Migrating from INFO 7.5 to CE 10 or CE 11

[DRCI]

Hello.

I am looking for anyone who may have migrated from INFO 7.5 to CE 10. Or even CE 11.

I am at a client who has the option of migtrating to either CE version, but has been advised NOT to go right to CE 11 from INFO 7.5.

Thoughts?

Also, if anyone has exprience migrating from INFO 7.5 to CE 10 (hints, tips, tricks, weird stuff to expect), hearing about those would be great also.

Note that besides reports, this client runs alot of program objects in INFO. Data imports, exports, etc. They are concerned very much about this aspect of the migration.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Mark H. Edwards

http://www.datareportconsulting.com

 

[pavandyke]

About a year and half ago we migrated from info 7.5 to CE 10. Pretty much all of our reports are Oracle. The main issue we ran into was that there were a number of reports that were based on query files. These had to be converted using their database migration wizard. Since there were not a bunch of reports based on each of these queries I disconnected them from the repository and included them as part of the report file. Unfortunately there is no migration tool to move reports from INFO 7.5 to CE 10 so we had to manually add all of our reports to our new system. THis also means that no historical instances canbe put on your new system. I also had to manually re-create all of our Business Calendars. I am curious as to why people have told you not to go directly to XI instead of version 10. Depending on how extensively you used some of the features of INFO 7.5 there is one that we used extensively that was not in 10. We have a number of reports that are adhoc and they also sometimes have 5-6 parameters. In 10 a user has to re-enter each of those parameters each time the report in run, even if only one of them has changed since the last time they ran the report. In XI you have the ability to reschedule a report and only change the one parameter that is different. Let me know if you have any more specific questions.

 

[DRCI]

Thanks pavandyke.Let me share your response with teh rollout tem and see if they have any followup questions.

Meanwhile, we have run into one specific issue so far. A number of reports are designed to use txt files as the datasource. They are accessed using ODBC drivers.

For some reason Crystal Reports 10 is not able to do this.

So this isn't specifically a Enterprise issue, its a CR issue. But I can't find anyone here or on the BO/CD knowledgebase that have report a similar issue.

Any experience you have with this would be appreciated. Thanks!



Regards,

Mark H. Edwards

http://www.datareportconsulting.com

 

[pavandyke]

Do you have Crystal's ODBC text driver installed? I just created a very simple report using Crystal's ODBC text driver and was able to generate a report from this text file with no problem. It seems as though you need to do a custom install to get the text driver included. If you send me an email (pvandyke@standard.com) I can send you a copy of the report file saved with data as well as the text file and pictures of the ODBC setup.

 

[DRCI]

Hello. Thanks. I will drop you a line. But note that the CR X designer is loaded on the same machine as the CR 8 designer (INFO 7.5). Both the old version of the report, and the new version (created by making and saving a copy in CR X), are using the same ODB txt driver.

Mark

Regards,

Mark H. Edwards

http://www.datareportconsulting.com

 

[techie2]

There are issues when converting reports pointing to Stored Procdures with parameters.

XI is strict in parameter order and the order must match exactly from report Designer to DB.

We end up touching each report invidually which were using SP.