Should Life Cycle Manager be used in Cognos 10.1.1 Upgrade

[Cinu8]

We are currently in process of upgrading from Cognos 8.3 to Cognos 10.1.1. Our test strategy is to extensively utilize Life Cycle Manager as publicized by IBM. However we are experiencing a lot of challenges in using LCM. The compare functionality, when comparing different format is not very intuitive or easy to use. The Excel compare never finishes even while comparing one page worksheets.
I would appreciate if someone who has used this in the past can share their experiences?

cinu

[charon]

im not that sure, but as far as i remember you have to update to to 8.4 first.
i used it once for a client migrating from 7, there we had to go to 8.4 first b4 to 10...il take a look in my documantary 2morrow if il find the time :)

[Cinu8]

Charon,

we have upgraded 8.3 reports to 10.1.1 but we are having challenge comparing excel version on LCM

thank you

cinu