Importing IBM Control Center Monitor Cognos assets to standalone Cognos

IBM® Control Center Monitor 6.1.3.0 ifix02+ and IBM Control Center Monitor 6.3 has two scripts used to migrate your Cognos assets from the Control Center Monitor Cognos content store to the content store of your standalone Cognos instance. The two scripts are prepareStandaloneCognos.bat/sh and importStandaloneCognos.bat/sh. These are the steps to follow to get Cognos assets migrated from the IBM Control Center Monitor Cognos content store to your standalone Cognos content store:
  1. Download and install your standalone Cognos instance according the Cognos documentation.
  2. Enable anonymous authentication on your standalone Cognos instance according to Cognos documentation.
  3. Start your current IBM Control Center Monitor instance.
  4. Start your standalone Cognos instance.
  5. Run <<current ICC instance>>/bin/prepareStandaloneCognos.bat/sh and perform the manual steps that the script instructs.
  6. Stop and restart your standalone Cognos instance.
  7. Run <<current ICC instance>>/bin/importStandaloneCognos.bat/sh
  8. Sign on to the standalone Cognos instance and follow the Manual Cognos Asset Updates if needed..

You should see the following folders in your Standalone Cognos instance:

Folder IBM Control Center Widgets contains the same widgets that were in your IBM Control Center Monitor Cognos instance. This includes the IBM Control Center Monitor default widgets and any widgets you may have written and saved to IBM Control Center Monitor Widgets. The IBM Control Center Monitor widgets in this folder will not run without modifications because they reference Cognos accounting records that no longer exist. Any widgets in this folder that you created, should run without modifications if they do not reference Cognos accounting records.

The IBMControlCenter package contains the IBM Control Center Monitor data model and it should contain all items that were present in your ICC Cognos instance. This is where old IBM Control Center Monitor canned reports where temporarily saved

NoAccountCCWidgets is a new folder and contains a copy of the IBM Control Center Monitor widgets from the IBM Control Center Widgets folder. The widgets have been modified to remove all reference to any Cognos accounting record. The widgets in this folder should run in your standalone Cognos instance without any modifications.

NoAccountWorkspaces is a new folder and contains a copy of the items from the workspaces folder. The workspace templates have been modified to remove all reference to any Cognos accounting record. The workspace templates in this folder should run in your standalone Cognos instance with no modifications needed. The FASP widgets in this folder should run in your standalone Cognos instance with no modifications needed.

The Group Workspaces folder contains group workspaces from the IBM Control Center Monitor Cognos instance, one per ICC role. They will need to be modified if they contain any ICC widget that originally came from the IBM Control Center Widgets folder. They need to be replaced with the same widgets from the NoAccountCCWidgets folder.

The Personal Workspaces folder contains personal workspaces from the IBM Control Center Monitor Cognos instance, one per ICC user. They will need to be modified if they contain any ICC widget that originally came from the IBM Control Center Widgets folder. They need to be replaced with the same widgets from the NoAccountCCWidgets folder.

The workspaces folder contains the default group and personal workspace template that is used to create a group or personal workspace the first time that an ICC role or user is created. The items in this folder will not run without modifications because they reference Cognos accounting records that no longer exist. Use the versions from NoAccountWorkspaces instead.