Upgrade to Cognos 8 in an Application Server Environment  

If you are upgrading from a supported release to Cognos 8, perform the following steps.

Steps

1. Back up your existing Cognos information .

2. Use the administrative tools for your application server to undeploy the existing Cognos application.

   For information about undeploying applications, see your application server documentation.

   If the directory to which the existing Cognos application was originally deployed is not removed during the undeploy process, delete the directory.

   Also, remove any Cognos .jar files that are cached in your application server environment.

   In WebLogic 8.1, the cache location is %WL_HOME%\user_projects\domains\domain-name\managed-server-name\.wlnotdelete\extract\crn_p2pd_p2pd\ jarfiles

3. Uninstall the existing version. .

4. Install Cognos 8 .

5. Follow the appropriate instructions in this chapter for changing to your application server.

   Most installations must perform the following:

   • Configure Cognos 8 to run within the application server.

   • Configure application server properties and deploy Cognos 8.

6. To activate new features after upgrading, save the configuration in Cognos Configuration, and then restart the services.