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Mighty Max
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I have been looking over the Migration guide. It seems to focused on MRE, ReportCaster, and Dashboards.
http://documentation.informati...ration/migration.pdf
http://documentation.informati...lders.com/wf81x3.asp

It does not mention moving items from the Reporting Server such as application folders, data adapters, and server settings.
The installation manual mentions a "WebFOCUS Migration Guide" but not sure where that item is located.
http://documentation.informati...f_unix_81install.pdf

Is the proper way to migrate items from the Reporting Server documented somewhere?

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WebFOCUS 8.1.05M Unix Self-Service/MRE/Report Caster - Outputs Excel, PDF, HTML, Flat Files
 
Posts: 320 | Location: Memphis, TN | Registered: February 12, 2008Report This Post
jgelona
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We went from 7.6.11 to 8.0.08. To move Reporting Server stuff, I used tar to create a backup of the apps folder, copied the backup to the new reporting server then extract the tar file. That's all there was to it.

Our migration took us about 6 months because we had to completely test everything. I opened over 30 tickets with IBI. Some were bugs, some were over the new security model. Because we are a single sign on shop, getting the security in place was the biggest head ache (we were moving from IE8 to IE10 at the same time).

Our main database is Oracle and IBI has made significant improvements in the Reporting Server's ability to translate the FOCUS language to SQL. As a result, some programs worked differently and we had to make minor adjustments (which is the primary reason we had to test everything).

When I started here, we were using FOCUS for HP/UX. We've got code that's been running for more than 20 years. During the migration, we also took the time to retire reports that no one was using.

Good Luck.


In FOCUS since 1985. Prod WF 8.0.08 (z90/Suse Linux) DB (Oracle 11g), Self Serv, Report Caster, WebServer Intel/Linux.
 
Posts: 975 | Location: Oklahoma City | Registered: October 27, 2006Report This Post
Francis Mariani
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You can use WebFOCUS Change Management to deploy reporting server application folders and their contents. It can also be used to deploy web application folders and their contents.

You need to use the Migration Utility to deploy the MRE content to the WF 8 Repository - this to generate "handles" to ensure the -INCLUDE statements work without having to use full paths. I believe it is also used to deploy WF BI Dashboard, though BID is old technology.

I did not perform the migration here, so I don't know how data adapters and server settings are migrated


Francis


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Production: WF 7.7.05M, Dev Studio, BID, MRE, WebSphere, DB2 / Test: WF 8.1.05M, App Studio, BI Portal, Report Caster, jQuery, HighCharts, Apache Tomcat, MS SQL Server
 
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CoolGuy
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Change Mgmt only works (is designed specifically for) moving like version apps/code in a source environment to a like version target environment. Trying to use Change Mgmt for moving 7.x stuff to 8.x doesn't work.


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Mighty Max
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Yes I thought about packing up the app folders and copying them over to the new Reporting Server but wasn't sure if this was the proper method.
For data adapters I think I will just recreate them in the new server. For server settings I think I will do side by side comparisons and make adjustments where needed.

For MRE and ReportCaster the shell scripts in the migration pdf were for the most part easy to follow.
I did have to adjust the ReportCaster shell script because our ReportCaster install is not in a folder named 'ReportCaster76'.


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