Creating IBM Cognos LifeCycle Manager projects and tasks

To begin working in Cognos® LifeCycle Manager, create an upgrade project and create tasks within the project.

About this task

You can create two types of tasks in a project.

  • Comparison

    This type of task runs and compares reports in the source and target Cognos environments that you specify.

  • Applies to version 11.0.4 and subsequent versions unless specifically overridden Benchmark

    This type of task creates a baseline of a Cognos environment.

Procedure

  1. Click My projects and then click the Create project icon Create project.
  2. Specify a name for the project, and then click Next to create a task.
  3. To set properties for the project, click Show advanced properties.
  4. In the New task window, choose the type of task that you want to create.
  5. If you created a benchmark task, provide the following information.
    1. Under Benchmark name, specify a name for the task.
    2. Under Select the source IBM Cognos server, specify the source Cognos server for the benchmark and then click Next.
    3. Select the reports to run and then click Next.
    4. For the reports that you selected, check which reports require prompt values by clicking Check all reports for prompts.
    5. Under Report run options, choose whether to validate reports before you run them, and whether to run the reports in Dynamic Query Mode (DQ).
    6. Under IBM Cognos options: Output format, select the output formats that you want and then click Save to save the task or Run to run the task.
  6. If you created a comparison task, provide the following information.
    1. Under Task name, specify a name for the task.
    2. Under Source content type, choose the type of source content that you want to use.
    3. If you chose Benchmark as the source content type, select a previously created benchmark task for the benchmark source and the target Cognos server that you want to compare to the benchmark.
      Note: Benchmark tasks are linked to the project in which they were created. Therefore, benchmark tasks are available as a source only in the project in which the benchmark task was created. For example, you create a benchmark task in project A. The benchmark task is available as a source only in comparison tasks that are created in project A.
    4. If you chose IBM Cognos server as the source content type, specify the source and target Cognos servers and then click Next.
    5. Select the reports to run and compare and then click Next.
    6. For the reports that you selected, see which reports require prompt values by clicking Check all reports for prompts.
    7. Under Report run options, choose whether to validate reports before you run them, and whether to run the reports in Dynamic Query Mode (DQ).
    8. Under IBM Cognos options: Output format, select the output formats that you want and then click Save to save the task or Run to run the task.
    9. Click Save to save the task or Run to run the task.

Results

A project or task is created. You can modify a project or task by hovering over the project or task name, clicking the More icon More icon that appears, and then clicking Edit.

Projects are saved in the install_location\project directory. If you want to move or copy projects to another instance of Cognos LifeCycle Manager that is installed on another computer, move or copy the contents of this directory to the same location on the second computer.

Benchmark task results are stored in the install_location\benchmark directory. If you want to move or copy benchmarks to another computer, you must move or copy the contents of both the project and benchmark directories to the second computer.