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February 21, 2020
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Benefits of Windchill 11.2 over Windchill 11.1

  • February 21, 2020
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Hi All,

 

Would like to understand the overall benefit Windchill 11.2 would bring when compared with Windchill 11.1?

 

 

 

 

Best answer by AndyHermanson

I think what they mentioned at the PTC User meetings as that if you don't have the correct version of Windchill they will still show up as they would today, but if you are on a version that supports Multi-body, then you can expose all of the bodies in the product structure in Windchill. 

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Arpit-Singh15-Moonstone
15-Moonstone
February 24, 2020

Here are the Support Matrix both:

1) Windchill 11.2 - https://www.ptc.com/support/-/media/AA0720E627F045899765C208E92042C4.pdf?sc_lang=en

2) Windchill 11.1 - https://www.ptc.com/support/-/media/02563ADF5C0043FD9D6C67818BEB4A81.pdf?sc_lang=en

 

Here are some highlights in 11.2:

1) Support for Amazon Corretto JDK

2) Support for Cloud Storage (Amazon Blobs and AWS S3)

3) Support for Windows Server 2019

4) Windchill Rest Services 1.7

5) Improved Windchill License Management

6) Whats New Link - https://www.ptc.com/support/-/media/28861FEBF5DE42F487C8E5DB9F5250BD.pdf?sc_lang=en

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    PRKAC1-VisitorAuthor
    1-Visitor
    February 24, 2020

    Thanks Arpit Singh:)

     

    Regards,

    Praveen

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    BrianToussaint19-Tanzanite
    19-Tanzanite
    February 24, 2020

    I would like to add.....

    • Classification changes
      • Ability to classify documents
      • Namespace functionality, which is a time saver for multiple nodes and importing those nodes
    • Ability in Save As to change attributes

     

    I have found 11.2.1 to be a little buggy though.

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      ScottMorris17-Peridot
      17-Peridot
      August 14, 2020

      For me, the decision to upgrade also depends on how long you plan to stay on a release.

      WC11.1 is supported longer than WC11.2.

       

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      The other factor is ECAD WGM. Cannot move forward from 11.1 until a new solution is in place.

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      BenLoosli23-Emerald III
      23-Emerald III
      August 14, 2020

      My question is: Why is an older version (11.1) slated for a longer life than a newer version (11.2)?

      I do understand the scenario in Creo where Creo 4 (and Creo 7) is the long term/big company version and Creo 5 & Creo 6 are short term/small company implementations. This makes sense to and is documented.

      I cannot understand Windchill doing that as the interaction with Creo is very critical and thus more CPS releases will be needed by 11.1 that will not have the same functionality added to 11.2 in order to support new Creo releases.

       

      I am struggling with a decision as to what our next upgrade should be. We use Creo 4 today with Windchill 11.0 m030. We want to get to Creo 7 and Windchill 12. BUT!  I have to do an intermediate migration to a Windchill version that supports Creo 4 & Creo 7. PTC has stated that Windchill 12.0.0 and 12.0.1 will be short lived and the long life version of Windchill 12 will be 12.0.2.0 scheduled for a Q2 2021 release.

       

      With that said, is Windchill 11.1 or 11.2 the better upgrade choice at this time?

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