IBM Sustainability Software - Ideas Portal
This portal is to open public enhancement requests against the products and services belonging to IBM Sustainability Software. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).
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This has been delivered in MAS 8.7, February 2022 and is targeted for 3Q release of 7.6.1.3.
I fully support upgrading to as current a version as possible. I know that there are some features available in the latter verisions that could be very useful. Though the security issue has a higher priority.
I concur with the growing concern of having to use what is considered "legacy" software to maintain a state of the art EAM platform. Having to go to justify an IDE platform to be excluded from security scans because the age of the Java version so out of date it instantly becomes flagged is getting harder and harder each quarter.
In order to address concerns with compatibility between BIRT 4.3.1 and other systems (i.e. Oracle 19c) and its requirement to use the older Java 7 version, IBM after performing basic unit testing can recommend using BIRT Report Designer 4.8 IDE to generate reports with the 4.3.1 runtime engine embedded in Maximo 7.6.0.9 and higher.
There are no license compliance or third party issues with using BIRT 4.3.1 and 4.8 are on same EPL-2.0 base license (Eclipse Public License).
Any reported issues would require being successfully reproduced in an environment that includes both a BIRT 4.3.1 report designer and run-time engine.
This is amongst my biggest issue with software currency. I fully support this. Why should we be left behind with old tech that doesn't allow us to use feature and functions available in later version.