Back up any customized reports and community reports you created for Cognos® Business Intelligence for Connections before migrating from IBM® Connections 5.0 or 5.5 to 6.0. You will restore them after
migration.
Procedure
- Skip this step if you do not have customized reports.
Otherwise, copy the customized reports on the IBM®
Connections 5.0 or 5.5 Business Intelligence server to a backup folder as follows:
- Open a browser and log into the Cognos® dashboard page as the Cognos® administrator.
- Create a new folder titled CustomizeReportsBackup under
the to keep the backup of all customized reports.
- Copy all customized reports and folders to the CustomizeReportsBackup folder.
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Export customized reports and community reports from IBM®
Connections 5.0 or 5.5 BI server as follows: If no customization was made, you can skip this
step.
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On Cognos® dashboard page, click
Launch and then select IBM Cognos Administration.
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Select the Configuration tab and then select Content
Administration in the list.
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On the Administration page, click New Export in the
list tool bar to create an 'Export' object.
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Specify MigrationPkg60 for the Name attribute in
the opened page and then click Next.
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Select Select public folders and directory content for
Deployment method, and then click Next.
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In the Public folders content section, click Add
to open the Select entries(Navigate) page.
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Locate the CustomizeReportsBackup folder under
- Select the check box for the folder.
- Click Add to add it to the Selected entries list.
- Click OK to save the edit.
- Return to the Select public folders content page.
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Select the check box for the folder just added in the list in the Public folders
content section.
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Leave the items for the Options section unchecked and then click
Next.
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Leave the items for Directory content unchecked and then click
Next.
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Select Include access permissions and Apply to new and
existing entries for Access permissions, keep the default option
for the other sections and then click Next.
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Keep the default option for Deployment archive and
Encryption, and then click Next to go to the
Review the summary page.
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Click Next to go to the Select an action
page.
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Select Save and run once, then click
Finish.
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Select Now and click Run.
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You might see a message that confirms you to run the export. Check the View the
details of this export after closing this dialog and then click
OK to start the export.
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In the View run history details page, you can click the
Refresh link to refresh the status of the export after you wait for a while.
When the export completes, the status changes to Succeeded.
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Go to the cognos_biserver_install_path/deployment folder to locate a new
zip file named MigrationPkg60.