[CLOSED] Migration FOCUS report system to IBM Cognos report
Hi All,
I am currently working in a migrapion project. The current system is having 500 + repo] rts for the user with different report outputs . We are planning to migrate the entire mainframe focus system to cognos reporting system.
Please let me know how do i start my migration approach and what are all the thinks i need to takecare for the migration process.?
Current system :
Mainframe FOCUS, batch focus and also we are using online focus in system.
Thanks a lot for your help in advance.
Regards,
SureshThis message has been edited. Last edited by: Sureshkuamr Murugesan,
WebFOCUS 8.0.05 - BI Portal, Developer Studio, Dev/App Studio, Excel, PDF, Active Formats and HTML5, Adobe Flex Builder, VBA
May 26, 2017, 11:18 AM
BabakNYC
You're asking us to help you migrate to Cognos?
WebFOCUS 8206, Unix, Windows
May 26, 2017, 11:39 AM
David Briars
FOCUS for zSeries to IBM Cognos sounds more like a conversion effort than a migration effort. You might want level set expectations at your shop, if folks there are looking at this task as a migration.
If folks at your shop are looking for something somewhat closer to a migration effort, maybe consider going from FOCUS for zSeries to WebFOCUS?
May 26, 2017, 11:43 AM
BabakNYC
David, it looks like that ship has already sailed. But I'm wondering why this question isn't posted on the IBM Cognos community board instead.
WebFOCUS 8206, Unix, Windows
May 26, 2017, 01:24 PM
MartinY
Sureshkuamr,
I think that you're not on the right forum...
I'm pretty sure that nobody here will help you moving out from Focus...
WF versions : Prod 8.2.04M gen 33, Dev 8.2.04M gen 33, OS : Windows, DB : MSSQL, Outputs : HTML, Excel, PDF In Focus since 2007
May 28, 2017, 11:57 AM
Doug
Yeah MartinY "I'm pretty sure that nobody here will help you moving out from FOCUS..." Cetrainly not me. That's counter-intuitive to the mindset of FocalPoint.
"...migrate the entire mainframe focus system to cognos reporting system" Arg
In FOCUS Since 1983 ~ from FOCUS to WebFOCUS. Current: WebFOCUS Administrator at FIS Worldpay | 8204, 8206
May 29, 2017, 06:02 AM
Hank W.
quote:
Please let me know how do i start my migration approach and what are all the thinks i need to takecare for the migration process.?
Current system : Mainframe FOCUS, batch focus and also we are using online focus in system.
I almost feel sorry for this guy.
Cheers, H. WebFOCUS 8.1.05M Oracle 11g - DB2 RedHat
May 30, 2017, 07:43 PM
Doug
Ditto: "I almost feel sorry for this guy."
This is a conversion... Rewrite?
May 31, 2017, 10:01 AM
Hank W.
Cognos layering the code is somewhat between master--defines/set-fex bits. It's all dispersed differently, and then there is the security and access that makes WF8 security look not-at-all-confusing/complicated... Even if you have embedded sql or calling stored proc's they won't do the same thing in Cognos just by a flick of the switch. Then if you are building cubes... yergh... I'm feeling very glad I don't need to deal with a conversion either way, though Cognos => WF is way less futzing around with the security/views/content/dimensions
Only advice I have is that you need to map everything off the FOCUS and then have a template of Cognos where you slot all the bits & pieces into. MF security should map pretty well to Cognos, but for building the views and aggregates you need to understand the old code.This message has been edited. Last edited by: Hank W.,
Cheers, H. WebFOCUS 8.1.05M Oracle 11g - DB2 RedHat
Cetrainly not me. That's counter-intuitive to the mindset of FocalPoint.
