arts of patience and tranquillity. And to do it
now,
NOW I SAID, DAMMIT!!!!
Second, and more importantly, look me in the eye and tell me that it doesn't feel like only a couple of weeks ago that you were putting up your 20
15 "
Boxer Puppies" and "
The Elements" calendars in your study. (Adjust the temporal reference works according to your taste.) I'm taking no bets that 2016, which is already more than 1% gone on most of the planet, won't fly past the same way as 2015 did. So 10.3 on site will be here soon enough.
(And on a related point, I find that there is an inversely proportional relationship between the amount of time that you have available to get up to speed with software, and the number of versions thrown at you in a given period. I still have yet to come to grips with the new features in Photoshop CC 2015. I'm writing code in C# these days and aside from having to learn that language I'm getting to grips with LINQ. I haven't really gotten my head around the changes in Powershell 5.0 yet, or some areas of the older functionality come to that. Java's less of a problem since development work seems to have come to a standstill for the moment over in Oracle-land, if you discount the amount of work generating legal briefs for lawyers and sticking pins in Google voodoo dolls. That provides valuable catch-up time. But conversely SQL Server 2016, which is swinging ever-increasingly in-memory with each version and therefore needs ongoing rethinks about how to approach database design, will be here in only a couple of months most likely. Camtasia 9 will probably be out in the first quarter of 2016. Put all that together and it's pretty certain that IBM will only be too happy to throw 10.3 at me sooner rather than later as well, just to see how far I can compress time. Speaking of which, if I find a wormhole that's big enough I could avoid the ponying and get my hands on the code through a trial subscription, but I don't like the odds of finding the time to do that justice. Which is why "30 day trials" blow unless you have no other work to do in that 30 days, but that's a different issue.)
Third, yes, any changes in 10.3 will be initially be felt by those who have gone the IBM-hosted Cloud route.
Both of them.
But for the overwhelming majority of TM1 users, 10.3 won't be an issue until it lands where most users are, which is on site.