Hi Stuart,
We read your post above with interest. Are you able to dot point the issues with V12.2.2 and any work around's that you have found?
After having 3x attempts of upgrading to various iterations of V12.2 some months ago and rolling back after all attempts we decided to remain on V12.1 as all is stable and works very well, we have decided to review version upgrades at the end of 2019.
HOWEVER, deviating here... Australia has now had a new Datum introduced called GDA2020
http://www.icsm.gov.au/what-we-do/geocentric-datum-AustraliaWe have spent considerable resources in re-projecting data and setting up systems to move to this datum, however have just learnt that we will need to upgrade from V12.1 to V12.2 of SSA as 12.1 does not support this datum. We are once again nervous and I guess will need to set up a full test environment to do this and hope that with the likes of your and others advise work through issues that come to hand in running V12.2.
We would appreciate any advise on your current V12.2.2 setup and hints on how to tackle any known issue that you guys have experienced. The more heads-up we have with the known issues the better as so we can make this upgrade as painless as possible..
Regards,
Tony Jordan
GIS Coordinator
D 08 8391 7265 |T 08 8391 7200| F 08 8391 7299
Mount Barker District Council
Building 3, 6 Dutton Road, Mount Barker South Australia 5251
(PO Box 54, Mount Barker South Australia 5251)
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Mount Barker
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Sent: 03-12-2019 09:27
From: Stuart Carter
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That's understandable, David.
This is my personal opinion and PB may take a different view, but so much in 2018.2 did not work for us; it was effectively unusable for users. SSA 2018.2 needs patches to overcome the immediate problems.
We went to SSA 2018.2 but after five working days of non SSA service we had to roll back to 12.2.2. It was a painful experience.
Moreover, I strongly disagree with the way in which essential day to day elements of admin have been taken out of Admin Console and placed into the SSA front end (under admin log in). In 2018.2 administration is carried out across two separate interfaces, not in the one Admin Console as it always has been.
I'm going to wait and see if the SSA front end and administration issues are resolved in the October/November 2019 SSA release before moving on.
Yes, 12.2.2 has it's problems but they can be worked around. SSA 2018.2 was unusable for us.
But of course, other sites may form a different opinion.
Stuart Carter
Corporate GIS Manager
Southwark Council
2nd floor, zone B
160 Tooley Street
London, SE1 2QH
Tel: (0207 52) 55409
stuart.carter@southwark.gov.uk
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Thank you for your reply, Monica.
I shall keep it in mind when we decide to apply SSA 2018.2 and patches.
I am following the SSA 2018.2 thread created by Stuart Carter and have decided to hold off on the update at present.
All our Spectrum services are running well; "if it ain't broke, etc".
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David Murphy
GIS Officer
Swan Hill Rural City Council
Swan Hill
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