Upgrading the P6 Analytics catalog, typically involves opening the new catalog in the new version of OBI, provided that the version of OBI is the same major release version (e.g., 11.1.1.x). However, once you open a catalog file in a later version, you can't open it in earlier versions of OBI.
Note: If you upgraded from OBI 10g to 11g, you need to run the upgrade assistant utility to upgrade the catalog.
The latest P6 Analytics catalog contains most of the Analyses and Dashboards that existed in previous releases of P6 Analytics. As new features and functionality are introduced in OBI, the P6 Analytics catalog attempts to demonstrate these new features. Once a catalog is deployed to a production environment, it will change, and therefore, this makes upgrading more of a merge process than an upgrade.
You can upgrade/merge your existing P6 Analytics analysis and dashboards without affecting the production deployment of your existing Oracle Business Intelligence catalog. One option is to deploy the latest P6 Analytics catalog in a test or sandbox environment. Having a test/sandbox environment gives business users the ability to examine the new catalog without affecting the production server. See the section “Configuring OBI 11.1.1.x to Use the P6 Analytics Repository Definition (.rpd) and Catalog” in the Post Installation Guide for details on how to deploy the P6 Analytics Repository Definition File (.rpd) and catalog to Oracle Business Intelligence. The business user could identify or mark the analysis and dashboards that they need to have transferred to the production environment. To avoid any compatibility issues in transferring analysis/dashboards between versions, it is highly recommended that the test/sandbox Oracle Business Intelligence environment be the exact same version as the production OBI version.
You have a few options for upgrading to the new catalog.
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