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Title: what is Cognos Life Cycle Manager
Post by: saralama on 26 Jan 2014 10:51:15 PM
Hi Good Morning :)
Can any one simplify what is cognos life cycle manager and its advantages and who is the responsible/handle cognos Life cycle manager in an organization.

Thanks and regards
Saralama
Title: Re: what is Cognos Life Cycle Manager
Post by: bdbits on 27 Jan 2014 05:40:46 PM
We use it to compare reports during upgrade cycles to see what if anything changed. I believe this is the primary use case.

Documentation is available at http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/cbi/v10r2m1/nav/0_28 (http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/cbi/v10r2m1/nav/0_28).
Title: Re: what is Cognos Life Cycle Manager
Post by: saralama on 28 Jan 2014 05:55:06 AM
 :) Hi Thank You for you reply, and please conform me is this life cycle manager not available at version 8? what kind of tool we have erlier.
Is it recently developed for V10.
Thanks and regards,
Saralama
Title: Re: what is Cognos Life Cycle Manager
Post by: MFGF on 28 Jan 2014 07:37:05 AM
Quote from: saralama on 28 Jan 2014 05:55:06 AM
:) Hi Thank You for you reply, and please conform me is this life cycle manager not available at version 8? what kind of tool we have erlier.
Is it recently developed for V10.
Thanks and regards,
Saralama

It has been available for a number of releases, including Cognos 8. Back then it was called "Upgrade Manager" - it's name was changed for the Cognos 10 release to Lifecycle Manager. You can find details of it here:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/c8bi/v8r4m0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.swg.im.cognos.ug_upgr_mngr.8.4.0.doc/ug_upgr_mngr.html

Cheers!

MF.