Release Notes for TIBCO Spotfire® Server 3.0.0

This file contains important information about TIBCO Spotfire® Server 3.0.0.

Note: The product unlock codes are located in the “codes.txt” file packaged with the TIBCO Spotfire Deployment distribution.

Content

System Requirements
Installation and Configuration
Migration from TIBCO Spotfire Analytics Server 10.1
Known Issues
  General
  Migration
  Configuration
  Information Services
Support

System Requirements

See the TIBCO Spotfire Server System Requirements page for a detailed description of the system requirements for TIBCO Spotfire Server 3.0.0.

Installation and Configuration

It is very important that you read the installation manual on how to install and configure TIBCO Spotfire Server 3.0.0.

1. Run the supplied SQL scripts to generate the new 3.0.0 database.
2. Install TIBCO Spotfire Server 3.0.0.
3. After installing the server, please register the product on the http://support.spotfire.com/dsregister/ web page.
4. If you intend to migrate from a 10.1 server to a 3.0.0 server, the recommended procedure is to complete the configuration and data migration before starting the 3.0.0 server, see Migration from TIBCO Spotfire Analytics Server 10.1.
5. Start the server and launch the TIBCO Spotfire Management Console to perform the Server configuration.

Migration from TIBCO Spotfire Analytics Server 10.1

You must install TIBCO Spotfire Server 3.0.0 according to the steps above before you can do any migration.

1. Install the TIBCO Spotfire Server 3.0.0 Migration Tool.
2. Shut down the TIBCO Spotfire Analytics Server 10.1.
3. Run the migration tool on the TIBCO Spotfire Analytics Server 10.1.

Known Issues

General

• Avoid group names containing single quote characters. It is possible to create such a group but it will be unusable.
• On the Windows operating system, if the msvcr71.dll is not found in any path, when starting the Tomcat service the service will fail to start. To remedy this problem, copy the msvcr71.dll from the <installation-directory>\jdk\bin directory to either the <installation-directory>\tomcat\bin folder or to the Windows system32 folder.
• When installing on a Windows operating system and creating a Windows service for the Spotfire Server, an empty TIBCO Spotfire Server folder will be created on the start menu.
• If you use OpenSSL on a Windows operating system to generate X.509 certificates, beware that international characters in certificates will not work. We recommend Microsoft Certification Authority Services to be used instead.
• There is an issue using the mod_auth_sspi module out-of-the-box with Apache httpd and using NTLM authentication. Please contact TIBCO Spotfire Support for information on how to resolve this issue.

Migration

• If the Oracle 10g JDBC driver (ojdbc14.jar) has been used in your 10.1 installation it must be temporarily replaced with the Oracle 11g JDBC driver (ojdbc6.jar) else the migration will fail. For more information please consult the installation manual.

Configuration

• When using Microsoft Internet Explorer, a focus problem in the login dialog for the Management Console will force users to click twice in the user name input field before being able to type into it.
• To use the Management Console when Enhanced Security is enabled on Windows Server 2003 and 2008, the server needs to be added to the list of Trusted Sites.
• Sometimes you need to click twice in order to select the correct data source template from the drop down menu in the Default Join Database screen.
• Sometimes an error message is shown when reverting changes in the Default Join Database screen while another screen has focus. Going back to the Default Join Database screen fixes the problem.
• In the Add Server dialog, clicking OK without specifying a server name or IP address will generate an error.

Information Services

• Filtering on a column that is defined as DOUBLE can produce incorrect behavior under certain circumstances.
  This is due to a bug in Oracle (According to Oracle, the following bug numbers apply: 1375960, 1569966, 895268).
• Substructure search may fail for structures larger than 4000 bytes if the columns in the query are in a certain order. This is a limitation in Symyx Direct.
• There is a problem with running an Information Link from the Information Library, when using structure search prompting. The Edit structure function is broken; returning this structure to the prompt dialog will not work.
• Accessing stored procedures via database links does not work.
• Procedures cannot handle parameters of Oracle type Date.
• The Oracle LONG database type is not supported. It is recommended that columns with type LONG be converted into the LOB type.
• The server side data pivoting capabilities in Information Services require sub-queries support in the underlying database. Sub-queries are not supported in older databases such as MySQL 4.0.
• Information Services does not support stored procedures using the Teradata database.
• The supplied template for Composite is not to be considered production ready, but rather as a starting point for further adaption to the environment at hand.
• The DataDirect JDBC driver for Oracle reports procedure types as "Pre" instead of "Query". This will not prevent a user from setting the procedure to a query procedure.

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 TIBCO Spotfire® can be found in the online documentation or on the Spotfire web site.

The TIBCO Spotfire® team