COGNOiSe.com - The IBM Cognos Community

IBM Cognos 8 Platform => COGNOS 8 => COGNOS Connection => Topic started by: hiranb on 20 Aug 2009 10:52:57 AM

Title: Upgrade from 8.2 to 8.4
Post by: hiranb on 20 Aug 2009 10:52:57 AM
Hi,

      Do you have to redo customization in cognos connection after you upgrade from 8.2 to 8.4? If anyone has instructions of upgrading from 8.2 to 8.4, can you please share it ?
Thanks
Title: Re: Upgrade from 8.2 to 8.4
Post by: proud2bloud on 20 Jan 2011 11:21:39 PM
Hi
I would think you would need to redo the customisations. What sort of customisations are you talking about? Have you modified the xml files in the installation or something like that.

Cheers
Proud
Title: Re: Upgrade from 8.2 to 8.4
Post by: FM on 24 Jan 2011 08:36:46 AM
Whenever you upgrade of even apply a fixpack to cognos, it automatically resets all configurations. This will include system.xml, any files in the bin folder, any files in the configuration folder and so on.

This is because the file layout may change. If you've elected you keep a backup during the upgrade process, you should be able to find all these files in the uninstall folder so that you can reapply your customizations. I highly recommend you don't just stick your old config files in the new cognos install folder, as 8.4 is vastly different from 8.2.

Compare, and reapply them one by one.

:)