Cognos Upgrade form 8.2 to 11.0.5

[adoremars]

Hi All,

Can we can do lift & shift mode of upgrade from Cognos 8.2 to Cognos 11.0.5 ?

I understand that  life cycle manager of Cognos 11.0.x do not support Cognos 8.2, hence I have this doubt. Appreciate if you can share your thoughts on this.
Thank you!!

[MFGF]

Hi All,

Can we can do lift & shift mode of upgrade from Cognos 8.2 to Cognos 11.0.5 ?

I understand that  life cycle manager of Cognos 11.0.x do not support Cognos 8.2, hence I have this doubt. Appreciate if you can share your thoughts on this.
Thank you!!

Hi,

Wow! 8.2 is a really old version! I suspect you'll be able to upgrade the content ok, but you might struggle to use Lifecycle Manager against such an old build of Cognos BI. Honestly, I doubt there are many 8.2 instances around these days, so it's entirely possible the upgrade from 8.2 direct to 11 has never been tried before. I recall moving from 8.2 to 8.3 was a little bumpy at times - 8.2 syntax checking in reports was a little more "loose" than it should have been, and some reports simply wouldn't validate and run in 8.3 (because they contained incorrect or inappropriate syntax in filters or calculations). Do you have the option of moving from 8.2 to 8.4.1 then to 11? The 8.4.1 lifecycle manager (I think it used to be called deployment manager?) would allow you to spot and fix issues in the first step, then Lifecycle Manager 11 could be used for the second step. Is that an option for you?

Cheers!

MF.

[AnalyticsWithJay]

The process should work, but personally I would not trust the upgrade results without having Lifecycle Manager. I would plan to include the intermediate upgrade to 8.4.1 or 10 prior to going to 11.