Upgrading reports from version 7.5.1

After you have performed the steps described in Initial steps for upgrading reports, all supported versions, all products, follow the steps in this section if you are upgrading an IBM® EMM application from version 7.5.1.

About upgrading from version 7.5.1

IBM® EMM reporting is no longer provided in a separate web application as it was in Affinium Reports 7.5.x.

When you install the IBM® Cognos® reports archive from the reports package, you run an upgrade script that preserves your customizations to the Cognos® data model, but you must replace the 7.5.1 reports with the new reports. Although the majority of the older reports are compatible with the upgraded Cognos® models, the new reports packages include new and enhanced reports, and most of the packages also contain Dashboard reports. The only way to obtain the new or enhanced reports is to install the new reports archive, which overwrites the existing reports.

Therefore, you have two options for upgrading your reports.

Back up the old reports, install the new reports, and then recreate your customizations using the old reports for reference.

Back up the old reports and install the new reports. Compare the new reports to your old reports and examine your customizations. If you are certain that a customized report will function properly with the new data model, copy the old customized report back into the reports folder.

Note that the 7.5.1 version of the Campaign Performance by Cell reports and the Offer Performance Summary by Campaign reports do not function at all without manual intervention. Additionally, the new versions of many of the old reports include enhancements and minor bug fixes. This chapter includes procedures that describe how to manually fix the old Campaign Performance by Cell reports and the Offer Performance Summary by Campaign reports so they function with the new model. This chapter does not describe how to manually apply the enhancements or minor fixes to the other 7.5.1 reports. To obtain those changes, you must use the new versions of the reports.