Preparing Windchill Business Reporting for Upgrade

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Upgrading Windchill Business Reporting requires some preparatory steps for Cognos. Perform the following:

1. Take a dump of the Cognos schema from the source server.

2. Import the Cognos dump into a new Oracle SID or SQL Server instance.

3. Export the Cognos configuration setting from the source system.

a. Open the IBM Cognos configuration tool on the source system.

b. From File > Export As and save it as cogstartup.xml.

The exported cogstartup.xml file contains unencrypted passwords, so ensure that the location you save the file to is secure.