Users are able to create BIAR files using the Upgrade Management Tool from BI 4 system, why

[Former Member]

Users are able to create BIAR files from BI 4.0 system using the Upgrade Management Tool. Why? What for? Isn't that useless?

Why can we create BIAR from UMT, using as source a BI 4 system , but we can't import it later?

Shouldn't this option be forbidden with a message saying: you can't select that System as source since it's a BI 4 system so its BIAR file won't be imported to another BI 4 system.

[denis_konovalov · Accepted solution]

Erika Atencio wrote:
Users are able to create BIAR files from BI 4.0 system using the Upgrade Management Tool. Why? What for? Isn't that useless?

You can create BIAR files from BI4.0 system in UMT, so that you can import those using UMT into BI4.1 system or BI5.x system or whatever the new name will be.

Basicaly this feature is reserved for future use.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Denis, Good information. Thanks for sharing it.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

i didn't know that. Thanks for the explanation.

[Former Member]

In Normal cases Live to BIAR and BIAR to Live will be used when we take BIAR from 3.1 and export to 4.0

Have you tried with UMT?

please folow the below steps to migrate with UMT.

1797144  - Unable to use Upgrade Management Tool to migrate objects between two BI4.x environments

1. Right-click the Upgrade Management Tool shortcut in Windows
2. Click Properties
3. Add the following parameter to the end of the Target field:
   
   -internal_use_only_noversioncheck
   
   
4. Click OK

[Former Member]

Hii Ericka ,

kindly give Proper Rights to users in CMC so they are forbidden from using this LCM Functionality.

Regards

Jeetan