If you have Cognos Series 7 content, you can move some of that content to Cognos 8 using migration tools that are available in a separate installation.
If you are using previous versions of ReportNet, Metrics Manager, Cognos 8 Go! Office, or Transformer, you can upgrade your content to Cognos 8. You can also upgrade from previous versions of Cognos 8, including full and maintenance (MR) releases.
Upgrading Cognos 8 is a process that you perform in stages. The following workflow shows the tasks that are performed at each stage of the process in a typical upgrade.
In the preparation stage, gather information, assess your reporting environment, and develop the upgrade plan. In the trial upgrade stage, upgrade your Cognos 8 applications and reports in a test environment. In the move to production stage, apply what you learned in the test environment to deploy your configuration from the test environment to the production environment.
In some upgrade situations, other tasks may be required. For example, if you use SDK applications that depend on the report specifications, you must upgrade your SDK applications before upgrading the report specifications.
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