Folks,

Has anyone tried using Hyperion Life Cycle Management (LCM)?

If so - care to share good, bad & ugly of LCM?

TIA.

I have to admit that I haven't used LCM in anger yet, but I have extensively kicked the tires. Issues must be out there in the real world as we are talking about software but I haven't yet run across them. <--I have been called a pessimist, I prefer realist.

My take on 11x LCM? It is as if Oracle has done penance for the agony that was LCM in Planning, FR, and even Essbase to an extent, pre 11x. LCM is now easy to use, understand, and do mildly creative things with.

As an example, I tested a Planning export to file system, modified the XML metadata output, and changed member aliases. Try doing that in 9x. The fact that databases/schemas don't have to be migrated to move between servers alone makes me really, really happy. Yes, I know, people (consulting companies) have come up with some pretty elaborate guides to doing this, but it shouldn't be that hard. In 9x I have come down to just rebuilding the app from externally defined metadata (this is on a migration from dev to prod) as it is simply easier. Yes, that is not really a migration, but for my purposes it is acceptable.

The thought of easily being able to move all or part of a Planning app brings joy to my heart.

FR migration is nice as well as it brings security across.

Essbase migration is pretty slick, too.

I have not tried the Shared Services migration bit as I only have one environment to play in. Hopefully it is as well thought out.

I was very glad to see that Oracle finally heard the howls of agony and released something as slick as 11x LCM.

I'd be interested to hear if anyone has real world experiences to the contrary.

Regards,

Cameron Lackpour

Hi Cameron,

Do you use the LCM utility? Or export the files/artifacts from shared services piece by piece?

Thanks for your time,
Nate

Are you referring to LCMing part of a Planning, or FR, or Essbase project? Or all of the above.

Either way would be possible.

Of course, if you are migrating a form from dev to prod and you have changed prod (I know, I know, impossible without first doing it in dev, except of course it happens all the time) and that change blows up the form, then no, that isn't going to work,

I guess I'm trying to say that you can migrate parts of whatever, they just have to make logical sense at the target.

Or wasn't that your question?

Regards,

Cameron Lackpour

Sorry, I did some more research and found the answer to my question...

In other words, you have to configure the XML files to use different shared services connections. Then using the LCM utility from the command line, you can execute the XML files.