Oracle^® Business Intelligence Applications Upgrade Guide > Upgrading Oracle BI Applications > Process of Upgrading the Siebel Analytics Repository >

Preparing for the Analytics Repository Upgrade

Follow this procedure to prepare for the repository upgrade.

To prepare for the Analytics repository upgrade

1. Set up a directory for the merge process, such as \OracleBIUpgrade, and create the following subfolders:
   • Original
   • AfterEqualize
   • AfterMerge
   • AfterManualWork
   • AfterRegressions
2. Copy the original repository (for example, SiebelAnalytics_7x.rpd), the production repository (for example, Customer_SiebelAnalytics.rpd), and the repository from the latest installation (for example, OracleBIAnalyticsApps.rpd) into the folder \OracleBIUpgrade\Original.

   NOTE:  If in your current environment you are running Siebel Business Analytics for one or more modules using a Siebel Analytics repository in which you extracted the corresponding projects for the modules from the standard Siebel Analytics repository file you received from the previous release, you need to extract the same projects from the SiebelAnalytics_7x.rpd file and use this as your original repository. (If you have the original repository that you extracted during the last upgrade, you can use it as the original repository file.) This will prevent you from losing any new metadata you would like to add in this upgrade.
   
   Also, if you customized the Siebel Analytics repository by trimming a large number of objects and you would like to get those objects back during the current upgrade, you need to trim the SiebelAnalytics_7x.rpd file in the same way and use the modified version as the original repository file. This will prevent you from losing any new metadata you would like to add in this upgrade.