Dears,
During the migration of a custom application from Infor BI version 11 to Infor d/EPM version 12, customers currently experience data loss because it is not possible to carry over current users variable values (report- & global-variables). To avoid this data loss and to keep important, individual content from user variables, the migration process should be extended.
Affected are global variables and report variables. Some of them contain critical information, such as complex XML values with information about workflows, bookmarks, notes, report settings and other content that cannot be reproduced using standard values of variables.
In this regard, I would like to point out the following solutions:
At best, the migration of Application Studio reports should support an automatic transfer of user-specific values. Otherwise, there should be a technical possibility to transfer the current users variable values from Infor BI Version 11 via data export from the repository database. It would be adequate to import the exported values e.g. via flatfile in the d/EPM Administration or via script in SQL Server.
Please support the ER 56653 by endorsing it.
Regards,
Markus