Information That Is and Is Not Migrated

The following information is migrated with an application:

  • Databases and their objects (such as calculation scripts, report scripts, rules files, member select files, and Essbase Query Designer files)

  • All database outlines (including member properties, outline properties, and formulas)

  • Application and database properties, such as cache settings, with the exception of disk volumes

  • Users and groups

    Passwords are migrated. After migration, you can edit target user and group properties without affecting source user and group permissions.

  • Filters and their associations

    After migration, you need not reassign filters to users or groups.

  • Substitution variables

  • Linked reporting objects (LROs)

  • Custom-defined functions

  • Custom-defined macros

The following information is not migrated with an application:

  • Data (.pag and .ind files)

  • Files that are not recognized as objects on Essbase Server, such as spreadsheet files, text files, MaxL script files, ESSCMD scripts, and so forth

  • The Essbase configuration file (essbase.cfg)

  • Disk volumes

  • Partitions (Copy partitions separately.)

  • Triggers