MIGRATION FROM OBIEE 11G TO OBIEE 12C

Linux:-

Identify / Copy Migration Tool

In case your OBIEE 11g and OBIEE 12c installations are on same physical machine this step is obsolete and at this point you can only identify location of migration tool or eventually copy over to the shared folder location accessible by both: OBIEE 11g and 12c installations. Migration tool can be found in the sub-folders of OBIEE 12c installation:

{ORACLE_HOME_12C_FOLDER}/bi/migration-tool/jlib/bi-migration-tool.jar

If your OBIEE 11g installation exists on different physical server then you have to copy this file over to the OBIEE 11g machine.

Create Export Bundle from OBIEE 11g

Export bundle is generated with a help of bi-migration-tool.jar with the following command

java -jar {OBIEE11G_USER_HOME_FOLDER}/bi-migration-tool.jar OUT {ORACLE_HOME_11G_FOLDER}

{DOMAIN_HOME_11G_FOLDER} {EXPORT_FOLDER}/{export_file_name}.jar

# Export project from OBIEE 11g

java -jar /home/oraobiee/bi-migration-tool.jar out /u01/oracle/OBIEE/middleware/Oracle_BI1
 
/u01/oracle/OBIEE/middleware/user_projects/domains/prd_domain export_prd.jar

#export_prd.jar


Import Bundle to OBIEE 12c

With the the help of same tool: bi-migration-tool.jar we can now import our generated export bundle file to our OBIEE 12c domain. If there is already existing project for instance samples then it will get fully overwritten by imported OBIEE 11g bundle. Import command is similar to export and has the following syntax and parameters:

java -jar {ORACLE_HOME_12c}/bi/migration-tool/jlib/bi-migration-tool.jar IN {ORACLE_HOME_12c_FOLDER}

{DOMAIN_HOME_12c_FOLDER} {EXPORT_FOLDER}/{export_file_name}.jar {INSTANCE_NAME_12c}