This Readme document contains late-breaking information related to Cognos Impromptu.
When installing Impromptu in a workstation install, ensure that Architect is not selected as part of the installation. Architect is not supported as a workstation installation and must be fully installed locally with associated 3rd party software such as ObjectStore.
You will encounter errors in Configuration Manager on Windows during the apply process if you install any 7.3 Maintenance Release (MR) of Impromptu without also installing Impromptu Web Reports 7.3 MR1 or higher. The same errors occur if you install an Impromptu 7.3 Maintenance Release without installing Impromptu 7.3 MR1 or higher. The errors occur only when configuring Impromptu and Impromptu Web Reports that are both installed on the same computer.
Depending on your operating system, when you apply your configuration in Configuration Manager, you may see a General Protection Fault, or see some or all of the following error messages:
iwcreatedb.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program.
There were problems during the apply. Do you want to activate?
If you answer "Yes", in addition to a pop-up message indicating that the activate action failed, the following message appears:
The ordinal 124 could not be located in the dynamic link library CogSP7_1.dll.
If you answer "No" then no additional error messages appear.
To successfully configure both products on the same computer, you must install both products at 7.3 MR1 or higher before you apply your new configuration.
If you generate prompts to specify selection criteria when generating reports, you may notice that the prompt order has changed in this release. This is because the prompt sort order is now locale sensitive. Locale sensitive sorting ignores the "-" character, and is not case sensitive.
In previous releases, the prompt sort order was alphabetic, case sensitive. As a result, all uppercase letters appeared before all lowercase letters, and the "-" character was not ignored.
For example, the order of a picklist prompt in a previous Impromptu release appears as follows:
In Impromptu 7.3 Maintenance Release 2, the same picklist prompt appears as follows:
The Impromptu online help topic "CreateStoredProcedure Method" has out-dated information concerning database conformance. For the current list of supported databases, visit the Cognos support Web site (http://support.cognos.com).
When saving a report to Excel with Format, the width of Excel column 255 may not be large enough to display the data. If so, change the column width manually within Excel. For more information, check the Excel online help for "Change column width".
When you install and configure Impromptu or Impromptu Web Reports to enable Accessibility, opening a report in Upfront causes the Jaws screen reader to read the frame information for the embedded Adobe application, not the content of the PDF file.
There are several workarounds for this problem: