It's hard to migrate 5.1.2 to 6.5

Hi all,

We are trying to migrate 5.1.2 to 6.5 for our customers right now. And we are doing according to the guideline published by BO. But it seems lots of problems, such as:

  1. When i close the migrated reports, an error happens. (Code: c0000005; Descrption: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION)
  2. When i publish the migrated reports to BCA, an error happens. (Code: c0000005; Descrption: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION)
  3. If the migrated reports contain Chinese, the excel or pdf files exported only has one blank page.

If anyone has the detail documents for migration, please do a favour send it to me.
Thanks
Jeff Zhu


jeffzhu4 (BOB member since 2004-06-19)

6.5 is available ??? where ??? maybe it’s a beta because I can’t see it in oCS


bernard timbal :fr: (BOB member since 2003-05-26)

Does the documentation specifically mention that an upgrade from 5.1.2 to 6.5 is even viable or possible?

My understanding was that to upgrade to v6.x you need to be at least on 5.1.7.


ezab :uk: (BOB member since 2003-08-13)

You have to be on at least 5.1.6.

You have to have been on a release that has had the calculator engine changes.

And 6.5 has not been released.


Steve Krandel :us: (BOB member since 2002-06-25)

he is in Shanghai… the day is still early on this side of the planet… so maybe 6.5 is out?

:rotf:


David Smith :us: (BOB member since 2002-07-10)

We are also attempting to upgrade from 5.1.2 to 6.5.

Question for Steve Krandel:
I’m curious about your entry that says:

Since there were no changes to the repository between 5.1.2 and 5.1.6, and since you don’t have to convert universes and/or reports when you apply this service pack (5.1.6), why does the version make a difference when you try to upgrade to 6.5? Where does it have a problem…repository conversion, universe conversion, report conversion, or all of the above.
This isn’t in the migration documentation anywhere…there are special steps if you are upgrading from v4.x, but nothing that says you have to go through 5.1.6 before going to 6.5.
Help!

Thanks!


lazyb (BOB member since 2005-01-28)

The calculation engine in changed in BO 5.1.4. You could have problems with formulas on reports if you’re going from 5.1.2.


Steve Krandel :us: (BOB member since 2002-06-25)

I know about the calculation changes, and differences in report results…which might cause me to rebuild reports instead of being able to convert them, right? But that shouldn’t affect the repository conversion, or universe conversion, should it?

Business Objects support is telling me that is what is causing my problems with joins in universes not converting/working when I go from 5.1.2 to 6.5…and that doesn’t make any sense to me!

Thanks for listening!


lazyb (BOB member since 2005-01-28)