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Upgrade cognos 1.1MR2 to cognos 8

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How to upgrade cognos 1.1MR2 to cognos 8

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2008-10-29 at 06:43:36ID23857811
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Answers

 

by: RWrigleyPosted on 2008-10-29 at 07:21:49ID: 22831375

Install Cognos 8 in a new directory (with differnt ports), and create a new content store for it.  Do a content store deployment from your Reportnet system, and import that into your new Cognos 8 system.  Open the FM models in Cognos 8, validate and republish them.  Then fix all the things that probably didn't upgrade the way you expected.

There is a program you can download from cognos called "Upgrade manager" which will compare the report outputs from the two environments and advise you as to which ones upgraded correclty.

Depending on your system, this upgrade could be dead simple, but usually there will be certain types of reports that just won't work the way you expect.  That's because Cognos 8 has a lot more functionality in it, and so has to be a lot pickier about how certain tasks are performed.  Reportnet just didn't care.

There are a number of proven practice documents that cover this:

http://support.cognos.com/supported/tti/public/docs/cognos_pp_upgrade_and_migration_what_you_need_to_know_before_an_upgrade_from_reportnet_1.1_to_cognos_8.pdf?lid=cognos_pp_upgrade_and_migration_what_you_need_to_know_before_an_upgrade_from_reportnet_1.1_to_cognos_8

http://support.cognos.com/supported/tti/public/docs/cognos_pp_upgrade_and_migration_crn_to_c8.pdf?lid=cognos_pp_upgrade_and_migration_crn_to_c8

 

by: Biju1149Posted on 2008-11-04 at 00:06:16ID: 22874255

Thanks very much for best response.
Upgrade process is in progress.
Restored the contents store from old version
 But I am getting login error while running the report.
Following are the error details:

QE-DEF-0285 The logon failed.
QE-DEF-0325 The logon failed for the following reason:
RQP-DEF-0068 Unable to connect to at least one database during a multi-database attach to 1 database(s) in:
SOWB_DS
UDA-SQL-0576 An unknown collation sequence "GTOFNDB1" was specified for the local sort.

 

by: Biju1149Posted on 2008-11-04 at 02:33:41ID: 22874936

Please help me to find the solution.

 

by: RWrigleyPosted on 2008-11-04 at 03:30:27ID: 22875210

Check the datsource connection properties.  Looks like someone entered a collation sequence.  reprotnet would have effectievely ignored it, but Cognos 8 will actually try to use it, which you probably dont' want.

 

by: Biju1149Posted on 2008-11-04 at 06:45:19ID: 22876647

Cognos service is not starting
Server got restarted and following are the log file are as follows.
[Start Service]
1. 22:35:09, 'LogService', 'StartService', 'Success'.
2. 22:35:19, 'ContentManager', 'getActiveContentManager', 'Failure'.
DPR-CMI-4006 Unable to determine the active Content Manager. Will retry periodically.
3. 22:35:19, 'com.cognos.pogo.contentmanager.coordinator.ActiveCMControl', 'pogo', 'Failure'.
DPR-DPR-1035 Dispatcher detected an error.
 
4. 22:35:18, CM-CFG-5076 A Content Manager configuration error occurred during the initialization of Cognos Access Manager.
CAM-AAA-0145 There is no namespace that is properly configured for authentication.
5. 22:35:27, 'DeliveryService', 'StopService', 'Success'.
6. 22:35:27, 'DeliveryService', 'StopService', 'Success'.
7. 22:35:27, 'CPS Producer Registration Service', 'StopService', 'Success'.
8. 22:35:27, 'CPS Producer Registration Service', 'StopService', 'Success'.
9. 22:35:27, 'MonitorService', 'StopService', 'Success'.
10. 22:35:27, 'MonitorService', 'StopService', 'Success'.
11. 22:35:27, 'EventService', 'StopService', 'Success'.
12. 22:35:27, 'EventService', 'StopService', 'Success'.
13. 22:35:27, 'ContentManagerService', 'StopService', 'Success'.
14. 22:35:27, 'ContentManagerService', 'StopService', 'Success'.
15. 22:35:27, CM-CFG-5076 A Content Manager configuration error occurred during the initialization of Cognos Access Manager.
Call failed with error code: -24
16. 22:35:27, CM-CFG-5076 A Content Manager configuration error occurred during the initialization of Cognos Access Manager.
Call failed with error code: -24
17. 22:35:27, 'JobService', 'StopService', 'Success'.
18. 22:35:27, 'JobService', 'StopService', 'Success'.
19. 22:35:27, 'SystemService', 'StopService', 'Success'.
20. 22:35:27, 'SystemService', 'StopService', 'Success'.
21. 22:35:27, 'BatchReportService', 'StopService', 'Success'.
22. 22:35:27, 'BatchReportService', 'StopService', 'Success'.
23. 22:35:27, 'ReportService', 'StopService', 'Success'.
24. 22:35:27, 'ReportService', 'StopService', 'Success'.
25. 22:35:27, 'com.cognos.pogo.services.DefaultHandlerService', 'pogo', 'Failure'.
DPR-DPR-1035 Dispatcher detected an error.
 
26. 22:35:27, 'com.cognos.pogo.services.DefaultHandlerService', 'pogo', 'Failure'.
DPR-DPR-1035 Dispatcher detected an error.
 
27. 22:35:27, 'ReportDataService', 'StopService', 'Success'.
28. 22:35:27, 'ReportDataService', 'StopService', 'Success'.
29. 22:35:27, CM-CFG-5076 A Content Manager configuration error occurred during the initialization of Cognos Access Manager.
Call failed with error code: -24
30. 22:35:27, CM-CFG-5076 A Content Manager configuration error occurred during the initialization of Cognos Access Manager.
Call failed with error code: -24
31. 22:35:27, 'ContentManagerService', 'StopService', 'Success'.
32. 22:35:27, 'ContentManagerService', 'StopService', 'Success'.
33. 22:35:27, 'com.cognos.pogo.services.DefaultHandlerService', 'pogo', 'Failure'.
DPR-DPR-1035 Dispatcher detected an error.
 
34. 22:35:27, 'com.cognos.pogo.services.DefaultHandlerService', 'pogo', 'Failure'.
DPR-DPR-1035 Dispatcher detected an error.
 
35. 22:35:27, 'LogService', 'StopService', 'Success'.
36. 22:35:27, 'LogService', 'StopService', 'Success'.
37. [ ERROR ] CFG-ERR-0103 Unable to start Cognos 8 service.
Execution of the external process returns an error code value of '-1'.

Please help me to resolve the issue. Thanks in advance..

 

by: RWrigleyPosted on 2008-11-04 at 13:30:30ID: 22881026

Exactly how many different issues are you going to try to cram into one question?  

So let me get this straight.  The new system was up and running fine, no errors. Then you imported the old content store, and the system still worked fine but you couldn't run certain reports. Then you rebooted, and you're getting this now?  There's something missing here.  Open Cognos Configuration ,and test the configuration.

 

by: Biju1149Posted on 2008-11-05 at 23:08:44ID: 22892838

Hi RWrigely,  

Thanks for you valued  suggestion. i re-installed congos8. while running  the report I am getting error 'An error occurred while performing operation 'sqlPrepareWithOptions' status='-201''. Please find the attachement for error details. Please help to resolve the error. Thanks in advance.

  • cognogError.BMP
    • 2.2 MB

    An error occurred while performing operation 'sqlPrepareWithOptions' status='-201'

    An error occurred while performing operation 'sqlPrepareWithOptions' status='-201'
 

by: Biju1149Posted on 2008-11-06 at 07:28:37ID: 22896010

Please help me to find the solution.

 

by: Biju1149Posted on 2008-11-12 at 20:38:49ID: 31511164

Thanks Very Much

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