how can i repulish my package without any effect to my existing reports?

[bvk.cognoise]

hi,


i developed 20 reports using a package.but now i want to do some modifications in my package.i can i do that modifications without any effect to my old reports?

plz clarify this doubt ASAP

thanks
bvk

[blom0344]

If your modifications concern objects/data items not used in the report, then the impact could be zero.  What do you want to modify in the first place?  Renaming objects in the design language will force you to modify the reports , cause Cognos will not be able to find them in the new package.

So, basically what are the modifications?

[bvk.cognoise]

hi blom,

i want to add new dataitmes and want to delete a data item.i used that data item in single report.if i delete that data item what happens?

thanks
bvk

[blom0344]

Adding dataitems will have no impact on existing reports. If you delete a dataitem, then the existing report specification will yield an error message when validating.. (But then what did you expect   ;)   )

[sir_jeroen]

You could try using the versioning option when publishing a new package...

[Yunus]

If only a single report needs to be updated then simply open it in RS and update the field with the new name and it should run fine.

If you are making many changes or changes that affect many many reports you might want to modify those reports in a notepad application and do a find and replace to change the fields that were updated.

[bvk.cognoise]

thank you all for your reply............. :)