An export deployment specification defines the
content that must be exported.
For information about exporting content in
a multitenant IBM® Cognos® BI environment, see Tenant content deployment.
Before you begin
If you want to preserve data source access accounts when
you export a content store, then you must select Include
user account information. If you want to preserve configuration
information when you export, then you can set the CM.DEPLOYMENTINCLUDECONFIGURATION
advanced setting to TRUE. For more information, see Including configuration objects and their children in deployments.
Procedure
- In the source environment, open IBM Cognos Connection.
- Click Launch, IBM Cognos
Administration.
- On the Configuration tab, click Content
Administration.
- On the toolbar, click the New Export icon
. The New
Export wizard appears.
- Type a unique name and an optional description and screen
tip for the deployment specification. Select the folder where you
want to save it and click Next.
- Choose whether to export the entire content store or to
do a partial export of specific content:
- To export specific content, click Select public folders,
directory and library content. Click Next and
proceed to step 7.
- To export the entire content store, click Select the
entire content store and select whether to include user
account information. Click Next and proceed
to step 15.
- In the Select the Public folders content page,
click Add.
- In the Select entries page, in the Available
Entries box, select one of the following entries or their
contents:
- Public Folders
Contains packages and
folders. Select the packages and folders that you want to export.
- Directory
Contains namespaces, namespace
folders, groups and roles, and individual user accounts. When you
select a user account, all content associated with the user, including
the content of the user's My Folders, is included
in the export.
- Library
Contains library resources, such
as visualizations.
- Click the arrow icon
to move the selected items to the Selected
entries box, and click OK.
- For each entry that you are exporting, do one of the following:
- If you want the entry to have a different name in the target environment,
or if you want to change the target location or add multilingual names,
click the Edit icon
, make your changes, and click OK.
- If you do not want users to access the entries and their contents,
select the check box in the Disable after import column.
This is useful, for example, when you want to test the reports before
you make them available in the target environment.
- Under Options, select whether you
want to include the report output versions, run history, and schedules
and what to do with entries in case of a conflict.
- In the Select the directory content page,
select whether you want to export Cognos groups
and roles, distribution lists and contacts, and data sources and connections
and what to do with the entries in case of a conflict.
- In the Specify the general options page,
select whether to include access permissions and references to namespaces
other than IBM Cognos, and who should own the
entries after they are imported in the target environment.
- Specify the Recording Level for
the deployment history. For more information, see Recording Deployment Details.
- In the Specify a deployment archive page,
under Deployment archive, select an existing
deployment archive from the list, or type a new name to create one.
If you are typing a new name for the deployment archive,
do not use spaces in the name. If the name of the new deployment specification
matches the name of an existing deployment archive, the characters
_# are added to the end of the name, where # is a number such as 1.
- Under Encryption, click Set
the encryption password, type a password, and click OK.
- Click Next. The summary
information appears.
- Review the summary information and click Next. If you want to change the information, click Back and
follow the instructions.
- Specify how to run the export deployment specification:
- To run now or later, click Save and run once and
click Finish. Specify the time and date for
the run. Then click Run. Review the run time
and click OK.
- To schedule at a recurring time, click Save and schedule and
click Finish. Then, select frequency, start
and end dates, and click OK.
Tip: To
temporarily disable the schedule, select the Disable the
schedule check box. To view the schedule status, see Manage Scheduled Activities.
- To save without scheduling or running, click Save only,
and click Finish.
