what is Cognos Life Cycle Manager

[saralama]

Hi Good Morning
Can any one simplify what is cognos life cycle manager and its advantages and who is the responsible/handle cognos Life cycle manager in an organization.

Thanks and regards
Saralama

[bdbits]

We use it to compare reports during upgrade cycles to see what if anything changed. I believe this is the primary use case.

Documentation is available at http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/cbi/v10r2m1/nav/0_28.

[saralama]

  Hi Thank You for you reply, and please conform me is this life cycle manager not available at version 8? what kind of tool we have erlier.
Is it recently developed for V10.
Thanks and regards,
Saralama

[MFGF]

Hi Thank You for you reply, and please conform me is this life cycle manager not available at version 8? what kind of tool we have erlier.
Is it recently developed for V10.
Thanks and regards,
Saralama

It has been available for a number of releases, including Cognos 8. Back then it was called "Upgrade Manager" - it's name was changed for the Cognos 10 release to Lifecycle Manager. You can find details of it here:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/c8bi/v8r4m0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.swg.im.cognos.ug_upgr_mngr.8.4.0.doc/ug_upgr_mngr.html

Cheers!

MF.