Upgrade your content store

IBM® Cognos® Analytics with Watson upgrades the content store database to the new version of the product when you start the services for the first time.

The process for upgrading your content store to the new version of the product includes the following steps:

  1. Make a backup of your existing content store database.
  2. Create a database from the backup.
  3. Connect the new version of the product to the content store that you created from the backup in IBM Cognos Configuration.
  4. Start your services.

    The content store is upgraded during the startup process.

    Tip: When restarting services manually, (if applicable) the ApacheDS - cognos service must be started before the IBM Cognos service.

This process lets you use the old and new versions of the product at the same time, where each version has its own content store.

Later, you can upgrade your reports with IBM Cognos Administration. Additionally, if you have Software Development Kit applications that create, modify, or save report specifications, do not select the option to upgrade your report specifications.

When you connect the new version of the product to the content store you created from the backup, the content store database is upgraded, and can no longer be used with your older version of the product.