Upgrade Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher Reports to 8.2.3

If you have enabled the Oracle Argus Safety Flexible Aggregate Reporting and you are upgrading from 8.1, 8.1.1, 8.1.2, or 8.1.3:

Note:

You can upgrade Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher reports only from Oracle Argus Safety 8.1. Upgrade from previous versions of Oracle Argus Safety is not supported.

Besides, any customization done to the Aggregate Reports must be taken care after upgrading.

1. For Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher Flexible Aggregate Reporting, repeat the instructions of Execute Argus_BIP_Enable to recreate the AS_TO_BIPREP DB link.

   Note:

   Skip this step, if you are using ONLY PMDA R3 Paper reports.

2. Log in to the Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher console as administrator (or any user who has Oracle Business Intelligence Admin User access).
3. Back up the existing .xdrz files.
   1. From the left pane, click Catalog.

      The Catalog screen with the Folders and Tasks sections appears.

   2. Click Folders > Shared Folders.
   3. Click Tasks > Download.
   4. Click Browse and navigate to the location where the backup will be saved.
4. To upload the latest xdrz files (Argus Safety.xdrz and AS_Expedited.xdrz), see Flexible Aggregate Reports.

   While uploading, click Overwrite existing files.