The release 2016 includes changes and enhancements to the products IDL.KONSIS.FORECAST, IDL.XLSLINK, IDL.PUBLISHER, IDL.EBILANZ, IDL.FINREP and IDL.DESIGNER for as well as the technical components IDL.KONSIS.FORECAST Application Server, IDL Workplace Server and IDL Data Mart. The installation of the products and components depends on the corresponding licence.
This documentation describes the changes on the component package "A" with the components IDL.KONSIS.FORECAST, IDL.XLSLINK and IDL.KONSIS.FORECAST Application Server. The installation of this release may not be left out in the installation sequence of this component package. The minimum requirement for the installation of this version is the last "major release" 2014.0 dated September 9th, 2014. Please mind that the year number 2015 has been left out in the release nomenclature!
The amendments in Update 1 (IDL CPM Suite April 2015) as well as corrections that have taken place up until the release closure for the major release 2014.0 are contained in release 2016. Please take a look to the Amendments in Update 1, too, if you have not installed this Update 1 before.
You should always perform a database backup before you install a new release. To prevent a user from losing data, a notice on the necessity of backing up data will be issued by the installation program at the start of installation.
You must always perform the release migration for IDL.KONSIS.FORECAST (see ch. 1.2) first, after a new release has been installed. For this reason, a message will be issued when you start IDL.KONSIS.FORECAST for the first time after installation of this release to let you know that migration has not yet taken place. This message box contains the button 'Start migration now'. If you click this button, migration will start automatically. Following successful completion of the migration on this way, IDL.KONSIS.FORECAST does not need to be restarted again. All of the applications will be available immediately.
If migration is not started in this manner, for instance because the logged in user does not have access rights, all other applications will be locked. The only exceptions are the applications that are used to maintain authorization data, in case the logged-in user is not authorized to carry out migration, due to the use of individual authorisation groups. Following manual completion of migration, you will need to start IDL.KONSIS.FORECAST again to ensure that all of the application functions are available again.
Release 2016 uses version 1.8 of Java. For IDL.KONSIS.FORECAST Application Server IDL delivers the corresponding JRE (Java Runtime Environment) in the installation directory. This does not apply for remote internet clients connected to the IDL.KONSIS.FORECAST Application Server via web-start. There the JRE has to be updated by the users themselves (Java update to the most recent version due to automatic proposal).
The database management system DB2 from IBM is no longer supported with the present release 2016. Please change to another DBMS before installing this release.
The operating system MS Windows Vista is no longer supported with the present release 2016. Please change to a more recent operating system before installing this release.
The read and write functions of IDL Connector (old) are no longer developed from release 2016 on. Running Excel worksheets may continued to be used, however, there will be only limited support by IDL. From this release on only IDL.XLSLINK is supported for these purposes. Only IDL.XLSLINK can be used in connection with the 64 bit version of MS Excel. IDL.XLSLINK requires at least the version Microsoft Excel 2007.
Since the Excel entry form is technically based on IDL Connector the IDL Connector programs are still delivered with the release 2016 installation.
As already announced from release 2016 onIDL.KONSIS.FORECAST installations require an IDL.KONSIS.FORECAST Application Server. Other installation configurations are no longer supported. The installation of a single workplace station has to be replaced by the installation of the server and the client on the same computer.
When installing a fixpack now the IDL.KONSIS.FORECAST application server service is automatically stopped and re-started after finishing the installation.
When installing a client from now on the files rstart.exe and kcusap.exe required for start of IDL.IMPORTER ad the SAP interface are copied into the local load directory, too. However, this does not apply for webstart clients.
The following English language documentations have been updated or enhanced in the documentation directory "doku" together with this release:
*) For a current version of the hardware and software requirements please refer to the service centre of the IDL web page (www.idl.eu).