Aspen Collaborative Forecasting (CF)

V9

Release Notes
Version Number: V9
May 2016
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Contents
About these Release Notes......................................................................................1
Related Documentation .....................................................................................1

New Features ..........................................................................................................3

Software Fixes ........................................................................................................4

Known Issues..........................................................................................................5

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About these Release Notes

These Release Notes describe Aspen Collaborative Forecasting (CF) V9, the
latest release of Aspen Collaborative Forecasting (CF). This document
includes:
• New features
• Software fixes
• Known issues

Related Documentation
In addition to these Release Notes, AspenTech provides the following
documentation for Aspen Collaborative Forecasting (CF) V9:
• Aspen Collaborative Forecasting (CF) Installation Guide
• Aspen Collaborative Forecasting (CF) Help
• Aspen Collaborative Forecasting (CF) Administrative Server Help
• Aspen Collaborative Forecasting (CF) Implementation Guide

Note: The following are installed with their respective products:

• Aspen Collaborative Forecasting Help
• Aspen Collaborative Forecasting Administrative Server Help

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New Features

This section describes the new features in Aspen Collaborative Forecasting

(CF) V9.

Oracle 11g Release 2 patch 4

(11.2.0.4)/Oracle 12c (12.1.0.2)
Aspen Collaborative Forecasting supports the following:
• Oracle 11g Release 2 Patch 4 (11.2.0.4.0)/Oracle 12c (12.1.0.2) x64
database servers on Windows 2008 R2 SP1 X64 Standard/Enterprise
platform(s), and
• Oracle 12c (12.1.0.2)/Oracle 11g (11.2.0.4) x64 servers on Windows x64
2012 R2 Standard/Data Center platform(s)

SQL Server 2014/SQL Server 2012

SP1/SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2
Aspen Collaborative Forecasting supports SQL Server 2014/SQL Server 2012
SP1/SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2 Standard/Enterprise x86 or x64 platform(s).

Internet Explorer 10/11

Aspen Collaborative Forecasting (CF) supports Internet Explorer 10/11
browsers.

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Software Fixes

Aspen Collaborative Forecasting (CF) V9 includes a number of software fixes

that further improve the product.
CQ Number Description Resolution
CQ00564642 Change Display Hierarchy was This issue was resolved.
being selected on the CF Create
Overrides Options page, while the
preferred option was for it to be
unselected.
CQ00611429 CF Publish/Republish was only This issue was resolved.
working for partial week period type
models. CF now uses a new
WeekRefs=true entry in the
properties.ini file if you are using a
partial week. You can set
WeekRefs=false for the week period
type models.
Note: WeekRefs=false is the
default setting.
CQ00579355 A new data set being added This issue was resolved.
between the cycles in the DM model
was not appearing in an Update Log
of the CF Home page when
performing Publish/Re-Publish.
CQ00604619 Concurrent transaction and locking This issue was resolved.
in SQL Server was causing WebLogic
to hang.
CQ00586329 The OCL level setting in CF was not This issue was resolved.
working properly.
CQ00598992 The Configure CF Admin Sub Role This issue was resolved.
screen was missing.

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Known Issues

This section describes the Known Issues in Aspen Collaborative Forecasting

(CF) V9.

Issue 1
When you point to a chart junction point, a date should display. Currently,
this functionality is not operating correctly, and no dates display.
No workaround is available at the moment.

Issue 2
Because of insufficient device driver support, the Aspen Collaborative
Forecasting (CF) 64-bit application does not support the Windows
Authentication feature.
No workaround is available at the moment.

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