Release Notes for the TIBCO Spotfire® DecisionSite® Product Family

Version 9.1.2

This file contains important information about TIBCO Spotfire® DecisionSite® 9.1.2.

For the latest version of this file, see Release notes for TIBCO Spotfire DecisionSite 9.1.2 on the TIBCO Spotfire web site.

 

Notes:

·         The product unlock codes are located in the “codes.txt” file packaged with the server software distribution.

·         The documentation in the Client deployment package remains at version 9.1.1 both in content and for file names.

Contents

System Requirements

Installation

Spotfire DecisionSite Client

Spotfire DecisionSite MapConnect

Japanese Support Limitations

Spotfire DecisionSite

Known Issues

Spotfire DecisionSite Client

Spotfire DecisionSite for Lead Discovery

Spotfire DecisionSite for Functional Genomics

Spotfire DecisionSite Analysis Builder

Spotfire DecisionSite MapConnect

Support

System Requirements

See TIBCO Spotfire DecisionSite System Requirements – v9.1.2 for a detailed description.

Installation

Spotfire DecisionSite Client

·         .NET Framework
.NET Framework is included in Spotfire DecisionSite Client install kit, but can also be installed separately. Additional language packs should be installed separately. Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or higher is recommended.

·         Silent installation
To perform a silent installation, .NET framework should be installed before DecisionSite™ Client.

·         DecisionSite™ Builder
When uninstalling Spotfire DecisionSite Client, references to locally registered folders may disappear. This is corrected by re-registering the folders in Spotfire DecisionSite Builder.

Spotfire DecisionSite MapConnect

·         Spotfire DecisionSite MapConnect is integrated into ESRI® ArcMap™. It is delivered via the Spotfire Analytics Server. In order to install it, Spotfire DecisionSite must be launched once and connected to the Spotfire Analytics Server. After that, ESRI® ArcMap™ can be started and the Spotfire DecisionSite MapConnect functionality will be available.

·         When starting ESRI® ArcMap™ for the first time after installing Spotfire DecisionSite MapConnect, a toolbar containing the new functionality will be floating around – something which also happens for some of ArcMap’s own toolbars. Please, simply dock the toolbar along the default toolbar, just as you would do with any other free-floating toolbar popping up from ArcMap.

Japanese Support Limitations

Spotfire DecisionSite

·         Valid characters for the name of a DecisionSite, eAnalytic Application, Tool etc., are: [a-z] [A-Z] [0-9] [ !#$*-./=@^_`|~ ]

·         Valid characters for user and group names/passwords are: [a-z] [A-Z] [0-9] [ !#$*-./=@^_`|~ ]

·         When filtering in Information Services, Japanese numbers are treated as strings. For integer filtering use ASCII numbers.

·         The client, Spotfire DecisionSite Client, cannot be installed in a directory where the path contains Japanese characters

·         Japanese characters are not supported in any of the authentication systems. When connecting to an existing authentication system such as an NT Authentication domain, user IDs or passwords cannot contain non-Latin characters.

·         When installing Spotfire DecisionSite Client on Japanese Windows 2000, English (US) locale is not supported. If the client machine uses English (US) locale, switch to Japanese locale when installing and then switch back.

Known Issues

Spotfire DecisionSite Client

·         On Windows 7: to enable installation of packages at machine level from Support Pages, launch Internet Explorer "as Administrator".

·         Data that contains dates from year 1600 and earlier will be displayed as empty strings.

·         Connecting from Windows XP to Windows Vista using Remote Desktop (running Spotfire DecisionSite Client on the Vista machine) with 32-bit color depth is not recommended due to known issues with display updates. Recommended workaround is to use 24-bit color depth or less.

·         Installation can fail on Vista where VBScript.dll is not properly registered. The symptom for this is:
"Error 2738. Could not access VBScript run time for custom action .",

This is caused by VBScript.dll being (partially) registered per user. This is explicitly detected and prohibited by Windows Installer to avoid exploits based on per user registered modules being used during installation. This registration error has been observed on many, but not all Vista machines.
Solution:
1. Click on the Start menu, type "cmd" and press enter
2. Run this command: reg delete "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{B54F3741-5B07-11CF-A4B0-00AA004A55E8}" /f
3. For 64-bit windows also run this command: reg delete "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Classes\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{B54F3741-5B07-11CF-A4B0-00AA004A55E8}" /f

Note: This operation does not require administrator privileges.

References:
http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2008/05/31/windows-installer-errors-2738-and-2739-with-script-custom-actions.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2008/06/07/3151752.aspx

·         Saving files in 7.X format will always embed data.

·         Files saved in 7.X format will not include Query Device selections.

·         Straight Line Fit is not saved in 7.X files.

·         Sorting is not localized; it follows Unicode Byte Order.

·         Some memory allocation is not released when a data set is closed. However, these resources are re-used when opening the next data set.

·         If entering incorrect password in Login dialog, Spotfire DecisionSite Client must be restarted in order to login with the same user.

Spotfire DecisionSite for Lead Discovery

·         SDfilesSDfiles that are not compatible with ISIS/Base are not supported.

·         ISIS Connection – Composite keys in HVIEW are not supported.

·         Structure Viewer - Dates in the ISIS database will be imported as strings in DecisionSite™ Client.

Spotfire DecisionSite for Functional Genomics

·         Affymetrix Retrieve from Database – These tools are supported only for database users with access to metadata tables.

·         Affymetrix Retrieve from Database (Local) - This tool does not support MDAC 2.1SP2, MDAC 2.5 or higher is required.

Spotfire DecisionSite Analysis Builder

·         A Guide created in Analysis Builder 8.2 cannot be opened or run in earlier DecisionSite™ versions.

Spotfire DecisionSite MapConnect

·         When starting Spotfire DecisionSite from ArcMap™, Spotfire DecisionSite might download updates that require a restart. In that case, ArcMap™ also needs to be restarted for the updates to work correctly.

Support

To receive help with problems or to submit comments please contact us at the TIBCO Support Web site or send an email to support@tibco.com

 

More news on Spotfire DecisionSite can be found in the online documentation or on the TIBCO Spotfire web site.

 

The TIBCO Spotfire DecisionSite team