Hi everyone, I'm looking for some advice. We have a customer on Series 7 Impromptu who needs to move to C11 or C12. 

I remember doing a big project about 13 years ago where we moved a customer from C7 to C10 and there was a suite of migration tools available that converted the catalog into a framework manager model, and converted the impromptu reports into report studio reports. However I can't find any reference to these tools anywhere. Have they been retired? If not, does anyone have any links to documentation / download?

Many thanks in advance!

Hi John,

From what I can see in Cognos 11, it's still possible to import certain objects related to Impromptu - I haven't done that in a long time, so I'm not sure how it works in this version. 

Additionally, I found in my archive the probable names of the tools (for Cognos 8.1.2 MR2) that were included in the installation packages:

• Architect Model Migration Tool 8.1.2 MR2 Windows   (3,344,314 bytes)   arch2fm_win32_8.1.209.11_ml.tar.gz 
• Cognos BI Series 7 Migration and Upgrade Tools 8.1.2 MR2 Windows   (12,288,117 bytes)   migs7_win32_8.1.209.11_ml.tar.gz  

Unfortunately, I currently have no physical way to check further (until Monday). 

I hope this at least helps a little…

Hi everyone, I'm looking for some advice. We have a customer on Series 7 Impromptu who needs to move to C11 or C12. 

I remember doing a big project about 13 years ago where we moved a customer from C7 to C10 and there was a suite of migration tools available that converted the catalog into a framework manager model, and converted the impromptu reports into report studio reports. However I can't find any reference to these tools anywhere. Have they been retired? If not, does anyone have any links to documentation / download?

Many thanks in advance!

Hi everyone, I'm looking for some advice. We have a customer on Series 7 Impromptu who needs to move to C11 or C12. 

I remember doing a big project about 13 years ago where we moved a customer from C7 to C10 and there was a suite of migration tools available that converted the catalog into a framework manager model, and converted the impromptu reports into report studio reports. However I can't find any reference to these tools anywhere. Have they been retired? If not, does anyone have any links to documentation / download?

Many thanks in advance!

Hi John,

The tricky part is to retrieve the software (from Cognos Impromptu v7.5, not supported since April 2023) that will convert your catalog file to an XML file. I believe it was called impcat2xml or a similar name.

I'm not sure if IBM can provide this impcat2xml program.

Best regards,

Hi everyone, I'm looking for some advice. We have a customer on Series 7 Impromptu who needs to move to C11 or C12. 

I remember doing a big project about 13 years ago where we moved a customer from C7 to C10 and there was a suite of migration tools available that converted the catalog into a framework manager model, and converted the impromptu reports into report studio reports. However I can't find any reference to these tools anywhere. Have they been retired? If not, does anyone have any links to documentation / download?

Many thanks in advance!

Hi everyone, I'm looking for some advice. We have a customer on Series 7 Impromptu who needs to move to C11 or C12. 

I remember doing a big project about 13 years ago where we moved a customer from C7 to C10 and there was a suite of migration tools available that converted the catalog into a framework manager model, and converted the impromptu reports into report studio reports. However I can't find any reference to these tools anywhere. Have they been retired? If not, does anyone have any links to documentation / download?

Many thanks in advance!

Hi everyone, I'm looking for some advice. We have a customer on Series 7 Impromptu who needs to move to C11 or C12. 

I remember doing a big project about 13 years ago where we moved a customer from C7 to C10 and there was a suite of migration tools available that converted the catalog into a framework manager model, and converted the impromptu reports into report studio reports. However I can't find any reference to these tools anywhere. Have they been retired? If not, does anyone have any links to documentation / download?

Many thanks in advance!

Hi everyone, I'm looking for some advice. We have a customer on Series 7 Impromptu who needs to move to C11 or C12. 

I remember doing a big project about 13 years ago where we moved a customer from C7 to C10 and there was a suite of migration tools available that converted the catalog into a framework manager model, and converted the impromptu reports into report studio reports. However I can't find any reference to these tools anywhere. Have they been retired? If not, does anyone have any links to documentation / download?

Many thanks in advance!