Link to Package

[Point]

Hi all,

For a migration from c8 to c10 i am migrating a lot of reports.

In the new c10 environment we changed the total folder architecture. Because of this reports are not linked to there package be cease the package is set to a different folder location. (1 central folder location for all packages).

If you go to the individual reports you can link them in the properties to the correct package. But this means doing this to every report individual. (and we have a lot of reports).

Is there a quicker way to select multiple reports and adres them to the correct package at once ?? instead of doing this individual for every report.


Thanks,

[sunosoft]

There is one solution which I read somewhere, but I did not try it. You can give try. I have just copied steps from some link.

Place all the reports in one folder that you wish to change the association package.

Generate deployment archive of the folder using Export wizard. This pushes all the report definitions in one xml file.
Pick up the deployment archive at <COGNOS Installation Path/cognos/deployment>, unzip and examine the xmls.
Once you find the xml that contains all the reports, open it in any editor. Now, search for the package name and identify the pattern you need to replace. Now, simply replace all the instances of package name using that pattern.

Post all modification put the file back in zip and brought them back in COGNOS using Import wizard.
That's it! You are done. Now, you have all the reports back with the Report Package changed to the desired one