BI 4 - LCMBIAR Overview - LCM Command Line Tool

LCMBIAR Overview - LCM Command Line Tool

SAP BusinessObjects  Business Intelligence 4.0Version 4.0 SP2 Fixpack 5

Allows to:

Promote content between Development, Test, and Production SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 environments.

Allows you to use scripting to automate the import of objects.

Terms

BIAR and LCMBIAR:

 BIAR:(BI Archive) is a collection of any binaries associated with a BI object and its associated metadata, all materialized in a zip file.

An LCMBIAR file is the same idea, but each object is stored in an individual BIAR.

Considerations:

 Lifecycle management tool is to promote objects from BI platform 4.x to BI platform 4.X version only.

 Upgrades from a previous BO version to BI 4.0 must be done using the Upgrade management tool.

To rollback a job you need to use the UI, not command line

 LCM Command Line tool is not used when CTS+ is available.

What can you do with LCM Cmd line tool?

 Report developer creates LCM Job with content to promote

 LCM Administrator uses Command Line Tool (CLI) to create LCMBIAR

Export an existing Lifecycle Management job:

 Report developer creates LCM job with content to promote

 LCM Administrator uses CLI to promote LCM job content to destination

Promote existing job:

LCM Administrator uses CLI to promote LCMBIAR content to destination

Promote an existing LCMBIAR file:

LCM Administrator or developer writes one or more queries to specify the content selection and LCMBIAR file is created.

Export single or multiple platform queries:  

LCM Administrator or developer writes multiple queries to specify content selection, the BOE content selected by the queries is promoted to the destination

See also

BI 4.0 - How to import or export a LifeCycle Manager BIAR file using command line utility

Lifecycle management console features: Overrides - Visual Difference Overview