Cognos Analytics 11.1.3 or the long term support version 11.0.13

[Penny]

Hi everyone

We are currently running Cognos Analytics 11.0.9 (lots of bugs in this one) and are getting ready for an upgrade.  We had planned on upgrading to 11.0.13 the Long Term Support version but we are a little late and it is only supported until July of 2020 I believe.   I talked with IBM support today and they strongly recommend that we move to the newest release 11.1.3.  As per IBM, this release contains fixes for defects in the 11.0.x and 11.1.x versions - some of these fixes are interim fixes that are not included in 11.0.13 or in the related FP1.

I am a little nervous about moving to the newest release and wondered if any of you had any words of wisdom or advice for me.  I also wondered if anyone is running this release and what their thoughts are, or their experience with the upgrade itself.

Thank-you in advance for any advice that you can offer.

[Penny]

We upgraded one of our environments from 11.0.9 to 11.1.3 using an over the top install.  This worked perfectly.