List of Obsolete BI Content

[Former Member]

Hi experts,

Is there any specific program/document which can give me details about:

1> Which BI Content objects are obsolete when we upgrade from 3.x to 7.0?

2> Which BI Content objects are obsolete when we upgrade from 3.x to 7.3 directly?

3> Which BI Content objects are obsolete when we upgrade from 7.0 to 7.3?

NOTE: I am not talking about obsolete concepts such as old reporting authorizations, infopackage group etc. in 3.X.

I am interested in understanding BI Content objects which becomes obsolete?

Thank you so much.

Nilima

[former_member184494 · Accepted solution]

Nilima,

The base for the question is incorrect ....

Business content is based on two things :

1. ST-PI Plugins in the ECC system

2. Content that is delivered as part of the add ons that you install into the BW system.

In this case - when you upgrade the BW system - you will also upgrade the business content version in the system.

This will give you the latest business content in a "delivered" version.

Only thing that I would call as getting obsolete is statistics ..

For instance - lets say you implemented Inventory - hence 0IC_C03 is installed and being used by the current system - say a BW 3.5 system.

Even if you upgrade - the cube remains the same and the datasource and other things do not change.

You do have a choice to reimplement 0IC_C03 with the latest that business content has to offer - but this does not make 0IC_C03 obsolete ...

To answer your question - there is nothing that becomes Obsolete. Some datasources might disappear from newer versions - but that does not mean that existing datasources which have already been implemented will vanish.

It is something like moving houses and furniture - you can still use that old couch which creaks and still move houses ...

You can either try and do repairs to the couch or get a new one...

***Crude example that I could think of in 2 minutes..***

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Arun,

First of all thanks a lot for taking time to answer my question on Saturday .

I agree with your explaination.

But following your explainaation, Does that also mean Infopackage groups or reporting agents created in BW 3.5 will also work in 7.0 or 7.3?

Also, I have searched a lot on SDN and my understanding is reporting authorization is not obsolete when we upgrade from 3.5 to 7.0.

But if we are planning to upgrade directly from 3.5 to 7.3, reporting authorizations are obsolete and they need to be migrate to new authorization concept.

Is this understanding correct?

I would really appreciate if you can help me to clear out my confusion.

Once again, thanks in advance,

Regards,

Nilima

[former_member184494 · Accepted solution]

Nilima,

IPAK groups and reporting agent have to be migrated. However in the face of a migration from 3.5 to 7.3 ( Incidentally - we are in the middle of one from 3.x to 7.3 ..) - there are a lot many other things that would not work / have to be done again ...

I am not sure if a straight upgrade is possible - there are some posts out there on SDN which seem to indicate that it is possible - but I think it atleast requires a upgrade to 7.0 and then to 7.3 to resolve the authorization issue.

And in the meanwhile - you could look at moving the infopackage groups to process chains etc in the interest of time.

From a upgrade / migration perspective :

1. System constraints - infopackage groups / reporting authorizations / IB etc - all have to be redone

2. Data model constraints - any business content that has already been implemented by way of data models / data flows will continue to function

3. Additional features - you might choose to implement new features like semantic partitioning etc...

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Arun,

Thanks a lot for your quick reply.

Yes, I completely agree with your view of first upgrading to 7.0 and then to go for 7.3.

Thanks for clarifying my confusion.

Regards,

Nilima